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It ended with him in hospital.", "Dunstable's MP says he is very angry at the \"flagrant breach\" of rules at a \"traveller funeral\".", "Sam Law says the experience at the DVSA driving theory test centre left him angry and disappointed.", "A cockatiel who flew from his cage is reunited with owner after farmers heard him singing the theme.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "William Henry and Brian McIntosh were found dead in a car park off Moor Street in Brierley Hill.", "A charity which helps get young people into work says the pandemic has \"magnified\" the challenge.", "The 67-year-old Ghostbusters actor was punched in broad daylight near Central Park, police say.", "Northumbria University in Newcastle says 770 students have tested positive and are now isolating.", "The disgraced film mogul was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault in March.", "The new mum, however, says hospital staff were 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appear to be wider than it has ever been?", "Exeter Chiefs have just enough to keep Racing 92 at bay and clinch their first Champions Cup title in a thrilling final at Ashton Gate.", "The Scottish government confirmed 1,167 more people had tested positive within the same 24-hour period.", "But a stalemate continues in Manchester as local leaders resist central government's proposals.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The move to tier three, after intensive talks, sees pubs and car boot sales closed but gyms stay open.", "First Legislative Counsel Dylan Hughes says it would usually take \"several weeks or even months\".", "The R number has crept up to 1.3-1.5, with growth of the epidemic still widespread.", "The family flew back from Greece after just a day on holiday there, amid intense criticism.", "After the murder of 17 people in Paris last week, several people have been jailed, raising questions about freedom of speech in France.", "A BBC team spent a week looking at the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict from the Azerbaijani side.", "The band donated money to disabled singer Ali Hirsz, after Covid-19 left her out of work.", "Raheem Sterling scores the winner as Manchester City edge past Arsenal to climb up to 10th in the Premier League.", "People living in London and York are among those now facing high alert restrictions.", "Neil Lennon and Steven Gerrard have joined Nicola Sturgeon in asking supporters to follow Covid restrictions.", "Experts say the demand for dogs during lockdown is causing a significant increase in animals being stolen.", "The vaccine is available to the public in the city of Yiwu but is still in the final trial stages.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Boris Johnson initially suggests parents living apart from their children may face restrictions.", "Huge numbers of voters are casting ballots with less than three weeks to go until the election.", "The rufous bush chat was spotted at Stiffkey, Norfolk, and up to 100 birders came to see it.", "Andy Green is suing bookmaker Betfred after it refused to pay up, citing a software error.", "Joe Anderson has said his brother, who was admitted to hospital with coronavirus, has died.", "Everton twice come from behind to draw with Liverpool and maintain their three-point lead at the top of the Premier League.", "Boris Johnson urges local leaders to \"engage constructively\" with the government over tougher rules.", "Downing Street says talks will resume on Sunday - but local leaders deny knowledge of a call.", "A 21-year-old man is in custody after police were called to St Mellons on Friday evening.", "\"No point\" in further discussions with the EU unless it changes course, Downing Street says.", "Redmill in East Whitburn also has 35 residents and 20 staff who have tested positive for the virus.", "Forces in England will have access on a \"case-by-case basis\" to data on whether a person has been told to self-isolate.", "The National Crime Agency says the 1,000-plant haul in Coventry is among the largest it has ever seen.", "The cash grants for arts venues and organisations is part of the government's Cultural Recovery Fund.", "Chris Christie says he was \"wrong\" to shun masks after battling Covid-19 in intensive care for days.", "A photograph of the artwork has been posted on the guerrilla artist's Instagram page.", "Det Sgt Nick Bailey \"had to admit defeat\" after the 2018 attack saying he \"can no longer do the job\".", "More than 11,000 stores shut between January and June in the UK, according to research.", "Some French Muslims disgusted by the shootings in Paris may nonetheless have reasons for not embracing the slogan “I am Charlie”, the BBC's Patrick Jackson reports.", "It is \"important we keep the public on board\" with new plans to tackle Covid, a council leader says.", "The first minister says he is giving Boris Johnson a final opportunity to impose curbs before he acts.", "A top official says police can open fire on \"violent radicals\" protesting against the government.", "Swansea Bay health board say 10 patients and five staff had tested positive at Morriston Hospital.", "Portugal and Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo tests positive for coronavirus, the Portuguese Football Federation announces.", "But Boris Johnson could be facing the same accusation again - that he did too little, too late.", "Another 143 deaths are reported as ministers defend rules after criticism expert advice was ignored.", "MPs overturn a Lords amendment requiring trade deals to meet post-Brexit UK food standards.", "Rena Platt was working as an apprentice childminder for her mother's business - until Covid-19 hit.", "A BBC investigation into the death of transport worker Belly Mujinga raises questions about the inquiries carried out by her employer and the police.", "The firms will have the job of ensuring the smooth flow of vital supplies whatever happens in trade talks.", "The government took \"robust action\" at the time, such as the rule of six, a cabinet minister says.", "A Japanese man waited almost seven months to enter the site after it was closed because of Covid.", "British Gymnastics chief executive Jane Allen is to retire in December despite ongoing investigation into allegations of mistreatment in the sport.", "Critics on social media say the role of Egypt's famed ruler should go to an Arab or African actress.", "Det Sgt Jonathan Pearce sent a topless photograph to the victim of attempted rape, a panel hears.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Mitchells & Butlers, the pubs and restaurants group, has not disclosed how many jobs are at risk.", "The most clinically vulnerable people in England will get a letter to explain how to stay safe.", "A further 143 people have died across the UK within 28 days of testing positive for the coronavirus.", "The Information Commissioner's Office has been contacted by people over how the payments firm got their details.", "Sir Keir Starmer says the government has lost control of coronavirus, as daily deaths rise to 143.", "Rena Platt is one of nearly 300 apprentices to have been made redundant since the pandemic began.", "Tom Parker's bandmates rally round after he is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.", "The report raises questions about how much immunity can be built up to the virus and how long it may last.", "Scientists need more recruits belonging to ethnic minorities, to make sure the vaccine works for all.", "Staff at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital are preparing for an expected rise in coronavirus cases.", "Hospitality businesses warn of hardship and confusion as they battle with the latest restrictions.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "One in four people in the UK is currently subject to local interventions to prevent the spread of Covid.", "Latest figures show increasing number of secondary schools in England sending home pupils in Covid cases.", "Analysts say the new iPhone line-up could trigger a \"super-cycle\" of consumer upgrades.", "Rises of more than £40bn a year will be needed to stop government debt getting out of control, warns think tank.", "Ian Barnes, who lives in Darlington, recorded a time of eight minutes 10.40 seconds.", "Zoe Powell and three of her children aged under nine die in a crash between a car and a lorry.", "15,000 more people were looking for work between June and August than the preceding three months.", "Historian Dr David Starkey says he did not \"intend to stir up racial hatred\" in the June interview.", "Dr Ghebreyesus said allowing coronavirus to spread unchecked would cause unnecessary suffering and death.", "World's biggest furniture firm to resell second-hand Ikea items in bid to be 'climate positive'.", "The PM calls himself \"freedom-loving\", but circumstances could push him towards harsher measures.", "Reopening communal shelters this winter will put rough sleepers at risk of Covid, a charity warns.", "The blast of the WW2 bomb in a canal in Poland was not unexpected and divers were unharmed.", "The decision to apply for tougher measures comes amid concerns over an \"exponential\" rise in cases.", "The Labour leader said the prime minister's plan to combat coronavirus “simply was not working”.", "Mark Zuckerberg says his \"thinking has evolved\" as the social network changes strategy.", "Donald Neely was led down a Texas street \"as though he was a slave\", court documents say.", "Sage and Prof Chris Whitty appear at odds with the political decisions made by government.", "People will still see alerts but will now get a follow-up message telling them to ignore it.", "Twitter hid an identical post saying virus was less lethal than the flu season in most populations.", "The unusually-coloured Canadian lobster turned up in a delivery to a Fleetwood fishmonger.", "Scientists say it is a clear indication of temperatures rising because of emissions from our society.", "Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh appear via video link from prison at a hearing in Virginia.", "Closing pubs and restaurants and banning overnight stays in the worst-affected areas are being discussed.", "Covid swabs and key tests for cancer could be unavailable after problems at diagnostics firm Roche.", "The first minister will announce new restrictions on Wednesday - but says it will not be a return to full lockdown.", "The government wins a vote to keep the restriction in England despite rebels clashing with a minister.", "The new rules will apply to all licensed premises in the central belt of the country - including Glasgow and Edinburgh.", "Matt Simpson's post on PureGym's Facebook account said the workout was to mark Black History Month.", "Sally Giles says a subscription service charged her £4.50 each week for more than five years without her consent.", "The social network is deleting groups, pages and accounts linked to the conspiracy theory movement.", "The body of Openreach engineer Alun Owen was found following reports a man had fallen in the river.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Alexei Navalny tells the BBC his poisoning has left him struggling with sleep and muscular control.", "Labour's Sir Keir Starmer says the early closing time in England must be reviewed if it isn't justified.", "Kamala Harris calls the US response to the virus \"the greatest failure\" of any president in history.", "A local government group says exempting small sites from affordable housing rules is a \"huge concern\".", "The pub giant blames tighter coronavirus restrictions and the winding down of the furlough scheme.", "Billionaires have grown their wealth by 27% during the crisis, with industrial and tech bosses earning most.", "Pupils' grades will be based on teacher assessments and coursework - but Higher exams will still take place.", "UK researchers want to pin down how Covid-19 can spread in hospitals despite best efforts to stop it.", "Police said the social media giant had not disclosed details of the account that sent the tweet.", "Staff wore PPE incorrectly and sanitiser bottles were left empty at the William Harvey Hospital.", "The move in Manchester comes after hundreds of students in the city tested positive for coronavirus.", "Brazil is the third worst-hit country, after the US and India, with deaths approaching 150,000.", "The new rules are likely to be focused on licensed premises in areas with higher levels of the virus.", "Authorities say they are acting ahead of an expected government tightening of rules.", "Frank Atherton says further restrictions cannot be ruled out as cases rise.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Mared Edwards says their sacrifice was \"all for nothing\" now developers have pulled out.", "Central Scotland pubs will close for 16 days, others will have 6pm curfews, and National 5s are cancelled.", "Industry leaders warn that some businesses may never reopen if further lockdown restrictions are introduced.", "The BBC has followed three black students during their first year at the UK’s University of Cambridge.", "It comes as Wales' top doctor warns people not to follow coronavirus messages from Mr Trump.", "The president and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi trade blame for the collapse of negotiations.", "Travellers to the UK may soon be able to get a Covid-19 test to end their 14-day quarantine early.", "They will offer support for people with long-term health problems after infection with coronavirus.", "The 10% cut in funding comes amid anger in the union about the direction of Labour under Sir Keir Starmer.", "Profits jumped as people bought more food during lockdown, but clothing sales fell almost 20%.", "The UK's only children's NHS gender clinic is facing a legal challenge at London's High Court.", "Emergency services searched for the man in a river which burst it banks earlier this week.", "The figures and advice from clinical experts that guided the decision to close pubs and restaurants.", "A suspected money launderer gives up 45 properties after investigators used an Unexplained Wealth Order.", "While we expect more moves from No 10 to tackle Covid, there are many questions still to be settled.", "There were 478 people admitted to hospital on Sunday - the largest daily figure since early June.", "Kailash Kuha Raj and Poorna Kaameshwari Sivaraj are found dead at a flat in Brentford, west London.", "Panic buying of bottled water is reported following the burst in Hackney Marshes in London.", "The Old Bailey hears how the 39 victims died in \"unbearable\" heat in a lorry container last October.", "Boris Johnson defended the government response to local lockdowns and virus infections at universities.", "The family of an injured teenager were incorrectly told he had died in a crash on the A90 near Crimond.", "Outbreaks have been confirmed at the Royal Glamorgan, Prince Charles, and Princess of Wales hospitals.", "There are also 94 cases linked to the outbreak at the Royal Glamorgan, in Rhondda Cynon Taf.", "Restrictions similar to those in northern England could be announced later this week.", "More than 3.4 million people in Scotland will experience some of the harshest measures with pubs and restaurants closed for at least the next three weekends.", "Fraud among reasons up to 60% of the government's loans may never be repaid, says National Audit Office.", "Letters using block capitals and sent to those falling seriously behind on debts will be \"less threatening\".", "A strike by workers and students puts more pressure on President Lukashenko to quit.", "How tax avoidance left one man struggling with debt and with secrets.", "The shooting of unarmed protesters this week sparked the worst street violence in two decades.", "The new rules are needed but ministers must set out an exit strategy, Sheffield City Region's mayor says.", "Do government arguments against extra free school meals and more money for Manchester add up?", "Tory MPs join some 2,000 doctors in voicing concern, as Labour threatens to push for another vote.", "The use of testing, plus staggering the return to campus will form a strategy to get students home for Christmas.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Tao Geoghegan Hart becomes only the second British man to win the Giro d'Italia as he takes the title in Milan.", "A woman who grew up relying on free school meals says \"hunger doesn't go\" in the holidays.", "Freight industry body warns the lack of an agreement on tariffs could make things more expensive.", "The Asian giant hornets can wipe out a colony of honeybees in hours.", "Lewis Hamilton passes Valtteri Bottas to take a commanding victory in the Portuguese Grand Prix and break Formula 1's all-time win record.", "The body was found at a National Trust estate and the arrested man is being treated for serious injuries.", "Special forces are involved in the operation on board the vessel off the Isle of Wight.", "A man has made a Google map showing businesses offering free food for children during half term.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Eighteen people are arrested as police disperse crowds protesting against coronavirus restrictions.", "Sending some children home may be the only way to control infection rates, Prof Neil Ferguson says.", "It comes as a senior Conservative MP criticises leaders of NHS Test and Trace, urging \"decisive\" change.", "As the second wave of the pandemic takes deep root across parts of the UK, thousands of NHS workers are struggling to recover from what they have already been through.", "Joan Hocquard, who drove ambulances during World War Two, died at her home on Saturday.", "Two new locations in Wales linked to the slave trade are now marked by high-tech history barcodes.", "The current 17-day lockdown could be followed by another in January or February, minister says.", "The EU's Michel Barnier will stay in London, rather than returning to Brussels later.", "Boris Johnson's techno-optimism ignores the need for big societal changes, experts warn.", "The former Grandstand presenter was one of the most familiar faces on BBC television from the 1960 to '80s.", "A surge in demand from online shoppers means the company is looking for 33,000 temporary workers.", "France recalls its ambassador after President Erdogan suggests French leader needs \"mental check\".", "Rebecca Logan, a 39-year-old fitness instructor. says she was \"completely floored\" by coronavirus.", "Staff currently working from home because of the pandemic will be asked to do so until spring 2021.", "The BBC Philharmonic orchestra records Paul Harvey's song after a clip of his piano playing went viral.", "One further death linked to coronavirus was registered in the last 24 hours, Scottish government figures show.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic today.", "Offers to feed children for free in the school holidays soar in response to the footballer's campaign.", "With infections rising across Europe, tighter Covid restrictions are being enforced.", "Some owners of Apple's new phones get an error message when trying to run the contact-tracing app.", "Mr Lee helped to grow his father's small trading business into a global industrial powerhouse.", "Hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly pay tribute to frontline workers before the dancing begins.", "The Royal British Legion's annual Poppy Appeal is launching differently due to the Covid pandemic.", "The heavy rain also forced the closure of the train line between Inverness and Aberdeen on Thursday afternoon.", "Hadija’s mum, dad and older sister were killed in the Azerbaijaini town of Ganja.", "Rudy Giuliani describes as a \"fabrication\" a scene appearing to show him with hands down his trousers.", "Spain is the first western European country and the sixth in the world to pass the landmark figure.", "Joe Biden outlined how he would tackle Covid-19 as President Trump goes on the attack at a Florida rally.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The former world number one and six-time Grand Slam champion denies all the charges against him.", "The chancellor is to announce more support for firms and workers as Covid restrictions increase.", "The UK's competition watchdog says the merger between the ticketing firms could lead to higher fees.", "Labour's deputy leader made the comment while Tory MP Chris Clarkson spoke on virus restrictions.", "Bars and restaurants face an uncertain future after Covid restrictions were extended until 2 November, warn industry leaders.", "UK tourists will also no longer need to quarantine after visiting Mykonos, the Maldives and Denmark.", "Caroline Ansell has resigned after voting for a Labour plan to offer free school meals in the holidays.", "The journalist, best known for his 1995 interview with Princess Diana, has complications from the virus.", "Economy minister Ken Skates says the penalty notices are \"vital\" to improve services.", "The 21:00 to 06:00 curfew will apply from Friday and two-thirds of French people will be affected.", "Shoppers in Barnsley react to the news South Yorkshire will move into tier 3 on Saturday.", "Transport for London refuses to release a report into a Banksy artwork, citing security concerns.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Donald Trump made voters a number of promises before they elected him. But has he kept his word?", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Transport for Wales' chief executive says he understands passengers' frustration.", "From January, EU citizens sentenced to more than a year in prison will be barred.", "Ministers step in to \"stabilise the network and keep it running\" as income plummets due to Covid.", "The two chief negotiators for a post-Brexit trade deal spoke on the phone earlier on Wednesday.", "Gavin Lee reports from the epicentre of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is in Belgium.", "Experts give hope to campaign for David Morris’s conviction to be re-examined.", "Fans can bid for handwritten lyrics to his song Perfect and a £3 ticket for his first gig.", "Business leaders say companies have been given just hours to prepare for the national lockdown.", "James Safechuck claimed the star's companies allowed the star to abuse him and other children.", "The Brazilian volunteer did not receive the vaccine being tested by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.", "Transport for Wales says between 5% and 8% of its 689 daily services were overcrowded since July.", "The surge is being driven by fears over the coronavirus, and it could affect the way results play out.", "So far, some 7,444 migrants have crossed in boats during 2020 - the third annual jump in arrivals.", "Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 with a pledge to bring down immigration. Did it happen?", "Boris Johnson says test and trace system must improve after chancellor announces help for business.", "Intelligence officials say Iran was behind threatening emails sent to Democrats earlier this week.", "Retailers will be barred from selling items like clothes when Wales goes into a two-week lockdown.", "Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 with a pledge to bring down immigration. Did it happen?", "New drone footage shows the remains of two barges involved in the Severn Railway Bridge disaster.", "The mayor for the Sheffield City Region calls it the \"responsible route\" to stem the spread of Covid-19.", "Boris Johnson says he shares people's frustrations at the turnaround times for results in England.", "The prime minister claims workers will get 80% of their wages. Will they?", "In all of these areas the infection rate is over 100 per 100,000 people, the health secretary says.", "The National Audit Office spending watchdog says a scheme designed to protect jobs was open to abuse.", "Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 with a pledge to bring down immigration. Did it happen?", "Durham University online welcome meeting for LGBT students is \"hijacked\" by \"homophobic slurs\".", "Businesses fear for the future as South Yorkshire faces the highest level of Covid restrictions.", "One family in London say they received scores of long, repetitive calls from contact tracers.", "Some of President Trump's and Joe Biden's key policies explained and compared.", "Officers find people hiding in the kitchen, upstairs bedrooms and basement of the house in Nottingham.", "Four adults and a child are known to have been rescued by firefighters following the blast.", "The EU's Michel Barnier has warned \"every day counts\" ahead of December's deadline to reach a deal.", "It comes as the Welsh Government says a short lockdown is under consideration in Wales.", "The online retailer now has 23.4 million customers, helping sales and profits to jump.", "Critics on social media say the role of Egypt's famed ruler should go to an Arab or African actress.", "The New Shepard rocket carried technology designed to return humans to the Moon in four years.", "UK doctors say it is the first such case they have seen linked to the pandemic coronavirus.", "The 39-year-old says she was paid €500,000 by a former top Vatican official accused of embezzlement.", "Harry Maguire and Reece James are sent off as England lose to Denmark in the Nations League at Wembley.", "The former Blue Peter presenter is accused of grabbing a woman's breasts at a party in 2008.", "Kenneth Walker says he's \"a million per cent sure\" officers did not identify themselves before entering.", "Personal trainer Matt Simpson apologised for the \"slave\" workout but has since been trolled online.", "Most of the country is in the lowest tier but millions in the North and the Midlands face extra curbs.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Analysts say the new iPhone line-up could trigger a \"super-cycle\" of consumer upgrades.", "Drug-related fatalities reach record levels as deaths of women involving cocaine rise by 26.5%.", "Nitrous oxide is the second most popular recreational drug in the UK for 16-24-year-olds.", "As racism persists, firms face growing calls to make their senior leadership teams more diverse.", "Historian Dr David Starkey says he did not \"intend to stir up racial hatred\" in the June interview.", "A care home is swamped with cards and gifts for a resident turning 100 in isolation from his family.", "The initiative follows Facebook's earlier pledge to ban ads that discourage vaccinations.", "First Minister Arlene Foster delivered a statement to the assembly on increased coronavirus restrictions.", "Footage shows people dancing in the streets hours before new rules come into effect in Liverpool.", "The European Union is about to formally reject a UK plea for special allowances for exports of electric cars.", "A Filipina newborn died two months after she was separated from her mother, a political detainee.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Ministers admit an extra £800m is needed due to more asbestos discoveries and complexities at London Euston.", "Latest update on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales on Wednesday 14 October.", "Banks must ensure closing expats' UK bank accounts does not leave customers in \"undue financial hardship\".", "Nicola Sturgeon says the town has been linked to a \"large and growing number\" of Scottish Covid cases.", "Renate Blauel sought £3m in damages amid claims the singer broke the terms of their divorce deal.", "The Association of British Insurers website no longer says schools are covered for lost trips.", "The supermarkets won't use glitter in own-brand crackers and cards as part of sustainability efforts.", "The PM calls himself \"freedom-loving\", but circumstances could push him towards harsher measures.", "Saturday's episode of the BBC One show is postponed after a \"small number of people\" test positive.", "Premier League clubs have \"unanimously agreed\" that 'Project Big Picture' will not be \"endorsed or pursued\".", "Nursing staff ordered security to restrain a 77-year-old man on 19 occasions in order to treat him.", "New Zealand will not travel to Wembley to face England in a friendly next month because of travel and player availability complications.", "The boss of the security service says terrorism, hostile states and Covid are having an impact on its work.", "Sir Keir Starmer says the government has lost control of coronavirus, as daily deaths rise to 143.", "One student who was given a used kit said some people had opened and used the testing kits.", "Zoe Powell and three of her children died in Oxford just months after losing everything in a house fire.", "The Duchess of Sussex says she sticks to \"straight forward\" topics to avoid putting her family at risk.", "The social media giant says the accounts broke its rules on spam and platform manipulation.", "Manufacturing problems mean some tins don't include the full range of chocolates.", "Prosecutors say the calls by Amy Cooper, a white woman, were designed to intimidate a birdwatcher.", "It is the first time in 19 years that a complete copy of the rare book has gone under the hammer.", "The trip took just three hours and three minutes – half the usual journey time.", "She will host on 5 Live from Monday to Wednesday, and on Breakfast from Thursday to Saturday.", "The government did not take the recommendation of a \"circuit breaker\" lockdown.", "Max Woosey has been sleeping in his back garden for 200 days to raise money for North Devon Hospice.", "The UK Prime Minister defends his approach to tackling coronavirus as new England restrictions begin.", "There has been a dramatic drop in trade since a Llanelli lockdown was announced nearly three weeks ago.", "Boris Johnson has previously set Thursday's EU meeting as the deadline for a post-Brexit deal.", "England's new three-tier system can both control the virus and prevent economic harm, Boris Johnson says.", "Latest figures show increasing number of secondary schools in England sending home pupils in Covid cases.", "Moscow said there was no evidence for the accusation, calling it a \"serious and wilful provocation\".", "Zoe Powell and three of her children aged under nine die in a crash between a car and a lorry.", "World's biggest furniture firm to resell second-hand Ikea items in bid to be 'climate positive'.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "Boris Johnson tells MPs: 'I rule nothing out in combating the virus'", "The blast of the WW2 bomb in a canal in Poland was not unexpected and divers were unharmed.", "The MPs say they want to use their \"collective muscle\" to ensure the PM delivers on his promises.", "At least eight people who attended a crowded Rose Garden event last Saturday have tested positive.", "The rare night-time military parade comes weeks before the US presidential election.", "The brothers from Blackburn are among the business leaders named on the Queen's Birthday Honours list", "Polish teenager Iga Swiatek becomes the lowest-ranked woman to win the French Open with a stunning victory over Sofia Kenin.", "US President Donald Trump hosted his first public event since testing positive for coronavirus last Thursday.", "Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh deny involvement in the murder of four US hostages.", "Dilys Price has also been praised for \"transforming\" the lives of disabled people.", "The copy of Geoffrey Faber's poetry anthology The Buried Stream is \"pristine\", the council says.", "There has been a marked increase in cases over recent weeks in England, especially in the north.", "The Red Planet is unmissable in the night sky right now as its orbit aligns with Earth's.", "The Labour Party and business groups fear workers will fall through gaps in the expanded support scheme.", "More than 1,000 have arrived in recent days and this year has seen a big increase from 2019.", "Britain's Simon Yates withdraws from the Giro d'Italia before stage eight after testing positive for coronavirus.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "As North Korea celebrates its military arsenal, leader Kim Jong-un says his country is \"healthy and sound\" in terms of coronavirus.", "The Beautiful South star helped pay staff's wages after the magazine was shut down.", "A witness says one of the planes burst into flames after coming down not far from the city of Tours.", "Data gathered by the BBC finds there have been 55 fatal stabbings in the capital so far this year.", "The chancellor says his Job Support Scheme \"expansion\" comes ahead of \"what may be a difficult winter\".", "A letter signed by hundreds of scientists calls for global action to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises.", "Alan Mack believes he caught Covid-19 from his daughter, Rebecca, who died waiting for an ambulance.", "Belgium's Kevin de Bruyne says England should be contenders at next year's European Championship and the 2022 World Cup.", "More than 250 inmates and 12 staff are isolating after positive cases were reported at Glasgow's Barlinnie prison.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The celebrity cook is made a dame while the grime star is made an MBE on the Queen's honours list.", "Piles of unused ice cubes are dumped in protest at Scottish government curbs on the hospitality sector.", "Tensions are growing in Europe following a crackdown on protests against the country's president.", "World Rugby's decision to prevent transgender women from competing at the highest levels of the women's game has been criticised by LGBT charity Stonewall.", "A local lockdown has begun in the city but it will not be extended elsewhere in Gwynedd yet.", "The mayor of Greater Manchester says many people in Northern communities will be left in \"severe hardship\".", "University students self-isolating in the UK criticise the cost and quality of food parcels on campus.", "The warning comes amid plans to bring in a three-tier local lockdown system to slow the spread of Covid.", "But regional leaders say there has been little consultation and imposing more change could sow confusion.", "Black cats Leon and Nikita are \"lovely boys\" in need of a quiet \"retirement home\".", "The state is still recovering from the damage caused by another storm, Hurricane Laura, in August.", "The England player's award came for services to vulnerable children in the UK during lockdown.", "At least eight people who attended a crowded Rose Garden event last Saturday have tested positive.", "Those who tested positive were told and their contacts are being traced, the prime minister says.", "Flood warnings are in place after some areas see a month of rainfall in less than two days.", "Stumble the duck lost a leg in an accident with a fishing line. But he is not one of life's quitters.", "Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, seen hugging other attendees at a White House event.", "A family is rescued after their car became trapped in floods, as motorists are warned to take care.", "Boris Johnson was also asked by the BBC One presenter Andrew Marr whether he thought the 10pm pub curfew works.", "The institution says selling a portrait of its former boss is a \"tough call\" but could raise up to £18m.", "The officer was injured trying to detain two teenagers but has since been discharged from hospital.", "The president briefly leaves the hospital where he is being treated with Covid-19 to greet supporters.", "Covid-19 disrupted screening, meaning many cases will have been missed, a charity warns.", "The president is discharged from the Walter Reed facility following three days of Covid treatment.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Physicians looking after Donald Trump said they were \"cautiously optimistic, but he's doing great\".", "The bodies of Dr Sacharvi and Vian Mangrio were found in a house fire and a murder probe is under way.", "Communities could be \"cut off\", with 25-50mm of rainfall in most places, the Met Office says.", "One couple among hundreds of Trump fans outside the hospital say they travelled all the way from Arizona.", "Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham calls for control of furlough schemes and test and trace.", "At least two die as strong winds and heavy rain batter north-western Italy and south-eastern France.", "The 12,872 Covid cases are recorded, but a \"technical issue\" is blamed for the high figure.", "World record holder Eliud Kipchoge is beaten in the London Marathon as Shura Kitata wins a thrilling sprint finish to claim an unexpected victory.", "Supporters gathered outside Walter Reed National Military Hospital and elsewhere on Saturday.", "Tuesday Gale says writing poetry and her dog's companionship have \"got her through\" the pandemic.", "Transport for London has not renewed Ola's licence, but the firm will continue to operate while it appeals.", "The test gives results in 15 minutes and costs less than five euros.", "Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi and Vian Mangrio were found dead after a fire at their home.", "Zef Eisenberg who died in a land speed record bid \"injected his positivity into everyone\".", "President Donald Trump attended multiple large events in the days before his coronavirus diagnosis.", "Records show that the man, known only as Abell, lived in the city in the early 18th Century.", "The cinema chain says it will have to temporarily close following delays to big-budget film releases.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Sir Keir Starmer calls on the government to fix test and trace, and produce a \"road map to vaccination\".", "Amnesty International calls for an inquiry, saying some residents were denied access to medical help.", "The bodies of Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi and Vian Mangrio, 14, were found inside a fire-damaged house.", "The home secretary says those who attack the government's plan are \"defending the indefensible\".", "Prince Louis, two, is heard speaking for the first time, asking: \"What animal do you like?\"", "Jonah Fisher reports on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, where people are \"under attack day and night\".", "Tighter rules come into effect in five further areas amid a rising number of new coronavirus cases.", "Friday 2 October began with President Trump announcing he had Covid-19. It ended with him in hospital.", "Sam Law says the experience at the DVSA driving theory test centre left him angry and disappointed.", "William Henry and Brian McIntosh were found dead in a car park off Moor Street in Brierley Hill.", "Dr Rodolfo Piskorski becomes the first person to take a Welsh language citizenship exam.", "President Trump says \"I'm starting to feel good,\" a day after being taken to hospital.", "Kenzo Takada was the first Japanese designer to gain prominence on the Paris fashion scene.", "The new mum, however, says hospital staff were \"supportive every step of the way\".", "The Oscar-nominated actress says she is \"fuming\" about how society treats traumatised women.", "The foreign secretary tells the Tory Party conference Covid nearly \"took the life\" of Boris Johnson.", "Progress has been made in talks but \"significant gaps\" remain between the EU and UK, they say.", "Health Minister Robin Swann said he did not want a return to a long-term or indefinite lockdown.", "We asked some older US voters for their reactions to the president's Covid-19 diagnosis.", "Boris Johnson says there is \"hope\" in fighting the virus, but it could be \"a very tough winter\".", "Some parts of the surrounding county will also face the toughest Covid rules.", "John Bream attempted to break two world records after jumping from a helicopter without a parachute.", "The stowaways had posed \"a clear threat to life on the ship\", the Defence Secretary says.", "Salman Abedi was on his mobile phone when he made his \"final walk\" as crowds emerged from concert.", "David Henderson denies offences related to the plane crash which killed footballer Emiliano Sala.", "A strike by workers and students puts more pressure on President Lukashenko to quit.", "Job vacancies fail to return to pre-pandemic levels in many towns, according to new research.", "Do government arguments against extra free school meals and more money for Manchester add up?", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "A woman who grew up relying on free school meals says \"hunger doesn't go\" in the holidays.", "After four ragged years, the relationship is unlikely to improve no matter who sits in the White House.", "The Lion King was due to play over the summer, but has been postponed until 2022.", "The move raises concerns that rural and deprived communities face being cut off from access to cash.", "NI Affairs Committee members are \"dismayed\" at a lack of consultation over government plans.", "Lewis Hamilton passes Valtteri Bottas to take a commanding victory in the Portuguese Grand Prix and break Formula 1's all-time win record.", "Peter Florence was suspended at the start of October pending the outcome of grievance proceedings.", "In April Fergus Walsh was the first UK journalist to report from a Covid ICU. What's changed?", "Special forces are involved in the operation on board the vessel off the Isle of Wight.", "Britain's Got Talent finalist Nabil Abdulrashid joked about his experiences as a black Muslim.", "Details and reaction to today's televised briefing by Health Minister Vaughan Gething.", "It had cordoned off the aisle after a break-in, but told a customer it was due to lockdown rules.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Some of President Trump's and Joe Biden's key policies explained and compared.", "The £120 nasal swab test will be available to people not showing any symptoms.", "More than 800 legal professionals accuse ministers of \"hostility\" which they claim jeopardises safety.", "The Southern Trust says \"clinical concerns\" have been raised about the work of a consultant urologist.", "From Tina Turner to Stevie Wonder, what do we learn from Trump and Biden's musical choices?", "A top doctor tells the BBC they had no choice, to avoid the hospital system collapsing within days.", "John Bream jumped out of a helicopter at 130ft and hit the water in The Solent at about 80mph.", "The former Grandstand presenter was one of the most familiar faces on BBC television from the 1960 to '80s.", "The Dow falls as much as 3.3% before ending down 2.3% - its sharpest decline in weeks.", "The BBC Philharmonic orchestra records Paul Harvey's song after a clip of his piano playing went viral.", "The Chinese firm is set for the biggest stock market listing ever, beating Saudi Aramco's $29bn flotation.", "It means pubs will shut unless they can operate as a restaurant and people will face tight curbs on mixing.", "Prue Leith leads a review into hospital meals, suggesting digital menus and 24-hour food service.", "The prime minister insists he has the right approach and no child will go hungry this winter.", "Batteries that power mobile phones and other devices are causing fires because they are not disposed of properly.", "A prison officer was dismissed after failing to spot a man who had been \"dead for some time\".", "Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump campaigned in Pennsylvania, a key state, eight days before the vote.", "Keith Bigland's cat, Biscuit, vanished in 2017 after escaping from his home, in March, Cambs.", "Officials are \"not blind\" to impact a new lockdown would have on Wales, the health minister says.", "Despite the grim period for the sector, some see it as a chance to improve sustainability.", "Why does the divergence between science and politics appear to be wider than it has ever been?", "Welshman Nick Murray has been working to protect Zimbabwe's wildlife for nearly 25 years.", "Abu Dhabi's minister of tolerance has denied allegations he sexually assaulted a festival organiser.", "The MPs want the mayor to \"engage\" with the government' - but draw fire from their own colleagues.", "More financial support is needed to avoid mass redundancies and closures, businesses say.", "Three times as many are dying than in 2016, a Nottingham Trent University study estimates.", "The body of a man found on a French beach is confirmed by authorities as that of a migrant.", "The family flew back from Greece after just a day on holiday there, amid intense criticism.", "After the murder of 17 people in Paris last week, several people have been jailed, raising questions about freedom of speech in France.", "Facing strong criticism, the royals cut short a trip to Greece they began during a partial lockdown.", "The street split down the middle by the government's new coronavirus rules.", "Fallon Sherrock, who made history by beating two men at the PDC World Darts Championship last year, misses out on qualification this time.", "Rallies are held across France in support of murdered teacher Samuel Paty.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The Scottish government wants those isolating after a positive coronavirus test to be exempt from tax on a support payment.", "The rufous bush chat was spotted at Stiffkey, Norfolk, and up to 100 birders came to see it.", "The 18-hole MacLeod course is to be built to the south and west of the controversial original course at Menie.", "The BBC's Laura Foster explains what a circuit-breaker is and how it could help tackle Covid-19.", "Boris Johnson urges local leaders to \"engage constructively\" with the government over tougher rules.", "The UK will continue to engage but only if the EU changes its position in key areas, says Michael Gove.", "Joe Anderson has said his brother, who was admitted to hospital with coronavirus, has died.", "The 37m feline figure, said to have been created some 2,000 years ago, escaped notice for centuries.", "Downing Street says talks will resume on Sunday - but local leaders deny knowledge of a call.", "Dave Toole's routine high above the Olympic Stadium has been described as \"mighty and beautiful\".", "Forces in England will have access on a \"case-by-case basis\" to data on whether a person has been told to self-isolate.", "Convicted murderer Steven Gallant was on day release when he helped stop a knifeman's rampage.", "But there is \"light at the end of the tunnel\" as a vaccine may be ready early next year, the expert says.", "Det Sgt Nick Bailey \"had to admit defeat\" after the 2018 attack saying he \"can no longer do the job\".", "More than 11,000 stores shut between January and June in the UK, according to research.", "Ofgem will require suppliers to offer emergency credit and put people on 'realistic' repayment plans.", "Andy Burnham has called on Boris Johnson and other leaders to help end a deadlock over stricter Covid curbs.", "The Scottish government says there have been capacity issues, but the UK government says this is \"categorically untrue\".", "The former PM says the government must \"think again\" about using a formula to assess housing need.", "No 10 announced earlier this year it plans to hold daily White House-style press conferences.", "The health minister will stay in charge on Covid - but some of his roles will go to Eluned Morgan.", "The 2.8m-long (9ft) artwork was cut up as it was too long to display, say Hong Kong police.", "Pubs and restaurants in worst-hit areas could close next week in an effort to stall rising infection rates.", "Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh appear via video link from prison at a hearing in Virginia.", "The BBC asks the Manchester Arena attacker's brother why he is not co-operating with a public inquiry.", "Russell Causley, who murdered Carole Packman 35 years ago, refuses to say where he put her body.", "Prince Harry and Meghan said Archie was pictured at their California home in an invasion of privacy.", "The new rules will apply to all licensed premises in the central belt of the country - including Glasgow and Edinburgh.", "The supermarket is offering free jabs to eligible people and an £8 charge for everyone else,", "Closing pubs and restaurants and banning overnight stays in the worst-affected areas are being discussed.", "Caroline Langton chose Ramsgate over London as more people search for homes away from cities.", "Several countries report record rises in confirmed cases as officials urge people to remain vigilant.", "Undercover footage shows British livestock being transported from Spain to the Middle East.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The US poet is recognised for the \"austere beauty\" of her work, says the Swedish Academy", "Vicky Morgan is trained to draw tattoos for cancer survivors who lost breasts through a mastectomy.", "Kamala Harris calls the US response to the virus \"the greatest failure\" of any president in history.", "Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins gives a stark warning as more movies are delayed.", "The first minister says that \"all sorts of nonsense\" is being levelled at her over the Alex Salmond inquiry.", "Billionaires have grown their wealth by 27% during the crisis, with industrial and tech bosses earning most.", "Depressed teenagers do worse at GCSE than they should and need extra support, say researchers.", "Police said the social media giant had not disclosed details of the account that sent the tweet.", "A parliamentary inquiry says the UK may need to remove firm's 5G kit two years earlier than planned.", "The wearing of mandatory face masks is also being extended to other settings.", "Brazil is the third worst-hit country, after the US and India, with deaths approaching 150,000.", "Authorities say they are acting ahead of an expected government tightening of rules.", "Keeping inmates in groups to cut infection has also reduced violence and bullying, a union says.", "The number of patients needing care for confirmed Covid-19 returns to levels not seen since June.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "One in four people in the UK is currently subject to local interventions to prevent the spread of Covid.", "Bars and restaurants are to close in Lyon, Lille, Grenoble and Saint-Etienne, as infections spike.", "Upto £258m in grants for the self-employed could have been fraudulent or paid in error, HMRC says.", "While we expect more moves from No 10 to tackle Covid, there are many questions still to be settled.", "Dominic Calvert-Lewin scores on his senior international debut as an inexperienced England side beat Wales in a friendly at Wembley.", "The UK has settled a lawsuit brought by a tech firm over the government's contract bidding process.", "Data shows the infection rate is 689.1 per 100,000, with restrictions yet to be imposed in the city.", "Masks will also need to be worn in most indoor places, as Italy tries to stem a rise in infections.", "Scotland are one game away from their first major finals in 23 years after a nerve-shredding penalty shootout win over Israel.", "The Old Bailey hears how the 39 victims died in \"unbearable\" heat in a lorry container last October.", "The BBC watched the stand-off between Harris and Pence with four US voters. What did they make of it?", "A seven-day run at an outdoor cinema is now enough to be considered for best picture.", "Minister Robert Jenrick did not rule out closing pubs and restaurants in the worst-affected areas.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "Bianca Williams accused the Met of racial-profiling after she and her partner were pulled over.", "Marshals will advise people of virus rules while police forces share £30m to help with enforcement.", "Some school heads are telling teachers to ignore or switch off contact tracing, BBC News has learned.", "Office for National Statistics data looked at the underlying cause of death in England and Wales.", "The rare raptor, seen only a handful of times in the UK, was spotted at Moulton West Fen earlier.", "The gym said the workout routine was to mark Black History Month.", "At least eight people who attended a crowded Rose Garden event last Saturday have tested positive.", "The first minister warns that fresh measures \"may well be needed\" in Scotland \"in the near future\".", "Newcastle University student Jeni Larmour was named as one of four young people who died.", "Those who tested positive were told and their contacts are being traced, the prime minister says.", "The vulnerability was fixed before being exploited by any malicious parties, the LGBT dating app says.", "Lord Reed says the court's lack of black, Asian, and ethnic minority justices needs to be addressed.", "Outdoor centres warn coronavirus rules mean they cannot reopen and could fold.", "The officer was injured trying to detain two teenagers but has since been discharged from hospital.", "The president briefly leaves the hospital where he is being treated with Covid-19 to greet supporters.", "The president is discharged from the Walter Reed facility following three days of Covid treatment.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Chris Williams-Ellis, who has severe injuries, was rescued by his partner from under a burning car.", "Communities could be \"cut off\", with 25-50mm of rainfall in most places, the Met Office says.", "One couple among hundreds of Trump fans outside the hospital say they travelled all the way from Arizona.", "The chancellor told party members the Conservatives had a \"sacred duty\" to spend responsibly.", "Thirteen school children began to feel unwell after eating what they believed were sweets.", "Backbenchers were divided over the human rights and civil liberties implications of the new legislation.", "President Trump appointed his campaign spokeswoman to be his fourth White House press secretary.", "Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham calls for control of furlough schemes and test and trace.", "Supporters gathered outside Walter Reed National Military Hospital and elsewhere on Saturday.", "Singapore's Changi Airport says “battle with Covid-19 has just begun” as it paints a bleak picture.", "\"Please wear a real mask,\" plead the star's fans, after she attends a meet-and-greet in Los Angeles.", "A survey of nearly 1,000 firms shows that 74% plan on maintaining the increase in home working.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Transport for London has not renewed Ola's licence, but the firm will continue to operate while it appeals.", "One in three mums quit breastfeeding in lockdown due to a lack of face-to-face help, a study finds.", "President Donald Trump attended multiple large events in the days before his coronavirus diagnosis.", "Sotheby's auction house said it was difficult to overstate the diamond's \"rarity and purity\".", "The error meant that although those who tested positive were told about their results, their close contacts were not traced.", "The President's diagnosis caused a wave of rumour, speculation and misinformation online.", "Andrew Jones is found guilty of luring Michael O'Leary to a farm and shooting him.", "The cinema chain says it will have to temporarily close following delays to big-budget film releases.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "NHS surgeons say hospital beds must be kept open for \"usual business\", not just Covid-19.", "The risk of an attack at the Manchester Arena should have been \"crystal clear\", inquiry hears.", "The bodies of Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi and Vian Mangrio, 14, were found inside a fire-damaged house.", "The home secretary says those who attack the government's plan are \"defending the indefensible\".", "The US Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal, meaning the long-running copyright case is over.", "White House physician Sean Conley said the team was 'cautiously optimistic' about the president's recovery.", "Jonah Fisher reports on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, where people are \"under attack day and night\".", "The virus is a major cause of liver cancer and can lead to people needing a liver transplant.", "New UK car registrations fell 4.4% last month from a year earlier, the motor industry says.", "Tammy Abraham, Ben Chilwell and Jadon Sancho set to miss England's game against Wales after being told to stay away from St George's Park.", "The decision to use a spreadsheet format that dates back to the 1980s has proved to be unwise.", "Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have a lot in common - now that includes a brush with coronavirus.", "Sir Ian Botham takes his seat in the House of Lords where he will sit as a cross bencher.", "Boris Johnson is promising to \"build back greener in his leader's speech to the Conservative conference.", "While indoor sports and children's play centres opened in England in mid-August they remain closed in Scotland.", "Chelsea and England striker Tammy Abraham apologises \"for the naivety shown\" after he breached coronavirus guidelines.", "Men and women now receive their state pension at 66, as the chancellor vows the triple lock is safe.", "Health Minister Robin Swann said he did not want a return to a long-term or indefinite lockdown.", "Arsenal complete the signing of Thomas Partey from Atletico Madrid for 50m euros (£45.3m).", "Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey says it will give unemployed people a \"helping hand\".", "Five-year-old Izzy is treated to a performance by her doctors as she undergoes leukaemia treatment.", "A favourite of social conservatives, Judge Barrett's confirmation swings the highest US court further right.", "Despite trying to recruit domestic workers, foreign labour will be vital for next year's harvest, farmers say.", "What kind of justice might Amy Coney Barrett be? We take a look at her own words to find out.", "The bank says it is considering charging for basic bank services after its profits dived 35%.", "The publisher Bloomsbury, best known for the Harry Potter titles, has seen profits rocket since March.", "Covid testing pilot projects are launched in universities - as plans begin to get students home at Christmas.", "The Southern Trust says \"clinical concerns\" have been raised about the work of a consultant urologist.", "Timothy Brehmer, who worked for Dorset Police, strangled Claire Parry but says it was an accident.", "Tony Blair said he was aware of abuse allegations but there had not been any charges.", "Police are investigating the incident, which saw a cyclist taken to hospital.", "World 100m champion Christian Coleman is suspended for two years after missing three drugs tests.", "John Bream attempted to break two world records after jumping from a helicopter without a parachute.", "The film initially caused outrage - but now the tourism board sees it as the perfect marketing tool.", "Firms are reportedly hiring fewer disabled applicants amid concerns about supporting them properly.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "A judge quashed a decision which would force them to stop living on the land they own.", "A woman who grew up relying on free school meals says \"hunger doesn't go\" in the holidays.", "John Bream jumped out of a helicopter from 140ft (42m) and hit the water in the Solent at 80mph.", "A new investigation is looking at the deaths of three policemen killed by the IRA 38 years ago.", "It had cordoned off the aisle after a break-in, but told a customer it was due to lockdown rules.", "Licensed premises in many areas of Scotland will be able to serve alcohol indoors again from next week.", "A security guard says he \"had a bad feeling\" about Salman Abedi, Manchester inquiry hears.", "The watchdog Ofcom says the move should encourage more people to switch and save money.", "The Hollywood star said sister Deondra, who was 36, \"is in heaven now dancing with her wings on\".", "A further 367 people have died in the UK with Covid-19, the government's daily figures show.", "The trust running hospitals in Leeds expects an increase in intensive care patients in the coming days.", "Some parts of the surrounding county will also face the toughest Covid rules.", "Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson would support such a move if it meant halting coronavirus's spread.", "There are disproportionate levels of black and ethnic minorities in Wales' justice system, studies find.", "Figures show reported transphobic hate crimes almost trebling in London in the past nine years.", "Democrat Joe Biden campaigned in Georgia, a traditionally Republican state, a week from election day.", "The Cheshire town is the latest area to be moved into the top tier of Covid-19 restrictions.", "Abdulfatah Hamdallah died trying to cross the English Channel in a dinghy, French authorities say.", "\"I cannot express how little I care that you hate the photos,\" she writes in a blog post.", "In April Fergus Walsh was the first UK journalist to report from a Covid ICU. What's changed?", "A top doctor tells the BBC they had no choice, to avoid the hospital system collapsing within days.", "More than 50 Tory MPs call for a \"clear road map\" out of lockdown restrictions for northern England.", "The Dow falls as much as 3.3% before ending down 2.3% - its sharpest decline in weeks.", "This is likely to mean immunity levels decline and raises the risk of reinfection, researchers say.", "Two children - aged five and eight - and a man and a woman have died off the coast of France.", "The Twitter account @UKWoolworths, which now has more than 4,000 followers, misspelled the shop's name.", "The prime minister insists he has the right approach and no child will go hungry this winter.", "Plastic surgeons implore people to think twice about DIY back garden displays, to avoid injuries.", "Ministers also say people should be able to ask for non-essentials in exceptional circumstances.", "Labour's review says ethnic minorities are \"over-exposed\" and have worse healthcare than white people.", "Salman Abedi was on his mobile phone when he made his \"final walk\" as crowds emerged from concert.", "Joe Anderson spoke to BBC Breakfast's Louise Minchin after his eldest brother's death in October.", "The percentage of pupils in England's schools fell last week from 89% to 86%, statistics show.", "Footage is passed to police after they reopen an inquiry into an assault on three Somali women.", "One shop worker says staff face daily abuse and she has been intimidated by a customer.", "A further 12 deaths are reported which are connected with Covid-19 outbreaks at hospitals.", "Wales' tourism industry says it is struggling to plan for the future when lockdown is lifted.", "The ambulance service and Southern Heath Trust also warn they are \"extremely busy\".", "Doctors say Covid-19 is now rampant in the refugee camps of Idlib, north-west Syria.", "Many parents have to take part by phone - and some cannot follow what's happening, a survey suggests.", "Households will not be able to mix indoors, in line with restrictions elsewhere in the West Midlands.", "Andrew Wilson was just four when he saw his father lying on the ground moments after being shot.", "Wales remain unbeaten in the Nations League after they are held to a 0-0 draw away to the Republic of Ireland, who have James McClean sent off.", "At least eight people who attended a crowded Rose Garden event last Saturday have tested positive.", "Dilys Price has also been praised for \"transforming\" the lives of disabled people.", "Police are accused of using brutal tactics at another Sunday rally against President Lukashenko.", "The potential strategy is being considered by the Home Office, the Sunday Telegraph reports.", "The Red Planet is unmissable in the night sky right now as its orbit aligns with Earth's.", "Passengers on the bus were on their way to celebrate the end of Buddhist Lent, police say.", "The Labour Party and business groups fear workers will fall through gaps in the expanded support scheme.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Labour presses Robert Jenrick over a £25m grant, but he insists the process was \"perfectly normal\".", "Five more Republic of Ireland players miss Sunday's Nations League draw with Wales after a new positive Covid-19 case in the squad.", "A witness says one of the planes burst into flames after coming down not far from the city of Tours.", "Scotland's hospitality minister defends the current closure of pubs and restaurants as part of Covid restrictions.", "The country, which recently passed five million cases, has the world's second-highest number of dead.", "Margaret Ferrier calls the decision to travel from London to Glasgow after testing positive a 'blip'.", "Police say at least 40 people armed with metal bars attacked the building, causing damage to windows and cars.", "André Oliveira Macedo went on the run after being released from prison into house arrest by a judge.", "England's deputy chief medical officer says the country will see more deaths over the coming weeks.", "Belgium's Kevin de Bruyne says England should be contenders at next year's European Championship and the 2022 World Cup.", "More than 250 inmates and 12 staff are isolating after positive cases were reported at Glasgow's Barlinnie prison.", "Joshua Beynon has been subjected to abuse after supporting asylum seekers at a local refugee camp.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "One in four people in the UK is currently subject to local interventions to prevent the spread of Covid.", "The UK economy may have grown by as much as 17% in the three months to September, says a forecaster.", "England recover from a goal down to beat Belgium in the Nations League at Wembley.", "The number of NHS beds occupied by patients with coronavirus is steadily rising, he says.", "World Rugby's decision to prevent transgender women from competing at the highest levels of the women's game has been criticised by LGBT charity Stonewall.", "Radical proposals for the reform of English football could have a \"damaging impact\" on the game, says the Premier League.", "Rafael Nadal produces one of his finest French Open displays to stun Novak Djokovic and equal Roger Federer's record of 20 Grand Slam men's titles.", "The UK is at a \"precarious point\" as coronavirus cases continue to rise, warns Prof Peter Horby.", "Vaccines may cause wide-scale changes in the immune system which can boost the body's protection.", "The Liverpool City Region is expected to face the tightest Covid restrictions under the new system.", "Nicola Sturgeon says her predecessor may be angry she did not \"collude\" to make sexual misconduct allegations \"go away\".", "University students self-isolating in the UK criticise the cost and quality of food parcels on campus.", "The warning comes amid plans to bring in a three-tier local lockdown system to slow the spread of Covid.", "Lewis Hamilton equals Michael Schumacher's record of 91 race victories during an eventful Eifel Grand Prix at the Nurburgring.", "The company says the issue was caused by an \"inadvertent change\" it made to its internal systems.", "The Merseyside gym stayed open despite the area facing the highest level of coronavirus restrictions.", "A 51-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder the officer in Southampton.", "Harry Maguire and Reece James are sent off as England lose to Denmark in the Nations League at Wembley.", "Kenneth Walker says he's \"a million per cent sure\" officers did not identify themselves before entering.", "The owner of the venue in west London faces a possible £10,000 fine for breaching coronavirus rules.", "The ad was criticised for encouraging \"Fatima\" to give up on dancing and \"reskill\" in cyber security.", "One experienced virologist raises concerns about safety protocols and a lack of training.", "Millions of people face more restrictions from Saturday, including a ban on households mixing indoors.", "Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle ordered the move as some MPs represent areas where pubs are closed.", "Scientists find a material that displays a much sought-after property at room temperature.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "He was hiking with his father in Alberta, Canada, when he stumbled upon the Hadrosaur remains.", "Official guidelines say couples are entitled to refunds except for services already provided.", "Almost 500 teaching staff and 8,000 pupils are currently self-isolating in Liverpool.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Ex-government adviser Dame Louise Casey demands help to avoid pushing many workers into poverty.", "Aid groups say civilians must be given safe passage amid clashes between Taliban and government forces.", "Billie Eilish, BTS and Harry Styles were also big winners, with many urging fans in the US to vote.", "Extra wards at Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital are being opened to treat coronavirus patients.", "It is the first time since March she has carried out an engagement outside a royal residence.", "Fitting thousands of homes with new energy technology could create 50,000 jobs, housing bodies say.", "Heart-disease deaths among younger adults have risen - Sarah Fisher fears she could be next.", "The supermarkets won't use glitter in own-brand crackers and cards as part of sustainability efforts.", "The PM calls himself \"freedom-loving\", but circumstances could push him towards harsher measures.", "The facility at Belfast City Hospital will be reinstated for admission of Covid patients from across NI.", "Made in Chelsea's Binky Felstead speaks to Radio 1 Newsbeat about losing her baby.", "The boss of the security service says terrorism, hostile states and Covid are having an impact on its work.", "Homeless people given a bed in the pandemic will not be returned to Welsh streets, a minister says.", "As EU leaders gather for a summit in Brussels, will they find unity over a Brexit trade deal?", "Dougie is taking a new drug which blocks his craving for heroin and helps him break the cycle of drugs and crime.", "Manufacturing problems mean some tins don't include the full range of chocolates.", "Prosecutors say the calls by Amy Cooper, a white woman, were designed to intimidate a birdwatcher.", "£11m will be spent extending the scheme to include all school holidays up to Easter 2021.", "The force says laws on self-isolation were not in effect when Margaret Ferrier was tested for the virus.", "The trust says it is suspending visits due to the \"continuing rise in Covid-19 cases\" in the area.", "Health leaders' representative says it has taken a \"herculean effort\" to restore capacity.", "There is \"no indication of collision\" between bits of discarded Russian and Chinese space hardware.", "More than 164,000 acres of the US state has burned since the Cameron Peak Fire ignited in August.", "The vice-presidential candidate was not exposed to Covid positive staff, the campaign said.", "Travellers from Italy must self-isolate for 14 days as of Sunday, the government says.", "The health secretary warned that \"things will get worse before they get better\" as he set out new measures.", "The UK's negotiator accused the EU of expecting the UK to make \"all future moves\" towards a deal.", "Nicola Sturgeon says the expiry of existing rules on 26 October will not signal a return to complete normality.", "Boris Johnson has previously set Thursday's EU meeting as the deadline for a post-Brexit deal.", "Greater Manchester and Lancashire are among the areas that could be placed under \"very high alert\".", "England's new three-tier system can both control the virus and prevent economic harm, Boris Johnson says.", "It comes as First Minister Mark Drakeford plans a ban on travel from UK Covid hotspots to Wales.", "The footballer says his efforts to combat child hunger will continue despite the government's response.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese nationals were found dead in a lorry container, jurors have heard.", "\"Bullying\" senior management left staff fearful at East Kent Hospitals Trust, the BBC has been told.", "A charity says councils have not used their powers to take over homes to bring them back into use.", "The move will help students return home for Christmas safely, the Department for Education says.", "Greater Manchester is among the areas that could be moved to the \"very high\" coronavirus alert level.", "Marcus Rashford calls for urgent action on child hunger, saying food poverty is never the child's fault.", "Hadija’s mum, dad and older sister were killed in the Azerbaijaini town of Ganja.", "Joe Biden outlined how he would tackle Covid-19 as President Trump goes on the attack at a Florida rally.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The former world number one and six-time Grand Slam champion denies all the charges against him.", "The arrests took place across the country and 16 children were \"removed from harm\", police say.", "There have been 2,030 confirmed Covid cases in schools since the start of term, says the Public Health Agency.", "Thousands of jobs could be at risk as the US clothing chain mulls closing its company-owned shops.", "UK tourists will also no longer need to quarantine after visiting Mykonos, the Maldives and Denmark.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon gives details of a new five-tier alert system of Covid-19 restrictions.", "England's match against the Barbarians at Twickenham on Sunday is called off after 12 players breached Covid rules.", "The five-level system has been in force since 2 November - with a weekly review of how it applies to council areas.", "The Extinction Rebellion protesters accuse the petrochemical manufacturer of being Scotland's biggest climate change polluter.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 16 and 23 October.", "The highest levels continue to be in the north of England, says the Office for National Statistics.", "But a government scientific adviser warns that without action a normal Christmas is \"wishful thinking\".", "Movie-goers cannot cross the Welsh border to use toilet facilities at the drive-in cinema.", "A search of the house on the Donegall Road in south Belfast was carried out on Friday morning.", "The NBC correspondent is labelled \"clear winner\" for the way she led the final presidential debate.", "The Welsh lockdown means people should stay at home and non-essential shops must close until 9 November.", "During the final presidential debate, Trump and Biden clashed on the response towards the coronavirus pandemic.", "There is no known link between the seasonal dust clouds and Covid-19 but Pyongyang is on high alert.", "Two Biden voters. Two Trump voters. Two undecided voters. Did the final debate change anyone's mind?", "Some shops are blocking off clothing and decorations after being told to stop selling them.", "Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's brother is accused of breaking coronavirus regulations.", "Hampshire Constabulary says it stopped two gatherings outside Portsmouth University student flats.", "The mute button changed the tone but did not stop the candidates from launching stinging attacks.", "There are warnings a batch of Virapro may cause skin problems, eye irritation and headaches.", "Prosecutors allege he was equipped with a knife and handcuffs, as well as Nazi and Confederate flags.", "The countries formally sign a deal described by the UK's international trade secretary as \"ground-breaking\".", "It comes after MPs rejected calls to extend free school meals over holidays amid the Covid-19 crisis.", "Their last time together on stage featured a much more subdued debate with real policy discussions.", "So far, some 7,444 migrants have crossed in boats during 2020 - the third annual jump in arrivals.", "Darren Star says he intended the critically lambasted show to be \"a love letter\" to the French city.", "Retailers will be barred from selling items like clothes when Wales goes into a two-week lockdown.", "Trump's comparison of himself with the 16th president on race issues draws Biden's mockery.", "The new system for setting Covid restrictions in Scotland adds two levels to the three tiers used in England.", "New drone footage shows the remains of two barges involved in the Severn Railway Bridge disaster.", "Susan Nicholson was murdered by Robert Trigg five years after he killed his previous partner.", "Boris Johnson says he shares people's frustrations at the turnaround times for results in England.", "Rhys James and his three friends were kept in isolation in a Florence Covid facility for two months.", "\"We all hope to be in a position\" to allow families to spend Christmas together, a government minister says.", "Details and reaction to the first minister's briefing on the day Wales goes into lockdown again.", "The aim is to create an early warning system to detect local outbreaks before they spread.", "Nine people were seen in France a day before 39 migrants were found dead in the lorry, a court hears.", "The National Audit Office spending watchdog says a scheme designed to protect jobs was open to abuse.", "The Cheshire borough with \"stubbornly high\" infection rates agrees to enter the very high category.", "As the second wave of the pandemic takes deep root across parts of the UK, thousands of NHS workers are struggling to recover from what they have already been through.", "Leeds end Aston Villa's winning start and deny them top spot in the Premier League table thanks to a Patrick Bamford hat-trick.", "It will include a top level of measures more rigorous than those south of the border.", "The amount of retail sales saw a 1.5% rise last month, boosted by DIY and garden items.", "Experts want to move the northern bottlenose whales from Gare Loch before a huge military exercise begins.", "The model and TV presenter was expecting her third child with singer husband John Legend.", "Most of those who tested positive at the Cornish factory were unaware they had coronavirus.", "Helen Hancock and Martin Griffiths were killed in the early hours of New Year's Day.", "Ministers are considering converting disused ferries to process people seeking asylum in the UK.", "Businesses can no longer sell or supply the single-use items as part of efforts to reduce pollution.", "Letters to the UK government suggest a bid to build a new nuclear plant on Anglesey is not over.", "Leading scientists call for realism about what a vaccine against Covid can achieve next year.", "Coroner Sarah Ormond-Walshe opened and adjourned the inquest into Sgt Matiu Ratana's death.", "Stanley Johnson has apologised - as has former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who broke the \"rule of six\".", "Households are told not to mix indoors in Liverpool, Warrington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough.", "Stipe Lozina punched and stamped on the woman at least 15 times in a suspected Islamophobic attack.", "Lucy Mein from Edinburgh has become a pen-pal with her 86-year-old gran after lockdown and coronavirus measures kept them apart.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she will not hesitate to take further action in the coming weeks if it is needed.", "There will also be tougher fines of up to £10,000 for those who fail to self-isolate as required.", "The council and event organisers say the decision follows advice from public health experts.", "The BBC understands a three-tier system will aim to replace the current patchwork of local lockdowns.", "Duke and duchess say there have been changes but \"sufficient progress\" has not been made.", "SNP MP Margaret Ferrier spoke in the Commons on Monday while awaiting the result of a coronavirus test.", "The government was told in May its bounce back loans were at \"very high risk of fraud\" from organised crime.", "The government adopts emergency powers under the Coronavirus Act to ensure schools offer remote learning.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "There are \"serious concerns\" about managing the virus amid a spike in cases, Liverpool mayor says.", "Mr Brown, known as the Berlin patient, was cured after a bone marrow transplant to treat leukaemia.", "The central government imposes restrictions in the capital region as Covid-19 cases continue to rise.", "Deonte Lee Murray is accused of shooting two officers in their car, an attack that was caught on video.", "A video of a dying indigenous woman being insulted by hospital staff is being widely condemned.", "The Pixel 5 loses several headline features of last year's flagship phone to hit a lower price tag.", "Arena bomber Salman Abedi was identified associating with six people under M15 investigation.", "Men who have fled war-torn countries say the training camp brings back \"scary\" memories.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Labour describes proposals being considered by the government as \"unconscionable\".", "The chat show host says Strictly judges will not be able to \"compare like with like\".", "Andy Preston says new restrictions for Middlesbrough and Hartlepool will \"destroy viable jobs\".", "France's health minister has warned that new measures could be introduced by Monday.", "Germany says Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a Novichok agent but the Kremlin denies any involvement.", "Stock markets in Tokyo and other cities suffered a day-long suspended trading session on Thursday.", "The health secretary's promise comes as the government is warned not to treat MPs \"with contempt\".", "Derek Mackay has not been seen at Holyrood since quitting government in February but claimed for rent in July.", "A court says the bread used in the firm's hot sandwiches must be taxed because of its sugar content.", "His dad, Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas, says his family are \"utterly grief stricken\".", "Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says his side \"are on the right path\" after beating Liverpool on penalties to reach the EFL Cup quarter-finals.", "The body that represents British zoos says they are facing the biggest cash crisis in their history.", "The National Trust is among those believed to be affected by the latest development.", "Stricter measures will be introduced in Liverpool, Warrington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough.", "People needing coronavirus tests have been sent to a centre that is now closed, an MP says.", "A judge described the case of the unemployed man with mental health disabilities as \"unprecedented\".", "A fatal accident occurs during attempts to break the speed record at a former RAF base near York.", "People should immediately stop using the Hictkon smart plug with dual USB ports, the watchdog warns.", "Some doctors felt children were referred for puberty blockers too quickly, it has emerged.", "The inquiry hears of \"missed opportunities\" in the hours leading up to the terror attack.", "SNP MP Margaret Ferrier is facing calls to resign after she was suspended by her party.", "Four out of five people reporting loss of sense of smell or taste had coronavirus antibodies.", "Partners are still not able to attend terminations at most hospitals amid coronavirus restrictions.", "Deaths due to an outbreak at Royal Glamorgan rise to 10, as the valleys lead a dramatic rise in hospital cases.", "There has been a marked increase in cases over recent weeks in England, especially in the north.", "Court proceedings will start next week and the rapper faces up to 23 years in prison.", "Jurors say it is highly likely at least one officer heard Kevin Clarke say: \"I can't breathe.\"", "Business groups welcome a new plan to pay two-thirds of wages when firms are forced to close.", "A letter signed by hundreds of scientists calls for global action to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething warns the impact on the sector would be significant.", "Olivier Max Caramin collapsed from heat stress after picking fruit for hours in the sun.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The celebrity cook is made a dame while the grime star is made an MBE on the Queen's honours list.", "A number of deaths are reported at Edinburgh's Western General, while a ward is also closed at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.", "Workers at UK firms told to close will receive two-thirds of their pay, Chancellor Rishi Sunak says.", "Dominic Calvert-Lewin scores on his senior international debut as an inexperienced England side beat Wales in a friendly at Wembley.", "Data shows the infection rate is 689.1 per 100,000, with restrictions yet to be imposed in the city.", "The woman returned from Mykonos and made three visits to a gym when she should have been quarantining.", "Kanta Prasad's food stall in Delhi was making losses - until a viral tweet changed everything.", "Eight wards in the city will be placed under further Covid-19 restrictions from 18:00 on Saturday.", "Bianca Williams accused the Met of racial-profiling after she and her partner were pulled over.", "The performances will be different to before - with social distancing on stage and off.", "Non-emergency operations were cancelled during the first wave but bosses hope to now maintain them.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The rapid test could help combat the spread of the virus in hospitals, researchers say.", "The chancellor says his Job Support Scheme \"expansion\" comes ahead of \"what may be a difficult winter\".", "The Daily Mail has accused a Papa John's UK franchisee of a suspected fraud by claiming cash from HMRC.", "Thirty-nine people may have died in a lorry because people smugglers got \"greedy\", the Old Bailey hears.", "The record beat Michael Jackson's Thriller and George Michael's Faith to top a Radio 2 poll.", "Action is needed, Gillian Keegan says, as Labour calls for local leaders to be included in decisions.", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill says it plans to appoint an administrator amid \"brutal\" trading conditions.", "Police Scotland says \"highly visible\" patrols will ensure pubs and restaurants close at 18:00.", "Some school heads are telling teachers to ignore or switch off contact tracing, BBC News has learned.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 2 and 9 October.", "The home improvement show will return on Channel 4, with interior designer Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen.", "Regional mayors warn of real \"hardship\" despite chancellor's plan to support wages of closed firms.", "Harry Richford died seven days after his emergency delivery at Margate's QEQM hospital.", "The brothers from Blackburn are among the business leaders named on the Queen's Birthday Honours list", "Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh deny involvement in the murder of four US hostages.", "The Beautiful South star helped pay staff's wages after the magazine was shut down.", "After years of broadcasting to just his wife, an amateur radio presenter goes stateside.", "Wesley Barnes had posted several reviews allegedly accusing the resort of \"modern day slavery\"", "New figures reveal reported homophobic hate crimes have almost trebled in the past five years.", "Research suggests there is no on-site counselling in half of England's schools.", "Bars and restaurants are to close in Lyon, Lille, Grenoble and Saint-Etienne, as infections spike.", "While we expect more moves from No 10 to tackle Covid, there are many questions still to be settled.", "Scotland are one game away from their first major finals in 23 years after a nerve-shredding penalty shootout win over Israel.", "All Premier League fixtures will be available to watch live until the end of October, with some costing £14.95 per game on pay-per-view basis.", "Nicola Sturgeon leads the Scottish government's daily Covid-19 briefing.", "The chancellor will outline the next stage of the Job Support Scheme later.", "But regional leaders say there has been little consultation and imposing more change could sow confusion.", "The England player's award came for services to vulnerable children in the UK during lockdown.", "The rare raptor, seen only a handful of times in the UK, was spotted at Moulton West Fen earlier.", "Pubs and restaurants in worst-hit areas could close next week in an effort to stall rising infection rates.", "New Covid rules mean many licensed premises in Scotland's central belt will be closed for at least two weeks.", "The BBC asks the Manchester Arena attacker's brother why he is not co-operating with a public inquiry.", "Prince Harry and Meghan said Archie was pictured at their California home in an invasion of privacy.", "Sophie Pétronin and Soumaïla Cissé are among four people released by their hostage-takers.", "One in four people in the UK is currently subject to local interventions to prevent the spread of Covid.", "Simon Calder had described areas of mid and north Wales as his \"absolute top tip\" for a visit.", "Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney says more north-south co-operation is needed.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "Thomas Baddeley pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order by going to Dr Hutchinson's surgery.", "Games and entertainment retailer Geek Retreat says loyal customers helped it thrive in lockdown.", "The US election is entering its frantic final fortnight.", "Families say a public inquiry would establish \"truth, justice and accountability\" for victims.", "The world's second-biggest economy saw growth of almost 5% in the third quarter of the year.", "All household mixing will be banned and non-essential shops and leisure services must close.", "A round-up of reaction to the first minister's announcement of a \"short, sharp\" lockdown.", "If agreement on new restrictions is not reached, the PM could impose tier three rules.", "A former project manager tells the inquiry she threw away material about her work after the fire.", "Officials are \"not blind\" to impact a new lockdown would have on Wales, the health minister says.", "Experts and charities are puzzled by hackers who've started donating stolen money.", "Why does the divergence between science and politics appear to be wider than it has ever been?", "Abu Dhabi's minister of tolerance has denied allegations he sexually assaulted a festival organiser.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "A BBC investigation finds universities did not reduce capacity in halls and changed guidance on remote working.", "The UK transport secretary hopes to have it in place from December, but BA's boss is sceptical.", "The former Blue Peter presenter was accused of grabbing a woman's breasts at a party.", "The body of a man found on a French beach is confirmed by authorities as that of a migrant.", "Three times as many are dying than in 2016, a Nottingham Trent University study estimates.", "The fatal attack in Shanghai Wild Animal Park's \"wild beast area\" is under investigation.", "The street split down the middle by the government's new coronavirus rules.", "The Public Health Agency says that 'phenomenal demand' has put pressure on stocks.", "Fallon Sherrock, who made history by beating two men at the PDC World Darts Championship last year, misses out on qualification this time.", "Rallies are held across France in support of murdered teacher Samuel Paty.", "Facebook could face a large fine if Instagram is found to have broken European Union privacy laws.", "Town residents pick Val-des-Sources to replace the moniker that paid homage to its mining history.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The show revealed the celebrity and professional pairings, including the first same-sex pairing.", "Liverpool centre-back Virgil van Dijk wants to return stronger after learning he needs surgery on the knee injury sustained in the draw at Everton.", "Jessica Bullough admits she was away from duty for two hours, missing Salman Abedi by 10 minutes.", "Changing digital behaviour must be considered when deciding if a case should go to court, new guidance says.", "Residents of the high-rise Paragon complex in Brentford will be moved out later this week.", "Gemma Greensmith gave birth to daughter Raelyn in a lorry cab outside her Staffordshire home.", "Far more people are dying at home in England and Wales than normal from heart disease and dementia.", "UK officials say Russian intelligence took aim at the 2020 Olympics before they were delayed.", "A policy influencer says the next Welsh Government should also pilot a universal basic income.", "It is \"important we keep the public on board\" with new plans to tackle Covid, a council leader says.", "Sinn Féin calls for an apology after Mr Poots said coronavirus was more common in nationalist areas.", "Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey warns there is significant risk of lower economic growth.", "Fourteen new donation centres are to open around the country in November and December.", "The BBC's Laura Foster explains what a circuit-breaker is and how it could help tackle Covid-19.", "The Welsh Government is expected to announce its decision on a \"firebreak\" lockdown later.", "Ross Barkley dedicates his winning goal to Aston Villa's medical staff as Dean Smith's side maintain their 100% start to the season by edging victory at Leicester.", "The aim is to help people travelling to destinations where a negative result is required on arrival.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford said children would be the top priority in the \"short, sharp\" lockdown in Wales.", "No 10 says there is \"no basis to resume talks\" without changes, after the EU offers to \"intensify\" talks.", "Andy Burnham has called on Boris Johnson and other leaders to help end a deadlock over stricter Covid curbs.", "Yasmin Qureshi says she started to feel unwell about two weeks ago and immediately self-isolated.", "The code-breaking hub is not \"the war winner\" many people think it is, says a history of spy agency GCHQ.", "A meeting between ministers and local leaders about Covid restrictions ended \"abruptly\", a source says.", "Roehl Ribaya was discharged from hospital in August but had a cardiac arrest and died in October.", "The health secretary appeared to be going against the advice of No 10.", "But there is \"light at the end of the tunnel\" as a vaccine may be ready early next year, the expert says.", "Ofgem will require suppliers to offer emergency credit and put people on 'realistic' repayment plans.", "An officer is sent back to Faslane from the US after arriving to take charge of a submarine's nuclear missiles while unfit for duty.", "The Scottish government says there have been capacity issues, but the UK government says this is \"categorically untrue\".", "Ersin Tatar, who is pro-Turkey and wants Cyprus to be two separate states, is elected president.", "Twitter hid an identical post saying virus was less lethal than the flu season in most populations.", "The unusually-coloured Canadian lobster turned up in a delivery to a Fleetwood fishmonger.", "Customers are angry at being unable to get refunds for tickets they can't use because of Covid rules.", "Newcastle University student Jeni Larmour was named as one of four young people who died.", "The government wins a vote to keep the restriction in England despite rebels clashing with a minister.", "The first minister will announce new restrictions on Wednesday - but says it will not be a return to full lockdown.", "Covid swabs and key tests for cancer could be unavailable after problems at diagnostics firm Roche.", "A memorial next to Parliament would be a \"self-evident terrorism risk\", a planning inquiry is told.", "The foreign secretary says his \"instinct is to separate sport from diplomacy\" but it \"might not be possible\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The sci-fi epic is now delayed until 2021, while The Batman is pushed back to 2022.", "The anti-virus creator faces extradition to the US for allegedly failing to file tax returns.", "Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch is fronting the documentary Enslaved with actor Samuel L Jackson.", "The PM promises he won't be caught \"lagging\" on green polices.", "Political rivals and medics are critical after the US president says \"don't be afraid of Covid\".", "The bank says no offence was intended, after reports that black ex-chief Tidjane Thiam walked out.", "Thirteen school children began to feel unwell after eating what they believed were sweets.", "Backbenchers were divided over the human rights and civil liberties implications of the new legislation.", "A prison previously branded not fit for purpose makes \"good progress\" during the Covid-19 pandemic.", "The move in Manchester comes after hundreds of students in the city tested positive for coronavirus.", "Britain's Geraint Thomas withdraws from the Giro d'Italia because of a fractured hip suffered on stage three.", "There were 478 people admitted to hospital on Sunday - the largest daily figure since early June.", "The error meant that although those who tested positive were told about their results, their close contacts were not traced.", "The BBC has followed three black students during their first year at the UK’s University of Cambridge.", "The 10% cut in funding comes amid anger in the union about the direction of Labour under Sir Keir Starmer.", "Julia Machin, who was also a junior champion as a teenager, broke the previous record by 5cm.", "Industry leaders warn that some businesses may never reopen if further lockdown restrictions are introduced.", "Margaret Ferrier attended Mass in Glasgow before travelling to Westminster where she received a positive test result.", "NHS surgeons say hospital beds must be kept open for \"usual business\", not just Covid-19.", "Footage shows people throwing papers from windows and entering President Sooronbai Jeenbekov's office.", "Suspected gangland boss Terry Clarke was killed in Stevenage after returning home from a bar.", "White House physician Sean Conley said the team was 'cautiously optimistic' about the president's recovery.", "Emergency services searched for the man in a river which burst it banks earlier this week.", "Kailash Kuha Raj and Poorna Kaameshwari Sivaraj are found dead at a flat in Brentford, west London.", "Will the Conservatives' big plan to address regional inequalities in England weather the pandemic?", "Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have a lot in common - now that includes a brush with coronavirus.", "The family of an injured teenager were incorrectly told he had died in a crash on the A90 near Crimond.", "One force has seen the number of spitting and coughing assaults against its officers double.", "Sir Ian Botham takes his seat in the House of Lords where he will sit as a cross bencher.", "Restrictions similar to those in northern England could be announced later this week.", "Boris Johnson is promising to \"build back greener in his leader's speech to the Conservative conference.", "Arsenal complete the signing of Thomas Partey from Atletico Madrid for 50m euros (£45.3m).", "Men and women now receive their state pension at 66, as the chancellor vows the triple lock is safe.", "The US has updated its guidance to reflect how the virus can linger in the air, sometimes for hours.", "Boris Johnson pledges the coronavirus pandemic will be a \"catalyst\" for major change in the UK.", "Several banks are not accepting new business customers making it hard for small firms trying to get help.", "WHO urges people to redouble efforts to fight virus in spite of understandable exhaustion.", "Schoolchildren persuade Comic Relief to switch to a natural alternative for Red Nose Day 2021.", "Hundreds protested in the southern Italian city, some throwing firecrackers and smoke bombs.", "The shooting of unarmed protesters this week sparked the worst street violence in two decades.", "Pilots for different coronavirus vaccines will be trialed across parts of Wales \"very soon\".", "The Osiris-Rex spacecraft collected so much rock from asteroid Bennu that bits are leaking out.", "The new rules are needed but ministers must set out an exit strategy, Sheffield City Region's mayor says.", "Prosecutors allege he was equipped with a knife and handcuffs, as well as Nazi and Confederate flags.", "Tory MPs join some 2,000 doctors in voicing concern, as Labour threatens to push for another vote.", "It comes after MPs rejected calls to extend free school meals over holidays amid the Covid-19 crisis.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The use of testing, plus staggering the return to campus will form a strategy to get students home for Christmas.", "Nine people were seen in France a day before 39 migrants were found dead in the lorry, a court hears.", "Greater Manchester Police says it has issued 52 fines since tier three rules came into force.", "President Donald Trump votes early in the US election, while on a campaign visit in Florida.", "The highest levels continue to be in the north of England, says the Office for National Statistics.", "The 17-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the scene in east London on Friday night.", "A member of an extremist group has been charged with rioting during the May George Floyd protests.", "A further 1,433 positive cases were registered in the past 24 hours with largest increases in Glasgow and Lanarkshire.", "The body was found at a National Trust estate and the arrested man is being treated for serious injuries.", "Eighteen people are arrested as police disperse crowds protesting against coronavirus restrictions.", "Sending some children home may be the only way to control infection rates, Prof Neil Ferguson says.", "As the second wave of the pandemic takes deep root across parts of the UK, thousands of NHS workers are struggling to recover from what they have already been through.", "The London venue is one of 35 venues to get millions of pounds from the Culture Recovery Fund.", "Leeds end Aston Villa's winning start and deny them top spot in the Premier League table thanks to a Patrick Bamford hat-trick.", "Movie-goers cannot cross the Welsh border to use toilet facilities at the drive-in cinema.", "Households in the two cities can no longer mix indoors, including in pubs and restaurants.", "Andrzej Duda, 48, contracts coronavirus as his country hits a daily record of new cases.", "Rebecca Logan, a 39-year-old fitness instructor. says she was \"completely floored\" by coronavirus.", "There have been 2,030 confirmed Covid cases in schools since the start of term, says the Public Health Agency.", "The party wants the Labour leader to apologise for Angela Rayner's \"unparliamentary behaviour\".", "People must take responsibility to keep to Wales' coronavirus lockdown rules, a police chief warns.", "Some owners of Apple's new phones get an error message when trying to run the contact-tracing app.", "Hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly pay tribute to frontline workers before the dancing begins.", "Hampshire Constabulary says it stopped two gatherings outside Portsmouth University student flats.", "The first minister says he is giving Boris Johnson a final opportunity to impose curbs before he acts.", "Andrew Wilson was just four when he saw his father lying on the ground moments after being shot.", "MPs overturn a Lords amendment requiring trade deals to meet post-Brexit UK food standards.", "A top official says police can open fire on \"violent radicals\" protesting against the government.", "The UK advertising authority tells a developer to change its mobile gaming ads.", "Concern that care homes have blanket orders in place covering a number of residents.", "Police are accused of using brutal tactics at another Sunday rally against President Lukashenko.", "The government took \"robust action\" at the time, such as the rule of six, a cabinet minister says.", "\"I’m going to be here, I’m going to fight this,\" says the 32-year-old, who is having radiotherapy.", "West Ham would be against radical plans by Liverpool and Manchester United to reform the English football pyramid, according to a club insider.", "Det Sgt Jonathan Pearce sent a topless photograph to the victim of attempted rape, a panel hears.", "The seismic research vessel Oruc Reis was at the centre of a row with Greece in August.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Mitchells & Butlers, the pubs and restaurants group, has not disclosed how many jobs are at risk.", "The UK and EU say they are making progress, but remain at loggerheads on fishing and help for firms.", "The former Blue Peter presenter denies assaulting a woman in London's West End in 2008.", "Downing Street and the culture secretary disown an ad suggesting a ballerina retrain in cyber security.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Nigel Wright is sentenced to 14 years after putting metal shards into food and demanding £1.4m.", "The UK would be following in the footsteps of countries like Japan if it cuts the cost of borrowing.", "André Oliveira Macedo went on the run after being released from prison into house arrest by a judge.", "Police say at least 40 people armed with metal bars attacked the building, causing damage to windows and cars.", "Alex Cruz leaves British Airways after four years with the airline, replaced by Aer Lingus' Sean Doyle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "One in four people in the UK is currently subject to local interventions to prevent the spread of Covid.", "The work of Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson is used in the sale of airport slots and radio spectrums.", "The UK economy may have grown by as much as 17% in the three months to September, says a forecaster.", "England recover from a goal down to beat Belgium in the Nations League at Wembley.", "The Liverpool City Region is the first in England to be put on the \"very high\" Covid alert level.", "Michael Rosen says the nurses who cared for him showed 'overwhelming devotion' while he was in hospital.", "The man was suspected of carrying out \"hostile reconnaissance\" the Manchester Arena Inquiry hears.", "Radical proposals for the reform of English football could have a \"damaging impact\" on the game, says the Premier League.", "A local lockdown has begun in the city but it will not be extended elsewhere in Gwynedd yet.", "Dr Ghebreyesus said allowing coronavirus to spread unchecked would cause unnecessary suffering and death.", "Boris Johnson says many people think country-wide restrictions are \"extreme\" and would harm the economy.", "Advisers say the situation is \"hotting up\", and hospitals in England must prepare for more Covid patients.", "Shooting of War of the Worlds and other dramas restarts in Wales as actors adapt to a new normal.", "The Liverpool City Region is expected to face the tightest Covid restrictions under the new system.", "Daniel Horton targeted Raafat Maglad as he held prayers at Central London Mosque in February.", "The German Research Vessel Polarstern returns to port after drifting for a year in Arctic sea-ice.", "Chinese social media users vent anger over a speech singer RM made while accepting an award.", "Industry leaders will challenge new local restrictions that could force pubs and other venues to close.", "Some of those displaced in Nagorno-Karabakh shelter in churches but even those are targeted.", "Mark Zuckerberg says his \"thinking has evolved\" as the social network changes strategy.", "Donald Neely was led down a Texas street \"as though he was a slave\", court documents say.", "Sage and Prof Chris Whitty appear at odds with the political decisions made by government.", "Lawyers representing alleged victims said the prosecution of the former Leicester MP came \"too late\".", "The company says the issue was caused by an \"inadvertent change\" it made to its internal systems.", "Persistent rain on Saturday 3 October breaks the record for the wettest day across the entire UK.", "A 51-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder the officer in Southampton.", "A look back at the New Zealand prime minister's first term in office.", "The chief executive of the Welsh NHS says demand for beds will continue to increase in weeks ahead.", "The owner of the venue in west London faces a possible £10,000 fine for breaching coronavirus rules.", "The ad was criticised for encouraging \"Fatima\" to give up on dancing and \"reskill\" in cyber security.", "One experienced virologist raises concerns about safety protocols and a lack of training.", "Millions of people face more restrictions from Saturday, including a ban on households mixing indoors.", "Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle ordered the move as some MPs represent areas where pubs are closed.", "Two Scottish women have returned home after what they hope will be life-changing treatment in Russia.", "Scientists find a material that displays a much sought-after property at room temperature.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "People must now cover their face in workplace canteens - but no longer need to if they are getting married.", "The fine is the largest ever issued by the Information Commissioner's Office.", "'Hastily drawn up' furlough scheme may have lost billions to fraud and error, MPs say", "\"No point\" in further discussions with the EU unless it changes course, Downing Street says.", "Some French Muslims disgusted by the shootings in Paris may nonetheless have reasons for not embracing the slogan “I am Charlie”, the BBC's Patrick Jackson reports.", "Down in the polls, but far from out - five reasons why the US president can pull off another surprise.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Extra wards at Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital are being opened to treat coronavirus patients.", "Sanjay Dutt said he will 'beat the disease soon' and would begin shooting his next film in November.", "Carer Terry Thomas, 72, has given his seriously ill partner the wrong medication due to his sight.", "Boris Johnson urges local leaders to \"engage constructively\" with the government over tougher rules.", "The DJ, who quit the BBC over a racist slur in a news report, says it must improve its diversity.", "Patients admitted to intensive care have a better chance of surviving now than they did in the first wave.", "The facility at Belfast City Hospital will be reinstated for admission of Covid patients from across NI.", "Veteran reporter Steve Scully had denied seeking advice from a prominent Trump critic on Twitter.", "The move to tier three, after intensive talks, sees pubs and car boot sales closed but gyms stay open.", "The R number has crept up to 1.3-1.5, with growth of the epidemic still widespread.", "Chairman Tim Martin criticises the government's \"confusing\" Covid restrictions as sales tumble.", "After the murder of 17 people in Paris last week, several people have been jailed, raising questions about freedom of speech in France.", "Boris Johnson initially suggests parents living apart from their children may face restrictions.", "The Scottish government's funding package for pubs and restaurants is not nearly enough, industry leaders warn.", "The trust says it is suspending visits due to the \"continuing rise in Covid-19 cases\" in the area.", "The cash grants for arts venues and organisations is part of the government's Cultural Recovery Fund.", "The government did not take the recommendation of a \"circuit breaker\" lockdown.", "There is \"no indication of collision\" between bits of discarded Russian and Chinese space hardware.", "Students will be asked to use masks in corridors, school buses and communal areas where physical distancing is difficult.", "Travellers from Italy must self-isolate for 14 days as of Sunday, the government says.", "Films such as Dumbo and Peter Pan now warn of \"negative depictions... of people or cultures\".", "The band donated money to disabled singer Ali Hirsz, after Covid-19 left her out of work.", "Nicola Sturgeon says the expiry of existing rules on 26 October will not signal a return to complete normality.", "The UK's negotiator accused the EU of expecting the UK to make \"all future moves\" towards a deal.", "Officers handling a convicted terrorist who killed two people had \"no specific training\", a court hears.", "A man is being questioned by detectives investigating several assaults on women in Belfast on Monday night .", "The first British rap debut to top the charts this year is dedicated to the star's late mother Edna.", "Hospital outbreaks mean the health board has more Covid-19 patients than at any time, figures show.", "Huge numbers of voters are casting ballots with less than three weeks to go until the election.", "Andy Green is suing bookmaker Betfred after it refused to pay up, citing a software error.", "Divisions between No 10 and local leaders in England are \"very dangerous\", a Sage scientist says.", "Some council leaders have accused Downing Street of bullying them into accepting new Covid restrictions.", "Many of those looking after vulnerable relatives or friends wonder how they will cope this winter.", "The Big Lebowski actor acknowledges it \"is a serious disease\" but says his prognosis is good.", "If agreement on new restrictions is not reached, the PM could impose tier three rules.", "The grime star wore the Banksy-designed piece during his 2019 Glastonbury headline performance.", "Sadiq Khan says the 10pm curfew \"does not make sense\" and puts hospitality venues at risk.", "Experts and charities are puzzled by hackers who've started donating stolen money.", "Hatice Cengiz files a lawsuit against Mohammed bin Salman over the journalist's murder in Istanbul.", "Network Rail says taking photos on a stretch of track was \"plain stupidity\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "There are calls for the beauty sector to have a VAT cut to match the hospitality sector.", "Details and reaction to what Economy Minister Ken Skates said at today's televised briefing.", "The film star's son James dies aged 58, after being diagnosed with liver cancer.", "Fake naked images of thousands of women are being made from social media photos.", "The former Blue Peter presenter was accused of grabbing a woman's breasts at a party.", "The Met will assess whether a crime has been committed after a project manager threw away her notes.", "Retail groups say the fees charged by credit card firms have almost doubled in two years.", "The father of a pupil at the school where Samuel Paty worked was in touch with the killer, reports say.", "Volunteers will be deliberately exposed to the virus in trials due to start in January.", "Greater Manchester's mayor says more financial help is needed as the region is set to enter tier three rules.", "The street split down the middle by the government's new coronavirus rules.", "Town residents pick Val-des-Sources to replace the moniker that paid homage to its mining history.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Boris Johnson says he \"regrets\" a deal over financial support could not be reached with local leaders.", "Marcus Rashford scores a late winner again as Manchester United start their Champions League campaign with a fine win at Paris St-Germain.", "One family in London say they received scores of long, repetitive calls from contact tracers.", "At 104, Ruth Saunders is walking a charity marathon after being inspired by Captain Sir Tom Moore.", "Jessica Bullough admits she was away from duty for two hours, missing Salman Abedi by 10 minutes.", "Kanad Basi is sentenced to four years and eight months over a crash that killed 16-year-old Jack Frame.", "Talks have taken place over the creation of a new £4.6bn European Premier League, involving the top sides from across the continent.", "The US Justice Department accuses Google of disadvantaging its rivals in search and advertising.", "Osiris-Rex will make the briefest of contacts with Asteroid Bennu to try to pick up rock samples.", "The grandson of a man who killed his wife calls for \"greater scrutiny\" of Parole Board hearings.", "Josh Powell says he faces an \"uncertain future\" following the loss of his wife and three children.", "The Scottish first minster says she will not be getting into \"standoffs\" with councils over local restrictions.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "The BBC's Laura Foster explains what a circuit-breaker is and how it could help tackle Covid-19.", "The material, purportedly from prisoners' legal teams, was intercepted by HMP Birmingham staff.", "The region moves into Tier 3 from Friday, says Boris Johnson, after talks with local leaders failed.", "The BBC asked what the rest of the world wants from America.", "The ex-New Labour minister has found political influence outside Westminster.", "Education Minister Peter Weir says the decision is due to the extended mid-term break for schools.", "The maker of Dettol and Cillit Bang previously reported a big drop in demand for condoms across Europe.", "The aim is to help people travelling to destinations where a negative result is required on arrival.", "Attendance figures show 46% of secondary schools had pupils isolating because of Covid outbreaks.", "No 10 says there is \"no basis to resume talks\" without changes, after the EU offers to \"intensify\" talks.", "Mark Milsome was hit by a Land Rover while filming a scene for a BBC drama, an inquest hears.", "The code-breaking hub is not \"the war winner\" many people think it is, says a history of spy agency GCHQ.", "Roehl Ribaya was discharged from hospital in August but had a cardiac arrest and died in October.", "Business owners express frustration and upset as they warn of a tough winter under new Covid rules.", "The Welsh musician was behind transatlantic hits such as Keep On Running and Somebody Help Me.", "Hospitality chiefs are seeking clarity over whether business lunches are exempt from Covid restrictions.", "Boris Johnson says there was a \"fraying of people's discipline and attention to\" Covid rules over the summer.", "Coroner Sarah Ormond-Walshe 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people reporting loss of sense of smell or taste had coronavirus antibodies.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The president is discharged from the Walter Reed facility following three days of Covid treatment.", "Spending watchdog urges repairs body to get on with it - but they say rethink is needed to save money.", "People in Margaret Ferrier's constituency give their reaction to the MP's trip from London to Scotland while positive for Covid-19.", "Liverpool forward Sadio Mane tests positive for coronavirus and joins midfielder Thiago Alcantara in self-isolating.", "News outlets around the world report on the president's announcement with sympathy - but also blame.", "Lucy Smith says the actor, who has died aged 19, brought \"us nothing but joy in our lives\".", "Northumbria University in Newcastle says 770 students have tested positive and are now isolating.", "The disgraced film mogul was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault in March.", "For the MP who has committed the most egregious breach to be one of her own is acutely embarrassing.", "We asked some older US voters for their reactions to the president's Covid-19 diagnosis.", "There will also be tougher fines of up to £10,000 for those who fail to self-isolate as required.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "But the Transport Committee also says riding on pavements is \"dangerous\" and should be prohibited.", "The Home Office looked at the idea to deter asylum seekers crossing, according to latest leaks.", "The president explicitly condemned the Proud Boys group that he had previously urged to \"stand by\".", "Gale-force winds reach 61mph in southern England, as drivers are urged to be \"cautious\".", "Ros Atkins explains why despite calls for a ceasefire, fighting over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh continues to intensify.", "The government adopts emergency powers under the 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pop star of abuse in last year's Leaving Neverland documentary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Safechuck (left) and Wade Robson told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire about the abuse in 2019\n\nIn his lawsuit, he said Jackson abused him hundreds of times at his homes and on tour in the late 1980s and early 90s.\n\nMJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures were set up by Jackson to run his career. But in the lawsuit it was claimed: \"The thinly-veiled, covert second purpose of these businesses was to operate as a child sexual abuse operation, specifically designed to locate, attract, lure and seduce child sexual abuse victims.\"\n\nMr Safechuck also featured with Jackson in a Pepsi commercial and often appeared on stage with the singer.\n\nMr Safechuck's lawyer Vince Finaldi told BBC News: \"He was an employee that was working on behalf of them as a dancer and entertainer on the stage with Michael.\n\n\"Because he was a minor, and he was an employee working for them, they had a duty to protect him. That's our argument.\"\n\nCalifornia judge Mark Young disagreed, saying the companies weren't directly responsible for causing emotional distress, and were not able to control Jackson, because he controlled the companies and everyone they employed. Corporations cannot be direct perpetrators, he said.\n\nMr Safechuck, who is seeking unspecified damages, will appeal.\n\nJackson vehemently denied the abuse. Mr Safechuck (a child at the time) reportedly gave a witness statement defending Jackson when allegations against the singer first emerged in 1993.\n\nMr Finaldi is also representing Wade Robson, who appeared in Leaving Neverland too, in a separate lawsuit, which is expected to reach trial next summer.\n\nLeaving Neverland director Dan Reed is reportedly making a sequel about the pair's legal battles. Deadline reported on Wednesday that Jackson's companies had taken legal action against the film-maker.", "Brazil has been conducting trials of the vaccine\n\nTrials of a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University will continue, following a review into the death of a volunteer in Brazil.\n\nBrazil's health authority has given no details about the death, citing confidentiality protocols.\n\nOxford University said a \"careful assessment\" had revealed no safety concerns.\n\nThe BBC understands that the volunteer did not receive the vaccine.\n\nOnly around half the volunteers in the trial are given the actual Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine. The second group are being given an existing licensed vaccine for meningitis.\n\nNeither the participants nor their families know which vaccine they are being given.\n\nThis enables the researchers to compare the results for the two groups in order to measure whether the vaccine is effective.\n\nAstraZeneca said in a statement that it could not comment on individual cases but it \"can confirm that all required review processes have been followed\".\n\n\"All significant medical events are carefully assessed by trial investigators, an independent safety monitoring committee and the regulatory authorities,\" it said. \"These assessments have not led to any concerns about continuation of the ongoing study.\"\n\nThere are high hopes that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine could be one of the first to make it onto the market.\n\nIt had successful phase 1 and 2 testing, while phase 3 testing is being carried out on participants in countries including the UK, Brazil and India.\n\nTrials of the Oxford vaccine were paused last month after a reported side effect in a patient in the UK, but were resumed days later when it was deemed safe to continue.\n\nPhase 3 trials in the US remain on hold while the regulator there conducts its own assessment. A senior official was quoted by Bloomberg on Wednesday as saying he expected US trials to restart later in the week.\n\nBrazil's health authority Anvisa said it was informed of the Brazilian volunteer's death on 19 October.\n\nBrazilian media report that the volunteer was a 28-year-old doctor who died of Covid-19 complications. They say the doctor had worked with infected patients.\n\nThis has not been publicly confirmed by Anvisa.\n\nIn a statement, Oxford University said: \"All significant medical incidents, whether participants are in the control group or the Covid-19 vaccine group, are independently reviewed.\n\n\"The independent review, in addition to the Brazilian regulator, have both recommended that the trial should continue,\" it said.\n\nBrazil has plans to purchase the vaccine if it is approved.\n\nThe country has had nearly 5.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases - the third highest tally in the world after the US and India - and is second only to the US in terms of deaths, with nearly 155,000 registered so far, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nIt's been another day focused on local coronavirus restrictions in England. South Yorkshire will face the toughest Covid rules from Saturday, with tier three measures for all four of the local authority areas - Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. Meanwhile, ministers have offered a £60m package to support businesses and employees in Greater Manchester, which is to move into tier three from Friday. And gyms and leisure centres will be able to reopen across Liverpool after the government bowed to pressure to bring it in line with other areas under tier three measures. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said large parts of England face \"months of prolonged agony\" with no route out of Covid restrictions and inadequate support, but PM Boris Johnson has insisted his regionalised approach to restrictions is working.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Barnsley town centre react to tier three restrictions being announced\n\nBars and restaurants in Scotland's central belt - an area containing about 3.4 million people - are to remain closed for another week after short-term Covid-19 restrictions were extended. They were closed on 9 October as part of what First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called a \"short, sharp action to arrest a worrying increase in infection\". These measures were originally meant to expire on 26 October, but Ms Sturgeon said they would now continue until a new \"strategic framework\" comes into force. Scotland is due to move to a five-tier system of virus alert levels from 2 November. Hospitality venues in other parts of the country can only serve alcohol outdoors.\n\nThe restrictions rollover will continue into the start of November\n\nRoyal Mail is to start collecting parcels and mail from people's homes. The firm is trying to capitalise on a rise in online shopping, which has been accelerated by the coronavirus crisis. Royal Mail has seen parcel deliveries increase in recent years but is still on track to make a loss in 2020. The move to collecting could be beneficial if the company can work out logistical issues, an analyst said. Its Parcel Collect service will be available every day except Sunday, and there will be 72p charge per parcel, plus postage costs. Pre-paid return packages can be collected for 60p per item.\n\nFour university students in Nottingham have been fined £10,000 each after telling police who broke up their house party they were \"spoiling their fun\". Nottingham Trent University said the third-year students involved in the breach of coronavirus restrictions had been suspended. Officers on patrol spotted a party in Lenton on Tuesday night but were told everyone had left. But inside they found more than 30 people hiding and, when challenged, organisers complained they should be having the \"time of their lives\". With the exception of support bubbles, the mixing of households indoors has been banned since Nottingham went into tier two restrictions on 14 October.\n\nThe students were fined after officers spotted a house party in Kimbolton Lane\n\n\"I always wanted to set up my own business, because I needed to have something that was mine,\" says Suzanne Pattinson, 35, from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. She's managed to do that in lockdown, despite the challenges of childcare during Covid restrictions. She and her husband, who's in the RAF, have two boys, aged two and three. Suzanne was balancing working as a freelance PR consultant with looking after the toddlers at home before the pandemic hit. She was forced to rethink her career goals when the freelance work dried up during lockdown. Read how she set up her own business creating handmade jewellery.\n\nSuzanne set up her own jewellery brand during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, we take a closer look at whether all employees unable to work in tier three areas will get 80% of their wages.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\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.", "BBC journalist Martin Bashir is \"seriously unwell\" with complications from coronavirus, the corporation has said.\n\nThe 57-year-old, who made headlines across the world with his 1995 interview with Princess Diana, is currently BBC News religion editor.\n\n\"Everyone at the BBC is wishing him a full recovery,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nMr Bashir is also known for interviews with pop star Michael Jackson and the suspects in the Stephen Lawrence case.\n\n\"We are sorry to say that Martin is seriously unwell with Covid-19 related complications,\" the BBC spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We'd ask that his privacy, and that of his family, is respected at this time.\"\n\nMr Bashir worked as a BBC news correspondent from 1987 to 1992, before joining the BBC's investigative programme Panorama.\n\nOn that programme in 1995, he interviewed Diana, Princess of Wales, who admitted to having had an affair - and spoke of Prince Charles's relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles, now Duchess of Cornwall.\n\n\"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded,\" she said, in a programme watched by one of the largest-ever audiences for the BBC.\n\nThe interview has seen renewed interest following a Channel 4 documentary examining the story behind Princess Diana's revelations, which was broadcast on Wednesday night.\n\nLater, Mr Bashir worked for Tonight on ITV before moving to the US in 2004, where he hosted ABC's Nightline programme and worked as a news anchor on MSNBC.\n\nHe resigned from MSNBC in 2013 with an apology for calling former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin a \"world-class idiot\".\n\nIn 2016, Mr Bashir rejoined the BBC as religious affairs correspondent. A former student of theology, he covers events in the UK and around the world affecting people of different faiths.", "With tier three restrictions set to be introduced for South Yorkshire from Saturday, people in Barnsley spoke about what they think of the new rules.\n\nPeople had mixed reactions with some saying they were \"worried\" and others saying stricter measures were \"good\" because people were breaking the rules.\n\nThe new restrictions will apply to all four local authority areas in South Yorkshire - Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.\n\nLabour Mayor Dan Jarvis said the move to tier three followed \"extensive discussions\" with ministers.", "Emergency services were called to The Arcade in Upper Gornal on Tuesday\n\nFifteen people have been treated for breathing difficulties after an unknown substance was sprayed inside branches of Pizza Hut, Tesco and McDonald's.\n\nEmergency services were called to The Arcade in Upper Gornal, Dudley, shortly after 19:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nOne person was taken to hospital, but none have suffered any lasting effects, West Midlands Police said.\n\nA 20-year-old man has been arrested after he handed himself in at Brierley Hill police station.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it believed the substance to be a type of pepper spray and forensics experts are working to identify it.\n\nPhilip White said he raised the alarm after himself suffering effects\n\nPizza Hut manager Philip White said he raised the alarm after himself suffering difficulties.\n\n\"I went to answer a phone, couldn't actually physically talk to the person who was taking an order, I ran around the back because my throat was just seizing up and I was like I don't know what is going on.\n\n\"I ran around the back to grab a bottle of water as soon as I came back I tried to work again, inhaled it again, then I ran around the front and was nearly throwing and it happened to two other of my colleagues as well.\"\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said 14 people were discharged at the scene while one man was taken to Russells Hall Hospital for further assessment.\n\nA Tesco spokesperson said its Dudley Gornal Express store was temporarily closed for a deep clean but has reopened, and staff are helping the police and fire service with their investigation.\n\nPizza Hut said it was working with the relevant authorities.\n\nThe McDonald's branch was closed temporarily but reopened on Wednesday morning \"following an extensive clean\", a spokesman said.\n\n\"We continue to assist the police with their investigation,\" he added.\n\nOfficers have urged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sadiq Khan said the curfew does not \"make sense\"\n\nThe 10pm curfew should be scrapped in London to help venues deal with Tier 2 coronavirus restrictions, the Mayor of London has said.\n\nSince 27 September all pubs, bars and restaurants in England must shut no later than 10pm.\n\nCurrent restrictions also prevent Londoners from meeting friends or family in pubs and restaurants.\n\nSadiq Khan said the curfew does not \"make sense\" and extending hospitality opening hours will boost cash flow.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Khan said: \"Now London and other parts of the country have moved into Tier 2 the current 10pm curfew policy makes even less sense and should be scrapped.\n\nScrapping the policy \"would allow more sittings of single households in restaurants throughout the evening\", Mr Khan said.\n\nThis would \"boost cash flow at a time when venues need all the support they can get\".\n\n\"Ministers must give businesses the support they need to survive while restrictions remain in place,\" Mr Khan added.\n\nA legal challenge is under way against the 10pm curfew\n\nUnder the Tier 2 restrictions, household mixing is still permitted outside, including at pubs and restaurants with outdoor seating, although the rule of six applies.\n\nThe 10pm curfew is subject to a legal challenge, led by nightclub chain owner Jeremy Joseph.\n\nLast week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the curfew was a \"matter of policy choice\" rather than driven by scientific advice.\n\nHe claimed there is \"direct and proximate evidence\" for the positive impact of the limits on pubs and restaurants, citing a fall in alcohol-related A&E admissions late at night.\n\nBut Mr Hancock said the government's desire to protect education and work \"as much as is possible\" meant they had to take measures against socialising to try to slow the spread of Covid-19 transmission.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy said: \"The restrictions for pubs and bars, which the mayor originally called for, are carefully judged to achieve the maximum reduction in the R number with the minimum impact on jobs and livelihoods. However, we keep all measures under review.\"", "The fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has filed a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia's crown prince, accusing him of ordering the killing.\n\nHatice Cengiz and the rights group Khashoggi formed before his death are pursuing Mohammed bin Salman and more than 20 others for unspecified damages.\n\nKhashoggi was killed by a team of Saudi agents during a visit to the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2018.\n\nThe crown prince has denied ordering the killing.\n\nKhashoggi was a prominent critic of the Saudi government and had been living in self-imposed exile in the US, frequently writing for the Washington Post.\n\nIn the civil lawsuit filed in Washington DC on Tuesday, Turkish citizen Ms Cengiz claims personal injury and financial losses over Khashoggi's death.\n\nKhashoggi's human rights group, Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn), says its operations were hampered.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges that Khashoggi was murdered \"pursuant to a directive of defendant Mohammed bin Salman\".\n\n\"The objective of the murder was clear - to halt Mr Khashoggi's advocacy in the United States... for democratic reform in the Arab world,\" the lawsuit says.\n\nIn a video conference on Tuesday, lawyers for Ms Cengiz and Dawn said the focus of the lawsuit was to have a US court hold the crown prince liable for the killing and to obtain documents that reveal the truth, the Washington Post newspaper reports.\n\n\"Jamal believed anything was possible in America and I place my trust in the American civil justice system to obtain a measure of justice and accountability,\" Ms Cengiz said in a statement.\n\nA prominent Saudi journalist, Khashoggi covered major stories, including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the rise of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, for various Saudi news organisations.\n\nFor decades, the 59-year-old was close to the Saudi royal family and also served as an adviser to the government.\n\nBut he fell out of favour and went into self-imposed exile in the US in 2017. From there, he wrote a monthly column in the Washington Post in which he criticised the policies of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the son of King Salman and Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler.\n\nIn his first column for the Post in September 2017, Khashoggi said he had feared being arrested in an apparent crackdown on dissent overseen by the prince.\n\nHe was last seen entering the Saudi consulate on 2 October 2018 to obtain papers he needed in order to marry Ms Cengiz.\n\nAfter listening to purported audio recordings of conversations inside the consulate made by Turkish intelligence, UN special rapporteur Agnes Callamard concluded that Khashoggi was \"brutally slain\" that day.\n\nThe Saudi public prosecution concluded that the murder was not premeditated.\n\nIt said the killing was ordered by the head of a \"negotiations team\" sent to Istanbul to bring Khashoggi back to the kingdom \"by means of persuasion\" or, if that failed, \"by force\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe journalist was forcibly restrained after a struggle and injected with a large amount of a drug, resulting in an overdose that led to his death, according to the Saudi prosecution. His body was then dismembered and handed over to a local \"collaborator\" outside the consulate. The remains were never found.\n\nTurkish prosecutors concluded that Khashoggi was suffocated almost as soon as he entered the consulate, and that his body was destroyed.\n\nIn December 2019, the Riyadh Criminal Court sentenced five people to death for \"committing and directly participating in the murder of the victim\". Three others were handed prison sentences totalling 24 years for \"covering up this crime and violating the law\".\n\nThree people were found not guilty, including Saudi Arabia's former deputy intelligence chief, Ahmad Asiri.\n\nSaud al-Qahtani, a former senior adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed, was investigated by the Saudi public prosecution but not charged.\n\nLast month, state media reported that the five death sentences were commuted to 20-year jail terms.", "A two-week extension to TfL's emergency bailout was secured on Friday\n\nBoris Johnson has claimed Transport for London (TfL) was \"effectively bankrupted\" even before Covid-19.\n\nThe comments come after Sadiq Khan accused the government of \"draconian\" demands in return for a second bailout.\n\nBut the prime minster said any need to increase fares was \"entirely the responsibility\" of the London mayor.\n\nMr Khan responded by calling the PM a \"liar\" and said he had cut the operations deficit, left by Mr Johnson when he was mayor in 2016, by 71%.\n\nA spokesperson for 10 Downing Street told the BBC Mr Johnson \"stands by his comments in the House of Commons\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sadiq Khan rejects Boris Johnson’s claims in the Commons that TfL was “effectively bankrupt”, saying the PM had “lied”\n\nThe mayor told the BBC: \"It gives me no pleasure in saying so, but our prime minister today, on the floor of the House of Commons, has lied.\n\n\"We as a transport authority rely hugely on transport fares from Londoners, and more than 90% of that has dried up, which is why we need a Covid bailout from the government.\n\n\"What the government is doing instead is punishing Londoners by imposing all sorts of draconian conditions.\"\n\nThe mayor previously said ministers aimed to impose a \"triple whammy\" of measures in return for rescue funding to cover the losses incurred through Covid-19.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says any measures needed to rescue the finances of TfL are “entirely down” to the Mayor of London\n\nThe proposals include higher council taxes, an expanded congestion charge zone and a hike in Tube and bus fares.\n\nMr Johnson told the Commons on Wednesday: \"The current mayor of London had effectively bankrupted TfL before coronavirus had even hit and left a massive black hole in its finances.\n\n\"Any need to make up that deficit is entirely down to him, it is entirely his responsibility.\n\n\"Any expansion of the congestion charge or any other measure taken to improve the finances of TfL are entirely the responsibility of the bankrupt current Labour mayor of London.\"\n\nThe 10 Downing Street spokesperson said TfL's debt has increased 30% since Mr Khan became mayor.\n\n\"TfL debt is now a record high of £12bn and now spends £402m a year on debt interest,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe Department for Transport said talks over a settlement were continuing.\n\nSadiq Khan said the proposal \"singles out Londoners for punishment\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"We now have a prime minister so determined to punish a Labour mayor that he wants to whack a transport tax on his own constituents.\n\n\"Yet still they refuse to take the decisive national action needed; instead, they have tried to play people off against each other. Divide and misrule.\"\n\nMr Khan told a TfL board meeting: \"Now is not the time for the government to play party political games or be vindictive towards London. This is far too serious a matter.\n\n\"I intend to stand firm and fight for a fair deal for Londoners and do what's right for our city.\"\n\nMr Khan said he intends to stand firm and fight for a fair deal for Londoners\n\nTfL bosses have asked for a £5.7bn package to prop up services for the next 18 months, after passenger numbers and revenues plummeted in the aftermath the March lockdown.\n\nIn May, the government granted TfL £1.6bn in emergency funding to keep services running. Then on Friday, a last-minute extension of that bailout was secured to cover another two weeks.\n\nAs part of the package of new measures, according to Mr Khan's office, ministers want to:\n\nUnion leaders have criticised the proposals, with some highlighting what they say is a discrepancy in the government's treatment of private rail companies and TfL.\n\nThe virus has ripped the heart out of TfL's finances - with fares down 90%.\n\nThe government is adopting a tough negotiating stance with the mayor on how money can be recouped and transport should be funded now in the absence of usual income.\n\nThere's a condition that Sadiq Khan extend the congestion charge zone to within the north and south circular.\n\nHe's being pressured to agree to big fare hikes and removal of concessionary travel for children and pensioners.\n\nA plan has now emerged for a precept - an extra component to the council tax as exists currently for the police.\n\nIt would mean the cost of public transport spread across all Londoners whether they use it or not - but apparently no charge for the millions of users who live outside the capital.\n\nThere's been a ministerial threat to take direct control of TfL, and there are ominous rumblings from the unions.\n\nA pugnacious and provocative approach is emerging towards Labour-run devolved administrations.\n\nFor Boris Johnson, metro mayors are currently proving the real enemy.\n\nRail, Maritime and Transport union general secretary Mick Cash said: \"It is appalling that the government are targeting staff pensions amongst a range of other savage measures in this short-term funding deal.\n\n\"I put them on notice that any attempt to hack away at our members' pension rights will be met by an all-out campaign of political and industrial resistance.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman said: \"We have agreed an extension to the support period and to roll over unspent funding from the Transport for London Extraordinary Funding Agreement, allowing further time for negotiations for a new settlement.\n\n\"These discussions will ensure London has a safe, reliable network. It would be inappropriate to disclose further details at this stage.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said the two students had described Samuel Paty to the killer\n\nTwo students were paid to identify a teacher to the man who beheaded him last Friday in an attack that shocked France, prosecutors have alleged.\n\nSamuel Paty was targeted close to his school near Paris for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class.\n\nHis killer, 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, was shot dead by police shortly after the attack.\n\nOn Wednesday, prosecutors said Anzorov had paid two teenage students around €300 (£270; $355) to identify Mr Paty.\n\nThe killer told the students he wanted to \"film the teacher [and] make him apologise for the cartoon of the Prophet [Muhammad]\", anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said at a press conference.\n\nHe said Anzorov had told them he wanted \"to humiliate him, to hit him\".\n\nThe students, aged 14 and 15, are alleged to have described Mr Paty, 47, to Anzorov and stayed with him for more than two hours outside the school until the teacher appeared, Mr Ricard said.\n\nThe pair, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are two of seven people the French authorities are seeking to prosecute over the brutal attack.\n\nThe prosecutor also said there was a \"direct causal link\" between the killing and an online hate campaign that was orchestrated against Mr Paty.\n\nThe campaign was allegedly launched by the father of one of his pupils. The man, 48, who has been named in French media only as Brahim C, is accused of issuing a \"fatwa\" against the teacher.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Ricard confirmed reports that Brahim C, who is also facing prosecution, had exchanged a number of text messages with Mr Paty's killer prior to the attack.\n\nSamuel Paty, a well-liked teacher, had faced threats for showing the cartoons\n\nHe also posted videos denouncing Mr Paty after he showed the cartoons in two lessons about free speech earlier this month\n\nBut Mr Ricard said the father's anger and statements in the videos were based on \"inaccurate facts\" because his daughter had not been in the relevant lessons.\n\nThe prosecutor's revelations come ahead of a national memorial service in Paris for Mr Paty.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron will attend the event at the Sorbonne University on Wednesday evening, along with the teacher's family and some 400 guests.\n\nHe is expected to posthumously give Mr Paty France's highest award, the Legion d'Honneur,\n\nEarlier, the president held a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged co-operation in fighting terrorism. Mr Putin described the attack as a \"barbarous murder\".\n\nMr Paty's killer, Anzorov, was born in Moscow and his family is from Russia's Muslim-majority Chechnya region in the North Caucasus. He had lived in France since 2008.\n\nMr Macron said he wanted to see a \"strengthening of Franco-Russian co-operation in the fight against terrorism and illegal immigration\", the French presidency said.\n\nRussia has played down any association with the attacker. \"This person had lived in France for the past 12 years,\" a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Paris told the Tass news agency on Saturday.\n\nPolice have raided some 40 homes following the attack, and the government also ordered a mosque to close for six months.\n\nThe Pantin mosque, just north of Paris, was closed after it emerged it had shared videos on Facebook calling for action against Mr Paty.\n\nIn one clip, posted just days before the attack, it also shared his school's address.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. French minister: Lessons on freedom of expression will continue\n\nThe mosque later expressed \"regret\" over the videos, which it has deleted, and condemned the teacher's killing.\n\nMeanwhile, mosques in the south-western cities of Bordeaux and Beziers were put under police protection after they reported threats.\n\n\"Such actions are unacceptable on the soil of the Republic,\" Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said in a tweet on Wednesday.\n\nOn Tuesday, President Macron said the Sheikh Yassin Collective - an Islamist group named after the founder of the Palestinian militant group Hamas - would be outlawed for being \"directly involved\" in the killing.\n\nHe said the ban was a way of helping France's Muslim community from the influence of radicalism.\n\nMr Ricard said Mr Paty had been the target of threats since he showed the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a class on 6 October.\n\nThe history and geography teacher advised Muslim students to leave the room if they thought they might be offended.\n\nDepictions of the Prophet Muhammad can cause serious offence to Muslims because Islamic tradition explicitly forbids images of Muhammad and Allah (God).\n\nThe issue is particularly sensitive in France because of the decision by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nA trial is currently under way over the killing of 12 people by Islamist extremists at the magazine's offices in 2015 following their publication.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rallies in Paris, Toulouse, Lyon and other French cities in support of Samuel Paty\n\nFrance's Muslim community, which is Europe's largest, comprises about 10% of the population.\n\nSome French Muslims say they are frequent targets of racism and discrimination because of their faith - an issue that has long caused tension in the country.", "Marcus Rashford's campaign over the summer forced the government to U-turn on free school meals\n\nConservative MPs have criticised a campaign for free school meals to be offered over the holidays.\n\nLast week England footballer Marcus Rashford launched a petition urging government to make the change.\n\nSome Tory MPs criticised the campaign, with Brendan Clarke-Smith calling for less \"celebrity virtue signalling on Twitter\".\n\nBut five Tory MPs rebelled against the government to support extending free school meals over the holidays.\n\nMr Rashford has argued that the number of children with little access to food had grown due to families losing income amid Covid-19 restriction measures.\n\nMPs voted to reject Labour's motion - which called for free school meals to be offered over the school holidays until Easter 2021 - by 322 votes to 261.\n\nFollowing the vote, Mr Rashford issued a statement that said: \"A significant number of children are going to bed tonight not only hungry but feeling like they do not matter because of comments that have been made today.\n\n\"We must stop stigmatising, judging and pointing fingers - our views are being clouded by political affiliation.\"\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would not change his policy on free school meals, arguing that poor families were supported by the benefits system.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson told MPs: \"We support kids of low incomes in school and we will continue to do so.\n\nBut he added that the government would \"continue to use the benefit system and all the systems of income support to support young people and children throughout the holidays as well.\"\n\nEarlier this year, a campaign by Mr Rashford pushed the government into a dramatic U-turn when it agreed to extend free school meals over the summer holidays.\n\nThe political debate on how to deal with coronavirus has moved a lot since the summer and we're seeing a different tone from the government.\n\nIt's now clear that the virus isn't going away for some time yet and after a summer of big spending, the government seems less willing to put money into one-off temporary solutions.\n\nThat feels like part of a broader shift by the Conservatives to try to move away from a fire-fighting \"government-by-bailout\" approach to something more sustainable.\n\nBut there is a big risk in applying that strategy to this issue in particular.\n\nFirstly, nobody wants to see children going hungry over half term or Christmas, so the government needs to be confident they won't slip through the net.\n\nSecondly, Marcus Rashford's high profile campaign means a lot of people are watching.\n\nCompared with some other coronavirus spending, extending free school meals wouldn't cost that much.\n\nSo the risk for the government is of a public backlash or as one Conservative MP put it to me, a bit more bluntly, \"another self-inflicted and entirely predictable wound\".\n\nResponding to the defeat, Labour's shadow education secretary Kate Green said: \"Boris Johnson and the Conservatives have badly let down more than one million children and their families.\n\n\"No child should go hungry over the holidays, but the government is blocking the action needed to prevent this.\n\n\"We pay tribute to Marcus Rashford and others for shining a spotlight on this incredibly important issue. This campaign is not over and the government must reconsider.\"\n\nLabour point to a \"double whammy\" of challenges as the furlough job support scheme comes to an end and coronavirus restrictions increase in areas which already have high levels of poverty.\n\nAnd the party claims nearly 900,000 children in such Covid hotspots will go hungry, unless the government extends a food scheme.\n\nChief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group Alison Garnham said: \"We've reached a low point if in the midst of a pandemic we decide we can't make sure children in the lowest income families have a nutritious meal in the middle of the day.\"\n\nSome Conservative MPs also criticised the government's approach.\n\nA debate on free school meals took place on Wednesday\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Harlow MP Robert Halfon said: \"I'm not arguing it should go on forever, but the free school meals should at least go on at least until we are out of the coronavirus [pandemic], we hope, God willing, by next spring.\"\n\nMr Halfon added that there was significant support for extending the scheme among his fellow Conservative MPs.\n\nAnd former Conservative former minister, Paul Maynard, said he was \"very deeply disappointed\" by the government's response.\n\nFive Conservative MPs - Caroline Ansell, Mr Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Holly Mumby-Croft - voted to support Labour's proposal.\n\nBut other Conservative MPs criticised the Labour motion.\n\nBassetlaw MP Mr Clarke-Smith asked: \"Where is the slick PR campaign encouraging absent parents to take some responsibility for their children?\n\n\"I do not believe in nationalising children, instead we need to get back to the idea of taking responsibility.\n\n\"This means less celebrity virtue signalling on Twitter by proxy and more action to tackle the real causes of child poverty.\"\n\nDavid Simmonds, MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, said: \"What does it say about the opposition's priorities that all of their interests are simply swept aside in favour of currying favour with wealth and power and celebrity status, spending taxpayers' money to curry favour with celebrity status, wealth and power?\n\n\"Now I have no doubt that Mr Rashford is an expert in his own experience, but we should not forget that the experiences he so movingly described took place under a Labour government then supposedly at the peak of its powers in tackling child poverty in this country.\"\n\nThe Welsh government, which recently ordered a three-week lockdown, announced a move to offer food support to struggling families until next spring. Northern Ireland has also extended support for its children to a lesser degree.", "The claim: Employees unable to work in tier 3 areas will get a combination of Job Support Scheme and Universal Credit, which will mean they get 80% of their wages.\n\nVerdict: While that will be the case for some workers, especially those on very low incomes, some workers will get less than 80% under the new scheme.\n\nThe prime minister has repeatedly claimed that employees of closed businesses in tier 3 areas will get 80% of their income.\n\nThis is important because the furlough scheme, which closes at the end of October, made sure such workers received 80% of their wages up to a maximum of £2,500.\n\nBut the Job Support Scheme, which will replace it in November, will provide 67% of normal salary up to a maximum of £2,100 a month.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and several MPs have called for the support to be increased to 80%.\n\nBut Boris Johnson claims that the addition of Universal Credit (UC) means that it is already worth 80%.\n\n\"Combine the Universal Credit with the Job Support Scheme that we've just announced and workers will be getting 80% of their existing salary,\" he said at Prime Minister's Questions on 21 October.\n\nWhether a worker gets Universal Credit on top of the job support scheme depends on a number of factors such as the level of their income, whether they have savings and whether they have children.\n\nWhen the prime minister made the claim on 16 October he specified that he was talking about those on low incomes - clearly those on higher incomes will not qualify for Universal Credit and may be above the £2,100 a month limit for the Job Support Scheme.\n\nIt is certainly the case that some workers on low incomes will get at least 80% of their usual wages. In particular, people whose wages were low enough for them to qualify for Universal Credit before their employers were forced to close, are likely to get at least 80% of their wages.\n\nBut it is also the case that some workers will get less than 80%.\n\nWe asked the Department for Work and Pensions how the prime minister had reached this figure and were told: \"Those on low incomes getting the full entitlement [of Universal Credit] will receive at least 80% of their normal income.\"\n\nThe DWP said that the full entitlement meant the amount that you would get without reductions for having savings.\n\nThe point is that the prime minister failed to mention those who do not get UC at all, or only get a bit of it, who would receive less than 80% of their usual income.\n\nAn example comes from from the Institute for Fiscal Studies - a single person with no children who owns their own home and earns £11,000 a year, would be entitled to a bit of UC if they were put on the Job Support Scheme, but not much, so they would end up on 73% of their usual income.\n\nAlso, the amount of UC you are eligible for starts reducing once you have £6,000 in savings and a worker who has £16,000 in savings will not qualify for any UC, regardless of any other factors. So such a worker would not get 80%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadia Sapphire was \"harassed and groomed\" as a teenager\n\n\"Everyone knew when I turned 16... they all pulled things out [of a hat] to see who would get to sleep with me first.\"\n\nNadia Sapphire from Cardiff began wrestling when she was 14. At 15 she was drawn into an intimate relationship with an older wrestler. By 16 she was \"too anxious\" to continue training in Wales.\n\nShe is one of a growing number of female wrestlers speaking out about abuse and misogyny in the industry.\n\nWrestling fan and Pontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones has started a parliamentary inquiry to investigate its lack of regulation and governance.\n\n\"Looking back, I can see I was obviously harassed… and I was groomed,\" says Nadia.\n\n\"[Back] then I had all these guys messaging me in Wales - if anything I felt loved, I felt special.\"\n\nNadia says at first the attention made her feel special\n\nNadia, from Cardiff, now 29, fell in love with wrestling from a young age and had ambitions to become a top UK wrestler.\n\nAfter joining a training school as a teenager, she says she received numerous messages from fellow wrestlers - some teenagers themselves but others 10 to 15 years older.\n\nShe says low self-esteem meant she was initially flattered by the attention but after becoming \"sexually involved\" with a wrestler in his twenties, she was left \"embarrassed\" that her reputation had been tarnished.\n\n\"Even though I was underage... I was a 'ring rat' which is a term that's used in wrestling a hell of a lot... it's like a groupie,\" she explained.\n\nNadia said she felt like there was no-one she could speak to inside or outside the sport.\n\n\"I felt like I couldn't go to my mum because she would have stopped me wrestling... and like the people in wrestling I didn't want to say to them I'm being called a ring rat because I'd be scared they'd believe it\".\n\nNadia is one of many female wrestlers who joined the SpeakingOut campaign this summer.\n\nNadia says wrestlers \"pulled things out of a hat\" to decide who would sleep with her at 16\n\nIt is described as the wrestling industry's MeToo moment with many sharing their personal experiences online.\n\nMs Davies-Jones said she saw the \"horrendous stories\" on social media and wanted to use her position to help.\n\nShe has now launched a parliamentary inquiry to find out \"how we can best improve the industry to make it better, safer\".\n\nThe MP says she has been \"overwhelmed\" with the response.\n\n\"It's truly shocking - some of the stories we've heard are from women as young as 13, 14 who were threatened with rape and sexual violence if they wanted to wrestle,\" she said.\n\n\"We heard stories of male wrestlers competing to see who would be the first to take a female wrestler's virginity for example - truly harrowing tales.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Davies-Jones, who is co-chairwoman of the group, said she did not want to \"pre-empt\" the inquiry but the evidence suggests a regulatory governing body for the industry is needed.\n\n\"I think the problem we've got with wrestling is that it falls in that grey area... it's not classed as a sport, it's not really classed as a performance... and it's been left to run itself,\" she explained.\n\nThe MP said people from all aspects of the industry had contacted the inquiry.\n\nIn the wake of the SpeakingOut movement, several promoters and training schools in Wales have voiced their support for the female wrestlers affected and called for an overhaul of safeguarding in the industry.\n\nSome UK promoters also paused their lives shows.\n\nProgress Wrestling said: \"We've all got to be great for this industry to work and to prevent another SpeakingOut movement happening. Because if we're on the same level, we're on the same page, it's going to be safer for everyone.\"\n\nRevolution Pro Wrestling chief executive Andy Quildan said it wanted \"an independent body and we want to be held accountable\".\n\n\"British wrestling needs to focus on the word 'professional' in professional wrestling. In terms of fundamentally changing people's mindsets it's a change that needs to be made from the grassroots up,\" he said.\n\nFor Nadia, her safe place was finding a new training school in Swindon when she was 16.\n\nShe is now back home in Wales but still feels \"anxious\" about training here.\n\n\"My wrestling career is nearly over now... I'm not going to go to the places I wanted to but if this can help other girls who want to pursue wrestling in the future and if this can change something, I may as well speak about it.\"\n\nInformation and advice is available from the BBC Action Line", "More than 100,000 women have had their clothes digitally removed from images\n\nFaked nude images of more than 100,000 women have been created from social media pictures and shared online, according to a new report.\n\nClothes are digitally removed from pictures of women by Artificial Intelligence (AI), and spread on the messaging app Telegram.\n\nSome of those targeted \"appeared to be underage\", the report by intelligence company Sensity said.\n\nBut those running the service said it was simply \"entertainment\".\n\nThe BBC has tested the software and received poor results.\n\nSensity claim the technology used is a \"deepfake bot\".\n\nDeepfakes are computer-generated, often realistic images and video, based on a real template. One of its uses has been to create faked pornographic video clips of celebrities.\n\nBut Sensity's chief executive Giorgio Patrini said the shift to using photos of private individuals is relatively new.\n\n\"Having a social media account with public photos is enough for anyone to become a target,\" he warned.\n\nThe artificial intelligence-powered bot lives inside a Telegram private messaging channel. Users can send the bot a photo of a woman, and it will digitally remove her clothes in minutes, at no cost.\n\nThe BBC tested multiple images, all with the subjects' consent, and none were completely realistic - our results included a photo of a woman with a belly button on her diaphragm.\n\nA similar app was shut down last year, but it is believed there are cracked versions of the software in circulation.\n\nThe administrator running the service, known only as \"P\" said: \"I don't care that much. This is entertainment that does not carry violence.\n\n\"No one will blackmail anyone with this, since the quality is unrealistic.\"\n\nHe also said the team looks at what photos are shared, and \"when we see minors we block the user for good.\"\n\nIllustrations from the report show how messaging the bot will result in a modified version being sent back\n\nBut the decision on whether to share the photo with others is up to whoever used the bot to create it in the first place, he said.\n\nDefending its relative level of harm, he added: \"There are wars, diseases, many bad things that are harmful in the world.\" He has also claimed he will soon remove all of the images.\n\nTelegram has not responded to a request for comment.\n\nSensity reported that between July 2019 and 2020, approximately 104,852 women have been targeted and had fake naked images of them shared publicly.\n\nIts investigation found that some of the images appeared underage, \"suggesting that some users were primarily using the bot to generate and share paedophilic content.\"\n\nSensity said the bot has had significant advertising on the Russian social media site VK, and a survey on the platform showed that most users were from Russia and ex-USSR countries.\n\nBut VK said: \"It doesn't tolerate such content or links on the platform and blocks communities that distribute them.\"\n\nTelegram was officially banned in Russia until earlier this year.\n\n\"Many of these websites or apps do not hide or operate underground, because they are not strictly outlawed,\" said Sensity's Giorgio Patrini.\n\n\"Until that happens, I am afraid it will only get worse.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Bella Thorne opens up about her experience of deepfake abuse\n\nThe authors of the report say they have shared all their findings with Telegram, VK and relevant law enforcement agencies, but have not had a response.\n\nNina Schick, author of the book Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse, said deepfake creators were all over the world, and that legal protections were \"playing catch-up\" with the technology.\n\n\"It's only a matter of time until that content becomes more sophisticated. The number of deepfake porn videos seems to be doubling every six months,\" she said.\n\n\"Our legal systems are not fit for purpose on this issue. Society is changing quicker than we can imagine due to these exponential technological advances, and we as a society haven't decided how to regulate this.\n\n\"It's devastating, for victims of fake porn. It can completely upend their life because they feel violated and humiliated.\"\n\nLast year the US state of Virginia became one of the first places to outlaw deepfakes\n\nThe current UK law around fake nude images has recently been criticised for being \"inconsistent, out-of-date and confusing\" in a university report.\n\nDespite progress on issues like revenge porn and upskirting, \"there remain many glaring gaps in the law\", says Lucy Hadley of the Women's Aid charity.\n\nWhile these statistics show how widespread deep-fake images can be, it is not currently a specific offence.\n\nThe government has instructed the Law Commission to review the law around the issue in England and Wales. Its findings are due in 2021.", "Dr Starkey said he had made \"a serious error for which I have already paid a significant price\"\n\nPolice have dropped their investigation into an interview in which historian Dr David Starkey made controversial comments about slavery.\n\nDr Starkey made the remarks on YouTube to conservative commentator Darren Grimes, who was also investigated.\n\nThe historian accused the police of a \"misconceived, oppressive\" attempt to curtail freedom of expression.\n\nHe has previously apologised for saying in June that slavery was not genocide because \"so many damn blacks\" survived.\n\n\"It was a serious error for which I have already paid a significant price,\" he said last week.\n\n\"I did not, however, intend to stir up racial hatred and there was nothing about the circumstances of the broadcast which made it likely to do so.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police opened the investigation at the end of September, almost three months after an allegation of a public order offence was passed to them by Durham Police.\n\nLast week, the Met said a senior officer had been appointed to review the investigation.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, Cdr Paul Brogden said: \"It is the duty of police to assess and, if appropriate, fully investigate alleged offences and the public would expect us to investigate an allegation of this nature.\n\n\"We conducted initial inquiries to establish the full circumstances and sought early advice from the CPS. Having had the opportunity to review this, it is no longer proportionate that this investigation continues.\n\n\"We have made direct contact with the individuals involved and updated them on this decision.\"\n\nIn response, Dr Starkey said: \"The investigation should never of course have begun. From the beginning it was misconceived, oppressive and designed to misuse the criminal law to curtail the proper freedom of expression and debate.\n\n\"This freedom is our birthright; and it is more important than ever at this critical juncture in our nation's history.\" The outcome was also \"a personal vindication\", he added.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Mr Grimes described it as a \"vexatious charge\" that had involved the \"unprecedented use of the Public Order Act to regulate speech & debate\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Darren Grimes 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\nDuring the original discussion, Dr Starkey told Mr Grimes that slavery \"was not genocide\" because \"otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived.\"\n\nThe subsequent outcry led Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam College, Canterbury Christ Church University, The Mary Rose Trust and publisher HarperCollins to cut ties with him.", "Boris Johnson's allies blamed Andy Burnham's \"pride\" for the failure to reach a deal\n\nAfter Monday's will-they-won't-they and political tit-for-tat, the back-and-forth between the Westminster government and the leaders of Greater Manchester is at an end.\n\nBut it's a messy one, and a politically risky one for them both. And, given what could be at stake, a situation that already looks like a political failure.\n\nTuesday started with more conversations between the two sides - actually, this time, starting to talk in detail about the money.\n\nGreater Manchester was offered £60m from central government to help support businesses under the new Tier 3 limits, the BBC understands.\n\nBut in a conversation with the prime minister, Mayor Andy Burnham suggested it was not possible to accept less than £65m.\n\nGreater Manchester leaders originally submitted a request for £90m, which had been costed by a former Treasury official. On Tuesday morning, they discussed £75m with government officials, which would have covered the period until the end of the financial year.\n\nAndy Burnham's team accused the PM of \"trying to grind us into submission\"\n\nIt's understood Boris Johnson and Mr Burnham themselves discussed a figure of £60m but were unable to agree.\n\nMinisters were reluctant to set a precedent of giving one region more proportionately than another, especially given ongoing talks with several other parts of the country which could also face tougher restrictions.\n\nA Greater Manchester source said: \"We had costed what people needed. Rather than give us what people needed, they were only willing to give us what they would offer.\"\n\nBut government sources have suggested Mr Burnham was intransigent, with one saying: \"Other local leaders in GM were more reasonable and constructive, but Burnham was too proud to make a deal.\"\n\nIn response, a Greater Manchester source said there had been \"unanimity\" and accused the government of \"trying to grind us into submission\".\n\nIt is now not clear what financial support the region will receive.\n\nSo after 10 days of talks (of a kind) and billions spent during this crisis, it is quite something that the deal fell over a gap of £5m - a figure not disputed by either side.", "'The only wasted vote is the one never cast'\n\nBrandon Swearengin is a law student. He has worked for state government officials and ran earlier this year for a local school board seat in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and will vote for the Libertarian Party nominee in the upcoming election. Why does this election matter to you? This election matters to me because political power at all levels of government is up for grabs. I feel that many people overemphasize the presidential election. Though the Executive does have considerable powers, many of those powers, like war powers and regulation-making for example, are only exercised by virtue of congressional enactment. The federal government also has less impact in the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans than state and local government. So while many Americans are paying close attention to the presidential race, I’m more interested in my state legislative/judicial, county commissioner, and city council races as well as in competitive congressional elections around the country. Why do you support your chosen candidate? In the presidential election, I’m voting for the Libertarian Party nominee, Jo Jorgensen. I’m a registered Libertarian voter, and I strongly agree with roughly 80% of her campaign platform. I’m opposed to the de-facto two-party system, I want a smaller federal government in favor of stronger states’ rights, and I refuse to vote for a “lesser of two evils” between the major party nominees. Many Americans will make the fallacious statement that voting for a third party is a “wasted vote,” but my response is that the only wasted vote is the one never cast. Brandon is a member of our US election voter panel. You'll hear more from him, and many of our other voters, throughout the week.\n• We want to hear from you -what questions do you have about the US election?\n• In five words, tell us what's at stake in this election.", "Spain is the sixth nation worldwide to record more than one million cases\n\nSpain has recorded more than one million coronavirus cases, becoming the first western European country to pass that landmark figure.\n\nOn Wednesday the country reported 16,973 infections and 156 deaths in the previous 24 hours.\n\nSince its first diagnosed case on 31 January, Spain has now recorded a total of 1,005,295 infections.\n\nIt is the sixth nation worldwide to report one million cases after the US, India, Brazil, Russia and Argentina.\n\nEurope has seen a surge in new infections over the last few months, forcing governments to bring in strict new regulations to try and control outbreaks and ensure hospitals do not become overwhelmed.\n\nSpain was hit hard by coronavirus in the first months of the pandemic, and brought in some of the strictest measures to tackle it - including banning children from going outside.\n\nLike most European countries, the country lessened its regulations as case numbers dropped. Politicians highlighted the need to bring back tourists as a way to boost the struggling economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut by the end of August new daily case numbers were rising by 10,000 a day. Hospital admissions have ticked up by 20% in the past two weeks alone, while deaths have also begun to rise, with the toll climbing by 218 on Tuesday.\n\nIn total, 34,366 Covid-related deaths have been recorded.\n\nLawmakers however are bitterly divided over how to handle the situation. Politicians in the national parliament were debating a no-confidence motion in Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Wednesday filed by the far-right Vox Party, while central government has clashed repeatedly with regional leaders over how best to proceed.\n\nEarlier this month, Madrid's centre-right authorities successfully had a partial lockdown imposed on the capital overturned in court. But the Spanish government then ordered a 15-day state of emergency in the city.\n\nThe health minister will meet with regional leaders on Thursday to discuss next steps.", "A major plank of the UK's strategy for removing failed migrants has been ruled illegal because it prevents the courts from considering their cases.\n\nIn a significant ruling, the Court of Appeal said the policy risked removing people from the UK even if they had a right to be in the country.\n\nThe policy has been used in 40,000 removal cases.\n\nCampaigners who brought the challenge said the Home Office had endangered lives by short-cutting the law.\n\nThe unanimous judgment against the Home Office was taken by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, and two other senior judges.\n\nIt's not clear whether ministers will attempt to go to the Supreme Court but a Home Office spokesman said it is going to reform a failing immigration system.\n\nThe controversial policy which has been ruled illegal was introduced in 2015 in an attempt to prevent last-minute applications to stop removals - sometimes at the steps of the plane.\n\nIt has been suspended for 18 months during the legal battle. Removals have been carrying on under a far slower and complicated procedure that allows more time for appeals.\n\nUnder the 2015 policy, officials told failed applicants - whether they were asylum seekers, economic migrants or people making other claims - that they had 72 hours to make final representations. After that, they could be flown out of the UK, without notice, on any date in the following three months.\n\nCharity Medical Justice said the rules meant people with a genuine case to be in the UK simply could not present their arguments in time to a judge.\n\nHome Office: Policy was designed to speed up removals by ending late claims to stay\n\nIn examples submitted to the court, the charity said the Home Office had repeatedly removed people - only to bring them back again.\n\nIn one case, a man who had evidence that relatives had been murdered in his home country, had to be flown back to the UK and he was later found to be a genuine refugee.\n\nThe three Court of Appeal judges said the Home Office's aspiration to speed up removals was not in itself illegal - but in practice the policy had prevented effective appeals and that had risked serious injustices.\n\n\"The right to access the court is an absolute and inviolable right,\" said the court.\n\n\"The right to access to the court is not a relative right to be balanced against other rights and interests, the convenience of the executive or the courts, or the risks of abuse of process.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has repeatedly accused what she has called \"activist lawyers\" of slowing down immigration removals.\n\nAnd in the judgment, the Lord Chief Justice said there were \"endemic\" problems of false and fanciful late claims, some of which involved a \"minority of lawyers\", unconnected to the case before them.\n\nBut the judges stressed that the Home Office's solution had prevented judges from considering genuine cases because someone could be put on a flight before they had had a chance to go to court.\n\nA spokesman for Medical Justice said the policy had unfairly treated many of its sick clients.\n\n\"One of our society's most precious treasures is access to justice,\" said the spokesman.\n\n\"Chillingly, away from the public gaze, this policy denied that fundamental right on a massive scale causing serious harm to extremely vulnerable people and risking life.\n\n\"It was effectively a shortcut to removal. Quashing the policy brings us back towards equal access to justice for all.\"", "Weeks before we know if restrictions are working - expert\n\nWe've been hearing today about the stricter coronavirus measures coming into place for South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. But the effects will take two or three weeks to show if top-tier coronavirus restrictions are working in a region, MPs have heard. Dr Clare Gardiner, director general of the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) told two select committees that it would take that long for the data to come through, with part of the lag due to the virus having a 10-day incubation period. She added: \"We also are looking really keenly at the number of people being admitted to hospital. \"We are particularly concerned and will be looking closely at case rates in the over-60s and watching quite carefully the information about outbreaks in care homes, so looking to protect and being able to protect the vulnerable.\" When asked about the criteria used to raise an area from tier two to tier three, Dr Gardiner said there were a \"basket of indicators\" which were looked at with the chief medical officer who would then make recommendations to ministers. These included having a rate of more than 100-150 cases a week per 100,000 people, case rates among the over-60s, a positivity rate in tests of more than 7.5% and the number of people being admitted to hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There were violent clashes at an End Sars demonstration and protestors claim the army opened fire 'to kill'.\n\nBuildings have been set aflame and there are reports of gunfire in Nigeria's biggest city after demonstrators were shot at a protest.\n\nRights group Amnesty International said at least 12 people were killed by soldiers and police in Lagos on Tuesday.\n\nNigeria's army dismissed the reports as \"fake news\" in a post on Twitter.\n\nAuthorities have imposed an indefinite round-the-clock curfew on the city and elsewhere, but some defied the order.\n\nProtests against a police unit have been taking place for two weeks. Demonstrators have been using the social media hashtag #EndSars to rally crowds against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars).\n\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari disbanded Sars on 11 October. But protests have continued, with demands for more changes in the security forces, as well as reforms to the way the country is run.\n\nWitnesses have told the BBC what they saw when men in military camouflage opened fire on Tuesday evening.\n\nOn Wednesday, buildings were set alight across Lagos and police put up roadblocks. A major Nigerian TV station with links to a ruling party politician was on fire after people attacked it with petrol bombs.\n\nPolice in different districts of the city fired shots in the air to disperse protesters defying the curfew, the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo reports from the capital, Abuja. He also reports that the palace of the most senior traditional leader in the city was looted, though the leader had been evacuated beforehand.\n\nWitnesses said uniformed men opened fire on a crowd of around 1,000 demonstrators in the wealthy Lekki suburb on Tuesday.\n\nSoldiers were seen barricading the protest site moments before the shooting, BBC Nigeria correspondent Mayeni Jones reports. Social media footage streamed live from the scene shows protesters tending to the wounded.\n\nA witness who did not want to be named told BBC News that shortly before 19:00 local time (18:00 GMT) soldiers \"pulled up... and they started firing directly\" at peaceful protesters.\n\n\"They were firing and they were advancing straight at us. It was chaos. Somebody got hit straight beside me and he died on the spot,\" he said.\n\nThe protesters had gathered at the Lekki toll gate for the last two weeks to block cars from using the road.\n\nShortly before a curfew was due to start, officers turned up and began to kettle in the demonstrators. The street lights were then shut off before the shooting began.\n\nIn a statement, Amnesty International Nigeria said at least 12 protesters were killed in Lagos on Tuesday.\n\nEvidence from hospital records and witnesses showed \"the Nigerian military opened fire on thousands of people who were peacefully calling for good governance and an end to police brutality\" at Lekki toll gate, the organisation said.\n\nApart from the shooting in Lekki, at least two people were killed and one \"critically injured\" in the Alausa district by \"a team of soldiers and policemen\" at about 20:00, the group added.\n\n\"Soldiers clearly had one intention - to kill without consequences,\" said Osai Ojigho, Amnesty International Nigeria country director.\n\nThis morning we drove over the Lekki-Ikoyi toll bridge, passing through gates that had been burned out the night before. Broken glass from a number of businesses was scattered on the floor, cash machines burned out.\n\nCloser to Lekki, where there are a number of shopping centres, the streets were mainly empty. It's a bustling area usually, but no cars were on the road, just young men on foot.\n\nAt the Lekki toll gate itself there were around 200 people, who crowded round us, wanting to tell their stories of the night before, angry but also determined to stand their ground. Pools of blood could be seen on the floor.\n\nProtesters were waving flags that looked covered in blood - they told me that the Nigerian flag, usually green-white-green, turned green-red-green yesterday from all the killing. Many of them had been at the site of the shooting the night before and recounted horrifying stories of seeing other protesters shot before their eyes.\n\nThe calls for police reform have morphed into chants that President Buhari must go. Demonstrators say they are sick and tired of the status quo.\n\nSmoke was seen rising over Lagos on Wednesday\n\nLagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said about 25 people had been wounded, adding that authorities were investigating the death of one man by \"blunt force trauma to the head\". It is unclear if he was a demonstrator.\n\nOn Wednesday he called for flags to be lowered at government buildings and an \"immediate suspension\" of all state activities over the next three days.\n\n\"There are no excuses for the unfortunate incident that took place last night, and as the governor, I apologize for every action and inaction,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Sanwo-Olu told the BBC's Newshour programme that the military had been present at the scene, despite public assurances that soldiers would not deploy until after the start of a curfew at 21:00.\n\n\"I think about seven o'clock or thereabouts there was a small unit of the military that went [to Lekki] and we heard that gunshots were fired,\" he said.\n\nPresident Buhari did not directly refer to the shootings in a statement on Wednesday, but called on people to have patience as police reforms \"gather pace\", and appealed for \"understanding and calm\".\n\nProtests have taken place in the UK, South Africa and Kenya against police brutality in Nigeria, while officials around the world condemned Tuesday's events.\n\nEU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said it was \"alarming to learn that several people have been killed and injured during the ongoing protests\", adding it is \"crucial\" to bring those responsible to justice.\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on police \"to act at all times with maximum restraint while calling on protestors to demonstrate peacefully and to refrain from violence\", his spokesman said on Wednesday.\n\nFormer US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on President Buhari and the army \"to stop killing young #EndSARS protesters\" in a tweet.\n\nAnd US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden also urged authorities to end the \"violent crackdown on protesters\".\n\nNigerians in Kenya protested outside the Nigerian embassy in Nairobi on Wednesday", "A silent march was held in honour of Mr Paty on Tuesday evening in the suburbwhere he was killed\n\nThe father of a pupil accused of launching an online campaign against Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded in France, sent messages to the killer before the attack, French media report.\n\nMr Paty, who was killed on Friday, had earlier shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils.\n\nThe 48-year-old father, who has not been officially named, is accused of issuing a \"fatwa\" against the teacher.\n\nThe brutal murder of Mr Paty, 47, has shocked France.\n\nTens of thousands of people took part in rallies across France at the weekend to honour him and defend freedom of speech. A silent march was held on Tuesday evening in the suburb north-west of Paris where he was killed.\n\nA man named as 18-year-old Abdoulakh A was shot dead by police after killing Mr Paty on Friday.\n\nThe father of the pupil is reported to have exchanged a number of text messages with Mr Paty's killer prior to the attack close to the teacher's school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.\n\nHe is accused, along with a preacher described by French media as a radical Islamist, of calling for Mr Paty to be punished by issuing a so-called \"fatwa\" (considered a legal ruling by Islamic scholars).\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said the two men had been arrested and were being investigated for an \"assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. French minister: Lessons on freedom of expression will continue\n\nPolice launched a series of raids targeting Islamist networks on Monday, and some 40 homes were targeted.\n\nOn Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said the Sheikh Yassin Collective - an Islamist group named after the founder of the Palestinian militant group Hamas - would be outlawed for being \"directly involved\" in the killing.\n\nHe said the ban was a way of helping France's Muslim community, Europe's largest, from the influence of radicalism.\n\nThe group's leader is among 16 people who were taken into custody in the aftermath of the murder.\n\nSix have now been released after questioning including the killer's grandfather, parents and 17-year-old brother. Four school students are believed to remain in detention.\n\nMr Darmanin earlier said 51 French Muslim organisations, including charities and NGOs, would be inspected by government officials and closed down if they were found to be promoting hatred.\n\nHe said police would also be interviewing about 80 people who were believed to have posted messages in support of the killing.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, the French government ordered a mosque to close for sharing videos on Facebook calling for action against Mr Paty and sharing his school's address in the days before his death.\n\nThe Pantin mosque, which has about 1,500 worshippers and is situated just north of Paris, will close for six months on Wednesday. The mosque expressed \"regret\" over the videos, which it has deleted, and condemned the teacher's killing.\n\nBeneath the public outrage there is a divided nation. A growing number of people believe France's rules on secularism and freedom of speech need to change.\n\nAround 29% of Muslim respondents told a recent poll that Islam was incompatible with the values of the French Republic - a sharp increase over the past few years. And among those under 25, the figure was much higher.\n\nThe number of people who think violence is justified in response to cartoons of Muhammad is very small. But teachers in some areas say that view is growing among their pupils.\n\nThe roots of this rebellion against French national values are complex - conflicts abroad, racism, lack of opportunity and government policy all play a role.\n\nIt's hard to support the values of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity if they don't appear to apply to you.\n\nBefore this attack, President Macron had already promised a new law to target \"separatism\". But will it tackle the growing chasm or deepen the fault-lines once more?\n\nOn Monday, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said Mr Paty had been the target of threats since he showed the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a class about freedom of speech earlier in October.\n\nThe history and geography teacher advised Muslim students to leave the room if they thought they might be offended.\n\nMr Ricard said that the killer went to the school on Friday afternoon and asked students to point out the teacher. He then followed Mr Paty as he walked home from work and used a knife to attack him.\n\nSamuel Paty, a well-liked teacher, had been threatened over showing the cartoons\n\nTuesday evening's silent vigil in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine was attended by thousands. Earlier in the day, the French parliament observed a minute of silence.\n\nMr Macron will attend a ceremony with Mr Paty's family on Wednesday.\n\nThe teacher will also be posthumously given France's highest award, the Legion d'Honneur.\n\nDepictions of the Prophet Muhammad can cause serious offence to Muslims because Islamic tradition explicitly forbids images of Muhammad and Allah (God).\n\nThe issue is particularly sensitive in France because of the decision by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. A trial is currently under way over the killing of 12 people by Islamist extremists at the magazine's offices in 2015 following their publication.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rallies in Paris, Toulouse, Lyon and other French cities in support of Samuel Paty\n\nFrance's Muslim community comprises about 10% of the population.\n\nSome French Muslims say they are frequent targets of racism and discrimination because of their faith - an issue that has long caused tension in the country.", "A full decontamination has been carried out at the care home\n\nFive residents of a care home in south-west Scotland have died following an outbreak of Covid-19.\n\nThe deaths were at the Charnwood Lodge Care Home in Dumfries.\n\nThe charity which runs the home, Community Integrated Care, said a full decontamination of the facility was carried out as soon as the outbreak was detected.\n\nIt paid tribute to the \"efforts and professionalism\" of staff in dealing with the situation.\n\nStaff have been praised for their dedication in dealing with the outbreak\n\nMartin McGuigan, managing director at CIC, said it had implemented a \"number of additional robust infection control measures\".\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with the local authority and public health teams to ensure that we are taking all necessary steps to protect everyone within the home and provide the practical and emotional support needed,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for Dumfries and Galloway Health and Social Care Partnership said it was a \"very difficult and concerning situation\" and praised the dedication of staff in their response.\n\n\"Work was undertaken to contain the spread of Covid-19, and this has not been an easy task against this highly infectious virus,\" he said.\n\n\"This outbreak has again demonstrated just how highly transmissible the Covid-19 virus is, even when the correct protocols are being observed.\"\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, about half (1,986) of those who have died with coronavirus have died in care homes.\n\nThe latest Scottish government figures showed that, as of 14 October, 101 adult care homes (9%) had a current case of suspected Covid-19.\n\nA total of 12 deaths of care home residents confirmed to have had Covid-19 were reported to the Care Inspectorate between 5 to 11 October - about 5% of all care home deaths in that period.", "Pubs in South Yorkshire will only be allowed to stay open if they serve a \"substantial meal\"\n\nBusiness owners in South Yorkshire fear for their survival prospects as they face tighter coronavirus restrictions.\n\nTier three restrictions will apply in the area from 00:01 on Saturday, it has been confirmed.\n\nThe rules impose further restrictions on households mixing, while pubs that do not serve substantial meals must close.\n\nOne pub owner in Sheffield says the hospitality sector has been \"thrown under a bus\".\n\nJamie Hawksworth, who owns the Sheffield Tap, said he saw the new restrictions coming.\n\n\"I think I speak for most of my staff, and certainly the management team, that it's devastating. We've had the entire business pulled from under us.\"\n\nHe added that the knock-on effect would be fewer orders for local breweries, abattoirs and other suppliers.\n\n\"Hospitality only accounts to 3% of the Covid risk at the moment,\" he said.\n\n\"We pay the most to the government and receive the least. We're basically being thrown under the bus, we're the scapegoat.\"\n\nPub owner Jamie Hawksworth says businesses like his have become \"the scapegoat\"\n\nThe Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) said publicans had done everything to make their premises Covid-secure and the news would be \"absolutely devastating\" for pubs and breweries.\n\nChief executive Tom Stainer said: \"If pubs across South Yorkshire are to avoid becoming a sacrificial lamb then they need a decent, long-term financial support package.\n\n\"This must properly compensate pubs for having to either close altogether or stay open with extremely low footfall whilst they serve food.\"\n\nHe said help would also be needed after restrictions were lifted to avoid pubs having to \"close their doors for good before Christmas\".\n\nThe family-run Acorn Brewery in Wombwell, Barnsley, is facing similar worries to other businesses.\n\nThe microbrewery's managing director Dave Hughes said the business was operating at about 20% of the level it was at before the pandemic.\n\n\"The whole hospitality sector seems to have been hit very hard compared to other places,\" he said.\n\nThe team of 11 at the brewery has been reduced to four.\n\n\"Our team has been broken up and it causes a lot of stress and anxiety,\" Mr Hughes said.\n\nHe said about 95% of his business was supplying pubs, bars and restaurants - like most microbreweries.\n\nMicrobrewery manager Dave Hughes says the restrictions mean a lot of \"stress and anxiety\"\n\nMr Hughes also runs a real ale pub which would have to close under the new restrictions.\n\n\"We can't offer a substantial meal. A lots of pubs that don't have a food offering will suffer and those that do, will they get the footfall?\n\n\"I suppose, in a sense, tier three for our pub, at least there is funding that we can now tap into.\"\n\nHe also has concerns about how trade will recover when the restrictions end.\n\n\"People find the new norm and go to different outlets and when you do reopen you have to battle to get them back.\"\n\nPubs that close under tier three rules will be eligible for financial support\n\nPaul McNicholas runs three bars in Barnsley and welcomed the tier three restrictions as it means financial support.\n\nHe said people were not coming out due to the 22:00 curfew and social mixing restrictions and he had only been opening at the weekend.\n\n\"We were finding it difficult to operate under the present restrictions on level two so there was a likelihood we would have closed anyway.\n\n\"We were opening the bars and they were running at a loss.\"\n\nOn the new restrictions he said he thought he could cope with the initial 28-day period, but was hopeful they would reopen before Christmas.\n\n\"We are reliant a lot on Christmas and I am trying to be optimistic but we feel that we do need that period,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says Greater Manchester will move into Tier 3\n\nGreater Manchester will move to England's highest tier of coronavirus restrictions from Friday at 00:01 BST, the prime minister has announced.\n\nSpeaking at No 10, Boris Johnson said \"not to act now\" would put the lives of Manchester's residents \"at risk\".\n\nHe said a \"generous\" offer of financial support had been made to the region but that Mayor Andy Burnham had refused it.\n\nMr Burnham said he had not been offered enough to \"protect the poorest people in our communities\".\n\nUnder tier three rules - currently only applied to Lancashire and the Liverpool City Region - pubs and bars not serving substantial meals have to close, while household mixing is banned indoors and outdoors in hospitality settings and private gardens.\n\nBetting shops, casinos, bingo halls, adult gaming centres and soft play areas will also have to close, while there is guidance against travelling in or out of the area.\n\nGreater Manchester is currently under tier two rules, meaning pubs and restaurants must close at 22:00, there is no household mixing indoors and the rule of six applies outdoors.\n\nAhead of the Downing Street press conference, Mr Burnham - speaking alongside other local leaders - said that without a \"bare minimum\" of £65m in additional business support, tighter measures \"would be certain to increase levels of poverty, homelessness and hardship\" among the region's 2.8 million population.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock later told the House of Commons that a £60m offer previously made to local leaders remained \"on the table\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Burnham: 'It can't be right to close businesses without support'\n\nOn the inability to agree on financial help, Mr Johnson said: \"I do regret this. As I said last week, we would have a better chance of defeating the virus if we work together.\"\n\nHe added Greater Manchester would receive £22m in funding as part of a \"comprehensive package of support\" but that the \"door was open to continue the conversation\" about further aid, so long as it was in line with that offered to other areas in same position.\n\nThe £22m mentioned by Mr Johnson - which is for expenses such as local enforcement and test and trace - is separate to the £60m that Mr Hancock spoke of.\n\nIn addition, the new Job Support Scheme will cover 67% of the wages - funded by employers and the government - of people affected by tier three closures.\n\nBoris Johnson says he can't give Greater Manchester disproportionately more money than other tier three areas.\n\nAndy Burnham says that he won't accept a deal that will lead to increased levels of hardship and homelessness.\n\nBut there are political risks on all sides here.\n\nCould Boris Johnson look like a Whitehall bean-counter who can't bring himself to stump up an extra £5m?\n\nDoes Andy Burnham look like he's overplayed his part as \"King of the North\" (as some now call him)?\n\nAll the while, those living in Greater Manchester might wonder what on earth is actually going to happen on Friday, in terms of financial support, as new measures kick in.\n\nThat surely is now the next deadline. And I suspect political leaders on all sides won't want to have to explain to people, on Friday morning, why they couldn't reach an agreement in time.\n\nExplaining the decision to impose tougher restrictions on Greater Manchester, Mr Hancock said hospital admissions in the region were higher now than at the end of March.\n\n\"There are now more Covid-19 patients in Greater Manchester hospitals than in the whole of the South West and the South East combined,\" he added.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, meanwhile, said residents of Manchester would be \"watching the news in disbelief\".\n\nHe said they would be asking: \"Why was it right to cover 80% of wages in March and then now, in the run-up to Christmas, cover just two-thirds of their wages in October?\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the party would force a Commons vote on Wednesday, demanding a \"fair deal\" for areas facing tier three restrictions.\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 Keir Starmer 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\nConservative MP Chris Green, who represents Bolton West, wrote on Facebook that Bolton had \"been through a far tougher lockdown than Tier 3 and it didn't work\".\n\nHe added: \"The government believes that three weeks of closing pubs and soft play centres will make a dramatic difference. It hasn't and it won't.\"\n\nHowever, six other Conservative MPs from the region have written to Mr Burnham to express their \"concern and deep disappointment\" about what they called \"his failure to come to an agreement with the Government\" on a support package.\n\nThe signatories ask Mr Burnham to \"make way\" for \"local MPs and council leaders\" to \"have a go at getting a sensible settlement\".\n\nKate Nicholls - the head of industry body UKHospitality - described the move to tier three as \"another huge blow for our sector and a very bitter disappointment for hospitality businesses in Manchester\".\n\n\"We need a practical and workable package of support for the whole of Manchester's hospitality sector in order to keep these businesses afloat and jobs alive,\" she said. \"Jobs, once lost, are not always easily revived and businesses closed not easily reopened.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the PM confirmed that conversations were ongoing with leaders in South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and the North East about the possibility of moving to the very high alert level, tier three.\n\nThe leaders of West Yorkshire's council later said a decision had been made to maintain tier two status in the county this week.\n\nIt comes as the latest government figures showed that, on Tuesday, the UK recorded a further 21,330 coronavirus cases and a further 241 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe rising case numbers in England have led some scientists and politicians to call for a so-called \"circuit breaker\" - a short, sharp lockdown such as that being brought in for Wales.\n\nBut speaking alongside Mr Johnson at Downing Street, England's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, said this approach would be \"inappropriate\" for parts of England where the disease was lower and \"very hard to justify for some communities\".\n\nIn Wales, people will be told to stay at home from Friday, while pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops will shut as part of the \"short, sharp\" national lockdown until 9 November.\n\nA two-week school closure has begun in Northern Ireland as part of a tightening of restrictions.\n\nAnd in Scotland, the tightest restrictions are in place in the central belt, and there are plans for a three-tier framework of measures, similar to England's.", "Wasps will take part in Saturday's Premiership final against Exeter Chiefs at Twickenham, despite 11 Covid-19 cases within the club in the past week.\n\nPremiership Rugby confirmed Lee Blackett's side were clear to play after the latest round of testing.\n\nBristol were on stand-by if Wasps, who beat them in the semi-finals, had been unable to fulfil the fixture.\n\nThe decision was taken by the Rugby Football Union, Premiership Rugby and Public Health England officials.\n\nThis will be Wasps' first final since 2017, when they were beaten by the Chiefs in extra time.\n\nSeven players and four backroom staff had been diagnosed with coronavirus before further tests were undertaken on Tuesday.\n\nBut in a statement, Wasps confirmed that \"no further players or staff have tested positive\", although a coaching staff test was damaged in transit and that member will now self-isolate as a precaution.\n\nThey also reiterated the need to maintain their \"rigorous\" protocols around track and trace as the players return to training for the game.\n\n\"I would like to place on record my sincere thanks to Premiership Rugby, the RFU, Public Health England and Public Health Warwickshire for their clarity and assistance throughout this whole process,\" Wasps group chief executive Stephen Vaughan said.\n\n\"As a club, we are delighted that we can now take our rightful place in this Saturday's Premiership Rugby final. To all of our fans and well-wishers, thank you for your many messages of support, this final is for you.\"\n\nChiefs director Rob Baxter, whose squad have been given the all-clear following their own latest round of testing, said Wasps being allowed to play was \"the news I think most people wanted\".\n\n\"Everyone was getting concerned with the Wasps situation, but we were getting concerned with ourselves, making sure we came through it,\" Baxter, whose side were crowned European champions after beating Racing 92 in Saturday's Champions Cup final, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We anticipated we would be and that was the case, and it was great to have a message from Lee (Blackett) this morning to say that their testing had gone well.\"\n\nAnalysis - 'The credibility of the competition was on the line'\n\n\"There's relief all round, the testing has shown this hasn't spread further through the Wasps squad, no more cases.\n\n\"It has been a nervous few days, not just for Wasps, but also for Premiership Rugby as they would have known the whole credibility of the competition was on the line here.\n\n\"Bristol were on stand-by but they can go back to their celebrations having won the Challenge Cup against Toulon at the weekend.\n\n\"Who knows, maybe after a season compromised by the World Cup, the Saracens salary cap saga and the infinite challenges and issues thrown up by the pandemic, it may, after all that, finish with a fitting final at Twickenham?\n\n\"Let's hope that is the case and Wasps are able to be somewhere near their best despite all the disruption.\"", "Gym owner Ashley Hughes said the decision was a relief\n\nGyms and leisure centres will be able to reopen across Liverpool after the government bowed to pressure to bring it in line with other areas under tier three measures.\n\nThey were ordered to close when the area was placed into the \"very high\" level of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nLiverpool Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram said they would be allowed to reopen on Friday but soft play areas would close.\n\nAshley Hughes, who owns a gym in Knowsley, said it was \"great news\".\n\nIt has been illegal for gyms in the Liverpool City Region to open since the region went into the toughest Covid-19 restrictions on 14 October.\n\nMr Rotheram told BBC Radio Merseyside talks with the government continued until late on Tuesday after he appealed to bring them in line with other areas under tier three restrictions like Lancashire, where gyms remain open.\n\n\"The government have agreed with the case I put forward on behalf of city region leaders and that they would now bring us in line with other tier three areas,\" he said.\n\nThe Labour mayor said the government would put legislation before Parliament on Thursday to rescind the original decision to close gyms and leisure centres which will allow them to reopen on Friday.\n\nThea Holden says she was \"overwhelmed, humbled and thankful\" to everyone who helped \"to get justice for gyms\"\n\nDozens of gyms in the area remained open despite the rules ordering them to shut, including Body Tech Fitness in Moreton, Wirral, which was fined £1,000.\n\nIts owner Nick Whitcombe had urged gyms to \"unite together\" and stay open, with a GoFundMe page set up to help gyms mount a legal challenge to closures raising more than £50,000.\n\nHe said he was \"elated\" the decision had been overturned and credited it to the industry and the region \"sticking together\" and \"generating noise\" on social media.\n\nHe said gyms should never have been closed because people's health and well-being was \"paramount\".\n\nMr Whitcombe said he hoped the fines could be written off and said the money raised would be donated to a local mental health charity.\n\nBody Tech Fitness owner Nick Whitcombe said the U-turn was \"phenomenal news\"\n\nThea Holden, co-owner of Empowered Fit in Wirral, said she was \"overwhelmed, humbled and thankful\" to everyone who helped \"to get justice for gyms\".\n\nMr Hughes, who owns Bodytorque in Huyton, had signed a petition to reverse the decision and said the government U-turn was a relief as it had been worrying times for businesses in the area.\n\nWhile the decision has been welcomed by gym owners, the assistant manager of Kidz Fantasy Land in Liverpool said it was \"devastating\" for soft play areas.\n\n\"We were already struggling to pay the bills and had to cut staff hours,\" Angelina Hyland said.\n\n\"We were fully booked for Halloween and were hoping it would give us a boost. Staff had worked so hard to make it safe and a fun event for kids.\"\n\nShe said it was \"really unfair\" to allow gyms and leisure centres to open but now shut indoor play areas for youngsters, adding: \"It's exercise in a safe indoor environment for children.\"\n\nGyms in Lancashire were allowed to stay open when it entered tier three\n\nConnor O'Brien, the owner and founder of Absolute Body Solutions in Liverpool, said it had been on the verge of going into debt.\n\n\"It is great we will be able to prevent that,\" he added.\n\nMr O'Brien said it was vital for people to have access to gyms, for both physical and mental support.\n\n\"It is massive for people's physical health, it keeps them fit, healthy and their immune system up,\" he said.\n\n\"But people also use the gym as their escape if they have had a stressful day at work.\n\n\"It gives them that release and with people working from home it might be the only time they leave the house.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nMarcus Rashford repeated his late heroics against Paris St-Germain with a superb winner as Manchester United marked their return to the Champions League with a fine win at the home of last season's beaten finalists.\n\nRashford's stoppage-time penalty sealed a famous victory at the Parc des Princes 18 months ago and the England striker was again on target to ensure Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side took maximum points from their opening match in a formidable group.\n\nThe visitors had excelled in a first half which saw Bruno Fernandes stroke them ahead with a twice-taken penalty.\n\nBut the multiple French champions were far stronger and threatening in the second half and deservedly drew level when United striker Anthony Martial headed into his own net.\n\nDavid de Gea had to put in a much-improved display in United's goal, making strong saves to deny PSG's superstar duo Kylian Mbappe and Neymar.\n\nAnd the sides looked set to share the points when Rashford collected a pass from substitute Paul Pogba, rolled away from a defender and fired in off the base of the post from 20 yards.\n• None Reaction to all of Tuesday's Champions League action\n• None Quiz: Name the teams in the group stage\n\nRashford's penalty completed a stunning comeback in 2019 which all but cemented the case for Solskjaer's temporary reign to be made permanent, turning a delighted Rio Ferdinand - the former United defender turned BT Sport pundit - into a meme in the process.\n\nSolskjaer has not been able to maintain that blistering success since becoming full-time manager, but once again the Norwegian was able to conjure a victory against the odds.\n\nWithout captain Harry Maguire and midfielder Pogba, United played a back five - with defender Axel Tuanzebe being summoned from the wilderness and shining on his first appearance of 2020.\n\nTwice the 22-year-old kept stride with the rapid Mbappe and made fine challenges in an impressive display.\n\nAt the other end, United's opener came from a more familiar route - Fernandes converting a penalty after Martial was tripped. It was, remarkably, the 27th spot-kick awarded to United since the start of last season.\n\nFernandes, the captain on the night, actually missed for the second time in three days, but Keylor Navas was clearly off his line before the save and the video assistant referee called it back. Fernandes went the same way; the goalkeeper went the other.\n\nPSG looked far more like their old selves after the break and United had to defend well - but Rashford was guilty of wasting a couple of chances on the counter-attack before his brilliant late winner.\n\nThe rebuilding of Paris St-Germain has long been aimed solely at European glory - with domestic monopoly tied up years ago - and the run to the final just 58 days ago looked like a key juncture.\n\nThomas Tuchel's side is packed with blistering talent, but question marks over their consistency have long been raised and this was another frustrating display.\n\nThey moved the ball far too slowly in the first half and deserved to find themselves behind, even if De Gea was called into a double save from Angel di Maria and Layvin Kurzawa.\n\nTuchel moved Di Maria deeper at half-time, sending on Everton loanee Moise Kean up front, and his side were better. De Gea again made a flying save to deny Mbappe after a typically brilliant run, and Kurzawa hit the crossbar with a miscued cross.\n\nMartial gave them a route back into the match when he nodded Neymar's inswinging corner into his own net, but United improved when Pogba came on.\n\nWith RB Leipzig - semi-finalists last season - up and running with a win, it is now Tuchel's side who need to click into gear fast just to make it out of Group H.\n• None Paris St-Germain suffered a home defeat in a Champions League group game for the first time in 25 games, since losing 1-3 to CSKA Moscow in December 2004.\n• None Manchester United have scored nine own goals in the Champions League, more than any other side.\n• None Since the start of last season, United have been awarded 27 penalties and scored 22 of them, both highs among sides in Europe's big five leagues (England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) in that time.\n• None Since his debut for Manchester United in February, Bruno Fernandes has been directly involved in more goals than any other Premier League player (27 - 16 goals, 11 assists).\n• None Fernandes has scored 11 of his 12 penalties for United, more than any other player from Europe's big five leagues in that time.\n• None Anthony Martial is the second French player to score an own goal in the Champions League against French opposition, after Jeremy Mathieu for Barcelona, also against Paris St-Germain, in April 2015.\n• None PSG's Neymar has failed to score in four consecutive Champions League appearances for the first time since November 2013 (his first five games in the competition).\n• None Offside, Paris Saint Germain. Keylor Navas tries a through ball, but Kylian Mbappé is caught offside.\n• None Moise Kean (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Neymar (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Pablo Sarabia.\n• None Goal! Paris Saint Germain 1, Manchester United 2. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Paul Pogba.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Scott McTominay.\n• None Danilo Pereira (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Neymar (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rafinha. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How effective is it for weight loss?", "Demand in pubs and restaurants has collapsed after bans on households mixing were introduced in many areas\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is to unveil new support for workers and firms hit by restrictions imposed as coronavirus cases rise across the UK.\n\nHe is due to update the Job Support Scheme, which replaces furlough in November, in the Commons on Thursday.\n\nCritics say not enough is being done for firms in tier two areas that have seen demand collapse without being formally required to shut.\n\nIn tier three areas, firms ordered to shut get emergency support.\n\nTalks were held throughout Wednesday, with the government said to have acknowledged that while there are three tiers of alert level - medium, high, and very high - there are only two tiers of support.\n\nBusinesses in tier two areas, particularly in the hospitality sector, have complained that they would be better off if they were under tier three restrictions. They argue that although they would be forced to close, they would benefit from greater government support.\n\nTop London-based chef Yotam Ottolenghi said conditions for his restaurants were \"terrible\".\n\n\"We are on our knees now,\" he told the BBC. \"We just don't have customers coming through the door.\"\n\nHe said that before tier two restrictions were imposed in London, his restaurants were operating at 50% of capacity, but that this had now fallen to between 10% and 20%.\n\n\"This is just not a viable place for a restaurant to be,\" he said, describing tier two as a \"cursed\" category that \"deprives us of oxygen\".\n\nIn tier three areas, the government will pay 67% of affected workers' wages, up to £2,100 a month, from 1 November (\"lockdown Job Support Scheme\" in the chart below). Some workers can also claim Universal Credit.\n\nBut in tier two regions, the only help available will be the standard JSS (\"part-time Job Support Scheme\" in the chart below), which is more costly for employers.\n\nBusiness groups and unions say this means many firms will not be able to use it and will have to lay off workers instead.\n\nThe chancellor's spokesperson said: \"What we have always said is that our package of support is always flexible, and always up for review, to make sure that it is dealing with the situation as it evolves.\"\n\nAreas in tier two - the second-highest risk level - include London, Essex, much of the West Midlands, Leicester, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire, West Yorkshire and north-east England.\n\nCoventry is to move to tier two Covid restrictions from midnight on Friday, the city council has said.\n\nIn addition to national restrictions meaning pubs and restaurants must close by 22:00, people in tier two areas are banned from mixing with other households indoors - hammering demand in many leisure industries.\n\nKey Conservative figures, such as West Midlands Mayor Andy Street, have been critical of the disparities, along with a raft of Labour local leaders and MPs.\n\nFurlough and redundancy are cutting incomes - and millions of people's finances are not in a position to cope.\n\nSome 12 million people in UK have low financial resilience - meaning they find it hard to pay bills or make loan repayments, according to research by the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority.\n\nIt found that those from a black and minority ethnic background have been more likely than most to be affected by Covid-related falls in income, with 37% of those surveyed taking a hit.\n\nAlso, people aged between 25 and 34 were the most likely, by far, to have had a change in employment as a result of the pandemic.\n\nThat has led thousands of people to take payment \"holidays\" - deferrals on household bills such as rent or energy bills.\n\nFrom 31 October, anyone who arranges a break on repayments of mortgages, loans and credit cards will see their credit record marked - potentially making it harder to borrow more from then on.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told the BBC it was \"one of the oddities of the system\" that pubs and restaurants in tier three areas which had been forced to close were in a better position than those in tier two areas which remained open.\n\n\"You get full support, whereas if you're in tier two, you get no more support than similar businesses in the rest of the country and yet demand for your products is clearly massively reduced,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson said it was clearly right that the government should seek to close that support gap with new measures.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, told the BBC: \"We have a big distinction between tier one, tier two and tier three restrictions in theory, but the economic support packages don't go alongside those restrictions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Barnsley town centre react to tier three restrictions being announced\n\nAs more parts of the country are placed in tier two, critics say the standard JSS is likely to fall short, with many fewer firms than expected signing up.\n\nOptions being discussed in Whitehall include more generous taxpayer wage support for businesses in these regions, up from the current level of 22%, and grants offered through local authorities.\n\nWith so much of England now in tier two, even small increases in support could end up being very expensive. Business and union leaders will be briefed on the changes on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt comes amid warnings that unemployment could rise as high as 8.5% in the first half of next year without more government support for struggling businesses.\n\nIn the three months to August, redundancies rose to their highest level since 2009, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nThe number claiming work-related benefits, meanwhile, hit 2.7 million in September - an increase of 1.5 million since the beginning of the crisis in March.", "GCSE and A level students missed time in school over the summer and continue to face disruption\n\nThe \"huge disruption\" to education is being taken into account ahead of decisions about next summer's exams, the qualifications watchdog has said.\n\nThe boss of Qualifications Wales said the firebreak meant those with exams in 2021 faced a \"more difficult situation\" than pupils who sat exams this summer.\n\nPhilip Blaker said it was looking at \"moving away from timetabled exams\" to offer a \"performance experience\".\n\nPlans for summer 2021 exams are due to be announced next month.\n\nChildren in Year 9 and above, including those studying for GCSEs and A-levels, will be learning from home for a week as part of the measures announced by First Minister Mark Drakeford on Monday.\n\nMr Blaker said Qualifications Wales would publish its advice to the education minister on the summer 2021 exams next week.\n\n\"Last year we had the issue of not being able to hold timetabled examinations,\" he said.\n\n\"This year, on top of that, is the disruption to teaching and learning.\n\n\"What we want to do is to find a means of assessment which is fair, robust and removes that dependency as far as possible on timetables, but allows them to have that performance experience.\"\n\nAlice Barrell said the disruption had caused a lot of anxiety among students\n\nAlice Barrell, head girl in Year 13 of Monmouth Comprehensive School, is doing A levels in chemistry, biology, and maths in the hope of studying medicine at university.\n\nHer teacher-assessed AS levels will not count towards her A-level marks.\n\nShe said last year was \"definitely difficult… because we had to learn so much of the course content on our own in lockdown with some online lessons\".\n\nThe disruption has caused \"a lot of anxiety\", but she would like exams to go ahead with reduced content because of pupils' time away from school.\n\n\"We've been studying to pass exams our whole time at secondary school... so it's not really the time to have a whole new method of assessment.\"\n\nShe said the most important thing was that \"right now... students know exactly what's going to happen next year.\"\n\nResults in summer 2020 descended into chaos after uproar about \"downgrading\" of teacher estimates, resulting in pupils being awarded grades given by their schools and colleges.\n\nMr Blaker said the watchdog \"could have done things differently\" but insisted he did not consider stepping down, like his English counterpart.\n\n\"I didn't consider it to be an error that would lead to me considering my position,\" he said.\n\nBut he acknowledged the row had dented trust.\n\n\"We know that we're in a position of having to rebuild confidence in the qualifications system and confidence in us as a regulator and we're committed to doing that.\n\n\"And that's why we're thinking very hard about different solutions for summer 2021.\"\n\nJohn Kendall, head teacher at Risca Community Comprehensive School, thinks GCSEs should be assessed by teachers throughout term\n\nMeanwhile, the head teacher of Risca Community Comprehensive School, John Kendall, does not want GCSE exams to go ahead.\n\nHe has written an open letter to the education minister, saying there should be a system of moderated teacher assessments for GCSE pupils throughout the term.\n\nHe said this would make things \"different\" but not \"easier\" for students, and would give them an incentive to keep working through any disruption to their schooling.\n\n\"I think Year 13 exams probably do need to take place in some form, supported by centre assessments,\" he added.\n\nHe also said students need clarity as soon as possible.\n\nNext summer's exams will go ahead in England and Northern Ireland, but the Scottish government said National 5 exams, equivalent to GCSEs, would be replaced by teacher assessments and coursework.\n\nThe Qualifications Wales chief executive said decisions in other parts of the UK would \"play into the thinking\" in order to make sure learners in Wales are not at a disadvantage.\n\nIn a Twitter video on Monday, Education Minister Kirsty Williams said she was waiting for important advice related to exams, including the findings of an independent review, and would make an announcement after the firebreak had ended and all year groups had returned to school.\n\nSome pupils will be sitting GCSEs in core subjects in November.\n\nPlaid Cymru said it would reiterate its call for the summer exams to be cancelled in a Senedd debate on the future of education.\n\n\"If it wasn't already apparent from the high numbers of pupils having to self-isolate, it should be clear from the announcement this week that the 2020-21 school year will be as equally - if not more - disrupted than the last academic year,\" said Siân Gwenllian MS.\n\n\"The Welsh Government must ensure that the A-level fiasco of summer 2020 is not repeated, by making an immediate statement that exams will not be held in summer 2021.\"", "The UK is \"ready to welcome the EU team\" to continue negotiations over a post-Brexit trade deal, says No 10.\n\nThe two sides' chief negotiators, Lord David Frost and Michel Barnier, spoke on the phone earlier after talks stalled last week.\n\nFollowing the conversation, Downing Street said the pair had \"jointly agreed a set of principles for handling this intensified phase of talks\".\n\nLord Frost said talks would begin again in London on Thursday.\n\nThe full statement from No 10 said it was \"clear that significant gaps remain between our positions in the most difficult areas\" and it was \"entirely possible that negotiations will not succeed\".\n\nBut, it added: \"We are ready, with the EU, to see if it is possible to bridge them in intensive talks.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Barnier said a deal would possible \"if we are both ready to work constructively and in a spirit of compromise over the next days, on the basis of legal texts. Time is short.\"\n\nBoth the UK and EU are calling on each other to compromise ahead of the looming December deadline for a deal.\n\nFrom 1 January 2021, the so-called transition period will be over, which has seen the UK continue to follow EU trading rules while a deal was negotiated.\n\nIf an agreement is not reached, the UK will move onto trade with the EU according to the default rules set by the World Trade Organization.\n\nKey areas of disagreement that remain between the two sides include fishing rights and post-Brexit competition rules.\n\nLord Frost said these \"intensive talks\" will take place \"every day\" while the two sides see if a deal can be done.\n\nYou could be forgiven for thinking that what we've witnessed over the past few days is a bit of political theatre.\n\nCover for the government - post chest-beating- to return to the negotiating table where they know the time has now come for tough compromises to be made.\n\nEU leaders also went out of their way to sound tough on Brexit at their summit last week. Privately, a number of EU figures now admit it was a misstep.\n\nBut EU leaders play to the domestic gallery too. They wanted to show they were \"standing up to the UK\" - that leaving the EU doesn't pay and that EU interests would be defended.\n\nThey accept they must compromise too now, if this trade and security deal with the UK has a chance of being agreed.\n\nTime is short and trust is in low supply.\n\nThe EU had previously set the end of October as a deadline to reach a deal, but Boris Johnson had pledged to walk away if it was not agreed by 15 October.\n\nThe day after the prime minister's deadline, Mr Johnson said it was time to \"get ready\" to leave without a deal, with No 10 going further by saying the talks were \"over\".\n\nA face-to-face meeting between the negotiators was cancelled for Monday and replaced by a phone call, which still left a stalemate between the two sides.\n\nBut Wednesday's conversation appeared to have been more fruitful.\n\nLord Frost (left) and Mr Barnier (right) have met several times since negotiations began in March\n\nNo 10 said Mr Barnier had \"acknowledged\" the UK's demands for the EU to be \"serious about talking intensively, on all issues, and bringing the negotiation to a conclusion\" and that he had accepted he was dealing with \"an independent and sovereign country\".\n\nIt also said the EU chief negotiator had accepted \"movement would be needed from both sides in the talks if agreement was to be reached\".\n\nThe statement added: \"On the basis of that conversation we are ready to welcome the EU team to London to resume negotiations later this week. We have jointly agreed a set of principles for handling this intensified phase of talks.\n\n\"It is clear that significant gaps remain between our positions in the most difficult areas, but we are ready, with the EU, to see if it is possible to bridge them in intensive talks.\"\n\nDowning Street reiterated its pledge to leave the transition period without a deal - or on \"Australian terms\" - and called on businesses and travellers to prepare \"since change is coming, whether an agreement is reached or not\".", "KeolisAmey has run Transport for Wales rail services since October 2018\n\nThe Transport for Wales rail service is to be brought under Welsh Government control from next February.\n\nMinisters have confirmed the takeover from KeolisAmey, with day-to-day services to be run by a publicly-owned company.\n\nIt follows significant falls in passenger numbers during the pandemic.\n\nThe Welsh Tories questioned how much nationalisation will cost taxpayers, while Plaid Cymru called for the Senedd to be recalled.\n\nEconomy Minister Ken Skates said the government had stepped in \"to stabilise the network and keep it running\".\n\n\"The last few months have been extremely challenging for public transport in Wales and across the UK. Covid has significantly impacted passenger revenues,\" he said.\n\nKeolisAmey was awarded the franchise in 2018, taking over from Arriva Trains Wales.\n\nIt covers most of Wales' trains - including key commuter services such as the Valley Lines.\n\nTransport for Wales will run Wales and Borders services from February\n\nThe financial risk of the Wales and Borders rail franchise, which is branded Transport for Wales (TfW), had already been taken over by taxpayers under a £65m agreement signed in May.\n\nBut from February next year KeolisAmey staff working on rail services will be transferred over to a publicly owned company, currently called Transport for Wales Rail Ltd.\n\nIt is happening under a part of railway law that allows for the creation of operators of \"last resort\".\n\nOfficials say the time gap between now and the start of the new operator will allow the Welsh Government to prepare the new operator for service.\n\nA part of the original agreement is staying - Amey Keolis Infrastructure Ltd will continue to be responsible for infrastructure on the Core Valley Lines, where the South Wales Metro upgrade is taking place.\n\nKeolis and Amey will also work with the Welsh Government quango Transport for Wales on improvements to the service - like rolling stock and ticketing.\n\nKevin Thomas, chief executive of KeolisAmey Wales, said: \"In light of Covid-19, we recognise the need for Welsh Government to have a sustainable way forward for delivering its ambitious objectives for rail.\"\n\nKeolisAmey took over from Arriva Trains Wales in 2018\n\nChallenged on the decision later on Thursday, Mr Skates told a Senedd committee that if the existing arrangements had continued it would have \"led to a collapse by the operator and a catastrophic transfer then to the operator of last resort [Transport for Wales Rail Ltd].\n\n\"What we're able to do now is manage a careful transition, which will take us through to February, and then beyond, with the establishment of TfW rail limited,\" he said.\n\nDeputy Transport Minister Lee Waters said: \"The whole business model collapsed in the face of Covid because the revenue was not coming in and Keolis in effect were not prepared to shoulder their share of the pain.\"\n\nAsked about the long-term costs of propping up the network, he said: \"It depends on Covid. We don't know.\"\n\nMinisters pledged to honour commitments worth more than £1bn to buy new trains and build the south Wales Metro.\n\n\"That will be delivered,\" Mr Skates said.\n\nJames Price, chief executive of Welsh Government quango Transport for Wales which oversaw the franchise and shared branding with it, said that rolling stock is \"on the way\" and \"in essence is paid for already\".\n\n\"What this allows us to do is to reduce the profit we pay to the private sector massively over time, and make sure that when the revenue comes back, it comes back in to the taxpayer.\"\n\nRussell George, economy spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives, said: \"Given the track record of the Welsh Labour-led Government, its decision to take control of our vital train industry has not filled me with any hope.\"\n\nHe said ministers should have consulted the Senedd on \"how much this decision is going to cost the Welsh taxpayer\".\n\n\"Eyebrows will be raised, too, on why any support is being left until February 2021,\" Mr George added.\n\nPlaid Cymru transport spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones said it \"could well be the right decision\", saying her party \"has always maintained that our railways should be brought into public hands and the government put passengers before profit\".\n\nBut she said there were \"crucial questions\" on financial implications and the nature of the subsidiary.\n\n\"Decisions of this importance should be announced in the Senedd so that members can ask questions on behalf of the people of Wales,\" she said.\n\nKeolisAmey already runs the Docklands Light Railway in London\n\nKeolisAmey is a joint-venture between two European companies, and was awarded the Wales and Borders franchise in May 2018 in a £5bn contract.\n\nIt was the first time the Welsh Government had awarded the franchise.\n\nKeolis is France's largest private sector public transport operator - but its major shareholder is state-owned French railway SNCF.\n\nAmey is a former one-time UK company owned by Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial.\n\nKeolisAmey took over services in October 2018. In January it emerged it had been fined £3.4m over the performance of services.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said: \"There is huge public support for public ownership because privatisation and profiteering has never been an efficient way to provide value for money, and this is even more the case when extra funding has been needed during the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nManuel Cortes, general secretary of the TSSA, said: \"This is a welcome and positive step from the Welsh Government, which will put our railways back in public hands and again shows the abject failure of privatisation.\"\n\nWe are told passengers will not notice the changeover. The same trains, staffed by the same drivers and conductors, will arrive at platforms.\n\nBut there are new risks for the taxpayer.\n\nTicket sales have plummeted. So in May the Welsh Government announced £65m and an emergency agreement to help the service cope.\n\nIn practice, that means almost all the financial risks associated with the railway are borne by the government.\n\nProfits and losses have moved from the private sector into the public sector.\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. Lord Sedwill discusses President Trump's leadership, Covid and whether Dominic Cummings should have quit\n\nThe UK didn't have the \"exact measures\" in place to deal with Covid, the ex-head of the civil service has said.\n\nLord Sedwill, who left his job last month, told the BBC there is \"a genuine question\" about whether the UK could have been \"better prepared\" for the pandemic.\n\nHe also said Dominic Cummings' journey to County Durham during lockdown had been a mistake.\n\nAnd he admitted to feeling \"troubled\" by attacks on the civil service.\n\nLord Sedwill stepped down as the UK's top civil servant following reports of tensions between him and senior members of Boris Johnson's team.\n\nThe former chief - then Sir Mark, now Lord Sedwill - with Boris Johnson after he became prime minister\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg he also talked about the \"ups and downs\" of President Trump's leadership and the UK's relationship with Russia and China.\n\nReflecting on the government's handling of coronavirus, he said: \"Although we had exercised and prepared for pandemic threats, we didn't have in place the exact measures, and we hadn't rehearsed the exact measures\" for the challenge Covid-19 presented.\n\n\"I think there is a genuine question about whether we could have been better prepared in the first place and that is obviously a very legitimate challenge.\"\n\nHe said any future inquiry would have to look at whether decisions were taken at the right time, if the lockdown was imposed fast enough and what capabilities the state had to deploy to tackle the virus.\n\nLord Sedwill, who contracted the virus himself, said he was \"really proud of a great deal that we did\" including setting up the Nightingale Hospitals.\n\nDominic Cummings said he did not regret driving 260 miles from his London home during the coronavirus lockdown\n\nIn May, the prime minister's chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, said he had acted \"reasonably\" when he drove to County Durham after his wife developed Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nAsked about the incident Lord Sedwill said that \"it was clearly a difficult moment for the government\".\n\n\"It was a mistake - whether everyone should quit every time they make a mistake, I don't think is right.\n\n\"But it clearly undermined the government's coherent narrative about people following the rules.\"\n\nIn his first interview since leaving one of the biggest jobs in the country, the man who was paid to give quiet careful advice is diplomatic with his language, certainly, but clear nonetheless.\n\nWhile he takes pride in some of the government's response to the pandemic, he said there is a genuine question about whether it could have been better prepared and admitted it lacked the \"exact measures\" for a disease of this kind.\n\nThe picture he gives of the heart of government in the most intense moments in the crisis is of a tense place, where ministers and officials were scrambling to keep up with a changing reality where the nation's health and economy were both genuinely in danger.\n\nAnd frankly, with all the uncertainty of handling a new disease, no-one could be quite sure of the right thing to do.\n\nFor all that ministers have fumed privately, and hinted publicly, he is adamant that the government coped fairly well during a once in a generation crisis, not withstanding \"genuine questions\" about just how prepared the UK really was.\n\nLord Sedwill also said he was \"troubled\" by attacks on the civil service and that speculation about his own future had been \"unpleasant\".\n\nCriticism of the civil service's integrity and capability was unfair, he said, while off-the-record briefings against senior civil servants, over Brexit and other issues, had been \"damaging\".\n\n\"It is damaging to good governance and those responsible should recognise the damage they're doing, even if they're indulging themselves in some short-term tactical ploy,\" he said.\n\nHe dismissed suggestions that the government's enthusiasm to reform the civil service had led to six civil servant heads stepping down, arguing that the truth was \"more complex\" than the departures being \"part of a campaign\".\n\n\"Governments want people they have confidence in, of course,\" he said.\n\n\"We go through periods of this kind when there's perceived to be an attack on the underlying values of the civil service but actually, those values and the institutions serving governments with impartiality have always prevailed and I'm confident they will continue to do so.\"\n\nCommenting on the forthcoming US presidential election he said that while American politics is \"pretty volatile\" the UK-US relationship is \"stable\".\n\n\"President Trump is a very unusual occupant of that office in his personal style and the way he articulates the US position but the underlying alliance is based on much more than the individual relationships at the top.\n\n\"You have some ups and downs sometimes at the political level but the fundamentals are really strong in my view.\"\n\nHe praised the Trump administration for its diplomatic efforts in the Middle East.\n\nHe also warned that the UK mustn't be \"naive\" when dealing with Russia and China\n\n\"I think when we've allowed the rhetoric to suggest that countries with very different political systems, essentially authoritarian political systems, are edging towards our values and viewing the world, then we've probably been mistaken and have overstated the natural alignment,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents gathered at Chinnor Community Church on Monday to remember the Powell family\n\nA man who survived a crash which killed his wife and three of their children says he feels an \"abundance of loss\".\n\nJosh Powell's wife Zoe, 29, died with Phoebe, eight, when their people carrier collided with a lorry in Oxfordshire.\n\nSimeon, six, and four-year old Amelia, died at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, where their father and 18-month-old sister Penny remain.\n\nIn a tribute to his family, Mr Powell said he faced an \"uncertain future\".\n\nThe crash happened on the A40, near a railway bridge between Oxford and Cassington, on 12 October.\n\nZoe Powell and her three eldest children died in the crash\n\nMr Powell, from Chinnor, said: \"As I look to an uncertain future, I reflect on the fun that we had as a family, with feelings of sadness that it was cut so short.\n\n\"Before the adventure of starting a family nobody truly knows what to expect.\n\n\"All of life's preconceptions and what we see in the world around us meant that life as a family man was so much better than I expected it to be.\n\n\"I had been blessed with four wonderful children, whose thirst for life and hunger of adventure kept me busy but in the best possible way.\"\n\nThe 30-year-old described Phoebe as the \"model of her mother but with a thirst to always know more\" and that she was \"clever and able to make great jumps of imagination - her great creations in Lego are testament to this\".\n\nHe said Simeon \"was just like his father, with a mischievous sense of humour [and] a keen sportsman\" who had been shortly due to play his first football match.\n\nAmelia was \"kind and spirited\", he said, with a \"tenderness and thoughtfulness much more advanced than her years\".\n\nHe added: \"Myself and Zoe were as different as we were alike. Despite the frequent tensions this would bring, it was of immense benefit having such differing world views.\n\n\"Zoe was a dreamer; with a head spinning of new things to do or tales to tell. More than anything, we made a great partnership to raise a family.\"\n\nMrs Powell, who had lived in Chinnor since the mid-2010s but was previously from Sheffield, was a blogger who wrote about motherhood, family life and the challenges of having young children.\n\nThe crash happened on the A40, between Oxford and Cassington\n\nThe deaths came just months after the family lost everything in a blaze at their home.\n\nMr Powell thanked well-wishers for the support now that he had lost his \"immediate nuclear family\" and said there were \"many battles to come\".\n\nA candlelit vigil was held in their home village on Monday evening for the family.\n\nThe 1st Chinnor Scout Troop, where Mr Powell is a leader, marched to the private vigil, while residents in the cul-de-sac where the family lived illuminated their houses with green lights to show support.\n\nJosh Powell says he faces an \"uncertain future\" following the loss of his wife and three older children\n\nA JustGiving page set up by a railway worker colleague of Mr Powell has raised more than £120,000.\n\nThe 56-year-old driver of the lorry involved in the crash suffered minor injuries.\n\nNo arrests have been made, police 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. Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner is rebuked after making the comment\n\nLabour's deputy leader has apologised for using the word \"scum\" during a debate over coronavirus restrictions.\n\nAngela Rayner made the comment in the Commons on Wednesday during a speech by Tory MP Chris Clarkson.\n\nThe MP questioned her remark, while the deputy speaker reprimanded her for her language.\n\nMs Rayner has now issued a statement, saying: \"I apologise for the language that I used in a heated debate in Parliament earlier.\"\n\nThe debate was brought to the Commons by Labour, to discuss \"fair economic support\" for areas of England being moved into tier three restrictions - also known as the \"very high\" Covid alert level.\n\nMs Rayner, who represents Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, opened the debate, speaking about her aunt who had recently died from the virus.\n\nLater, Mr Clarkson - also a Greater Manchester MP - gave a speech saying he was \"genuinely worried about the people and businesses we serve\".\n\nBut he criticised the area's Metro Mayor Andy Burnham and accused the Labour Party of \"opportunism\".\n\nAt this point, Ms Rayner was overheard saying scum from her seat on Labour's frontbench.\n\nShe was then rebuked by the Deputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing.\n\n\"We will not have remarks like that - not under any circumstances,\" said Dame Eleanor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Controllers at Lockheed Martin celebrate the touch and go\n\nAmerica's Osiris-Rex spacecraft has completed its audacious tag-and-go manoeuvre designed to grab surface rock from an asteroid.\n\nRadio signals from 330 million km away confirm the probe made contact with the 500m-wide object known as Bennu.\n\nBut the Nasa-led mission will have to wait on further data from Osiris-Rex before it's known for sure that material was actually picked up.\n\nThe aim was to acquire at least 60g, perhaps even a kilo or more.\n\nBecause Bennu is a very primitive space object, scientists say its surface grit and dust could hold fascinating clues about the chemistry that brought the Sun and the planets into being more than 4.5 billion years ago.\n\n\"The team is exuberant; emotions are high; everyone is really proud,\" said principal investigator Dante Lauretta from the University of Arizona, Tucson.\n\n\"This was the key milestone of this mission. Now it's a few days to figure out how much of this amazing sample we got that we've been thinking about for decades,\" added Thomas Zurbuchen, Nasa's associate administrator for science.\n\nBoth men were following events from mission control at spacecraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin.\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 NASA 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\nAssuming there is a suitable sample safely aboard, the probe will be able to package it for return to Earth, scheduled for 2023.\n\nIf not, the mission team will have to configure Osiris-Rex for another go.\n\nThe spacecraft made its sample bid in a narrow patch of northern terrain on Bennu dubbed Nightingale.\n\nThe probe descended slowly to the 8m-wide target zone over a period of four-and-a-half hours, squeezing past some imposing boulders on the way, including a two-storey-high block that had been dubbed Mount Doom.\n\nOsiris-Rex used what some have described as a \"reverse vacuum cleaner\" to make its surface grab.\n\nMore properly called the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or Tag-Sam, this device is a long boom with a ring-shaped collection chamber on the end.\n\nThe idea was to push the ring into the surface and at the same moment express a stream of nitrogen gas to kick up small fragments of rock.\n\nSensors on Osiris-Rex reported back to mission controllers that all the actions in the sampling sequence had been completed successfully, and that the spacecraft had backed away from Bennu as planned after a few seconds of contact.\n\nBut the science and engineering team will need time to assess what exactly might have been caught in the collection chamber.\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 OSIRIS-REx Mission 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\nOne way to do this is to photograph the ring head. This will be done in the coming days.\n\nBut controllers will also command the spacecraft to spin itself around with the boom and Tag-Sam ring outstretched. Any extra mass on board will change the amount of torque required to turn the probe, compared with the amount needed to perform the same rotation exercise prior to sample acquisition.\n\nThis measurement technique will give a quantity precise to within a few 10s of grams.\n\nThe Tag-Sam during testing at Lockheed Martin prior to Osiris-Rex's launch in 2016\n\nOsisris-Rex took pictures all the way through its descent but could not send any of these home at the time because its high-gain antenna was not pointed at Earth.\n\nOnce the probe has re-established this connection, the data can be downlinked.\n\n\"Those images are going to tell us an enormous amount of information about how the events of today went,\" said Prof Lauretta. \"For one thing they will tell us about the likelihood of sample collection, a kind of probabilistic assessment.\"\n\nNasa promises to release some of these pictures on Wednesday.\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 Jim Bridenstine 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\nNumerous scientists, including in the UK, are hoping to get the chance to analyse any materials brought back from Bennu - among them Sara Russell from London's Natural History Museum.\n\n\"Asteroids like Bennu formed in the very, very earliest times of the Solar System. They are basically the building blocks of the planets - a time capsule that will tell us how the Sun and the planets came into being and evolved. Bennu can really help us to drill down into how that process actually happens,\" she told BBC News.\n\nBennu contains chemistry preserved from the dawn of the Solar System", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: FM wants to avoid Manchester lockdown situation\n\nNicola Sturgeon has insisted she will have the final say on local Covid-19 restrictions in different parts of Scotland, saying \"the buck stops here\".\n\nThe Scottish first minister said she would not \"offload\" decisions about local alert levels onto councils.\n\nA lengthy row has played out between UK ministers and leaders in Manchester over imposing stricter rules there.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was her \"driving ambition\" not to repeat this when a new multi-tier system begins in Scotland.\n\nShe said the government would \"consult and be as collaborative as possible\", but would ultimately make the decisions and would not be getting into \"standoffs\".\n\nSome 2.8 million people in Greater Manchester were left in limbo for more than a week during talks between ministers, mayors and MPs over whether the region would move into the top tier of England's Covid alert system.\n\nThe talks broke down after 10 days amid disagreements over financial support, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has now confirmed the region will be placed in the \"very high\" alert level from Friday even without a deal.\n\nScotland is due to implement its own multi-tier system of restrictions after a set of short-term measures expires later in October.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she made no criticism of anyone involved in the \"tough decisions\" in Manchester, but said she would be aiming to avoid such a dispute.\n\nThe UK government has been in a standoff with local leaders in Greater Manchester over Covid-19 restrictions\n\nThe first minister said: \"I believe it's really important that the buck for these difficult decisions stops here, with me and government.\n\n\"We are asking people to do extraordinary things right now, and it's not fair for me and the government to try to offload those onto other people, be it local authorities or health boards.\n\n\"We have to consult and be as collaborative as possible - we will absolutely be engaging with local authorities. And as we take decisions about which levels apply in which parts of the country we will want that to be collaborative.\n\n\"But ultimately we have to be able to take the decisions.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government was \"not in a position to get into standoffs over money\", stressing the \"finite resources\" available to her.\n\nShe said: \"What we are trying to do is give as much clarity and certainty as we can, have as much collaboration and discussion with those that need to be involved in these decisions as we can, not shy away from responsibility and ultimately me bearing the accountability for these decisions, and retaining a degree of flexibility in the face of an infectious virus.\n\n\"That is the balance we are trying to strike.\"\n\nPubs in Scotland's central belt have been shut down by the current set of short-term restrictions\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon also hinted that the current short-term restrictions on bars and restaurants - which are chiefly focused on the central belt - could be extended for another week until the multi-tier system has been signed off by MSPs.\n\nRules clamping down on the hospitality trade are due to expire on 26 October, but MSPs will not vote on the government's \"strategic framework\" before then as Holyrood is in recess.\n\nThe first minister is to discuss the restrictions with her cabinet on Wednesday.\n\nAsked if the current measures would be extended to cover the gap, she said: \"If you look at the numbers across the central belt right now and the sequencing over the next week of moving to a new system, you might expect it might make sense from a public health point of view to see that rolled over.\n\n\"That is one option cabinet is looking at tomorrow.\n\n\"The regulations currently expire on Monday, so another option would be for that to be allowed to happen - we will look at the data and I will give the outcome of that tomorrow.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon is to hold talks with opposition party leaders about the next steps on Tuesday afternoon, including Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross.\n\nThe Tory MP said he would \"look at everything as constructively as possible\", but said there had been a \"lack of clear guidance\" from the Scottish government to firms.\n\nHe said: \"When they were given just 50 hours' notice to introduce these further restrictions, what was the guidance from the Scottish government to businesses about how they could change and adapt to make sure they could open again safely?\n\n\"It seems nothing has happened, nothing has been developed in that area and businesses are once again hearing through the daily briefing that these restrictions may last far longer.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Barnsley town centre react to tier three restrictions being announced\n\nSouth Yorkshire will move into tier three from 00.01 on Saturday, meaning 7.3 million people in England will be living under the toughest Covid rules.\n\nSheffield City region mayor Dan Jarvis said the move followed \"extensive discussions\" with ministers.\n\nThe rules will apply to all council areas in South Yorkshire - Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.\n\nGreater Manchester will be placed in the same tier on Friday, against local leaders' wishes.\n\nUnder tier three - England's \"very high\" level of alert which is already in place in Lancashire and Liverpool City Region - pubs and bars that do not serve substantial meals have to close, and there are further restrictions on households mixing.\n\nAdditional rules in South Yorkshire include the closure of betting shops, adult gaming centres, casinos, soft play centres and gym classes - though gyms will remain open.\n\nMeanwhile, Coventry is to move to tier two from midnight on Friday, the city council has said, which will prevent households from mixing in homes and hospitality venues.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to make an announcement relating to support for workers and businesses affected by tier two restrictions in the House of Commons on Thursday.\n\nBBC economics editor Faisal Islam said the government is understood to have acknowledged the reality that there are three tiers of pandemic shutdowns but only two tiers of support, with some firms suffering a collapse in business without being able to benefit from the Job Support Scheme.\n\nIt comes as a further 26,688 new coronavirus cases were recorded on Wednesday, while another 191 people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt is the highest ever number of recorded daily cases. However, mass testing was not available during the peak of the pandemic, when daily cases were estimated to have reached as many as 100,000.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar told MPs there have been more than 12,000 cases in South Yorkshire so far in October - more than in July, August and September combined - while the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care has reached more than half that seen at the height of the pandemic.\n\nHe said he was aware the measures would \"entail further sacrifice\", but \"bearing down hard\" would help to slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\nDoncaster's infection rate was 316 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending 17 October, compared to 370 in Rotherham, 395 in Sheffield and 415 in Barnsley.\n\nLocal leaders in South Yorkshire have agreed to a financial package of £41m, which includes £30m to support the region's businesses and £11m for local authorities to support public health measures like contact tracing.\n\nMr Jarvis said it was the \"responsible route\" and that \"inaction was not an option\" after its hospital admissions doubled in 10 days.\n\nHe insisted he had \"moved heaven and earth to secure the maximum amount\" of support for the region, which he said would help to reduce the re-infection rate and pressure on the NHS, while supporting the local economy.\n\nIt comes a day after new restrictions were imposed on Greater Manchester after talks with local leaders, who had called for at least £65m, broke down.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the £60m offered to Greater Manchester to support businesses and workers affected by the new restrictions would be distributed to the region's boroughs.\n\nWe all knew it was coming. But I was still surprised when the announcement leapt into my inbox at 09:02 BST this morning.\n\nOver a million people in South Yorkshire are to go into tier three on Saturday. The phone started ringing and it hasn't stopped yet.\n\nAgreed - or imposed? It depends who you talk to. It has been signed off by South Yorkshire but it doesn't mean all the leaders are happy about how it happened.\n\nChris Read, the Rotherham Council leader, is angrier than I've ever seen him.\n\nHe says it wasn't a negotiation at all - just the government telling South Yorkshire what it was prepared to offer. His point is if that was the case, why not do it a week earlier?\n\nMiriam Cates, the Conservative Penistone and Stocksbridge MP, says it's a fair deal and heaped praise on Labour mayor Dan Jarvis.\n\nWe're all digesting how it will affect us day to day. People will be working out how to run their businesses, provide childcare and take care of their mental health.\n\nA review is coming in 28 days but there is no magic number for when an area comes out of tier three.\n\nPeople in South Yorkshire are being asked to bear the toughest restrictions, without knowing when they'll end.\n\nThe government's three-tier strategy of regional measures is designed to avoid a national lockdown.\n\nAny areas in tier three will have its status reviewed after 28 days, the prime minister said.\n\nThe simplest way for areas to get out of those restrictions was to get the reproduction number, the rate at which the virus is spreading, down to one or below, Boris Johnson told MPs. Rates of admission to hospital and other data would also be taken into account, he added.\n\nMr Jarvis said it would be \"very challenging\" for his region to come out of tier three in 28 days \"given the pressures of winter\", but urged people to renew their efforts to ensure all local authorities had a \"fighting chance\" of coming out by then.\n\nOther areas in tier two but known to be in discussions about tighter restrictions are West Yorkshire, the North East, Teesside and Nottinghamshire.\n\nTalks between council leaders and No 10 about moving the North East into tier three have been \"paused\" following a fall in the region's infection rate over the past week.\n\nDavid Mellen, leader of Nottingham City Council, said no \"serious conversations\" have been scheduled with ministers or senior civil servants, but he would expect any economic deal to be as good as other areas have received.\n\nJamie Hawksworth, who owns the Sheffield Tap, said he saw the new restrictions coming - but that won't lessen the impact.\n\n\"I think I speak for most of my staff, and certainly the management team, that it's devastating. We've had the entire business pulled from under us.\"\n\nHe added that the knock-on effect would be fewer orders for local breweries, abattoirs and other suppliers.\n\nMeanwhile, Prof John Edmunds, a scientist advising the government, warned there was \"very little chance\" that Covid-19 would be eradicated.\n\nHe told two MPs' committees that people would have to learn to live with the virus \"forever more\" but it was an \"almost certainty\" that a vaccine could be ready in the \"not-too-distant future\", possibly towards the end of winter.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? 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. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Greater Manchester is set to move to the highest Covid-19 alert level\n\nA £60m support package for businesses affected by new coronavirus restrictions in Greater Manchester will be distributed across the region.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed the government will be giving the extra funding as the region goes into the highest tier on Friday.\n\nThe move follows a breakdown in talks with local leaders who requested £90m but lowered their demand to £65m.\n\nLabour Mayor Andy Burnham told ITV News he has \"no regrets for taking a stand\".\n\n\"This wasn't a negotiation, this was basically bulldozed through and we took a stand,\" the Greater Manchester mayor said.\n\n\"So no regrets for taking that stand because the point is they were imposing an arbitrary formula one-by-one on places.\"\n\nGreater Manchester is the first area to be forced into tier three, England's highest level of alert, against the wishes of local leaders.\n\nThe £65m figure was described by Mr Burnham as the \"bare minimum to prevent a winter of real hardship\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson clash on the money offered to regions in the coronavirus crisis\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Question Time, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised Mr Johnson for not being able to \"find\" £5m, adding \"stop bargaining with people's lives\".\n\n\"I think the Prime Minister has crossed a Rubicon here,\" he said.\n\n\"Not just with the miserly way he's treated Greater Manchester but in the grubby 'take it or leave' way these local deals are being done - it's corrosive to public trust.\"\n\nBut Mr Johnson said he was \"very proud that this government has already given Greater Manchester £1.1bn in support for business, £200m in extra un-ringfenced funding, £50m to tackle infections in care homes, £20m for test and trace, another £22m for local response that we announced yesterday\".\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick has since written to the region's council leaders inviting them \"to work with us at pace to design their business support schemes\".\n\nHe added that this will \"ensure the funding reaches the people and businesses who need it\".\n\nThe Conservative leader of Bolton Council said he is willing to look at an individual deal over the government's offer of £60m.\n\nThe government's three-tier strategy of regional measures is designed to avoid a national lockdown\n\nDavid Greenhalgh said: \"It is clear the amount on the table, which is what has been accepted in Liverpool [City Region], Lancashire and now South Yorkshire, and I am not prepared for Bolton businesses to miss out on this extra financial help.\n\n\"This is not the time for posturing and politics. This is about getting the best deal available for Bolton business and those who work in the sectors worst affected.\"\n\nMeanwhile Manchester's night time economy adviser Sacha Lord has started the process to launch a legal challenge of the government's decision to put the region into the top tier.\n\nHe tweeted: \"Last night we started the judicial review into the legality of implementing emergency restrictions on Greater Manchester's hospitality sector, without scientific evidence.\"\n\nHe said a \"pre-action letter has been filed\" and he is waiting for a response from Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\nAndy Burnham said he hoped to set a Covid-19 funding template for other areas to use\n\nAfter talks broke down between local leaders and the government, six Tory MPs wrote to Mr Burnham accusing him of putting his \"ego\" above the people of Greater Manchester.\n\nOldham Council leader Sean Fielding said: \"It wasn't just Andy Burnham that rejected the offer of £60m, it was collectively the 10 council leaders and Andy Burnham.\"\n\n\"£60m was not enough and it remains not enough,\" added the Labour councillor.\n\nThe Labour leader of Bury Council Eamonn O'Brien also responded to the letter, saying: \"This is about our collective fight to get the best possible deal for our businesses and residents, especially those on the lowest pay.\"\n\nBut Mr Burnham said \"we asked for £90m - which is the cost of an 80% furlough & self-employed scheme\".\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 Andy Burnham 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\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The students were fined after officers spotted a house party in Kimbolton Avenue\n\nFour university students have been fined £10,000 each after telling police who broke up their house party they were \"spoiling their fun\".\n\nOfficers on patrol spotted a party in Lenton, Nottingham, on Tuesday night but were told everyone had left.\n\nBut inside they found more than 30 people hiding and, when challenged, organisers complained they should be having the \"time of their lives\".\n\nNottingham Trent University said the third-year students had been suspended.\n\nMixing of households indoors has been banned since Nottingham went into tier two restrictions on 14 October.\n\nOn Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said talks over moving Nottinghamshire into tier three were \"ongoing\" but the city council's leader said no discussions had started.\n\nNottingham had the highest level of infection in England for nine days running, with many of the cases centring on areas with a high student population.\n\nPolice said after being told the party in Kimbolton Avenue had ended, officers found people hiding in the kitchen, upstairs bedrooms and basement.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kate Meynell said the people at the property had shown a \"blatant disregard for the safety of those around them\".\n\n\"This needs to stop. The claims that police presented as a barrier to the students' fun are astounding,\" she said.\n\n\"How many fines do we have to give before the message is understood? We do not take pleasure in handing out fines and would much rather be in a situation where students could enjoy themselves but the reality is that if people do not follow the Covid-19 restrictions, more people will die.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Nottingham Trent University said: \"Any student who is found to have breached our disciplinary regulations can face a range of sanctions, up to and including expulsion.\"\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate for Nottingham has dropped again compared to the same time a week earlier.\n\nIn the seven days up to 18 October there were 2,012 new cases, down from 3,085 in the previous weekly period.\n\nThe rate of infection per 100,000 people has also gone down from 926.7 in the week up to 11 October to 604.4.\n\nFor a third day, the city has the second highest rate in England, behind Knowsley in Merseyside.\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. More than a dozen people have been evacuated from nearby properties\n\nTwo people have been killed in a suspected gas explosion at a shop in west London, firefighters have said.\n\nThe blast happened in a hair salon and mobile phone shop on King Street, Southall, just after 06:30 BST.\n\nFour adults and a child are known to have been rescued by the London Fire Brigade (LFB).\n\nEarlier, the Metropolitan Police said one man was found injured. The blast is not being treated as suspicious, the force said.\n\nThe explosion has damaged the Dr Phone shop and the Chandla Hair Salon on King Street\n\nStation Commander Paul Morgan said: \"Our crews continue to search the property using specialist equipment including the use of urban search-and-rescue dogs.\n\n\"We can confirm that sadly two people have died at the scene.\n\n\"The explosion caused substantial damage to the shop and structural damage throughout.\n\n\"It is a painstaking and protracted incident with firefighters working systematically to stabilise the building and search for people involved.\"\n\nLondon Fire Brigade sent about 40 firefighters to the scene\n\nLFB said search and rescue operations have finished for the evening and will restart in the morning.\n\nJatinder Sing, the owner of Dr Phone, said he was in \"total shock\" when he received a call about the blast.\n\nThe 36-year-old said: \"They have closed off everything. It seems like an explosion of a gas cylinder and there is a flat upstairs and my shop is downstairs.\n\n\"I was shocked because my shop looks totally dead, finished and the same with the barber.\n\n\"I can't see anything from where I am standing apart from the the shutter and the main door, which is all trashed.\n\n\"I have lost my everything. We were struggling from the coronavirus period as well - too much stock in the shop and no sales for a long time so I don't know how we will survive.\"\n\nRescuers are involved in a \"complex\" search for anyone who might still be inside the collapsed building\n\nResident Nurmila Hamid who lives nearby said she felt the blast as she was getting her children ready for school.\n\nThe 38-year-old said: \"The house shook, and I turned to my husband and said 'what is that?'\n\n\"And he said, 'It's a blast' and he went to look after taking the children to school - he said it was at a phone shop.\"\n\nMohammad Rafiq, 78, who lives two streets away, said he and his 76-year-old wife felt \"shocked\" and \"scared\" when the noise from the King Street blast woke them at their home.\n\nHe said: \"I heard it in the morning - it woke me up, it was scary. It sounded like a very dangerous blast so I was scared.\n\n\"We didn't sleep after that.\"\n\nSixteen people are known to have been evacuated from nearby properties\n\nI have counted 25 firefighters here sifting through the wreckage on King Street with the police this morning.\n\nThe explosion has also shut off a number of streets, with the police on the scene to prevent people approaching the scene.\n\nIt is a clear scene of devastation of several shops and flats, which the London Fire Brigade have called a \"structural collapse\". Sadly, it looks as though the explosion may have claimed a few lives.\n\nA further 14 adults and two children evacuated themselves from nearby properties after the blast.\n\nLFB was called at 06:38 and sent about 40 firefighters to the scene. It advised people to avoid the King Street area while the search continues.\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said paramedics had treated and discharged one person.\n\nEaling Council said it had switched off the electricity and gas supply to some homes and businesses in the area and warned more properties might need to be evacuated.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.", "Promotional image for The Chop featuring Rick Edwards, Lee Mack and carpenter William Hardie\n\nA TV contest for carpenters has been pulled from Sky schedules over concerns about one of its contestant's tattoos.\n\nOne participant, Darren Lumsden, was accused of having a Nazi symbol on his face after the Sky History channel posted a clip from the show online.\n\nThe channel initially said the tattoos had \"no political or ideological meaning whatsoever\".\n\nHowever it then said it would not air the programme until it had investigated their \"nature and meaning\".\n\nThe Chop: Britain's Top Woodworker, hosted by Lee Mack and Rick Edwards, began on Thursday, with the second episode due to be aired this Thursday.\n\nThe series sees 10 contestants compete over nine weeks of carpentry challenges.\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 Sky HISTORY 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 promotional clip, Mr Lumsden, from North Somerset, is seen with the number 88 inked on his cheek. As H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, the number can be used by white supremacists as numerical code for \"Heil Hitler\".\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Sky History said his tattoos denoted \"significant events in his life and have no political or ideological meaning whatsoever\". It said the number 88 on Mr Lumsden's cheek referred to 1988, the year of his father's death.\n\nViewers also raised concerns about some of his other markings, claiming they included other numerals that could be associated with white supremacist slogans.\n\nIrish historian Elizabeth Boyle wrote on Twitter that she could see at least five potential Nazi and white power tattoos on his face.\n\nIn its initial statement, the channel said producers had carried out \"extensive background checks\" on all contestants and \"confirmed Darren has no affiliations or links to racist groups, views or comments\". It added: \"Any use of symbols or numbers is entirely incidental and not meant to cause harm or offence.\"\n\nHowever, that statement was deleted and a separate announcement said: \"While we further investigate the nature, and meaning, of Darren's tattoos, we have removed the video featuring him from our social media pages, and will not be broadcasting any episodes of The Chop: Britain's Top Woodworker until we have concluded that investigation.\n\n\"Sky History stands against racism and hate speech of all kinds.\"\n\nMr Lumsden has not responded to BBC requests for comment. Speaking to the Bristol Post about his tattoos in an article published on Monday, before the furore erupted, he said: \"I have my daughter on the back of my head and my son on my cheek.\n\n\"When some people first meet me they are a bit shocked, admittedly. But they soon warm to me after a few minutes.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The restrictions rollover will continue into the start of November\n\nBars and restaurants in Scotland's central belt are to remain closed for another week after short-term Covid-19 restrictions were extended.\n\nThe move comes as a further 28 deaths linked to the virus were recorded.\n\nScotland is due to move to a five-tier system of virus alert levels from 2 November.\n\nThe temporary restrictions targeting hospitality venues in the central belt in particular will continue until then to enable a \"smooth transition\".\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it would \"not be safe\" to ease any restrictions in the short term, but said \"we believe they may already be making a difference\" to the spread of the virus.\n\nBusiness and hospitality leaders said they were \"extremely disappointed\" with the extension, which they described as a \"hammer blow to pubs and breweries across the country\".\n\nBars and restaurants in Scotland's central belt - an area containing about 3.4m people - were closed on 9 October as part of what Ms Sturgeon called a \"short, sharp action to arrest a worrying increase in infection\".\n\nHospitality venues in other parts of the country can only serve alcohol outdoors.\n\nThese measures were originally meant to expire on 26 October, but Ms Sturgeon said they would now continue until a new \"strategic framework\" comes into force.\n\nThis multi-tier system will involve different levels of restrictions that can be applied nationally or regionally depending on the level of infection. It is due to be published on Friday, and debated by MSPs after Holyrood's half term recess.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had agreed with her cabinet on Wednesday that the short-term restrictions should remain in place in the interim to ensure a \"smooth transition to the new system\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the rise in infections was \"clearly concerning\" but insisted restrictions were having an effect\n\nBusiness groups hit out at the move, with Liz Cameron of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce saying the hospitality sector in particular would be \"absolutely devastated that restrictions now look to be in place indefinitely\".\n\nJoe Crawford from the Campaign for Real Ale group said the move was a \"hammer blow\" to pubs and breweries \"who feel like they're being offered up as a sacrificial lamb without sufficient evidence\".\n\nAnd Andrew McRae from the Federation of Small Businesses said the current measures had a \"disproportionate\" impact on smaller firms, adding: \"This new strategy must have meaningful input from the business community.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the move was \"first and foremost a public health decision\", having earlier set out rising numbers of cases, people being treated in hospitals, and deaths.\n\nMeanwhile, and figures from the National Records of Scotland said Covid-19 had been mentioned on 75 death certificates in the week to Sunday, an increase of 50 on the week before.\n\nIn her briefing, the first minister set out details of how the new five-tier system will work, saying the middle three would be \"broadly equivalent\" to the three-tier system in use in England.\n\nThe Scottish system will add an extra tier at the bottom - which Ms Sturgeon said will be \"the closest to normality we can reasonably expect to live with until we have a vaccine\" - and one at the top.\n\nShe said: \"When England published their system the chief medical officer at the time said he thought the top level was not enough to necessarily, in all circumstances, get the virus down.\n\n\"We think we need one above that, not identical to but perhaps close to a full lockdown, if things got to be that serious.\"\n\nBars and restaurants in Scotland's central belt were closed on 9 October\n\nThe new five-tier framework will include details of financial support for businesses hit by enforced closures, which Ms Sturgeon said will be \"broadly similar\" to that on offer in other parts of the UK.\n\nShe said: \"While the level of support we set out will be the maximum that the Scottish government is able to provide within the resources available to us, it is the minimum we think is necessary.\n\n\"In common with other devolved administrations and many councils in England we will continue to pursue urgent discussions with the Treasury about provision of adequate support to help businesses and individuals through the restrictions likely to be necessary in the time ahead.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the continuing rise in infections and deaths was \"clearly concerning\", but she believed it \"should not be taken as an indication that the current restrictions we are living under are not having any impact\".\n\nShe said: \"We do believe these restrictions will make a difference, and we believe they may already be making a difference. Even allowing for today's figures, we may be seeing a reduction in the rate at which new cases are increasing.\"\n\nHospitality owners have protested about the current curbs\n\nThe first minister discussed the new strategic framework with opposition party leaders on Tuesday.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said the government must stop \"stalling\" and get support to businesses, saying they had been given \"barely any notice\" of the changes.\n\nLeader Douglas Ross said: \"There's a very real risk that the SNP take so long to get support out to these businesses that it will too little, too late. Promises of support sometime in the future won't protect Scottish jobs today.\"\n\nScottish Labour's Richard Leonard said Ms Sturgeon's administration \"must take the right action to control the virus\" as positive cases, hospital patients and deaths increase.\n\nHe added that it was \"clear\" that the test and protect system was not working \"well enough\" to contain the virus, saying: \"We need the government to step up and ensure our testing and tracing system is fit for purpose\".\n\nLib Dem leader Willie Rennie said he was worried about \"how things are developing\" and said the government needed to \"get on top of this situation\" if the virus was going to be curbed.\n\nHe said: \"We have had four strategies in three weeks, starting with the route map then the 16 days of restrictions that has now turned into 23 days, and we will have the new strategy announced on Friday. It doesn't look like we're in control of the situation.\"", "Half of all work tasks will be handled by machines by 2025 in a shift likely to worsen inequality, a World Economic Forum report has forecast.\n\nThe think tank said a \"robot revolution\" would create 97 million jobs worldwide but destroy almost as many, leaving some communities at risk.\n\nRoutine or manual jobs in administration and data processing were most at threat of automation, WEF said.\n\nBut it said new jobs would emerge in care, big data and the green economy.\n\nThe Forum's research spanned 300 of the world's biggest companies, who between them employ eight million people around the world.\n\nMore than 50% of employers surveyed said they expected to speed up the automation of some roles in their companies, while 43% felt they were likely to cut jobs due to technology.\n\nWEF said the pandemic had sped up the adoption of new technologies as firms looked to cut costs and adopt new ways of working. But it warned workers now faced a double threat from \"accelerating automation and the fallout from the Covid-19 recession\".\n\n\"[These things have] deepened existing inequalities across labour markets and reversed gains in employment made since the global financial crisis in 2007-2008,\" said Saadia Zahidi, managing director at WEF.\n\n\"It's a double disruption scenario that presents another hurdle for workers in this difficult time. The window of opportunity for proactive management of this change is closing fast.\"\n\nWEF said currently around a third of all work tasks were handled by machines, with humans doing the rest, but by 2025 the balance would shift.\n\nRoles that relied on human skills such as advising, decision-making, reasoning, communicating and interacting would rise in demand. There would also be a \"surge\" in demand for workers to fill green economy jobs, and new roles in areas like engineering and cloud computing.\n\nBut it said millions of routine or manual jobs would be displaced by technology, affecting the lowest paid, lowest skilled workers the most.\n\nIt said millions would need to be re-skilled to cope with the change, while governments would have to provide \"stronger safety nets\" for displaced workers.", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nPremier League champions Liverpool were helped by an own goal from Nicolas Tagliafico to get off to a winning start in the Champions League against Ajax.\n\nJurgen Klopp's injury-hit side, who were without talisman Virgil van Dijk, were tested by Ajax but did enough to leave Amsterdam with a clean sheet.\n\nTagliafico sliced Sadio Mane's cross into his own net with 10 minutes of the first half remaining, moments after Liverpool keeper Adrian denied Quincy Promes from close range.\n\nLiverpool's Fabinho then acrobatically cleared Dusan Tadic's lob off the line, before Davy Klaassen's powerful effort bounced off the inside of the post in the second half.\n\nThe Reds, who also face Atalanta and Midtjylland in Group D, were returning to Europe as English champions for the first time since 1984-85.\n• None Who will win the Champions League?\n\nAll eyes were on Liverpool's defence in the absence of Van Dijk and the injured Joel Matip.\n\nBrazilian midfielder Fabinho, who started at centre-back in the victory over Chelsea last month, lined up alongside Joe Gomez in defence, while Adrian continued to deputise for number one keeper Alisson.\n\nThere were nerves early-on - Gomez and Adrian had a mix-up which resulted in the keeper clearing it against the England international inside their own area within three minutes.\n\nAnd Ajax looked to exploit any weakness out of possession by dropping deep, encouraging Liverpool's defence to have the ball and forcing them to use Adrian as a passback option.\n\nThey had some success in the first half, as Liverpool rode periods of pressure - Fabinho had to produce a smart tackle to block Tadic, while Tagliafico almost escaped from Gomez before Adrian pushed him wide in the box.\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp reacted frantically on the touchline, waving his arms and shouting at his players as he demanded more urgency and communication.\n\nBut as the game wore on, Liverpool looked more comfortable out of possession, with midfielder James Milner dropping deep to provide added support.\n\nAdrian's smart save from Promes and Fabinho's goalline heroics ultimately proved crucial and Klopp will no doubt be delighted with a clean sheet and a win in their first group game of what has been a frustrating week for his squad.\n\nKlopp's tactics and rotation were put to the test in Amsterdam as he managed the injuries in defence with a weaker squad.\n\nLiverpool-born teenager Curtis Jones was handed a first European appearance in midfield, while Milner made his third start this season.\n\nIt meant Liverpool's well-practised defensive high line was more conservative and the front three of Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Mane were more reliant on opportunities on the break.\n\nThe goal came from nothing - Mane turning sharply in the box and scuffing his cross before getting a fortunate touch from Tagliafico - but Liverpool maintained that threat from the counter-attack throughout.\n\nKlopp, who gambled slightly with his midfield selection - leaving skipper Jordan Henderson on the bench - took another risk with the slim lead when he pulled all three of his forwards off on the hour.\n\nBut the risk paid off and as Ajax pushed for an equaliser, substitutes Diogo Jota and Takumi Minamino showed glimpses of quality and both had chances to score late-on.\n\n\"Fabinho was immense. Everything he did. He stepped into the play and broke things up, he stepped in at the right times when he knew there was a danger and headed everything that came into the box.\n\n\"What I liked about it was he didn't have the attitude of 'I have to be Virgil van Dijk, where I pull things down and play out from the back.' If it needs to go, it goes.\n\n\"He just dealt with situations comfortably and cleared his lines and that sounds really easy at times but it's knowing your limits and knowing how to play.\"\n\n'Good enough to win the game'\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, speaking to BT Sport: \"It was good enough to win the game. That's what you need. I think both teams could play better football. At moments it was wild. The pitch was deep and muddy. Three days ago it looked completely different and in training yesterday it looked different.\n\n\"But we did not take our chances which was a shame. Ajax had a big one which hit the post. When you're 1-0 up, these things can happen. But overall I'm happy with the game. It was not sunshine football but we wanted three points and we got it.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None Liverpool are unbeaten in their last seven away trips against Dutch opponents, keeping a clean sheet in five of those encounters (W4 D3).\n• None Ajax have won only one of their previous seven games against English opponents in European competition (D2 L4), remaining winless in the most recent four encounters since a 1-0 victory against Tottenham in the UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg in 2018/19.\n• None Liverpool kept just their second clean sheet in the Champions League since the start of last season, with the other coming in their last group stage game of 2019/20 at Red Bull Salzburg.\n• None Jurgen Klopp substituted Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mané and Robert Firmino in the same game for only the 5th occasion in his reign as Liverpool manager.\n• None Nicolas Tagliafico is the first Ajax player to score an own goal in the Champions League since Vurnon Anita against Real Madrid in September 2010. Indeed, it was only the second own goal Liverpool have benefited from in the Champions League after Deportivo de La Coruña's Jorge Andrade in November 2004.\n• None At 34 years and 291 days, James Milner became the 3rd oldest player to appear for Liverpool in the European Cup/Champions League, after Gary McAllister (37y 84d) and Ian Callaghan (35y 353d). In contrast, Curtis Jones became the 5th youngest Champions League outfielder to start for Liverpool (19y 265d).\n\nLiverpool return to Premier League action on Saturday, 24 October (20:00 BST kick-off) when they host Sheffield United at Anfield. They next face Midtjylland in the Champions League on Tuesday, 27 October (20:00 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Jurgen Ekkelenkamp (Ajax) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Attempt blocked. Xherdan Shaqiri (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Takumi Minamino.\n• None Quincy Promes (Ajax) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri.\n• None Attempt saved. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Diogo Jota.\n• None Attempt saved. Lassina Traoré (Ajax) with an attempt from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Klaas Jan Huntelaar with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Ryan Gravenberch (Ajax) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How effective is it for weight loss?", "GCSE exams due to take place in early November have been postponed for almost two weeks.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir made the decision due to the closure of schools for an extended mid-term break.\n\nGCSE exams run by the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) will now begin on 23 November.\n\nAlmost 1,500 positive cases of coronavirus have been recorded in NI schools since they reopened to pupils at the end of August.\n\nThousands of Year 11 and Year 12 pupils taking GCSEs in science are due to sit exams in November.\n\nThere are exam papers in biology, chemistry and physics on three consecutive days.\n\nThose exams had been due to take place from 11 to 13 November.\n\nHowever, schools have now been told they will be postponed until 23 to 25 November.\n\nIn a statement, CCEA said that the decision had been taken by Mr Weir \"following the Northern Ireland Executive's recent decision that all schools should close for an extended mid-term break, due to the ongoing health situation in Northern Ireland\".\n\nPupils are also due to sit maths and English language GCSE exams in January 2021 and more science GCSE exams in February 2021.\n\nMr Weir had previously decided that the main summer A-level, AS and GCSE exams in Northern Ireland will start one week later in 2021, but will still finish by 30 June.\n\nThe minister said he had asked the Northern Ireland exams board CCEA to consider what he called \"back-up\" arrangements.\n\nPupils are due to sit fewer exams in many GCSEs in 2021 but CCEA has not yet provided final details of precise changes to individual subjects.", "Today we're featuring members of our voter panel who are US military veterans. You met Rom yesterday. Today we're featuring his answers on why being a veteran impacts his vote.\n\nRom served as a US Marine for seven years and now works in business development. After backing Trump in 2016, he is more enthusiastically supporting his re-election this year as a check on the “rampant liberalism” of Democrats.\n\nWhy does this election matter to you?\n\nAs an avid historian, a follower of current events since I was very young, and a veteran, I have become quite startled at the lurch towards the left by one of the two major political parties in our country. There was a time not long ago when the differences between the two parties were not that great. Both parties, Republican and Democrat, were aligned on the same goals, albeit, their methods for achieving those goals is what differentiated them.\n\nHowever, there has never been such a great divergence in goals between the two parties, with one - Democrats - appearing to make a steep and staggering lurch towards the left and intent on altering the fundamental values that the United States was built upon, and which allowed it to become the world's leader and economic powerhouse. There's never been a time in our country's recent history when one major party has pushed so hard to turn the United States into a socialist-like country.\n\nHow does your background as a veteran influence your vote?\n\nService members are trained to put their lives on the line for their country. In order to be willing to die for your country, you have to believe in its core values. I believed in the core values of my country when I served for seven years in the US Marine Corps, just as I continue to believe in those core values today.\n\nNotwithstanding his caustic and unconventional demeanor and personality, there are three primary reasons I support Mr Trump:\n• He holds dear the values that have made this country great.\n• He follows through on his campaign promises - unlike other politicians of the past, both Republican and Democrat, who made promises while campaigning but rarely followed through.\n• Mr Trump has shaken the establishment class to its core - he's the Disruptor-in-Chief and I, as well as many others, believe disruption has been in order for a long time because the establishment class - Washington - has been out of touch with the general working-class population.\n\nRom is a member of our US election voter panel. You'll hear more from him, and many of our other voters, throughout the week.\n• We want to hear from you - what questions do you have about the US election?\n• In five words, tell us what's at stake in this election.", "The end of cheaper restaurant meals pushed UK prices up last month after the Eat Out to Help Out scheme expired.\n\nThe UK's inflation rate, which tracks the prices of goods and services, climbed to 0.5% in September, from 0.2% in August.\n\nThe Consumer Prices Index (CPI) began rising more quickly in September after the discount meals scheme ended, pushing up restaurant and café prices,\n\nTransport costs also went up as demand for second-hand cars increased.\n\nIn catering services, prices rose 4.1% between August and September 2020, compared with a rise of 0.2% between the same two months in 2019.\n\nTransport costs rose for the first time since March, partly because the price of second-hand cars was boosted by increased demand as people, reportedly, looked to reduce their reliance on public transport, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe price of second-hand cars, climbed 2.1% between August and September 2020, compared with a 1.4% fall between the same two months a year ago.\n\nAverage petrol prices also rose to 113.3p per litre in September 2020, up from 113.1 pence in August. However, that was still some way below the 127.3p recorded in September 2019.\n\nThe drop in the cost of air fares usually seen in the September inflation index had much less effect this year, according to Jonathan Athow, deputy national statistician for economic statistics at the ONS.\n\n\"Air fares would normally fall substantially at this time due to the end of the school holidays, but with prices subdued this year, as fewer people have been travelling abroad, the price drop has been less significant,\" he said.\n\nPaul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said that in the light of continued low inflation, the Bank of England was likely to increase its monetary stimulus measures next month to boost the ailing economy.\n\n\"With CPI inflation just 0.5% in September, it's hard to think of reasons why the Bank of England won't launch another £100bn or so of QE at the November meeting. And despite public borrowing still jumping, the government may yet spend more,\" he said.\n\nInflation is the rate at which the prices for goods and services increase.\n\nIt affects everything from mortgages to the cost of our shopping and the price of train tickets.\n\nIt's one of the key measures of financial well-being, because it affects what consumers can buy for their money. If there is inflation, money doesn't go as far.\n\nSeptember's CPI is used in the calculation for state pensions, but the government's triple-lock rule means the increase will be 2.5%, as it's the highest figure out of CPI, earnings growth for the year to July (which was actually negative), or 2.5%.\n\nState benefits are also decided by the September inflation figure, meaning payments will rise 0.5% next April, which is far less than this year's 1.7% increase.\n\nThe September figure is also used to decide the annual increase in business rates.\n\n\"Today's headline rate of inflation of 0.5% signals that gross business rates bills next year for 2021-22 will increase by £159.42m in England,\" said real estate adviser Altus Group.\n\nBusiness rates are devolved to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK state pension is expected to rise by 2.5% in April, owing to calculations guiding the government's triple-lock promise.\n\nWith average earnings lower than a year earlier (based on official figures for May to July), and now the inflation rate only having risen slightly, the backstop of a 2.5% increase kicks in.\n\nThis follows three years of higher rises and is well down on the 3.9% increase seen in April this year.\n\nAlthough it is still to be officially confirmed, it should mean:\n\nThe expected increase could reignite debate over fairness between the generations. On one hand, the rise will seem high to those who have lost jobs during the pandemic, but the UK state pension remains one of the least generous in western economies.\n\nThe age at which people now start to receive the UK state pension recently hit 66 for men and women.", "Companies around the world have been developing coronavirus vaccines\n\nBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said his government will not buy a Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccine, a day after his health minister said it would be added to the immunisation programme.\n\nResponding to a supporter on social media who urged him not to buy the Sinovac vaccine, Mr Bolsonaro said: \"We will not buy the Chinese vaccine.\"\n\nThe president said the vaccine had not yet finished its trials.\n\nBrazil has been one of the countries worst affected by coronavirus.\n\nIt has had nearly 5.3 million confirmed cases - the third highest tally in the world after the US and India - and is second only to the US in terms of deaths, with nearly 155,000 registered so far, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Tuesday, Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said the federal government had reached a deal with São Paulo state to buy 46 million doses of the vaccine CoronaVac, which is being tested by the state's research centre Butantan Institute.\n\nThe vaccine - which will be produced by Butantan - still needs to be approved by the health regulator to be used in the population.\n\nSão Paulo Governor João Doria - an ally-turned-critic of President Bolsonaro - said the immunisation programme could begin as soon as January 2021, making it one of the first such efforts in the world to fight the pandemic.\n\nBut on Wednesday, President Bolsonaro - whose handling of the pandemic has been widely criticised - said on Twitter that any vaccine would have to be approved by the health regulator and have its effectiveness verified by the health ministry before being made available.\n\n\"The Brazilian people will not be anyone's guinea pig,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nMr Doria has previously touted Sinovac's experimental vaccine, announcing plans to use it to inoculate residents of São Paulo.\n\nThe Butantan Institute announced on Monday that the two-dose vaccine appeared to be safe in a late-stage clinical trial. However, it warned the result was only preliminary, with testing ongoing. It said data on how effective the vaccine is will not be released until the trial is over.\n\nApart from the CoronaVac, Brazil also plans to administer a vaccine being created by England's Oxford University and the drug giant AstraZeneca.\n\nTrials with the Sinovac vaccine are also being conducted in Turkey and Indonesia.", "Almost half of secondary schools in England sent home one or more pupils because of Covid incidents last week, the latest attendance figures show.\n\nIt meant pupils isolating in 46% of secondary and 16% of primary schools.\n\nThe updated figures show 5% - or about 400,000 pupils - are out of school because of Covid outbreaks.\n\nDisruption from Covid has been increasing in schools - but the way of counting has changed which prevents comparisons with previous weeks.\n\nSince the start of term, the Department for Education (DfE) has published a figure showing how many schools were only partially open because of having to send home groups of pupils - which had risen to 21%.\n\nBut the latest weekly figures use a different way of showing how attendance has been affected during the pandemic - based on one or more pupils having to self-isolate.\n\nThis shows 21% of all schools, primary and secondary, sending home a pupil - with up to 13% sending home 30 or more pupils.\n\nBelow this overall average, secondary schools continue to face much more significant problems - three times more likely to send home pupils than in primary.\n\nOverall attendance has worsened from 90% to 89% - but very few schools, about 0.3%, have been completely closed.\n\nJulie McCulloch of the ASCL head teachers' union said the latest figures showed the \"high level of disruption\" from Covid outbreaks.\n\nShe said schools \"haven't received enough support from the government\" over access to testing and health advice - and a helpline set up for schools by the DfE had proved \"patchy\" in its usefulness.\n\nBut the DfE said the attendance figures showed \"a small proportion of pupils are self-isolating\" which was \"similar to previous weeks\".\n\nAppearing before the Education Select Committee on Tuesday morning, England's Schools Minister Nick Gibb said the change in data published on attendance provided more \"granular detail\".\n\n\"So the attendance data that's published this afternoon will be on a different timeline from the data we've published so far, because the data we've collected so far asks schools to report whether they have sent home groups of pupils.\"\n\nThere have been concerns about how pupils missing school will be able to take GCSE and A-level exams next summer.\n\nMr Gibb said exams remained the fairest system - but there was a particular concern about how exams could be fair between pupils who have missed different amounts of time in school, with those in high infection areas likely to have missed the most.\n\nMr Gibb said GCSEs and A-levels would go ahead next summer\n\n\"The other issue that really worries me more than any other issue we're having to grapple with at the moment is the unfairness and unevenness, where different students have had a different experience of missing education during this period.\n\n\"And that is something that is something that we're working with the exam boards and Ofqual to seek to address.\"\n\nHe acknowledged that \"some students will have suffered greater lockdowns, greater propensity to be self-isolating than students in other schools\".\n\n\"That does worry me,\" he said.\n\nMr Gibb said it was important that all year groups were \"able to catch up as swiftly as possible on the lost education that has been caused by this pandemic\".\n\n\"We do not want this generation of schoolchildren to suffer long term as a consequence of having to close schools to most pupils from March to the summer.\"\n\nPressed about exams, he told MPs he expected GCSEs and A-levels to go ahead next summer.\n\n\"We expect all schools to sit exams, we expect all students in Year 11 and Year 13 who are studying for exams to take those exams.\n\n\"We've been working very closely with Ofqual and the exam boards certainly to begin with on the timing issue and we've already announced that there'll be a three week delay to the timing.\"\n\nHe said there was no plan to shorten the school holidays, saying teachers and students needed a break.", "Greater Manchester is set to move to the top level of England Covid restrictions\n\nBusinesses in Greater Manchester fear some may not survive as the area is moved into the top tier of Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nIt has followed Liverpool City Region and Lancashire into tier three.\n\nBusinesses including pubs and bars, unless they serve substantial meals, as well as soft play facilities, betting shops and casinos will have to close on Friday just after midnight.\n\nThe move has been met with anger, frustration and upset by businesses.\n\nThe owner of a Menagerie Restaurant and Bar, on the outskirts of Manchester city centre, said consumer confidence had been knocked by the confusion over coronavirus restrictions.\n\nKarina Jadhav said she was allowed to stay open, but have to close anyway as people stay away\n\n\"We have been operating under restrictions, which are close to tier three for three months now,\" said Karina Jadhav.\n\n\"While we are allowed to stay open, the restrictions, the confusion and the communication coming from the government has really reduced consumer confidence.\n\n\"This has resulted - for us - in a lot of cancellations, people not booking, people wanting refunds.\n\n\"So while we are allowed to stay open, we are being restricted to the point where it is difficult to keep the business open in the current circumstances.\"\n\nThe managing director of Wythenshawe-based Whitehouse Event Crockery said the situation was \"heartbreaking\".\n\nMarc Gough said he had a viable business but had been forgotten by government\n\nThe business, which supplies goods including plates and glassware for weddings and events, will not be forced to close down in tier three.\n\nHowever, the move to the toughest tier of measures would have a direct effect on the number of bookings, said Marc Gough.\n\n\"Weddings cannot take place in a tier three environment, so effectively they are stopping us from working with no financial support,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a viable business - a very successful, viable business - and we have just had no support from the government.\n\n\"We have been simply forgotten and it's heartbreaking.\"\n\nGreater Manchester recorded almost 11,000 new cases in the week to 16 October, according to data updated on Monday.\n\nLatest figures show cases rose across most of Greater Manchester in the week to 16 October.\n\nHowever, the city of Manchester has so far seen a fall compared with the week before.\n\nEven so, it still has a high rate of new cases, with just under 404 per 100,000 people in the week to last Friday.\n\nStockport and Trafford have the lowest rates in Greater Manchester, with 266 per 100,000 and 310 per 100,000 respectively.\n\nThe managing director of a bar in Burnage said it was going to be a \"tough winter\" as the hospitality industry adjusted to the new three-tier system.\n\nElena Rowe, pictured right with her colleague Sean Gregson, said it had been a frustrating time for the business\n\n\"It's really sad. We have done everything we can to keep safe,\" said Elena Rowe, from Reasons to be Cheerful.\n\nReasons to be Cheerful will be among the pubs to close under tier three.\n\n\"We have regulars and a lot of them drink on their own, and the space we provide is their bubble and it's sad that this is going to end for people.\n\n\"It's going to be a tough winter. I'm frustrated and upset,\" said Ms Rowe.\n\nThe owner of a bar in the heart of Manchester's gay village said tier three would also force him to close.\n\nJohn Hamilton warned that businesses were fading away and he called for help\n\nJohn Hamilton, who runs Bar Pop and employees 60 members of staff, said: \"I am so upset. The city centre will be like a deserted island.\n\n\"We need help. We are independent businesses but slowly and surely we are fading away.\"\n\nHe said tier two restrictions were \"bad enough\" and his weekly takings had plummeted from £35,000 to £11,500 and he was struggling to pay the bills.\n\nMr Hamilton said: \"I am decimated - we have nothing.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Spencer Davis, one of the key figures of the 1960s beat scene, has died at the age of 81.\n\nThe Welsh guitarist was the driving force behind The Spencer Davis Group, who scored transatlantic hits with Keep On Running and Somebody Help Me.\n\nThe band, which also featured a teenage Stevie Winwood, toured with The Who and The Rolling Stones in the 60s.\n\nDavis died in hospital on Monday, while being treated for pneumonia, his agent told the BBC.\n\n\"He was a very good friend,\" said Bob Birk, who had worked with the musician for more than 30 years.\n\n\"He was a highly ethical, very talented, good-hearted, extremely intelligent, generous man. He will be missed.\"\n\nThe son of a paratrooper, Davis was born in Swansea in 1939 and first started learning harmonica and the accordion at the age of six.\n\nHe moved to London to work for the civil service at the age of 16, but later relocated to Birmingham, where he taught German by day, and played in local clubs at night.\n\nInspired by blues and skiffle, he formed a band called The Saints with Bill Wyman, later a member of the Rolling Stones; and performed folk music with Christine Perfect - who, as Christine McVie, became a core member of Fleetwood Mac's classic line-up.\n\nBut it was with his eponymous rock group that he struck gold. Formed in 1963, The Spencer Davis Group featured Davis on guitar, a teenage Stevie Winwood on organ and vocals, his brother Muff on bass and Peter York on drums.\n\nOriginally called The Rhythm & Blues Quartette, they changed their name in 1964 when Muff pointed out that Davis was the only one who enjoyed doing interviews - the logic being that the rest of the band could slope off to the pub while he handled the press.\n\nKeep on Running knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts\n\nTheir breakout hit, Keep On Running, was a cover of a song by West Indian performer Jackie Edwards.\n\nWhen it topped the UK charts in 1966, it knocked the double A-sided Beatles single We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper from the top slot - and Davis received a telegram from the band congratulating him on the achievement.\n\n\"It's in a pile of papers somewhere,\" he told the BBC in 2009. \"It said, 'Congratulations on reaching number one - The Beatles.'\"\n\nThe follow-up was delayed when Davis bashed his head on a car windscreen after braking to avoid a dog - but Somebody Help Me, another Jackie Edwards cover, gave the quartet a second number one in March 1966.\n\nThe band went on to prove they had songwriting chops of their own, with hit singles like I'm A Man and Gimme Some Lovin', which was later covered by The Blues Brothers.\n\nThe Spencer Davis Group also recorded the theme song for the long-running children's TV show Magpie, under the pseudonym The Murgatroyd Band - a reference to the show's mascot, a fat magpie named Murgatroyd.\n\nBy 1966, the band had starred in their own film, a musical comedy called The Ghost Goes Gear, which found the band stranded in a haunted manor. Davis also made a cameo in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, as a bus passenger.\n\nHits followed in the US, although the band never toured there; while Davis's ability with languages (he was fluent in German, French and Spanish) helped the band further their career in Europe.\n\nThose linguistic capabilities even led to Davis recording a German version of The Age Of Aquarius (Aquarius Der Wassermann) in 1968, and earned him a lasting nickname: \"The Professor\".\n\nThe Spencer Davis Group - and Nicholas Parsons - in their 1966 comedy musical The Ghost Goes Gear\n\nHowever, the Spencer Davis Group came to an untimely end in 1967 when, at the height of their fame, Winwood quit to form Traffic, leaving Davis without his dynamic frontman.\n\nThe band recorded a few more minor hits, but broke up soon after, with Davis moving to California, where he embarked on a short-lived solo career.\n\nAt the time, he later claimed, he was near to bankruptcy, thanks to a punitive contract with Island Records.\n\n\"I didn't realise what had been going on. I'd sold millions of records and hadn't seen a penny from them,\" he told Music Mart magazine in 2005.\n\n\"In 1970, I was considering declaring bankruptcy, but I'd written a track with Eddie Hardin, called Don't Want You No More, which the Allman Brothers put on their Beginnings album. The damned thing sold six million copies. Suddenly a cheque for £5,000 arrived through the door and I'd never seen so much money in all my life.\n\n\"I saw more money from that one song than I saw from all the stuff that had been an Island production.\"\n\nAfter confronting Island Records' owner Chris Blackwell over the issue, he was given a job in artist development at the label in the mid-70s.\n\nThere, he helped to promote newcomers like Bob Marley, Robert Palmer and Eddie And The Hot Rods, as well as working alongside Winwood, who was now establishing himself as a solo artist.\n\nThe Spencer Davis Group pictured in the mid-1960s (L-R): Spencer Davis, Peter York, Steve Winwood, Muff Winwood\n\nDavis returned to songwriting with 1984's Crossfire, which featured contributions from Dusty Springfield and Booker T.\n\nHe subsequently reformed the Spencer Davis Group - minus the Winwood brothers - with whom he toured the world for the rest of his career, often playing more than 200 shows a year.\n\nBirmingham International Jazz Festival founder Jim Simpson, who was told about Davis' passing by drummer Pete York, said: \"Spencer was a lovely man - always very courteous and a purist about music.\n\n\"The Spencer Davis Group stuck more to the blues and never became a fully-fledged rock band. Spencer was scholarly and well educated, very gentle and kind and his tastes in music were spot on.\"\n\nThe musician is survived by his long-time partner June, and three adult 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. Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, seen hugging other attendees\n\nUS President Donald Trump's tweet on Friday confirming that he and his wife had tested positive for coronavirus shocked the world.\n\nWith Mr Trump now in hospital, there are growing questions about how the pair were exposed to the virus.\n\nA crowded Rose Garden event is coming under intense focus - the ceremony on 26 September where Mr Trump formally announced his nomination of the conservative Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. The World Health Organization says it commonly takes around five to six days for symptoms to start after contracting the virus.\n\nFootage from the scene showed few attendees wearing masks. The seating was not set two metres (six feet) apart, while some bumped fists, shook hands or even hugged one another in greeting.\n\nEight people who attended are now confirmed to have the virus - although it is unclear exactly where and when they caught it. Aside from the president and the First Lady:\n\nMr and Mrs Trump tested positive after the president's communications director, Hope Hicks, contracted the virus. She did not attend the Rose Garden event.\n\nGuidelines published by the Centers for Disease Control recommend six feet of distance between people outside your home, and covering your nose and mouth when others are around you.\n\nDozens of lawmakers, family members and staff from the White House were at the event. Those who have tested positive were seated in the first few rows of the crowd.\n\nThose who have tested positive were sat in the first few rows of the packed event\n\nGatherings of more than 50 people at an event are banned under Washington DC coronavirus regulations, although federal property like the White House is exempt.\n\nThe Washington Post reports that authorities have left contact tracing efforts to the Trump administration. An official from Mayor Muriel Bowser's office told the paper that if all eight people were infected at the event, it would be one of the highest community spread incidents Washington DC has experienced.\n\nCity council member Brooke Pinto told the Washington Post it was \"disappointing that the White House has flaunted not wearing masks and gathering large crowds\".\n\n\"That is not only dangerous messaging for the country, but it is directly threatening to our efforts to decrease our spread across the district,\" she said.\n\nSome of the event last Saturday also took place inside.\n\nSome of the event took place inside the White House\n\nThe president stood next to Amy Coney Barrett as she delivered her speech. Ms Barrett tested negative on Friday, according to a White House spokesperson.\n\nVice-President Mike Pence and his wife Karen also tested negative. Mr Pence sat across the aisle from Mrs Trump at the ceremony.\n\nAttorney General William Barr sat in the same row as the vice-president. A Department of Justice spokesperson announced on Friday that Mr Barr had tested negative.\n\nJohns Hopkins University coronavirus trackers say that 7.3 million people in the US have contracted the virus, the highest figure in the world.\n\nThe country also has the highest death toll, with more than 209,000 people killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump's seven days before his Covid-positive test", "A cockatiel who flew from his cage has been returned to his owner after he was heard singing The Addams Family theme by farmers.\n\nSix-month-old Smidge escaped from his travel cage, which was accidentally left open by his owner Rhys Owen, in Hoylake, Merseyside, on Tuesday.\n\nThe bird was found after he was heard singing his favourite song - the catchy, finger-snapping theme to The Addams Family - in a tree at a farm nearby.", "Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, was seen hugging other attendees at a White House event on 26 September.\n\nSeveral people who also attended are now confirmed to have the virus – including President Trump – although it is unclear exactly where and when they caught it.\n\nRead more: White House event under scrutiny over virus spread", "PM Boris Johnson has suggested the recent spike in coronavirus cases in the UK is a result of a \"fraying of people's discipline\" over the summer.\n\nHe said compliance with the virus restrictions had been \"high at first\" but then \"probably... everybody got a bit, kind of complacent and blasé\".\n\nCases have increased sharply across the UK since the end of August.\n\nAfter starting to relax restrictions before the summer, the government has since had to toughen its measures.\n\nIt comes as the latest UK figures show there have been a further 6,968 cases and another 66 deaths.\n\nThe R number - a measure of how many other people each person with the virus is infecting - has risen to between 1.3 and 1.6.\n\nHowever, there is more evidence that new coronavirus infections may be increasing more slowly than in previous weeks.\n\nIn total, at least 16.8 million people in the UK - about one in four people - face extra coronavirus measures on top of the national rules, including two-thirds of people in the north of England.\n\nThe prime minister, who has been speaking to BBC journalists from around the country, denied that a lack of testing in north-east England had caused the virus to get out of control in the region.\n\n\"That's not the reality… the nation came together in March and April, what happened over the summer was a bit of sort of fraying of people's discipline and attention to those rules,\" he said.\n\nThe government has faced strong criticism for its mixed messages since it started easing the national lockdown in late spring.\n\nAfter a steady decline in confirmed cases since the first peak in April, cases began rising again in July, with the rate of growth increasing sharply from the end of August.\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC Scotland, Mr Johnson said: \"You saw what happened in March and April in Scotland, across the country, we came together and got the virus down.\n\n\"Alas, probably what happened since then is that everyone got a bit, kind of complacent and a bit blasé about transmission.\n\n\"The rules on social distancing weren't perhaps obeyed in the way they could have been, or enforced in the way they could have been, and that's why we've had to put in measures both in Scotland and elsewhere to bring it down again.\"\n\nNew rules, such as restricting gatherings to a maximum of six people and limiting opening hours for hospitality venues, are among the national measures that have been introduced around the UK.\n\n\"I'm afraid some of the muscle memory has faded and people are not following the guidance in the way that they should,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\nAsked about comments from the mayor of Middlesbrough who said there had been a \"frightening lack of communication with local government\" over local lockdowns, Mr Johnson disagreed, adding: \"We work very closely with local government across the country.\"\n\nBoris Johnson hired a personal trainer after ending up in hospital with coronavirus\n\nThe prime minister also described concerns that he has not been \"the old Boris\" since contracting coronavirus in March as \"sinister disinformation\".\n\nHe said he felt \"considerably better\" and, thanks to \"recent efforts\", he was about two stones lighter than he was a year ago.\n\nMr Johnson has previously revealed he has hired a personal trainer to lose weight after acknowledging he was \"too fat\" when he caught Covid-19.\n\nHe also declined to comment when asked about the future of MP Margaret Ferrier, who travelled from Glasgow to London with Covid-19 symptoms then returned home after testing positive.\n\n\"I'm going to leave that one very much to the SNP and to their whips - that's for them to decide but it's very important that everyone obeys the rules and the guidance,\" he said.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation into Ms Ferrier, who has been suspended by the SNP and faces calls to quit as an MP.", "Heavy rain is continuing to fall, amid warnings that parts of the UK face the risk of flooding.\n\nThe Met Office has issued amber warnings for parts of eastern Scotland, the West Midlands, south-west England and most of Wales.\n\nPolice warned motorists to take care, while in Essex, firefighters rescued a family of four when their car became trapped in floodwater.\n\nYellow, less severe, warnings for rain affect much of the rest of the country.\n\nRain is forecast to continue overnight, with warnings in force until 06:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe last time amber warnings for rain were issued was in March, the Met Office said.\n\nThe places worst hit so far on Saturday include parts of Exmoor, with 84mm of rain recorded in 36 hours in Liscombe and 74.4mm recorded in Brendon Hill.\n\nScotRail tweeted there would be reduced train services in amber warning areas, with \"a controlled shut down of the network\" around 19:00 BST.\n\nIt comes after Storm Alex, which has caused chaos in France and Italy on Saturday, brought gale-force winds and rain to southern England on Friday.\n\nA gust of 71mph (114km/h) was recorded at Berry Head on the Devon coast during the day.\n\nThe wind direction associated with the weekend's rainfall is \"unusual\" and rainfall was likely to occur in some areas that are normally well sheltered and drier, the Met Office said.\n\nDrains could also become blocked with debris as trees are now in full leaf.\n\nIn areas covered by amber weather warnings, the Met Office warned deep and fast-flowing floodwater may pose a \"danger to life\" in some areas and there was a \"good chance\" communities could be cut off.", "The debate will take place in Salt Lake City in Utah on Wednesday Image caption: The debate will take place in Salt Lake City in Utah on Wednesday\n\nOn Wednesday night, Republican Vice-President Mike Pence will face Democratic Senator Kamala Harris for the only vice-presidential debate ahead of November's election.\n\nThis election cycle has seen increased scrutiny on Pence and Harris, as they support the campaign of two presidential candidates in their 70s.\n\nWith President Trump now receiving treatment for Covid-19, and more members of the White House announcing positive virus tests, there’s a new emphasis on precautions from event organisers.\n\nFor one, the vice-presidential candidates will stand more than 3m (9.8ft) apart (podiums at the first Trump-Biden debate last week were 2m apart). They will be separated by plexiglass, CNN reports.\n\nCovid testing is already under way for reporters and others planning on attending the debate in Salt Lake City, Utah.\n\nWhether everyone will be required to wear a mask this time remains to be seen.\n\nNow, we want to know: What questions do you have about the vice-presidential debate? You tell us here and we’ll get to work finding the answers.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen spoke via video conference on Saturday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have \"agreed the importance\" of finding a post-Brexit trade deal, Downing Street has said.\n\nThey agreed progress has been made in talks between the EU and UK but \"significant gaps\" remain, No 10 said.\n\nBoth have instructed their chief negotiators to \"work intensively\" in order to try to bridge those gaps.\n\nNegotiations between the UK and EU broke up on Friday without agreement.\n\nBoth sides are calling on the other to compromise on key issues, including fishing and government subsidies.\n\nMr Johnson and Mrs von der Leyen spoke during a phone call on Saturday and agreed to speak on a regular basis.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said the two had agreed on the importance of finding an agreement \"as a strong basis for a strategic EU-UK relationship in future.\"\n\nThe UK's chief negotiator, Lord Frost, tweeted that work to resolve differences between the UK and EU \"begins as soon as we can next week\".\n\nSpeaking earlier, while on a visit to Leeds, Mr Johnson said he wants a deal like one struck between the EU and Canada, but reiterated the UK was ready should it have to leave without a deal.\n\n\"We're resolved on either course, we're prepared for either course and we'll make it work but it's very much up to our friends and partners,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nIt comes after Mrs von der Leyen called for talks to \"intensify\", as both sides set an October deadline to settle their differences.\n\nThe significance of today's call between Boris Johnson and the head of the EU commission is that both sides have agreed to keep talking.\n\nAlthough formal negotiations ended yesterday without agreement, instead of throwing in the sponge - as Boris Johnson would put it - talks will now intensify.\n\nBut a Downing Street statement made clear that while there are notable (and well-known) differences over fishing rights and subsidies to businesses, these aren't the only issues that need to be solved.\n\nThere is the potential to compromise - for example, on phasing in new fishing arrangements and on having state aid provisions similar to other free trade agreements - but it's not clear the political willingness is yet there on both sides.\n\nThe EU has to satisfy the demands of 27 different states.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson has to convince Brexit-supporting backbenchers that he hasn't sold out.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab aimed to reassure them by stating today that the days of being \"held over a barrel\" by Brussels are long gone.\n\nAsked about potential compromises that could be made, Mr Johnson said: \"The balance of trade is overwhelmingly on the side of the EU in the sense that they export much more to us than we do to them, certainly in manufacturing goods, and so we think there is a big opportunity for both sides to do well.\"\n\nHe pointed out that Canada is \"some way away\" but had managed to strike a deal with the EU while the UK remained the bloc's biggest trading partner.\n\nBut he acknowledged a no-deal outcome where the UK would follow mainly World Trade Organization rules on trade with the EU was possible and would \"work very well\" - describing it as an Australia-style arrangement.\n\nSpeaking at the virtual Conservative Party conference, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the talks with the EU had been \"a tough process\" but \"with goodwill we should be able to get a deal\".\n\nHe added: \"Recognising that we share the same high environmental and workforce standards as they do, but we want to do things in our own way, is a bit difficult for them and also there is the very vexed issue to do with fisheries.\"\n\nHowever, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the conference the \"days of being held over a barrel by Brussels are long gone\", as he stressed any trade deal must be \"fair\".\n\nThe EU wants access to UK fishing grounds for its boats and says reaching a \"fair deal\" is a pre-condition of a deal, while the UK says they should be \"first and foremost for British boats\".\n\nThe prime minister has set the deadline of the EU Council meeting on 15 October for securing a deal.\n\nAfter six months of trade talks with the EU, Lord Frost has claimed the outlines of an agreement are visible, but he warned that, without further compromise from the EU, differences over the contentious topic of fishing may be impossible to bridge.\n\nHe described the final round of negotiations as \"constructive\" but \"familiar differences remain\".\n\nOn fishing, the gap was \"unfortunately very large\" and he called for the EU to \"move further before an understanding can be reached\" on state aid.\n\nHis EU counterpart, Michel Barnier, agreed the negotiations had been conducted in a \"constructive and respectful atmosphere\", with some \"positive new developments on some topics\" - such as aviation safety and police co-operation.\n\nBut he said there was \"a lack of progress on some important topics\", such as climate change commitments, \"as well as persistent serious divergences on matters of major importance for the European Union\", including state aid and fishing.\n\nThe UK formally left the EU in January, but entered a transition period - where the UK has kept to EU trading rules and remained inside its customs union and single market - to allow the two sides to negotiate a trade deal.\n\nFormal talks began in March and continued throughout the pandemic, but there have been concerns over whether a plan would be agreed before that period runs out on 31 December.\n\nIssues that have become particular sticking points between negotiators are state aid - where governments give financial support to businesses - and fishing rules.\n\nThe EU has said a deal must be reached before the end of October to allow it to be signed off by the member states before the end of the year, while Mr Johnson has said both sides should \"move on\" if agreement was not reached by the middle of the month.\n\nIf a deal is not done, the UK will go on to trade with the bloc on World Trade Organization rules.", "Donald Trump's personal physician has told reporters he's \"extremely happy with the progress the president has made\" after starting treatment for Covid-19.\n\nDr Sean Conley and other doctors from Mr Trump's medical team spoke from outside Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington on Saturday morning.\n\nThey said he was doing \"very well\" and in \"exceptionally good spirits\".\n\nHowever, their account was later disputed.", "Airbnb will prohibit one-night bookings in the US and Canada over Halloween.\n\nThe platform was concerned the properties were being targeted for large Halloween house parties.\n\nA spokesperson for the company said the actions were designed to \"help protect\" communities from Covid.\n\nGuests and hosts who have had their bookings cancelled will be reimbursed, and Airbnb's neighbourhood support line will be on call throughout the weekend to respond to complaints.\n\nThe company said it would also deploy more stringent restrictions on two and three night reservations that may pose a heightened risk for parties.\n\nIt will also \"significantly expand\" restrictions on last-minute bookings by guests without a history of positive reviews on Airbnb.\n\nGuests will be subject to removal from Airbnb or legal action if they violate Airbnb's rules.\n\nThe action comes a year after a deadly shooting at an Airbnb in Orinda, California.\n\nFive people were killed at an unauthorised Halloween party.\n\nAirbnb said the reasoning for the move was a reaction to Covid-19.\n\nThe company said it wanted to \"do our part to help protect public health in North America in this particular moment\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two-year-old Prince Louis: \"What animal do you like?\"\n\nNaturalist Sir David Attenborough has revealed his favourite animal is the monkey, when quizzed by the children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis were given the chance to ask the 94-year-old broadcaster one question about the natural world.\n\nIt is the first time Prince Louis, two, has been heard speaking in public.\n\nThe young prince asked: \"What animal do you like?\" \"I like monkeys best because they are such fun,\" Sir David replied.\n\n\"Mind you, you can't have monkeys sitting around the home because that's not where they live,\" he cautioned, mindful perhaps of the duke and duchess's domestic life at Kensington Palace.\n\n\"So what can you have at home that you like? Well, which would you choose - a puppy or a kitten?\" said Sir David, before continuing: \"It's a very difficult question. I think I'd go for a puppy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Other children put their questions to Sir David Attenborough earlier in the week\n\nPrince George, the eldest son of Prince William and Catherine, wanted to know: \"What animal do you think will become extinct next?\"\n\n\"Well, let's hope there won't be any,\" said Sir David.\n\n\"There are lots of things we can do when animals are in danger of extinction. We can protect them.\"\n\nHe related how the population of mountain gorillas in central Africa, which were \"very, very rare\" 40 years ago, had grown from 250 animals to more than 1,000, thanks to public awareness and global fund-raising.\n\n\"So you can save an animal if you want to and you put your mind to it,\" the famous naturalist told the seven-year-old prince.\n\n\"People around the world are doing that because animals are so precious, \" he added. \"So let's hope there won't be any more that go extinct.\n\nLike her brother, Princess Charlotte, five, began her question with a confident: \"Hello David Attenborough!\"\n\n\"I like spiders, do you like spiders too?\" she asked\n\n\"I love spiders. I am so glad you like them!\" said Sir David. \"I think they're wonderful things.\"\n\n\"Why is it that people are so frightened of them? I think it's because they have actually got eight legs, which are much more than us. And if you've got eight legs you can move in any direction - so you can never be quite sure which way that spider is going to go!\n\n\"But spiders are so clever. Have you ever watched one try to build its web? That is extraordinary. How does it make this circular web like that... how do they do it? Try and watch and see how they do it - it's marvellous.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Storm Alex: See the moment a building is swept into raging flood waters\n\nAt least two people have died and up to 20 are still missing after a powerful storm hit south-eastern France and north-western Italy.\n\nA number of villages north of Nice in France suffered serious damage from floods and landslides, with roads, bridges and homes destroyed.\n\nIn north-western Italy, flooding was described as \"historic\". A section of a bridge over the Sesia river collapsed.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex has deployed the army and released emergency funds to tackle the worst floods for decades in south-eastern France.\n\nUp to 20 people are either missing or have not checked in with relatives.\n\n\"There are very many people of whom we have no news,\" Mr Castex said.\n\nFlood damage in Saint-Martin-Vesubie in the Alpes-Maritimes of south-eastern France\n\nBernard Gonzalez, prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes region, said: \"Just because their loved ones haven't been able to get in touch doesn't mean that they have been taken by the storm.\"\n\nHe said the prospect of more rain was \"a worry\".\n\nMeteorological agency Météo-France said 450mm (17.7in) of rain fell in some areas over 24 hours - the equivalent of nearly four months at this time of year, reports Reuters news agency.\n\nThe southern Alps region appeared the worst hit, with serious damage in the Roya, Tinée, Esteron and Vésubie valleys.\n\nThe villages of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and Rimplas were cut off, with roads inaccessible.\n\nA collapsed bridge after heavy rains hit the village of Roquebillière in southern France\n\nA road in Roquebillière was partially washed away during the storm\n\nOne 29-year-old resident of Roquebillière told Agence France-Presse: \"I lost everything but we are alive. There must be one room left in my house.\"\n\nTwo elderly people were swept away as their house collapsed in the village and their fate is unknown.\n\nOn Friday, the storm also buffeted France's western Atlantic coast, causing tens of thousands of homes to lose power.\n\nWinds of more than 180km/h (112mph) were recorded in Brittany on Thursday and Friday.\n\nThe two fatalities were a 53-year-old firefighter in the Aosta Valley who died during a rescue operation, and a 36-year-old man whose car was swept into a river in the Piedmont region. His brother managed to get out of the car.\n\nA section of a key bridge over the Sesia river in Piedmont's Vercelli province collapsed shortly after it had been reopened on Saturday afternoon.\n\nDamaged caused to a road near Cuneo in Italy's Piedmont region\n\nIn the rest of Piedmont, several villages were cut off after the rains made roads impassable. The situation there was described as \"extremely critical\" by officials.\n\nPiedmont President Alberto Cirio told La Stampa that 630mm of rain had fallen in 24 hours, an amount \"unheard of since 1954\".\n\nHundreds of aid workers have been sent to help rescue efforts in the cut-off villages.\n\nThe storm also affected the north-western regions of Lombardy and Liguria. The Roja river in Ventimiglia has also flooded.\n\nFlood alerts remain for sections of the Po river which have swollen by 3m in 24 hours.\n\nOne good piece of news was the rescue of about 20 people reported missing by Italian authorities just over the border in France.\n\nThe city of Venice, which had been braced for high waters after suffering violent storms in August, was successfully protected by a flood barrier system recently declared fully operational.\n\nDo you live in regions affected by the adverse weather and flooding? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored his ninth goal of the season and James Rodriguez netted twice as Everton beat Brighton to make it four Premier League wins from four for the impressive table-topping Toffees.\n\nHowever, it was another game that will prompt questions about the quality of goalkeeper Jordan Pickford for both club and country.\n\nAll was going well for the home side after Calvert-Lewin rose highest to head in at the back post to cap another excellent week that saw him score his second hat-trick of the season and earn a first call-up to the senior England squad.\n\nBut in the closing stages of a first half in which he had barely been tested, England keeper Pickford dropped a tame bouncing ball at the feet of Neal Maupay, who then slotted the ball in on the turn.\n\nThe heavy rain during the match was undoubtedly a contributing factor but the poor error comes not long after the shocking mistake he made in the Carabao Cup win at Fleetwood.\n\nThankfully for the home side, they were able to reclaim the lead before the break when Rodriguez picked out fellow Colombian Yerry Mina, who headed in from a free-kick.\n\nAnd it was Rodriguez who put the game beyond Albion, firstly sliding in to finish off Alex Iwobi's chipped cross at the back post then finding space in the same area to tap home Abdoulaye Doucoure's pass.\n\nBrighton were able to claim a consolation through a superb Yves Bissouma strike in added time but they have now lost three of their first four games.\n\nThey can argue they deserved to take something from the defeats by Chelsea and Manchester United, but they can have no complaints about this.\n\nAside from Pickford's form, the only other negative for Carlo Ancelotti's side was losing forward Richarlison to injury in the first half.\n\nEverton lead the division, having taken 12 points from 12, but could be overtaken this weekend by Leicester and Liverpool, who both play on Sunday.\n• None Action and reaction from Everton v Brighton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nBrilliant at one end, but issues at the other\n\nSince joining Everton from Sheffield United in August 2016, Calvert-Lewin has played under six managers, the first of which, Ronald Koeman, occasionally played him at right wing-back and tasked him with providing opportunities for others.\n\nNow, though, under the tutelage of Ancelotti, he is developing into a supreme finisher and the side is set up to supply him.\n\nEarlier in the season, in reference to the striker, Ancelotti harked back to his time as boss of AC Milan, when Filipo Inzaghi made the predatory one-touch finish an artform.\n\nCalvert-Lewin is not at that level yet, but you can see the shared DNA. One early chance, gifted to him by an error from Bissouma, saw him quickly get the ball out of his feet and fire a shot that Mat Ryan had to palm away.\n\nHis opening goal - converted at the back post from Gylfi Sigurdsson's cross - looks simple on the surface, but is a testament to positioning, prowess and the ever-growing understanding of the service he needs from a team that has come a long way from some of the limp, directionless displays of last season.\n\nRodriguez is a big factor in that and the Colombian has now been directly involved in six goals in his five games for Everton in all competitions this season.\n\nThe Toffees have scored 24 goals in their seven games of the campaign, currently more than any other side in Europe's top five leagues.\n\nThings are not quite so rosy at the other end of the pitch, though.\n\nPickford, who looked shaky throughout the game, gifted Brighton their equaliser and could easily have presented them with another goal when he palmed out a cross to Maupay for a shot that Tom Davies blocked.\n\nAnd it is not a new problem - Pickford has made 11 errors leading to goals in the Premier League since his debut for Everton in August 2017, more than any other goalkeeper in that time.\n\nEverton's superb attacking talent compensated for his big mistake on Saturday, but his form will be a concern to Ancelotti and England manager Gareth Southgate with three international fixtures coming up this month.\n\n'This is the moment of Dominic Calvert-Lewin now'\n\nEverton boss Carlo Ancelotti, speaking to MOTD: \"Brighton played well. We played well also. We managed the situation of the game well. We had composure defensively and had opportunities on the counter attack. The performance was complete and this was the reason we deserved to win.\"\n\nOn James Rodriguez: \"As I said on the first day, the players with quality have not a problem with that (settling in). The quality is there because football is not so complicated. The pitch is always the same, the opponents are always 11, the ball is the same, the goal doesn't move. Football is simple. It is not complicated.\"\n\nOn Dominic Calvert-Lewin's impressive start to the season: \"There is not just one reason. He is confident, we are seeing him improving and he is scoring goals and that is the most important motivation for a striker. This is the moment of Dominic Calvert-Lewin now.\"\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter: \"I don't think Everton had so many chances but we helped them, second half certainly. To concede just before half time was a blow for us and then we didn't start the second half so well.\n\n\"I think we contributed a little bit to our downfall today and that is something we need to be better at.\n\n\"We have conceded all our goals against Chelsea, Manchester United and Everton and they are want you consider to be top sixish teams.\"\n• None Everton have won each of their opening four games to a top-flight season for the first time since 1969-70, when they went on to win the title.\n• None Everton have won their first seven games in all competitions in a season for the first time since 1894-95 (won first eight).\n• None Brighton remain winless away at Everton in all competitions, drawing two and losing seven of their nine visits.\n• None This game saw three Colombians start a Premier League match for the first time (James Rodríguez and Yerry Mina for Everton and Steven Alzate for Brighton), with Mina's goal the first in the competition scored and assisted (Rodríguez) by two Colombians.\n• None Since the start of last season, Everton striker Calvert-Lewin has scored seven headed goals in the Premier League, more than any other player.\n• None Since his Everton debut in August 2017, Gylfi Sigurdsson has registered 13 assists in the Premier League, more than any other player for the Toffees (Digne next on 12).\n• None Maupay has scored four goals in his last three Premier League appearances, as many as he managed in his previous 22 in the competition.\n• None Attempt missed. Leandro Trossard (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Everton 4, Brighton and Hove Albion 2. Yves Bissouma (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Solly March with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Neal Maupay (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Leandro Trossard.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leandro Trossard (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Solly March.\n• None Neal Maupay (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The group were stopped near Brynamman in the Black Mountains\n\nA group of men who ignored local lockdown rules to go \"car racing\" have been hit with penalty fines.\n\nThe group had travelled from Caerphilly to near Brynamman in the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nCaerphilly is under extra Covid restrictions, making it illegal to leave the county without good reason.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said the four men refused to co-operate with officers over lockdown, and were all handed fines.\n\nThe Carmarthenshire Roads Policing Unit had come across the group of racers congregating for a \"rallying-type event\".\n\n\"Officers tried to engage with the group, who had travelled from Caerphilly, and explained several times that were not allowed to be in this area,\" said Insp Andy Williams.\n\n\"After lengthy attempts at asking them to leave and make their way back to their home addresses, they were still refusing to co-operate.\"\n\nCaerphilly has been in local lockdown since 8 September\n\nIt comes as a number of cases where fixed penalty Covid fines were not paid headed to court in the force area.\n\nHearings at Llanelli Magistrates' Court have included people who drove over 100 miles from Newport to Pembroke Dock while travel was banned, and others who had broken rules by entering people's homes at the height of lockdown.\n\nIn two cases, people were ordered to pay more than £800 in fines and costs, after failing to pay the initial fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Conservatives plan to open a second headquarters in Leeds, the party's co-chairman has announced.\n\nThe new HQ - a northern counterpart to Conservative Campaign Headquarters in London - is expected to open next year, Amanda Milling said, as she opened the party's virtual conference.\n\nSome MPs have urged the PM to set out a broad post-Brexit vision for the party.\n\nIt comes as Boris Johnson has promised low-deposit mortgages to help young people get onto the housing ladder.\n\nIn an interview with the Daily Telegraph ahead of his party's four-day conference, the prime minister said he had asked ministers to work up plans for encouraging long-term fixed-rate mortgages with 5% deposits.\n\n\"We need mortgages that will help people really get on the housing ladder even if they have only a very small amount to pay by way of deposit, the 95% mortgages,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it could be absolutely revolutionary, particularly for young people.\"\n\nThe Conservative Campaign Headquarters, in Westminster, London, is where general election campaigns are run.\n\nIt was known for many years as Conservative Central Office.\n\nAccording to BBC political correspondent Iain Watson, it houses press officers who undertake the more political tasks which civil servants cannot do - including attacking opponents and rebutting opponents' attacks.\n\nIt also liaises with the \"voluntary party\" - the grassroots foot soldiers - and raises funds for national campaigning.\n\nThe Conservatives argue that the new Leeds headquarters will reinforce their commitment to deliver for those in northern constituencies who voted for the party for the first time at the general election in December.\n\n\"This new headquarters will provide the party with a base at the heart of the blue wall,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nAlso speaking at the conference, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the government wanted to move more Civil Service jobs outside of London.\n\n\"Far too many government jobs tend to be in the Westminster and Whitehall village,\" he said.\n\n\"We have an amazing Civil Service and it has drawn its resources and people from lots of different communities - I think we now need to give back to those communities as well.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street has set out the details of an independent review of transport connections across the UK.\n\nThe review, led by Network Rail chairman Sir Peter Hendy, will look at improving road and rail networks and will also examine the \"cost, practicality and demand\" of building a bridge or tunnel between Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nThe transport study will set out advice on a \"wide range of possible options\" to improve the quality and availability of links across the UK, Downing Street said.\n• None 3out of eight constituencies are held by the Conservatives\n• None 23out of 99 council seats are held by the Conservatives\n\nOne of the stated aims of the Tories' virtual conference is to demonstrate that the party is listening to those voters who said they were merely lending their support to the Conservatives.\n\nThere will be a lot of talk about \"levelling up\" - in other words, doing more to spread investment and opportunity beyond London and the South East.\n\nBut some recently-elected Conservative MPs believe the term is vague and not easily understood by voters.\n\nOne of the 2019 intake told our correspondent: \"We need to put flesh on the bones of this agenda - it has be about more than a couple of shiny new rail stations.\"\n\nAnother said the prime minister had to \"raise his sights\" and provide a longer-term vision, amid concerns over narrowing polls.\n\nMr Johnson told the Telegraph that he was determined to press ahead with a \"massive domestic agenda\" and deliver on Conservative manifesto promises, despite the ongoing coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe prime minister has promised to create \"Generation Buy\" with low-deposit mortgages to help get young people onto the housing ladder.\n\nHe has also insisted he remains a low-tax, libertarian Conservative who will pay for the cost of the pandemic through a \"free market-led recovery\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson dismissed newspaper reports that he and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were now rivals as \"genuinely untrue\".\n\n\"We are as one,\" he said.\n\nBoris Johnson hired a personal trainer after ending up in hospital with coronavirus\n\nAsked about his coronavirus strategy, the prime minister said \"all of this is being kept under constant review\".\n\n\"If we make progress, all of these measures are capable of being changed,\" he said.\n\nNew rules, such as restricting gatherings to a maximum of six people and limiting opening hours for hospitality venues, are among the national measures that have been introduced around the UK.\n\nMr Johnson also offered some weight loss advice, after losing more than two stone following his experience contracting coronavirus earlier this year.\n\nAccording to the paper, he now weighs 15st 8lbs - having been 17st 6lbs - and said his top tip was \"eat less, move more, weigh less\".\n\nMr Johnson has previously revealed he has hired a personal trainer to lose weight after acknowledging he was \"too fat\" when he caught Covid-19.\n\nYou may remember that the Conservatives pledged to build 40 new hospitals in their 2019 election manifesto.\n\nOn the eve of the party conference, the prime minister confirmed £3.7bn in funding for the project - an increase on the £2.8bn previously announced.\n\nSix Hospital Trusts had already been promised £2.7bn in funding while 21 others were given a share of £100m in seed funding to develop proposals.\n\nOn Friday those Trusts were told they will all be fully-funded to deliver 25 new hospitals.\n\nA new hospital at Shotley Bridge in Durham has been added to the list and the government is also inviting bids for a further eight schemes.\n\nThey say these new schemes mean 48 hospitals will be delivered by 2030.", "A double murder inquiry has been launched after the deaths of Vian Mangrio and Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi\n\nA woman who was found dead with her daughter after a fire at their home \"died as a result of pressure to the neck\", police have said.\n\nDr Saman Mir Sacharvi and Vian Mangrio, 14, were found inside a house in Colne Road, Reedley, Lancashire on Thursday.\n\nA post-mortem examination also found Dr Sacharvi, 49, had been assaulted. Tests to establish Miss Mangrio's cause of death are under way.\n\nMiss Mangrio, a pupil at Marsden Heights School in Nelson, was found badly burnt inside the house, police said.\n\nSupt Jon Holmes said they were \"following a number of lines of enquiry\".\n\n\"This is a truly harrowing set of circumstances and my thoughts are very much with the loved ones of Dr Sacharvi and Miss Mangrio.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for information and extra patrols are taking place in the area to reassure residents.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@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. President Trump's seven days before his Covid-positive test\n\nPresident Donald Trump's coronavirus diagnosis came after a busy week running his administration and campaigning for November's election.\n\nThe president announced that he and his wife and his wife, Melania has tested positive for Covid-19, in a tweet sent on Friday at around 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT).\n\nThis followed a positive test for his close aide, Hope Hicks, who reportedly started feeling symptoms on Wednesday.\n\nSince the president's diagnosis, several people close to him have tested positive too, including his press secretary.\n\nSo far the majority of publicly released results have been negative. However, test accuracy can vary depending on when a sample is taken during the course of the illness. One taken very soon after exposure may not give an accurate result.\n\nThe White House says it has begun contact-tracing. Here's a look at some of the people we know Mr Trump has crossed paths with during the last week - starting with an event that is being investigated as a possible \"super-spreader\":\n\nPresident Trump announced his Supreme Court pick, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, in front of a crowd of about 200 people on the White House lawn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, seen hugging other attendees\n\nJudge Coney Barrett said on Friday that she had tested negative. Sources told US media she had the virus earlier this year.\n\nAlong with Mr Trump and his wife, at least seven other people who attended the Rose Garden event say they have tested positive - although it's not known where they caught the virus.\n\nThey are: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany; former White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway; Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who are both on the judiciary committee; the president of the University of Notre Dame, John Jenkins; and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who said he checked himself into a hospital on Saturday as a precaution.\n\nThe White House Correspondents' Association said an unnamed reporter at the event had also tested positive with symptoms.\n\nDuring the evening, President Trump held a rally at Harrisburg International Airport in Middletown, Pennsylvania.\n\nSince the afternoon's ceremony, Judge Coney Barrett has held meetings with various senators - including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell - ahead of her much-anticipated confirmation hearing, due to take place on 12 October.\n\nThe president played golf at his club in Potomac Falls, Virginia, in the morning and led a White House reception for the families of military veterans during the evening.\n\nOn Monday, President Trump held a news briefing in the White House Rose Garden - giving an update on his administration's coronavirus testing strategy.\n\nIt was attended by Vice-President Mike Pence, Health Secretary Alex Azar, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and the chief executive of Abbott Laboratories, Robert Ford, among others.\n\nLater, Trump viewed a model of a new pickup truck - being built at a factory in Ohio - on the White House lawn. Representatives from the company, Lordstown Motors, attended, as well as two members of Congress.\n\nThe White House regularly tests officials who come in contact with the president. However, US media has noted that mask-wearing and social distancing around him is less common - suggesting that people may be too reliant on the testing system, which is not foolproof.\n\nThe president faced his election rival, Joe Biden, at their first face-to-face debate in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday evening.\n\nPresident Trump flew there on his presidential plane, Air Force One, alongside his wife, adult children and multiple aides. Many were seen not wearing masks when boarding or disembarking.\n\nAlso on the plane were: White House Chief of staff Mark Meadows; campaign strategist Jason Miller; policy adviser Stephen Miller; Robert C O'Brien, the national security adviser who tested positive for the virus in July; and Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan.\n\nAfter landing, the president's campaign manager, Bill Stepien, was spotted getting into a staff van with Ms Hicks, the New York Times reports. Late on Friday, it was announced that Mr Stepien had tested positive for Covid-19 and was experiencing mild flu-like symptoms.\n\nThe debate was held at Cleveland Clinic's Health Education Campus, a shared facility with Case Western Reserve University.\n\nThe organisers, the Commission on Presidential Debates, brought in numerous Covid-era safety precautions. There were no handshakes between the two candidates and everyone attending - including the 80 or so audience members - was tested before the event and asked to wear masks throughout.\n\nIn the run-up, Mr Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka, posted a picture of herself backstage in a mask, alongside her sister Tiffany, sister-in-law Lara and stepmother Melania.\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 ivankatrump 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\nHowever, during the event itself, Ivanka Trump and other family members, including siblings Don Jr and Eric, were pictured mask-less. Moderator Chris Wallace has since told Fox News that they were offered masks by event staff but they refused them.\n\nObservers said those on Mr Biden's side of the room kept their masks on.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Biden kept a distance during the debate, at podiums on opposite sides of the stage.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Biden loudly spoke over each other throughout the contentious debate\n\nWhen the candidates were greeted by the wives on stage afterwards, Jill Biden wore a mask and Melania Trump didn't.\n\nAt a separate campaign event in Pennsylvania, Vice-President Mike Pence said he had been in the Oval Office with President Trump earlier that day. It is thought to be their last in-person meeting.\n\nPresident Trump and much of his entourage flew back to Washington DC on Tuesday night.\n\nThe day after the debate, President Trump was straight back into campaign business, flying to Minnesota. Ms Hicks was among those accompanying him.\n\nAt a press conference on Saturday, the president's physician Dr Sean Conley said Mr Trump had been diagnosed 72 hours previously, which would place his diagnosis on Wednesday. But the White House later clarified that he was diagnosed on Thursday.\n\nHe attended a closed-door fundraiser at a private home in Minneapolis, and later held a rally at an airport in Duluth, in front of a crowd of thousands. Few wore masks but there was distance between them and the president.\n\nMinnesota Congressman Kurt Daudt tweeted a picture of himself close to Mr Trump, with neither wearing masks.\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 Kurt Daudt 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\nOn Wednesday evening, Mr Trump and various aides returned to Washington DC on Air Force One again.\n\nMeanwhile Ms Hicks, who was feeling unwell, was isolated in a separate cabin, according to US media. She reportedly disembarked from the back of the plane, instead of the front alongside the other passengers.\n\nThe following day, Ms Hicks tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nPresident Trump flew to his Bedminster golf resort in New Jersey for a private fundraiser. Several aides who were in proximity to Ms Hicks scrapped their plans to accompany the president, according to the Associated Press.\n\nKayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, is thought to have been in close contact with Ms Hicks. Ms McEnany held a briefing for reporters at the White House on Thursday, without mentioning her colleague's test and without wearing a mask. She has since said she did not know about the diagnosis.\n\nThat night, in pre-taped remarks to the annual Al Smith dinner in New York City - held virtually this year - Mr Trump said that \"the end of the pandemic is in sight\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The end of the pandemic is in sight,\" President Trump told a dinner on Thursday\n\nHe later announced in an interview on Fox News that he and the first lady were being tested for the virus.\n\nIt is not known how many supporters he came into contact with in recent days, he but told Fox presenter Sean Hannity that people were always wanting to get close to him. \"They want to hug you, and they want to kiss you,\" he said.\n\nPresident Trump announced that he and Mrs Trump had tested positive, adding that they will begin the \"quarantine and recovery process immediately\".\n\nJust before 11:00, his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, told reporters the president has \"mild symptoms\" but remains in \"good spirits\".\n\nMrs Trump tweeted to say she also had mild symptoms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The president has \"mild symptoms\" but will \"remain on the job\", says White House chief of staff Mark Meadows\n\nThat day, several other people announce that they've tested positive: Kellyanne Conway, former White House counsellor; Bill Stepien, Mr Trump's campaign manager; Mike Lee, Utah senator; Thom Tillis, a senator for North Carolina; Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee; Rev John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame University; and Senator Ron Johnson, head of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.\n\nMeanwhile Joe Biden, the Democrats' presidential candidate, tests negative, as does: Jill Biden, his wife; Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence; Kamala Harris, the Democrats' vice-presidential candidate; Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court nominee; Mike Pompeo, secretary of state; Steve Mnuchin, treasury secretary; Alex Azar, secretary of health and human services; William Barr, attorney general; Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr, the president's daughter and son; and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law.\n\nFormer New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Nicholas Luna, a White House presidential aide, both test positive.\n\nMr Trump waved to well-wishers from behind the glass of a sealed car after tweeting that he would pay a \"surprise visit\" to \"patriots\" outside the hospital.\n\nInside the car, at least two people could be seen wearing protective gear in the front seats, with Mr Trump sat in the back.\n\nThere were concerns that the president who wore a mask, may have endangered others inside the car. But White House spokesperson Judd Deere said the trip had been \"cleared by the medical team as safe\".\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany announces on Twitter that she has tested positive.", "No Time To Die marks Daniel Craig's swansong as James Bond\n\nThe release of the new James Bond film has been delayed again.\n\nThe premiere of No Time To Die had already been moved from April to November because of the pandemic.\n\nThe film has now been further delayed until 2 April 2021 \"in order to be seen by a worldwide theatrical audience\", a statement on the film's website said.\n\n\"We understand the delay will be disappointing to our fans but we now look forward to sharing No Time To Die next year.\"\n\nNo Time To Die, the 25th instalment in the Bond franchise, marks Daniel Craig's final appearance as British secret service agent, 007.\n\nTrailers for the film, as well as Billie Eilish's title song, have already been released - with the Eilish video debuting mere days ago - before Friday's last-minute decision to delay.\n\nIndustry insiders had been speculating whether the studio would stand by the November release date, following lacklustre box office returns for the Christopher Nolan blockbuster Tenet, which was released last month.\n\nThe sci-fi epic, which cost approximately $200m to make, has so far made $243 million internationally, but only $41m in the US - where cinemas in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco largely remain closed.\n\nA significant part of Bond film earnings come from the UK and European market, where coronavirus is once again on the rise and there may be been concern by the studio that potential restrictions could limit box office earnings in November.\n\nThe previous Bond film, 2015's Spectre, took almost $900m (£690m) at worldwide box offices - winning an Oscar for best original song. The latest film will no longer be in contention for the 2021 Oscars under current guidelines.\n\nThe postponement of No Time to Die comes after both two major autumn releases, Wonder Woman: 1984 and Marvel Studios' Black Widow - starring Scarlett Johansson - were both pushed back.\n\nWith Steven Spielberg's West Side Story and Kenneth Branagh's Death of the Nile remake also delayed, it could spell disaster for many struggling cinema chains, which rely on big budget releases for much of their income.\n\nOscar-winning Rami Malek plays the latest Bond villain Safin in the forthcoming film.\n\nIn the US, the National Association of Theatre Owners, the Directors Guild of America and the Motion Picture Association wrote an open letter last week calling on Congress to bail out \"our country's beloved movie theatres\".\n\nThe letter stated that if the current situation continued without additional support, 69% of small and mid-sized cinemas in the US would likely go bankrupt or close. The letter was signed by a string of Hollywood directors, including James Cameron, Clint Eastwood and Britain's Steve McQueen.\n\nBut John Fithian, head of the National Association of Theatre Owners, told Variety it was also essential that the studios played their part in supporting cinemas - by continuing to release films.\n\n\"If we don't have any movies until we're fully vaccinated as a world, a lot of the theatre companies are going to be gone and the theatres themselves won't be there,\" he said.\n\n\"This idea of waiting out the pandemic to make your movies more profitable doesn't make sense to me. There won't be as much of an industry left to play your movies in if you do that.\"\n\nIn China, cinemas reopened in July - with restricted numbers - while in India they are due to partially reopen in mid-October, ahead of the Diwali holiday in November.\n\nCinemas in the UK were given the go-ahead to reopen in July, with social distancing measures in place, staggered start and finish times and pre-ordered popcorn, among the measures.\n\nHowever many sites did not open immediately. Cineworld, the world's second-largest cinema chain, reopened many of its locations across the UK in early September. It recently reported a $1.6bn loss in the first six months of the year.\n\nOn Friday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden urged the British public to \"support your local cinema\" as he announced a government cash boost of £650,000 to 42 independent cinemas across England as part of the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund.\n\nSome fans on Twitter have called for the latest franchise to be released digitally rather than delaying the release date to next Easter. Earlier this week, Warner announced that the big budget remake of Roald Dahl's The Witches, starring Anne Hathaway, will debut on the streaming platform HBO Max in the US.", "Faith communities are being invited to take part in a study of the role singing plays in spreading coronavirus.\n\nParticipants will be asked to sing at different volumes, and lasers will be used to detect and measure the droplets they produce.\n\nResearchers will then look into how many droplets are blocked by different types of face covering.\n\nThe hope is this can inform guidance to allow worshippers to return to communal singing safely.\n\nThe team will also collect information about how Covid-19 has affected the experiences of prayer for different faith groups.\n\nProf Laurence Lovat, professor of gastroenterology and biophotonics at University College London (UCL), is asking participants to complete a questionnaire on how their practice of worship has changed during the pandemic.\n\nThey will be asked about their usual involvement in communal prayer and their experiences of worship since March, when restrictions on meeting and travel were introduced.\n\nFrom the respondents, a group of people will be selected to \"sing, chant or hum\" in front of a bright laser light and a high-speed camera, which will detect tiny droplets of moisture - aerosol - hanging in the air.\n\nThere is evidence that coronavirus can be spread through these particles.\n\nThe light will enable the droplets to be seen, and a camera that flashes 7,000 times a second will record them.\n\nMichelle Sint says not being able to sing as a congregation at her synagogue \"draws away from the atmosphere\"\n\nSinging was suggested as a high-risk activity for spreading coronavirus after outbreaks were linked to choir groups.\n\nCurrent guidance states singing should be \"limited to the performers, and worship should not include congregational singing\".\n\nIt continues: \"People should avoid singing, shouting and raising voices. This is because of the potential for increased risk of transmission from aerosol and droplets.\"\n\nBut more recent research has suggested it might be the volume, rather than the activity of singing itself, that determines the risk level.\n\nProf Lovat plans to test this by asking participants to sing at different volumes and measuring the differences in the aerosols they produce.\n\nHe plans to recruit people of different sizes, heights, sexes, ages and ethnicities - as well as those with and without facial hair.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly changed many people's daily or weekly worshipping routines, affecting their ability to pray, enjoy group discussion or take part in singing or chanting,\" he said.\n\n\"Our study aims to establish how the practice of worship has changed and find out what the risk of Covid-19 transmission is when singing, chanting or humming with or without a face mask.\n\n\"We'll have a better understanding of what's acceptable and what isn't,\" he said.\n\nMichelle Sint, who is Jewish and has already enrolled in the study, said she wanted to take part to find out whether it was possible to \"sing without putting people at risk\".\n\n\"There's something very uplifting about singing as a community in one voice,\" she said, adding that it was \"an integral part of the atmosphere and the worship\".\n\nFor Junaid Shah, singing and communal prayer does not play such a large role in his Muslim faith, but he wanted to contribute in order to aid other communities.\n\nAnd he said it was important to him to \"highlight the importance of communal worship, even in these times\".\n\n\"More than anything it's a support network. It's about not feeling isolated.\"", "Police are investigating the actions of MP Margaret Ferrier, who travelled from Glasgow to London with Covid-19 symptoms then returned home after testing positive.\n\nThe Met said it was looking at possible offences related to the Health Protection Regulations.\n\nMs Ferrier has been widely condemned for risking the health of people in parliament and on public transport.\n\nShe has been suspended by the SNP and faces calls to quit as an MP.\n\nThe Met said in a statement that an MP had contacted Police Scotland on Thursday to say she may have breached legislation and guidance relating to coronavirus.\n\nIt said this had related to actions including a train journey on Tuesday between London and Glasgow, following a positive Covid-19 test.\n\n\"Following consultation with Police Scotland, officers from the Metropolitan Police, working with British Transport Police, are conducting an investigation into potential offences,\" said the Met.\n\n\"The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has been informed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCommons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle had earlier spoken of his disbelief at Ms Ferrier's \"reckless\" actions, which he said had put other people's health at risk.\n\nAnd Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader, said she had spoken to Ms Ferrier and urged her to \"do the right thing\" and stand down as an MP.\n\nShe said Ms Ferrier had been guilty of the \"worst breach imaginable\" and that her \"reckless, dangerous and completely indefensible\" actions had undermined the public health message.\n\nDUP MP Jim Shannon, who was seated at the same socially-distanced dining table as Ms Ferrier on Monday evening, is self-isolating but received a negative test result on Thursday afternoon.\n\nAn Assistant Serjeant at Arms was close to Ms Ferrier when she spoke in the Commons on Monday but has not been advised to self-isolate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Lindsay Hoyle says he is \"really very angry\" about the behaviour of MP Margaret Ferrier.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Scotland, Prime Minister Boris Johnson would not be drawn on whether he thought Ms Ferrier should stand down as an MP.\n\nHe said it was important that \"everyone obeys the rules and guidance\".\n\nMs Ferrier, the MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, travelled by train to London on Monday despite being tested for Covid at the weekend after experiencing mild symptoms.\n\nShe spoke in the Commons chamber during a coronavirus debate, but was told later that evening that she had tested positive for the virus.\n\nDespite this, Ms Ferrier took a train back to Scotland on Tuesday, with SNP whips in the Commons being told about her positive test on Wednesday.\n\nIt became public knowledge on Thursday evening when Ms Ferrier tweeted an apology and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nShe has not yet given any indication of whether or not she intends to continue sitting as an independent MP.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool forward Sadio Mane has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating.\n\nThe news comes three days after the club said midfielder Thiago Alcantara had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nLiverpool say the Senegal winger has \"displayed minor symptoms of the virus but feels in good health overall\".\n\nMane, 28, played for the Reds in a 3-1 win over Arsenal on Monday but was not in the squad for the EFL Cup defeat on penalties by the Gunners on Thursday.\n\nA statement on Liverpool's website added: \"Like with Thiago Alcantara, Liverpool are - and will continue to - following all protocols relating to Covid-19 and Mane will self-isolate for the required period of time.\"\n\nMane, who has scored three goals for the Anfield club this season, will miss the Premier League game against Aston Villa on Sunday prior to the international break.\n\nThe club's first game after that will be the Merseyside derby at Everton on 17 October.\n\nOn Monday, the Premier League announced 10 people had tested positive for coronavirus in the latest round of testing - the highest number of positive tests since the season began.", "Police said Jones had tried to put out the blaze but it had already spread trapping the family inside\n\nA family of four were trapped in their burning house after an arsonist \"mistakenly\" targeted their home.\n\nNathan Lee Jones, of Golwg y Castell, Cardigan, set bin bags alight outside their home on Castle Street on 16 June 2020.\n\nPolice later found out that Jones had intended to set fire to a different house, but got the address wrong.\n\nJones pleaded guilty to arson with intent to endanger life, and was jailed for four years at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nDyfed Powys Police said Jones had gone back and tried to put out the blaze, which was started in the early hours of the morning.\n\nDet Con Damon Watmough said: \"However it appears a black bag was still smouldering, and spread to the other refuse outside the house.\n\n\"By the time the occupants were aware, they had no means of escape, and a gas pipe had been damaged and was leaking into their home.\"\n\nMr Watmough said it was initially thought the fire had been caused by a lit cigarette, but it was later proven it was started deliberately.\n\nPolice said Jones was caught with the help of CCTV\n\nJones was spotted on CCTV at the house at around the time of the fire, and was identified through conversations on social media, he added.\n\n\"This was a very serious and traumatic incident, which could have had devastating consequences for the victims,\" Det Con Watmough added.\n\n\"The defendant was determined to cause fear or harm by starting the fire, and put the lives of a family with two young children at risk.\n\n\"We hope this sentence will provide reassurance to the community and victims following this distressing incident.\"", "President Trump and his wife Melania plan to recover at the White House\n\nAs news emerged that US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania had tested positive for coronavirus, the story shot to the top of every news agenda worldwide.\n\nIt's just 32 days until Americans cast their votes in the race for the White House - and this is a seismic development.\n\nWorld leaders were quick to send the Trumps their well-wishes, with India's Twitter-loving Prime Minister Narendra Modi among the first.\n\n\"Wishing my friend @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS a quick recovery and good health,\" he wrote.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted: \"Like millions of Israelis, Sara and I are thinking of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump and wish our friends a full and speedy recovery.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Hang on, Peter\": How US news reacted to Trump's Covid diagnosis\n\nRussia's Vladimir Putin sent a message by telegraph, according to the Interfax News Agency, writing: \"I am certain that your inherent vitality, good spirits and optimism will help you cope with this dangerous virus.\"\n\nIn much international media, however, the news was accompanied by criticism of what was said to be the US president's \"botched\" response to the coronavirus pandemic, and his \"open scepticism\" over the use of face masks and social distancing.\n\nGerman media seemed somewhat unsurprised. \"Trump usually does not wear a mask in public\", wrote the centre-right Die Welt, while the centrist Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung pointed out that the pandemic did not deter him from making numerous major election campaign appearances.\n\nMedia in France echoed the sentiment that Mr Trump undermined his own health by underestimating the virus. \"After months of catastrophic handling of the pandemic in the USA, after months of lies and contradictory messages to his supporters… Donald Trump has tested positive for Covid-19,\" wrote Libération.\n\nIran's international-facing English-language Press TV observed that Trump \"has been somewhat cavalier\" about the Covid-19 threat, adding that \"it was only a matter of time\" before the US president caught the virus.\n\nAn anchor on Iranian state television broke the news \"with an unflattering image of the US president surrounded by what appeared to be giant coronaviruses\", the Associated Press reports.\n\nElsewhere, questions have been asked about what the news could actually mean for the US presidential election. The India Today website anticipated that Trump's quarantine would bring his election campaign to a standstill, stating: \"The [presidential] debates and the entire Republican campaign now comes under a shadow.\"\n\nThe website quoted predictions by analysts that Trump may hope to get sympathy votes now that he has tested positive himself. But others, like Hindi-language daily the Navbharat Times, predicted that \"Trump's diagnosis and his attitude towards the pandemic will harm him in the election.\"\n\nAn artist in Mumbai, India, paints a mural of the ailing couple\n\nPakistan's Geo News carried an online report reading: \"The future of Trump's re-election campaign is in doldrums due to his illness and inability to address the rallies before the crucial November 3 vote.\"\n\n\"The president, who is tested regularly for Covid-19, has kept up a rigorous travel schedule across the country in recent weeks, holding rallies with thousands of people in the run-up to the November 3 election, despite warnings from public health professionals against having events with large crowds.\"\n\nIn China, which Mr Trump has repeatedly blamed for the spread of the coronavirus, news of his illness was one of the most searched topics on Weibo, the popular (if heavily censored) social media app.\n\nThe editor of the state-owned Global Times newspaper, Hu Xijin, tweeted in English: \"President Trump and the First Lady have paid the price for his gamble to play down the Covid-19.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDomestically, some of Mr Trump's favoured outlets took a gentler tone. \"Get through this together!\" reads a headline on Fox News's website, where the story is leading the news.\n\n\"Trump, first lady send messages of calm, resilience from White House after testing positive for Covid,\" it adds.\n\nThe site's sympathetic coverage includes an article on people it calls \"a number of the president's fiercest critics\", sending their best wishes for his recovery. The network's medical expert Marc Siegel said his sources had described the couple as \"absolutely asymptomatic\".\n\nElsewhere in the US press, the Wall Street Journal noted a fall in US stock futures and said \"the diagnosis throws up a host of uncertainties for markets to process\", including the question \"will the US government be able to function normally?\"\n\nThe Washington Post has dropped its paywall to allow people to read its live updates on the situation.\n\nPolitico described Mr Trump as \"the world's highest-profile patient of a disease that has killed more than one million people\".\n\n\"A person familiar with the situation said the president was not showing symptoms yet on Thursday,\" the site reported. \"Still, Vice-President Mike Pence may need to step in for some tasks if Trump is confined to the White House grounds,\" it quoted the source as saying.\n\nOn that score, there is some good news for the Trump administration: Mr Pence and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have both tested negative.", "More than a third of the UK is now under heightened restrictions\n\nTighter restrictions have come into force in parts of northern England after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nIt is now illegal to meet people indoors from other households in the Liverpool City Region, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Warrington.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was \"necessary\" to bring the new measures, which includes places like pubs and restaurants, into force.\n\nMore than a third of the UK is now under heightened restrictions.\n\nThe new rules come as hundreds of Northumbria University students are self-isolating after testing positive for Covid.\n\nMiddlesbrough has been on the government's watchlist following an increase in cases\n\nThe new rules have split opinion in Hartlepool.\n\nSteven Brittan said: \"This could have been stopped a long time ago but people haven't stuck to the restrictions so now we are all having to suffer the consequences.\"\n\nShelia Calvert said: \"It's absolutely totally wrong, [the rules] are far too harsh.\n\n\"People have suffered enough with not seeing their families.\"\n\nAndy Bostwick said: \"It's very frustrating that you can go to work with people but you then can't go for a beer with them after work, which is something I do quite a lot on Friday with the lads.\"\n\nPeople in Hartlepool are among those who have to abide by new restrictions\n\nAfter a steady decline since the first peak in April, confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK have been rising again since July, with the rate of growth increasing sharply from the end of August.\n\nOn Friday, another 6,968 people tested positive, slightly down from more than 7,000 a day earlier in the week.\n\nMeanwhile, Germany has issued a warning to its citizens against travelling to Scotland and northern England because of increases in infections.\n\nThey were also tightened up this week in Newcastle, Northumberland, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland and County Durham, as well as four areas of north Wales.\n\nAnnouncing the latest restrictions, Mr Hancock told the House of Commons \"cases continue to rise fast\" in Teesside and the north-west of England.\n\nKnowsley, an area in the Liverpool City Region, had the second highest infection rate in the country at 262 per 100,000 on 27 September.\n\nLiverpool's weekly infection rate rose to 258, Warrington's was 163 and Hartlepool and Middlesbrough both had 121 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nBurnley, where no further restrictions are yet to be imposed beyond the Lancashire-wide ones already introduced, has the highest infection rate in England at 327 per 100,000.\n\nMr Hancock also \"recommended against all social mixing between households\", but said he wanted the restrictions to stay in place for \"as short a time as possible\".\n\nPeople in those areas should also:\n\nThe independent mayor of Middlesbrough said the changes would damage the local economy and people's mental health.\n\nBut people in Liverpool had been expecting the tighter measures.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Matt Ashton, director of public health for Liverpool, acknowledged there were \"so many different rules, so many different regulations, it is confusing for people to understand\".\n\nHe added: \"We need to move the conversation now to people really understanding the risk of Covid in our communities... to do the right thing and just to minimise their contact with other people as much as possible.\"\n\nAndy McDonald, Labour MP for Middlesbrough, said it was \"imperative\" people \"accept and abide by\" the new measures but called for \"improvement in communication\" between the government and local councils.\n\nHe said: \"These restrictions have been imposed without due consideration or dialogue.\n\n\"We have no idea of what exit strategy is planned or what achievements have to be attained in order to see these restrictions lifted.\n\n\"It is simply not good enough.\"\n\nAlice Wiseman, director of public health for Gateshead, said introducing new restrictions was a \"tricky balance\" but was about putting a \"package of measures together that enable us to keep as much of the economy open while reducing the transmission of the virus\".\n\nA spokesman for Northumbria University, in Newcastle, confirmed 770 students had tested positive for coronavirus, 78 of whom are symptomatic.\n\nAll infected students and their close contacts are self-isolating for 14 days in line with government guidance.\n\nIt comes as people arriving in the UK from Turkey and Poland now have to quarantine for two weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which also apply to the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba - came into force at 04:00 BST on Saturday.", "For months US President Donald Trump and his aides have regularly gone without masks, often appearing to behave as if there was no pandemic. Then the president tested positive, and their world changed. This is the story of a seismic day.\n\nEarly on Friday evening, it was peaceful at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, nine miles (14km) from the White House, and so quiet you could hear an acorn drop. But the mood was tense. Police tape was stretched from a tree to a basketball hoop, marking the landing zone for Marine One, the president's helicopter, and a dog sniffed for explosives. Donald Trump would arrive soon, and no-one knew quite what to expect.\n\nA security official tried to tell his colleagues where they should stand for the arrival of the president's helicopter. The official admitted that his plan was a work in progress. \"I don't think anyone knows what's going on,\" he said.\n\nIt was an accurate observation outside the hospital - and for much of the day at the White House, too.\n\nThe uncertainty began in the early morning hours, just before 01:00 in Washington, with the president's announcement on Twitter that he had tested positive. Afterwards, White House aides and staffers did their best to maintain a sense of normality in the midst of a chaotic environment, but the mood spiralled into something that looked a lot like chaos. There was anxiety, shouting and a few tears.\n\nThe president had long managed to project a sense of optimism about the US health crisis - as if he could will the pandemic away. More than 200,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the US, yet he has been saying recently that the pandemic is \"getting under control\".\n\nIn a pre-recorded address to a charity event on Thursday, Mr Trump asserted that \"the end of the pandemic is in sight\". Meanwhile at a presidential debate earlier this week, he made fun of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, for always wearing a mask.\n\nThe president's claims and the language that he uses to talk about the virus alienate many Americans. However, his approach appeals to his base of supporters, men and women who are conservative and mostly white - a group of individuals who resent the Democratic elites in Washington and other cities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US President Donald Trump on Covid-19 in his own words\n\nThe president's casual language about the virus over the last few months has been amplified by his aides and staffers in both their words and actions. They often seemed to exist in a pre-Covid era. Few of them wore masks at their offices in the West Wing, and they crowded together at small lunch tables next door at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. They invited hundreds of guests onto the south lawn at the White House for events.\n\nThe administration relied on rapid Covid-19 testing machines to screen those in contact with the president. But experts have raised questions about the reliability of the quick turnaround tests, suggesting they might have given officials a false sense of security.\n\nNow the president is sick, and his aides are struggling to cope with the reality of the virus as it unfolds around them and invades their offices. One of the president's top advisors, Hope Hicks, has tested positive, as has his campaign manager Bill Stepien, two Republican senators, and Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman.\n\nSenior White House staffers are now in isolation. Junior staff members were frantically fielding calls as part of a massive contact tracing programme. News about the president's visit to the hospital leaked accidentally - by someone who sent an email before reading it.\n\nIn the midst of the confusion, White House aides have tried to put on a brave face. The president's economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, assured me and other journalists on Friday morning that the president was working hard and that there was plenty of good economic news.\n\nBesides, Mr Kudlow pointed out, the president was not the first world leader to become infected - the leaders of Britain and Brazil had both had the virus. \"Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London, who's a longtime friend of mine, had a very rough time of it - a very rough time,\" Mr Kudlow said. \"I hope and pray that President Trump does not.\"\n\nIn addition, Kayleigh McEnany, Mr Trump's press secretary, insisted that the White House was operating smoothly. The president was taking care of business, she said, adding: \"He's had mild symptoms, but he is hard at work. We're having to slow him down a little bit.\"\n\nShe said that the president had spoken on the phone with senators including Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham.\n\nMeanwhile in the West Wing, people were shouting. \"You're in here without a mask,\" someone yelled at a journalist, telling him to leave the premises. A junior staffer, exhausted and overworked, broke down in tears. A miasma of uncertainty hung over the offices known as \"lower press\", a warren of desks cluttered with bottles of hand sanitiser, newspapers, a baseball and a hair straightener.\n\nWhite House officials sought to reassure the public and the media on Friday\n\nThe anxiety of those of us who spend time in the West Wing is palpable: for months, almost no-one wore a mask while sitting at their desks in the lower press office. Now everyone in the room has one on. Journalists came here on Friday to ask officials about additional testing. Others wanted to know more about the president's condition.\n\nOn Friday three journalists who cover the White House tested positive, reported CNN. The reporters who remained at the White House wanted to know if they, too, had the virus. (I was tested in the morning - 10 quick swabs - and got a clean bill of health.)\n\nBy mid-afternoon, it was clear things were not going well. A staffer told me and other members of a small press pool, the journalists who follow the president, to gather for a trip to the military hospital, where we would wait for the president.\n\nWe climbed into a black van, one with government plates and dark windows. As we arrived at the hospital, the \"wig-wags\", or flashing lights, came on. The van pulled to a stop near the emergency entrance.\n\nI know how powerfully the president's messages resonate with his base and how much they admire the way he has handled the health crisis (\"Millions more would have died\" without him, one of his supporters told me). But standing outside the hospital's emergency room, I could see that the world the president has described - one of health and prosperity, with him as its creator - was in jeopardy.\n\nAs Marine One hovered near the landing zone, yellow leaves scattered in the air. Mr Trump walked down the stairs, holding the rail, and climbed into an SUV. From the glimpse I got, he seemed subdued. It was the end of a long day for the president - and for the nation too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump's seven days before his Covid-positive test", "Police said large crowds congregated outside the church\n\nPolice are investigating a funeral attended by \"between 400 to 500 people\", despite government guidance stating only 30 mourners are allowed.\n\nBedfordshire Police dispatched officers to the area when \"large crowds\" gathered outside a church in Dunstable.\n\nConservative MP for the town Andrew Selous said he was very angry about the \"flagrant breach\" of rules at the \"traveller funeral\".\n\nThe force said it will review evidence and consider taking action.\n\nCh Insp Lee Haines said: \"We worked with the local authority, the cemetery and the funeral directors prior to this event so people could attend to pay their respects while following social distancing measures.\n\n\"The funeral was initially attended by lower numbers of people, as planned, but larger crowds subsequently started gathering outside the church where the funeral was taking place.\"\n\nAndrew Selous MP said the large number of people attending the funeral blocked a road in the town\n\nMr Selous, the MP for South West Bedfordshire, said the number of people attending the funeral at St Mary's Church in West Street was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"Bedfordshire Police tell me they estimate that there were between 400 to 500 people present when only 30 are allowed at a funeral,\" he said.\n\n\"We are all under the law and it is simply not right or acceptable for the rest of the population who have made such sacrifices to see others getting away with such behaviour.\"\n\nBedfordshire Police said officers \"understand that people wish to pay their respects to their loved ones... but everyone needs to follow the rules\".\n• None COVID-19- guidance for managing a funeral during the coronavirus pandemic The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sam Law said the situation left him feeling angry and \"completely left out\"\n\nA man who uses a wheelchair said he pulled himself up three flights of stairs to take his driving theory test as the centre had no disabled access.\n\nSam Law, 21, from Cardigan, Ceredigion, said the experience left him feeling angry and \"completely left out\".\n\nHis mother took photos of what happened at the centre in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire on Thursday.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) said it was \"extremely sorry for the unacceptable distress\".\n\nA spokesman said it was investigating as a matter of urgency, adding: \"We want everyone who is able, to take any driving test and will always make reasonable adjustments for people who are disabled and want to pass their theory or practical exam.\"\n\nService providers have to make reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability so they are not put at a substantial disadvantage compared to those who are not disabled when accessing services.\n\nMr Law said he specified he used a wheelchair when he booked his test online and requested to have it in Aberystwyth as he knew the centre there had wheelchair access.\n\nHe said he tried calling the Haverfordwest centre on the morning of the test to check access but no-one picked up.\n\nMr Law said he found climbing the steps \"very hard work\"\n\n\"I was very disappointed and angry,\" he said.\n\nHe said staff at the centre advised he return home and book another test, but he did not want to delay the test so decided to climb the steps with his brother's assistance.\n\nMr Law said he specified he used a wheelchair when he booked his test online\n\n\"It was very, very hard work - lifting yourself. Because I sit down all the time, I break bones easily,\" he said.\n\nMr Law, who has used a wheelchair since having a spinal stroke when he was 16, said he was shocked a building used by a government department did not have disabled access.\n\n\"It shouldn't be a case of 'you need to go to another centre',\" he 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. A bird who flew from his cage is found after farmers heard him singing the TV theme.\n\nA cockatiel who flew from his cage has been returned to his owner after he was heard singing The Addams Family theme.\n\nSix-month-old Smidge escaped from his travel cage which was accidentally left open by his owner Rhys Owen, in Hoylake, Merseyside, on Tuesday.\n\nIn an effort to get him back, Mr Owen drove around his estate playing the show's theme, which he says is the bird's \"favourite song\".\n\nAfter a Facebook post about Smidge, the bird was returned by a local farm.\n\nMr Owen said he was \"in shock\" after the cockatiel flew through an opening in his travel cage, while he was trying to put it in his car.\n\n\"I watched him in slow motion going away.\n\n\"He sings The Addams Family - that's his favourite song - so I put it on full blast in my car and blare it out and drive around the estate, all the windows down, hoping to get him back.\"\n\nThe Addams Family has featured in a number of theatre and screen productions\n\nAfter Mr Owens posted about the missing bird on local Facebook groups, a user commented that the bird had been found in a tree at a farm about a mile away.\n\n\"Everyone in the farm heard The Addams Family song over and over again,\" Mr Owens said.\n\n\"They knew something wasn't right so they sent this lad up to see what it was.\n\n\"He goes right up to it. It doesn't fight and he just grabs hold of it.\n\n\"Apparently the chances of finding a cockatiel are very slim so we were heartbroken. We thought he had disappeared so when I got him, it was like finding your kid, it was amazing.\"\n\nThe Addams Family featured a fictional household of macabre oddballs, first seen in magazine cartoons in the 1930s and later TV series and movies, which were famed for their catchy finger-snapping theme.\n\nMr Owens said he has now got a new travel cage so Smidge can continue to travel with him to his work at a gym.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "William Henry and Brian McIntosh were found shot dead in the car in Brierley Hill on Wednesday afternoon\n\nA man has been charged with murdering two men found shot dead in a car.\n\nWilliam Henry, 31, and Brian McIntosh, 29, both from Bartley Green, were found in a car park off Moor Street in Brierley Hill, Dudley, just before 15:30 BST on Wednesday.\n\nA post-mortem examination found both men died from gunshot wounds, West Midlands Police said.\n\nJonathan Houseman, 32, from Stourbridge, has been charged with two counts of murder.\n\nMr Houseman, of Quarry Park Road, is set to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday, police said.\n\nA second person arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released without charge, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@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. \"It's a case of applying for literally everything I can find\"\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has \"magnified\" barriers facing young people getting into work, a charity has said.\n\nA survey for the Prince's Trust, which helps get young people into jobs, education and training, found 44% of 16 to 25-year-olds questioned said their aspirations were now lower.\n\nHalf of those from poorer backgrounds said their future goals now seemed \"impossible\" to achieve.\n\nOne 25-year-old said she was applying for any role after losing her job.\n\nAriane Brumwell was furloughed from a local newspaper in Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, in March.\n\nShe was then told in August the newspaper was \"no longer viable\" and she was being made redundant.\n\n\"I have no doubt in my mind that had it not been for Covid that I would still be in work and still reporting,\" she said.\n\n\"I started off applying for the roles I was interested in, so journalism, PR, social media-based roles.\n\n\"But it's got to a point now where because I've got outgoings, and I'm very aware Christmas is around the corner as well, it's a case of applying for literally anything I can find.\"\n\nMs Brumwell said there were so many people in the same position as her that she often does not get feedback from job rejections or has been told she is \"overqualified\" for positions.\n\n\"In terms of my career aspirations, it's destroyed my motivation to an extent because I worked so hard in university and to find a journalism job years ago in the first place,\" she added.\n\nUnder the UK government's Job Support Scheme, a replacement for the furlough scheme, the government will subsidise wages of employees who can work at least a third of their usual hours.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the new scheme would \"support only viable jobs\" - but some people say their jobs were viable if it were not for the pandemic.\n\nThe most recent data showed the unemployment rate in Wales was 3.1%, lower than the overall UK rate of 4.1%.\n\nBut unemployment among young people has risen faster, reaching 13.4% of 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK.\n\nUsing data on the uptake of universal credit and jobseeker's allowance, BBC analysis found the proportion of young people on the benefits had doubled between March and June.\n\nThe retail job Caitlyn Morgan was expecting disappeared because of the pandemic\n\nCaitlyn Morgan, 20, from Caerphilly, said her life was \"on pause\".\n\nBefore lockdown, she was on a retail training programme in Cardiff, at a business that said it would have offered her a job to stay on if the virus had not hit.\n\n\"You see how many people are now unemployed, not just young people,\" Ms Morgan said.\n\n\"I haven't got as much experience as some people do in the workplace. I'm less likely to get a job.\n\n\"It just puts your life on pause and you just feel like you're stuck and there's no way of getting out,\" she said.\n\nUnemployment has risen in Wales, but remains lower than the UK rate\n\nPhilip Jones, director of Prince's Trust Cymru, said the pandemic had \"magnified\" issues among young people including \"low aspirations\", \"low self-confidence\" and \"low self-esteem\".\n\n\"To think that over half of young people think that their life goals are not just going to be difficult, not just going to be challenging, not just going to be laden with multiple hurdles but 'impossible' is something we need to stand up and have a good look at,\" Mr Jones said.\n\nHe said some young people in Wales felt a \"geographic dislocation\" between where they live and \"where the opportunity is\" as well as feeling \"the mere notion of success is something they don't feel attached to\".\n\nProgrammes run by groups like the Prince's Trust have helped people like Lauren Hughes build confidence.\n\nThe 20-year-old acting student from Rhondda Cynon Taf has been made redundant from two student jobs.\n\nLauren Hughes says young people fear unemployment and are questioning their futures\n\n\"Obviously the world of theatre looks very different to what it did before the start of the pandemic,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm not going to stop myself following my dreams to become an actress. My opinion has changed about how I'm going to get into it, how hard it's going to be.\n\n\"I think a lot of young people like myself are questioning our futures, and there are a lot of young people who say 'I'm scared about my future, I think I'm going to be unemployed'.\n\n\"I think we need a lot more support from the government.\"\n\nA UK Treasury spokesman said: \"The Job Support Scheme is designed to protect jobs in businesses facing lower demand over the winter due to Covid, and is just one form of support on offer to employers during this difficult period.\"\n\nHe also said it was \"continuing to innovate in supporting incomes and employment through our Plan for Jobs, announced in July, helping employees get back to work through a £1,000 retention bonus and creating new roles for young people with our Kickstart Scheme\".\n\nYou can see more on this story on Politics Wales on BBC One Wales at 13:15 BST on Sunday 4 October, and on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rick Moranis's last on-screen film role was in 1997\n\nRick Moranis, who starred in Honey I Shrunk the Kids is recovering after being attacked in New York City.\n\nThe 67-year-old Ghostbusters actor was walking on Central Park West near 70th Street at 7:30 am local time when he was punched in the head, police said.\n\nThe video shows a man running up and knocking Mr Moranis to the ground before walking away.\n\nPolice have not yet made any arrests and have asked for the public's help in identifying the suspect.\n\nMr Moranis went to hospital and reported pain in his head, hip and back before reporting the crime at the precinct.\n\nHis management team told CBS News he is \"fine, but grateful for everyone's thoughts and well wishes\".\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 NYPD Crime Stoppers 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 Canadian actor rose to fame in the 1980s as a member of the cast of Second City Television (SCTV). He became a household name around the world after appearing in the blockbuster smash Ghostbusters.\n\nBut he has mostly kept a low profile since his wife's death from cancer in 1991, choosing to focus on raising his children.\n\nHe is set to reprise his role as the mad inventor and family man Wayne Szalinski in Shrunk, a sequel to Honey I Shrunk the Kids.", "Hundreds of students at Northumbria University are self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19\n\nHundreds of students at Northumbria University are self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nA spokesman for the university, in Newcastle, confirmed 770 students had tested positive since returning in mid-September, 78 of whom are symptomatic.\n\nAll infected students, and their close contacts, have self-isolated for 14 days in line with government guidance.\n\nMeanwhile, Newcastle University confirmed it has had 94 students and seven staff test positive.\n\nA Newcastle spokeswoman said the \"overwhelming majority of cases\" were from \"social and domestic settings\".\n\nUniversity and College Union (UCU) said it warned Northumbria University it was \"far too soon for a mass return to campus\".\n\nIn a statement the UCU, which represents lecturers, said: \"We told Northumbria University they had a civic duty to put the health of staff, students and the local community first and we take no pleasure in now seeing another preventable crisis play out.\n\n\"We warned last month that, given the current restrictions in the region, the direction of the infection rate and the problems with test and trace, it was clearly far too soon for a mass return to campus.\"\n\nNorthumbria University said self-isolating students were being provided with food, laundry, cleaning materials and welfare support by the university, working alongside the students' union and Newcastle City Council.\n\nEllie Burgoyne, 19, who studies social sciences, has been isolating since one of her flatmates tested positive a week ago.\n\nShe said: \"The uni and accommodation have been great in providing support and keeping us as comfortable as possible as not leaving our flat for two weeks isn't the most fun.\n\n\"I moved a couple of weeks ago and immediately noticed how strict our accommodation was being when it came to students meeting with other flats, trying to have parties.\n\n\"I think it's a common misconception that students haven't been listening to the guideline, my accommodation has been quiet aside from the odd flat having a few people over.\"\n\nMeanwhile, students will also receive additional academic support if they miss out on face-to-face tuition during their isolation period.\n\nThe university spokesman added: \"The increase in numbers comes in the week after students returned to university and reflects the good access to and availability of testing, as well as rigorous and robust reporting systems.\n\n\"In parts of the UK where universities started term earlier, numbers of student cases surged in induction week, and then reduced.\n\n\"We are making it clear to students that if they break the rules they will be subject to fines from police and disciplinary action by the universities which may include fines, final warnings or expulsion.\n\n\"Both Northumbria and Newcastle universities have Covid response teams on call that are working closely with NHS Test and Trace, Public Health England North East and the City to identify and get in touch with anyone who has been in close contact with those affected.\"\n\nAround 56 universities across the UK have had at least one confirmed case of Covid-19.\n\nThere have been more than 200 cases at the University of Sheffield and 177 University of Liverpool staff and students have tested positive, according to a PA news agency survey which contacted 140 institutions.\n\nApproximately 2,500 positive cases of Covid-19 have been identified at these universities, the analysis suggests.\n\nAre you a student at Northumbria University? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harvey Weinstein now faces 11 charges involving five victims in Los Angeles County\n\nDisgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been charged with six further counts of sexual assault, the Los Angeles District Attorney confirmed.\n\nFriday's charges involve two victims of alleged incidents that occurred more than 10 years ago.\n\nWeinstein now faces 11 sexual assault charges in Los Angeles County involving five women, District Attorney Jackie Lacey said in a statement.\n\nIn March, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.\n\nDuring that trial in New York, the 68-year-old was found guilty of committing a first-degree criminal sexual act against one woman and third-degree rape of another woman.\n\nThe latest charges allege that he raped a woman at a hotel in Beverly Hills between 2004 and 2005, and raped another woman twice - in November 2009 and November 2010.\n\nIn January, Weinstein was charged with sexually assaulting two women in 2013. Then in April, a further charge alleging that he assaulted a woman at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2010 was added.\n\nLos Angeles officials have already started extradition proceedings, however this has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Another extradition hearing is set to take place in December.\n\nIn March, Weinstein himself was said to have tested positive for coronavirus in a prison in upstate New York.\n\nA spokesman for Weinstein said: \"Harvey Weinstein has always maintained that every one of his physical encounters throughout his entire life have been consensual. That hasn't changed.\"\n\nThe spokesman said they would not comment on the additional charges.\n\nAllegations against Weinstein began to emerge in 2017 when The New York Times first reported incidents dating back over decades.\n\nHe issued an apology acknowledging that he had \"caused a lot of pain\", but disputed the allegations.\n\nAs dozens more emerged, Weinstein was sacked from the board of his company and all but banished from Hollywood.\n\nA criminal investigation was launched in New York in late 2017, but Weinstein was not charged until May 2018 when he turned himself in to police.\n\nWhen he was sentenced to prison in March this year, jurors acquitted him of the most serious charges of predatory sexual assault, which could have seen him given an even longer jail term.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reaction to the court's decision to sentence Harvey Weinstein to 23 years in jail (file image from 24 February 2020)", "Shannon and Matthew Steele said staff at Ipswich Hospital provided \"excellent care\"\n\nA nurse who shared her journey of having triplets on social media said her pregnancy \"could've been so different\" if it were not for Covid-19.\n\nShannon Steele, from Ipswich, gave birth to Ronnie, Maddison and Emilia on 24 August after an emergency Caesarean.\n\nShe said what was her first and will be her only pregnancy felt \"stolen\" due to measures in place due to coronavirus.\n\nAs reported, she shared her story on Instagram to help others with fertility battles after her own.\n\nMrs Steele said she felt like her pregnancy was \"stolen\" because there were many things the couple missed out on that first-time soon-to-be parents would normally experience - especially given they will not be having any more children after having triplets.\n\nBut the NHS nurse said her experience at Ipswich Hospital was \"excellent\" and staff there were \"supportive every step of the way\".\n\nShe added: \"They provided excellent care for the babies but took time to ensure I was OK as well as my husband - they are an outstanding group of passionate people.\"\n\nMrs Steele said she did not meet the triplets for two days as she had become \"very poorly\"\n\nMrs Steele started her Instagram feed our.triplets.journey with the aim of helping others going through \"fertility battles\".\n\nShe was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) at the age of 15 and a thyroid condition about three years ago.\n\nShe said she and her 35-year-old husband were \"one step\" away from going down the IVF route.\n\nShe said it was \"almost poetic\" that her husband got to have a lot of \"firsts\" with the babies\n\nThen in March they discovered they were due to have not only one baby but three.\n\nAlthough the wait to get pregnant had been long, when it came to the babies' arrival, she said it was a \"rush to get them out\" at Ipswich Hospital.\n\nOne of the triplets was in \"a lot of distress\" and Mrs Steele herself became \"very poorly\".\n\nRonnie, left, and Maddison, middle, were born two minutes after their sister Emilia\n\n\"I didn't see them for two days after they were born,\" said Mrs Steele.\n\n\"My husband was the first to see and cuddle them.\n\n\"Considering he missed out on the scans and coming to the hospital with me, he got to have a lot of firsts with the babies which was nice and almost poetic.\"\n\nThe triplets were born at almost 33 weeks, Emilia first, with Maddison and Ronnie following two minutes later together.\n\nThey spent four weeks in hospital before, along with their mother, they were able to go home.\n\nMrs Steele shared a photo of her scan on Instagram\n\nThe triplets spent four weeks at Ipswich Hospital before they were able to go home\n\nWhile Mr and Mrs Steele have been enjoying the early days of parenting and establishing a new routine, Mrs Steele said it had been hard for other family members who have not been able to be with them as coronavirus restrictions are still in place.\n\n\"There have been a lot of tears, especially from my mum and sister,\" she said.\n\n\"Not only did they want to see the babies but they wanted to be there to support me.\n\n\"It's been tough for everybody but the services at the hospital were fantastic and made it such a positive experience.\"\n\nAccording to the NHS website, about one in 65 births in the UK are twins, triplets or more.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "With a month to go before the presidential election, voters around the US are digesting the news that President Donald Trump is infected with Covid-19.\n\nMr Trump is currently experiencing mild symptoms - but aged 74 and within the clinical definition of obesity, he has risk factors that raise his chance of having a severe reaction.\n\nWe asked some older members of the BBC voter panel how they felt when they heard the news.\n\nMark Falbo is a retired higher education administrator who recently moved to Windham, Maine. He is a Democrat voting for Joe Biden.\n\nI am very concerned when anyone gets a diagnosis of being Covid positive - being someone my age and my size, I know how bad that can be for them, so I'm hoping that the president and first lady, and all those who may have been exposed, will recover well.\n\nI'm also hoping that it will create an area of seriousness around the president about this, because this still is a very dangerous situation and hopefully [this will be] his way of having to learn how leaders need to respond to threats to their population.\n\nI don't think he underestimated the crisis - it's pretty clear that he was aware of the threat. I personally think he mismanaged. And I think that's been a huge disservice to not simply Americans, but to the world.\n\nHere in Maine, we are pretty sensitive about Covid-19 and I'm fortunate to be in a state where the governor and our CDC director has taken this very seriously, with the exception of some silly activities by a few families.\n\nLaura Powers is a materials scientist from Wilmot, Wisconsin. She identifies as Independent and will vote for Joe Biden.\n\nWhen I woke up this morning and listened to the news, and heard that he had tested positive, my first thought was that maybe this is a wake-up call to his followers who think that this is all a hoax.\n\nMy second thought was that unless he has symptoms that are a little more severe - and I don't wish that on anyone including him and Melania - he's going to pull out and broadcast to his followers that Covid-19 is nothing to worry about, and even at his age he got through it.\n\nI have been extremely careful and I do take the health situation very seriously. I don't have underlying conditions but I know many people who do. I worry about people who are not, and I think that this will be a wake-up call. But as I said, I think that if [Trump has only a mild case], he will convince his followers that Covid has been blown out of proportion by the media.\n\nKathleen McClellan from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is a Republican voting for Donald Trump.\n\nI'm very sorry that [Donald and Melania Trump] caught the infection. I hope they do well. But my brother also caught it and he said he's had flus that felt worse. So, I know that it varies quite a bit. But I think that's just the way a virus works - it has to infect a certain number of people before it's going to go away.\n\nI don't think he's underestimated the crisis. I think he's in a position where he has seen people die, but he has a different philosophy, where you push forward. It's an individual decision for each person and I don't think anybody really knows that much about the virus. But it seems like at this point in time we may need to just get on with our lives, protect people who are especially vulnerable.\n\nIt's just a reminder that [Covid-19] is not something anyone should take for granted. But you can't be paranoid. It's not like back in April, when a complete shutdown made sense because we didn't know what we were dealing with.\n\nEric Scholl, 65, is a media coordinator from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He voted for Trump in 2016, but will vote for Joe Biden this year.\n\nCovid is not a Republican issue, it's not a United States issue, it's a global health issue. Unfortunately, and I do mean very unfortunately, the president never [listened to] the medical experts, let alone the fact that he totally blew off first protecting the country. So, it's sad - I'm just very sad for him and his wife and I hope they recover, but that's not gonna change who I vote for.\n\nI respect that there will be a small percentage [of the population] that will be more proactive in protecting themselves [after the president got the virus]. But here where I live in Oklahoma, the attitude is \"Hey I'm bulletproof. It's not going to affect me.\"\n\nThe president has greatly underestimated the power of Covid-19.\n\nJim Hurson from the San Francisco Bay Area in California is a Republican voting for Donald Trump.\n\nMy first reaction was, obviously, I thought it's very unfortunate. My second reaction is wondering what his opposition is going to do, to try and leverage this into making him look bad again. I think for sure they will play a game of \"we told you so\".\n\nWe have to remember that we have the benefit of hindsight.\n\nIf you listen to purely health oriented people, they want to make things as safe as they can from the standpoint of virology. But the president also has to deal with the consequences of disastrous economic fallout, what are the mental health problems of sequestering people in their homes... what is the society as a whole going to suffer from, and the government spending money that it frankly does not have?\n\nIt's an incredibly complicated situation when you look at it from a national standpoint. Given that, I don't think anybody could have done any better.\n\nIf you don't assume that the government can solve all of this, and you look at individuals and say how they are behaving, we're all going through this nicely.\n\nAre you an American voter? Join Jim, Kathleen, Mark, Eric and Laura on our US election voter panel.\n\nUse this form to get in touch.\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 response.", "Boris Johnson spent three nights in intensive care after contracting coronavirus\n\nDominic Raab has said he was \"really worried\" the PM could have died from Covid-19 after he was admitted to intensive care in the spring.\n\nThe foreign secretary stood in for Boris Johnson during his time in intensive care and while he recovered.\n\nSpeaking to the Conservative Party conference, Mr Raab said the virus \"nearly took the life\" of the PM.\n\nMr Raab also said he worried for the PM's fiancee Carrie Symonds but \"always had faith\" he would \"pull through\".\n\nMr Johnson spent three nights in intensive care at London's St Thomas' Hospital in April after contracting coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking about his experience after leaving hospital, the PM said it \"could have gone either way\" and thanked healthcare workers for saving his life.\n\nMr Raab told the virtual conference that coronavirus had \"hit us hard, taking lives on a tragic scale\".\n\n\"It nearly took the life of our prime minister, our friend as well as our leader.\n\n\"I get asked a lot how I felt, when I covered for him.\n\n\"Well, I really worried we might lose him, and I was worried for Carrie (Symonds), pregnant with baby Wilf.\n\n\"But I always had faith that with the outstanding NHS care he received and his fighting spirit, he'd pull through.\"\n\nAdmitting there would be \"lessons to be learnt\" following the government's handling of the crisis, the foreign secretary added: \"I have to say, for every hurdle we faced, with every heart-rending loss, there was also a tale of courage, a moment of inspiration.\"\n\nDominic Raab stepped in for the prime minister during his sickness\n\nMr Raab also spoke about the prospect of a post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe UK and the EU have pledged to \"work intensively\" in order to resolve their differences and reach a deal.\n\nBut Mr Raab said that although the government wanted a free trade deal with the EU, \"any deal must be fair\".\n\n\"The days of being held over a barrel by Brussels… are long gone,\" the foreign secretary said.\n\nHe added there was \"no question the government will control our fisheries\".\n\nBoth sides have been calling on the other to compromise on key issues, which include fishing and government subsidies.\n\nAlso speaking at the conference, Michael Gove outlined the government's plans to move more Civil Service jobs outside of London - part of its \"levelling up\" agenda to spread investment and opportunity beyond London and south-east England.\n\nThe Cabinet Office minister said \"far too many government jobs\" were based in Westminster and Whitehall.\n\nMr Gove added: \"We have an amazing Civil Service and it has drawn its resources and people from lots of different communities - I think we now need to give back to those communities as well.\"\n\nPlans to open a second headquarters in Leeds were also announced.\n\nThe new headquarters will provide the party with \"a base at the heart of the blue wall\", party co-chairman Amanda Milling said, referring to the northern constituencies who voted for the party for the first time at the general election in December.", "Zef Eisenberg \"dedicated himself\" to \"pushing the boundaries of both human and machine\", said his family\n\nA millionaire fitness firm founder who died attempting a British land speed record was a \"true genius with unique talents\", his family has said.\n\nMaximuscle founder Zef Eisenberg died at Elvington Airfield, near York, on Thursday where in 2006 ex-Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond crashed.\n\nHis car \"went out of control at high speed at the end of a run\".\n\nPaying tribute his family said the 47-year-old \"injected his positivity into everyone he came into contact with\".\n\nIn the tribute on Facebook, they said the father of two left people \"feeling upbeat and in an enlightened mood\".\n\nMotorsport UK said his 1,200 horsepower Porsche car \"went out of control at high speed at the end of a run\".\n\nLondon-born and Guernsey-based Mr Eisenberg set more than 90 speed records on two wheels and four including the holding the iconic \"flying mile\" record.\n\nZef Eisenberg sold his Maximuscle firm to pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in 2011 for £162m\n\nThe former competitive weightlifter and bodybuilder had honed his knowledge of sports nutrition with research at the British Medical Library and founded company Maximuscle in 1995.\n\nFifteen years later it was selling £80m worth of products a year. It was sold to pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in 2011 for £162m.\n\nMr Eisenberg moved to Guernsey after he sold Maximuscle and \"dedicated himself\" to \"pushing the boundaries of both human and machine\", said his family.\n\nHis \"infectious enthusiasm and his unique ability to explain in layman's terms the most complex subjects\" led to him presenting Speed Freaks on ITV, focusing on the design, build and engineering of extreme cars.\n\nHe also became a champion of a £200,000 restoration of a much-loved children's playground and helped create Guernsey's first skate park.\n\nMr Eisenberg leaves behind his partner Mirella D'Antonio and two children.\n\nHis family said his parents and four siblings \"all adored him\" and followed his progress with \"great admiration\".", "Dame Carolyn will step down as CBI boss in November\n\nA post-Brexit trade deal \"can and must be made\", the organisation representing British businesses has said ahead of further UK-EU trade talks on Monday.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn, the boss of the Confederation of British Industry, said it was the time for \"the spirit of compromise to shine through\".\n\nThe Brexit transition period, in which the UK has kept to EU trading rules, ends on 31 December.\n\nThe UK and EU are yet to agree a deal that will govern their future trade.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said a trade agreement with the EU must be done by 15 October if it is going to be ready for the start of 2021.\n\nBut despite this, talks have run into problems. There are still key points of disagreement - including, for example, on fishing.\n\nThe next official round of talks - the ninth since March - begins on 28 September.\n\nThe CBI carried out a survey of 648 companies which found only 4% said they would prefer no deal to be agreed on trade.\n\nAnd half of firms said the impact of dealing with the coronavirus had negatively affected their preparations for next year, when the transition period ends.\n\n\"Next week Brexit talks enter the 11th hour,\" said Dame Carolyn. \"Now must be the time for political leadership and the spirit of compromise to shine through on both sides. A deal can and must be made.\n\n\"Businesses face a hat-trick of unprecedented challenges - rebuilding from the first wave of Covid-19, dealing with the resurgence of the virus and preparing for significant changes to the UK's trading relationship with the EU.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is it so hard to reach a Brexit deal?\n\nShe added: \"A good deal will provide the strongest possible foundation as countries build back from the pandemic.\n\n\"It would keep UK firms competitive by minimising red tape and extra costs, freeing much-needed time and resource to overcome the difficult times ahead.\"\n\nAccording to BBC Europe editor Katya Adler, one EU diplomat said the two sides were \"90% there\" on agreeing technical issues.\n\nThe diplomat said the \"remaining 10% is political\" and \"if that can't be solved, then the 90% is irrelevant\".\n\nAny trade agreement will aim to eliminate tariffs and reduce other trade barriers. It will also aim to cover both goods and services.\n\nIf negotiators fail to reach a deal, the UK faces the prospect of trading with the EU under the basic rules set by the World Trade Organization (WTO).\n\nIf the UK has to trade under WTO rules, tariffs will be applied to most goods which UK businesses send to the EU.\n\nThis would make UK goods more expensive and harder to sell in Europe. The UK could also do this to EU goods, if it chooses to.", "The UK has announced more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time since mass testing began.\n\nThere were 12,872 new cases, while a further 49 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHowever, the government said a technical issue meant some cases this week were not recorded at the time so these were included in Saturday's data.\n\nIt comes after data earlier this week had suggested infections may be rising more slowly than in previous weeks.\n\nThat data was based on weekly testing among a sample of people in the community to get an idea of how many people in England have the virus at any time.\n\nThe government also closely watches the daily number of positive cases, as it provides the most up-to-date snapshot.\n\nHowever, it published a cautionary message on its \"data dashboard\", explaining that the totals reported over the coming days would include some cases from the previous week, \"increasing the number of cases reported\".\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said the issue did not affect people receiving test results, and all those who tested positive have been informed in the normal way.\n\nThe announcement of the apparent glitch in the daily count comes \"at an awkward moment\", according to BBC health editor Hugh Pym, \"when there is intense scrutiny of daily Covid-19 data as ministers and health chiefs try to assess the rate of spread of the virus\".\n\nHe added: \"After criticism in recent months over the way total tests are counted, ministers and officials will now face more questions over the compilation of daily case data.\"\n\nThe daily total saw a significant rise from 4,044 on Monday to a then-high of 7,143 on Tuesday. However, over the next four days the daily total remained stable - varying between 6,914 and 7,108 - at a time when continued increases might have been expected.\n\nAnd then came the big leap in numbers announced on Saturday, a far bigger day-on-day increase than at any time in the entire pandemic, which were announced five hours later than the usual time and were accompanied by the government explanation.\n\nThe figures announced on Saturday would also have been partially inflated by the fact that 264,979 tests were processed the previous day, the third highest there has been so far in a single 24-hour period.\n\nSaturday's figure brings the total number of recorded cases in the UK to 480,017.\n\nThe increase in the UK is largely reflected across Europe.\n\nMiddlesbrough has been on the government's watchlist following an increase in cases\n\nOn Saturday tighter restrictions came into force in parts of northern England after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nIt is now illegal to meet people indoors from other households in the Liverpool City Region, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Warrington.\n\nIt means than a third of the UK is now under heightened restrictions.\n\nThey were also tightened this week in Newcastle, Northumberland, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland and County Durham, as well as four areas of north Wales.\n\nThe new rules come as hundreds of Northumbria University students are self-isolating after testing positive for Covid.\n\nThe Mayor of Greater Manchester, Labour's Andy Burnham, called for \"local control\" on measures to tackle the virus, telling Sky News' Sophy Ridge: \"At least our own destiny would be in our hands. It feels we are a little powerless.\"\n\nElsewhere, people arriving in the UK from Turkey and Poland now have to quarantine for two weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which also apply to the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba - came into force at 04:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nAfter a steady decline since the first peak in April, confirmed coronavirus daily cases in the UK have been rising again since July, with the rate of growth increasing sharply from the end of August.\n\nSage, the body which advises the UK government, say it is still \"highly likely\" the epidemic is growing exponentially across the country.\n\nTheir latest R number estimate - indicating how fast the epidemic is growing or falling - rose to between 1.3 and 1.6.\n\nBut an Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey estimates there were 8,400 new cases per day in England in the week to 24 September - slightly down on the previous week's estimate of 9,600 daily cases.\n\nThe ONS's estimates of how much of the population is currently infected are based on testing a representative sample of people in households with or without symptoms.\n\nIt is different to the number published daily by the Department of Health. That records positive cases in people with potential Covid symptoms who request tests.", "Trade negotiations tend not to begin with two sides in agreement - otherwise there would be nothing to negotiate.\n\nSo it's not surprising to see the UK and EU set out rather different positions before talks begin in earnest.\n\nThere are some broad similarities. The two sides agree they want a free-trade agreement, with no tariffs (border taxes on goods) or quotas (limits on the amount of goods). They are also keen to include as much of the service sector as possible.\n\nBut that's the easy bit and this is likely to become a bruising experience for all involved.\n\nTerms and conditions always apply - and there are several possible flashpoints.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFirst and foremost, the EU wants the UK to sign up to strict rules on fair and open competition, so if British companies are given tariff-free access to the EU market, they cannot undercut their rivals.\n\nThese are known as level playing field guarantees and they have been a constant theme in the EU's negotiating position for nearly two years.\n\nMost importantly, its negotiating directives, adopted on 25 February 2020, say a future partnership must \"ensure the application\" in the UK of EU state-aid rules on subsidies for business.\n\nThe UK would also be required to stay in line with the EU's rules on environmental policy and workers' rights in a way that would \"stand the test of time\".\n\nBut the government has now rejected this approach entirely. The political declaration it agreed with the EU last year did speak of level playing field commitments but, armed with a big majority in the House of Commons, it has toughened up its language.\n\nIn a document outlining the UK's approach to negotiations published on 27 February 2020, it said: \"we will not agree to any obligations for our laws to be aligned with the EU's\".\n\nInstead, Boris Johnson has said he would create an independent system that would uphold the UK's international obligations and not undermine European standards.\n\n\"There is no need for a free-trade agreement to involve accepting EU rules on competition policy, subsidies, social protection, the environment or anything similar,\" he said.\n\nHe has also pointed out that there are areas such as maternity rights in which the UK has higher standards than the EU and that the UK spent far less money on state aid than Germany or France.\n\nThe EU says without a level playing field, it cannot offer any kind of basic free-trade agreement along the lines of the one it has negotiated with Canada.\n\nThe UK's response? A Canada-style deal would be its preference, but if that is not available, it will settle for what Australia has with the EU. In other words, no free-trade deal at all.\n\nThe government says it will decide in June 2020 \"whether good progress has been possible on the least controversial areas of the negotiations\" (which it defines as things like financial services and data) and if not, it will start to focus on preparing for a new relationship without a formal free-trade deal.\n\nEither way, says Mr Johnson, a new relationship will begin on 1 January 2021.\n\nHis critics accuse him of recklessness, but the prime minister says he has \"no doubt that in either case the UK will prosper\".\n\nThe EU has said an agreement on fisheries must be concluded before any free-trade deal is finalised. That's because UK fishing waters are among the best in Europe.\n\nThe UK says it's happy to consider a deal on fisheries but it must be based on the notion \"British fishing grounds are first and foremost for British boats\".\n\nIts negotiating directives say a future deal should \"aim to avoid economic dislocation for [European] Union fishermen that have traditionally fished in United Kingdom waters\".\n\nThe EU wants to \"uphold\" existing access on both sides to fishing waters - language that has strengthened under pressure from EU countries with big fishing fleets.\n\nThe EU also seems prepared to link access to fishing waters to the UK's ability to sell its fish in the EU market.\n\nBut the UK also rejects that. Michael Gove told Parliament: \"We will take back control of our waters, as an independent coastal state, and we will not link access to our waters to access to EU markets. Our fishing waters are our sovereign resource.\"\n\nFishing is a tiny part of both sides' economies - in the UK it's well below 1% - but it has always been an emotional issue. And coastal communities depend on it on both sides of the Channel.\n\nWhen it comes to product standards and other regulations, the EU is a bit more flexible.\n\n\"We're not asking for alignment, I know it's a red rag to the UK, so I won't really mention it,\" the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier said.\n\n\"What I am looking for is consistency.\"\n\nThe UK says it must have the right to diverge from EU rules when it chooses to do so, but it won't do that just for the sake of doing things differently.\n\nThe more it diverges, the more checks there will be and the more barriers to trade will emerge.\n\nOne late addition to the EU's negotiating document is the demand that the UK should stick close to EU rules on food safety and animal health, which is seen by some as a reference to whether the UK might import chlorine-washed chicken from the US in the future.\n\nSimilar trade-offs will have to be made in the services sector. UK financial services companies, for example, will lose the passporting rights that gave them unfettered access to the rest of the EU.\n\nInstead, the UK is hoping for a system of what's known as enhanced equivalence, which would give companies plenty of notice if the rules were about to change.\n\nBut talk in government circles of frictionless trade has gone. The UK now accepts that will not be possible outside the EU single market and customs union.\n\nThe EU's negotiating mandate recalls a statement made back in 2018, in which the other 27 member states agreed Gibraltar would not be included in any post-Brexit agreement between the UK and the EU.\n\nIt doesn't rule out a separate deal between the UK and the EU that does cover Gibraltar, but that in turn would have to be agreed by the UK and Spain.\n\nThis is another hot-button issue pretty much guaranteed to generate tabloid headlines.\n\nMr Johnson has said he would be negotiating for what he called the whole UK family, including Gibraltar.\n\nGaining independence from the rulings of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) was an important part of the argument for Brexit.\n\nNow, the EU is demanding the ECJ be given a legal role in policing any free-trade agreement.\n\nIt wants the court to be able to issue binding rulings on disputes between the two sides, when they \"raise a question of interpretation of [European] Union law\".\n\nBut the government's outline says it will not allow \"the EU's institutions, including the Court of Justice, to have any jurisdiction in the UK\".\n\nThe ECJ does play a limited role in the withdrawal agreement, both in the special arrangements for Northern Ireland and in resolving any disputes over citizens' rights for the next few years.\n\nBut a future trade deal is a different matter.\n\nDevising a dispute-resolution system that satisfies both sides will not be easy.\n\nIt's not just about trade, it's about internal security co-operation and access to databases too.\n\n\"Where a partnership is based on concepts derived from European law,\" Michel Barnier said, \"obviously the ECJ should be able to continue to play its role in full\".\n\nThe EU's mandate also says there should be \"automatic termination\" of law enforcement and judicial co-operation in criminal matters if the UK were to opt out of the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nThe bottom line for the UK? The ECJ and the EU's legal order \"must not constrain the autonomy of the UK's legal system in any way\".\n\nSo there are some big divides to be bridged.\n\nBoth sides are accusing the other of moving the goalposts and backing away from commitments made in the non-binding political declaration.\n\nMany observers expect a serious row and a possible breakdown in the talks sooner rather than later.\n\nOn the other hand, both the UK and the EU say they would settle for a free-trade agreement. The difficult part will be working out how to get there and how to implement it.\n\nIt is also worth recalling the government's own internal analysis from November 2018 suggested a Canada-style deal would leave the economy 4.9% smaller after 15 years than if the UK had stayed in the EU.\n\nThere is a long way to go in a short period of time.\n\nUPDATE: This piece was originally published on 4 February 2020 and updated when the UK and EU released their negotiating mandates.", "Labour has given ministers 72 hours to agree to provide free school meals during the holidays, warning that one million children could be left hungry.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said \"now is the time to act\", and Labour warned would force a vote by MPs if the programme is not extended.\n\nFootballer Marcus Rashford pledged to continue his free school meals campaign after the government rejected it.\n\nNumber 10 said it was not for schools to provide meals during the holidays.\n\nIt comes after former prime minister Gordon Brown called for Boris Johnson to give 1.5 million children free meals outside term time.\n\nMr Brown said it would cost about £20m a week to provide the 1.5 million worst-off children with free meals during half-term and Christmas.\n\nThe Welsh government has pledged to provide free school meals during the holidays until Easter next year.\n\nBut Downing Street has indicated that free meals will not be provided to children in England over Christmas.\n\nA Number 10 spokesman said: \"It's not for schools to regularly provide food to pupils during the school holidays.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Green said: \"Millions of families face the prospect of losing their livelihoods because the government has lost control of the virus.\n\n\"Its sink-or-swim plans for support could leave more than one million children at risk of going hungry over the school holidays.\n\n\"Now is the time to act. Labour will not stand by and let families be the victims of the government's incompetence.\"\n\nShe said that if the PM did not change course, the party would force a vote and \"give his backbenchers the chance to do the right thing\".\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, backed Labour's call.\n\nHe said: \"Schools are working incredibly hard to help children catch-up with lost learning amidst ongoing disruption caused by rising Covid infection rates, and the pupils who need the greatest degree of support are often those from disadvantaged backgrounds.\n\n\"To then have a situation where they are potentially going hungry through holiday periods is very obviously detrimental to both their welfare and educational progress.\"\n\nMarcus Rashford's campaign over the summer forced the government to U-turn on free school meals\n\nA government spokeswoman said \"substantial action\" had been taken to ensure children do not go hungry.\n\nMeasures include extending free school meals while schools were closed, increasing welfare support by £9.3bn, and giving councils £63m to provide emergency support to families for food and other essentials, she said.\n\nIn June, Mr Rashford prompted a government U-turn over free meals in the summer holidays, a campaign that saw the England and Manchester United striker become an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list earlier this month.\n\nMore than 200,000 people have added their names to his petition, which says that all under-16s in England whose parent or guardian receives Universal Credit should get free school meals - including during the holidays.\n\nAfter securing enough signatures, Mr Rashford's decision will be considered for debate by MPs.", "Coronavirus patients admitted to intensive care have a better chance of surviving now than they did in April, according to the dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.\n\nBut these gains levelled off over the summer, Dr Alison Pittard said.\n\nThe proportion of patients admitted to critical care who die fell by almost a quarter from the peak and as much as half in hospitals overall.\n\nIt is too soon to know the survival rate for patients admitted this autumn.\n\nA better understanding of the disease has allowed doctors to treat patients better, including using the steroid dexamethasone and less invasive types of ventilation.\n\nThe Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC), which reports on the outcomes of patients who end up in critical care units, has begun separating out the cases of people admitted after 1 September.\n\nThe Health Service Journal reported these figures, which it said suggested a dramatic fall in the proportion of patients dying between the first wave (up until the end of August) and the second (from 1 September).\n\nOn average, 39% of patients admitted to critical care died between the start of the pandemic and the end of August and this appears to have fallen to just under 12%.\n\nBut while this appears a dramatic fall at first glance, Dr Pittard cautioned this was most likely to be a product of the fact that not enough time has passed to know the outcomes of patients admitted to hospital since the beginning of September.\n\nMany will remain in intensive care and until a patient is either discharged or dies, they do not appear in the data.\n\nThough it is too soon to know what mortality will look like in the second wave, we do know that mortality was higher at the beginning of the first wave than it was at the end, she said.\n\nThe BBC previously reported this fall in the death rate among patients admitted to hospital with coronavirus, when University of Oxford researchers estimated it had fallen from 6% to 1.5% between the peak in April and June.\n\nIt is difficult to match deaths to hospital admissions in general, though, whereas critical care patients' outcomes are regularly reported.\n\nLooking at the outcomes of patients admitted to critical care, more than half were dying around the peak of the epidemic in April.\n\nBy the beginning of July it had fallen to about 40% and remained roughly at that level until the end of the summer.\n\nBased on a much smaller number of patients admitted between the 1 September and the start of October, the death rate now appears to be about a quarter of that level.\n\nHowever, Dr Pittard believes it is too soon to say whether this is a genuine fall.\n\n\"There are lots of reasons why the mortality rate reduced over time but the biggest thing is we have learnt more about the disease,\" Dr Pittard said.\n\n\"In the early days we were, almost immediately that people were admitted, putting them in ICU, sedating them and putting them on a ventilator.\n\n\"We started to use more non-invasive ventilation and patients were doing very well,\" she said.\n\nThat means more patients are treated using things like CPAP machines - a face mask with a pump that controls airflow - rather than being sedated and having a tube put into their airway.\n\n\"We saw the effect on blood clotting. We recognise the disease a lot earlier,\" Dr Pittard added.\n\nThe use of a steroid called dexamethasone which reduces inflammation is also thought to have contributed to falling death rates, although it is hard to say how much.\n\nAnd the type of patients ending up in hospital may be a factor too, as a much higher proportion were in the 30-59 age bracket in September, compared with the peak.\n\nBut it has been suggested that if intensive care units get too full, the death ratio could rise again.", "Helen Pye said there had been shift toward staycations, resulting in more visitors to Snowdonia\n\nWales' tourism sector faces \"very dark days\", with firms closing and hotels \"mothballed\" amid the coronavirus pandemic, an industry body has said.\n\nWales Tourism Alliance (WTA) said a Covid resurgence meant hopes of making up for several \"lost months\" had faded.\n\nBut some in the sector said it could be a chance to attract new visitors and improve sustainability.\n\nThe Welsh Government said a £1.7bn support package had helped and it was committed to delivering sustainability.\n\n\"If things pick up and businesses do make it through, then I think we're very well-placed to pick up customers that would normally have gone overseas,\" said Adrian Greason-Walker of the WTA, which represents thousands of firms.\n\n\"However, we've probably had five weeks of trade this year instead of what would normally be 20 solid weeks over the summer.\n\n\"At the moment things are dark.\"\n\nIt comes after the Welsh Government announced a ban on visitors travelling from coronavirus hotspots elsewhere in the UK, which came into effect on Friday.\n\nThat followed mounting tension over fears from some residents around an \"influx\" of tourists to areas not currently subject to lockdown restrictions in Wales, such as Ceredigion, most of Carmarthenshire, Powys, Pembrokeshire and Gwynedd.\n\nA two-week \"fire break\" - a period with tighter restrictions to help break the trajectory of coronavirus cases rising in Wales - is also expected within days.\n\nMr Greason-Walker said about half of tourism businesses surveyed by the WTA feared they might not survive the next six months, with some facing the \"worst possible scenario\".\n\n\"If we can pick up any silver lining from this awful situation then it's that we can still offer people some respite from it all.\n\n\"I think we've seen a return to family holidays to Wales, whereas before they might have caught a flight to Spain and spent a week on a beach over there.\n\n\"We've got a fantastic landscape and environment here. We're going to have to come out of this crisis at some point.\"\n\nOne area significantly bucking the trend for reduced footfall was Snowdonia, with figures from Visit Wales suggesting more people intended to visit the national park than anywhere else in Wales over the next few months.\n\nWish you were here? Visit Wales said Snowdon was top of most people's to-do list in Wales\n\n\"I would say it's been the busiest summer that we have ever seen,\" said Helen Pye, the park's engagement officer.\n\n\"August was incredibly busy - and September the figures were up by about 40 to 50% compared to a normal year.\"\n\nHowever, having large numbers of visitors concentrated in certain areas has heightened fears about over-tourism.\n\n\"The tourism industry is incredibly important to us, but we've been seeing a huge increase in the challenges we already had,\" said Ms Pye.\n\n\"There's been an increase in traffic, pollution and noise in the national park. We've also seen huge amounts of litter in the area and anti-social behaviour and fly camping.\"\n\nHowever, she and others in the industry hope Wales can follow the lead of countries such as New Zealand and Iceland in introducing a sustainable tourism model - which would aim to spread visitors more evenly by promoting less well-known places.\n\nLouise Dixey would like to see a change to the way Wales is seen and treated as a destination\n\n\"Sustainable tourism is about reducing the negative impacts of tourism and maximising the benefits,\" explained Louise Dixey, from Cardiff Metropolitan University's Next Tourism Generation project.\n\n\"It's not about the number of visitors, but it's about how much they spend and whether their visit can benefit local communities.\n\n\"There needs to be an emphasis on almost de-marketing some of these hotspots like Snowdonia and marketing unheard of places in Wales to try and spread the visitor load and make it more manageable.\"\n\nA winter break centred around long walks and dining out can be seen as bringing in far more benefit for less impact than a daytrip to the beach in the height of summer, for example, where the only expenses may be car parking and an ice cream.\n\nHowever, for some, the strategy still would not go far enough.\n\nHoward Huws, from Welsh language group, Cylch yr Iaith, said some Welsh-speaking communities had been feeling \"overwhelmed\" by the tourist trade for decades.\n\n\"We're constantly being told that the only way to deal with tourism is to bolster it further - but we are in a situation where it's already wreaking damage,\" said Mr Huws.\n\n\"People find themselves with few job opportunities - and any opportunities in tourism are seasonal and low paid.\n\n\"The cost of having those jobs is people then find themselves priced out of the housing market. We find ourselves unable to access the sites within our own landscape where tourism has taken control.\n\n\"They are talking about diversifying it and spreading it - but not about controlling it. Without controlling it - nothing is sustainable.\"\n\nWales' travel ban bars visitors from Northern Ireland, England's tier two and three areas and the Scottish central belt\n\nAcross the industry there is an acknowledgement coronavirus may have created a strange paradox, simultaneously crippling businesses while potentially increasing their future demand - as people switch from foreign holidays to staycations.\n\n\"There is a slight concern given the current situation that many tourism and hospitality businesses might not survive until spring 2021,\" said Ms Dixey.\n\n\"But there has been a surge in domestic demand. So we might actually be in a situation next year where market demand exceeds supply, particularly in relation to accommodation, which would limit the number of visitors.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said its £1.7bn support package was the \"most generous\" in the UK and included a £500m economic resilience fund which had \"helped protect the livelihoods of more than 100,000 people\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"Over the course of the pandemic and in the coming years we will continue to listen closely to the people of Wales, the industry and visitors to ensure what we're delivering is sustainable and provides prosperity for everyone.\"", "Manchester has resisted being put into the \"very high risk\" tier\n\nEarly in the pandemic, the government consistently said it was \"following the science\" - but what does that really mean, and is the divergence between politics and science now wider than it has ever been?\n\nSome with heels clacking on the cobbles, others capturing the moment on their phones - it's like the aftermath of a big win in the football, or the Saturday after pay day. The videos show Concert Square in Liverpool heaving with crowds.\n\nAnd this in a city on the crest of a second wave of coronavirus, where almost all the intensive care beds in the hospitals are full.\n\nIt was Tuesday night, hours away from the Liverpool City Region entering the toughest restrictions in the country. But the footage sparked anger, and on Twitter there was a fight over the damage to the city's reputation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crowds gather in Liverpool on eve of new Covid rules\n\nDozens of tweets insisted that those present must have been students, that no true Liverpudlian would set foot in Concert Square, let alone behave like that. The tweeters were adamant - these people came from outside.\n\nThe mayor and the metro mayor condemned the scenes - but that wasn't the only thing they were angry about.\n\nThey accused the government at Westminster of not providing enough financial support - workers affected by the closure of businesses such as bars and gyms will only get two-thirds of their wages.\n\nOn the first day of lockdown, one gym owner showed his defiance by remaining open and was fined for it.\n\nGyms have indeed provided a source of confusion. Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson questioned why gyms in the Liverpool City Region had to close when the area moved into tier three - very high alert - but those in Lancashire, which went into tier three on Saturday, were allowed to stay open.\n\nLiverpool was the first place in England to go into the strictest measures\n\nIn Blackburn, with 438 cases per 100,000 (in the week to 13 October), you can work out, but in Wirral, with 284 cases per 100,000, you can't.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged inconsistencies. \"There are anomalies, that's inevitably going to happen in a complex campaign against a pandemic like this.\"\n\nBut do these discrepancies encourage those who feel the government's decision-making sometimes veers away from the science?\n\n\"Following the science\" was a phrase we heard a lot of earlier in the year. It's what, we were repeatedly told, the government at Westminster was doing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe reality was always more nuanced. There was a range of scientific views on a topic about which precious little was known at the outset, and there are still vast amounts to learn.\n\nAdded to that, from the perspective of ministers, this could never only be about scientific advice.\n\nThere was a constant swirl of broader considerations, what we might call the three Ls - lives, liberties and livelihoods. Ministers have been tussling with the three Ls from the start of the pandemic. But the divergence has never been wider than it is now.\n\nClaire Hamilton is the BBC's political reporter for Merseyside @chamiltonbbc\n\nThe critical moment in recent weeks can be traced back to 21 September, when Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser and Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser, warned of the need for immediate action.\n\nIn a televised briefing, Sir Patrick warned cases could reach 50,000 a day by mid-October if they doubled every seven days, as had happened in recent weeks.\n\nWe now know that on that same day, the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) met and suggested the \"immediate introduction\" of a \"short period of lockdown,\" and a series of longer term measures, including:\n\nA day later, what actually happened?\n\nThe prime minister said people should work from home if they could and a 22:00 curfew for pubs and restaurants was introduced. In other words, not a lot of change.\n\nWhat happened to \"following the science\"?\n\nPlenty at Westminster whispered, even before we had seen the minutes from the Sage meeting, that this was a victory for those in government, like Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who worried about the pandemic's crippling economic consequences.\n\nMr Sunak has been consistent - warning again, just this week, of the danger of \"rushing to another lockdown\". He warned, instead, of the \"economic emergency\", touching on another of the three Ls - livelihoods.\n\nWhen you speak to people in the Treasury, you get an insight into what informs this outlook.\n\n\"We have to keep an eye on the medium term. There may not be a vaccine. Listening to the scientists recently, the mood music has changed. They're more pessimistic,\" says one.\n\nThis is no longer about dealing with a short-term emergency, but being resilient through a medium or long-term slog of a crisis.\n\nAnd that means the Treasury is well aware of what is going out - in public spending - and what is coming in, in taxes.\n\n\"There isn't the headroom there was,\" an insider says - a reference to the £200bn already spent.\n\nAnd there is a keen awareness of the economic consequences of shutting pubs. \"Our economy is comparatively very reliant on social consumption,\" is how it is described.\n\nThe experts know the ministers have to take into account a variety of factors. One Sage member said: \"Our job is to give clear unvarnished science advice so they can do that with their eyes open.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer advocated a short, limited lockdown - the circuit-breaker suggested by the scientific advisers.\n\nBut does Sir Keir calling for a circuit-breaker make it more or less likely to happen?\n\nSince then, the government - to quote Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab - has been \"leaning in\" to its regional response for England.\n\nPolitical convention says, everything else being equal, it is harder to adopt a policy advocated by your opponents than it is by independent advisers.\n\nThen there's the last of the three Ls. Liberties.\n\nAmong the most influential Conservative backbench voices is Sir Graham Brady, who said ministers had got used to \"ruling by decree\" and \"the British people aren't used to being treated like children\".\n\nThis unease at how the pandemic has, in their view, swept away some of the checks and balances on those in power, is widely held in Parliament.\n\nThen there's the question of geography. First there was devolution for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but now we're all aware of the big English cities that have metro mayors because they are fighting back against Westminster.\n\nAccording to well-placed sources, Health Secretary Matt Hancock had argued for tougher measures in private. But the need to get local leaders on board has meant the tiered system has had to leave some wriggle room for negotiation.\n\nMinisters were stung when Middlesbrough mayor Andy Preston said he flatly rejected the restrictions that the government announced there in early October. \"It was a real problem for us - it undermined the public health message and threatened to undo what we were trying to achieve,\" one government source said.\n\nSteve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, had been asking for a lockdown circuit-breaker for at least two weeks - but he said any measures must come with a bespoke financial support package for businesses. It appears this hasn't been forthcoming.\n\nBut the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has gone much further than his colleague in Liverpool. On Friday, he was described as \"effectively trying to hold the government over a barrel\" by Mr Raab.\n\nMr Burnham, a former Labour cabinet minister, who lost out to Jeremy Corbyn in the 2015 Labour leadership contest, is suddenly back on the national stage. He is demanding noisily and frequently the need for more generous support for those unable to work because of tier three restrictions.\n\nThere is nervousness within the Labour Party nationally, and elsewhere in the north of England, about this stance. Some worry it imperils people's health, others that it's become \"the Andy show\" - as one figure put it.\n\nThe idea of \"metro mayors\" voted for directly by the people of the region has long been championed by the Conservatives. David Cameron was a particular fan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Top SAGE scientist tells us the regional restriction row is dangerous\n\n\"Some Conservatives are now realising you've got to be careful what you wish for,\" an early advocate of them says.\n\n\"And remember this, Boris Johnson was a mayor. There is a path to Downing Street that can pass via a town hall. Perhaps Andy Burnham has realised that too.\"\n\nWhat we are seeing is how different parts of the UK have tilted in different directions. Loyalty to region, to nation, to party. The legacies of past perceived slights and injustices. The realities of perceived injustices now.\n\n\"We owe a big thanks to George Osborne for bequeathing us this incredible standoff,\" a senior Conservative says about the row.\n\nSome Conservative ministers ponder privately that - in the end - Mr Sunak will be forced to be more generous to those unable to work under tier three restrictions. They don't think it'll be politically sustainable to pay people normally on the minimum wage, less than the minimum wage, for months on end.\n\nThe rows between local and central government leaders are \"very dangerous\" and \"very damaging to public health\", according to Prof Sir Jeremy Farrar, Sage member, and director of the Wellcome Trust.\n\nBut these are not the only rows that have been taking place. Across the scientific and medical community tempers are frayed and the pandemic is taking its toll.\n\nThere is a network of committees that feed into Sage, bringing together a wide range of experts from sociologists and public health directors to epidemiologists.\n\nMany are not paid for their advice and instead are fitting it in around their day jobs. \"We do it because we care and it's our life's work,\" said Prof Devi Sridhar, an expert in global public health at Edinburgh University, who has been advising the Scottish government.\n\nTalk to these experts and it is clear they are exhausted.\n\n\"The requests just keep coming in,\" one said. \"We're fed up, especially when we hear that test-and-trace consultants are getting paid £7,000 a day, and we have to put up with MPs going on the TV telling the world we are naïve and don't live in the real world. It's demoralising.\"\n\nBut it is not just between politicians and scientists that disputes have developed. Rival camps of scientists are clashing. Two online petitions have now been established: the Great Barrington declaration for those who want to see controlled spread of the virus and protection of the vulnerable, and the John Snow Memorandum for those arguing for outright suppression until a vaccine is developed.\n\nProf Francois Balloux, director of the UCL Genetics Institute, says the toxic atmosphere that is developing is really \"unhelpful\".\n\nBrought together, it has created a climate where almost every utterance or development is examined for double-meaning.\n\nThe problem facing advisers and decision-makers is two-fold. First, the nature of the virus means it is a lose-lose situation - whatever decision is taken has negative consequences either for the spread of the virus, or for the economy, education and wider health and well-being. What's more, there is not a simple binary choice of one thing or the other.\n\nFor example, much has been made in recent weeks about the need for the NHS to also focus on non-Covid work, which has taken a terrible hit during the pandemic.\n\nReferrals for urgent cancer check-ups and the number of people starting treatment have dropped, while the amount of routine surgery being done is still half the level it was before the pandemic.\n\nThis can have tragic consequences. This week the British Heart Foundation warned the number of younger adults dying of heart disease had increased by 15% during the pandemic.\n\nThe argument put forward by some is that the government should choose to do more non-Covid work. But, and this is a point the health secretary has been making week after week, if hospitals fill up with coronavirus patients, it makes non-Covid work harder to do.\n\nThe second key issue - and this goes to the heart of the disagreements we have seen bubble up in recent weeks among the scientific and medical community - is that there are huge gaps in the evidence and knowledge.\n\nThis is true on everything from the numbers infected already and the level of immunity exposure brings to the true impact of \"long Covid\", and exactly what effect any restrictions beyond a full lockdown actually have.\n\nIn normal times, the scientific and medical community is able to reach more of a consensus off the back of rigorous randomised controlled trials and painstaking peer review.\n\nBut in a fast-moving pandemic with a new virus, that has simply not been possible. Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia, says it means there is such \"uncertainty in the science\" that he does not think any plan is guaranteed to work.\n\nAnd then there is the human factor - the unintended consequences of actions that are impossible to take into account in the modelling. Hence the prospect of scenes like the ones we saw in Liverpool, which were not taken into account by Sage in its latest advice.\n\nBut Prof Keith Neal, an infectious disease expert at Nottingham University, says it shouldn't come as a surprise that people react in the way they do. Both young and old are suffering, he says, from not being able to meet up with people. \"This degree of isolation is not allowed in prisons under human rights legislation.\"\n\nPeople from different households will not be able to drink together inside, after London went into tier two\n\nIt is, he says, therefore natural that some people will ignore the rules. Closing pubs may sound good on paper, he says, but it could lead to an increase in house parties where people are \"far more at risk\".\n\nSo where has this left us?\n\nThe complexity of competing interests, uncertainty in the science and general exhaustion across society both among decision-makers and the public has, some fear, left us in the worst of both worlds.\n\nDelay and deliberation, says Sir Jeremy Farrar is a \"decision in itself\".\n\nBut by reaching a decision by default there is a risk - another adviser says - of making the same mistakes we made at the start of the pandemic.\n\n\"In March we toyed with the Swedish model of limited restrictions with the hope of developing immunity and then hesitated. But we then went for a lockdown, but it was introduced bit by bit and it was too late anyway.\n\n\"The same thing has happened again - we have delayed and then gone for some half measures. I can understand why. This is bloody difficult.\"\n\nThe government is now hoping it will be just enough that we can get through this wave without a devastating number of deaths or hospitals being overwhelmed. But it's a big risk - it could all unravel.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nExeter Chiefs had just enough to keep Racing 92 at bay and clinch their first Heineken Champions Cup title in a thrilling final at Ashton Gate.\n\nLuke-Cowan Dickie, Sam Simmonds and Harry Williams barged over to give Exeter a nine-point lead at the break.\n\nBut Racing roared back with Simon Zebo's second try and Camille Chat's surge bringing them within a point.\n\nExeter, down to 14 men after Tomas Francis' late yellow card, held out heroically to lift the title.\n\nA breathless final 10 minutes featured Racing turning down the drop-goal opportunity as they went through the phases within five metres of the line, Exeter replacement Sam Hidalgo-Clyne securing a turnover under the shadow of his own posts and captain Joe Simmonds landing a penalty with the last act of the match.\n\nEven then the drama was not over.\n\nThe match clock initially showed that three seconds remained for Racing to restart and mount a final assault. However, after consulting with his team officials, referee Nigel Owens confirmed that the clock had not restarted when Simmonds was lining up his penalty and that he could blow up, sparking delirious celebrations.\n\nThe victory marks the culmination of a remarkable decade for Exeter, who won promotion to the Premiership for the first time back in 2010 in a play-off match across Bristol at the city's Memorial Stadium.\n\nRob Baxter's side will attempt to complete a double next weekend when they take on Wasps in the Premiership final.\n• None Emotional Baxter hails Exeter's 'ability to stick at it'\n• None Reaction and analysis after Exeter clinch first Champions Cup\n\nThe clash of styles was clear as soon as the teams emerged into a coronavirus-enforced empty Ashton Gate.\n\nRacing 92 trotted onto the pitch wearing pink bow-ties, in a nod to the Parisians' fast-living free-running past.\n\nExeter marched out in business-like fashion, grim-faced and forward looking, through a gauntlet of their replacements and backroom staff.\n\nRacing brought bursts of colour and panache, but the Chiefs' mastery of close-range trench warfare ultimately kept them one step ahead throughout a thrilling contest.\n\nRacing scrum-half Teddy Iribaren had the chance to give his side an early platform. Instead he screwed a penalty dead as he aimed for the corner and five minutes later Cowan-Dickie forced his way through the middle of a driven maul for the first try.\n\nIribaren's eccentricities continued as he passed blind to put Juan Imhoff under pressure before Russell juggled in his own in-goal area. Racing put themselves under pressure and Exeter gleefully pressed them beyond breaking point.\n\nSam Simmonds barged through opposite number Antonie Claassen at the end of a series of short-range bursts from his fellow forwards.\n\nFourteen points ahead with only 16 minutes gone, Exeter chairman Tony Rowe looked like he was struggling to keep his delight in check in the stands.\n\nBut Racing refused to go quietly.\n\nRussell's cut-out pass tempted Tom O'Flaherty out of position and opened a route to the corner for Zebo before Imhoff ghosted through the fringe defence to cut the gap to two points.\n\nHarry Williams crossed on the stroke of half-time for Chiefs but Zebo, out of contract next summer, showed his quality with another powerful finish to keep the French side within a score early in the second half.\n\nTwo minutes after Zebo's second, with the momentum with the French side, Scotland fly-half Russell threw a looping mis-pass just outside his own 22m. It could have sprung a counter-attack. Instead it was picked off by an alert Jack Nowell who put Henry Slade under the posts.\n\nThat score moved Exeter to 28 points, a total Racing could never overhaul despite Chat's bulldozing try and their late pressure.\n\nBritish and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland was one of the handful of spectators in attendance at the behind-closed-doors final.\n\nThe performance of Russell will have given him plenty to ponder.\n\nThe Scotland fly-half's brilliant chip created a dramatic late score that undid defending champions Saracens in the semi-final and there were moments of vision and precision against Exeter.\n\nHowever, his high-risk, high-reward game means costly errors are also inevitable. Even before his pass was intercepted for Slade's try, his juggle behind his own line had almost gifted Exeter a score in the first half.\n\nWill Gatland feel he can afford that trade-off in the white heat of a Test series against world champions South Africa next summer?\n\nReaction - 'the best team in Europe by some distance'\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It's an amazing achievement for Exeter. There can't have been another winning team that have only been in the top flight of their league for 10 years. And they deserve it because they have been the best team in Europe by some distance.\n\n\"I don't think I've seen a final like that - they tend to be more cagey. When a team goes as far ahead as Exeter did you think this is a one-way show, but it was Exeter who were hanging on at the end.\n\n\"Sport does some strange things to your emotions and there was massive tension and drama even in an empty stadium.\"\n\nFormer England centre Jeremy Guscott: \"Well done Racing for coming back into the match but the difference was that Exeter are a team whereas Racing have individuals. Exeter finished the match with 14 players on the field but backed themselves in a defensive position and have won it together.\"\n\nReplacements: Moon for Hepburn (56), Yeandle for Cowan-Dickie (56), Francis for Williams (56), Kirsten for Vermeulen (56), Skinner for Gray (59), Devoto for Whitten (59), Hidalgo-Clyne for Maunder (65)\n\nReplacements: Machenaud for Iribaren (41), Kolingar for Ben Arous (51), Baubigny for Chat (51), Oz for Colombe (51), Beale for Zebo (65), Klemenczak for Vakatawa (76), Palu for Claassen (76).", "Covid hospital admissions in Scotland are continuing to increase\n\nA further 15 people have died from coronavirus, bringing the total number of fatalities in Scotland under the measure to 2,609.\n\nThe Scottish government confirmed 1,167 more people had tested positive within the same 24-hour period, representing 17.6% of people who were newly tested.\n\nMeanwhile the number of people admitted to hospital with Covid is increasing.\n\nScotland's chief nursing officer Prof Fiona McQueen said there was \"concern\" at the overall rise in figures.\n\nOn Friday 675 people were in hospital with a recently confirmed case of the virus - an increase of 46 from the previous day.\n\nOf those people, 62 were in intensive care - a figure which is also increasing.\n\nThe first minister warned football fans to stay at home during Saturday's Old Firm clash.\n\nPeople were also told not to travel to other parts of Scotland or to England to watch the game in pubs and to avoid gathering outside Celtic Park.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said on Friday: \"Nobody likes the fact that these restrictions have to be in place but they are vital to protecting all of us and keeping us safe.\n\n\"So please comply with restrictions - by doing that you will be playing your part in helping us get the virus under control and you'll be helping hasten the day when we can all watch and enjoy the things that we love doing, whether that's football or the many things that we find ourselves not able to do normally.\"\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nTemporary restrictions to bring the outbreak back under control in the central belt have led to the closure of most licensed premises in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Forth Valley and Ayrshire and Arran NHS boards.\n\nThose living in these areas have been warned not to travel to other parts of Scotland or to areas in England where such restrictions are not in force.\n\nProf McQueen told BBC Scotland that before any restrictions were eased, the Scottish government would want to see a reduction in virus transmission.\n\n\"We are concerned about that increase in hospitalisation, intensive care and deaths,\" she said.\n\n\"We put restrictions in in September and we'd hoped to see improvements. It's a bit early to see the full impact of that.\n\n\"We are very keen to limit the number of changes - that's why we've kept gyms, cafes and in some areas of the country, some hospitality open\"", "An artist works on a mural in Manchester, where an argument over virus restrictions continues between local and national leaders\n\nMillions of people have seen Covid-19 rules tighten as areas have moved up England's new three-tier alert system.\n\nLondon and York are among those moving up to tier two, meaning people cannot mix with other households indoors.\n\nA stalemate continues between Greater Manchester's local leaders and central government over stricter new measures.\n\nBoris Johnson has said infection rates in Manchester are \"grave\" and he may \"need to intervene\" if a row over moving into tier three is not resolved.\n\nMore than half of England - in excess of 28 million people - is now under extra coronavirus restrictions.\n\nLancashire has joined the Liverpool City Region in the top tier - tier three. Pubs must close and the ban on mixing households extends to many outdoor settings.\n\nLondon, Essex, York, Elmbridge, Barrow-in-Furness, North East Derbyshire, Erewash and Chesterfield have moved into tier two, meaning they can no longer mix inside with those from other households, including in pubs and restaurants.\n\nAreas of England in the lowest tier must keep to the nationwide virus rules such as group sizes being capped at six people, and the hospitality industry closing at 22:00.\n\nPubs, restaurants and cafes across Northern Ireland have closed to sit-in customers for the next four weeks.\n\nIn Wales, a two-week \"fire break\" - a period with tighter restrictions to help break the trajectory of coronavirus cases rising - is expected within days.\n\nMost licensed premises in Scotland's central belt are closed under temporary restrictions, which are expected to be replaced by a similar multi-tiered system to the one in England by the end of the month.\n\nCeltic and Rangers football fans are being urged not to cross the border into England to watch the Old Firm game in pubs on Saturday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There were scuffles between police and pub goers in Soho ahead of London moving to Tier 2\n\nGreater Manchester's local leaders are resisting a move from tier two to tier three's strict rules on hospitality - pressing instead for more shielding measures for the vulnerable, extra financial aid and stricter local powers to shut down venues breaking virus guidelines.\n\n\"We firmly believe that protecting health is about more than controlling the virus and requires proper support for people whose lives would be severely affected by a tier three lockdown,\" the deputy mayors and council leaders said in a joint statement.\n\n\"We can assure the prime minister that we are ready to meet at any time to try to agree a way forward.\"\n\nMr Johnson warned on Friday that the situation in Manchester was worsening and that he may intervene if the new measures cannot be agreed with the region's leaders.\n\nBut Kate Green, Labour MP for Stretford and Urmston said there had been no talks between the government and Greater Manchester's leaders on Friday because \"No 10 did not pick up the phone\" - with no further meetings expected until Monday.\n\nRochdale council leader Allen Brett told BBC Newsnight: \"I stood by all day waiting for a meeting which never took place.\"\n\nLocal leaders in north-east England said they were committed to \"ongoing, constructive dialogue\" with central government.\n\nIn a joint statement, council leaders in Northumberland, Newcastle, South and North Tyneside, Gateshead, Sunderland and County Durham urged residents to \"do their bit\" to avoid being put under tier three restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile, calls for a circuit-breaker - a short but strict national lockdown - have been supported by Labour as well as some Conservative MPs.\n\nKate Green told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The Labour leaders in Greater Manchester support the call for a national circuit-break because what we're seeing in Manchester today - the rest of the country is coming along behind. The rate is rising everywhere.\"\n\nMs Green, who is also shadow education secretary, added that extra restrictions would not be effective without a package of support to \"enable people to close their businesses [and] to isolate at home if they need to\".\n\nConservative MP and former health secretary Jeremy Hunt called for an end to the \"public war of words\" between local and national leaders on Saturday, but added he had \"sympathy\" for the idea of a circuit-breaker.\n\nBritain's largest teachers' union, the National Education Union, has called for secondary schools in England to shut for two weeks at half term, rather than the traditional one week.\n\nMr Johnson has said that while he could not \"rule anything out\", he wants to avoid a national lockdown because of \"the damaging health, economic and social effects it would have\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Time is of the essence\" for Manchester - Boris Johnson\n\nIt comes as the hospitality industry warned of widespread job losses if businesses do not receive further financial support from the government.\n\nSome 750,000 hospitality jobs could be lost by February 2021, according to an industry survey by three trade bodies in the UK.\n\n\"Without urgent sector-specific support for our industry, massive business failure is imminent,\" a spokesman for UK Hospitality, the British Institute of Innkeeping and the British Beer & Pub Association said.\n\nPublic Health England's medical director Yvonne Doyle told the Today programme that officials from local and national public health services were working \"extremely hard... to try and ensure that we do the right thing at the right time with the maximum amount of agreement\".\n\nShe also urged the public to abide by the rules and \"understand why that's important\".\n\nMeanwhile, county councils in England are calling for the government to give local authorities more control over the test-and-trace system.\n\nThe County Councils Network, which represents local authorities in mainly rural parts of the country, hopes to avoid the prospect of greater restrictions in these areas.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that the UK was developing the capacity to manufacture millions of tests that could deliver results in just 15 minutes.\n\nThe new tests are \"faster, simpler and cheaper\", Mr Johnson said, adding that work is being carried out to ensure they can be manufactured and distributed in the UK.\n\nThe government has set a target of 500,000 tests a day by the end of the month.\n\nOxford University's Sir John Bell, who has advised the government on its testing programme, told the Today programme it could be \"possible\" for the UK to carry out a million tests a day by Christmas - but added that logistics such as getting swabs to testing centres quickly were \"the limiting factor\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "People in Blackpool will be among those affected by the new rules\n\nLancashire has agreed to move into tier three - the top level of England Covid restrictions - from Saturday.\n\nThe \"very high\" alert level measures include pub closures and bans on household mixing indoors, in private gardens and most outdoor venues.\n\nHowever, gyms and leisure centres would not close, unlike in Liverpool City Region - the other area in tier three.\n\nSome local council leaders said they had been \"bullied\" into accepting the deal by Downing Street.\n\nHowever, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government had \"worked intensively with local leaders\" to agree the move.\n\nHe added that an \"unrelenting rise in cases\" in the north-west England county had meant \"we must act now\".\n\nAround 1.5 million people, including those living in Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, Lancaster and Preston, will be affected by the new rules.\n\nThe Labour leaders of Preston, Pendle and South Ribble councils released statements saying they had been forced to accept a deal that would not be enough to stop the virus.\n\nPaul Foster, of South Ribble said: \"We have been bullied, harassed, threatened and blackmailed into moving into tier three.\"\n\nHe added: \"The discussions with government were a complete shambles and we were basically told if we didn't accept the restrictions we would have even more draconian measures imposed on us.\"\n\nHowever, Geoff Driver, the Conservative leader of Lancashire County Council, told the BBC: \"It's been a long drawn out process but I think we've got a good deal.\"\n\nHe said it involved a support package worth £42m, the area having initially been promised £12m, with £30m to help the businesses affected.\n\nMr Driver said Lancashire had also been promised more support for local test and trace and a specific ministerial team to deal with the outbreak in the county.\n\n\"What we've been able to do is to convince government that the measures we have in place to monitor such things as the gyms and the leisure centres are sufficient to ensure that they're not a source of infection,\" he added.\n\nThe new measures, which will be reviewed every two weeks, cover all parts of Lancashire:\n\nFurther restrictions may be agreed for particular regions in the top tier and in the Liverpool City Region, gyms and leisure centres have also been forced to close.\n\nMayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson tweeted: \"Liverpool City Region has demanded immediate clarification on why Lancashire gyms are allowed to stay open and Liverpool's close.\n\n\"Inconsistent mess - we now have tier three A and tier three B.\"\n\nSteve Rotheram, the mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said he was \"concerned that there appear to be differences between the two packages of measures, particularly the opening of gyms\".\n\n\"We have always been clear that we were given no choice about the specific package of measures that would be applied to us,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the prime minister's official spokesman said it was up to regional leaders to decide whether gyms should be closed.\n\n\"The purpose of the very high level is to allow for local, tailored interventions and they are determined on the basis of discussions with local authorities and based on local evidence,\" he said.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIt comes as talks between Greater Manchester leaders and central government over putting the region into tier three of England's three-tier system have stalled.\n\nGreater Manchester's mayor Andy Burnham wants more financial support for people affected before bringing in tougher rules.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab accused Mr Burnham of \"effectively trying to hold the government over a barrel over money and politics\".\n\nOn Thursday, London, Essex, York and parts of Surrey, Derbyshire and Cumbria were moved up to tier two and will face tougher measures from Saturday.\n\nMore than half of England's population will now be living under high or very high-alert restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Mark Drakeford said Wales was facing a two-week national lockdown, calling it a \"fire break\".\n\nHe said a decision was likely to be made on Monday, with discussions continuing with health officials, scientific advisors and councils over the weekend.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travelling to Wales from coronavirus hotspots elsewhere in the UK comes into effect on Friday evening.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, pubs, restaurants and cafes will only be allowed to offer takeaway and delivery services for four weeks from 18:00 BST on Friday.\n\nTighter rules around face coverings have come into effect in Scotland, making them mandatory in workplace setting such as canteens.\n\nOn Thursday, a further 18,980 cases and 138 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported across the UK.", "\"Welsh law affects the Welsh people in a way it's never done before,\" according to the Welsh Government's top legislative lawyer\n\nWelsh laws can be drafted within hours as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Welsh Government's top legislative lawyer.\n\nFirst Legislative Counsel Dylan Hughes said it was a process which would usually take \"several weeks or months\".\n\nHe leads the Office of the Legislative Counsel, a team of specialist lawyers who draft Welsh laws.\n\nIn the past six months, Mr Hughes said 115 pieces of Welsh legislation had been made relating to restrictions.\n\nOn Friday, a law came into force which banned people from travelling to Wales from coronavirus hotspots elsewhere in the UK.\n\nAnd on Monday, the Welsh Government is expected to announce a national lockdown described as a \"short, sharp\" circuit-breaker to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\nDylan Hughes says legislation implementing a lockdown in Bangor had to be drafted late on a Friday evening\n\nMr Hughes's team do no not always get a lot of notice.\n\nFor example, when Bangor went into a local lockdown last Saturday, Mr Hughes said the legislation had to be drafted late on the Friday.\n\nBefore the pandemic, he said implementing such a ministerial decision could have taken \"several weeks or even months\".\n\n\"But these days it can take a couple of hours,\" Mr Hughes explained.\n\n\"Even in quite a common situation at the moment it takes around three days between taking the decision and drafting and publishing the legislation.\"\n\nHe argued such a shift in the legislative process represented a significant change to the way people were governed in Wales\n\n\"Welsh law affects the Welsh people in a way it's never done before.\n\n\"The fact that people's daily habits are regulated by it is very unusual and Welsh law has to be an important part now of people's lives.\"\n\nDespite a very busy period for him and his team, he said he would \"never compare\" their work with that of NHS staff.\n\n\"It's been a a difficult time for those of us who work for the Welsh Government,\" he concluded.\n\n\"At times, the hours have been long seven days a week and things move very quickly, which means there's a lot of pressure on everyone.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coronavirus infections are continuing to rise rapidly, with an estimated 27,900 new cases a day in England, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nThis figure is far higher than the number of confirmed cases announced by the government each day.\n\nThe R number has risen slightly to 1.3-1.5, with growth of the epidemic still widespread across the country.\n\nIt comes as the highest level of restrictions are introduced in more of the UK.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, said 'R' was not growing as fast as it would be without the measures people were following.\n\nBut he said \"we are not where we need to be\", adding there was \"more work to do\".\n\nThe increase in people testing positive in recent weeks is being driven by high rates in older teenagers and young adults, the ONS infection survey says.\n\nIt found steep increases in infection rates in the north west, the north east, Yorkshire and the Humber.\n\nNew cases of the virus have gone up by 60% in a week, according to the ONS, based on its survey of people in random households with or without symptoms.\n\nIt estimates that one in 160 people in England had the virus in the week to 8 October - an increase on one in 240 the previous week.\n\nFor the same week, the ONS estimates one in 390 people had the virus in Wales and one in 250 in Northern Ireland - both an increase on the week before.\n\nThe ONS survey doesn't cover Scotland. As confirmed cases and hospital admissions rise there, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland is in a \"precarious\" position in its fight to contain Covid-19.\n\nAn app which tracks the Covid symptoms of four million users estimates there are more than 27,000 new cases per day in the UK.\n\nIts latest figures, for the two weeks to 11 October, found the fastest acceleration of cases in the north west, while Scotland, Wales, London and the Midlands were also increasing, but more slowly.\n\nProf Tim Spector from King's College London, who founded the Covid Symptom study app, said there was no longer the \"exponential increases\" of a couple of weeks ago - but the data still shows \"new cases continuing to rise\".\n\nOther estimates, from a large study by Imperial College London and a group of scientists advising government, suggest new cases could be even higher - up to 74,000 a day.\n\nA different measures of cases - the number of people with symptoms to test positive for coronavirus - rose by 15,650 on Friday, the lowest for four days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nThe R number is the average number of people infected by each person testing positive for the virus. An R number above 1 means the epidemic is growing.\n\nAt the peak of the epidemic back in April, the R number is thought to have been around 3.\n\nFrom May up until mid-August after the national lockdown, it stayed below 1, but has been rising steadily since. All the restrictions in place around the UK are now an attempt to reduce transmission of the virus between people and get it back to below 1.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None How will the vulnerable be protected from Covid? And other questions", "A vehicle carrying the royal family arrives back at Huis ten Bosch palace in The Hague\n\nThe Dutch royal family is back in the country after a holiday that lasted just one day, following a coronavirus-related public backlash.\n\nKing Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima headed off to the Greek sun on Friday but flew back on Saturday evening.\n\nThey left as a new partial lockdown was introduced and although they did not break any rules they said they had been affected by intense criticism.\n\nPM Mark Rutte is under pressure to explain any advice he may have given.\n\nThe royals flew out on a government plane but were immediately criticised for going on holiday when the population was being advised to stay at home as much as possible to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThey flew back on a scheduled KLM flight and the royal standard was flying over the palace in The Hague on Saturday evening.\n\nThe royal statement read: \"We do not want to leave any doubts about it: in order to get the Covid-19 virus under control, it is necessary that the guidelines are followed. The debate over our holiday does not contribute to that.\"\n\nThere appeared to be some confusion about who in government knew about the trip and whether advice was given.\n\nThe Dutch monarchy has no formal role in the day-to-day running of the Netherlands. But the Ministry of General Affairs, headed by the prime minister, is responsible for what the monarchy says and does.\n\nAs a result, several MPs are calling on Mr Rutte to explain why he did not advise the royals to cancel their holiday.\n\n\"If Rutte had said that this was a bad idea, you can assume that the king would have changed his plans,\" said Peter Rehwinkel of the PvdA party.\n\nThe GroenLinks leader also called the trip \"an error in judgment\" and abandoning the trip was the \"only correct decision\".\n\nThe daily tally of coronavirus infections continues to grow in the Netherlands. On Saturday, more than 8,000 new cases were recorded for the first time since the country's outbreak began.\n\nMark Rutte is facing questions over any advice he gave\n\nBars, restaurants and cannabis \"coffee shops\" have been ordered to close for four weeks.\n\nIt is not the first time the royal couple have been in the spotlight for their conduct. In August, they were pictured breaking social distancing rules with a restaurant owner during another trip to Greece.\n\nThe royal family's annual budget is under review amid growing pressure from opposition lawmakers.", "A statue on Place de la Republique, Paris, symbolically \"gagged\" by protesters after the Charlie Hebdo attacks\n\nWhen French President Francois Hollande gave a sombre televised address to the nation, hours after the shocking attack on Charlie Hebdo, he vowed to protect the message of freedom that the magazine's journalists represented.\n\nCharlie Hebdo's \"heroes\" had defended freedom of speech and this was an attack on the entire republic, he said.\n\nBut since the start of the week, 54 people have been detained and several jailed for a variety of remarks, shouted out in the street or posted on social media, and France's judiciary has been lampooned for what appear to be double standards.\n\nThe so-called comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala will face trial for writing \"I feel like Charlie Coulibaly\", hours after 3.7 million French citizens had taken to the streets behind the \"je suis Charlie\" rallying cry.\n\nHe said the posting was meant to be humorous. But in the context of his past convictions for anti-Semitism, the authorities saw it as a voice of support for one of the gunmen, Amedy Coulibaly, who had murdered four Jewish men in a kosher supermarket.\n\nDieudonne could face up to seven years in jail for his Facebook comment\n\nPrime Minister Manuel Valls set it out plainly: freedom of speech should not be confused with anti-Semitism, racism and Holocaust denial.\n\nBut Dieudonne has plenty of young fans who watch his shows and follow his social media posts, however tasteless they may be, and many in France saw his arrest as an example of double standards.\n\nAfter all, Charlie Hebdo's entire ethos has been tasteless lampooning of the establishment.\n\n\"Extremely clumsy to detain Dieudonne when you've just made the whole world march for freedom of speech,\" read one tweet.\n\nBut the crackdown extends way beyond a notorious comic with a string of convictions.\n\nThe justice ministry has revealed that a number of fast-track custodial sentences have been handed down in cities across France in the past few days for expressions of support for the gunmen.\n\nIn Toulouse alone, three men in their early twenties have been jailed, two of them for 10 months, for shouting obscenities at police.\n\nOne threatened to attack police with a Kalashnikov while another said the Kouachi brothers were \"just the start\".\n\nIt was in Toulouse that Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah killed seven people in a series of attacks in 2012, including one on a Jewish school.\n\nIn Nanterre, east of Paris, a man was sent to prison for a year for posting a video on Facebook that mocked policeman Ahmed Merabet, who was shot at point-blank range by one of the Kouachis.\n\nThe French government tightened anti-terror laws in November, clamping down on online comments\n\nHuman rights groups have been less than impressed with what would seem to be a knee-jerk response by the authorities after what Mr Valls admitted had been clear failings by the security services.\n\nFrance's League of Human Rights (LDH) has condemned the fast-track sentences, which it argues are handed down in dreadful conditions and largely apply to drunks or fools.\n\nBut while the sentences may look startling and in some cases even draconian, they are following the letter of an anti-terror law that was passed by the National Assembly as recently as last November.\n\nDirectly provoking or publicly condoning terrorism in France now commands a five-year jail term and a fine of €75,000. And if it is done online, the penalty can be extended to seven years and €100,000 (£76,000; $116,000).\n\nSo for the many French who did not feel \"je suis Charlie\", where does France now see the boundary between freedom of speech and condoning terrorism?\n\nThe right to say, write or print what you want is rooted in the declaration of rights that came with the 1789 French Revolution, but even then abuse of that freedom was limited by law.\n\nThose exceptions were defined in 1881 (in French) as defamation, slander and incitement to hate. There is also explicit reference to condoning crimes of war, crimes against humanity or collaboration with the enemy.\n\nNot everyone has felt comfortable with the \"je suis Charlie\" message in France\n\nHowever, not since the revolution has blasphemy been against the law in France, and according to Mr Valls it never will.\n\nThe restrictions on freedom of speech go well beyond those in the US. A former editor of Charlie Hebdo had to defend himself against incitement in 2007 after reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nSince November those restrictions have gone further still. What was previously a law against condoning terrorism in the media has been extended to social media too.\n\nAnd it will not just be careless tweets or Facebook posts that are caught in the crosshairs. US-based social media companies will be required to police their sites too.", "The BBC has been covering the bloodshed over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh from both sides - in Azerbaijan and in Armenia. BBC International Correspondent Orla Guerin, producer Zeynep Erdim and cameraman Goktay Koraltan have spent a week looking at the conflict from the Azerbaijani side.", "Ali Hirsz says she was \"shocked\" when the donation appeared.\n\nA singer from Cambridge will be able to have vital surgery, thanks to the Manic Street Preachers.\n\nAli Hirsz needs the trapezius muscle that runs from her neck to her shoulder rebuilt, in an operation that isn't available on the NHS.\n\nAfter Covid-19 robbed her of income from live music, she had to ask fans to help raise the money for the operation.\n\nHer initial crowd-funding goal was £1,000 - but once she reached £500, the Manics stepped in and paid the rest.\n\nWhen the donation arrived, \"I was in tears,\" she tells the BBC.\n\n\"I love them anyway, they're such a great band, but £500 is so unbelievably generous. I thought, 'I can't believe they've done that.'\n\nRepresentatives for the Manic Street Preachers confirmed to the BBC that the donation had come from the band.\n\nHirsz, who sings with an indie band called Idealistics, has an incurable connective tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.\n\nThe condition means \"my skin is like tissue paper, it tears really easy,\" says the 20-year-old. A vascular compression on her small intestine also requires her to be fed via a tube.\n\nShe needs corrective surgery on her shoulder after a previous operation severed the nerve to her trapezius muscle, causing it to waste away. As a result, her shoulder blade dropped, affecting the blood supply to her arm.\n\nThe condition has already forced her to stop playing bass, as she has little feeling in her left hand.\n\nShe says she has \"never asked for money before\" and was \"sweating with nerves\" before posting her crowd-funding request last week.\n\nBut the campaign became necessary after coronavirus wiped out her band's concert diary; and Hirsz had to leave her day job as a horse trainer because she was shielding.\n\nIn the the meantime, she says, she received no financial support from the government's furlough or self-employment support schemes.\n\n\"It is very, very stressful, particularly in times where you don't have money lying around anyway,\" she says.\n\nAli (left) formed Idealistics as a teenager with her partner George Gillott and sister, Dom, on drums.\n\nThe response to her campaign has been \"overwhelming\", however. Hirsz hit the £1,000 goal within 24 hours, and has since increased her target to £5,000.\n\n\"Because the surgery's not been done before, we don't know exactly how much it's going to cost,\" she explains.\n\n\"I know it's a hard time for everyone,\" she adds, \"so all these donations mean everything.\"\n\nHirsz says her story is typical of disabled musicians, who have found themselves left high and dry by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nSinger-songwriter Chloe Mogg, who has both fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, agrees the last six months have been \"really, really tough\".\n\n\"The NHS is doing an amazing job at the moment but, especially with chronic fatigue syndrome, it seems like all the invisible illnesses have been pushed to the side,\" she says.\n\n\"We're walking on a tightrope and we don't know if we're going to fall off at any stage.\"\n\nMogg says she has faced discrimination from venues and promoters because of her condition\n\nBut Mogg, like Hirsz, has approached the pandemic with imagination and resilience, channelling her energies into organising an online music and arts festival.\n\nCalled The 7 Arts Still Exist, it highlights the work created by artists, designers, sculptors, writers, musicians, dancers and photographers during the pandemic. Mogg is already lining up its third event with her childhood friend Amy Crouch.\n\nThe musician says the pandemic has taught her to \"live more in the present moment\", even when \"it felt like I've been put on pause\".\n\n\"It's been tough for me and it's been tough for a lot of musician friends who have anxiety problems,\" she says.\n\n\"It's something we're learning to adapt to - but I don't feel like we should be needing to adapt. It's really, really tough.\"\n\nFor visually-impaired sitar player Baluji Shrivastav, adaptability has been the watchword for the last six months.\n\nThe 70-year-old, who has played with Oasis, Stevie Wonder, Massive Attack, Kylie Minogue and Coldplay, cannot travel during the pandemic, making it \"very difficult to perform anywhere\".\n\n\"But we still meet sometimes,\" he says. \"We are allowed to meet six people in one place, and we have a garden so we rehearse there sometimes - but it will be difficult in the winter.\"\n\nBaluji Shrivastav played at the Paralympic closing ceremony with Coldplay\n\nShrivastav was appointed an OBE in 2016 for his services to music, after founding the Inner Vision Orchestra, whose players are all blind or partially-sighted.\n\nHe says live-streamed concerts are harder for blind musicians, because communication between players is reliant on physical proximity. Meeting up for socially-distanced concerts poses other problems.\n\n\"Even if we can reach the venue without help, we need help within the venue itself,\" he says. \"It's a constant difficulty for visually-impaired people.\n\n\"And, of course, financially, we are not earning at all.\"\n\nAccording to the UK Disability Arts Alliance #WeShallNotBeRemoved, the pandemic has had a particularly negative impact on disabled people working in the creative industries.\n\nIn an open letter to the secretary of state for culture, Oliver Dowden MP, the alliance warned that \"many disabled artists are facing long term shielding, a total loss of income, compromised independent living and the risk of invisibility in wider society\".\n\nSeparately, the Audience Access Alliance - which represents 12 disability charities in the UK - says it is \"deeply concerned\" that disabled people will miss out on access to gigs, theatre and sport when venues reopen because of extra Covid-related precautions and restrictions.\n\n\"If we want to 'build back better', it's vital that we build back for all,\" the organisation wrote in an open letter to the live music industry earlier this month.\n\nThe fear for both organisations is that the progress made since the UK's equality act came into force 10 years ago will be lost.\n\nHirsz and Mogg both have horror stories about the discrimination they faced before Covid.\n\nOne promoter refused to work with Idealistics because of Hirsz's condition. \"They said, 'You've got all these [feeding] tubes and nobody wants to see that. You're just going to deter a crowd,'\" she recalls.\n\nMogg was also berated by a promoter last year, after a flare-up of fibromyalgia forced her to pull out of a show.\n\n\"He was like, 'You're a massive disappointment,'\" she says. \"It was so embarrassing. I felt really ridiculed and ashamed of my illness, even though it's part of me.\"\n\nDespite the challenges like those, Hirsz, Mogg and Shrivastav are determined to stay active throughout the pandemic.\n\nThe Idealistics have just released their new single Memory River (inspired, naturally, by the Manic Street Preachers), while Hirsz is working as an advocate for disability charity Attitude is Everything.\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 Idealistics 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\nOn Monday, Shrivastav's Inner Vision Orchestra launched their first studio album, Indian Classical Interactions - one of three records the musician recorded in the space of a week before lockdown earlier this year. A documentary about his life will also be screened at the Bloomsbury festival this weekend.\n\nAnd Mogg is busy finalising the third edition of The 7 Arts Still Exist, which will feature country artists Katy Hurt and Roisin O'Hagan.\n\nIn the meantime, she says its crucial that everyone looks out for the people around them, and asks for help when they need it.\n\n\"Just be kind, be bold and, especially if you're suffering, talk to someone and tell them how you're feeling. Because they would rather hear it now than listen to your story at a funeral.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nStand-in skipper Raheem Sterling scored the only goal as Manchester City returned to winning ways in their Premier League clash with Arsenal.\n\nSterling, given the armband by manager Pep Guardiola with Fernandinho on the bench and Kevin de Bruyne injured, finished off the rebound after Phil Foden's 23rd-minute shot had been saved.\n\nArsenal had chances to level but City keeper Ederson denied them with three excellent first-half saves and both David Luiz and Pepe were off target with free-kicks in good positions after the break.\n\nThe result extended a miserable run of away results against their fellow 'top six' members for Arsenal. They have now failed to win in their last 29 such meetings, since a success at City in 2015.\n\nGuardiola is yet to drop a point against the Gunners in five encounters at Etihad Stadium since he succeeded Manuel Pellegrini as City manager in 2016.\n\nMore importantly for his side, after picking up a single point from their last two games, they were able to claim maximum points in this one.\n\nThe three points came even without De Bruyne and with the returning Sergio Aguero restricted to an hour's action on his first appearance since June after recovering from a knee injury.\n\nAguero escaped a caution after placing his arm on assistant referee Sian Massey-Ellis' neck as he argued against a decision.\n\nAs might have been expected from a meeting between Guardiola and the man he spent three-and-a-half years alongside in the City dug-out, Mikel Arteta, this was a tactical blitz.\n\nAt one point, Willian was operating as centre-forward and Sterling was sitting deep in midfield. After Aguero's exit, Bernado Silva briefly went into the false nine role as both men tried to keep the other guessing.\n\nArteta was able to bring on £45m new-boy Thomas Partey for his debut near the end but the truth is, he doesn't have the strength in depth afforded to Guardiola.\n\nBoth sides suffered disruption in the build-up, although the loss of Aymeric Laporte and Mendy to injury had less of an impact on City as the delay in finding out the Premier League were prepared to allow Kieran Tierney to play had on the Gunners.\n\nThe Arsenal defender had been told to isolate by the local health authority in Scotland due to a 'close contact' breach on international duty.\n\nIf that wasn't bad enough, the Gunners then lost defender Rob Holding to a hamstring injury in the warm-up.\n\nThis all contributed to a slow start they never really recovered from as City kept their first clean sheet of the season with a defensive performance far removed from the one which saw them concede five against Leicester in their previous home game.\n\nWhen it comes to debating who has been Guardiola's best signing as City boss, for all the excellence of Kyle Walker, Bernardo Silva and - briefly - Leroy Sane, Ederson must surely come out on top.\n\nA £35m purchase from Benfica after Joe Hart had been ditched and Claudio Bravo had flopped, Ederson won Premier League titles in his first two seasons and the Golden Glove last term, even though City's only silverware was the EFL Cup.\n\nWith new signing Ruben Dias still settling in, Laporte missing and Nathan Ake only making his fifth Blues appearance, Guardiola needs the Brazilian to be a steady presence.\n\nIt may have been that Bukayo Saka's shot from an angle was going over as the visitors tried to respond to Sterling's opener but Ederson took no chances.\n\nHowever, his two saves at the end of the opening period were superb. Saka was again the man denied by a feet-first stop when the teenager found himself clean through after playing a one-two with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.\n\nWithin minutes, Ederson was denying Aubameyang with an even better save. As the flag immediately went up to signal offside, there appeared nothing in it. The true value of Ederson's work was not apparent until TV replays showed the assistant referee's ruling was incorrect. Without the keeper's intervention, Arsenal would have been level.\n\nEderson made another save, from a Pepe header, at the start of the second period, although compared to what had gone before, that was fairly routine.\n\nWith Arsenal unable to find their range with a couple of free-kicks either, Ederson's efforts mean the Gunners have now lost seven league matches in a row against City, the first time they have done that against any opponent since Ipswich in the 1970s.\n\nBoss Guardiola said post-game that full-back Benjamin Mendy will be out injured for three to four weeks, while centre-back Aymeric Laporte could return within a week.\n\nGuardiola also defended striker Aguero, who put his arm on the shoulder of assistant referee Massey-Ellis after disputing a throw-in call which went against him early in the second half.\n\nAfter arguing his case with Massey-Ellis, Aguero put his arm on her shoulder as she began to walk away - actions which drew attention on social media and led his former team-mate Micah Richards to say on Sky Sports that Aguero should \"know better\".\n\nPlayers can be cautioned or sent off for touching match officials if done in an in an \"aggressive, confrontational or violent manner\".\n\nIn his post-match news conference, Guardiola said: \"Come on, guys. Sergio is the nicest person I ever met in my life. Look for problems in other situations, not in this one.\"\n\n'I am upset' - what they said:\n\nMan City manager Pep Guardiola: \"It was difficult but we have won 1-0 and Ederson again was incredibly active like he was against Leeds.\n\n\"We are still a little bit away from our best performance that we are wishing but for many reasons it is not possible. The victory helped us a lot, we defended really well deep and up front and it's a good three points against an impressive opponent.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"I am upset as I feel we deserved more. I am extremely happy with the performance though, which we put in against a top team.\n\n\"I cannot demand more from players apart from we had three chances and had to score.\n\n\"Every goal the opponent scores there is something we can do better, we cannot change that. We know everything has to be perfect in both boxes to beat Manchester City.\"\n\nAsked if his side need to change their dismal record away at the top six, Arteta said: \"Absolutely. You want to go to every ground and win.\n\n\"To get into the position you have to do so many good things, throughout 96 minutes, and we did a lot of them but in the end, games are decided in the boxes.\n\n\"Against big teams, when you get there, you have to put them away.\"\n\nCity are next in action against FC Porto at the Etihad in the Champions League on Wednesday (kick-off 20:00 BST) before taking on West Ham at the London Stadium next Saturday, 24 October (12:30).\n\nArsenal also have a European engagement, in Austria against Rapid Vienna in the Europa League on Thursday (17:55 BST). The Gunners entertain Leicester in the league next Sunday (19:15).\n• None Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 10 Premier League encounters with Arsenal (W8 D2), since a 2-1 loss in December 2015.\n• None Arsenal are winless in their last 29 Premier League away games against \"big six\" opponents (D10 L19) since a 2-0 win v Manchester City in January 2015.\n• None Manchester City have conceded just one goal in their last six Premier League games against Arsenal, keeping a shut out v four different managers in this run (Arsene Wenger, Unai Emery, Fredrik Ljungberg and Mikel Arteta x2).\n• None Arsenal have lost each of their last seven league games against Manchester City, their longest such run against an opponent since losing seven in a row v Ipswich between 1974-1977.\n• None Pep Guardiola has won 500 games in all competitions as a manager (including Barcelona B), winning 172 as Manchester City boss.\n• None Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson has kept 53 clean sheets in the Premier League since his debut in August 2017; 15 more than any other goalkeeper in this time.\n• None Raheem Sterling has had a hand in each of Manchester City's last five goals in all competitions (4 goals, 1 assist).\n• None Man City's Sterling has been directly involved in six goals in his last five Premier League appearances against Arsenal (4 goals, 2 assists).\n• None Thomas Partey (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Bukayo Saka tries a through ball, but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt blocked. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by João Cancelo. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Behind the scenes of his presidency\n• None All episodes are streaming now", "Analysis: How long can stand-off last?\n\nAt least 48 hours have passed since there was any discussion between the government and leaders in Greater Manchester. It's not complete radio silence - I understand conversations have continued between officials in Whitehall and the region's local authorities. But there won't be a breakthrough until politicians on one side pick up the phone. Both camps have indicated they're ready to talk, but neither seems willing to make the first move. The prime minister did not put a time limit on his pledge to impose restrictions if no agreement can be reached, but he will only be able to wait so long. One thing everyone involved agrees on is that something needs to be done as coronavirus cases continue to rise . Given the political fault lines this row has exposed - Conservative vs Labour, north vs south, local vs national - deciding exactly what is proving far more difficult.", "Football fans have been urged to abide by local lockdown restrictions and watch the Old Firm match at home.\n\nThe managers of Celtic and Rangers have joined First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in appealing to their supporters to help curb the spread of the virus.\n\nFans who flout rules on households mixing are \"putting others at risk\", one public health chief warned.\n\nAnd those hoping to watch the game in Blackpool pubs were warned there would be a high police presence in the town.\n\nCeltic are due to play Rangers at Celtic Park at 12:30.\n\nThe Scottish Premiership clash will take place in an empty stadium due to coronavirus restrictions which ban crowds from watching live sport.\n\nIt will be televised but pubs in the central belt are currently closed due to the pandemic.\n\nDuring the Scottish government daily coronavirus briefing on Friday, Ms Sturgeon told Old Firm fans:\n\nShe added: \"Nobody likes the fact that these restrictions have to be in place but they are vital to protecting all of us and keeping us safe.\n\n\"So please comply with restrictions - by doing that you will be playing your part in helping us get the virus under control and you'll be helping hasten the day when we can all watch and enjoy the things that we love doing, whether that's football or the many things that we find ourselves not able to do normally.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Old Firm fans urged to stay home\n\nDuring the same briefing, she announced there had been nine more deaths of coronavirus patients recorded in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities under this measure to 2,594.\n\nA total of 1,196 people tested positive for coronavirus over the same time period, while the number of people being admitted to hospital with the virus is increasing.\n\nTemporary restrictions to bring the outbreak back under control in the central belt have led to the closure of most licensed premises in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Forth Valley and Ayrshire and Arran NHS boards.\n\nThose living in these areas have been warned not to travel to other parts of Scotland or to areas in England where such restrictions are not in force.\n\nEarlier this week the first minister said football fans should avoid going to Blackpool, after about 180 people with coronavirus told contact tracers that they had recently been to holiday resort.\n\nPolice in Lancashire have echoed her plea.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nSpeaking ahead of the county entering the \"very high\" Tier 3 level of restrictions on Saturday, Supt Damian Kitchen said football fans should stay at home.\n\nHe added: \"We will have a very visible policing presence throughout the weekend and we'll be working with our partners and council wardens to ensure that licensed premises are sticking to the rules.\n\n\"The rules are there to keep everyone, both residents and visitors, safe and we will enforce them where we need to.\"\n\nA similar appeal has been made by police in Cumbria amid fears some fans would cross the border to watch the game in pubs in Carlisle.\n\nSteven Gerrard and Neil Lennon have asked fans to stay at home\n\nMeanwhile both teams' managers have encouraged fans to watch the match from home.\n\nCeltic's Neil Lennon said: \"Please enjoy the game at home. Stay with your family and don't put yourself or anyone else in jeopardy with every that's going on.\n\n\"Hopefully we can put in a performance that you can be proud of and enjoy the game, but please, don't travel.\"\n\nSteven Gerrard said he could understand the frustration of those who wanted to see their team play, but said fans' safety was priority.\n\nHe urged them to stay at home to keep themselves and their families safe.\n\nPublic health officials from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have also asked fans to abide by the restrictions.\n\nDr Linda De Caestecker said fans who broke the guidelines were \"putting others at risk\".\n\nShe said: \"The current restrictions are in place to minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"If you do not follow them, this will increase the rate of transmission of Covid-19 in the community and in turn, the number of people who being hospitalised by the virus.\n\n\"Sadly, this will also mean more people will die.\"", "For many dog owners, the coronavirus pandemic has meant more time at home with their canine companions.\n\nHowever, some experts are claiming the demand for dogs during lockdown has led to a significant increase in pets being stolen, with one - Wayne May from the organisation Dog Lost - saying: \"I've been doing this for 30 years now and it's the worst ever year I've known\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, due to lockdown, people are at home more and they're looking for companion animals to take up their time.\n\n\"Sadly the criminals capitalised on this. It's pushed the price of dogs and puppies up in general, which has inadvertently sparked a high rise in dog thefts.\"\n\nHis view is shared by Beverley Cuddy, editor of Dogs Today magazine, who said: \"Unfortunately in lockdown everyone wanted a dog and the prices went up and up.\n\n\"The criminals looked at those figures... and put two and two together.\"\n\nIn July, Jessica Palmer had five puppies stolen from her back garden in Melton Mowbray.\n\nThe sprocker spaniels were from a litter of seven that Ms Palmer's springer spaniel had given birth to eight weeks earlier.\n\nShe said she was \"devastated\" and her three-year-old daughter was \"absolutely heartbroken\".\n\nMs Palmer had listed the puppies for sale at £1,000 each.\n\n\"I know they were going to go to new homes eventually anyway, but not like this. It's really traumatic for everyone,\" she said.\n\nIn May, Jon Gaunt had three female springer spaniels stolen from his garden in Brightling, East Sussex.\n\nHe said thieves broke the padlock on his kennels to take them.\n\n\"It wasn't until the next morning, when I went to exercise the dogs, clean them out and give them their breakfast, I saw the chain hanging down and I just had that horrible feeling,\" he said.\n\nMr Gaunt, 46, said he felt \"angry, gutted, upset and sick\".\n\n\"You have such a rollercoaster of emotions - you feel like somebody has just taken your legs out from underneath you,\" he said.\n\nOne of his spaniels was found several weeks later in Kent.\n\nMr Gaunt also suspects a dog recovered during a police raid could be one of his and he's working with authorities to get her back.\n\nHe believes \"without a shadow of a doubt\" there is a connection with dog thefts and the pandemic lockdown.\n\n\"Everybody was at home, they were bored, and thought, 'Lets get a puppy'.\n\n\"The demand for puppies was so high, it drove prices through the roof and that's why we're in this situation,\" he said.\n\nMore than 30 puppies, thought to have been stolen, were found in a van by police in Cheltenham in August\n\nThe Kennel Club reported a 168% increase in people searching for puppies for sale on its website from the beginning of lockdown until the end of May, compared to the same period in 2019.\n\nMr May said most of the dogs being stolen are female and are used for breeding, so criminal gangs can maximise their profits.\n\n\"We've recovered several this year that have been pregnant,\" he said.\n\nThis theory was also shared by Suffolk Police in July, when 17 dogs were stolen from a kennels in Barton Mills.\n\nMr May said the theft of a dog can have a \"massive\" impact on owners, and some were now suffering from depression, anxiety and PTSD.\n\n\"I [was in touch with] one lady recently that just never went to bed. She slept on the sofa with the back door open all summer, hoping her dog would walk home,\" he said.\n\nCriminals are thought to be targeting puppy litters\n\nDr Daniel Allen, an animal expert from Keele University, is campaigning for stricter sentencing guidelines for pet theft, via a petition which is due to be debated by MPs at Westminster Hall on Monday.\n\nHe said the crime had changed dramatically over the decades.\n\n\"Years ago, it was people nicking dogs from outside shops,\" he said. \"Now it's people targeting breeders, taking the mum and the pups in one fell swoop.\"\n\nHe said breeders were generally more rural-based, hence the rise recorded in police force areas such as Northumbria and Devon and Cornwall.\n\n\"As well as breeding mums, working dogs, such as sheep dogs and shooting dogs also attract a high value - they are a ready-made, sellable product,\" he said.\n\n\"During lockdown, people wanted that canine companionship but there is an increasing risk of our pets being taken away from us.\"\n\nThe results of a BBC freedom of information request showed that five policing areas saw a double-digit increase in the number of dog thefts reported between January and July 2020, compared with the previous year.\n\nOverall, about half of the 26 forces that responded to the BBC's data request saw an increase over the last seven months, while the rest saw fewer reports.\n\nFive forces had more reports between January and July 2020 than the whole of the previous year.\n\nThere was a significant increase across Northumbria, Devon and Cornwall and Leicestershire - compared to the same period in the previous year.\n\nNorthumbria Police saw the largest increase of reported dog thefts, rising from 27 to 67 reports.\n\nIn Leicestershire, there were 41 reports compared to 22, which was also more than the total for the whole of 2016, 2017 and 2018.\n\nThe RSPCA said the figures were \"really concerning\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We'd urge all dog owners to take extra precautions to protect their pets from thieves by neutering them, ensuring they are microchipped and ensuring they wear a collar with contact details.\"\n\nPolice forces in the affected areas also urged owners to take extra precautions.\n\n\"Dog owners are also advised not to leave their pets alone outside where possible and to ensure gardens are secure,\" a Leicestershire Police spokesperson said.\n\nA Northumbria Police spokesperson said the chances of pet owners being targeted remains \"incredibly rare\".\n\nA Devon and Cornwall Police spokesperson said: \"We take all matters of animal theft seriously and we appreciate the distress and heartache that dog thefts cause.\"\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.", "A city in eastern China has started offering a coronavirus vaccine to the general public - although it has not yet completed clinical trials.\n\nHundreds of people have been queuing outside a hospital in Yiwu, where nurses are administering the injections for a fee of around $60 (£45).\n\nThe BBC's Robin Brant is there.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: You may find there are restrictions\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson appeared confused over the rules for single parents living apart from their children during a Covid briefing.\n\nA questioner called Christopher, from Margate, Kent, asked what would happen where one parent lives in a high alert level area and the other medium.\n\nHe was told to check the government's website for guidance but that there are restrictions on such movements.\n\nBut government advice says there are exceptions for childcare arrangements.\n\nChristopher had asked if he could see his son, who lives in Essex, if either area moves from the medium level of restrictions to the higher tier two - as Essex will on Saturday.\n\nSpeaking at Downing Street, Mr Johnson said: \"Christopher, I think the guidance alas is that - you should go on the website obviously and check - but when cases go to a higher tier from the basic medium then there are restrictions on household contact.\n\n\"So depending on how you define your household you may find there are restrictions, but you really need to go onto the website to find out what's going on in Kent and what's going on in Essex in order to be absolutely sure.\"\n\nThe government advice for both areas in the \"high\" and \"very high\" Covid alert level specifies that there are exceptions to travel restrictions where children do not live in the same household as both their parents or guardians.\n\nThe regulations state that there is an exception for \"the purposes of arrangements for access to, and contact between, parents and children where the children do not live in the same household as their parents or one of their parents\".\n\nIt comes after an earlier incident, last month, when the prime minister apologised after making a mistake when talking to media about the rule of six in the north-east of England.", "Pensioners queuing to vote in Indiana earlier this month\n\nState election officials across the US are reporting record numbers of voters casting their ballots ahead of election day on 3 November.\n\nMore than 29 million had voted early by Monday, either in person or by mail, according to the US Election Project.\n\nAt the same point in the 2016 race, about 6m votes had been cast.\n\nExperts say the surge in early voting correlates to the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused many people to seek alternatives to election day voting.\n\nOn Tuesday, Texas, a state that has relatively tight restrictions on who can qualify for postal voting, set a record for most ballots cast on the first day of early voting.\n\nOn 12 October, the Columbus Day federal holiday, officials in Georgia reported 126,876 votes cast - also a state record.\n\nIn Ohio, a crucial swing state, more than 2.3 million postal ballots have been requested, double the figure in 2016.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Early voters have formed long queues in several states across the US\n\nReports indicate that registered Democrats have so far outvoted registered Republicans - casting more than double the number of ballots. And of these early voting Democrats, women and black Americans are voting in particularly high numbers. Some are motivated by dislike for Donald Trump, while others have been energised by racial justice protests throughout the summer following the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.\n\nBut this early advantage does not mean that Democrats can already claim victory. Republicans, who claim postal voting is vulnerable to fraud, say Democrats may win the early vote, but that Republicans will show up in large numbers on election day.\n\nAccording to a 2017 study by the Brennan Center for Justice, the rate of voting fraud overall in the US is between 0.00004% and 0.0009%.\n\nRepublicans have also made gains in voter registration efforts in the key states of Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, though Democrats still lead overall.\n\nIn Florida, that registration margin has narrowed to a little over 134,000 voters - less than 1%. Mr Trump won Florida by just under 113,000 votes in 2016.\n\nThese states are known as battlegrounds in the election as voters are more likely to switch parties in these regions than elsewhere in the country. As a result, states like Florida are where the campaigns tend to focus their efforts.\n\nThe enormous numbers of voters have led to long lines, with some people waiting for up to 11 hours for an opportunity to vote.\n\nYounger people, who historically have been difficult to get to the polls, appear to be turning out in larger numbers this year. The youth vote may be the highest its been since 2008 for the election of Barack Obama - the country's first black president.\n\nA recent survey by Axios found that four in 10 university students said they planned to protest if Mr Trump wins. Six in 10 said they would shame friends who could vote but choose not to.\n\nBy contrast, only 3% of surveyed students said they would protest if Joe Biden was elected.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the US election?\n\nIn just three weeks, Americans head to the polls to cast their vote for Donald Trump or Joe Biden. What questions do you have for American voters? 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.", "The rufous bush chat is rarely seen in northern Europe\n\nBirdwatchers have descended on a salt marsh to see a bird not seen in Britain for 40 years.\n\nThe rufous bush chat was spotted at Stiffkey, north Norfolk, prompting up to 100 birdwatchers to go to see it.\n\nNative to southern Spain, Africa and the Balkans the bird, also known as the rufous warbler and rufous bush robin, is rarely seen in northern Europe.\n\nDick Filby, of Rare Bird Alert, said it \"would have been heading for a tropical climate and went the wrong way.\"\n\nHe said the last time the bird was spotted in Britain was at Prawle Point in Devon in 1980.\n\nThe bird was first spotted on the Stiffkey marshes on Saturday morning\n\n\"In 1998, one was seen in Jersey (part of the British Isles but not classed as part of Britain).\"\n\nMr Filby said he hoped birdwatchers would be wearing masks and keeping socially-distanced as they enjoyed the view.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Look East 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 BBC Look East\n\nNorfolk Police called on birdwatchers visiting the site in the hope of seeing the rare visitor to keep to Covid regulations.\n\nBirdwatchers in the British Isles last caught a glimpse of the bird when it was seen in Jersey in 1998\n\nCh Supt Chris Balmer said: \"People may arrive on their own but some have started to gather in groups larger than six to be able to see the bird. This is a breach of the law.\n\n\"In the first instance officers will engage, explain and encourage people to leave but enforcement is an option and we will be issuing fixed penalty notices should people not comply.\"\n\nScores of birdwatchers descended on Stiffkey on the Norfolk coast\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@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. Andy is suing a betting company after it refused to pay him his £1.7 million winnings.\n\nA man who was refused a payout of £1.7m after his online betting company account was credited with the money has taken his case to the High Court.\n\nAndy Green, 53, from Lincolnshire, said he hit the jackpot in January 2018 playing a blackjack game from bookmaker Betfred on his phone.\n\nBetfred said there was a software error and the company's terms and conditions meant it could withhold the payment.\n\nBut lawyers for Mr Green say they have been given no proof of the problem.\n\nAfter a long night playing the Betfred Frankie Dettori Magic Seven Blackjack in January 2018, Mr Green's online account was credited with £1,722,923.54 which he tried to withdraw - but the request was declined.\n\nAfter placing some more bets with his winnings he took a screenshot to prove what had happened.\n\nHowever, a Betfred director called him to say there had been a \"software error\" and it was rejecting the claim.\n\nAs a token of \"goodwill\" the company was willing to pay £30,000, but Mr Green would have to agree not to talk about it ever again.\n\nMr Green refused and the company increased its offer to £60,000, which he also rejected.\n\nMore than two years later he has gone to the High Court to sue Betfred and its parent company, Gibraltar-based Petfre for £2m, including the interest he would have earned from the win.\n\nMr Green said \"the last two and a half years have felt like hell on earth\".\n\n\"You wouldn't treat an animal like I've been treated by Betfred,\" he said.\n\n\"Hopefully the judge will accept the arguments put forward by my legal team and this nightmare will be over. My champagne remains on ice!\"\n\nMr Green is in poor health and has suffered four heart attacks - one of them since the money was credited to his online account in 2018.\n\nThe legal argument centres on 49 pages of terms and conditions, and game rules which Mr Green ticked when signing up for Betfred.\n\nThey include a clause that all \"pays and plays\" would be void in the event of a \"malfunction\", and Betfred argues that by ticking the box, Mr Green was agreeing.\n\nHis solicitor Peter Coyle said \"whilst Betfred's betting terms and conditions are incredibly complicated and span across numerous different documents, we are confident that, on their proper construction, the terms simply don't allow for Betfred to withhold payment\".\n\nMr Coyle pointed out that if \"all pays and plays\" were void, then Betfred would have refunded other customers, but the company had produced no evidence that had happened. It only wanted to withhold Mr Green's enormous win, he said.\n\nBetfred licences the software for its online games from another company Playtech, which has refused to confirm the nature of the software glitch.\n\nBy law, Playtech has to notify the Gambling Commission of Great Britain of the fault, known as a \"key event\". Mr Coyle says the description of what happened is only four lines long and does not describe the nature of the problem.\n\nDespite repeated requests, Mr Green's lawyers say Betfred has been unable to prove there was a software problem at all. Neither has the company attempted to drag its supplier Playtech into the case.\n\nIf the court rules in Mr Green's favour, other gamblers denied their winnings due to technical problems could be able to make similar claims.\n\nMr Green's lawyers have asked for a summary judgment, which would mean the facts are not at issue and the judge could decide the case without a trial.\n\nThe judge has reserved judgement, which could mean one of three outcomes at a later date: deciding the case without a trial in Mr Green's favour, deciding in Betfred's favour, or ordering a trial.\n\nA Betfred spokesman said \"the case is currently progressing at court and it is therefore inappropriate for us to comment further\".", "The eldest brother of Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson has died in hospital with coronavirus.\n\nThe politician confirmed the news in a Tweet and thanked staff at Liverpool Hospital's intensive care unit.\n\nHe said his brother had died at 22:45 BST on Friday.\n\nLiverpool has since Wednesday been in tier three of the new lockdown system, which has the strictest rules, after a rise in coronavirus cases in the area.\n\nHe urged people to \"follow the rules\", which include the closure of pubs not serving meals, along with gyms, leisure centres, betting shops and casinos.\n\nIn the social media post, Mr Anderson wrote: \"We want to thank the dedicated [hospital] staff risking their lives for us.\n\n\"Thank you all for your messages of love and support. Let's stick together and support each other and win this battle.\"\n\nLiverpool has the highest number of cases in England, with 3,204 cases recorded on Tuesday, slightly more than the 3,191 cases registered a week before.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Anderson criticised crowds that gathered in the city just before the new rules came into effect, saying the images \"shame our city\" and \"our health service is creaking\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nEverton came from behind twice to maintain their unbeaten start to the Premier League in a Merseyside derby thriller as Liverpool were denied a stoppage-time winner by the video assistant referee.\n\nSadio Mane put the visitors ahead in the third minute but they were furious soon afterwards when a wild challenge by Everton keeper Jordan Pickford on Virgil van Dijk, committed after an offside decision, saw the defender having to go off injured with VAR failing to review the tackle.\n\nEverton, who had won their previous seven games in all competitions, equalised swiftly at Goodison Park when Michael Keane headed in a corner from the outstanding James Rodriguez.\n\nLiverpool, with Thiago Alcantara at the heart of everything, were back in front with 18 minutes left when Mohamed Salah volleyed in Yerry Mina's poor clearance to set up a frantic finale, with only Pickford's magnificent save from Joel Matip's header keeping Everton in the hunt.\n\nDominic Calvert-Lewin's towering header restored parity with nine minutes left but Everton were then reduced to 10 men when Richarlison was sent off for a wild challenge on Thiago.\n\nLiverpool thought they had won it in stoppage time when Pickford could not keep out Jordan Henderson's shot - but in a finish to match the chaotic nature of the game, Mane was adjudged to be offside after a lengthy wait for the VAR decision.\n• None 'Everton lucky but show grit in derby of chaos and controversy'\n• None Reaction to Everton v Liverpool, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nEverton and England keeper Pickford has been unable to stay out of the headlines this season as the spotlight has fallen on his faltering form - and he was the central figure in this eventful Merseyside derby.\n\nWhen Everton were 1-0 down, he somehow escaped a red card for a challenge on Van Dijk that was dangerous enough to force Liverpool's defender off, with the Dutchman looking in much discomfort as he made his way around the pitch.\n\nHe was then in more traditional action as he made a fine save from Trent-Alexander Arnold's free-kick and then - with Liverpool no doubt feeling he should not even be on the pitch - he made a world-class save diving away to his right to keep out Matip's header when it looked a certain goal with the score 2-1 in favour of Jurgen Klopp's side.\n\nEven then his afternoon was not over as he scrambled back in vain after failing to hold Henderson's shot - the relief clear when VAR ruled out the goal.\n\nEverton may still not have beaten their great rivals in a decade but Carlo Ancelotti's side will take great comfort from the manner in which they fought back twice and while Liverpool were the more consistent threat, there is a serious menace about this team that was not present last season.\n\nLiverpool's Thiago and Everton's Rodriguez sailed serenely above the chaos in this match, showing the time and class that simply did not seem to be available to others.\n\nIn Thiago, Liverpool have added a midfield controller to the side that won the Premier League at a canter last season.\n\nHe was composed and some of his picked passes were of the highest standard, looking an absolute snip at £20m from Bayern Munich.\n\nSalah's unforgiving finishing was on show once again, scoring his 100th goal for the club, and Liverpool will feel disappointed they could not close out the victory after leading so late on.\n\nThey mounted an expected recovery from that 7-2 thrashing at Aston Villa but they have now dropped five points in their past two away games and - even allowing for Van Dijk's early injury - do not look as impregnable as they did last season.\n\nKlopp will hope Van Dijk's injury is not serious as, perhaps helped by the manner in which Leeds United troubled Liverpool on the opening weekend and that humiliation at Villa, there is a belief in opponents that they can be got at.\n\n'We were dominant against a flying side'\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp told Match of the Day: \"Performance-wise very, very happy. Best away game we've played here since I started managing. We gave away two goals on set-pieces after changing formation.\n\n\"We were dominant against a flying side. Different things happened today. This type of offside I didn't see in the Virgil and Pickford incident.\n\nOn the Henderson ruled-out goal: \"I don't know where the line is where you can do offside.\n\n\"Yes, we should have won this game. The boys played a super game. against a side with quality and confidence. Dominating from the first second is absolutely exceptional.\"\n\nEverton goalscorer Dominic Calvert-Lewin: \"As you'd expect in derbies, got tackles flying in 50-50, so there's always a chance the ref might bring out a yellow or red.\n\n\"Disappointed we didn't kick on at 1-1. We knew we would have spells where we wouldn't have the ball. I managed to put one away but I genuinely thought it would be coming [the win], but it wasn't to be.\n\n\"I'm disappointed we didn't win the game. In that respect it was frustrating. In terms of the bigger picture, it's a point and we'll take it.\"\n• None Liverpool are unbeaten in their past 23 meetings against Everton in all competitions, their longest run against a single opponent in history.\n• None Everton haven't led in any of their past 14 Premier League matches against Liverpool - only Crystal Palace have had a longer run against an opponent without going ahead in the competition (17 v Manchester United between 1992-2017).\n• None Everton v Liverpool has seen more red cards than any other fixture in Premier League history (22), with Everton's 15 in this fixture also a record for one side against another.\n• None Liverpool have conceded 13 goals in their five Premier League games this season - they conceded as many after 15 games last term. Thirteen goals is the most Liverpool have shipped after five league games since 1953-54 (also 13).\n• None Mohamed Salah's goal was his 100th for Liverpool in all competitions, in his 159th game for the club - only Roger Hunt (144) and Jack Parkinson (153) have reached the milestone in fewer appearances for the Reds.\n• None Dominic Calvert-Lewin is the first player to score in each of Everton's first five league games in a season since Tommy Lawton in 1938-39.\n• None Calvert-Lewin is just the fourth player to score in each of his side's first five Premier League games in a season, after Arsenal's Jose Antonio Reyes (2004-05), Manchester United's Wayne Rooney (2011-12) and Manchester City's Sergio Aguero (2019-20).\n• None Sadio Mane's goal after two minutes and 15 seconds was Liverpool's fastest goal in a Premier League Merseyside derby, while it was the second quickest goal overall in this fixture in the competition (Olivier Dacourt for Everton, one minute in April 1999).\n\nEverton visit Southampton in the Premier League on Sunday, 25 October (14:00 GMT), while Liverpool face Ajax in Amsterdam in the Champions League on Wednesday (20:00 BST) before hosting Sheffield United in the Premier League on Saturday (20:00 BST).\n• None Alex Iwobi (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None GOAL OVERTURNED BY VAR: Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) scores but the goal is ruled out after a VAR review.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Thiago tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner from a direct free kick.\n• None Allan (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) header from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by Diogo Jota.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mohamed Salah with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Everton 2, Liverpool 2. Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lucas Digne with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Behind the scenes of his presidency\n• None All episodes are streaming now", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Time is of the essence\" for Manchester - Boris Johnson\n\nBoris Johnson says the spread of coronavirus in Greater Manchester is \"grave\" and he may \"need to intervene\" if new measures are not agreed.\n\nThe prime minister urged mayor Andy Burnham to \"engage constructively\" with the government over the region entering \"very high\" tier three measures.\n\nHe said the situation was worsening every day and \"time is of the essence\".\n\nMr Burnham, who wants more financial aid for workers affected, said regional leaders will meet No 10 at \"any time\".\n\nMeasures under tier three include pub closures and a ban on household mixing indoors, in private gardens and in most outdoor venues. Liverpool City Region was the first of England's regions to enter the very high alert level.\n\nLancashire has agreed to move into tier three from Saturday with a financial support package worth £42m. Around 1.5 million people, including those living in Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, Lancaster and Preston, will be affected by the new rules.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street briefing on Friday, Mr Johnson said he understood the \"reluctance\" of local leaders to put the region under tougher restrictions and said it would be \"far from a pain-free course of action\".\n\nHe warned: \"Of course, if agreement cannot be reached I will need to intervene in order to protect Manchester's hospitals and save the lives of Manchester's residents.\n\n\"But our efforts would be so much more effective if we work together.\"\n\nRevealing that a deal had not been reached between No 10 and the region's leaders, Mr Johnson said it was time for action to be taken.\n\n\"Each day that passes before action is taken means more people will go to hospital, more people will end up in intensive care and tragically more people will die,\" he said.\n\nIn a joint statement with Greater Manchester's deputy mayors and council leaders, Mr Burnham said they had sought a further meeting with Downing Street officials - and this did not happen.\n\n\"We can assure the prime minister that we are ready to meet at any time to try to agree a way forward,\" they said.\n\nThey said they had done \"everything within our power to protect the health of our residents\" but are not convinced that closing pubs and bars is the only way to protect hospitals.\n\nInstead, they want other measures like shielding to be considered, and tougher penalties on venues that do not comply to Covid regulations, including instant closure powers.\n\n\"We firmly believe that protecting health is about more than controlling the virus and requires proper support for people whose lives would be severely affected by a tier three lockdown,\" they said, adding that the current proposals do not \"provide adequate support\".\n\nAndy Burnham says northern England has been treated with contempt\n\nThe latest government figures showed there were 15,650 new cases reported on Friday, bringing the total to 689,257.\n\nThere were a further 136 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, bringing the total to 43,429.\n\nMr Johnson said he hoped the most stringent \"very high\" restrictions could be lifted as quickly as possible for the affected regions.\n\nHe said: \"The amount by which we need to reduce the R is not as big as it was right back in the beginning of the spread of this disease.\n\n\"If we all work together on the measures we have outlined we can definitely do it.\"\n\nThe reproduction (R) number has risen slightly to 1.3-1.5, with growth of the epidemic still widespread across the country.\n\nThe PM said he wanted to avoid another national lockdown \"if at all possible\" amid calls for a circuit-breaker - a short, limited lockdown - across the country.\n\nHe said he disagreed with those who argued in favour of a national lockdown \"instead of targeted local action\", insisting: \"Closing businesses in Cornwall where transmission is low will not cut transmission in Manchester\".\n\nMr Johnson said that while he could not \"rule anything out\", he wanted to avoid a national lockdown because of \"the damaging health, economic and social effects it would have\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said during the briefing that the nation is in a \"different situation\" from when the Sage group of scientists recommended a two-to-three week national \"circuit break\" to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHe said the situation had changed, adding: \"We recommended in September taking a circuit break. The idea there was that actually a two-week interruption would set cases back probably to the levels they were in August and then at those levels, test and trace is more effective to keep control.\n\n\"Where we are now is of course a different situation. It's crucial that where the R is above 1 and the numbers are high we get R below 1 for all the reasons that have been outlined, including of course the hospitalisations which are increasing. So it's crucial that's done, and there are a number of ways that can be done.\"\n\nHe added that would only be achieved by combining \"tier three baseline conditions\" suggested by the government with some extra measures agreed in an affected region using \"local knowledge and local insight\".\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nThe PM said accepting increased coronavirus restrictions was the \"right and responsible\" measure to protect the NHS.\n\nHe added: \"Without action, there is no doubt that our NHS would soon be struggling to treat the sheer number of people seriously ill with Covid.\n\n\"Non-Covid treatments and surgeries would need to be cancelled to cope and many more people would die.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health minister Alex Norris MP said it was \"damaging\" for Mr Johnson to avoid a full lockdown and that the regional approach is not enough.\n\n\"We need this circuit-breaker to give us time to sort these significant problems in testing and tracing,\" he said. \"We've had the worst week last week for tracing. The system's falling over. The prime minister is desperate to avoid lockdown just as he was at the beginning of the pandemic - but we know that that delay at the beginning was really damaging.\"\n\nOn Thursday, London, Essex, York and parts of Surrey, Derbyshire and Cumbria were moved up to tier two and will face tougher measures from Saturday.\n\nMore than half of England's population will now be living under high or very high-alert restrictions.\n\nThe PM also revealed that the UK is developing the capacity to manufacture millions of new fast turnaround tests for coronavirus - with some saliva tests able to deliver results in 15 minutes.\n\nHe said distribution and trials of the tests would start over \"the next few weeks\" and would enable NHS and care home staff to be tested \"more frequently\".\n\nSchoolchildren and university students would also be able to be tested, he said, to help keep education \"open safely over the winter\".", "People in Greater Manchester are facing confusion over possible changes to Covid-19 rules, as local leaders denied Downing Street's claim that talks have been arranged to resolve a row.\n\nNo 10 told the BBC it had arranged a call with the region's mayor, Andy Burnham, on Sunday morning.\n\nBut Mr Burnham's office said no such call had been scheduled.\n\nTighter rules kicked in for millions of people in England on Saturday as areas moved up a tier in a new alert system.\n\nBBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake said the conflicting information could be as a result of negotiating tactics.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care confirmed 16,171 more people had tested positive for coronavirus in the UK as of Saturday and a further 150 people had died within 28 days of a positive test - taking the total to 43,579.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that infection rates in Greater Manchester were \"grave\" and added: \"Each day that passes before action is taken means more people will go to hospital, more people will end up in intensive care and tragically more people will die.\"\n\nMr Burnham and other local leaders have so far resisted a move from tier two to tier three's strict rules on hospitality - pressing instead for more shielding measures for the vulnerable, extra financial aid and stricter local powers to shut down venues breaking virus guidelines.\n\n\"We firmly believe that protecting health is about more than controlling the virus and requires proper support for people whose lives would be severely affected by a tier three lockdown,\" the deputy mayors and council leaders said in a joint statement.\n\nWhen two sides cannot even agree on the arrangement of a phone call, it doesn't bode well for the bigger picture.\n\nAfter 48 hours of stand-off between Downing Street and the mayor of Greater Manchester, it seemed there might be some progress.\n\nDowning Street claimed they had \"reached out\" and a call had been arranged between Andy Burnham and No 10 for Sunday morning. But soon after that Mr Burnham's spokesperson said nothing had been agreed.\n\nThese moves could be seen as negotiating tactics, the result of a breakdown in communication or a lack of trust between the two sides.\n\nThey may also seem like a tedious running commentary on the logistics of negotiations, and on one level it is.\n\nBut as coronavirus cases continue to rise there is a lot riding on these discussions, or lack thereof.\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester may be wondering how long it will be before action of some sort is taken, and what restrictions they'll be asked to endure when it is.\n\nMore than half of England - in excess of 28 million people - is now under extra coronavirus restrictions, under the new three-tier alert system.\n\nLancashire has joined the Liverpool City Region in the top tier - tier three. Pubs have closed and households cannot mix indoors or in many outdoor settings.\n\nLondon, Essex, York, Elmbridge, Barrow-in-Furness, North East Derbyshire, Erewash and Chesterfield have moved into tier two, meaning they can no longer mix inside with those from other households, including in pubs and restaurants.\n\nAreas of England in the lowest tier must keep to the nationwide virus rules such as group sizes being capped at six people, and the hospitality industry closing at 22:00.\n\nMeanwhile, calls for a circuit-breaker - a short but strict national lockdown - have been supported by Labour as well as some Conservative MPs.\n\nKate Green, Labour MP for Stretford and Urmston, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The Labour leaders in Greater Manchester support the call for a national circuit-break because what we're seeing in Manchester today - the rest of the country is coming along behind. The rate is rising everywhere.\"\n\nMs Green, who is also shadow education secretary, added that extra restrictions would not be effective without a package of support to \"enable people to close their businesses [and] to isolate at home if they need to\".\n\nConservative MP and former health secretary Jeremy Hunt called for an end to the \"public war of words\" between local and national leaders on Saturday, but added he had \"sympathy\" for the idea of a circuit-breaker.\n\nBritain's largest teachers' union, the National Education Union, has called for secondary schools in England to shut for two weeks at half term, rather than the traditional one week.\n\nMr Johnson has said that while he could not \"rule anything out\", he wants to avoid a national lockdown because of \"the damaging health, economic and social effects it would have\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There were scuffles between police and pub goers in Soho ahead of London moving to Tier 2\n\nAs coronavirus cases continue to rise rapidly across the UK, the devolved nations are taking their owns steps to curb the spread of infections.\n\nPubs, restaurants and cafes across Northern Ireland have closed to sit-in customers for the next four weeks while in Wales, talks continue over a potential two-week \"fire break\" - a period with tighter restrictions to help slow the spread.\n\nMost licensed premises in Scotland's central belt are closed under temporary restrictions, which are expected to be replaced by a similar multi-tiered system to the one in England by the end of the month.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? What do the current restrictions mean for you? 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. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A forensic search is underway at the scene in Cypress Crescent in St Mellons\n\nA murder investigation is under way in Cardiff after the death of a 54-year-old man.\n\nEmergency services were called to Cypress Crescent in St Mellons at about 20:00 BST on Friday - the man died at the scene.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a woman was also taken to hospital with serious, but not life-threatening, injuries.\n\nA 21-year-old man, who is known to the victims, was arrested on Newport Road shortly afterwards and is in custody.\n\nDetectives said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the investigation, but have appealed for any witnesses to come forward.\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 PM says it is time to \"get ready” for trading arrangements with the EU to be \"more like Australia's\" from 1 January.\n\nTalks between the UK and EU over a post-Brexit trade agreement are \"over\", Downing Street has said.\n\nNo 10 argued there was \"no point\" in discussions continuing next week unless the EU was prepared to discuss the detailed legal text of a partnership.\n\nUK chief negotiator Lord Frost said he had told EU counterpart Michel Barnier there was now no \"basis\" for planned talks on Monday.\n\nNumber 10 said the two sides had agreed to talk again next week - by phone.\n\nEarlier, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted that the Brussels negotiating team would go to London after the weekend to \"intensify\" discussions.\n\nFrance's Europe minister Clément Beaune told BBC Newsnight that, while the EU would not pursue a deal at any cost, \"we will listen to what the UK side wants to say to us\".\n\nMeanwhile, ratings agency Moody's has downgraded the UK's credit status, citing falling economic strength due to the coronavirus pandemic and uncertainty over Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister had set this week's EU summit as the deadline for the two sides to agree a deal.\n\nBut there are still major disagreements over fishing rights and state help for businesses.\n\nAnd the UK government hardened up its message to the EU over the course of Friday.\n\nIn the morning, Boris Johnson said the country had to \"get ready\" to trade next year without an agreement, although he did not say the talks were over.\n\nHe suggested the EU was unwilling to consider seriously the UK's preferred option of a comprehensive free trade agreement based on the bloc's existing arrangement with Canada.\n\nThe UK, he added, must look at the \"alternative\" - which he suggested was Australia's much-more limited set of agreements with the EU.\n\nAs statements go, those four words from the prime minister's spokesman this afternoon were something of a bombshell.\n\nBut Michel Barnier, due to come to London next week to continue talks, might not be unpacking his briefcase just yet.\n\nThere's no doubt that Downing Street is sending the clearest signal possible that it expects the EU to make the next move.\n\nAnd the rhetoric accompanying the talks has reached a new level.\n\nBut both sides still want a deal, the process has not broken down and there is still time to reach an agreement.\n\nIt's one thing to declare the talks over; it's another thing to refuse to continue talking.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman took a tougher line with Brussels later in the day.\n\n\"There is only any point in Michel Barnier coming to London next week if he's prepared to address all the issues on the basis of a legal text in an accelerated way, without the UK required to make all the moves or to discuss the practicalities of travel and haulage,\" he said.\n\n\"If not, there is no point in coming.\"\n\nHe added: \"Trade talks are over. The EU have effectively ended them by saying they do not want to change their negotiating position.\"\n\nThe UK and EU had been hoping for a \"zero-tariff\" agreement to govern their trading relationship once the UK's post-Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nIf no deal is reached, they will operate on World Trade Organization rules, meaning tariffs are imposed.\n\nMrs von der Leyen (R) left the summit early after exchanging views with EU leaders\n\nBoris Johnson's public declaration that the UK should prepare for no deal did not cause great concern within EU circles.\n\nThe immediate response came in a tweet from Commission President Ursula von der Leyen who said it was full steam ahead for trade talks next week and that EU negotiators would be getting on the Eurostar to London as planned.\n\nBut the subsequent statement from the prime minister's official spokesman that the \"trade talks are over\" has left senior diplomats \"deeply unimpressed\", as one put it.\n\nAlthough \"we're getting used to being part of Johnson's pantomime\", they added.\n\nSome EU figures fear Boris Johnson still doesn't know if he actually wants a deal and is trying to buy time while he grapples with the Covid crisis.\n\nFollowing the hardening of the British position by No 10, France's President Macron called on the prime minister to make up his mind, while there was still time.\n\nMany in Brussels remain \"cautiously optimistic\" some sort of deal can be agreed, but any route there is now even harder to see.\n\nAfter the EU summit concluded on Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would be best to get a deal and that compromises on both sides would be needed.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the UK needed a Brexit deal more than the EU did.\n\nFor Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves urged the UK government to \"step back from the brink\" and \"stop posturing\".\n\n\"Any tariffs or any delays at the border will make it harder for goods to flow freely, whether those are foods or medicines,\" she said.\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "The operators of a care home in West Lothian have said 11 residents have died in a coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Redmill care home in East Whitburn has a further 35 residents and 20 members of staff who have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe deaths represent an increase of four on those reported by operators HC-One last week.\n\nA spokesman for the company said staff at Redmill were \"doing everything they can to care for residents\".\n\nThe spokesman said: \"We have a comprehensive coronavirus contingency plan in place and we are working closely with NHS Lothian and public Health to ensure we are doing all we can to respond to and overcome this outbreak.\n\n\"A very significant amount of resource and senior leadership time is being dedicated to this home so that we can help as many residents as possible to return to good health.\n\n\"The home continues to be well supplied with the medical equipment and PPE needed to protect residents and colleagues. We have additional senior management supporting the home and our colleagues seven days a week. We also engage with the NHS daily to ensure that residents can access the healthcare they need.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are very proud of our colleagues and the bravery and dedication they show to supporting our residents.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP for Lothian Neil Findlay said: \"With so many residents testing positive it is clear that action must be taken to keep staff and residents safe at Redmill.\n\n\"I am calling on the Care Inspectorate to begin an urgent investigation into the situation at Redmill and for all support necessary to be given to the staff at the home.\"\n\nScotland's chief nursing officer Prof Fiona McQueen told BBC Scotland the deaths at care homes were a \"great tragedy\".\n\nShe added: \"Looking at that level of transmission in staff is why the Scottish government has weekly testing of care home staff supported with PPE. But we know when any disease is in the community and in our hospitals, it also goes into our care homes.\n\n\"That's why across the central belt we've asked for increased restrictions on care home visiting so that we can wrap a protection around our care homes.\"", "People in England who have been told to self-isolate through NHS Test and Trace could have their details shared with the police on a \"case-by-case basis\".\n\nForces will have access to information telling them if an individual has been told to self-isolate, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said it was worried police involvement might put people off being tested.\n\nIn England there is a legal requirement to isolate after a positive test.\n\nPolice will not have access to data from the NHS Covid-19 app. The app is anonymous so the government does not know who has been sent instructions to self-isolate.\n\nJust under 11% of people traced as a close contact of someone with coronavirus said they self-isolated for 14 days, according to a government-commissioned study.\n\nReasons given for breaking self-isolation included believing there was no point isolating from strangers if you cannot properly distance from those in your household; not developing symptoms; or visiting shops or a pharmacy.\n\nThe DHSC updated its guidance about how testing data will be handled on Friday.\n\nA memorandum of understanding was issued between the DHSC and National Police Chiefs' Council to allow forces to access information that tells them if a \"specific individual\" has been told to self-isolate, as first reported by the Health Service Journal.\n\nThose who fail to do so face fines starting at £1,000, which can increase to £10,000 for serial offenders or serious breaches.\n\nA DHSC spokesman said it was a legal requirement for people who had tested positive and their close contacts to self-isolate when formally notified to do so.\n\n\"The memorandum of understanding ensures that information is shared with appropriate safeguards and in accordance with the law. No testing or health data is shared in this process,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for the British Medical Association, which represents doctors in the UK, said the test-and-trace system needed \"the full confidence of the public\" to be effective.\n\nHe said: \"We are already concerned that some people are deterred from being tested because they are anxious about loss of income should they need to self-isolate - and we are worried should police involvement add to this.\n\n\"Therefore, the government's emphasis should be on providing support to people - financial and otherwise - if they need to self-isolate, so that no-one is deterred from coming forward for a test.\"\n\nA National Police Chiefs' Council spokesperson said forces would continue to encourage \"voluntary compliance\" but would enforce regulations and issue fines where appropriate.\n\n\"Officers will engage with individuals to establish their circumstances, using their discretion wherever it is reasonable to do so,\" they said.\n\nSir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, said ministers should \"reverse the policy urgently\".\n\n\"Anything that further undermines the public's dwindling trust in this government's handling of the pandemic is damaging, and few things could have been better designed to do that, than this,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Baroness Dido Harding, the head of NHS Test and Trace, has told the Sunday Times that the Test and Trace service was not a \"silver bullet\".\n\n\"It has never been and it never will be,\" she said, adding it is one of a number of different interventions needed to control Covid-19.", "The 1,000-plant haul was found over three floors at a former nightclub\n\nA three-floor cannabis factory has been discovered in a former nightclub, with the crop said to have a street value of more than £1m.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said its officers found about 1,000 plants at the Coventry premises, one of the largest hauls it had ever seen.\n\nThe growing and irrigation uncovered at the Trinity Street property were described as sophisticated.\n\nThree men have been charged with drugs offences following the NCA's raid.\n\nOfficers had to smash through several reinforced doors to access the plants during Thursday's operation at the unnamed city centre site, in which growing equipment valued at about £150,000 was also found.\n\nNCA branch commander Adam Warnock said the seizure of drugs would dent the profit of organised crime which benefited from large-scale drug-growing.\n\n\"The size of the cannabis factory was significant and sophisticated, spread across three floors of a large building,\" he said.\n\n\"It is certainly one of the largest grows ever uncovered by the NCA.\"\n\nThe NCA said two men, aged 24 and 31, had been charged with production of a class B drug and appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nA third man, 28, accused of the same offence, was subject of an extradition hearing, the NCA added.\n\nWest Midlands Police assisted with the operation, using drones to help detain two suspects.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Cannabis crop with street value of £3m found\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kristin Scott Thomas, Gareth Malone and Sharon Horgan appeared with the Combined Military Wives Choir at their London UK film premiere in February\n\nVenues and organisations including the Military Wives Choirs, The Hepworth Wakefield and Night and Day in Manchester are to receive a share of £76m government arts funding.\n\nWhitby's Gothic Festival, London's Somerset House and Kneehigh Theatre in Cornwall are also set to benefit.\n\nThe latest raft of grants, for 588 organisations, will come out of the wider £1.57bn Cultural Recovery Fund.\n\nIt follows Monday's £257m injection, which helped The Cavern Club and LSO.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said that Saturday's new round of \"vital funding\" would go to \"protect cultural gems across the country, save jobs and prepare the arts to bounce back\".\n\nIt will cover comedy clubs, circuses, festivals, regional theatres and local museums, across England.\n\n\"These awards build on our commitment to be here for culture in every part of the country,\" he added.\n\nWhile July's announcement of the wider support package was welcomed by the arts and entertainment industries, Mr Dowden did admit that it would not be enough to save every job or cultural establishment.\n\nThe Military Wives Choir rose to fame through the BBC documentary series with Gareth Malone and was recently the subject of a film starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan.\n\nDirector Melanie Nightingale said they were \"incredibly grateful\" for the \"much-needed support,\" at a time when many arts organisations have been struggling due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We are thrilled that this funding enables our 73 choirs to sing, share and support one another and feel stronger together through music,\" she said.\n\nThe grants of under £1m have also been awarded to the West End's longest running play, The Mousetrap; the Shangri-La stage at Glastonbury Festival; and grassroots music venues, including Night & Day Cafe.\n\nNight & Day Cafe in Manchester has hosted gigs by the likes of the Arctic Monkeys, Elbow, and Jessie J\n\nJennifer Smithson, director of the latter Manchester venue, explained that the financial help \"enables us to plan for the future when we look forward to having live music back at the venue once again\".\n\nJoe Wright, who directed films including Pride and Prejudice and Atonement, is also a Kneehigh associate. He said he was delighted the Cornwall theatre had been successful in round two, and will now be able to reopen in December with the aim of providing safe, socially distanced outdoor artistic experiences.\n\n\"Kneehigh remain an inspiration for many throughout the sector, they've never got 'stuck' and have always been quick to adapt to new challenges,\" he said.\n\n\"Their mission to remain local whilst telling stories that reflect all our lives is vital in helping us all through these unprecedented times.\"\n\nFurther round of funding from the Cultural Recovery Fund pot are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.\n\nOrganisations that will be receiving funding part of the £76m include:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Chris Christie, pictured here (C) at a White House event in September, said Covid-19 ought to be taken \"very seriously\"\n\nFormer New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has urged Americans to take coronavirus \"seriously\" after spending days in intensive care with Covid-19.\n\nMr Christie, a Trump administration ally, revealed on Thursday he had recovered from the disease.\n\nHe was one of several virus cases confirmed at the same time as President Donald Trump in early October.\n\nThe infections have been linked to a \"superspreader event\" at the White House.\n\nMore than a dozen cases have been traced to the Rose Garden event on 26 September, including two senators, the White House press secretary and President Trump's former counsellor Kellyanne Conway. All appear to have recovered.\n\nMr Christie said he attended the event, a ceremony where Mr Trump formally announced his nomination of the conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett for a Supreme Court vacancy, believing he had \"entered a safe zone\".\n\n\"I was wrong,\" Mr Christie, who is in a high-risk category for Covid-19 because of his weight and asthma, said in a statement.\n\n\"I was wrong to not wear a mask at the Amy Coney Barrett announcement and I was wrong not to wear a mask at my multiple debate prep sessions with the President and the rest of the team.\"\n\nMr Christie said he hoped his experience would encourage Americans to follow virus guidelines \"in public no matter where you are and wear a mask to protect yourself and others\".\n\nBy contrast, Mr Trump left hospital after three nights of treatment for Covid-19, urging Americans not to let the virus \"dominate\" them.\n\nMr Christie, 58, was admitted to the Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey on 3 October as a precaution.\n\nHe said he ended up spending seven days in the intensive care unit of the hospital. He said he recovered thanks to the \"skilful care\" of doctors and \"extraordinary treatments\", including an antibody cocktail given to President Trump.\n\nMr Christie said his stint in \"isolation\" gave him time to do some thinking about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four Covid rules broken by Trump and the White House\n\n\"It is something to take very seriously,\" Mr Christie said of the virus, which has killed more than 217,000 people in the US to date.\n\n\"The ramifications are wildly random and potentially deadly. No one should be happy to get the virus and no one should be cavalier about being infected or infecting others.\"\n\nIn his first TV interview since contracting Covid-19, Mr Christie called on President Trump to encourage the wearing of face masks among Americans.\n\nMr Trump expressed approval of masks at a televised town-hall event on Thursday, as he faced a grilling from the public before he takes on Democratic challenger Joe Biden in November's presidential election.\n\nBut Mr Christie said that President Trump's messaging wasn't explicit enough, telling ABC's Good Morning America: \"I think we should be even more affirmative about it. That's why I put out the statement I did.\"\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 Good Morning America 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 his statement, the former governor said: \"Every public official, regardless of party or position, should advocate for every American to wear a mask in public, appropriately socially distance and to wash your hands frequently every day.\"\n\nMasks have turned into a divisive political issue in the US. President Trump has previously mocked Mr Biden and some journalists for wearing masks, and many of his supporters have attended his rallies without face coverings.\n\nIn contrast, Mr Biden has taken a cautious approach to coronavirus during the election campaign, regularly wearing a mask in public while urging others to do so.", "The artwork was not claimed by Banksy for several days\n\nThe graffiti artist Banksy has confirmed a piece of art that appeared in Nottingham was created by him.\n\nThe work, outside a beauty salon, shows a girl hula-hooping with a bicycle tyre. It went up on Tuesday, next to a bicycle that is missing its back wheel.\n\nAmid speculation over whether the piece was a Banksy, a screen was fitted to it. In an ironic twist, soon afterwards the screen was sprayed with graffiti.\n\nA picture of the work was posted on Banksy's Instagram on Saturday morning.\n\nKlaye, aged four, posed for a photograph next to the the artwork\n\nThe salon the artwork appeared outside is on the junction of Rothesay Avenue and Ilkeston Road in Lenton, a popular residential area for students.\n\nAfter Bansky's confirmation he was the creator, people began arriving to have their photographs taken with the artwork, with about 30 people there at one point, as well as police officers.\n\nNicola Marshall, 39, from Clifton, Nottingham, came with her son Klaye to see the work. She said: \"It's a bit of positivity with all this coronavirus going on.\"\n\nDanial Ahmer, 23, a student who lives on Rothesay Avenue, said: \"I think it's eye-catching. It was a bit surreal and random to see it here though.\"\n\nPolice officers kept an eye on the art fans\n\nBanksy expert Prof Paul Gough, from Arts University Bournemouth - who initially doubted whether it was the real deal - said he was \"really pleased\" the work was by the artist.\n\nTalking about the meaning behind the artwork, he said: \"It is curious. The last four or five [Banksy pieces] have all related to Covid or something in the news. This is much more whimsical and much more of the moment. It is someone enjoying themselves.\n\n\"Perhaps that is the message: 'we are in difficult times, let's try to make the most of it and get some fun out of something which is broken'.\n\n\"The hoop is holistic. The circle is a positive and life-affirming. Even with a knackered bicycle, she is finding something she can play with.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Nottingham picture is a different kind of [Banksy] painting to what I have seen before. There is less fluidity and a more pixelated effect, especially around the chin and parts of the face.\"\n\nThe plastic covering protecting the artwork has been defaced twice, but has since been cleaned\n\nBanksy began spray-painting trains and walls in his home city of Bristol in the 1990s, and before long was leaving his artistic mark all over the world.\n\nHe is famed for poking fun at big companies and sending political messages through his work.\n\nSilvestro Biondi, who was taking advantage of the crowds to sell a few ice creams, said: \"I'm from Lenton and it's just great that it's here. It'll bring joy to people\"\n\nOn an unassuming street off the edge of the city of Nottingham there's an almost seaside atmosphere.\n\nThe excitement has brought people of all ages, backgrounds and parts of the city together, with a constant stream of people queuing to take a picture with the artwork.\n\nThere's even an ice cream van and a hula-hooper to complete the picture.\n\nMany are just happy to have something else to talk about other than the rising levels of coronavirus, and something to put the city in a more positive light - although maintaining social distancing is definitely a challenge.\n\nA spokesman from Nottingham City Council said it was \"amazing\" Banksy had confirmed the work was his, adding \"we obviously don't know why he chose Nottingham but we're a city famous for our rebels, like Robin Hood of course\".\n\nHe said: \"The fact that the artwork features a bike could be a reference to the Raleigh factory that used to be nearby, famous for its role in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, the novel by local author Alan Sillitoe and iconic 1960 film starring Albert Finney.\"\n\nThe council asked people to avoid large gatherings at the site to protect themselves and others\n\nThe council fitted the temporary cover to the work earlier in the week and now it is known to be a genuine Banksy, advice will be taken on what should happen next, said the spokesman.\n\nHe added: \"We know people will be tempted to come and see it for themselves but we need to avoid large gatherings during the current pandemic, so we would urge everyone to please stay away.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I was petrified\" - Det Sgt Nick Bailey on being poisoned by Novichok\n\nA police officer who was poisoned in the Salisbury Novichok attack has quit because he \"can no longer do the job\".\n\nDet Sgt Nick Bailey was contaminated with the nerve agent at the home of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the targets of the poisoning operation.\n\nAfter returning to duty last year, he said the aftermath took \"so much from me\" and \"I [have] had to admit defeat\".\n\nHe worked for the police for 18 years and said he was \"so sad\" after wanting to be an officer since his teens.\n\nAngus Macpherson, police and crime commissioner for Wiltshire, where Det Sgt Bailey worked, said throughout his career the officer has symbolised \"dedication and a sense of public duty\".\n\nAnd in a statement, the force said he represents the \"determination that all of us want to see in police officers across the country\".\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 Nick Bailey 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\nDet Sgt Bailey and two Wiltshire Police colleagues were sent to Mr Skripal's home in March 2018, after the former Russian spy and his daughter, who was staying with him, were found seriously ill on a bench in Salisbury.\n\nHe was contaminated when he touched the door handle of Mr Skripal's home in the city.\n\nThe Skripals survived the attack after spending several weeks in hospital\n\nThe Skripals survived the attack, which prompted then Prime Minister Theresa May to tell the House of Commons the operation had \"almost certainly\" been approved by the Russian state.\n\nIn a series of tweets earlier, Det Sgt Bailey said the impact on him of the attack \"shouldn't be underestimated\".\n\n\"I wanted to be a police officer since I was a teenager, I couldn't envisage doing anything else, which is why this makes me so sad,\" he said.\n\n\"Like most police officers, I've experienced my fair share of trauma, violence, upset, injury and grief.\n\n\"Although I've tried so hard to make it work, I know that I won't find peace whilst remaining in that environment. For me, it's time for a change.\"\n\nMr Macpherson thanked Det Sgt Bailey for his \"service and dedication to Wiltshire Police\".\n\n\"Nick found himself at the centre of an international, criminal incident which not only affected his health but I am certain changed the course of his family's lives too,\" he said.\n\n\"The events in Salisbury and Amesbury back in 2018 remain unprecedented and Nick, himself, has found himself in a situation that no other police officer in this country has been through.\n\n\"I know that the force has offered as much welfare support to Nick as possible but I hope today brings Nick and his family some sense of closure and allows them to start to look to the future.\"\n\nIn the months after the attack two Russian nationals were accused of travelling to the UK to try to murder Mr Skripal with novichok.\n\nThe pair - known by their aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - were caught on CCTV in Salisbury the day before the attack.\n\nThe alarm was raised about the Novichok attack when Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found very ill on a bench in the centre of Salisbury\n\nDet Sgt Bailey was one of the first to be involved after the alarm about the attack was raised.\n\n\"These shocking and unprecedented events changed his life and his family's lives significantly,\" the force said in a statement.\n\n\"It is impossible for any of us to fully understand the impact this event has had on Nick and his family, and the sacrifices they made in trying to come to terms with the situation.\"\n\n\"Day in and day out, officers put themselves directly into harm's way in order to help and protect others,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"Nick should be incredibly proud of all that he has achieved and will always be considered to be part of the Wiltshire Police family.\n\n\"I am sure that as one chapter closes, another opportunity will open up for Nick.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A record number of shops closed on UK high streets during the first half of this year as the coronavirus lockdown hit many stores hard, data shows.\n\nSome 11,120 chain store outlets shut between January and June, according to research by the Local Data Company and accountancy firm PwC.\n\nAlthough more than 5,000 shops opened during the same period it was not enough to fill the gaps, resulting in a net decline of 6,001 stores.\n\nThe final total could even be higher.\n\nResearchers did not count outlets that had yet to reopen after the coronavirus lockdown ended. Many never will.\n\nThe data includes shops, hospitality chains, and services such as post offices and banks, but it does not include small independent businesses.\n\nHigh streets were already experiencing upheaval long before the pandemic struck.\n\nShops were closing at an average rate of 16 per day in 2019, according to the Local Data Company, which tracks vacancies rates.\n\nBut the pandemic is turbo-charging change as more people shop online. The research found that York has been the worst affected area, with a net loss of 55 outlets.\n\nHarpenden, in Hertfordshire, meanwhile has fared better than any other location with a net increase in stores.\n\nHigh streets have borne the brunt of the closures. Retail parks have proved far more resilient. Standalone stores mean units which are out of town, but not in a retail park or shopping centre, for instance a large supermarket or an Ikea.\n\nThe Local Data Company and PwC have been analysing the changes in the top 500 shopping locations for the past decade. This year's findings include all high streets, shopping centres and retail parks in Britain. They've reviewed existing data to allow comparisons with the previous five years.\n\nThese new figures show the profound impact the pandemic is having on our town centres and high streets.\n\n\"For local authorities, it's now critical how they respond to this significant and growing decline in store occupants,\" says Lucy Stainton, head of retail and strategic partnerships at the Local Data Company.\n\nWhilst many city centres remain quiet, the pandemic has prompted something of a resurgence in local high streets with people increasingly wanting to shop locally if they're working from home.\n\nLisa Hooker, consumer markets leader at PwC, says amid the turmoil, there continues to be a steady flow of openings: \"With the continued roll out of value retailers, the boom in takeaways and pizza delivery shops and demand for services that can still only be delivered locally, such as tradesmen outlets, building products or locksmiths, shows that despite the stark numbers there remains a future for physical stores.\n\n\"It's likely that whatever happens retail will come out of this smaller and stronger,\" she believes.\n\nMore closures are still to come, however. Retailers and hospitality chains are continuing to restructure their businesses, cutting stores and many thousands of jobs to survive.\n\nMany have done deals with landlords to reduce rent bills, but billions of pounds of rent still remains unpaid thanks to the government ban on evictions to give struggling firms some breathing space, arrears which have only been postponed.\n\nAnother key factor is business rates. Thanks to the government's rates holiday, retail and hospitality firms don't have to start paying this tax again till April next year.\n\nThey say if it isn't extended, this could deal a final blow for the viability of many stores.\n\nCorrection: an earlier version of the first graphic showed the worst performing cities in the wrong order.", "Police have been deployed to guard Sarcelles' synagogue\n\nFrench Muslims disgusted by the shootings in Paris may nonetheless have reasons for not embracing the slogan \"I am Charlie\".\n\n\"For a Muslim, the Prophet Muhammad is more important than their own parents,\" says the young man I meet in Sarcelles, his face twisted with contempt for the caricatures Charlie Hebdo published.\n\nHis friend, also 18, nods in agreement as we stand on a street in this Paris dormitory town, famous in France for its large Sephardic Jewish community.\n\n\"They were warned but they kept on mocking the prophet,\" he continues. \"But you cannot kill for that. You cannot go against press freedom in France. Still, they will have to answer to God.\"\n\n\"Real Muslims condemn these attacks,\" adds a third man, 22 and also Muslim. \"Those who committed them were insane. The attack on the kosher supermarket was a catastrophe for France and for the world. If you kill one man it is like you kill all of humanity. That is how we think.\"\n\nWe stand chatting openly on the pavement but nobody wants to be identified.\n\nMistrust of the media runs deep since an outburst of violence last July when police held rioters back from entering the town's Jewish area as they raged at Israel's bombardment of Gaza.\n\nAn invisible line marks the beginning of the Jewish area on Avenue Paul Valery, scene of the confrontation with the police. It starts just before a Holocaust monument and a synagogue.\n\nThere is no sign of trouble but it has been guarded by CRS riot police since last week.\n\nDavid, a kosher businessman I encounter, is so dismayed by the deterioration he perceives in community relations in France that he foresees a time when the \"great majority\" of its half-million or so Jews will emigrate.\n\nBut the Muslim teenager accuses French media of exaggerating the divisions in Sarcelles, where Jews now make up about a quarter of the 60,000-strong population. \"We say one thing, you might write another,\" he suggests, smiling.\n\nWhen I ask how he and his friends relate to the town's Jewish community, they say they have Jewish friends and \"nothing has changed\". \"Mosques get attacked but that doesn't make the news,\" he adds.\n\nThe older of the three speaks with real warmth of the French values of liberty, equality and fraternity which were schooled into him.\n\nSolidarity rallies were staged across France on Sunday, gathering millions of people\n\n\"When I go on holiday to Morocco, I know I could never live there because people make me feel French,\" he says of his ancestral country. \"But in France I am made to feel Moroccan,\" he adds.\n\n\"Am I going up to the Jewish area?\" asks the younger man. The Jews got the nice part of Sarcelles, he explains, a little sourly, while we got this, gesturing back to the long blocks of uniform five-storey council flats stretching down to the railway station.\n\nActually, there was a time when Jewish immigrants from the former French colonies lived there themselves in numbers, and some Jews still do, but the demographic has changed.\n\nBy the mosque near the station, old men sit and chat in Arabic.\n\nA Tunisian Muslim pensioner I meet gives two reasons why he shunned Sunday's national unity march in Paris, while condemning the attacks.\n\nLike the teenagers, he is indignant at the cartoons Charlie Hebdo published: \"It set out to provoke people for its own amusement.\n\n\"It attacked their religion. Make fun of yourselves if you will, but leave others alone. The media is like a car: you need to have a licence to be on the road, otherwise you will be a danger to others. Charlie had no licence to put people's lives at risk with their provocations.\"\n\nHis other reason is the presence at the march of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whom he calls \"the biggest terrorist in the world\" because of the Gaza conflict.\n\nHe insists he is not anti-Jewish, saying he had Jewish friends back in Tunisia.\n\nAnother Muslim pensioner I meet separately, a man from Morocco, says he has Jewish friends too, here in France, men he will \"have a coffee or beer with\".\n\nHe takes a rather detached view of Charlie Hebdo, dismissing it as a fringe paper he never wanted to read. \"But I am 200% in support of freedom of expression,\" he declares.\n\nMore Muslims might have attended the march had they not felt \"shame\", he suggests, at the actions of gunmen claiming to defend Islam. \"Muslims may also fear retaliation by jihadists if they take to the streets,\" he adds.\n\nHe himself is uneasy after the attacks. \"Nobody is safe now,\" he says before directing me to the nearest tram stop.\n\nAs my tram glides out of Sarcelles, I reflect that I have not seen a single \"I am Charlie\" poster or pencil symbol since my arrival yet the quiet battle of ideas here is no less intense than in Paris itself.", "Seventeen areas in Wales currently have local lockdown rules in place\n\n\"Clear guidelines\" are needed if a new national lockdown goes ahead in Wales, a council leader has said.\n\nHugh Evans said it was \"important that we keep the public on board\" with any new plans to tackle a rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe Denbighshire council leader and others held talks with the Welsh Government on Friday \"to consider what is going to happen next week\".\n\nDiscussions on a \"fire-break\" lockdown are continuing over the weekend.\n\nMr Evans told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he wanted the Welsh Government to \"come up with clear guidelines, and a clear understanding, if this does happen\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Laura Foster explains what a circuit breaker is and how it could help tackle Covid-19\n\nMr Evans said he was told on Friday that \"no decision has been made yet\".\n\nDenbighshire is one of 17 areas in Wales with local lockdown rules in place to try to reverse an increase in coronavirus cases.\n\nMovement is restricted in and out of these places without a reasonable excuse, such as going to work.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said a \"short, sharp\" circuit-breaker could slow down the virus.\n\nHe said a decision was likely to be made on Monday, while talks continued with health officials, scientific advisors and councils over the weekend.\n\n\"Doing nothing is not an option,\" he said.\n\nPeople from Covid-19 hotspots in England are banned from visiting Wales, under Welsh Government rules\n\nMeanwhile, businesses face an anxious wait to hear if any changes will affect them.\n\nJonathan Greatorex, owner of The Hand hotel at Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, near Llangollen, Denbighshire, said he had already borrowed money to cover costs, with a wage bill of £5,000 a week.\n\n\"Coming into winter with fuel bills going up, costs going up, it's completely, completely, worrying for everyone,\" he said.\n\nKathryn Jones, sales and marketing director at food wholesaler Castell Howell in Carmarthenshire, said the firm had faced a \"nightmare\" since the first national lockdown in March and feared \"it's just about to get worse\".\n\n\"We have placed orders for produce to come in next week for half term. Are schools involved… are we going to end up throwing produce away?\" she said.\n\nNail and beauty salon owner Kelli Gwiliam, from Pencoed, Bridgend, said she felt \"numb\" due to the possible effects on her business from a second lockdown.\n\n\"If there is no help, I really do think this is the beginning of the end,\" said the mother-of-four.\n\nShe said her 11-year-old son told her \"not to worry about Christmas this year\".\n\n\"That's heart-breaking,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Saville Roberts MP questions how people from Liverpool can still visit Anglesey\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has threatened a travel ban in Wales on people from English Covid hotspots if the prime minister does not impose his own.\n\nHe said he is giving UK ministers \"one final opportunity\" before he makes changes in Welsh law.\n\nThe UK government announced on Monday that it will advise against non-essential travel from Merseyside.\n\nBut it stopped short of making it illegal, angering Welsh ministers.\n\nMr Drakeford said he could close the border with England, but that is not his preferred option.\n\nWelsh ministers have asked for travel from areas with high rates of coronavirus in England to be restricted, to prevent people visiting parts of Wales where lockdowns are not in force and where rates are lower.\n\nIn 17 Welsh areas under local lockdown, people are subject to travel restrictions and cannot go in or out of the areas concerned except for a limited set of reasons, including to go to work or school.\n\nThey are not allowed to leave to go on holiday.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region will be placed on the \"very high risk\" Covid alert level from Wednesday, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned people in the area not to go on holiday to Wales.\n\nHowever, UK government ministers who govern Covid rules in England have not made it illegal to travel.\n\nWales and England have different coronavirus rules\n\nSpeaking on BBC Wales Today, Mr Drakeford said he would be writing a letter to the prime minister spelling out the powers he has.\n\n\"If he doesn't act, we will use them,\" he said.\n\n\"I want to offer him one final opportunity to do the right thing, because that would be fair to people in Wales, and people across our border.\n\n\"I don't want it to be a border issue. People in England in high incidence areas should not be going to low incidence areas in England, either.\"\n\nHe said the prime minister's solution of guidance \"simply will not do\", saying North Wales Police cannot turn people away on the basis of it.\n\n\"We need rules that prevent people from high incidence areas coming into Wales to low incidence areas,\" he said.\n\nHe said the letter will provide evidence, requested by UK government ministers, that people moving from areas with high levels of the virus to areas with low levels spread the virus.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said they want to receive a reply \"within days\".\n\nMark Drakeford said he will write a further letter to the prime minister\n\nIt is the second time the first minister has written to the PM asking for a travel ban.\n\nAfter the first time, the Mr Johnson rejected the proposal in an interview with BBC Wales.\n\n\"I don't want to impose travel restrictions within the UK generally,\" he said at the time.\n\nIt came after a coach of holidaymakers from Bolton travelled to Pembrokeshire after a lockdown was imposed in Bridgend, where they were originally due to go for an Elvis festival.\n\nIn the Commons on Monday Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts asked if it is fair that people in Liverpool can holiday in Gwynedd and Anglesey, when people in neighbouring Conwy cannot make non-essential journeys outside of the county.\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"The guidance is very clear that people from very high areas such as Merseyside should not be making those journeys.\"\n\nMr Drakeford and Health Minister Vaughan Gething spoke to the prime minister on Monday morning in a Cobra meeting.\n\nAfterwards the Welsh Government said Mr Drakeford had \"expressed deep disappointment at the inadequate proposals for travel restrictions in high infection areas in England\".\n\nAt a press conference Mr Gething outlined how travel restrictions between Wales and English Covid hotspots could work.\n\n\"We should, if needed, be able to identify those areas where the risk is such that we should have restrictions on travel,\" he said.\n\n\"It would not be a reasonable excuse for those people to enter Wales because of the risk that they present because of the area of the country that they come from.\"\n\nThe prime minister has already refused to introduce a travel ban in English Covid hotspots.\n\nSo why is the first minister asking again, rather than simply using the powers the Welsh Government has?\n\nIt probably reflects ideological as well as practical difficulties.\n\nWelsh Labour is a pro-union party and the idea of legislation banning some people from England crossing the Welsh border might sit uncomfortably.\n\nRemember that, during the national lockdown, the Welsh \"stay local\" rule applied across Wales - it didn't single out any particular group of people.\n\nThe practical problems include messaging and enforceability - the border sees millions of crossings every week and filtering lawful from unlawful journeys could be a major headache.", "Pensioners argue with a law enforcement officer on Monday during an anti-government rally\n\nPolice in Belarus have been authorised to use lethal force if necessary against anti-government protesters, a senior government official says.\n\nThe move was in response to increasingly radicalised, violent anti-Lukashenko groups, he said.\n\nSeparately, EU foreign ministers have said they are ready to impose sanctions against President Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nProtests have swept the country since Mr Lukashenko claimed victory in an August poll widely viewed as rigged.\n\nBelarusian authorities have been accused of brutality and torture in their suppression of the mass street protests that followed.\n\nOn Monday, the interior ministry confirmed police fired stun grenades and tear gas during an unauthorised rally in the capital, Minsk, which involved a large number of pension-age protesters.\n\nA spokesperson said action was taken after \"citizens started to show aggression\". An unconfirmed number of demonstrators were also arrested.\n\nReferring to protests in the city on Sunday, First Deputy Interior Minister Gennady Kazakevich said they had \"become organised and extremely radical\", adding they now mainly centred on Minsk and were less widespread.\n\nWhereas protesters hurled stones and bottles in the afternoon, as well as wielding knives, by nightfall they had moved on to building barricades and burning tyres, he said.\n\n\"This has nothing to do with civil protests. We're confronted not just by aggression, but by groups of militants, radicals, anarchists and football hooligans,\" he said in a video statement.\n\n\"On behalf of the interior ministry, I say that we will not leave the streets and will guarantee the law in the country. Law enforcement personnel and interior troops will use special equipment and lethal weapons if need be.\"\n\nPolice deployed water-cannon trucks in Minsk on Sunday, spraying protesters with brightly coloured dye\n\nEuropean Union foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg said they were ready to expand sanctions to take in Mr Lukashenko, according to a statement.\n\nBut the ministers say the president's refusal to consider new elections as a way out of the crisis leaves the bloc with no choice.\n\n\"This is an answer to the evolving situation in Belarus,\" EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters. \"There has not been any kind of signal from the Belarus authorities to engage in any kind of conversation.\"\n\nBelarus police have been accused of disproportionate violence\n\nOn Sunday, demonstrators turned out across the country for the ninth successive weekend in protest at the disputed re-election of Mr Lukashenko.\n\nCritics of Mr Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, said Sunday saw police use some of the most brutal tactics against protesters since the immediate aftermath of the election. Riot police again used water cannon and stun grenades to break up the latest rally in Minsk, and many protesters were beaten with police batons.\n\nMore than 700 people were arrested on Sunday, the interior ministry said.\n\nProtesters are demanding the release of all political prisoners and a free and fair re-run of the election.\n\nInternational observers including the European Union have characterised the demonstrations as peaceful.\n\nThe EU, the UK and the US have refused to recognise Mr Lukashenko's new term. Mr Lukashenko denies fixing the poll and has received support from Russia, his country's closest ally.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has said he is prepared to send Russian police to help Mr Lukashenko if the protests get \"out of control\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mass arrests as crowds chant 'go away' to Belarus president last month", "Ten patients and five staff have tested positive for coronavirus at Morriston Hospital in the past few days\n\nA coronavirus outbreak has been declared at another hospital in Wales.\n\nSwansea Bay health board said 10 patients and five staff had tested positive at Morriston Hospital in the past few days.\n\nThe health board said most cases were connected to cardiac services and announced a temporary suspension of routine cardiac surgery.\n\nAt the city's other hospital, Singleton, nine members of maternity staff had also tested positive.\n\nThey are self-isolating and no patients had tested positive, the health board said, adding wards and beds at Singleton Hospital were all open as normal.\n\nIt comes after an outbreak was declared at Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital on Monday.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is also dealing with outbreaks at three of its hospitals - Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil and Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital.\n\nLast Thursday, Betsi Cadwaladr health board said 24 patients were being treated as part of a Covid-19 outbreak at hospitals including Glan Clwyd in Denbighshire, Colwyn Bay and Llandudno.\n\nMost had been receiving care for more than two weeks and were said to be recovering.\n\n\"The safety of our patients and staff is paramount and we are doing all we can to contain the spread of the virus while minimising the impact on our services,\" said Prof Richard Evans, Swansea Bay health board's executive medical director.\n\n\"We will continue to closely monitor and manage the situation.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPortugal and Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo has tested positive for coronavirus, the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) has announced.\n\nThe 35-year-old is \"doing well, without symptoms, and in isolation\", the FPF said in a statement.\n\nThe remainder of Fernando Santos' Portugal squad have tested negative for Covid-19 and are available for selection.\n\nPortugal played out a 0-0 draw with France in Paris on Sunday and are top of the group, level on points with the world champions.\n\nThe Portugal captain became the first European to score 100 international goals in men's football when his side beat Sweden in the reverse Nations League fixture in September.\n\nAs a result of his period of quarantine, Ronaldo is also set to miss Juventus' Serie A fixture at Crotone on 17 October and his side's opening Champions League group game against Dynamo Kiev on 20 October.\n\nThe Italian champions then face Verona in the league on 25 October and Barcelona in their second European group game on 28 October.\n\nRonaldo posted a selfie with the Portugal squad on social media on Monday night with the caption \"United on and off the field!\"\n• None David Attenborough on the future of our planet: 'We have to believe it's possible'\n• None What was it like to deliver the Premier League trophy?", "\"Save lives, protect the NHS and shelter the economy.\"\n\nIf you were paying close attention at the end of September when the prime minister made his latest announcements about the limits on our lives, you'd have spotted the change in the slogan, as we reported here.\n\nIt was obvious then that the government was trying to grapple, not just with the threat to health, but with the very real prospect of spreading economic misery caused by the initial lockdown earlier this year - and the reality that any new restrictions will cause further harm.\n\nAt that point on the 22 September, we had already revealed a few days earlier that the government's scientific committee, Sage, had put forward the idea of a short, sharp lockdown, the so-called \"circuit break\".\n\nWhat we now know is the influential committee had directly recommended ministers take that action the day before.\n\nReading the Sage minutes in black and white, the split between their proposals and the prime minister's eventual decision seems to portray a dramatic sudden split.\n\nIt is no surprise, however, the situation is more complicated than that.\n\nFirst off, despite the political rhetoric at the start of the pandemic, there has never been such a thing as \"the\" science.\n\nSage is one important part of the government machine, but among its members there have long been arguments and disagreements before they \"grind out a consensus\", as it was memorably described.\n\nAnd indeed, some of its members have spoken out frequently over a period of many months.\n\nYou'll remember initial concerns that the government and its chief advisers weren't acting fast enough to lock down in the middle of March.\n\nAnd the discussions about the testing regime being advanced enough in May.\n\nAnd other members of Sage warning that the country was still on a \"knife edge\" when the restrictions started to be rolled back.\n\nThe difference between the Sage consensus, however, and the government's decision at the end of last month is now fully on display.\n\nIt's the political environment, and the difference of opinion inside government, that has developed too.\n\nAt the same time, in the third week of September, there were senior figures inside government arguing for further action, believing that to watch and wait might be a mistake.\n\nBut Boris Johnson's decisions were ultimately shaped more strongly by reluctance, not just from the chancellor, but a strong push back from the Tory backbenches, and a fear of public fatigue too.\n\nDon't forget either that the PM himself \"hates\" having to impose any kind of limits on people's lives, according to one of his team, and recently he's been at pains to point this out too - describing himself on several occasions recently as a \"freedom-loving Tory\".\n\nThe prime minister still wants to do everything he can to avoid another national lockdown.\n\nBut depending how bad things get in the next few weeks, the revelations in the Sage documents could leave him open to the same accusation levelled at him first time round - that ministers did too little, and too late.", "The Liverpool City Region faces the toughest restrictions from Wednesday\n\nMeasures to tackle a rise in Covid cases were \"guided by science\", the health secretary has said, amid criticism expert advice was ignored.\n\nDocuments have revealed government scientific advisers called for a short lockdown, or \"circuit-breaker\", in England, three weeks ago.\n\nMatt Hancock defended the government's new three-tier system, saying it aimed to \"protect lives and livelihoods\".\n\nAnother 143 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThis compares with 50 deaths announced on Monday and was the highest daily total since 164 deaths on 10 June.\n\nThe data also shows another 17,234 people have tested positive for Covid, compared with 13,792 cases the day before.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England's medical director, called the rising number of deaths \"hugely concerning\".\n\n\"We have seen cases increasing, especially in older age groups, which is leading to more hospital admissions. This is a stark reminder for us to follow the guidelines,\" she said.\n\nThe Liverpool region will enter a \"very high\" Covid alert level from Wednesday, the highest of the new three-tier system for coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nEvery area will be classified as being on medium, high or very high alert under the system. It is not clear what the specific criteria is for each alert level.\n\nMost parts of England are the lowest tier, but Essex has asked to be moved to \"high\" level restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile, London could be put in a stricter lockdown within days, Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.\n\nShielding is not being reintroduced in England yet, but people who were on the list will receive a letter with updated advice to avoid getting Covid.\n\nThe latest Office for National Statistics figures showed there were 343 deaths involving coronavirus registered in the week to 2 October - a figure that has been doubling every fortnight over the last month.\n\nAs MPs began a debate in the Commons on the three-tier system on Tuesday, Mr Hancock said the virus posed \"a formidable threat\" until a vaccine could be found.\n\nThe government would not rule out further restrictions in the hospitality, leisure, entertainment and personal care sectors, the health secretary said.\n\nHe said the government makes \"decisions that are guided by the science, taking into account all of the different considerations\", adding \"protecting our economy and protecting our health are not alternatives\", but that action was required to \"protect lives and livelihoods\".\n\nDocuments detailing advice from scientists on the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) were released on Monday night.\n\nTheir views and evidence feed into the government's decision making.\n\nLabour called the documents alarming. Shadow health spokesman Jonathan Ashworth said a \"clear plan\" was now needed.\n\nHe told the Commons: \"After the prime minister spoke, we see yet again he is being advised to take action and has so far refused. But it's the same virus, the same delays, the same country and the same government making the same mistakes again.\"\n\nAt a press conference on Monday evening, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the alert system for England could succeed in driving cases down if it was implemented \"very effectively\", and he rejected the \"extreme route\" of a full nationwide lockdown \"right now\".\n\nBut at the same briefing, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, voiced concerns over the impact of the new rules, saying he was not confident the \"base measures\" in the highest tier \"would be enough to get on top of\" the virus.\n\n\"That is why there's a lot of flexibility for local authorities [...] to do significantly more,\" he said.\n\nReleased shortly after Monday's press conference, minutes from the Sage meeting said the advisers had called for the immediate introduction of a short national lockdown three weeks ago.\n\nThey also showed the scientists suggested:\n\nOf all the measures proposed by the advisory group, just one - advising those who can work from home to do so - was implemented by the government at the time.\n\nIn the document from 21 September, Sage warned that \"not acting now to reduce cases will result in a very large epidemic with catastrophic consequences\".\n\nIt also said a two to three week \"circuit-breaker\" - a short period of tightened restrictions - could \"put the epidemic back by approximately 28 days or more\", if it was \"as strict and well-adhered to as the restrictions in late May\".\n\n\"Multiple circuit-breaks might be necessary to maintain low levels of incidence,\" it added.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said the government had introduced measures such as the rule of six at the time, and stressed the Sage papers had contributed to the measures the PM announced on Monday.\n\nHe said they had taken \"balanced judgements\" that weighed up the effect on the economy and \"all the other unintended consequences\" of measures, such as the impact on mental health and delayed surgeries.\n\nOn the new three-tiered system, he said: \"We are now able to have a very clear and consistent framework across the whole country, so people will be able to understand approximately what the rate of infections is in their own area and what the rules are accordingly.\"\n\nCases are increasing across the whole of the country and the number of people in hospital is now higher than before the full lockdown in March. We are at a critical stage in the epidemic.\n\nIt is at this moment the gulf between the official scientific advice and the decisions made by government has been laid bare.\n\nIt is the case that \"advisers advise and ministers decide\". When considering new measures to stop Covid, government must also take into account the harms they cause to our health and the economy.\n\nBut there is some concern the government is doing too little, too late.\n\nAnd that we can either choose the terms for controlling the virus now, or wait and the virus will force our hand as it did with lockdown in March.\n\nThe government has also defended its latest compensation package for people forced to stop work as a result of new coronavirus restrictions.\n\nUnder the programme, those who qualify will get two-thirds of their wages paid for by the state.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay told the House of Commons that it was a \"generous\" scheme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson explains a three-tiered level of rules to fight the coronavirus pandemic in England.\n\nUnder the three-tiered system, most areas in England are in the medium alert level - meaning current restrictions continue, including the 10pm hospitality curfew and the rule of six.\n\nAreas already under additional local restrictions are automatically in the high alert level - meaning bans on household mixing indoors are extended to include hospitality venues.\n\nThe city of Nottingham, which has the highest rate in the country, will start in this category alongside the rest of Nottinghamshire, East and West Cheshire and a small area of High Peak, as well as Greater Manchester, parts of South Yorkshire, and north-east England. Around 4.4 million people will be in high alert areas.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region - home to 1.5 million people - becomes the first area to enter the very high alert level, which - at a minimum - sees pubs and bars close if they do not serve \"substantial meals\", almost all household contacts banned and advice against travel. The rule of six will continue to apply in outdoor public spaces such as parks.\n\nAreas in the highest tier are able to impose further restrictions, and in the Liverpool City Region this will mean the closure of betting shops, gyms, leisure centres and casinos.\n\nThe government has issued details of the full restrictions for each alert level.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government is drawing up its own three-tier framework of restrictions to be implemented later this month.\n\nIn Wales, a second national lockdown is being considered and First Minister Mark Drakeford has threatened a travel ban on people from English Covid hotspots if the prime minister does not impose his own.\n\nMinisters in Northern Ireland's devolved government are meeting later to decide on further coronavirus restrictions.\n\nA further 13,972 confirmed coronavirus cases were reported across the UK on Monday, with 50 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test recorded.", "MPs have rejected the latest attempt to require imported food to meet domestic legal standards from 1 January.\n\nThey struck down a Lords amendment to the Agriculture Bill to force trade deals to meet UK animal welfare and food safety rules.\n\nCampaigners have warned the UK could be forced to accept lower standards to secure a future US trade deal.\n\nBut Farming minister Victoria Prentis said the government was \"absolutely committed to high standards\".\n\nExisting laws would safeguard them, she told the House of Commons, adding that these were \"of more use than warm words\" in maintaining animal welfare, food standards and environmental protections.\n\nThe bill - designed to prepare the farming industry for when the UK no longer has to follow EU laws and rules next year - returned to the Commons on Monday following amendments by the House of Lords.\n\nThe government says EU rules banning imports of chlorine-washed chicken and other products will be automatically written into UK law once the post-Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nBut peers made a number of changes, including one which would give MPs a veto over sections in trade deals relating to food imports, which would be required to comply with \"relevant domestic standards\".\n\nThey argued these changes were necessary to make it impossible for the US or other countries to export so-called chlorinated chicken or beef fattened with hormones.\n\nHowever, MPs voted by 332 votes to 279 - a majority 53 - to back government plans to reject the amendment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamie Oliver accuses the government of using \"back door\" secondary legislation to avoid scrutiny of post-Brexit food standards\n\nHowever, Conservative MPs Sir Roger Gale and George Freeman said they would vote for the amendment to remain in the bill, saying it was in line with their party's 2019 manifesto pledge to maintain welfare standards.\n\nNeil Parish, the Conservative chairman of the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee, told the Commons that Brexit meant UK agriculture could move in a \"much more environmental direction\", including planting more trees and cutting the use of nitrates.\n\nThe country should be a \"beacon\" of high animal welfare and countryside-protection standards, he added.\n\nBut Conservative MP John Lamont supported the government, saying the amendments were \"not in the interests\" of food producers or standards and would be \"bad for trade\".\n\nParty colleague Anthony Mangnall said there had been a \"huge amount of fear-mongering\" over the importation of chlorinated chicken and hormone-injected beef, and that \"has to stop\".\n\nIn the Commons, Liberal Democrat environment spokesman Tim Farron said the controversy over chlorinated chicken was not \"about the quality of food\" but the \"integrity of our farming industry\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said this was a \"crucial moment for British agriculture\", adding that high standards could all be \"thrown away\".\n\nHe urged the government to \"show some leadership\" and \"back British farmers\".\n\nThe bill must include guarantees that UK farmers would not be \"undercut\" in post-Brexit trade deals, Mr Pollard said.\n\nHowever another potential rebellion by backbench Tory MPs was avoided by the government when the deputy speaker ruled out an amendment to strengthen the new Trade and Agriculture Commission.", "Child care apprentice Rena Platt started working in February - but within a couple of months she was on furlough and then made redundant - by her own mother.\n\nThe 19-year-old was one of almost 300 apprentices in Wales who found themselves out of work and out of training because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThere are still 3,000 apprentices on furlough and there are concerns for their future when the UK government's job retention scheme ends on 31 October.\n\nRena's mother Alison said having to let her own daughter go was one of the hardest things she has ever had to do.", "The death of transport worker Belly Mujinga following reports she had been spat at by a customer, sparked calls for justice from millions of people. Now a BBC investigation raises questions about the inquiries carried out by her employer and the police.\n\nIt was a chilly morning when Belly Mujinga caught the bus to Victoria station in central London. Shivering, the 47-year-old ticket office worker pulled on her favourite gloves and sat down. It was 04:45 and outside the sky was a murky grey; the sun had yet to rise.\n\nIt was Saturday 21 March, and fears about Covid-19 were intensifying. The government had advised against unnecessary travel and non-essential contact with others. Schools had closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers.\n\nDays earlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson had announced that by the weekend those with the \"most serious health conditions\" must be \"largely shielded from social contact\".\n\nBelly, who had severe health problems that had affected her lungs and throat, was anxious about coronavirus. She'd previously had treatment on her throat after having difficulty breathing.\n\nThe 47-year-old had stressed the importance of social distancing in a recent video she had made on the station concourse for her family in Congo. \"There's no people. People are afraid. People are home. See the ticket office is empty, everyone is afraid because of Covid. Stay at home,\" she says, her face peeping out from under her black scarf.\n\n\"But we are here, we have to work. I love you and be safe.\"\n\nOn the morning of 21 March, Belly and her colleague Motolani Sunmola, were working on the concourse. At around 11:20, they were approached by a male customer. What happened next is disputed. Four people were present at the time: Belly, Motolani, a male colleague, and the customer.\n\nMotolani - who is speaking publicly for the first time - says the man, who was casually dressed in blue jeans and a tan jacket, sharply asked them twice what they were doing. She describes him as being agitated and aggressive. \"He was screaming and shouting at us,\" the 52-year-old says.\n\n\"We told the gentleman, 'Please we're just here to help you, that's all why we're here'.\" She said the man then turned and took a few steps towards the ticket office. \"Out of nowhere he came back again and said: 'You know I have the virus',\" Motolani alleges. As he came closer, Motolani said she and Belly retreated and asked him to \"behave\" himself.\n\nMotolani says he was \"coughing and spitting like an old man who has no teeth,\" and they ran away. She says Belly rushed into the reception to wash the spray of saliva from her face.\n\nWhen Belly later returned home, her husband Lusamba says she was unusually quiet. \"She was sad. She told me, 'Darling, someone spat on me'. It really shook her.\"\n\nIn the days that followed, Motolani and Belly began to feel unwell.\n\nBelly's last day at work was 25 March. One of her consultants called a manager at her request to say she needed to self-isolate immediately.\n\nHer symptoms started to escalate and on 2 April, when she was struggling to breathe, Lusamba called an ambulance. \"On her way out, she waved our daughter and me goodbye,\" he says.\n\nBelly was diagnosed with Covid-19 at the Barnet Hospital in north London.\n\nLusamba says she was scared and \"knew that was the end\".\n\nDuring a video-call on Saturday 4 April, she spoke to her family but refused to show her face. She didn't want her daughter Ingrid, who was 11 at the time, to see her in such a weak state.\n\nShortly afterwards, she called her cousin Agnes Ntumba and asked her to look after Ingrid for her. Later that evening, Lusamba tried calling his wife. But she didn't pick up.\n\nLusamba struggled to understand when the doctor told him over the phone. English is not his first language, as he mainly speaks French and the Congolese-dialect Lingala, so Agnes had to break the news to him hours later.\n\nA funeral was held three weeks later, but only 10 people were allowed to attend.\n\n\"It feels like she's just gone somewhere and will come back,\" Lusamba says. \"Since I didn't see her body, it's as if my brain can't process it. It will haunt me for the rest of my days.\"\n\nIt would be seven weeks before a police investigation was launched.\n\nIt came after the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) issued a press release on 12 May stating that Belly and a colleague had been assaulted.\n\nReports that a ticket officer had died of coronavirus after being spat at while on duty made newspaper headlines.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) opened an investigation, and on 13 May, Boris Johnson mentioned Belly's death in Parliament. \"The fact that she was abused for doing her job [was] utterly appalling,\" he said.\n\nBTP traced and interviewed a 57-year-old man through ticket sales records at Victoria station. He denied spitting and saying he had the virus. He said he had coughed, but not on purpose.\n\nAfter an investigation lasting 19 days, the police concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone with a crime.\n\nLusamba says this came as a shock. \"It was a hard pill to swallow, especially after such a short investigation.\"\n\nThe police decision coincided with the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, while in police custody. Global outrage followed and anti-racism protests that had swept across cities in the US were heading to the UK. Belly's death was caught up in the aftermath.\n\nAgnes at the 'Justice for Belly' rally\n\n\"Black lives matter. Belly's life mattered,\" protestors shouted at a march in London on 3 June.\n\nNaomi Omokhua, 21, helped to organise a \"Justice for Belly\" rally. \"We see people like Belly every day when we're going through Victoria station,\" she says. \"She's a black woman, a normal black woman just doing her job.\"\n\nLusamba attended with Ingrid and Agnes. \"We laughed and cried,\" he says. \"We felt pain and joy. I'll never forget that day.\"\n\nIn the wake of the protests, on 5 June, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was asked by the British Transport Police to review the case.\n\nAnd as that inquiry opened, so did mine for BBC Panorama.\n\nWhat happened at Victoria station has been the subject of a police investigation and an internal inquiry carried out by GTR. The facts remain bitterly contested, so I've been back over some of the evidence and taken expert opinion from doctors, scientists and lawyers.\n\nFirst, I wanted to know why it took so long for the police to investigate. It's possible that if they had been alerted sooner, they may have been able to secure more evidence.\n\nMotolani has left Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) and begun a claim for constructive dismissal. In her police statement of 13 May, she says she reported the incident to her managers immediately, asking for the police to be called.\n\nLusamba says Belly told him the man had said he had coronavirus and was going to infect them and that she had reported the incident to a supervisor. Motolani told the BBC she had described what happened as an \"assault\". She says she did not tell GTR on the day that the man said \"I have the virus\" but says Belly did.\n\n\"I felt the assault was even more serious,\" Motolani explains. \"Belly felt more scared [of the word Covid] because she had respiratory problems.\"\n\nA GTR spokesperson told the BBC that while a \"coughing incident\" had been logged on 21 March, a spitting incident had not and that's why the police hadn't been called.\n\nOn 8 April, Belly's union wrote to GTR saying there was evidence that a passenger had deliberately coughed in Belly's face. GTR says it started its own investigation. The company did not call the police. An allegation of deliberate coughing can be enough for the police to consider opening an assault investigation.\n\nWhen BTP was eventually called, the man said he'd had an antibody test - which checks whether someone has previously been exposed to the virus - and that he had tested negative. Police said the man had been tested on 25 March \"as part of his occupation\" and the result shared with them. Detectives concluded, therefore, that the incident had not led to Belly contracting Covid-19.\n\nI spoke to a number of scientists about antibody tests. They said not all commercially available antibody tests back in March were considered reliable. The NHS didn't start offering antibody tests to all staff until May.\n\n\"The quality of the tests available in March were really no better than tossing a coin,\" says Alex Richter, a Professor of Clinical Immunology at the University of Birmingham, who had studied some of the early tests back then.\n\nA negative result did not necessarily mean there had been no infection.\n\nJon Deeks, Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, believes the police made a mistake in their interpretation of this part of the evidence.\n\nIn a statement, BTP told the BBC: \"While the man was able to share a negative antibody test with officers, substantiated by his GP, it is important to be clear that this was not the basis of our conclusion. The test did not change the fact there was insufficient evidence to substantiate any criminal offences taking place.\"\n\nOne of the problems with the case is that CCTV evidence was not sufficiently clear to show whether or not a crime had taken place. There are hundreds of security cameras at Victoria station but Network Rail, which operates them, told the BBC that only one captured footage of the incident.\n\nThe footage has not been released, but I've spoken to a number of people who have seen it. I've also listened to a covert audio recording of a meeting in which police officers showed it to Lusamba and two of his friends.\n\nThey say it shows a man approaching close to Belly, and her retreating, before running away.\n\n\"We're in no doubt that something has happened there,\" the police officer tells Lusamba. \"If nothing had happened, they would have stayed there,\" the officer continues. \"When he comes back it's clear that's when something happens.\"\n\nCCTV footage at the station is routinely only stored for around 28 days, and the footage from 21 March had been wiped by the time the police started their investigation.\n\nBut officers were told that six minutes had been saved at the request of GTR. The BBC has learnt that GTR asked for footage on 9 April as part of its own investigation and received a copy the following day.\n\nThe police say that even after they had had the footage enhanced, it was still not clear enough to show whether a crime had been committed.\n\nBelly Mujinga suffered from a severe form of sarcoidosis, a rare inflammatory condition that causes small patches of red and swollen tissues to develop in the body's organs.\n\n\"We were dealing with people from all around the world,\" Motolani said. \"She was scared of catching the flu, then imagine this happening.\"\n\nThe company told the BBC that on 13 March, local managers had issued a staff questionnaire to identify any health conditions that might restrict their ability to work in public facing areas. But said Belly had only recorded \"blood pressure\" on her form. According to GTR she had asked Occupational Health to keep her condition confidential.\n\nIn its internal investigation report after her death, the company said that her managers were aware she had some health conditions that meant Belly had regular medical check-ups but \"did not know the exact details and nature of these\".\n\nBut in a different version of the report, which had been shared with Belly's union and seen by the BBC, it suggested they may have known more.\n\n\"Managers at the station were aware that Mrs Mujinga had undergone surgery on her throat some years previously and that she had regular check-ups in relation to this,\" it said.\n\n\"I think it arouses a degree of disquiet in me because here, there's such a contrast between those versions,\" says Martin Forde QC.\n\nGTR told the BBC that Belly's sarcoidosis would have been on the records of its in-house medical team, but said it was not at that time on the government's list of high-risk conditions.\n\nBelly was taking immunosuppressants for her sarcoidosis. On the day of the incident itself, the government was issuing guidance for people taking immunosuppressants, saying that they should shield.\n\nBarrister Elaine Banton said she would have expected more collaboration between the occupational health team and managers to identify vulnerable staff.\n\n\"It would help them to determine which employees should not be in front-facing, key worker roles, but be placed out of harm's way.\"\n\nA GTR spokesperson says had sarcoidosis been on the government's shielding list at the time of the incident, it would have told Belly to shield as it did with nearly 400 colleagues.\n\nBut was there a need for Belly to be on the concourse that day? Passenger numbers were down.\n\n\"She left home thinking she was going to be working in the ticket office,\" Lusamba said. \"When she arrived, her supervisor told her that she must work outside.\"\n\nRotas from the 21 March, seen by the BBC, confirm that Belly was due to work in the ticket office. Motolani says she felt safer there.\n\nGTR says all ticket office staff at Victoria undertake concourse duties as part of their normal ticket selling and customer assistance role.\n\nBelly loved her job, but I've discovered she wasn't always happy at work.\n\nEight weeks before she died, she'd raised a grievance against GTR, claiming discrimination and victimisation.\n\nIn 2019, Belly had been suspended for six weeks after leaving her cash bag on a supervisor's desk rather than handing it into the cashier.\n\n\"She was devastated,\" recalls Lusamba. \"That really broke her.\" He says GTR conducted an investigation to see whether money was missing but they didn't find anything.\n\nGTR said Belly had a responsible cash handling role, that she was suspended on full pay and later returned to work.\n\nHowever, Belly claimed a white colleague who had made a similar mistake had not faced the same sanction.\n\nIn her grievance letter she wrote, \"The whole process has left me feeling stressed, ill, victimised and terrified that I might lose my job.\"\n\nLusamba says Belly was the \"centre of his universe\", and he believed that fate had brought them together. It later turned out that he had been living very near to one of Belly's close friends in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, where he grew up.\n\nHe and Belly met at a church they both attended after she moved to London in 2001. \"It was love at first sight,\" he says.\n\nTheir daughter Ingrid turned 12 and returned to school in September. Only this time it was her dad buying her ice-cream, and gently laying out her school uniform on her bed.\n\nLusamba says all he wants to do is tell her what really happened to her mum.\n\nWe may never know what really happened on the concourse of Victoria Station that day. Or whether Belly caught coronavirus then.\n\nFollowing its review, the CPS agreed with the police that in: \"The absence of any persuasive medical or forensic evidence, together with inconclusive CCTV footage and inconsistent witness accounts, no criminal charges could be considered.\"\n\nBut for Lusamba, many questions remain unanswered.\n\nBarristers spoken to by the BBC believe an inquest into Belly's death could help her family in their search for truth. \"I feel there are sufficient doubts and conflicts around the facts of this case to justify an investigation,\" says Martin Forde, QC.\n\nLusamba says he will keep on fighting. \"May she rest wherever she is, but it's really hard.\"", "Four ferry firms have landed government contracts worth a total of £77.6m to provide post-Brexit freight capacity.\n\nBrittany Ferries, DFDS, P&O Ferries and Stena Line will have the job of ensuring medical supplies and other vital goods continue to get to the UK.\n\nThe government says it wants a smooth flow of freight \"whatever the outcome of negotiations with the EU\",\n\nThe contracts will be in place for up to six months after the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nFreight operators have warned about potential delays to cross-Channel trade at major ports such as Dover and Folkestone from 1 January.\n\nThe government says it \"continues to work with key local stakeholders and industry to prepare for the end of the transition period\".\n\nThe additional capacity will be on quieter ferry routes between mainland Europe and UK ports in Felixstowe, Harwich, Hull, Newhaven, Poole, Portsmouth, Teesport and Tilbury.\n\nIn 2018, the government awarded contracts worth a total of £87m to ferry companies for similar contracts, which were not needed in the end because Brexit was postponed.\n\nThe then Transport Secretary Chris Grayling faced calls to quit after it emerged one of the contracts, worth £13.8m, had gone to Seaborne Freight, a company which had never run a ferry service and had no trading history. Seaborne Freight recently went bust.\n\nNo money was paid to Seaborne Freight - but the Department for Transport paid Eurotunnel £33m in an out-of-court settlement after the firm claimed it had been unfairly overlooked for the work and that the contracts had been awarded in a \"secretive\" way.\n\nThe government said the latest ferry contracts have been awarded from a shortlist of \"experienced freight operators\" entering bids.\n\nChris Grayling's successor, Grant Shapps, said: \"As the transition period comes to an end, we are putting the necessary measures in place to safeguard the smooth and successful flow of freight.\n\n\"Securing these contracts ensures that irrespective of the outcome of the negotiations, life-saving medical supplies and other critical goods can continue to enter the UK from the moment we leave the EU.\"\n\nBut Best for Britain, which campaigned against Brexit, questioned the wisdom of relying on ferry operators to secure essential medical supplies.\n\nThe campaign group's chief executive Naomi Smith said: \"Supply chains are already experiencing unprecedented levels of disruption due to Covid and a no-deal Brexit could create huge new logistical problems for medicine suppliers and those relying on them, particularly given how late these arrangements have been made.\n\n\"With time and money now in very short supply, the government would do well to channel its energy into securing an agreement with the EU to prevent the possibility of shortages in the new year.\"", "The news comes as bars and pubs in Liverpool that do not serve meals prepare to close from Wednesday\n\nThe government's scientific advisers called for a short lockdown in England to halt the spread of Covid-19 last month, newly released documents show.\n\nThe experts said an immediate \"circuit breaker\" was the best way to control cases, at a meeting on 21 September.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick insisted the government had taken \"robust action\" that \"balanced\" the impact on the economy.\n\nBut Labour has described the documents as \"alarming\".\n\nIt comes as the Liverpool region prepares to enter a \"very high\" Covid alert level from Wednesday, the highest of a new three-tier system for coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nEvery area will be classified as being on medium, high or very high alert under the system. It is not clear what the specific criteria is for each alert level.\n\nMost parts of England are the lowest tier, but Essex has asked to be moved to \"high\" level restrictions.\n\nShielding is not being reintroduced in England yet, but people who were on the list will receive a letter with updated advice to avoid getting Covid.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest Office for National Statistics figures showed there were 343 deaths involving coronavirus registered in the week to 2 October - a figure that has been doubling every fortnight over the last month.\n\nAt a press conference on Monday evening, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the alert system for England could succeed in driving cases down if it was implemented \"very effectively\", and he rejected the \"extreme route\" of a full nationwide lockdown \"right now\".\n\nBut at the same briefing, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, voiced concerns over the impact of the new rules, saying he was not confident the \"base measures\" in the highest tier \"would be enough to get on top of\" the virus.\n\n\"That is why there's a lot of flexibility for local authorities [...] to do significantly more,\" he said.\n\nReleased shortly after Monday's press conference, minutes from the meeting of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - which feeds into UK government decision-making - stated the advisers had called for the immediate introduction of a short national lockdown three weeks ago.\n\nThe papers also showed the scientists suggested:\n\nOf all the measures proposed by the advisory group, just one - advising those who can work from home to do so - was implemented by the government at the time.\n\nIn the documents, Sage warned that \"not acting now to reduce cases will result in a very large epidemic with catastrophic consequences\".\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Jenrick said the government had introduced measures such as the rule of six at the time, and stressed the Sage papers had contributed to the measures the PM announced on Monday.\n\nHe said they had taken \"balanced judgements\" that weighed up the effect on the economy and \"all the other unintended consequences\" of measures, such as the impact on mental health and delayed surgeries.\n\nOn the new three-tiered system, he said: \"We are now able to have a very clear and consistent framework across the whole country, so people will be able to understand approximately what the rate of infections is in their own area and what the rules are accordingly.\"\n\nHe later told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that there were no plans for other parts of the country to go into the highest tier this week, but plans would be \"kept under review\".\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told BBC Breakfast he was \"alarmed\" by the Sage papers, and called for ministers to explain why the advice was \"rejected\".\n\nHe also insisted the government was going to have to go further than the latest measures, saying things were getting \"really serious\" as winter approaches.\n\nCases are increasing across the whole of the country and the number of people in hospital is now higher than before the full lockdown in March. We are at a critical stage in the epidemic.\n\nIt is at this moment the gulf between the official scientific advice and the decisions made by government has been laid bare.\n\nIt is the case that \"advisers advise and ministers decide\". When considering new measures to stop Covid, government must also take into account the harms they cause to our health and the economy.\n\nBut there is some concern the government is doing too little, too late.\n\nAnd that we can either choose the terms for controlling the virus now, or wait and the virus will force our hand as it did with lockdown in March.\n\nThe newly released Sage documents also showed advisers said NHS Test and Trace was only having a \"marginal impact\" and this would \"likely decline further\" unless the system expanded to keep up with the rise in cases and people were given support to enable them to self-isolate.\n\nA separate document from 17 September stated that Sage believed curfews in bars, pubs, cafes and restaurants were also \"likely to have a marginal impact\".\n\nA 22:00 closing time was introduced for all hospitality venues in England from 24 September.\n\nA Sage document from 21 September warned that \"single interventions by themselves are unlikely to be able to bring the R below one\" and both local and national measures are needed.\n\nHowever, a document examining measures including a two to three week \"circuit-breaker\" - a short period of tightened restrictions - said this step, if it was \"as strict and well-adhered to as the restrictions in late May\", could \"put the epidemic back by approximately 28 days or more\".\n\n\"Multiple circuit-breaks might be necessary to maintain low levels of incidence,\" it added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson explains a three-tiered level of rules to fight the coronavirus pandemic in England.\n\nMost areas in England are in the medium alert level - meaning current restrictions continue, including the 10pm hospitality curfew and the rule of six.\n\nAreas already under additional local restrictions are automatically in the high alert level - meaning bans on household mixing indoors are extended to include hospitality venues.\n\nThe city of Nottingham, which has the highest rate in the country, will start in this category alongside the rest of Nottinghamshire, East and West Cheshire and a small area of High Peak, as well as Greater Manchester, parts of South Yorkshire, and north-east England. Around 4.4 million people will be in high alert areas.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region - home to 1.5 million people - becomes the first area to enter the very high alert level, which - at a minimum - sees pubs and bars close if they do not serve \"substantial meals\", almost all household contacts banned and advice against travel. The rule of six will continue to apply in outdoor public spaces such as parks.\n\nAreas in the highest tier are able to impose further restrictions, and in the Liverpool City Region this will mean the closure of betting shops, gyms, leisure centres and casinos.\n\nMr Johnson said he had agreed some of the measures with the region's Labour Mayor Steve Rotheram - but Mr Rotheram said that was \"totally false\" and that the new measures had been \"dictated to us by the government\".\n\nThe government has issued details of the full restrictions for each alert level.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government is drawing up its own three-tier framework of restrictions to be implemented later this month.\n\nIn Wales, a second national lockdown is being considered and First Minister Mark Drakeford has threatened a travel ban on people from English Covid hotspots if the prime minister does not impose his own.\n\nMinisters in Northern Ireland's devolved government are meeting later to decide on further coronavirus restrictions.\n\nA further 13,972 confirmed coronavirus cases were reported across the UK on Monday, with 50 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test recorded.", "Jesse Katayama was originally due to visit Machu Picchu in March\n\nPeru has opened the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu for a single Japanese tourist who had waited almost seven months to visit the world heritage site.\n\nJesse Katayama was due to visit Machu Picchu in March but it closed because of coronavirus.\n\nCulture Minister Alejandro Neyra said Mr Katayama was granted access after submitting a special request.\n\nThe ancient Inca citadel - Peru's top tourist attraction - is expected to re-open at reduced capacity next month.\n\nNo exact date has been given.\n\nMr Katayama planned to spend only a few days in Peru, but became stranded in the town of Aguas Calientes, near Machu Picchu, in mid-March because of coronavirus travel regulations.\n\n\"He had come to Peru with the dream of being able to enter,\" Mr Neyra said in a virtual press conference on Monday.\n\nMachu Picchu has been closed to tourists since March\n\nMr Katayama was permitted to enter the ruins on Saturday with the head of the park \"so that he can do this before returning to his country\", Mr Neyra said.\n\nIn a video recorded on top of Machu Picchu mountain, the tourist celebrated the long-awaited trip.\n\n\"This tour is truly amazing, thank you,\" said Mr Katayama.\n\nPeru has reported more than 849,000 coronavirus cases and 33,000 deaths since the pandemic began, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nBritish Gymnastics chief executive Jane Allen is to retire in December, despite an ongoing investigation into allegations of mistreatment of gymnasts at all levels of the sport.\n\nAllen told BBC Sport a plan was put together in March for her to retire after the 2020 Olympics, which were postponed because of coronavirus.\n\nShe said it is \"quite upsetting\" for her to leave with the sport in turmoil, but believes it is \"appropriate\" to allow a new CEO to \"move the sport forward\" after a decade in charge.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to BBC sports editor Dan Roan, Allen said: \"This is my decision. It's part of my retirement plan. I've had the support of the board, and nobody else has played a hand in this decision.\"\n\nAllen, previously the CEO of Gymnastics Australia for 13 years, added: \"While these last three months have been devastating to me, I don't believe that that should absolutely define the last 10 years.\"\n\nMike Darcey, chair of British Gymnastics, said: \"The whole board would like to thank Jane for her dedicated service to the sport.\n\n\"We had originally agreed with Jane that she would retire following the Tokyo Olympic Games in the summer of 2020, but that was extended to help British Gymnastics through the initial impact of coronavirus and then the subsequent worrying news about abuse claims.\n\n\"Prior to her departure, Jane will be working with our legal team on our initial submission to the Whyte review.\"\n\nReacting to the news of her retirement, Olympic medallist Nile Wilson posted a video on Instagram calling it \"a great day for the sport\".\n\nAnd 2012 Olympian Hannah Whelan said it was a \"good start for her to step down but far more change is needed\".\n\nWhat is the background?\n\nSince July, BBC Sport has revealed a series of stories of former and current gymnasts alleging mistreatment at all levels of the sport - including Olympic medal-winning gymnasts Amy Tinkler and Wilson, plus Olympians Becky and Ellie Downie.\n\nAn independent review, led by Anne Whyte QC and co-commissioned by Sport England and UK Sport, is ongoing, with its call for evidence closing last Friday.\n\nA support helpline set up for gymnasts by the British Athletes Commission and the NSPCC received more than 120 calls in its first five weeks.\n\nAsked if she should have waited for the outcome of the Whyte Review to be published before retiring, Allen - who was appointed in 2010 - said: \"I've thought about that. But as this has been my plan to retire in December, I think that it's appropriate that I keep that plan.\n\n\"I think that it will be a good opportunity for a new CEO to come in and help with the outcomes of the Whyte Review and move the sport forward.\"\n\nShe added: \"I feel that during the 10 years of my tenure as CEO that I have worked hard, I have put everything I can into the sport, and with a great team behind me, I think we've achieved a great deal.\"\n\nBut she admitted the organisation had \"fallen short\" in protecting its athletes, adding \"there are things that as CEO, I take full responsibility for\".\n\nShe said the governing body needed to look at the \"barriers\" that stop athletes from speaking out \"when and where allegations of abuse occur\", as well as helping athletes through the transition of leaving the sport.\n\n\"I would apologise to any athlete who feels that at any time that any of our actions have hurt them in any way,\" she said.\n\n\"I feel devastated by what they've gone through. They've been very brave to stand up and speak out.\n\n\"They've found their voice, I think the athletes are probably the best people that could speak out on these matters. I think them speaking up will make things better for the next generation.\n\n\"But I also implore them to think about bringing together the sport with the coaches, because we have some terrific coaches in the sport, both at the community level and at high-performance level, and they're so important to the sport as well.\n\n\"So I really urge athletes and coaches to come together to really improve on these cultural issues that we have in gymnastics.\"\n\nAfter a series of athlete welfare scandals in other British sports in recent years, Allen said the time had come for an independent process to be established to deal with complaints from athletes.\n\n\"It's just become too hard for sport\" she said. \"We represent both athletes and coaches. And when we're dealing with compliance and safeguarding issues there's always somebody that's aggrieved out of that process. And where do they go? It's just too hard. There needs to be a sports ombudsman.\"\n• 7 July - Former gymnast Nicole Pavier is one of several British gymnasts to speak to BBC Sport about what they called a \"culture of fear\" within the \"mentally and emotionally abusive\" sport of gymnastics\n• 7 July - British Gymnastics announces an independent review will take place.\n• 9 July say abusive behaviour in gymnastics training became \"ingrained\" and \"completely normalised\".\n• 10 July - British Gymnastics boss Jane Allen says she is following allegations of abuse within the sport.\n• 14 July to British Gymnastics in December 2019 about her \"experiences as a club and elite gymnast\".\n• 16 July steps away from the independent review to \"remove any doubt\" over the \"integrity or independence\" of the process.\n• 20 July - The British Athletes Commission and NSPCC join forces to\n• 7 August temporarily stands down from her role with UK Sport\n• 7 August . She said she was \"fully cooperating\" with the investigation, adding gymnasts' welfare is her \"absolute priority\".\n• 10 August , saying athletes are \"treated like pieces of meat\".\n• 24 August - Two gymnasts make allegations of mistreatment by\n• 25 August while an investigation into claims about her conduct takes place. She said she \"refuted\" claims made against her.\n• 26 August . They say the \"welfare and wellbeing\" of their gymnasts was \"paramount at all times\".\n• 16 September failing to give an explanation as to why her formal complaint was dismissed\n• 17 September - Tinkler says she has \"no confidence\" in British Gymnastics' integrity unit's \"ability to be honest and moral\"\n• 30 September . British Gymnastics say the emails were \"very worrying\".\n• 13 October - Allen announces she will retire in December.\n\nDan Roan: Some might say you leave BG in a state of disrepute. Is it broken beyond repair?\n\nJane Allen: Absolutely not. It's a fabulous organisation, I want the members to know and I want the public to know, that it's a very strong organisation with dedicated staff, highly skilled staff, all working for the good of the sport.\n\nDR: You say it's your decision to leave, but you must accept that after everything that has happened, after so many allegations, that your leadership has become toxic? There was no way you could stay?\n\nJA: I don't agree with that. I led the organisation for 10 years and retirement plans were already in place. It's time, at 65 years of age and after 10 years of working hard for British Gymnastics for me to step aside now and to allow the next generation to take over.\n\nDR: You haven't been pushed? You haven't been sacked?\n\nDR: You're not jumping before you are pushed?\n\nIn July, Olympic floor bronze medallist Tinkler revealed she had made a formal complaint to British Gymnastics in December 2019 about her \"experiences as a club and elite gymnast\".\n\nHer complaint was dismissed in August, for which she say the governing body failed to give an explanation.\n\nIn September, she released a series of emails that showed national coach Colin Still refer to her as \"heavy\" and saying he was relieved she wasn't \"turning into a fat dwarf\" after she had taken a break from the sport following the Rio Olympics in 2016.\n\nBritish Gymnastics said the emails were \"very worrying\".\n\n\"Amy is an Olympic medallist, she has a special place in British gymnastics history,\" said Allen. \"I was absolutely floored by some of the allegations that came through.\n\n\"Last week, there were some emails that came out that I was absolutely shocked by and immediately I sent Amy an apology. It was unacceptable and unprofessional.\"\n\nAllen admitted British Gymnastics \"could have done more\" for Tinkler after the Olympics, and added that if an investigation into her complaint finds reason for an apology, \"it will be given\".", "Gal Gadot played Wonder Woman in the 2017 Hollywood film\n\nPlans for a new movie about Cleopatra have sparked a controversy before filming has even started.\n\nThe role of the famed ancient Egyptian ruler is to be played by Israeli actress Gal Gadot, best known for her Hollywood depictions of Wonder Woman.\n\nThe announcement has led to a row on social media with some alleging \"cultural whitewashing\", where white actors portray people of colour.\n\nSome have said the role should instead go to an Arab or African actress.\n\nCleopatra was descended from an Ancient Greek family of rulers - the Ptolemy dynasty. She was born in Egypt in 69BC and ruled the Nile kingdom when it was a client state of Rome.\n\nGadot herself reportedly commissioned the film and will co-produce it.\n\nThe row reflects a growing debate in Hollywood over casting and identity, and whether actors should play characters of different ethnicities to themselves.\n\nWriter on Africa, James Hall, said he thought the filmmakers should find an African actress, of any race.\n\nUS writer Morgan Jerkins tweeted that Cleopatra should be played by someone \"darker than a brown paper bag\" as that would be more \"historically accurate\".\n\n\"Gal Gadot is a wonderful actress, but there is an entire pool of North African Actresses to pick from. Stop whitewashing my history!\" posted another user..\n\nOther social media users argued that Cleopatra was more Greek or Macedonian than Arab or African.\n\nThe row over Gal Gadot as Cleopatra draws on contemporary arguments over national culture, religion and gender politics.\n\nBut the ancient Middle East wouldn't conform to many of our modern views of identity.\n\nCleopatra was on the throne well before Christianity, for example, and centuries ahead of the Arab conquests of North Africa - she was the last of the Ptolemaic rulers; born in Egypt, descended from Ancient Greeks and dominated by Rome.\n\nBut there are plenty more problems with popular depictions of the ancient Nile Queen - often cast as a powerful seductress replete with a sensual, oriental mystique.\n\nThat image - including Elizabeth Taylor's famous portrayal - is likely a myth handed down to us by Latin love poets years after Cleopatra's death.\n\nThe thousands of depictions of her through the ages are \"based on a perilous series of deductions from fragmentary or flagrantly unreliable evidence\" according to the British historian Mary Beard.\n\nSo little is really known, she adds, that Cleopatra should appear to us today as \"the queen without a face\".\n\nStatues of Cleopatra have been preserved but historians say we cannot be sure exactly how she looked\n\nIsraeli commentators suggested some criticism was based in anti-Semitism.\n\nThe Jerusalem Post journalist Seth Frantzman said it made no sense to exclude Jews from playing roles from the Middle East, \"when Jews are primarily a people from the Middle East either with distant or recent roots.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\n\"The idea that casting should exclude Jews is shameful and shows a lack of education for the commentators,\" he said.\n\nIsrael's embassy in Washington tweeted: \"One icon playing another! Excited for this new take on Cleopatra!\"\n\nGal Gadot's spokesperson declined to comment on the row.", "A detective sent \"flirtatious\" messages to a victim of attempted rape, a misconduct panel heard.\n\nDet Sgt Jonathan Pearce could be dismissed by Kent Police over the Facebook messages, which included a topless photograph.\n\nThe pair had met online and started messaging before she told him of the attempted rape in October 2019, the panel heard.\n\nHe denies trying to begin a sexual or emotional relationship with the woman.\n\nHours after telling Det Sgt Pearce about the attempted assault, she said to him \"you want me\", the panel heard.\n\nHe replied: \"Maybe a little bit.\"\n\nIn other messages he told the woman that if he were \"20 years younger\" he would have asked her out, and sent her a topless photograph including his head and shoulders.\n\nDavid Mesling, setting out the allegations, said while \"knowing or believing [the woman] to be a vulnerable person\" Det Sgt Pearce had \"continued to attempt to enter into a sexual or emotional relationship with her\".\n\nThe officer, in his 40s, said the messages were \"light-hearted banter, never anything serious\".\n\nThe messages were an attempt to \"make her feel better about herself\" and he wanted to bring the alleged perpetrator to justice, Det Sgt Pearce said.\n\nHe is accused of a \"serious failure\" to secure evidence, after deleting their online exchange.\n\nMr Mesling said the detective had given a \"changing account\" of how the messages were deleted.\n\nDet Sgt Pearce told the panel it was \"purely accidental\" and he had meant to archive them.\n\n\"I deleted them because I was stupid and pressed the wrong button,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Mitchells & Butlers, the pubs and restaurants group, has begun redundancy consultations with a number of staff as it struggles with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nM&B, whose chains include Harvester and All Bar One, has about 1,700 pubs and restaurants and 44,000 employees.\n\nIt has not yet disclosed how many jobs are at risk.\n\nA spokesperson for the company described it as \"a difficult and regrettable decision\".\n\nM&B would \"seek to redeploy affected staff wherever possible\", the spokesperson added.\n\n\"Our industry is operating in exceptionally challenging and uncertain circumstances.\n\n\"While we have worked incredibly hard to make sites Covid-19 secure and keep staff and customers safe, we are facing significant difficulties from the recently introduced 10pm curfew for pubs, bars and restaurants, new enforced closures and tapering government support that doesn't go far enough.\"\n\nM&B's spokesperson also called for further government support for the hospitality sector.\n\n\"With trading restrictions and uncertainty likely to continue for the foreseeable future, we strongly urge the government to step up the level of support it is offering to an industry which has been repeatedly singled out and taken the full brunt of restrictions.\"\n\nOther well-known brands in the M&B stable include Toby Carvery and O'Neill's.\n\nThe move comes after warnings by the hospitality industry that the new coronavirus restrictions will come as a huge blow to bars and restaurants across much of England.\n\nBars and pubs in Liverpool have been instructed to close from Wednesday and will receive financial support.\n\nBut venues in \"tier 2\" areas, including large parts of the North and Midlands, will lose custom, with households no longer allowed to mix indoors.\n\nTrade body the Night Time Industries Association is pressing for a judicial review of the restrictions.\n\nAre you a Mitchells and Butler employee? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cancer patients need to take extra care\n\nShielding is not being reintroduced in England, despite rising levels of coronavirus across most of the nation.\n\nGovernment advisers say that, unlike in March, there are other protective measures in place - such as the rule of six and the wearing of face coverings in shops - to help reduce the spread.\n\nBut people should take precautions to avoid getting Covid.\n\nThose who were on the shielding list will receive a letter about the advice with tips on how they should do this.\n\nCharities said the recommendations were not enough on their own, without financial and mental health support for the most vulnerable.\n\nThe advice is tailored according to the local Covid alert level the person lives in, using the new three-tier system:\n\nShielding advice will not automatically be triggered by an area going into tier three.\n\nBut it may be reintroduced in the future in hotspot areas in exceptional circumstances.\n\nIf that happens, people at high risk would again be advised to stay at home, not go to work or school and limit social interactions to their own household and support bubble.\n\nThe aim is to strike a balance - protecting health but not being too stringent with measures that can take a toll on people's wellbeing.\n\nDeputy Chief Medical Officer for England Dr Jenny Harries said: \"Whilst advisory, I would urge all those affected to follow the guidance wherever they can and to continue to access health services for their medical conditions.\n\n\"We will continue to monitor the evidence closely and fine-tune this approach to make sure everyone in this group is clear about the safest way to go about their daily lives, particularly over the coming winter months.\"\n\nShielding is paused in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland too, and the devolved nations are expected to take similar approaches to England.\n\nDr Stephen Griffin from the University of Leeds, said shielding should not be seen as a long term strategy: \"The psychological, societal and sometimes physical cost of the process was, and is, not to be underestimated.\"\n\nGemma Peters, chief executive of Blood Cancer UK, said: \"The Government needs to urgently revise this guidance and give financial support to people with blood cancer who cannot work from home.\n\n\"This guidance also fails to offer specific mental health support. The mental health toll of the pandemic on people who have been shielding has been great, and so it is extremely disappointing that, six months on, there is no extra mental health support for people who are vulnerable to the coronavirus.\"\n\nThe MS Society said vulnerable people deserved to know they will be supported through the crisis.\n• None I was shielding, what should I do from 19 July?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bars and restaurants are hoping the government will provide support Image caption: Bars and restaurants are hoping the government will provide support\n\nNew targeted restrictions designed to curb the rapidly increasing infection rates are expected to be introduced in the Netherlands this evening.\n\nThe rules appear to be focused on limiting social contacts, concentrating on places like bars and restaurants while schools and vital professions will remain virtually unaffected.\n\nExperts at the Dutch Outbreak Management Team (OMT), who help to shape the Dutch government's approach to tackling Covid-19, consider the hospitality industry a hub where many infections still occur, especially among young people.\n\nIn an effort to stop house parties, shops are likely to be banned from selling alcohol after 20:00. Ordering drinks for delivery online is expected to be off limits too. This goes beyond the measures put in place during the first wave.\n\nLimits will probably be placed on the number of visitors you can have at home, with a maximum of four people, both inside and outdoors.\n\nAdult team sports are expected to be prohibited. Youth and professional games can apparently continue.\n\nTraveling by public transport will be restricted to essential journeys. Only those considered to be working in the vital professions should leave home for work. Everyone else will be told to work from home.\n\nThe Netherlands recorded 6,854 new infections in the 24 hours to Monday morning. Approximately 1,298 patients are being treated in hospital, 252 in intensive care.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte is scheduled to hold a press conference at 19:00 (18:00 BST) and it is anticipated that the more stringent measures will come into effect from Wednesday.\n\nHospitality industry groups have said it could prove a \"fatal blow\" for some restaurants. But bar and cafe owners I've been speaking to in The Hague are still holding their breath and hoping the total closures will come with compensation from the state that will cushion the blow.", "Klarna was launched in the UK in 2014\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office said it will make enquiries into Klarna after scores of angry people questioned why it had their details despite never doing business with the payments firm.\n\nThe data protection watchdog said numerous people had made it aware of a marketing email Klarna had sent out.\n\nIt was followed by a message the email had been sent in error, and they had not been added to a marketing database.\n\nBut recipients asked how the firm had their email address in the first place.\n\nOne Twitter user, vlogger Christine Armstrong, tweeted: \"Now why would Klarna have 'accidentally' sent me their newsletter when I have never used their services. Who sold them my email?\"\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 Christine Armstrong 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 apologised and in a blog said: \"The email was sent to Klarna consumers who have recently used one of Klarna's products or services including Klarna's checkout technology.\"\n\nThe Swedish financial services group provides checkout technology for a large number of retailers such as Asos, TopShop and online beauty store Feelunique.\n\nCustomers can either choose to pay for their goods in 30 days via Klarna. Or they can pay with a credit or debit card which is processed by Klarna's software on behalf of the retailer.\n\nThe company said: \"Klarna's checkout technology is a product some retailers use to process payments on their website. This means that Klarna processes all credit and debit card transactions for these retailers.\"\n\nAn ICO spokesperson told the BBC: \"Businesses should only contact individuals for electronic marketing purposes where consent has been provided or, in limited circumstances, where they have an existing relationship with a customer.\n\n\"Some members of the public have made us aware of an email sent by Klarna and we will be making enquiries.\"\n\nA number of people on Twitter reported that they had never used Klarna products at all.\n\nNicole Krystal Crentsil, chief executive of platform Black Girl Fest, tweeted: \"Hmmm... how & why do you have access to my email address? I know Klarna is used by some online shops I shopped from, but I'm 100% sure I've never used it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Nicole Krystal Crentsil 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 a spokesperson for Klarna said: \"Whenever anyone uses Klarna's checkout technology they agree to the terms and conditions and our privacy notice, which allows Klarna to promote its products and services to them.\"\n\nHe said: \"Klarna's marketing team has access to these emails,\" however: \"Consumers normally do not receive newsletters unless they have opted in or downloaded our app.\"\n\nHe said: \"We are currently investigating how this happened, and will take all necessary action to ensure nothing like this can happen again in the future.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says a two to three week “circuit break” in England will require “significant sacrifices”\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for a short lockdown or \"circuit-breaker\" in England of two to three weeks to bring the rising rate of coronavirus under control.\n\nHe said measures were not working and another course was needed to prevent a \"sleepwalk into... a bleak winter\".\n\nHis comments come after documents revealed government scientific advisers called for such action three weeks ago.\n\nAnother 143 people have died in the UK after testing positive for the virus.\n\nMPs have approved the legislation to write a new three-tier system for coronavirus restrictions in England into law - with every area of the country classified as being on medium, high or very high alert.\n\nSir Keir said his lockdown proposal would \"not mean schools closing\" but it should \"run across half-term to minimise disruption\".\n\nHowever, he said it would mean that \"all pubs, bars and restaurants would be closed\" and compensated \"so that no business loses out because of the sacrifices we all need to make\".\n\n\"The government has not got a credible plan to slow infections. It has lost control of the virus and it's no longer following scientific advice,\" Sir Keir said.\n\nHe suggested it would also provide a chance for the government to \"fix\" problems by handing over track and trace responsibilities to local authorities.\n\nDocuments detailing advice from scientists on the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) were released on Monday night. Their views and evidence feed into the government's decision making.\n\nSir Keir said his proposals were \"in line with Sage's recommendation\" for a circuit breaker to lower the reproduction number, or R value, of the virus - but acknowledged they would require significant sacrifices.\n\nMeanwhile, Wales' first minister has said he had asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson for a special Cobra meeting \"specifically to discuss the circuit-breaker idea\" earlier in the week - and repeated that call in a letter on Wednesday.\n\n\"I think it's an idea that will need further examination and needs to be shared in perspective between the four UK nations,\" Mark Drakeford added.\n\nMr Johnson has rejected Mr Drakeford's demand for a travel ban on people coming to Wales from England's virus hotspots.\n\nMinisters in Northern Ireland's devolved government have been warned that Covid-19 infection rates will keep rising if both schools and the hospitality sector remain open, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe Scottish government is to implement its own three-tier framework of restrictions later in October. In the meantime, pubs and restaurants in Scotland's central belt, including Edinburgh and Glasgow, were closed on Friday until 25 October as part of a package of short-term measures.\n\nThe daily figure of 143 deaths follows 50 deaths announced on Monday and was the highest daily total since the 164 deaths recorded on 10 June.\n\nThe latest government figures also show another 17,234 people have tested positive for Covid in the UK, compared with 13,792 cases the day before.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England's medical director, said the rising number of deaths was \"hugely concerning\".\n\n\"We have seen cases increasing especially in older age groups which is leading to more hospital admissions. This is a stark reminder for us to follow the guidelines,\" she said.\n\nThe Labour leader's call has added to the volume of demand for extra caution - marking the end of the phase of what he used to describe as constructive opposition.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has been inching away from the broad front bench consensus on how to handle coronavirus for weeks.\n\nTo the frustration of some on his own side, rather than scream down the government's plans he has developed an attack on the government's ability to handle the situation and to act quickly enough.\n\nBut his call for a circuit-breaker means he believes the government has simply got it wrong.\n\nPolling suggests too that there is public desire for tougher action to prevent a terrible second wave. Some senior figures in government agree.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock earlier defended the new measures, telling MPs that Covid-19 posed \"a formidable threat\" until a vaccine can be found.\n\nBut he said the government makes \"decisions that are guided by the science, taking into account all of the different considerations\".\n\n\"Protecting our economy and protecting our health are not alternatives\", he added, but said action was required to \"protect lives and livelihoods\".\n\nSir Keir said Labour would not vote against the measures - even though they did not go far enough.\n\n\"We are not going to vote down a package of restrictions because restrictions are needed,\" he said.\n\nA senior government source branded Sir Keir a \"shameless opportunist\", saying he was \"playing political games in the middle of a global pandemic\".\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nThe Liverpool region will enter a \"very high\" Covid alert level from Wednesday, the highest of the new three-tier system for coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nMost parts of England are on the lowest tier, but Essex has asked to be moved to \"high\" level restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile, London could be put in a stricter lockdown within days, Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the government examines a \"wide range of different data\" and takes advice from health experts before deciding which tier applies to an area.\n\n\"We look not only at infection rates but also the rate of positive tests, admissions to hospitals, and admissions to intensive care units,\" they said.\n\nA committee of senior government health officials have been considering putting Greater Manchester and Lancashire into the highest level of restrictions and will hold a further meeting on Wednesday.\n\nAndy Burnham, the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, said the government \"risks confusing people\" in the region just days after it was put in the second highest tier, adding \"unfunded restrictions are unfair\".\n\nThe highest tier of restrictions are set to come into force in Liverpool on Wednesday\n\nThe 143 new deaths reported is clearly a concern.\n\nIt is the highest daily figure since early June and feels significant, even taking into account the impact of the delayed reporting at the weekend which often pushes up the figures on a Tuesday.\n\nBut to understand what is happening you have to rewind a month or so and look at cases.\n\nCases were rising rapidly then - it is what promoted the government's senior advisers to warn there could be 50,000 cases a day by mid-October.\n\nThat has not happened. Just over 17,000 were announced today.\n\nThe trajectory has not been as steep as it could have been.\n\nWe have seen a similar pattern happen with hospital admissions. They are rising, but over the last week the rate of increase has slowed just a little.\n\nDeaths will, sadly, continue to go up in the coming days and weeks, but if the patterns seen with cases and hospital admissions are sustained those rises will slow too.\n\nIt is very, very different from the rapid surge we saw in the spring.\n\nBut a gradual and slow continual rise could still have a devastating impact over the long autumn and winter period.\n\nThat is why we are seeing politicians and scientists argue about what is the best way to contain the virus, while limiting the impact restrictions have on wider society and the economy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are fears for thousands of apprentices in Wales as the end of furlough approaches.\n\nFigures from the Welsh Government show nearly 3,000 are on the job retention scheme, while almost 300 have been made redundant since the pandemic began.\n\nThe furlough scheme has been helping fund up to 80% of wages for workers - including apprentices - at firms unable to trade due to Covid-19.\n\nBut it is due to end on October 31 and be replaced by new support scheme.\n\nApprenticeships in Wales are open to anyone aged 16 and over who are not in full-time education.\n\nThe apprentice programmes combine on-the-job learning and formal study and training, while being paid by employers.\n\nBut as 19-year-old Rena Platt found out - if your firm goes out of business, just like other staff, you will find yourself unemployed.\n\nRena, from Monmouthshire, was working for her mother's childcare company when she was first furloughed in April due to coronavirus.\n\nThen restrictions meant the Abergavenny venture could no longer operate.\n\n\"The business closed permanently in July and I went onto Universal Credit,\" Rena said.\n\n\"My mum was very open about it, and said that due to the circumstances they would have to close down, but that I would then be on furlough.\n\n\"When she told me they would have to close permanently, that was when I went onto Universal Credit.\"\n\nThe apprenticeship would have helped Rena get her level two childcare qualification.\n\nNow she is looking for more childcare work so she can continue with that.\n\nRena was initially furloughed by Mother's Little Helper but after a few months it had to close permanently\n\n\"I was very disappointed for a while and was wondering what I would do for other jobs,\" Rena said.\n\n\"I was worried about what would happen in the future.\"\n\nHengoed-based training providers Educ8 helped her update her CV and look for work - which she is still doing.\n\nAccording to the Welsh Government's latest figures, the number of apprentices made redundant has almost doubled in a month.\n\nIt went from 50 to 95 places, while a further 180 apprentices were officially made redundant from their jobs, but were continuing their formal training in the hope new placements can be found.\n\nThose affected mostly tended to be young, male and white or of mixed race.\n\nAlso among the most affected were people with a primary disability - one resulting from a brain injury - or a learning difficulty.\n\nBarry Walters, of education charity Colleges Wales, said: \"The figures paint a bleak picture for the work-based learning sector in Wales, and one which is likely to worsen come the end of October.\n\n\"Providers continue to work tirelessly to source alternative employment for learners who have been furloughed or made redundant.\"\n\nCareers Wales' chief executive Nikki Lawrence said it was an \"extremely difficult and uncertain time\" for apprentices and employers\n\nCareers Wales' chief executive, Nikki Lawrence, said it was an \"extremely difficult and uncertain time\" for employers and apprentices.\n\nThe impact of the pandemic meant that for some employers \"redundancy is the only option\".\n\n\"Our Working Wales team can provide one-to-one support to individuals who have been made redundant from their apprenticeship.\"\n\nThat includes helping find opportunities to finish their training, getting funding or other financial support.\n\nMs Lawrence said if redundancies were anticipated, support could be offered in advance.\n\nFears have also been raised for the future of those apprentices who remain on furlough\n\nNational Training Federation for Wales director, Jeff Protheroe, said it was \"worrying\" that nearly 3,000 apprentices remained on furlough.\n\n\"As we know that is due to come to an end at the end of October,\" Mr Protheroe said.\n\n\"We have already seen a lot of redundancy notices served.\n\n\"The worry is about what is coming down the line.\n\n\"Unless there is a relaxation or concession in certain industries, particularly things like retail and tourism. we are looking at seeing more redundancies, including more apprentices being made redundant.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was on target to reach its goal of creating 100,000 apprenticeships this government term.\n\n\"Our recent £40m jobs and skills announcement will also be crucial in incentivising employers to recruit and retain up to 5,000 apprentices,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"While this pandemic is a challenge for everyone, we continue to work closely with our partners to achieve our ambitions.\"", "The Wanted singer Tom Parker has said he has been \"overwhelmed\" by support after revealing he has an inoperable brain tumour.\n\nOn Monday, the 32-year-old pop star said he found out six weeks ago that he has a grade IV glioblastoma.\n\nHe later posted on Instagram: \"We truly are overwhelmed with everyone's love, support and positivity.\n\n\"We have had so many people reach out with positive stories and it's been incredible.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are fighting this - thanks to everyone behind us fighting alongside us. Let's do this.\"\n\nHis bandmate Max George replied with the words: \"You got this\", having posted a longer message of support on his Instagram account on Monday.\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 maxgeorge 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\nHis other bandmates also rallied round, with Siva Kaneswaran saying \"we are with you all the way\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by sivaofficial 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\nJay McGuinness replied to Parker's original Instagram post with the words: \"You've always been one in a million. I love you Tom, let's get popping.\"\n\nNathan Sykes also tweeted words of encouragement, writing: \"Tom will attack this with the same vigour that he has with everything he has ever set his mind to.\"\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 Nathan Sykes 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\nOther messages came from the likes of Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington, who wrote: \"Sending so much love and support always.\"\n\n\"We love you Tom!\" added The Only Way Is Essex's James \"Arg\" Argent, who appeared with Parker on ITV's cancer fundraiser The Real Full Monty in 2018. \"We got this brother, No doubt about it!\"\n\nPresenter Rylan Clark-Neal described Parker as a \"gent\" on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Rylan Clark-Neal 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\nParker achieved fame with the boy band in the early 2010s, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince they went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease, and made the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nThe Wanted sold more than 10 million records worldwide\n\nHe married actress Kelsey Hardwick in 2018. The couple have a 16-month-old daughter, Aurelia, and are expecting their second child.\n\nParker suffered a seizure in July and was put on a waiting list for an MRI scan. Six weeks later he had another, more serious seizure during a family trip to Norwich and was rushed to hospital.\n\nAfter three days of tests, he was diagnosed with cancer.\n\nOn Monday, the couple posted a message on Instagram telling fans that Parker had begun chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment.\n\n\"We are gonna fight this all the way,\" they said. \"We don't want your sadness, we just want love and positivity and together we will raise awareness of this terrible disease and look for all available treatment options.\"\n\nGlioblastoma is the most aggressive of brain tumours in adults.\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 man in the United States has caught Covid twice, with the second infection becoming far more dangerous than the first, doctors report.\n\nThe 25-year-old needed hospital treatment after his lungs could not get enough oxygen into his body.\n\nReinfections remain rare and he has now recovered.\n\nBut the study in the Lancet Infectious Diseases raises questions about how much immunity can be built up to the virus.\n\nThe man from Nevada had no known health problems or immune defects that would make him particularly vulnerable to Covid.\n\nScientists say the patient caught coronavirus twice, rather than the original infection becoming dormant and then bouncing back. A comparison of the genetic codes of the virus taken during each bout of symptoms showed they were too distinct to be caused by the same infection.\n\n\"Our findings signal that a previous infection may not necessarily protect against future infection,\" said Dr Mark Pandori, from the University of Nevada.\n\n\"The possibility of reinfections could have significant implications for our understanding of Covid-19 immunity.\"\n\nHe said even people who have recovered should continue to follow guidelines around social distancing, face masks and hand washing.\n\nScientists are still grappling with the thorny issue of coronavirus and immunity.\n\nDoes everyone become immune? Even people with very mild symptoms? How long does any protection last?\n\nThese are important questions for understanding how the virus will affect us long-term and may have implications for vaccines and ideas such as herd immunity.\n\nSo far, reinfection seems to be rare - there have been only a few examples out of more than 37 million confirmed cases.\n\nReports in Hong Kong, Belgium and the Netherlands said they were no more serious than the first. One in Ecuador mirrored the US case in being more severe, but did not need hospital treatment.\n\nHowever, it is still early into the pandemic, and the history of other types of coronavirus means protection is expected to wane.\n\nAs countries endure a second wave of the virus, we may start to get clearer answers.\n\nIt had been assumed that a second round of Covid would be milder, as the body would have learned to fight the virus the first time around.\n\nIt is still unclear why the Nevada patient became more severely ill the second time. One idea is he may have been exposed to a bigger initial dose of the virus.\n\nIt also remains possible that the initial immune response made the second infection worse. This has been documented with diseases like dengue fever, where antibodies made in response to one strain of dengue virus cause problems if infected by another strain.\n\nProf Paul Hunter, from the University of East Anglia, said the study was \"very concerning\" because of the small gap between the two infections, and the severity of the second.\n\n\"Given the fact that to date over 37 million people have had the infection, we would have expected to have heard of many more incidents if such very early reinfections with severe illness were common.\n\n\"It is too early to say for certain what the implications of these findings are for any immunisation programme. But these findings reinforce the point that we still do not know enough about the immune response to this infection.\"", "Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch has volunteered to be vaccinated\n\nResearchers want more British people belonging to ethnic minorities to sign up for coronavirus vaccine trials.\n\nThe large UK studies need diverse groups of volunteers to check if the jabs will work for all populations.\n\nBut of the 270,000 already recruited, only 7% are people belonging to ethnic minorities, who are at higher risk of complications if they develop Covid-19.\n\nElderly people are also vulnerable - and researchers want more over-65s to volunteer for vaccine trials too.\n\nThese groups would be among the first offered a vaccine if one becomes available.\n\nScientists hope to recruit 500,000 volunteers in total for the studies, including the Oxford trial recently resumed.\n\nOxford Vaccine Group principal investigator Dr Maheshi Ramasamy: \"We know that people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds are disproportionately affected by Covid in terms of severe disease and mortality.\n\n\"So when we do have a vaccine that we roll out to the general population, it's really important that we can demonstrate to people from these communities that we have evidence that the vaccine works.\"\n\nThe UK has secured access to six different possible vaccines, which fall into four categories:\n\nEqualities Minister Kemi Badenoch, who is herself volunteering, said: \"The UK is leading the world in the search for a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\n\"At home, we have to ensure every community trusts a future vaccine to be sage and that it works across the entire population.\n\n\"But with less than 0.5% of people on the NHS Vaccine Registry from a black background, we have a lot more work to do.\n\n\"That is why I am urging more people from the ethnic-minority backgrounds to join me in signing up to the NHS Vaccine Registry and taking part in a trial.\n\n\"Together, we can be part of the national effort to end this pandemic for good.\"\n\nKate Bingham, who chairs the government's Vaccine Taskforce, said: \"The only way to check how well a coronavirus vaccine works is to carry out large-scale clinical trials involving thousands of people.\n\n\"Researchers need data from different communities and different people to improve understanding of the vaccines.\n\n\"The only way to get this is through large clinical trials.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hospital accident and emergency departments are making preparations for a surge in patients this winter.\n\nThe Royal Bournemouth Hospital is already busy, despite doubling the number of beds since the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nIt is now preparing for a further rise in admissions, with more people now in hospital with Covid-19 than before restrictions were announced in March.", "Bars and restaurants across much of England are working out how to operate amid new coronavirus restrictions.\n\nLiverpool venues, which are in the strictest \"tier 3\" zone, have been instructed to close from Wednesday.\n\nKate Stewart, who runs The Sandon pub next to Liverpool FC, said: \"The amount of uncertainly is just crippling.\n\n\"I've got women who are working for me who are coming in and actually sobbing to me because they don't know whether they are going to have a job.\"\n\nMrs Stewart told the BBC she wasn't sure whether to open at all: \"Is it going to be worth me even opening the doors because people are going to be so scared and so worried they probably aren't going to come out anyway?\n\n\"The amount of uncertainly and unknowing is just crippling, and it's crippling people's mental health as well.\"\n\nIndustry body UK Hospitality (UKH) said that many were already \"reaching the point of no return\".\n\nNew rules announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday divided the country into three zones.\n\nVenues in \"tier 3\" will receive financial support.\n\nThose in the \"tier 2\" areas, including large parts of the North and Midlands, will lose custom, with households no longer allowed to mix indoors.\n\nAnd these businesses would experience \"the worst of both worlds\", not being eligible for the extra assistance outlined last week, the industry group said.\n\nNick MacKenzie, chief executive of the Greene King pub chain, which has about 2,700 pubs across the country, told the BBC his employees were working flat out to adjust: \"We are going to do everything we can to get our pubs back open, but it's getting harder and harder.\n\n\"We need further support from government for those pubs in tier 2.\" He said some of his staff faced losing their homes, as they lived in the pub.\n\nUKH has warned a lack of support for hospitality businesses in tiers 1 and 2 could threaten more than half a million jobs.\n\nThe chief executive of Best Western hotel Group, Rob Paterson, said the ban on households mixing meant his firm was now bracing itself for \"some pretty difficult times\".\n\n\"With each restriction, it feels like death by a thousand cuts, because each strikes at the confidence of customers,\" he said.\n\n\"Even with a curfew of 10pm and groups of six, bookings haven't happened. We've started to write off a big amount of trade. Work office parties can't have a table of six. It's only going to get worse and worse. We've written off Christmas.\"\n\nThe government's new three-tier system of restrictions mean in parts of England worst hit by the coronavirus bars will close, although restaurants may remain open.\n\nIn \"tier 2\" areas, which include Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham and many other cities, socialising is restricted to members of your own household or bubble. Tier 1 areas continue with lighter restrictions: the rule of six and the 22:00 curfew.\n\n\"For those businesses in tier 3 areas, forced to close their doors again, things look bleak, but the support announced last week for closed businesses will hopefully give them the breathing room they need to survive another lockdown,\" said UK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls.\n\n\"There is currently a concerning lack of support on offer for hospitality businesses in tier 2, and to a lesser extent tier 1, despite their facing restrictions that is seeing trade down by between 40% to 60%.\"\n\nBars, gyms, casinos, leisure centres and betting shops across Liverpool must close from Wednesday, leaving businesses there \"bewildered, frustrated and angry\", according to Liverpool Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Paul Cherpeau.\n\nBut it wasn't only those businesses that will feel the impact, he said.\n\n\"Whilst our visitor economy will bear the brunt of these new restrictions, the percolating effect on supply chains is hugely concerning.\"\n\nHouseholds can no longer mix inside pubs in 'tier 2' areas\n\nFirms from taxi companies to food and beverage suppliers are likely to feel the impact of the new measures.\n\n\"Brewery sales have collapsed because of the uncertainty of further restrictions, as pubs fear they will be closed,\" said Ian Fozard, chairman of the Society of Independent Brewers.\n\n\"While pubs that are legally closed are being offered financial support, this does not seem to apply to small breweries that will lose more than 80% of their sales.\"\n\nAndrew Selley, chief executive of Bidfood, which supplies food to a range of outlets from pubs and cinemas to schools and hospitals, said the government had failed to recognise the knock-on impact on firms like his.\n\n\"They have supported hospitality and it's warranted, because hospitality is under pressure. What they haven't done is give any support to the supply chain that supports hospitality, education and healthcare. We've had no direct grants, no business rates relief, no rent assistance.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Liverpool is one of many cities where there are extra restrictions\n\nIn many areas under local lockdown, cases and hospital admissions have continued to soar. Does that mean restrictions don't work?\n\nConsider the national lockdown in the spring. While it feels like it was one single policy, it was in fact a package of different measures. Schools, universities and offices shut. Pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops closed. No-one could mix with people from outside their household. People were advised not to use public transport and to limit the number of times they visited essential shops.\n\nTogether these had a dramatic impact on cases, and the number of coronavirus patients in hospital plummeted from 20,000 to about 800.\n\nHow much each part of that lockdown contributed is hard to say.\n\nThe rules were relaxed but then, at the end of June, Leicester became the first place to go into a local lockdown. Other cities, and whole regions, have followed. But so far, Leicester's lockdown is the only one to have come close to the strictness of the national policy. Shops and pubs were stopped from opening. Households were barred from mixing indoors. And new cases of the virus dropped by 60% during July. People in hospital beds with coronavirus fell from 88 to 18.\n\nSince Leicester, local lockdowns have multiplied. More than 15 million people - very roughly, a quarter of the UK population - have come under new curbs, in some form.\n\nAnd it's become harder to see whether they are working or not.\n\nAfter the first changes, cases continued to rise, throughout August. Then, after pub and restaurant closures, case rates dropped sharply. It is, however, too soon to say for sure that the stricter measures led directly to the decline.\n\nIn the rest of Greater Manchester, gatherings with other households were banned but shops, pubs and restaurants remained open. Cases have mostly kept climbing throughout these local restrictions.\n\nHowever, the latest week's data will be welcome news - suggesting the sharp increases might be levelling off. The rise in cases in many areas under local lockdown appears to be slowing, in line with the national picture.\n\nThis may be a sign that the England-wide \"rule of six\" is working.\n\nA large national study, published last week, confirmed the growth in cases was slowing across England, although overall levels remained high. But restrictions on households meeting - which have been seen at a local level - don't always lead to a slowing case rate. And this change in impact highlights the many factors involved which make it difficult to isolate the precise effect of local lockdowns.\n\nPeople don't necessarily change their behaviour exactly in line with rule changes.\n\nWhen concerns about cases rising begin to be reported, some people alter their behaviour before any law change. Other people, even when the rules come into place, don't obey them.\n\nSo it may be a question of timing: are people more ready to restrict their movements now than they were in August?\n\nTo complicate the figures further, other things have been going on at the same time as local lockdowns were being introduced, including summer holiday season and schools reopening.\n\nIn Leicester, cases fell when restrictions were introduced. When they were progressively eased in August and September, cases started to rise. But this rise coincided with more people travelling abroad. And with children going back to school.\n\nIn Greater Manchester, cases also rose over those months despite the area being in lockdown - albeit a looser version than Leicester's had been.\n\nUnpicking these different factors is a big challenge.\n\nLooking at \"positivity rates\" - the proportion of all tests that are positive, adjusting for different levels of testing - shows there have been increases in cases across England, with particularly sharp spikes in the North West and North East between the end of August and the end of September. Restrictions in those regions were only introduced between the middle of September and the beginning of October, making it too soon to see the impact of these rules.\n\nBut in Blackburn, which has been in lockdown long enough for an effect to be seen, there was also a rise in cases - though this has come back down in recent weeks.\n\nRecent increases in hospitalisations from coronavirus have highlighted the extent of the challenge facing the north of England. Though without up-to-date localised data, it is difficult to judge whether the impact on a local level - such as those in Blackburn - have helped prevent serious cases.\n\nThere's no doubt the national lockdown had a considerable impact on cases.\n\nFundamentally, the virus needs people to be in close contact and mixing between circles to spread through the population. How tight the restrictions are makes a difference - look at the experience of Leicester, compared with Oldham or Blackburn.\n\nBut so do the crucial issues of timing and compliance. A lockdown only works if people stick to it.\n\nThe data also indicates that any impact lockdowns do have is far from permanent - relax the restrictions and allow more contact, and the virus will quickly start to spread again.\n\nUnless and until a viable vaccine becomes available, government will be faced with the same choice: shut down large chunks of society or allow the virus to tear through communities, with little idea of the true toll that either will exact.", "The number of secondary schools in England sending home pupils because of Covid is increasing rather than diminishing, the latest official figures show.\n\nThere are 21% of secondary schools counted as not fully open - up from 18% the previous week and 8% in mid-September.\n\nThis is usually because they have sent home pupils in response to Covid cases.\n\nAbout 7% of primary schools had to send home pupils, up from 5%.\n\nThese weekly figures from the Department for Education show a worsening picture for secondary schools being disrupted by the pandemic, with the highest figure for groups of pupils being sent home since schools went back in the autumn.\n\nIt follows the government announcing it would press ahead with a full set of GCSE and A-level exams next summer, prompting warnings about unfairness for those missing out on school.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the continuing fall in the number of fully open secondary schools showed how difficult it was to \"operate amidst rising Covid infection rates\".\n\nHe says schools are having to try to balance \"managing complex control measures while delivering education for those in school as well as those who are at home self-isolating\".\n\n\"The pressure is immense,\" he said - and he raised concerns about the well-being of school staff.\n\nThe figures on secondary schools not being fully open were, based on previous Thursdays:\n\n\"It is essential that government gets a grip on the testing system so that no pupil or teacher is out of school for longer than they need to be,\" said Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\nBut there are suggestions that when schools send home pupils, it is now a smaller number, and not necessarily a whole year group, as attendance in secondary school has slightly risen, from 86% to 87%.\n\nOverall attendance, including primary schools, has remained at about 90%.\n\nThere are also very few schools completely closed - only 0.2% of schools.\n\nThere is no regional breakdown to show where problems are concentrated - but secondary schools seem to be more adversely affected than primary schools, with a rate of sending home pupils three times higher than primary schools.\n\nAttendance in primary schools went down slightly, from 93% to 92%, but remains higher than in secondary.\n\nFigures in special needs schools are even lower, at 82% attendance, and in state-funded alternative provision, such as for pupils who might have been excluded from mainstream schools, attendance is 60%.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said schools were able to provide more online lessons and \"only a small minority of pupils are self isolating\".\n\n\"Regular and full-time attendance in school is absolutely essential to help pupils catch up on time out of the classroom.\n\n\"It is encouraging to see the vast majority of schools are open,\" he said.", "Apple has confirmed its iPhone 12 handsets will be its first to work on faster 5G networks.\n\nThe company has also extended the range to include a new \"Mini\" model that has a smaller 5.4in screen.\n\nThe US firm bucked a wider industry downturn by increasing its handset sales over the past year.\n\nBut some experts say the new features give Apple its best opportunity for growth since 2014, when it revamped its line-up with the iPhone 6.\n\n\"5G will bring a new level of performance for downloads and uploads, higher quality video streaming, more responsive gaming, real-time interactivity and so much more,\" said chief executive Tim Cook.\n\nThere has also been a cosmetic refresh this time round, with the sides of the devices getting sharper, flatter edges.\n\nThe higher-end iPhone 12 Pro models also get bigger screens than before and a new sensor to help with low-light photography.\n\nLidar sensors are commonly used in self-driving car prototypes, but Apple is using one to help focus photos\n\nHowever, for the first time none of the devices will be bundled with headphones or a charger. Apple said the move was to help reduce its impact on the environment.\n\n\"Tim Cook [has] the stage set for a super-cycle 5G product release,\" commented Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nHe added that about 40% of the 950 million iPhones in use had not been upgraded in at least three-and-a-half years, presenting a \"once-in-a-decade\" opportunity.\n\nIn theory, the Mini could dent Apple's earnings by encouraging the public to buy a product on which it makes a smaller profit than the other phones. But one expert thought that unlikely.\n\n\"Apple successfully launched the iPhone SE in April by introducing it at a lower price point without cannibalising sales of the iPhone 11 series,\" noted Marta Pinto from IDC.\n\n\"There are customers out there who want a smaller, cheaper phone, so this is a proven formula that takes into account market trends.\"\n\nThe iPhone is already the bestselling smartphone brand in the UK and the second-most popular in the world in terms of market share.\n\nIf forecasts of pent up demand are correct, it could prompt a battle between network operators, as customers become more likely to switch.\n\n\"Networks are going to have to offer eye-wateringly attractive deals, and the way they're going to do that is on great tariffs and attractive trade-in deals,\" predicted Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\nApple typically unveils its new iPhones in September, but opted for a later date this year. It has not said why, but it was widely speculated to be related to disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe firm's shares ended the day 2.7% lower. This has been linked to reports that several Chinese internet platforms opted not to carry the livestream, although it was still widely viewed and commented on via the social media network Sina Weibo.\n\nApple said the iPhone 12 has the same 6.1in (15.5cm)-sized screen as its predecessor, but it now uses OLED rather than LCD technology for richer colours. This has also helped the firm make the device 11% thinner and have smaller bezels.\n\nThe OLED display is shielded by a new material that should be harder to damage\n\nIt added that the screen was also higher resolution and used a \"ceramic shield\" to protect its display to offer \"four times better drop performance\".\n\nA new A14 Bionic chip - the first to be built on a five nanometre process - is being used to carry out more advanced enhancements to photos.\n\nThe firm said it would deliver night-mode selfies without using the flash, as well as better deal with colour, contrast and noise in challenging settings.\n\nIt showed off a forthcoming mobile version of League of Legends as an example of the \"console-quality games\" it could now run smoothly.\n\nLeague of Legends: Wild Rift will launch later this year\n\nThe addition of a magnet array inside the phone's back will allow compatible chargers to \"snap on\" and renew the battery more quickly, as well as accessories including a wallet to be held in place.\n\nThe iPhone Mini shares these features but in a smaller form.\n\n\"The Mini is an interesting move from Apple, which I would have expected [to come] next year - but the smaller phone trend is clearly picking up,\" commented Carolina Milanesi from Creative Strategies.\n\nThe iPhone 12 will start at £799 - a £70 gain on last year - and go on sale on 23 October.\n\nThe iPhone 12 Mini will start at £699 and be released on 13 November.\n\nTwo steel-sided higher-end models have also been redesigned to feature bigger displays - the iPhone Pro goes from 5.8in to 6.1in, while the Pro Max goes from 6.5in to 6.7in.\n\nThe iPhone 12 Pro has three cameras and a Lidar sensor\n\nThey carry over the improvements made to the lower-end devices.\n\nBut they also gain a Lidar (light detection and ranging) scanner.\n\nThis creates depth-maps of the immediate environment, making autofocus in dim settings \"up to six times faster\". It can also be used for augmented-reality tasks, although these were given less emphasis.\n\nThe Pro Max's wide-angle rear camera lens has also been given a bigger sensor to improve low-light performance.\n\nFilming in high dynamic range (HDR) video, using Dolby Vision, is offered at a higher frame rate on the Pro phones\n\nBoth new Pro models now have at least 128 gigabytes of storage and are £50 cheaper than last year's devices, starting at £999 and £1,099.\n\nSamsung first launched a 5G-enabled Galaxy S10 phone back in February 2019, and Huawei, OnePlus and Google are among others to have added the capability too.\n\nBut experts say there has only been limited interest in the feature to date.\n\n\"Apple is rarely the first to launch new technologies but waits for a technology to be mature enough to build new customer experiences on top of it,\" commented Thomas Husson from the research company Forrester.\n\n\"I think we're slowly reaching this tipping point.\"\n\nApple said it had tested its devices at peak 5G speeds of 3.5 gigabits per second - which means a 20 gigabyte 4K movie could be theoretically downloaded in about 45 seconds.\n\nHowever, it warned that users' experiences would vary by network and region, and the 5G facility would not always be switched on.\n\n\"The ability of the iPhone 12 to switch between 5G and 4G when the consumer needs, in order to preserve battery, does highlight that 5G connectivity clearly isn't necessary 100% of the time for consumers,\" remarked Stephen Mears from the consultancy Futuresource.\n\nEach jump in communications tech has taken different mobile device behaviours mainstream\n\nThe UK was the second European nation to start rolling out 5G.\n\nBut while this has helped give it a lead, coverage remains sporadic.\n\nIn the US - Apple's largest market - 5G speeds are particularly slow. In fact, according to one study, downloads over Canada's 4G networks are typically faster,\n\nIn some countries, 5G has not yet become available to the public.\n\nHowever, in China - Apple's second-biggest market - the government has encouraged its rapid deployment, and recently announced both Beijing and Shenzhen had achieved \"full coverage\".\n\n\"There's no question that a large part of Apple's decision to settle a legal dispute with [5G modem chip-maker] Qualcomm was predicated on the fact that it couldn't afford not to have 5G in 2020,\" Mr Wood told the BBC.\n\n\"China would have been the driving force behind that.\n\n\"But there will also have been pressure from major operators across the world who are investing heavily in 5G networks and recognise the fact that the iPhone is a strategically important product.\"\n\nThe really interesting announcements here all came down to speed: 5G-ready phones with faster chips inside them.\n\nBut Apple arguably failed to sell what you can actually do with all this power.\n\nThe one area it will definitely help with is mobile gaming, with quicker response times for multiplayer titles as well as better graphics.\n\nAnd what else can 5G do? Well it could let you watch sporting events from multiple angles on your phone - one example the firm gave was of watching American football from seven camera feeds.\n\nOr - using augmented reality - you could design a room with virtual furniture in real-time.\n\nApple said the Lidar scanner could help with AR, video, and room scanning applications\n\nBut as the chief of US network Verizon noted during a guest spot during the presentation: \"Until now most people have taken a wait-and-see approach to 5G.\"\n\nAnd the question is whether the public saw anything that would make them want to rush out and add it to their lives now.\n\nMoreover, 5G networks in most countries are at best patchy - you won't be able to take advantage of the promised speed gains in many places.\n\nIn time, there are likely to be popular apps and games that are dependent on the tech.\n\nAnd many gadget enthusiasts will be tempted to upgrade to an iPhone 12 or Android equivalent to be ready.\n\nBut they will be investing in the promise of what's to come, rather than what they can do today.\n\nApple also launched a new version of its smart speaker - the HomePod Mini.\n\nIt supports a wider range of voice commands than before as well as introducing a home intercom system.\n\nApple promised the device would work with a wider range of third-party services than before\n\nThe £99 voice-controlled device also adds a facility that detects when an iPhone is nearby to produce visual and vibration effects that simulate the effect of music flowing between the gadgets.\n\nThe first HomePod was launched in 2018, and has lagged far behind Amazon and Google's rival speakers to date.\n\nThere was no mention, however, of a Mac computer set to run off the A14 chip.\n\nNor was there mention of Bluetooth-based tracking tags or over-ear headphones, which have both been rumoured to launch soon.\n\nThis will likely lead to speculation that Apple will hold a further event before the end of 2020.", "Taxes rises of more than £40bn a year are 'all but inevitable' to protect UK government debt from spinning out of control, a think tank has warned.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies said borrowing this year will hit levels not seen in peacetime due to the pandemic.\n\nIt said the state had pumped an extra £200bn into the economy to support jobs, businesses and incomes this year.\n\nThis was necessary but would mean big tax hikes into the middle of the next decade, the IFS said.\n\nTo pay for the services it provides, the UK government borrows from pension funds, insurance companies and investors around the world, then tries to balance its books through taxes.\n\nBut in an update originally meant to accompany the chancellor's now scrapped Autumn Budget, the IFS said this would become harder as the crisis rolled on.\n\nIt said the economy was forecast to be 5% smaller in 2024-25 than was projected back in March, which would leave the country with a £100bn hit to its finances from lower tax revenues.\n\nAt the same time, it said \"higher borrowing will be with us for some time to come\".\n\nThe government will not, as the chancellor promised just a week ago, \"always balance the books\" and the Conservative manifesto commitment on lower debt is impossible, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies in its annual audit of the public finances.\n\nAnnual government borrowing this year will reach levels only previously reached during world wars, while the national debt will be bigger than the economy, reaching 110% of GDP by 2025.\n\nHowever, the IFS warns that now is not the time for tax rises or spending cuts. The economy will continue to need support because of one of the worst pandemic hits to growth in the world, alongside the prospect of new post-Brexit trade barriers with the EU.\n\nFor now, extra borrowing is helped by extraordinarily low rates of interest paid by the government. But the IFS outlines a scenario where even significant tax rises, worth £40bn a year from the middle of this decade, will fail to get the size of the national debt below 100% of GDP.\n\nRepaying the Covid support spending is, the institute suggests, going to be a delayed and then very gradual programme of tax-and-spend restraint that could last a generation.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the IFS, said the government had no choice but to ramp up spending in the short term, and there was little it could do \"fully to protect the economy into the medium run\".\n\n\"We are heading for a significantly smaller economy than expected pre-Covid and probably higher spending too.\n\n\"Without action, debt - already at its highest level in more than half a century - would carry on rising. Tax rises, and big ones, look all but inevitable, though likely not until the middle years of this decade.\"\n\nThe UK's national debt - how much it owes investors and lenders - rose above £2 trillion for the first time in August.\n\nThe think tank said it expects debt will be just over 110% of national income by 2024-25. This would be up from 80% before the pandemic and 35% in the years leading up to the 2007-08 financial crisis.\n\nThe IFS said the UK had benefited from historically low interest rates during the crisis, which made it cheaper to borrow.\n\nBut it warned any increase in rates could, if not accompanied by stronger growth, be \"hugely problematic for the public finances\".\n\nThe forecast comes as the UK economy remains under stress. In an accompanying analysis, Citibank said every major economy bar China shrank in the first half of this year, mostly by historically large margins.\n\nSpain and the UK did the worst, with output drops of roughly 20%, more than double the hit in the US or Germany.\n\nThe bank warned that even if another round of major lockdowns can be avoided, most economies will not return to pre-pandemic levels of output until 2021 or 2022.\n\nAnd even when the pandemic is over, there will be lingering effects on consumer demand due to increased caution, shifts in behaviour and rising unemployment.\n\nCitibank forecasts the unemployment rate in the UK is likely to increase to about 8% to 8.5% - or 2.7 to 2.9 million people out of work - in the first half of 2021.\n\nThat could see unemployment at its highest level since the early 1990s.", "An 85-year-old runner has set a new record for his age group in the mile.\n\nIan Barnes, who lives in Darlington, recorded a time of eight minutes 10.40 seconds in a race against seven other runners at the Eastbourne athletics track.\n\nHe is a retired legal executive and joint president of Darlington Harriers running club.", "Zoe Powell and her three eldest children died in the crash. Josh Powell was critically injured\n\nA mother and her three young children have died in a crash in Oxfordshire.\n\nPolice said a people carrier and a lorry collided near a railway overbridge on the A40 between Oxford and Cassington at 21:50 BST on Monday.\n\nThe mother, named locally as Zoe Powell, 29, died at the scene with her eight-year-old daughter Phoebe. Six-year-old Simeon and Amelia, four, died at John Radcliffe Hospital.\n\nTheir father Josh, 30, and an 18-month-old girl were critically injured.\n\nOxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said it worked with police and paramedics to free the father and daughter, who are from Chinnor in Oxfordshire, from the silver Subaru car.\n\nThe driver of the lorry, a 56-year-old man, suffered minor injuries and is helping officers with their investigation.\n\nNo arrests have been made, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nZoe Powell, 29, from Chinnor and three of her young children died after a crash with a lorry\n\nMrs Powell was a blogger who wrote about motherhood, family life and the challenges of having young children.\n\nShe created a specialised diary called the Mama Book to help young mothers find \"mental space in the midst of motherhood\".\n\nThe road reopened at about 13:00 after being closed both ways for accident investigation work.\n\nIn a statement on Facebook, Chinnor Parish Council said: \"As a close Chinnor community, we are all so saddened and shocked to hear about the tragic accident last night.\"\n\nA member of the parish told the BBC: \"At the moment it's just so raw. The community are very upset.\"\n\nSt Andrew's Church said it would be open daily from 11:00 to 17:00 \"for private prayer and lighting of a candle\".\n\nOxford City Council leader Susan Brown said: \"Horrible, horrible news and my thoughts are not just with the family and friends but with all those professionals doing their jobs who have seen sights they will sadly never forget.\"\n\nThe crash happened near a bridge where the A40 crosses a railway\n\nSgt Dominic Mahon, senior investigating officer, asked people \"not to speculate as to the cause of this horrendous incident\".\n\n\"We will leave no stone unturned to ascertain what has caused this tragedy,\" he said.\n\nSgt Mahon said officers and colleagues from the other emergency services were dealing with \"an extremely upsetting scene\".\n\nHe said the family's next of kin were being supported.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The unemployment figures do not include people who were furloughed as part of the UK government's Covid-19 response\n\nWales' unemployment rate rose significantly between June and August to 3.8%, compared with 4.5% for the whole of the UK, according to the latest figures.\n\nThere were 15,000 more people counted as jobless compared with March to May.\n\nThe number of people employed in the three months to August was 37,000 fewer than the previous quarter.\n\nWorkers furloughed under the Treasury's scheme to support jobs through the Covid-19 pandemic count as employed.\n\nDuring August the furlough scheme began to reduce support paid to employers to pay workers.\n\nWales' unemployment is at the same level as September 2019, but it rose at twice the UK rate in the last quarter.\n\nThe rate of working age people deemed \"economically inactive\" has climbed to 24.4% in Wales - the UK rate is 20.8%.\n\nThese are people not looking for work, normally because they are full-time carers or students, are on long-term sick or have taken early retirement.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics survey suggested there were 36,000 more people in this bracket in Wales compared with the same period last year. It is the second highest rate of economic inactivity in the UK after Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK unemployment rate stands at its highest level in over three years as the pandemic continues to hit jobs.\n\nThe figures suggested there were 57,000 people in Wales who were unemployed, meaning they were out of work and looking for a job. Between March and May it was 42,000.\n\nThere were 1,452,000 people in work from June to August and 466,000 people who were deemed economically inactive.\n\nThese figures do not include people who were furloughed.\n\nIn June, 316,500 employees in Wales were paid 80% of their salaries under the UK government's furlough scheme, figures from the Treasury showed.\n\nThe support provided to employers for wages began to reduce in August.\n\nFurlough - which paid up to 80% of workers' wages - will end completely on 31 October and is being replaced with the Job Support Scheme.\n\nSarah Eddolls is trying \"anything and everything\" to find a job\n\nEarlier in the summer BBC Wales spoke to Owen Davies from Pill in Newport.\n\nHe lives with his 31-year-old partner Sarah Eddolls, who has asthma, and his parents, who both have health problems.\n\nWhen Covid-19 hit, they began to shield and Owen and Sarah decided to quit their jobs to keep the family safe.\n\nShe had been working for an agency on a zero-hours contract, taking the food trolley around the wards of the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport.\n\nHe had been working for an agency as a call logger, supporting transport and sending work on to nurses and porters.\n\nSix months on, Owen has managed to get a job, working night shifts at Amazon's regional distribution centre a few miles away, but Sarah is still unemployed. They both had been claiming Universal Credit but now that he is earning, she is no longer eligible and has no income herself.\n\nShe said she spends all day applying for \"anything and everything\", with no success so far - and companies have told her they are inundated with applications.\n\nChristine Griffiths, operations manager at Vibe Recruit, which has offices in Cwmbran, Bridgend, Caerphilly and Swansea, said she had seen a \"dramatic rise in the amount of people who are applying for the roles that we advertise\".\n\n\"Since the national lockdown in March, we have seen a shift in the type of contracts that are being offered by our clients. Whilst the permanent recruitment market has slowed down, the temporary market is thriving, with clients preferring the flexibility that hiring a candidate on a temporary basis can bring.\"\n\nMore optimistically, she said there had been a \"clear sign\" of the permanent recruitment market picking back up again.\n\nEconomic trends, such as an increase in unemployment, tend to affect Wales later than the UK as a whole.\n\nThat is reflected in the fact these jobless figures are the worst the UK has seen for three years, but Wales experienced the same level of unemployment as recently as September 2019.\n\nThat makes the steep rise in unemployment in Wales in the three months to August even more concerning.\n\nWelsh unemployment grew at twice the speed of that seen across the UK, even though as a proportion of the population, fewer Welsh workers are unemployed at the moment.\n\nMore worryingly still, the reduction in the number of jobs in Wales between June and August, compared with the previous three months, was five times greater than the decline in employment levels across the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, the rate of working-age people who are not in the jobs market at all in Wales, because they are economically inactive, has gone up 0.7 percentage points to 24.4% - the UK as a whole has remained steady at 20.8%.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Starkey said he had made \"a serious error for which I have already paid a significant price\"\n\nHistorian Dr David Starkey has said he is being investigated by police over an interview in which he made controversial comments about slavery.\n\nDr Starkey made the remarks on YouTube to conservative commentator Darren Grimes, who is also being investigated.\n\nDr Starkey has apologised for saying in June that slavery was not genocide because \"so many damn blacks\" survived.\n\nHe said he did not \"intend to stir up racial hatred\" and would \"defend myself robustly\" against the allegation.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was investigating \"a public order offence relating to a social media video\".\n\nIn a statement, the TV historian said: \"I have apologised unreservedly for the words used and I do so again today. It was a serious error for which I have already paid a significant price.\n\n\"I did not, however, intend to stir up racial hatred and there was nothing about the circumstances of the broadcast which made it likely to do so.\"\n\nHe said he only discovered he was under investigation on Tuesday, six days after the Met sent an email to notify him and Mr Grimes of the action, because the email had not been forwarded on to him.\n\nScotland Yard sent it to the Bow Group conservative think tank, of which he is vice-president, who thought it was a hoax, he said.\n\n\"The effect of this delay and confusion has been to throw the focus of the police investigation wholly on Mr Grimes. This is unfortunate and grossly unfair,\" Dr Starkey added.\n\nHis interviewer was \"a young, aspiring journalist and his role in the affair is - at most - secondary\", he said, and the focus on him \"raised fundamental questions\" about the freedom of the press and public debate.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said: \"On July 4, the Metropolitan Police Service was passed an allegation from Durham Police of a public order offence relating to a social media video posted on June 30.\n\n\"The matter was reviewed by officers and on July 29 a file was submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service for early investigative advice.\n\n\"On September 25 early investigative advice was received and officers began an investigation. This will remain under review. No arrests have been made.\"\n\nDuring the original discussion, Dr Starkey said slavery \"was not genocide\" because \"otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived.\"\n\nThe subsequent outcry led Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam College, Canterbury Christ Church University, The Mary Rose Trust and publisher HarperCollins to cut ties with him.\n\nUpdate: On Wednesday the Metropolitan Police said: \"On Monday, 12 October a senior officer was appointed to conduct a review of the investigation to ensure it remains proportionate and that all appropriate lines of inquiry are being considered. Whilst this process takes place, two scheduled interviews have been postponed. We remain in contact with the CPS.\"", "Dr Ghebreyesus said allowing the virus to spread would cause 'unnecessary' suffering\n\nThe head of the World Health Organization has ruled out a herd immunity response to the pandemic.\n\nHerd immunity occurs when a large portion of a community becomes immune to a disease through vaccinations or through the mass spread of a disease.\n\nSome have argued that coronavirus should be allowed to spread naturally in the absence of a vaccine.\n\nBut WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said such an approach was \"scientifically and ethically problematic\".\n\nThere have been more than 37 million confirmed cases of coronavirus across the globe since the pandemic began. More than one million people are known to have died.\n\nWhile hundreds of vaccines are currently under development, with a number in advanced trials, none has yet received international approval.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Monday, Dr Tedros argued that the long-term impacts of coronavirus - as well as the strength and duration any immune response - remained unknown.\n\n\"Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it,\" he said.\n\n\"Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak, let alone a pandemic.\"\n\nThe WHO head added that seroprevalence tests - where the blood is tested for antibodies - suggested that just 10% of people had been exposed to coronavirus in most countries.\n\n\"Letting Covid-19 circulate unchecked therefore means allowing unnecessary infections, suffering and death,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?", "Ikea will soon be selling pre-used versions of some of its best sellers\n\nThe Swedish giant will next month launch a scheme to buy back your unwanted Billy bookcases, and certain other of its furniture items you no longer need or want.\n\nUnder the plan, it will offer vouchers worth up to 50% of the original price, to be spent at its stores.\n\nThe \"Buy Back\" initiative will launch to coincide with Black Friday.\n\n\"By making sustainable living more simple and accessible, Ikea hopes that the initiative will help its customers take a stand against excessive consumption this Black Friday and in the years to come,\" it said in reference to 27 November, when lots of retailers offer discounts on their products.\n\nThe international scheme will see customers given vouchers to spend at Ikea stores, the value of which will depend on the condition of the items they are returning.\n\nCustomers must log the item they wish to return and will then be given an estimate of its value.\n\n\"As new\" items, with no scratches, will get 50% of the original price, \"very good\" items, with minor scratches, will get 40% and \"well used\", with several scratches, will get 30%.\n\nThey should then return them - fully assembled - to the returns desk where they will be checked and the final value agreed.\n\nThe offer, which will run in 27 countries, applies to furniture typically without upholstery, such as the famous Billy bookcases, chairs, stools, desks and dining tables.\n\nIkea said that anything that cannot be resold will be recycled.\n\nIkea plans to have dedicated areas in every store where people can sell back their old furniture and find repaired or refurbished furniture.\n\nThe company started its first collection in 1948 and some vintage Ikea products have become collectable in recent years.\n\nAuction websites carry a number of Ikea designs from previous decades, and some are on sale for thousands of pounds.\n\nThe company has been testing out furniture reselling in Edinburgh and Glasgow for more than a year.\n\nIkea, which has been taking steps to become more environmentally friendly, says it aims to become \"a fully circular and climate positive business by 2030\".\n\nA \"circular\" business is one which reuses or recycles materials and products.\n\nEarlier this month the group announced plans to open a record number of stores this year.\n\nThe Swedish company and its franchisees will open 50 stores worldwide - including in the UK - adding to the 445 stores currently run by the brand.\n\nIkea's biggest franchisee said demand was rising after lockdown as people seek to do up their homes.\n\nIts latest figures showed sales in the year to August were €39.6bn (£36bn).", "Boris Johnson has been at pains to use every chance recently to say how much restricting our lives bothers him.\n\nBranding himself a \"freedom-loving Tory\", time and again his reluctance for further clamp downs is clear.\n\nBut can he, should he, hold out? It's clear in black and white now that the scientific advisers he used to boast of following think it is maybe even past the time to act.\n\nMinutes from Sage (the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) and the very public view from England's Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, that the national measures aren't adequate made that plain.\n\nAnd the BBC understands that health officials have been considering putting Greater Manchester and Lancashire into the highest level of restrictions, although a decision won't come on Tuesday.\n\nThe Labour leader's call for a \"circuit-breaker\" has added to the volume of demand for extra caution - marking the end of the phase of what he used to describe as constructive opposition.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has been inching away from the broad frontbench consensus on how to handle coronavirus for weeks.\n\nTo the frustration of some on his own side, rather than scream down the government's plans, he has developed an attack on the government's ability to handle the situation and to act quickly enough.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has become increasingly critical of Boris Johnson's performance\n\nBut his call for a circuit-breaker means he believes the government has simply got its wrong.\n\nPolling suggests too that there is public desire for tougher actions to prevent a terrible second wave. Some senior figures in government agree.\n\nYet the balance of desire in the Conservative Party has shifted, with more pleading for finding ways to live with the virus, rather than lock down again. The point has been made time and again on the back benches.\n\nNow a junior member of the government, Chris Green, has resigned in protest at the restrictions in his Bolton constituency, attacking the government's strategy completely. (If you have been paying VERY close attention to politics you might remember it's not the first time Mr Green has quit, and the last time round, Simon Hart, who is now Welsh secretary, was less than flattering about whether it mattered very much.)\n\nBut many ministers are cautious about anything that goes beyond the regional tiered approach that was announced only on Monday.\n\nAnd the Treasury in particular is reluctant to budge - fearing the economic savagery of even a short, sharp national period of more restrictions.\n\nAs we've discussed before, none of this is easy. There is no precedent for how to handle the situation. Nor is there a parallel universe where the government or MPs can judge what would have happened if they hadn't taken the actions they've done already.\n\nBut as cases continue to rise, one Whitehall insider told me that people are preparing for what looks logical on paper - a short period of more intense restrictions everywhere in England.\n\nIt's not what No 10 wants to have to do, but to use Whitehall cliché, the discussions are \"live\" - in other words, it may well happen.\n\nThe prime minister may boast about his love of liberty, but he'll be reluctant too to leave himself open to a repeat of the allegations he faced at the start of the pandemic - that government action to protect people's health was too little, and too late.", "A homeless charity has criticised government plans to allow communal night shelters for rough sleepers to reopen this winter.\n\nMinisters published safety guidance on Tuesday detailing how the shelters, closed earlier this year due to Covid, could reopen if required.\n\nAn extra £10m has also been announced to help councils in England provide individual accommodation.\n\nBut Crisis said the funding \"falls short of the bold action we need\".\n\nThe charity was among 18 health and homeless organisations who last week warned social distancing in shelters would prove \"all but impossible\".\n\nThey are worried that, without more funding for councils, people will be forced into communal accommodation with a higher risk of transmission.\n\nNight shelters - mostly run by charities and volunteer groups - were closed during the Covid-19 lockdown earlier this year.\n\nUsing extra funding provided to councils, thousands were moved into emergency self-contained accommodation such as hotels.\n\nCouncils in England are now set to receive £10m under the Cold Weather Fund, originally set up in 2018, to help provide emergency accommodation.\n\nFaith and community groups will also receive £2m to help provide more individual emergency accommodation.\n\nThe government says this comes on top of £3.7bn in funding earlier this year, which councils could put towards homeless services among other areas.\n\nThe new guidance says there should be a \"balanced risk assessment\" before re-opening night shelters, and they \"should only be used as a last resort to protect against the risk to health and life of individuals remaining on the streets when other alternative options are unavailable\".\n\nThe shelters will also be exempt from the so-called \"rule of six\", limiting the number of people who can gather, but the advice says contact between staff and those sleeping there \"should be minimised\" and staff should ensure groups do not gather inside the shelter.\n\nThe government says the \"default\" for the centres should be self-contained rooms with individual washing facilities, and there should be contacts taken so people can be traced in case of infection.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said the guidance, alongside the extra funding, would mean \"some of the most vulnerable people in society are given support and a safe place to stay this winter\".\n\nHomeless Link, an umbrella organisation for homelessness groups that helped produce the guidance, agreed night shelters should only open as a last resort.\n\nIts chief executive, Rick Henderson, said the new rules would \"help make shelters open as safely as possible if they do become a necessity\".\n\nBut Jon Sparkes, chief executive of Crisis, urged the government to \"see sense\" and keep night shelters closed.\n\n\"Back in March, the government rightly decided that night shelters and hostels were not a safe environment for people during the pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"It's completely unacceptable that this approach should now change as we go into winter when the threat remains the same.\n\n\"We must not force people to choose between freezing on the street or a shelter, when both needlessly put lives at risk.\"\n\nHe added councils should instead get the \"crucial funding\" required to provide all rough sleepers with self-contained accommodation.\n\nLabour said the £10m in funding for the Cold Weather Fund represented a fall from the figure last year.\n\nThe party's shadow housing secretary, Thangam Debbonaire, said: \"As we enter a second Covid spike, the government's failure to prepare for a winter homelessness crisis risks lives and public health.\n\n\"We need strong leadership from the government to keep its promise to end rough sleeping for good.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Moment WW2 bomb explodes during attempt to defuse it\n\nThe largest unexploded World War Two bomb ever found in Poland has detonated during the defusing process, a Polish Navy spokesman said.\n\nThe chance the bomb - at the bottom of a Baltic Sea shipping canal - would detonate had been put at 50-50 and all the divers were unharmed.\n\nAbout 750 residents had been evacuated near the port city of Swinoujscie.\n\nThe RAF dropped the Tallboy or \"earthquake\" bomb in a raid in 1945 which sank the German cruiser Lützow.\n\nSwinoujscie was part of Germany and called Swinemünde at the time of the bombardment.\n\nThe shock of the latest detonation was reportedly felt in parts of the city and a video shows the blast throwing up a large column of water into the air.\n\nThe bomb was 6m (19ft) long and weighed 5.4 tonnes, nearly half of which was its explosives.\n\nThe bomb was embedded at a depth of 12m and only its nose was sticking out.\n\nNaval forces used a remote-controlled device to try to \"deflagrate\" the bomb - a technique that if successful burns the explosive charge without causing a detonation, the BBC's Adam Easton reports from Warsaw.\n\n\"The deflagration process turned into detonation. The object can be considered neutralised, it will not pose any more threat to the Szczecin-Swinoujscie shipping channel,\" said Lt Cmdr Grzegorz Lewandowski, spokesman for the Polish Navy's 8th Coastal Defence Flotilla.\n\n\"All divers were outside the danger zone.\"", "The Tendring district, which includes Walton-on-the-Naze, has seen its rate of Covid-19 cases treble in the past week\n\nAs much of England was processing exactly what Monday's government announcement on new coronavirus restrictions meant for them, leaders in one county were finishing plans to request tighter restrictions. Why?\n\nLast Friday, MPs and council leaders in Essex were shown Covid-19 data for the county which, according to those present, warned of an exponential rise in cases for the weeks ahead.\n\nAction was needed, they were told by Dr Mike Gogarty, director of public health and wellbeing at Essex County Council.\n\nThe number of cases in Essex has risen from just over 700 in the week to 2 October to just over 1,000 in the week to 9 October.\n\nOn Tuesday, the council formally asked the government to raise Essex's status in the three-tier alert system from Medium (lowest tier) to High (middle tier), thereby asking for tighter social restrictions on its 1.4 million inhabitants.\n\nIt will mean households cannot visit each other in their homes. It is thought Essex is the only local authority in England to have requested tighter restrictions.\n\nDavid Finch, Essex County Council leader, said \"making these painful decisions now will, we hope, bring dividends later\"\n\nDavid Finch, leader at the Conservative-controlled council, said: \"By acting now, we can hope to stem this increase, limiting the time that we are in these enhanced restrictions and - above all - avoiding further escalation into Very High.\n\n\"All of this will limit the damage to the economy. A healthy economy is critical to everyone having better lives in future.\n\n\"We already have one of the best track and trace operations in the country, but we will also be aiming to push its performance still higher alongside strengthening enforcement capacity and visibility.\n\n\"Making these painful decisions now will, we hope, bring dividends later.\"\n\nDr Gogarty said: \"Across the county we have moved from gradual to exponential growth with the number of cases rising exponentially.\"\n\nEssex is also home to two unitary authorities - Southend Council and Thurrock Council - that do not fall under the remit of Essex County Council.\n\nRob Gledhill, leader at Thurrock, has voiced dismay at the Essex move and warned it could have far-reaching implications.\n\n\"I cannot believe that Essex County Council would make this proposal without appearing to fully consider the evidence of the impact of further restrictions it potentially also imposes on the people of Thurrock,\" he said.\n\n\"The simple facts are the government have announced we are in tier one (medium alert), we have a far lower number of infections than most Essex districts and councils in the country, fortunately we have very few of our residents in hospital and even more fortunately we have had no residents die of Covid-19 since the middle of July.\"\n\nSouthend has not asked to be placed in a higher risk category at the current time.\n\nGraham Bedford, landlord at The Bell Inn in Panfield, near Braintree, told BBC Essex a shift from Medium to High risk tier, which would prevent household mixing, could affect his business \"big time\".\n\nHe said the recently-introduced 22:00 BST closing time restrictions, had already cost him thousands of pounds in takings.\n\n\"Where does it stop? It [being placed in a higher tier] would affect us even more. I don't even want to think about it. I am taking every day as it comes.\"\n\nGavin Callaghan, Labour leader at Basildon Council, said: \"Nobody wants to put restrictions on any resident or business.\n\n\"When we met last week to listen to what the director of public health was telling us about the situation, my view is we are seeing the number [of infections] doubling as each week goes by.\n\n\"One of the key questions I asked the director was if we do not go up a gear in terms of restrictions, how long will it be until the intensive care beds in Essex hospitals reach the 70-80% capacity mark? The reply was just four or five weeks.\n\n\"With that in mind, my view is we should look to nip this in the bud quicker, and save more people's lives.\"\n\nIf this is granted by the government it would mean a ban on households mixing with another household indoors. It would put Essex on a par with the likes of Nottinghamshire and Greater Manchester where the infection rates are much higher than in Essex.\n\nWe understand that councillors, council leaders and MPs have been briefed over the weekend and it does have cross-party support.\n\nThere are concerns about the impact this will have on businesses, especially hospitality, and also how the restrictions could affect people's mental health.\n\nThe feeling though is that the sooner Essex goes into Tier Two, the faster Essex gets out. It would also mean, it is claimed, that the county might avoid a harder lockdown later in the year.\n\nAlthough the request has been backed by the various council leaders in the county, not all have offered whole-hearted support.\n\nThe Tendring district, which includes Clacton, Harwich and Manningtree, has seen its rate of cases increase from 25.9 per 100,000 people (in the week to 2 October) to 80.5 per 100,000 (week to 9 October).\n\nThe Tendring Show, which takes place in Lawford, was one of many events cancelled in the summer\n\nNeil Stock, Conservative leader at Tendring District Council, said: \"I don't think lockdowns work. We shut the entire country down back in March to protect the NHS.\n\n\"We built new hospitals which were not used and in the meantime we've been destroying people's livelihoods, the suicide rate has gone up through the roof, we've got people not having cancer referrals, we heard last week that a million people have not had breast cancer screenings because of the lockdown.\n\n\"This is not a credible way of running the country and we've got to have a better way of dealing with Covid. It is out there and it is bad and you don't want to get it, but we need a different approach to it.\n\n\"We've got to learn to live with it. We can't keep shutting the country down. If we go into the higher tier what will happen when we come out of it? I think we'll just go back into it again.\n\n\"Tendring has the highest number in the country at the moment. A few weeks ago it had the lowest. The number is going to go up and it is going to go down. We cannot simply keep locking down forever and forever.\"\n\nHe said if Essex pursued going into Tier Two, he would \"have to grudgingly accept it\".\n\nHarlow's Conservative MP Robert Halfon said the figures he had seen showed Essex was two or three weeks behind the north of England.\n\n\"I have been in meetings since Friday. I think the approach looking at all the statistics suggests unless we take action in the next two or three weeks we could be in a similar situation to the north. In order to avoid that it may be necessary to have further restrictions.\n\n\"I think the tier system is the right one.\"\n\nIt is understood the government's decision on Essex's bid could be made as early as Thursday.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has called for a short lockdown or \"circuit-breaker\" in England of two to three weeks to bring the rising rate of coronavirus under control.\n\nThe Labour leader backed the advice of scientific experts from Sage, who have called for a short lockdown to halt the spread of Covid-19.\n\nHe said the the prime minister's plan “simply was not working”.", "The gates of Auschwitz concentration camp, now a memorial, where more than one million people died\n\nFacebook has explicitly banned Holocaust denial for the first time.\n\nThe social network said its new policy prohibits \"any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust\".\n\nFacebook boss Mark Zuckerberg wrote that he had \"struggled with the tension\" between free speech and banning such posts, but that \"this is the right balance\".\n\nTwo years ago, Mr Zuckerberg said that such posts should not automatically be taken down for \"getting it wrong\".\n\n\"I'm Jewish and there's a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened,\" he told Recode at the time.\n\n\"I find it deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don't believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong.\"\n\nBut on Monday, as Facebook changed its policies, he wrote that he had changed his mind.\n\n\"My own thinking has evolved as I've seen data showing an increase in anti-Semitic violence, as have our wider policies on hate speech,\" he wrote in a public Facebook post.\n\nMr Zuckerberg had previously said he did not want to ban mistaken beliefs\n\n\"Drawing the right lines between what is and isn't acceptable speech isn't straightforward, but with the current state of the world, I believe this is the right balance.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Facebook banned hate speech involving harmful stereotypes, including anti-Semitic content. But Holocaust denial had not been banned.\n\nFacebook's vice-president of content policy, Monika Bickert, said the company had made the decision alongside \"the well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally and the alarming level of ignorance about the Holocaust, especially among young people\".\n\nShe said that later this year, searching for the Holocaust - or its denial - on Facebook would direct users to \"credible\" information.\n\nBut she also warned change would not happen overnight, and training its employees and automated systems would take time.\n\nThe World Jewish Congress - which had conferred with Facebook on anti-Semitism - welcomed the move.\n\n\"Denying the Holocaust, trivializing it, minimizing it, is a tool used to spread hatred and false conspiracies about Jews and other minorities,\" the group said in a statement.\n\nBut it also noted that it had campaigned for the removal of Holocaust denial content from the platform \"for several years\".\n\nJonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, tweeted: \"This has been years in the making.\"\n\n\"Having personally engaged with Facebook on the issue, I can attest the ban on Holocaust Denial is a big deal... glad it finally happened.\"\n\nThis was a bit of a \"wait, they don't do this already?\" moment.\n\nPerhaps that's because Facebook has quite radically shifted its position on removing hate speech and fake news in recent months.\n\nWe're still seeing loopholes from an old moderating regime being closed.\n\nCritics, though, argue this isn't happening fast enough.\n\nThe combined platforms of Facebook and Instagram - which is owned by Facebook - have an extraordinary reach of billions of users worldwide.\n\nThat influence has to be used responsibly, and Facebook acknowledges this.\n\nThe advertising boycott in July also helped cement the view internally that more had to be done to tackle hate speech.\n\nMark Zuckerberg's instincts have always been to champion freedom of speech - the best way to fight bad speech is good speech he's always said.\n\nBut this latest move appears to indicate Facebook now accepts it needs to be more proactive in combating hate speech.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA black man who was led by a rope down a Texas street by two white officers on horseback has sued the city and its police department for $1m (£750,000).\n\nGalveston Police apologised last year after footage emerged of Donald Neely, 44, arrested for criminal trespassing.\n\nA lawsuit filed this week alleged the officers' conduct was \"extreme and outrageous\" and caused Mr Neely injury and emotional and mental anguish.\n\nThe trespass charges against Mr Neely were later dismissed in court.\n\nMany people on social media compared the footage of Mr Neely to the slavery era, an allusion referenced explicitly in the lawsuit. According to the lawsuit, the officers should have been aware that Mr Neely, \"being led with a rope and by mounted officers down a city street as though he was a slave, would find this contact offensive\".\n\nAccusing both the city and the Galveston police department of negligence, the suit says that Mr Neely \"suffered from handcuff abrasions, suffered from the heat, and suffered from embarrassment, humiliation and fear\".\n\nCity officials declined to comment on the lawsuit to US media.\n\nLast year, after an outcry over images of Mr Neely, police clarified that he was not tied with the rope but was \"handcuffed and a line was clipped to the handcuffs\".\n\nGalveston's police chief Vernon Hale said at the time that the technique was acceptable in some scenarios but that \"officers showed poor judgment in this instance\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The USA's history of racial inequality has paved the way for modern day police brutality\n\nThere was no \"malicious intent\", he said, and apologised to Mr Neely for the \"unnecessary embarrassment\". Department policy was changed to prevent the use of this technique.\n\nMr Neely - who was homeless at the time - was sleeping on a sidewalk, US media reported, when he was arrested for criminal trespass and led around the block to a mounted police patrol staging area. The charges were later dismissed.\n\nFollowing an investigation into the encounter, the department released body camera footage of the arrest. In it, the officers can be heard commenting on the appearance of Mr Neely's arrest.\n\n\"This is going to look so bad. I'm glad you're not embarrassed, Mr Neely,\" one officer is heard saying.\n\nA status conference is currently scheduled for 7 January, 2021. Mr Neely is requesting a trial by jury, according to court documents.", "We have entered a crucial phase in the epidemic.\n\nCases are increasing across the whole of the country and the number of people in hospital is now higher than before the full lockdown.\n\nIt is at this critical moment that the gulf between the official scientific advice and the political decisions made by government has been laid bare.\n\nDocuments released by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) reveal a call to action three weeks ago.\n\n\"The re-imposition of a package of measures is required urgently,\" it warned on 21 September.\n\nIt added: \"The more rapidly these interventions are put in place the greater the reduction in Covid-related deaths and the quicker they can be eased.\n\n\"Not acting now to reduce cases will result in a very large epidemic with catastrophic consequences.\"\n\nSage said government should consider the following policies immediately:\n\nThe government has to balance not only the impact of measures on the virus, but also their damaging impact on people's health, wellbeing and the economy.\n\nThere was official advice to work from home, but none of the other measures have been implemented nationally.\n\nThe documents were published shortly after Boris Johnson's televised briefing on Monday night, during which the chief medical officer for England, Prof Chris Whitty, openly declared nobody thought the current tier-three measures being introduced around Liverpool would stop the virus.\n\n\"I am not confident and nor is anybody confident that the tier-three proposals for the highest rates, if we did the absolute base case and nothing more would be enough to get on top of it,\" he said.\n\nHe said it would take \"significantly more\" to achieve control and powers to do so had been given to local authorities.\n\nProf Calum Semple, who was at the Sage meeting on 21 September, said the three-tier system had come too late and he believes that a short national lockdown could be needed within weeks.\n\nSage is also damning of the government's supposedly world-beating test-and-trace system.\n\nTest-and-trace is at the heart of the government's plans - a way of avoiding the need for a national lockdown by targeting restrictions where the virus is.\n\nSage says \"this system is having a marginal impact on transmission\" and that unless its resources grow faster than the epidemic then test-and-trace \"will further decline in the future\".\n\nThe documents say a two-week circuit break in October could drive cases down, essentially rewinding the clock by 28 days. This could buy time for test-and-trace to catch up.\n\nThe Sage papers also reveal how the widely supported decision to keep schools open means a \"wide range of other measures will be required\".\n\nThe national R number - the number of people each infected person passes the virus on to on average - is between 1.2 and 1.5. Anything above 1.0 means the epidemic is growing.\n\nOne set of Sage documents reveals how much individual policies may cut the R number by:\n\nFor each measure aimed at targeting the virus, Sage also details the damaging effect the measures are likely to have.\n\n\"Government will continue to have to juggle social freedom, economic activity and transmission for many months. It is imperative, therefore, that a consistent series of measures is adopted over the next 6-9 months,\" it says.\n\nNine months from that meeting would be June.\n\nThe current situation has been widely predicted, including in a major report in July that warned there could be more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\n\"We're on track to have 100 deaths a day in next week or so, that's very much tracing some of those worst case scenarios, if the outbreak's increasing it doesn't bode well for November/December,\" said Dr Adam Kucharski, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the modelling group that feeds advice to Sage, told me.\n\nThere is also mounting angst about what the government is trying to achieve.\n\nThe R number is thought to be comfortably above 1 in every region of England, not just parts of the North West.\n\nJeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust and Sage member, tweeted: \"Objective has to be to get R<1, if that is not the objective [then we] need clarity on what [the] objective is.\"\n\nThe University of Warwick's Dr Mike Tildesley, who sits on one of the Sage sub-groups, told BBC News: \"It is extremely important the government says what the objective is, what they're trying to achieve, then the science group can be much more useful in advising government.\n\n\"If they tell us, it will be much easier.\"\n\nThe fear among some scientists advising the government is that many of the fundamentals have not changed. This is a virus that thrives on human contact and to which the vast majority of us have no immunity to.\n\nTreatment has improved, but not by enough to prevent large numbers of deaths in a significant outbreak.\n\nThe concern is either we choose the terms for controlling the virus now, or we wait and the virus will force our hand as it did with lockdown in March.", "The NHS Covid-19 app has been updated to fix an issue with confusing alerts that pop up suggesting exposure to the virus and then disappear.\n\nUsers have complained that the notifications are scary and confusing.\n\nIn fact, the messages are a default privacy notification from either Apple or Google, which provide the underlying contact-tracing technology.\n\nThe alerts will still appear, but now a follow-up message from the government will tell people to ignore them.\n\nNHS Covid-19 is targeted at users living in England and Wales.\n\nAmong other functions, the software is designed to warn users if they have recently been in close proximity to someone later diagnosed with the virus for long enough for there to be a high risk of contagion. If this is the case, it instructs the handset owner to go into self-isolation.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have apps of their own, which have not experienced the \"phantom alert\" problem.\n\nThe update, which became available on Monday night for iOS and Android phones, seeks to reassure users over the vanishing notifications.\n\nTypical messages read: \"Possible Covid-19 exposure. Someone you were near reported having Covid-19. Exposure date, duration and signal strength have been saved.\"\n\nWhen users click on the notifications they disappear, and when they open the app, there is nothing to be seen and no new advice.\n\nThe new message urges people not to worry or to take any action\n\nNow anyone receiving the alert will also get a second message which will say: \"Covid-19 Exposure Check Complete. Don't worry, we have assessed your risk and there is no need to take action at this time. Please continue to stay alert and follow the latest advice on social distancing.\"\n\nThe Department of Health explained that these messages were \"default privacy notifications from Apple and Google, who provide the underlying framework on which this and many other countries' Bluetooth contact tracing apps are based.\"\n\nIt added that the only messages that matter are the ones inside the app, particularly those advising people that they have been in contact with someone infected with coronavirus and need to self-isolate.\n\nThe update to the app also introduces support for two more languages, Polish and Somali.\n\nThe team behind the app, which has been downloaded more than 16 million times, is working on a more substantial update which will involve moving to version two of the Apple-Google framework.\n\nThis could stop the confusing notifications appearing altogether but will also improve the way the app uses Bluetooth to measure distance between two phones.\n\nThe Alan Turing Institute, which advises the app team, has been working on ways to refine this proximity measurement.", "Facebook has deleted a post in which President Trump had claimed Covid-19 was \"less lethal\" than the flu.\n\nMr Trump is at the White House after three days of hospital treatment having tested positive for the virus.\n\nHe wrote the US had \"learned to live with\" flu season, \"just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!\"\n\nTwitter hid the same message behind a warning about \"spreading misleading and potentially harmful information\".\n\nUsers have to click past the alert to read the tweet.\n\n\"We remove incorrect information about the severity of Covid-19, and have now removed this post,\" said Andy Stone, policy communications manager at Facebook.\n\nAn exact mortality rate for Covid-19 is not known, but it is thought to be substantially higher - possible 10 times or more - than most flu strains, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThe President has reacted by posting: \"REPEAL SECTION 230!!!\"\n\nThis is a reference to a law that says social networks are not responsible for the content posted by their users.\n\nBut it allows the firms to engage in \"good-Samaritan blocking\", including the removal of content they judge to be offensive, harassment or violent.\n\nIf the law were to be repealed, social media companies would face being sued over the edits and changes of user content they made.\n\nThis is the second time that Facebook has deleted a post from the president. Twitter has intervened more often with deletions and warnings.\n\nUsers do not see Trump's tweet in his timeline unless they click on the View link\n\nBoth social networks have vowed to combat potentially dangerous misinformation around the virus.\n\nBut Mr Trump has taken issue with what he sees as editorialising by the companies.\n\nShortly after Twitter put a warning label on his posts for the first time in May, Mr Trump signed an executive order to repeal Section 230.\n\nThe proposal has attracted cross-party support - but for different reasons.\n\nThe Republicans say there is a bias against or even outright censorship of conservative views online and want this to stop. The Democrats say they are more interested in the spread of misinformation.\n\nLast week, the US Senate Commerce Committee issued subpoenas for the heads of Facebook, Twitter and Google to probe the matter further.\n\nPressure has been mounting on Facebook and Twitter to do more to tackle misinformation both about the pandemic and the US election. For that reason, their decisive action on Trump's recent post promoting false claims about the severity of coronavirus will be welcomed.\n\nThat said, Trump's comments about the flu - and those yesterday saying \"Don't be afraid of Covid\" - have already started to fuel conspiracy theories online.\n\nPosts in pro-Trump and anti-mask Facebook groups have shared the comments with captions about the pandemic not being real, or not very serious. They have also used it to encourage others not to follow health guidance like wearing a mask or social distancing.\n\nEarly on in the pandemic, the BBC investigated the human cost of misinformation, including those who fell seriously ill because social media posts led them to doubt the reality or severity of the pandemic and ignore advice.\n\nThe hope will be that this action from social media sites could reduce the risk of that happening - but those who may have already been exposed to this disinformation could be impacted.\n\nAnd all eyes will be on social media sites to see if they keep up this approach to tackling disinformation - coronavirus, political or otherwise - especially from the US Election candidates as polling day nears.", "The \"extremely rare\" orange-coloured lobster was saved by a fishmonger in Lancashire\n\nA \"one in 30 million\" orange Canadian lobster has been saved from the pot by a fishmonger and sent to live out its days in an aquarium.\n\nThe apricot-hued arthropod, which are normally a speckled dark brown colour, was found by Steve Atkinson in a delivery to his shop in Fleetwood.\n\nHe said he called Sea Life Blackpool after spotting the crustacean, which \"stood out dramatically\" in the box.\n\nSea Life curator Scott Blacker said its colouring was \"extremely rare\".\n\n\"Its striking and extremely unusual orange colour is actually only found in one in 30 million,\" he said.\n\n\"It really is something very special.\"\n\nThe lobster will now permanently live in the main tank at Sea Life Blackpool\n\nHe said the lobster, which Mr Atkinson found in September, had completed a 21-day quarantine and would now go \"on permanent display to the public in one of our main tanks\".\n\n\"We will, of course, be ensuring it has a forever caring and loving home,\" he added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The elevated heat globally contributed to record wildfires in California\n\nSeptember was the warmest on record globally, according to the weather service Copernicus.\n\nIt was 0.05C hotter than September last year, which in turn set the previous record high for the month.\n\nScientists say it’s a clear indication of temperatures being driven up by emissions from human society.\n\nCopernicus, which is the European Union's Earth observation programme, said warmth in the Siberian Arctic continues way above average.\n\nAnd it confirmed that Arctic sea ice is at its second lowest extent since satellite records began.\n\nThis year is also projected to become the warmest on record for Europe, even if temperatures cool somewhat from now on.\n\nThe elevated heat globally contributed to record wildfires in California and Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why forest fires in Siberia, Russia threaten us all\n\nIt also helped fuel the hottest day on record - a searing 54.4C (130F) in Death Valley.\n\nAnd it had a hand in the torrential downpours that inundated the south of France with more than half a metre of rain in a day.\n\nMétéo-France, the French met office, said a downpour like this was expected once in 100 years – they had two in a month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSamantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, told BBC News: \"Some of these events are extraordinary – although we mustn't create a false expectation that temperatures will go up year on year.\n\n“Climate and weather are highly variable. But we predicted that these sort of events would happen, given our effect on the climate.”\n\nWeather records are always being broken naturally, but meteorologists say they’re disturbed by some of the new extremes.\n\nThe UK is not immune. It enjoyed its sunniest Spring on record; August saw a record number of days overtopping 34C; and the town of Reading has just endured its wettest ever 48-hour period.\n\nEd Hawkins, from Reading University, told us: “We have been saying this for decades – more and more greenhouse gases will lead to more and more warming.”\n\nCrowds flocked to beaches across Britain during the summer heat\n\nHe warned these events are being experienced with just one degree of warming globally above the long-term average, while under current rates of decarbonisation the world is heading for three degrees.\n\n“One degree of heating is dangerous for some people, as we've seen,” he said. “Two degrees is more dangerous still, and three degrees even more dangerous. We really don’t want to find out what that’ll be like.”\n\nThe records were released as the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK would combat climate change by becoming the Saudi Arabia of wind energy.\n\nHis speech was welcomed by environmentalists, but critics said he needed to back up his promises with policies and budgets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five ways that show the scale of California's 2020 wildfires", "Alexanda Kotey (left) and El Shafee Elsheikh were captured by Syrian Kurdish forces\n\nTwo ex-British alleged Islamic State (IS) suspects have appeared in a US court charged over the killing of four American hostages.\n\nAlexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh are accused of belonging to an IS cell dubbed \"The Beatles\" involved in kidnappings in Iraq and Syria.\n\nThe pair appeared via video link from prison at a hearing in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.\n\nThe men, who had been in US custody in Iraq, previously denied the charges.\n\nA detention hearing and arraignment were scheduled for Friday but the lawyer appointed to represent the pair, who grew up in London, said he might ask for a delay to allow time to go over the charges with the defendants.\n\nUS Assistant Attorney General John Demers told a press conference the charges were \"the result of many years of hard work in pursuit of justice\" for the four Americans who died - James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.\n\nAddressing the families of the victims, he said: \"Although we cannot bring back your children, we will do all that we can do: obtain justice for them, for you, and for all Americans.\"\n\nHe added: \"These men will now be brought before a United States court to face justice for the depraved acts alleged against them in the indictment.\"\n\nThe charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.\n\nClockwise from top left: Aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley\n\nThe pair are alleged to have been members of an IS gang - nicknamed by hostages after the 1960s pop group due to their British accents - which was responsible for the death of hostages in Iraq and Syria in 2014.\n\nSome of the victims - who included American journalists and UK and US aid workers - were beheaded and their deaths filmed and broadcast on social media.\n\nJames Foley's mother, Diane Foley, said the charges were \"only a first step\" and that she was \"praying that justice will be served\".\n\nShe added that she hoped the trial might \"implicate others\" and lead to further arrests.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If you harm an American, you will face American justice\": US Assistant Attorney General John Demers' warning to terrorists\n\nKotey and Elsheikh, originally from west London, were previously stripped of their UK nationality.\n\nThe charges they face are:\n\nThe IS group's alleged ringleader, Mohammed Emwazi, known as \"Jihadi John\" died in a drone strike in 2016.\n\nReferring to his death, Mr Demers said he had \"faced a different kind of American resolve - the mighty reach of our military, which successfully targeted him in an air strike several years ago\".\n\nThe assistant attorney general was asked by reporters whether the death penalty was not being sought solely because the UK government had made it a requirement in return for its co-operation.\n\n\"The attorney general decided that we should provide the death penalty assurance in order to get the British evidence and see that justice could be done more expeditiously than if we had to continue to litigate this issue in the courts in the United Kingdom,\" Mr Demers said.\n\n\"The decision was to try to keep the option (of seeking the death penalty) open at first but ultimately that didn't work.\"\n\nLast month the UK sent evidence to the US following assurances the two men would not face the death penalty.\n\nMr Demers added: \"We decided that if we were going to do this case, we were going to tell the fullest story we could of what these defendants did and we were going to put on the strongest case possible. And with the British evidence I think we can do that very well.\"\n\nMs Foley said she was \"hugely grateful\" the death penalty was not being sought, as she wanted alleged IS members to have \"an opportunity to come to terms with what they've done\".\n\nFBI director Christopher Wray told the press conference: \"We mourn not only our American victims but also the British victims David Haines and Alan Henning, and victims of all nations who suffered unimaginable cruelty at the hands of Isis.\"\n\nMike Haines, whose aid worker brother David was killed by the IS cell in 2014, said he was relieved \"the fate of these two men is closer to being decided but this is just the beginning\".\n\n\"The pain we experienced as families was excruciating when we lost our loved ones and the last three years have been a long, horrible waiting game,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a big win for us knowing that the US courts would be taking this forward because we have been waiting years since they were first detained.\"\n\nBritish photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped with Mr Foley, and his fate is still unknown.\n\nIt has taken nearly eight years to reach this moment - from the day that James Foley and John Cantlie were taken hostage in Syria to the reading out of the indictment against two of the alleged perpetrators, both now in US custody.\n\nThe eight charges against them are so serious that each one carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.\n\nThe defendants have previously denied the charges linked to their alleged involvement in the murder of US and British hostages.\n\nBut both the US and British governments appear confident that there is a strong case for the prosecution.\n\nOver the course of the coming trial the court is likely to hear some harrowing testimony from those who survived IS captivity - men whose freedom was ransomed in exchange for millions of Euros while their fellow prisoners from the US and Britain suffered horrific deaths at the hands of their captors.\n\nIS once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq and imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people.\n\nThe liberation of that territory exposed the magnitude of the abuses inflicted by the jihadist group, including summary killings, torture, amputations, ethno-sectarian attacks, rape and sexual slavery imposed on women and girls. Hundreds of mass graves containing the remains of thousands of people have been discovered.\n\nUN investigators have concluded that IS militants committed acts that may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.", "Covid restrictions are to be further tightened in parts of England early next week, with the closure of pubs and restaurants a possibility in the worst-affected areas, the BBC has been told.\n\nThere could also be a ban on overnight stays away from home in these areas.\n\nA final decision on the time period or extent of potential closures has not yet been made.\n\nThe government is also likely to introduce a three-tier system for local lockdowns.\n\nUnder the system, different parts of the country would be placed in different categories - although ministers are still discussing the precise details of the toughest level of restrictions over the next couple of days.\n\nA formal announcement is not likely to come until Monday, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has challenged the government to publish the scientific evidence behind the 22:00 closing time for pubs and restaurants - and refused to say whether his party would vote in support of the measure in Parliament next week.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said there was \"evidence hospitality plays a role\" in spreading the virus.\n\nBut pressed on whether the government would publish this evidence, he told the BBC: \"It is commonsensical that the longer you stay in pubs and restaurants, the more likely you are to come into contact with other individuals.\n\n\"The more drinks that people have, the more likely that some people are to break the rules.\"\n\nHe added that it was right to \"take action decisively, rather than waiting for the most detailed epidemiological evidence to emerge\".\n\nOn the possibility of additional restrictions for some parts of England, Mr Jenrick said the government was \"currently considering what steps to take\" and the precise measures for different areas would be announced \"in the coming days\".\n\nHe did not rule out pubs being closed but said measures would be \"proportionate and localised\".\n\nHe added that the government was trying to give \"greater consistency on rules so they're easier to understand\" and was working on \"slightly broader canvases of regions or cities and counties to avoid differences in people's daily lives if they drive over the border\".\n\nPubs and restaurants across Central Scotland have already been told they will have to close\n\nIt comes as significant new measures are introduced in Scotland.\n\nFrom Friday, all pubs and restaurants across central Scotland, including Glasgow and Edinburgh, are to close, while in the rest of Scotland hospitality venues must shut at 18:00 BST and alcohol can only be served outdoors.\n\nIndustry leaders are warning the measures could be the final straw for many businesses.\n\nOn Wednesday the number of UK cases rose by 14,162, with a further 70 deaths reported.\n\nThe planned tightening of restrictions in parts of England follows rising infection rates across much of the country, with medical leaders warning the NHS is at risk of becoming overwhelmed.\n\nLiverpool, Manchester and Newcastle upon Tyne have the highest infection rates in the country.\n\nA government source told the BBC the situation in the north-west and north-east of England was \"very troubling\", with growing numbers of hospital admissions and more elderly people in intensive care.\n\nThese areas will be placed into the top tier of restrictions, with an announcement possibly as early as Monday, in a new system called the Local Covid Alert Level.\n\nBut there remains a debate within cabinet over how far the restrictions in the top tier should go, with some in No 10 arguing for measures like those in Scotland.\n\nThe plan is for schools to remain open in all circumstances.\n\nThe Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, reacted angrily to the reports, tweeting: \"No discussion. No consultation. Millions of lives affected by Whitehall diktat. It is proving impossible to deal with this government.\"\n\nIt's a complicated equation. The Department of Health is worried about the spread of the disease, as well as other patients losing out on other treatments because of the focus on Covid.\n\nNo 11 is fearful about the impact on the economy, which has already had a profound shock.\n\nAnd it's No 10's job to worry about all of it, then reach a conclusion.\n\nBut Boris Johnson also knows that his own MPs and the opposition parties are more and more sceptical as each day passes about what the government proposes.\n\nIt's clear that shutting pubs and restaurants is a possibility - the \"circuit breaker\" that we have talked about on here lots of times.\n\nBut there are many questions still to be settled.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nUnder the new system, all areas would be subject to the current England-wide restrictions, but there would be much more robust measures for the top tier - the one with the highest infection rates.\n\nThere are already tighter restrictions in parts of the north-east and north-west of England, Birmingham and Leicester, where the rate of infection has been rising.\n\nBut there are currently no extra restrictions for hospitality venues in these areas beyond those in force nationally, such as the 22:00 closing time for pubs and restaurants.\n\nThe Treasury is looking at providing financial support to the industry in the worst-hit areas, and a memo seen by the BBC shows plans for additional money for local authorities. They would get £1 per head of population if placed into tier two, and £2 per head for tier three.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said if venues were forced to close the industry would need a return to a full furlough scheme and additional financial support.\n\nShe said the £40m of support announced for hospitality venues by the Scottish government, when shared between 16,000 premises, equated to just over £2,000 each, which \"barely keeps the lights on, let alone saving jobs\".\n\nThe planned changes come as medical leaders warn that rising infection levels across the country could leave the NHS \"unable to cope\".\n\nThe Academy of Medical Colleges, which represents the UK and Ireland's 24 medical royal colleges, called on people to abide \"strictly\" to coronavirus measures to prevent NHS services from becoming overwhelmed.\n\nHelen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the academy, said: \"Given the recent dramatic spike in both the number of cases and hospital admissions it is clear that we could soon be back to where we were in April if we are not all extremely careful.\"\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast that while there were hotspots in the north-east and north-west of England, a lot of cities were now seeing \"serious problems\" and the virus was \"working further south\".", "Doctors are being told to \"think carefully\" before ordering any tests for their patients, amid shortages caused by a supply chain failure at a major diagnostics company.\n\nSwiss pharmaceutical firm Roche said problems with a move to a new warehouse had led to a \"very significant\" drop in its processing capacity.\n\nA spokesman said Covid-19 tests would be prioritised.\n\nBut the backlog could affect tests including for cancer and heart disease.\n\nOne NHS trust in the south west has already advised its GPs to stop all non-urgent blood tests.\n\nA memo seen by the BBC, sent to clinicians within a large hospital trust in London, said leaders were \"preparing for a sustained disruption\".\n\n\"We urgently need all clinical teams to only send tests that are absolutely essential for immediate patient care, delaying testing where possible,\" it said.\n\nThyroid and cortisol tests were unavailable, while certain cholesterol, liver function and inflammation tests were \"severely restricted\".\n\nIn a statement, Roche said: \"We deeply regret that there has been a delay in the dispatch of some products.\n\n\"We are prioritising the dispatch of Covid-19 PCR [diagnostic] and antibody tests and doing everything we can to ensure there is no impact on the supply of these to the NHS.\"\n\nIt did not comment on the impact on other specific tests including for kidney, liver and thyroid function, sepsis and infection.\n\nDr Tom Lewis, lead clinician for pathology at North Devon District Hospital, said his hospital's trust had sent out communications that all non-urgent blood tests in the community should be stopped.\n\nWithout rationing these non-urgent tests, he said, they would run out of swabs in \"three to four days\".\n\nEven with rationing, essential equipment could run short by next week, he said.\n\nA scientist at a major London hospital's lab said they had already stopped doing thyroid tests, and expected an important test of liver function, and another for inflammation, to run out within the day.\n\nMany of the London labs are supplied by Roche, he said, with reagents - substances used to analyse test results - proving a particular problem.\n\nAllan Wilson, president of the Institute of Biomedical Science, said if the problem continued for days \"it probably will have minimal impact, but if it's weeks then yes it could have a considerable impact on our ability to deliver tests,\" across a whole range of conditions in the UK.\n\nThe main issue appears to be with the supply of reagents - used to detect the presence of a substance whether that's pregnancy hormones, blood glucose or coronavirus.\n\nBecause these have such wide application, the number of different diagnostic tests that could be affected is vast.\n\nIf you go to your GP with a hormonal imbalance, chest infection or sexually-transmitted infection (STI), your test will end up being processed in the lab using these materials.\n\nIf you're admitted to hospital, you will have your electrolytes tested again relying on the same kind of materials. And your organ function may also be monitored in the same way.\n\nKit supplied by Roche is crucial in testing the health of your liver, heart and kidneys.\n\nThey also supply antibodies which are used in cancer diagnosis.\n\nFor NHS trusts which use the company as their main supplier of these types of diagnostic equipment, the work of whole departments could be at risk.\n\nRoche initially told trusts it could take more than a fortnight to resolve the problem.\n\nBut a spokesperson later said they were confident there would be \"significant improvements by the weekend\" and that they would be \"well on the way to resolution by the end of next week\".\n\nThe company is one of the main suppliers of diagnostic testing equipment and materials in the UK.\n\nThe affected warehouse in West Sussex is Roche's only distribution centre in the UK and covers the whole country.\n\nIn September it moved from another warehouse in East Sussex as part of its Brexit preparations, the BBC understands.\n\nIt is \"not a problem with the volume of product available\" but a logistical issue affecting their ability to distribute it, a spokesperson said.\n\nDr Lewis said perhaps most concerning was the shortage of electrolyte tests supplied by Roche, since these were \"the key test\" for critically ill patients, as well as being extremely commonly used by GPs to check people's medications were safe.\n\nOne virologist in the Midlands tweeted that her service had not received Hepatitis C testing kits, and was now running short.\n\nMaterials used in cancer diagnostics could also be affected.\n\nIn a letter sent to NHS trusts, seen by the BBC, Roche said: \"In September we moved from our old warehouse to a new automated warehouse capable of much higher volumes.\n\n\"However, during the transition we encountered some unforeseen issues and a very significant drop in our processing capacity. Since then we have worked around the clock to prioritise and manage orders as well as increase this capacity\".\n\nThe letter went on to advise local NHS services to \"activate [their] local contingency plans\" and \"look to prioritise essential services only\".\n\nBut one clinician pointed out that local contingency plans often involve sending tests to a nearby lab, which in this case might also be affected.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said:\"Roche has alerted hospitals to an issue with their supply chain, and they will be working urgently to resolve this issue.\"\n\nHave you been affected by any issues around testing? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister says new measures will not amount to the lockdown seen in March\n\nNew coronavirus restrictions for Scotland will be announced on Wednesday - but it will not be another full lockdown, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nOptions for a so-called \"circuit-breaker\" to slow the spread of the virus were discussed by the Scottish cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nBut the first minister said people would not be told to stay at home, and there would be no national travel ban.\n\nAnd schools will only close for the October holidays.\n\nHowever, the first minister did not rule out local travel restrictions being introduced, or the possible closure of pubs and restaurants, in areas with higher rates of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon was speaking as 800 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus rose by 44 overnight and now stands at 262, with 25 patients being treated in intensive care.\n\nThe virus is continuing to spread across Scotland, but particularly in central belt areas such as Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Forth Valley and Ayrshire and Arran.\n\nSome parts of the country are currently seeing infection levels higher than 50 per 100,000 people. A local lockdown was imposed in Aberdeen in August when it had 20 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nWhen new measures barring people from visiting each other inside their homes were imposed two weeks ago, an average of 285 new cases were being reported each day.\n\nThat figure now stands at 729 cases per day, which Ms Sturgeon said showed how the pandemic had \"accelerated\".\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was facing \"the most difficult decision point yet\" if it wanted to suppress the virus ahead of winter.\n\nShe said the country was facing a \"sharply rising rate of infection again\", with cases spreading from younger age groups into the older and more vulnerable population.\n\nHowever she said the government needed to \"strike a balance\" between the public health toll and the wider costs of lockdown to the economy and people's lives.\n\nSome tourism and hospitality businesses have warned that they may never recover from the effects of any further restrictions that impact on them.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the wider harms of lockdown \"weigh very heavily\" on her, and said she hoped the fact this was being \"carefully considered\" would reassure businesses.\n\nThe first minister will set out new measures in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday after further talks with ministers and advisors - but has stressed that \"we are not going back to where we were in March\".\n\nShe said: \"We are not proposing another lockdown at this stage, not even on a temporary basis.\n\n\"We are not going to ask you to stay inside your own homes the way we did in March.\n\n\"And while we have been asking people to think carefully about non-essential travel, and while restrictions on travel may sometimes be an option and necessary for hotspot areas, we are not about to impose restrictions on the whole of the country.\n\n\"We are not about the shut down the whole economy or halt the remobilisation of the NHS.\n\n\"And apart from the October holidays, we are not proposing to close schools even partially.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon refused to be drawn on what specific measures are being considered, but said her statement would address whether they would need to be imposed Scotland-wide or more locally.\n\nShe said she would \"set out the rationale\" and scientific basis for any decisions in her speech to MSPs.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said any further restrictions would need to be supported by further action to safeguard jobs and businesses.\n\nMr Ross said: \"There hasn't been a single policy from the SNP anywhere near as ambitious as what (UK Chancellor) Rishi Sunak has delivered.\n\n\"All the SNP have done is try to pass the buck back to the UK government. So far, they've given businesses and people fearful of losing their jobs nothing but empty words.\n\n\"The money is there for the SNP to act. We heard this week the £500m Growth Scheme delivered half of the promised funding. The missing millions should be delivered to businesses now, this week, before it's too late.\"", "Rebel Tories have clashed with a health minister over the ban on gatherings of more than six people in England, arguing it doesn't make sense.\n\nThe government easily won a vote on retaining the rule by 287 votes to 17.\n\nSir Graham Brady - one of 14 Tories to oppose the rule - told minister Helen Whately the \"rule of six\" was not based on scientific evidence.\n\nMs Whately hit back, saying the government could not allow coronavirus to \"rip\" through communities.\n\nBut the comment angered Tory former minister Mark Harper.\n\nHe said all MPs \"want the government to be successful\" in combating coronavirus, but they did not appreciate being accused of \"wanting to let it rip and kill tens of thousands of people\" every time they suggested an alternative strategy.\n\nLabour agreed with many of the backbenchers' points in the Commons debate, but the party abstained in the vote on the restrictions, which came into force three weeks ago.\n\nHowever, five DUP MPs joined the Tory rebels in voting against the restriction.\n\nThere could be a bigger rebellion coming if MPs vote on England's 22:00 hospitality curfew.\n\nTory rebels are confident that dozens of backbenchers would be prepared to retrospectively vote down the measure.\n\nIn the Commons debate leading up to the vote on the rule of six, MPs on all sides demanded to know why children had not been excluded from the restriction - as they have in Scotland and Wales.\n\nSir Graham, who chairs the influential 1922 committee of Tory MPs, said: \"Can she (Ms Whately) share with us her estimate of the efficacy of the rule of six compared to that of a rule of eight, had that been introduced instead?\n\n\"Is the rule of six more or less effective than a ban on household mixing?\"\n\nHe added: \"These rules are a massive intrusion into the liberty and private lives of the whole British people, and they're having a devastating economic effect as well, which will result in big job losses and masses of business failures.\"\n\nTory MP Huw Merriman said he feared the rule of six would \"do more harm than good\" as people might end up ignoring rules \"that do make sense\" - adding he had not seen any evidence it would reduce rates of Covid-19.\n\nTory former minister Steve Baker added: \"We're hearing about people who are being destroyed by this lockdown. Strong, confident people, outgoing people, gregarious people, who are being destroyed and reduced to repeated episodes of tears on the phone.\n\n\"This is a devastating social impact on our society and I believe that people would make different choices were they the ones able to take responsibility for themselves.\"\n\nShadow health minister Justin Madders reeled off a list of questions to Ms Whately on the policy, echoing many of the criticisms made by Tory and Lib Dem MPs.\n\nHe said Labour would support \"whatever reasonable steps are necessary to protect the NHS and save lives\", but said the government was guilty of \"mixed messages and confused communications\".\n\nBut Ms Whately said the rule of six gave \"a clear steer\" and made the guidance \"simple and absolutely clear for everybody\".\n\nShe added: \"We are also taking a path of on the one hand trying to enable a level of socialising for the sake of people's quality of life, while taking steps to control the virus.\n\n\"That is where we have taken the position that the rule of six achieves that balance.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAll pubs and restaurants across central Scotland are to be closed under new measures aimed at tackling a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe new rules will apply to licensed premises across the central belt, including Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nPubs and restaurants will be able to open in other parts of Scotland - but can only serve alcohol outdoors.\n\nThe new rules, which will be in force from 18:00 on Friday until 25 October, apply to about 3.4 million people.\n\nThey cover people living in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Forth Valley, Lothian and Ayrshire and Arran health board areas.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the restrictions were \"intended to be short, sharp action to arrest a worrying increase in infection\".\n\nShe warned that without taking action, the country risks \"returning to the peak level of infection by the end of the month\".\n\nBut she admitted that the new rules would be disruptive to many businesses and would be unwelcome to many people.\n\nThe Scottish Hospitality Group, which includes many of the the country's best known pubs and restaurants, accused the first minister of \"effectively signing a death sentence\" for many businesses.\n\nAnd the Federation of Small Businesses said the move would have a major knock on impact across other parts of the economy, including tourism.\n\nOpposition parties have called for more detail on a £40m support package for affected business that was announced by Ms Sturgeon, and have questioned the need for the blanket closure of pubs and restaurants.\n\nThe new rules for the five central belt areas are:\n\nThere will be no travel ban in any of the areas, but people in the central belt have been urged to avoid public transport unless it is \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nAnd they have also been advised not to travel outside of the health board area they live in if they do not need to.\n\nThroughout the pandemic Scotland has tended to adopt a slightly more cautious approach than England.\n\nIt has imposed more restrictions and lifted them more slowly in general. The latest move is in line with that trend.\n\nThere is little difference in overall infection rates. Scotland has seen 85 cases per 100,000 in the past week, compared to England's 109.\n\nThe measures imposed by the Scottish government are focussed on areas with the highest infection rates.\n\nBut those places are some way below the levels seen in England's hotspots.\n\nCities such as Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle have seen around 500 cases per 100,000 people over the past week - that is more than twice the level of infection in Glasgow for example.\n\nBut the differences between the two nations should not mask the growing concern there is in England about the infection rates, particularly in the north of country.\n\nSenior ministers and their advisers are today discussing whether extra steps are needed south of the border.\n\nThe problem is action to supress the virus has negative consequences too.\n\nThis much can be seen in the growing number of scientists and health experts who are signing the Great Barrington Declaration warning about the impact of Covid lockdown policies.\n\nIn other parts of the country, pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes will be able to open indoors until 18:00 - but only to serve food and non-alcoholic drinks.\n\nHowever, they will be able to serve alcohol in outdoor settings such as beer gardens until 22:00, with the current rules on no more than six people from two households remaining in place.\n\nAnd the existing rules will continue to apply to weddings that have already been booked, and funerals, in all parts of Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said regulations would be introduced to extend the mandatory use of face coverings in indoor communal settings such as staff canteens and workplace corridors.\n\nShops across Scotland will be asked to return to 2m physical distancing from this weekend, and to reintroduce measures such as one-way systems.\n\nIt comes as Scotland recorded more than 1,000 new confirmed cases of the virus in a single day for the first time - although the country is doing far more testing now than at the height of the pandemic earlier in the year.\n\nThe R number is currently believed to be higher in Scotland than in other UK nations, and the number of people dying or in hospital with the virus has increased over the past week.\n\nThe number of UK cases rose by 14,162 on Wednesday. This was a slight drop on Tuesday's figure, but the seven-day rolling average is still pointing upwards.\n\nSpeaking in the Scottish Parliament, Ms Sturgeon said the \"vast majority\" of pubs and restaurants had worked hard to ensure the safety of their staff and customers.\n\nBeer gardens outside of the central belt will be able to serve alcohol until 22:00\n\nBut she added: \"Indoor environments, where different households from different age groups can mix, inevitably present a risk of transmission.\n\n\"That risk can be increased in some hospitality premises if good ventilation is difficult, and if it is hard to control the movement of people.\n\n\"And the presence of alcohol can of course affect people's willingness to physically distance.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson criticised a lack of detail over the £40m support package that was announced by the first minister.\n\nMs Davidson said: \"These businesses deserve better. They need to know how much they can apply for, when they can apply for it and how long they will have to wait before support reaches them.\n\n\"Those answers could have been provided today, but Nicola Sturgeon failed to do that.\"\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the government should target premises which break the rules \"instead of shutting down every single business\".\n\nThe temporary shutdown of pubs and restaurants across central Scotland with a new 6pm curfew elsewhere are significant new restrictions.\n\nTogether with the existing Scotland-wide ban on visiting other households, these add up to the toughest combination of measures in place across any of the four UK nations.\n\nThe Scottish government has decided to take further action because it fears case numbers are rising so fast that without further action, spread would be back to March/April levels by the end of this month.\n\nThe hospitality industry is not convinced there is sufficient evidence to justify pubs and restaurants being so heavily targeted.\n\nThe new measures are temporary, partly because the Scottish government has limited scope to compensate businesses.\n\nIt hopes the UK government can be persuaded to offer additional support for hard hit sectors in the coming weeks and that all four nations can agree a new system for assessing and responding to the coronavirus threat on a more localised basis.\n\nAre you a pub or restaurant worker in central Scotland? Share your stories 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Personal trainer Matt Simpson, said he was trying to \"bind my history\" with his passion for fitness\n\nA personal trainer who launched a gym workout based on the theme of slavery has \"wholeheartedly\" apologised.\n\nMatt Simpson admitted he posted the \"very-ill judged 12 years of slave workout\", which appeared on the PureGym Luton and Dunstable's Facebook account.\n\nThe post, which said \"slavery was hard and so is this\" did not come from \"a place of malice\", he said.\n\nPureGym called it \"wholly unacceptable\" at the time, on Monday, and has not commented further.\n\nThe workout entitled \"12 Years of Slave\" after an Oscar-winning movie from 2013 with a similar title, included 12 different moves such as burpees, push ups and box jumps. The post said it had been designed to \"celebrate black history month\".\n\nPureGym said the post \"was removed as soon as it was brought to our attention\"\n\nIn a statement at the time, PureGym apologised \"unreservedly\" and said it was \"not approved or endorsed by the company\" and had been removed \"as soon as it was brought to our attention\".\n\nOn his Instagram account, Mr Simpson said: \"I apologise wholeheartedly to anybody who has felt - in any way, shape or form - angered, felt upset, felt racially abused, indirectly or directly.\n\n\"Where the post came from was not a place of malice, it was me as an individual trying to bind my history that I'm a part of, as a person of colour, with my passion which is fitness.\"\n\nMany users had responded angrily to the gym's Facebook post with one saying it was \"wrong, insensitive and horrendous on all levels\".\n\nMr Simpson said it was unfair for people to criticise the gym chain and brand it as racist because he had \"never experienced anything of the sort\" in the year he had worked there.\n\n\"Can we please not deem a company racist through one person's actions,\" he said.\n\n\"I for one am definitely not racist and my actions shouldn't wholly reflect on the company and again I apologise.\"\n\nThe film 12 Years A Slave, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, was based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup - a black musician sold into slavery in the US in 1841.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Sally Giles says £1,206 of charges were added to her phone bill over five years without her consent\n\n\"I was absolutely horrified and I actually felt quite violated\".\n\nThat's how Sally Giles describes the moment she discovered she'd been charged £4.50 each week, every week for more than five years \"without [her] knowledge or permission\".\n\nThe charge - which totalled more than £1,200 - was added to her phone bill by her provider, EE, allowing her to take part in a competition run by Xinion, owned by BMCM Group.\n\nXinion says Sally signed up to their service in July 2015.\n\n\"They haven't given me any proof whatsoever that I signed up. They insist I must have gone onto a website and entered my phone number. I have never, ever done that. I would never do something like that.\"\n\nSally says she only found out about the charge when she called her provider about a different query in September 2020 - and the adviser asked her if she knew about this weekly charge she'd been paying for so many years.\n\n\"I don't gamble, I don't even buy a lottery ticket so no, [I didn't sign up],\" she says.\n\n\"The proof is I have never played the game, why would I pay £4.50 a week and never play the game?\"\n\nSally says she did occasionally check her phone bill, but the extra charges weren't clearly defined so she assumed they were charity donations she made or when she bought more data.\n\nXinion did send Sally a text each week though asking her a competition question which also explained she was being charged, but she just thought it was a spam text message.\n\n\"You have to open the text to see you're being charged,\" she says. \"I don't open texts from unknown sources for obvious reasons because that's what you're told all the time. 'Do not click on links you don't recognise, just delete it straight away'.\n\n\"When I realised what was happening I opened [the text] and at the bottom, right at the bottom, if you scroll down it says you are being charged £4.50. But as I say you have to open the text to see it.\"\n\nPaul Muggleton, founder of the Phone-paid Services Consumer Group says it's irrelevant whether or not people technically sign up - what matters is whether or not people have knowingly signed up for a service.\n\n\"People who are tricked into, or who unwittingly sign up to a contract, are not bound by the terms of that contract. That's basic consumer law. People have to know what they're getting into.\n\n\"The burden of proof always rests with the third party service provider to show that consumers knowingly signed up.\n\n\"For example, if someone has never once taken part in one of these text message competitions but has been charged, the likelihood is if it ever got to court they would be able to get their money back by showing they didn't even know they'd been signed up.\"\n\nSally refused to open the text messages as she thought they were spam, but you can only tell you're being charged if you fully open them\n\nAfter finding out what happened Sally got in touch with the company involved, Xinion, explained her situation and asked for her money back. It refused.\n\nThen she got in touch with the regulator, the Phone Paid Services Authority, or PSA. \"When I rang them originally I got a very lackadaisical reply saying we'll look into it saying it might take months or even a year. I personally don't think that's good enough. It's time the PSA got their act together.\"\n\nThe next step was the small claims court, but before that Sally got in touch with Money Box.\n\nWe started digging and discovered there have been thousands of complaints to the regulator about these types of charges over the last few years.\n\nWe also heard from Sally's mobile phone provider, EE. It told us it had been in touch with Xinion and that as a gesture of goodwill Xinion had changed its mind and decided to refund Sally after all.\n\nThe PSA said no-one was available for an interview but instead told us how it tightened up regulations on these subscription services last November and since then the number of complaints has dramatically reduced.\n\nHowever, the new regulations do not apply retrospectively, so people who may have found themselves signed up to similar \"competitions\" before the changes came into effect haven't got that extra protection.\n\nWe never heard back from Xinion, but EE said it's toughened up its own procedures on these subscription services including making customers' bills clearer, going above and beyond what the regulator requires.\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening again here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook has banned all accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory movement from its platforms.\n\n\"Starting today, we will remove Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts,\" the company said on Tuesday.\n\nThe move is a significant escalation to Facebook's earlier decision to remove or restrict groups and accounts sharing and promoting QAnon material.\n\nQAnon is a conspiracy theory that says President Trump is waging a war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles.\n\nIn a statement released on Tuesday, Facebook said its staff had begun removing content and deleting groups and pages, but that \"this work will take time and will continue in the coming days and weeks\".\n\n\"Our Dangerous Organizations Operations team will continue to enforce this policy and proactively detect content for removal instead of relying on user reports,\" the statement added.\n\nFacebook said it was updating measures implemented in August, which aimed to \"disrupt the ability of QAnon\" to organise through - and operate on - its networks.\n\nThat policy - introduced to limit the risks to public safety posed by QAnon, \"offline anarchist groups\" and US-based militia organisations - resulted in restrictions on more than 1,950 Facebook groups and over 10,000 Instagram accounts.\n\nThis is a big move from Facebook, which has laid out how it plans to proactively remove all evolving QAnon content from its platforms.\n\nIt comes after I asked Facebook's vice-president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, why the site still allows QAnon to spread political disinformation to US voters and beyond using hashtags like #SaveOurChildren.\n\nFacebook's first crackdown on this dangerous conspiracy theory focused on violent content plugged by those supporting it, removing a number of groups and pages.\n\nBut those supporting QAnon soon adapted, using new palatable hashtags to reach parent groups, local forums and the average Instagram feed. And the movement kept growing.\n\nThis latest move will be welcomed - but will also be very hard to enforce, especially since QAnon has become so big and spread under new guises.\n\nI recently spoke to US voters about how QAnon disinformation about candidates and child trafficking rings could already have impacted their friends and neighbours ahead of polling day.\n\nThey explained how people they know now believe totally unfounded claims they've seen on Instagram and Facebook about the Democrats running a child-trafficking ring or presidential candidate Joe Biden abusing children.\n\nCould this move - like the last - also be too late?\n\nFacebook is not the only social media giant to look at tackling the QAnon conspiracy movement.\n\nIn July, Twitter banned thousands of accounts and said it would stop recommending content linked to QAnon in an attempt to help prevent \"offline harm\". It also said it would block URLs associated with the group from being shared on the platform.\n\nIn October 2017, an anonymous user put a series of posts on the message board 4chan. The user signed off as \"Q\" and claimed to have a level of US security approval known as \"Q clearance\".\n\nThese messages became known as \"Q drops\" or \"breadcrumbs\", often written in cryptic language peppered with slogans, pledges and pro-Trump themes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump on QAnon: 'They do like me'\n\nThe amount of traffic to mainstream social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and YouTube has exploded since 2017, and indications are that numbers have increased during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJudging by social media, there are hundreds of thousands of people who believe in at least some of the bizarre theories offered up by QAnon.\n\nQAnon followed on from the \"pizzagate\" saga in 2016 - a fake theory about Democratic Party politicians running a paedophile ring out of a Washington pizza restaurant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The search involved police, firefighters, coastguard staff and search and rescue volunteers\n\nA man whose body was recovered following a major river search has been named as 32-year-old Alun Owen.\n\nEmergency services found the Openreach engineer's body in the river at Abergwyngregyn, Gwynedd, just before 19:15 BST on Tuesday.\n\nMr Owen was known to family and friends as \"Al Bonc\".\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive and North Wales Police said they were working together to establish the sequence of events which led his death.\n\nDet Insp Andrew Gibson, of North Wales Police, said the force's \"heartfelt sympathies\" were with the man's family, friends and colleagues.\n\nIn a statement, the force said it and the Health and Safety Executive were \"working together to establish the sequence of events which led to this tragic incident which resulted in the death of a well-respected local man\".\n\nThe coroner has also been informed.\n\nSeveral emergency services searched for Mr Owen on Tuesday\n\nClive Selley, Chief Executive of Openreach, said: \"We're extremely shocked and saddened to have lost Alun Owen, one of our Openreach family, last night.\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with Alun's family and friends.\n\n\"Alun was an extremely popular member of the team and had been working as an engineer in and around north Wales for five years.\n\n\"We're now working closely with the North Wales Police while they carry out their investigation.\"\n\nA major search for Mr Owen began at about 16:00 on Tuesday and involved police, firefighters, the coastguard and search and rescue volunteers.\n\nTwo specialist water rescue teams and three fire crews from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service searched the river, along with members of Ogwen Valley Search and Rescue Team.\n\nThe coastguard helicopter attended and two coastguard rescue teams were sent from Bangor and Llandudno to assist in the search.\n\nEarlier this week, homes in the village were flooded after the River Aber burst its banks following heavy rain.\n\nResidents saw the helicopter flying over the river", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Alexei Navalny is now out of hospital - shown here with his wife Yulia and son Zakhar in Berlin\n\nThe poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says recovering from nerve agent is a long haul, with sleepless nights and clumsy movements.\n\nBut he told BBC Russian that \"I'm doing much, much better\" and insisted that eventually he would go back to Russia.\n\nThe BBC met him at a tightly-guarded Berlin hotel, after he spent 32 days in Berlin's Charité Hospital, mostly in intensive care.\n\nHe felt cold shivers initially and no pain, \"but it felt like the end\".\n\n\"It doesn't hurt at all, it's not like a panic attack or some sort of upset. At the beginning you know something is wrong, and then really your only thought is: that's it, I'm going to die.\"\n\nHe collapsed on a flight from Tomsk in Siberia to Moscow on 20 August, and only survived because the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, where he was rushed to intensive care.\n\nLater, after top-level negotiations with the Russian authorities, he was airlifted to Berlin and treated there while being kept in a medically induced coma.\n\nThe inter-governmental Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has confirmed that Mr Navalny, 44, was poisoned with a Novichok-type nerve agent.\n\nIn a statement, it pointed to the similarities between traces found in his urine and blood samples and chemical weapons on the banned list.\n\nGermany says French and Swedish laboratories also agreed with its scientists that Mr Navalny was \"beyond doubt\" poisoned with a nerve agent.\n\nNovichok agents, developed by Soviet scientists during the Cold War, are extremely toxic - a tiny amount can kill.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast week, in his first video interview since leaving hospital in late September, Mr Navalny said he believed the Russian authorities poisoned him to remove the threat he posed to their dominance in next year's parliamentary elections.\n\nThe Russian government has denied any involvement in his poisoning. Russian doctors who treated Mr Navalny said they found no poison.\n\n\"I assert that [President Vladimir] Putin is behind this act, I don't see any other explanation,\" he told German news magazine Der Spiegel last week.\n\nHe fell ill after campaigning in Siberia to get fellow anti-corruption campaigners elected to local councils.\n\nHe is one of Russia's best-known critics of President Putin, with millions of followers on social media, where he exposes official corruption and denounces the pro-Putin United Russia party as \"thieves\".\n\nMr Navalny was airlifted to Berlin two days after he fell into a coma on 20 August\n\nHe refuses to accept a life of exile, and told the BBC: \"They've been striving for a long time to force me out of the country\".\n\n\"I don't know how events will develop, I'm not going to take risks. I have my cause, I have my country.\" He said there was no point thinking about events he had no power to control.\n\nHe told the BBC that on the plane, as the poison took effect, he felt unable to focus on anything, though people and objects around him were not swaying or blurred in the way that alcohol affects the brain.\n\nFor weeks Yulia was unsure whether her husband would pull through\n\nMuch later in hospital \"there were several phases of reawakening, and that was the most hellish period\".\n\n\"For a long time I had hallucinations,\" he said. He believed his wife Yulia, doctors and his fellow activist Leonid Volkov were telling him he had been in an accident, he had lost his legs, \"the surgeon was going to give me new legs and a new spine\".\n\nHe was convinced that this was \"totally real\" and he was \"tormented by hallucinations at night\".\n\n\"My main problem is sleeping. I've lost the sleeping habit, and I find it difficult without sleeping pills. I never used to have that problem.\n\n\"I also have tremors in my hands, they're unpredictable.\" He said he was having frequent medical checks, including cognitive tests, and \"physically I'm recovering quite quickly\".\n\n\"Sometimes I feel sort of spaced out, I go for walks twice daily, and can walk for quite some time. For me the hardest part is getting in and out of the car.\"\n\nHe expressed relief that he was not in any pain, but frustration that even a simple thing like throwing a little ball \"feels like shot-putting\" in athletics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says it is getting “ridiculous” with the prime minster unable to explain coronavirus restrictions\n\nBoris Johnson has been challenged to publish the scientific evidence behind the 10pm closing time for English pubs ahead of a vote by MPs next week.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the public \"deserved to know\" the basis for the restriction and if it could not be justified the rule must be reviewed.\n\nTory MPs opposed to the move may rebel in the Commons vote.\n\nThe PM said the rationale behind it had not changed and it was designed to reduce the spread of the virus.\n\nThe two party leaders clashed over the effectiveness and fairness of national and local Covid restrictions at Prime Minister's Questions, with Sir Keir accusing the PM of incompetence and the PM saying Labour had supported the government's position, then changed its stance.\n\nAll pubs, bars, restaurants and other hospitality venues in England have been required to close at 10pm since 24 September, as part of a package of measures to try and contain a surge of new cases in the North of England.\n\nMinisters argue it has had a \"beneficial effect\" on the spread of the virus in areas where the restriction had already been tried - but it has become a lighting rod for dissatisfaction on the Tory benches about Covid restrictions.\n\nAnd regional leaders, including the mayors of Greater Manchester and London, have called for it to be reviewed amid concerns it has led to large crowds gathering outside venues in some cities after closing time.\n\nHowever you look at the blizzard of statistics about the coronavirus, the disease is still spreading - despite town after town being placed under extra limits.\n\nEven before Nicola Sturgeon's moves on Wednesday to try to break the spread in Scotland, ministers in SW1 were looking at the next steps they would need to take to stop the acceleration of the virus.\n\nAs we've reported, the government is likely to introduce a tiered approach to put different parts of the country with different spreads of the diseases into different categories.\n\nBut the exact nature of the strictest form of restrictions are yet to be set in stone.\n\nLabour has said a vote on whether to keep or scrap the 10pm closing time is expected on Monday, although the government has not confirmed the date.\n\nSir Keir refused to say which way Labour would vote, telling the BBC the PM \"needs to make his case\" about how the 10pm cut-off reduces transmission and \"the ball very firmly is in his court\".\n\nSpeaking earlier in Parliament, he said: \"Is there a scientific basis for the 10pm rule?\n\n\"The public and Parliament deserve to know. If there is, why does the government do itself a favour and publish it?\n\n\"If not, why does the government not review the rule?\"\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson said \"the basis on which we set out the curtailment of hospitality was the basis on which he accepted it two weeks ago.\n\n\"And that is the reduce the spread of the virus and that is our objective.\"\n\nThe prime minister accused Labour of withdrawing its support for other restrictions, after its MPs were told to abstain in a vote on Tuesday on maintaining the rule of six limit on social gatherings.\n\n\"What kind of signal does this send to the people of the country about the robustness of the Labour Party and their willingness to enforce the restrictions?\" he added.\n\nDuring heated exchanges, the Labour leader urged the PM to be straight with the public about whether local lockdowns were working and to explain why some areas of the country were not being subject to restrictions despite having a higher proportion of cases than those targeted.\n\nHe said cases were continuing to rise in 19 of the 20 local council areas which had been to subject to restrictions between the end of July and start of August - including Bradford, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Wigan.\n\nThe Labour leader said that in Burnley, infection rates were 21 per 100,000 people when restrictions were introduced, while now it is 434. In Bolton, it was 18 per 100,000, while now it is 255.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the same time, he said no extra restrictions were being applied in the London borough of Hillingdon - which is home to the PM's Uxbridge and Ruislip constituency - despite it having recorded weekly figures as high as 62 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nThis, he said, was a far higher figure than the rate of infection in Kirklees in West Yorkshire - 29 cases per 100,000 people - when restrictions were imposed there on 30 July\n\n\"The prime minister really needs to understand that local communities are angry and frustrated,\" he said.\n\n\"So will he level with the people of Bury, Burnley and Bolton and tell them: what does he think the central problem is that's causing this?\n\n\"The prime minister can't explain why an area goes into restrictions. He can't explain what the different restrictions are, and he can't explain how restrictions end.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the combination of local and national measures in place were needed to deal with the continued sharp rise in cases in Manchester and Liverpool but also the uptick in infections in the Midlands and London.\n\n\"The local and regional approach, combined with national measures, remains correct because two thirds of those admitted into hospital on Sunday were in the North East, North West and Yorkshire,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir grilled the prime minister on the effectiveness and fairness of local restrictions.\n\n\"Twenty local areas have been under restrictions for two months, in 19 of those 20 areas infections rates have gone up,\" he said, citing new Labour Party analysis.\n\nThe trends highlighted in the report for those areas are correct.\n\nIn fact, only in Leicester did we see sustained declines in case rates during a local lockdown, but those rates quickly increased when restrictions were loosened.\n\nThe issue with the Labour analysis is that a handful of the places mentioned have not actually been in local lockdowns for two complete months.\n\nFor example, Oadby and Wigston did face additional restrictions at the end of June, but these were lifted after a month. They were only placed under restrictions again on 22 September.\n\nOn another point, Sir Keir said areas in parts of the north of England had been placed into local restrictions at rates lower than those experienced in parts of the south which are not under any kind of lockdown.\n\nThis is true: Bury, Tameside, Stockport and Wigan (to name a few) had case rates of between 20 and 30 per 100,000 people when they first went into lockdown.\n\nThe London borough of Hillingdon - the prime minister's constituency - had rates of 46 cases per 100,000, while Redbridge had 57 and Barking and Dagenham 53, in the week ending the 27 September, according to Public Health England.\n\nAnd analysis by the BBC data team suggests that these rates have increased in the past week.", "Video caption: 'Mr Vice-President, I am speaking' - Harris and Pence clash at VP debate 'Mr Vice-President, I am speaking' - Harris and Pence clash at VP debate\n\nThis vice-presidential debate gave the Americans who chose to watch a look at US politics present and future.\n\nFor the current election, both candidates did their best to defend their running mate and land shots on the top of the opposing ticket.\n\nThe participants in this debate were also looking beyond November, however.\n\nPence - like most vice-presidents - has his eyes on a presidential bid of his own. To do that, he'll have to win over Trump's base while also casting a wider net to Republicans and right-leaning independents who may have become disaffected with Trumpian politics.\n\nHarris, who at this point last year was running for president herself, tried to prove that she can be a capable standard-bearer for the Democrats once Joe Biden exits the political stage. When given the chance, she spoke about her upbringing and background, taking the opportunity to introduce herself to a larger US audience.\n\nBoth Pence and Harris live to fight another day - and that day could come in just four years.\n\nRead more: Five takeaways from the VP debate", "Government plans to relax development rules could result in the loss of much-needed homes, council leaders say.\n\nSites of up to 40 or 50 houses could be temporarily exempted from affordable housing contributions under proposals put forward last month.\n\nThe Local Government Association said if the plan had been in place over the last 18 months, it would have led to nearly 10,000 fewer affordable homes.\n\nBut ministers say the move will help small firms recover from Covid.\n\nThe current rules in England mean developers which have sites with more than 10 houses either have to build or pay towards affordable housing, while those with 10 homes or fewer are exempt from the contribution.\n\nThe government is consulting on raising this threshold for 18 months to help \"minimise the economic pressure\" on small developers in the wake of coronavirus.\n\nThe proposal - which ministers say could be confirmed this autumn - forms part of sweeping changes to the planning system in England.\n\nThe government has acknowledged a higher threshold would lead to a reduction in contributions towards affordable housing via so-called Section 106 agreements.\n\nThese deals see developers negotiate with a council to build a certain number of affordable homes, or contribute cash towards them.\n\nBut the government argues removing the need for these negotiations to take place will make more sites financially viable for smaller developers.\n\nThe LGA, which represents councils in England and Wales, said the plan could lead to a significant reduction in affordable housing.\n\nIt commissioned analysis that estimated the proposals would have led to 9,072 fewer affordable homes built on sites of 10 to 49 units in the last 18 months.\n\nOver the the last five years, this figure would have been nearly 30,000, the body warned.\n\nDavid Renard, a Conservative councillor and housing spokesman for the LGA, said the government proposal was of \"huge concern\".\n\nHe said it risked allowing developers to \"game the system\" by putting forward schemes just below the new threshold to avoid building affordable housing.\n\n\"With rising housing waiting lists and record numbers in temporary accommodation, we desperately need to be building more affordable housing, not less,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to build homes that are affordable to local people and help to reduce homelessness, rather than contributing additional funds to developers' and landowners' profits.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said a temporary change would help small builders deliver housing more quickly.\n\nA spokesperson added plans to replace Section 106 agreements with a new infrastructure levy would \"ensure developers pay their way\".\n\nThey added that the new national charge - also announced last month - would deliver \"at least as much, if not more, onsite affordable housing than today\", and that the the £11.5bn Affordable Homes Programme \"will deliver up to 180,000 new affordable homes across the country.\"", "Pub giant Greene King is cutting 800 jobs after deciding that tighter lockdown restrictions mean some pubs will have to close.\n\nIt said 79 sites will stay closed for the time being, with about one third of these expected to be shut permanently.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions, such as the 10pm curfew, and the winding down of the furlough scheme was a \"challenge\" to trading, Green King said.\n\nIt urged the government to do more for the struggling hospitality sector.\n\nScotland's hospitality sector received a jolt on Wednesday when its government said it would close all pubs and restaurants across central Scotland under new measures aimed at tackling a surge in coronavirus cases in the region.\n\nThe 10pm closing time remains in place in England and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been challenged to publish the scientific evidence behind that.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the public \"deserved to know\" the basis for the restriction and if it could not be justified the rule must be reviewed.\n\nTory MPs opposed to the move may rebel in the Commons vote, which is scheduled for next week.\n\nAn industry body warned on Tuesday that half a million hospitality jobs could go by the end of the year.\n\nA spokeswoman for Greene King said: \"The continued tightening of the trading restrictions for pubs, which may last another six months, along with the changes to government support was always going to make it a challenge to reopen some of our pubs.\n\n\"Therefore, we have made the difficult decision not to reopen 79 sites, including the 11 Loch Fyne restaurants we announced last week.\n\n\"Around one-third will be closed permanently and we hope to be able to reopen the others in the future.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are working hard with our teams to try and find them a role in another of our pubs wherever possible.\"\n\nSuffolk-based Greene King, which was bought by a Hong-Kong real estate giant last year, is one of the UK's biggest hospitality firms, with 3,100 pubs, restaurants and hotels across the UK.\n\nThe hospitality sector has been struggling with government restrictions designed to slow the spread of coronavirus, including 10pm closing time for pubs, social distancing measures, and mandatory table service for food in licensed premises.\n\nUnder the government's furlough scheme, workers put on leave have been able to get 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nBut that scheme has been winding down and at the end of October will be replaced by the Job Support Scheme - a less generous wage support scheme.\n\nThere are fears this will trigger large scale job cuts among businesses struggling to cover their costs.\n\nThe company said it had a strong track record of redeploying people across its business, and had already identified a number of other opportunities for Loch Fyne employees from the 11 restaurants it said it would be closing last week.\n\nLast week, the boss of rival Fuller's said that about a tenth of its almost-5,000 employees could face redundancy without further state support.\n\nThe bosses of London-focused groups Young's and City Pub Group also warned that they might have to get rid of hundreds of roles when furlough ends later this month.\n\nAre you a Greene King employee? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Billionaires have seen their fortunes hit record highs during the pandemic, with top executives from technology and industry earning the most.\n\nThe world's richest saw their wealth climb 27.5% to $10.2trn (£7.9trn) from April to July this year, according to a report from Swiss bank UBS.\n\nThat was up from the previous peak of $8.9trn at the end of 2017 and largely due to rising global share prices.\n\nUBS said billionaires had done \"extremely well\" in the Covid crisis.\n\nIt also said the number of billionaires had hit a new high of 2,189, up from 2,158 in 2017.\n\nIt comes as a World Bank report on Wednesday showed extreme poverty is set to rise this year for the first time in more than two decades due to the pandemic.\n\nAmong the billionaires, the biggest winners this year have been industrialists, whose wealth rose a staggering 44% in the three months to July.\n\n\"Industrials benefited disproportionately as markets priced in a significant economic recovery [after lockdowns around the world],\" UBS said.\n\nTech billionaires have also had a good pandemic, seeing their wealth soar 41%. UBS said this was \"due to the corona-induced demand for their goods and services\" and social distancing accelerating \"digital businesses [and] compressing several years' evolution into a few months\".\n\nHealthcare billionaires also benefited as the crisis put drug makers and medical device companies in the spotlight.\n\nThe rise in fortunes reflects the generally strong performance of global stock markets since late March, despite most countries continuing to suffer sharp recessions.\n\nAmazon boss Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder Elon Musk - both multi-billionaires - saw their wealth hit new highs this summer thanks to growth in the price of their companies' stock.\n\nIn the last 11 years China's billionaires have increased their wealth by the biggest percentage, climbing 1,146% between 2009 and 2020, according to UBS.\n\nBy comparison, over the same period the wealth of British billionaires has risen by just 168%.\n\nBut the biggest accumulation of wealth remains in the US where American billionaires have $3.5trn, compared to China's $1.7trn.\n\nThe UK's wealthy have just $205bn, compared to Germany's $595bn and France's $443bn.\n\nUBS said many billionaires had donated some of their wealth to help with the fight against Covid-19.\n\n\"Our research has identified 209 billionaires who have publicly committed a total equivalent to $7.2bn from March to June 2020,\" the report said.\n\n\"They have reacted quickly, in a way that's akin to disaster relief, providing unrestricted grants to allow grantees to decide how best to use funds.\"\n\nBut it revealed that UK billionaires donated less than those from other countries.\n\nIn the US, 98 billionaires donated $4.5bn, in China 12 billionaires gave $679m, and in Australia just two billionaires donated $324m. But in the UK, nine billionaires donated just $298m.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Education Secretary John Swinney said a full 2021 exam diet was \"too big a risk\"\n\nNational 5 exams are to be cancelled in Scotland in 2021 and replaced with teacher assessments and coursework.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney said going ahead with all exams during the continuing Covid pandemic was \"too big a risk\".\n\nHigher and Advanced Higher exams will go ahead as usual - but will start on 13 May, two weeks later than planned.\n\nThe move came as new restrictions were imposed across Scotland in response to a sharp rise in new coronavirus cases.\n\nSchools are to remain open but Mr Swinney said it was likely students would still face disruption - meaning an \"alternative approach\" was needed.\n\nHe said National 5 qualifications - which account for about half of all exams sat in Scotland and are roughly equivalent to GCSEs in England - would be judged on \"teacher judgement supported by assessment\".\n\nOpposition parties have been split on whether exams should go ahead, with the Greens calling for them to be axed entirely - but the Scottish Conservatives saying Mr Swinney had \"thrown in the towel\".\n\nScotland's school exams were cancelled for the first time ever in 2020, with the country locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Scottish Qualifications Authority initially drew up results using a system which took teacher estimates for each pupil, then moderated them based on results from previous years.\n\nHowever, this sparked an outcry after 125,000 results were downgraded, with claims the moderation system unfairly penalised children at schools which had historically not performed as well.\n\nThe government subsequently agreed to accept the original teacher estimates of grades, and commissioned an independent review of the row.\n\nProf Mark Priestly recommended the new approach to National 5 exams and the development of a new approach to assessments, and this was accepted by ministers.\n\nResults will again be moderated to \"maintain standards\", but Mr Swinney stressed that \"awards will not be given or taken away on the basis of a statistical model or on the basis of a school's past performance\".\n\nMr Swinney has suggested that exams could be held later in the year in Scotland in 2021\n\nWe are already eight weeks in to this academic year and teachers, pupils and parents had been calling for clarity about what would happen with the 2021 exams.\n\nIf they planned for \"normality\" next summer it risked last-minute changes close to exam time and a repeat of the problems of this summer.\n\nThe decision to scrap the final exams for National 5 students, which are usually taken by 15 and 16-year-olds, means their grades will be decided by continuous assessment throughout the year. Teachers and pupils can now prepare for this.\n\nThe decision to scrap the largest group of exams means there will be more space and time for Highers and Advanced Higher to take place under exam conditions in as close a way to normal as possible.\n\nThey will be pushed back slightly later to allow for extra teaching time, but will still be completed before the end of the school term.\n\nThis will allow papers to be graded and marks sent to pupils at the beginning of August, meaning applications for university and college places can continue as they normally would.\n\nThe education secretary said: \"The risk remains that there may be further disruptions for individual pupils, schools, college, or more widely across the country during the course of this academic year.\n\n\"Due to the level of disruption already caused by Covid, and due to the likely disruption faced by some or all pupils and students this academic year, a full exam diet is simply too big a risk - it would not be fair.\"\n\nHe added that a \"contingency plan\" was in place should Highers and Advanced Highers need to be called off, which could see grades again being awarded on teacher judgement.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said a full exam diet \"could and should\" have taken place, with MSP Jamie Greene saying \"it does feel like the towel has been thrown in\".\n\nLabour's Iain Gray said the decision had come late, with staff \"months in to teaching courses already\".\n\nThe Scottish Greens have backed calls for all exams to be cancelled, asking why the same approach could not be applied to Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nMr Swinney replied that the \"significant weight\" attached to Highers in university admissions meant they should be maintained if at all possible.", "Scientists are to map the spread of Covid in over 15 UK hospitals, to see how it can defeat even the best infection-control defences.\n\nThe work, which has been given urgent status by government, will use genetic material to track how the virus moves between staff, patients and wards.\n\nIt could help break more chains of transmission.\n\nHospitals already use tried and tested methods to minimise spread, including separating Covid patients from others.\n\nThe study, led by scientists at University College London, will evaluate if rapid viral genomic sequencing data can help locate and reduce the spread of Covid-19 within hospitals.\n\nThat means taking lots of nose and throat swabs from patients and hospital staff and looking at the genetic make-up of any coronavirus found.\n\nVirus genomes constantly alter or mutate, changing a tiny bit at a time as they divide and spread by infecting more people.\n\nAnd these changes can be exploited to track the spread of the virus.\n\nScientists can tell from these fingerprints whether infections from two different people are identical, meaning one of the individuals transmitted it to the other.\n\nIf the fingerprints are different, it rules this out.\n\nProf Judith Breuer, who is leading the work, said: \"By sequencing Covid-19 viruses rapidly, we hope to establish how hospital staff and patients became infected.\n\n\"This will allow hospitals to put effective measures in place faster, to try to interrupt onward transmission of the virus and reduce the number and size of outbreaks.\"\n\nThat might include more regular deep cleans, rechecking the effectiveness of personal protective equipment and moving other vulnerable patients out of the hospital to another setting, she said.\n\nMany of the small genetic changes will have no significant effect on the severity of the disease the virus causes or how we should fight it.\n\nSo far, coronavirus has not had mutations that might make any future vaccine for it ineffective.\n\nBut experts say it is important to keep a close check on it just in case.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Lammy said the Met's investigation into the tweet was dropped because \"Twitter refused to assist\"\n\nAn MP has asked Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey to \"explain himself\" after a police inquiry into a \"racist death threat\" was halted when the social media giant did not co-operate.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they had been unable to get details from Twitter of the account which sent the tweet to Tottenham MP David Lammy.\n\nMr Lammy tweeted Mr Dorsey asking why Twitter was \"shielding vile racists\".\n\nTwitter said it was now co-operating with the police inquiry.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday the Met said a \"thorough investigation\" had been carried out into the tweet.\n\nA spokesman said: \"All lines of inquiry were explored as far as possible, however, due to the owner of the suspected social media account living outside the UK and the fact we were unable to obtain the subscription details of the individual from Twitter, we were unable to continue the investigation.\"\n\nMr Lammy reacted to the Met's announcement by tweeting direct to Mr Dorsey.\n\nHe tweeted: \"Please explain why you are shielding vile racists who make death threats on your platform? #BlackLivesMatter.\n\n\"You should not be able to push race hate and send death threats with impunity online.\n\n\"Shame on Twitter for failing to act with Met Police to identify who sent this threat.\n\n\"#BlackLivesMatter has to be more than a slogan to drive traffic and ad revenue on your website.\"\n\nA Twitter spokesperson later said it was co-operating with police \"having now received and processed the correct information\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The William Harvey Hospital was inspected in August\n\nInspectors have demanded improvements from a hospital after a report highlighted a number of failings over Covid-19 precautions.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission inspected the emergency department and medical wards at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, on 11 August.\n\nStaff were seen to be wearing masks incorrectly, not using hand sanitiser and not adhering to social distancing.\n\nThe East Kent Hospitals Trust said it acted immediately to address concerns.\n\nInspection teams visited a ward where patients showed symptoms and were awaiting test results as well as a ward caring for patients who had Covid-19.\n\nA ward for patients without the virus and a fourth ward where there had been an outbreak of Covid-19 were also inspected.\n\nThe CQC said it took urgent enforcement action, telling the trust to ensure there was an \"effective system to manage the health and safety of people using the hospital\".\n\nThe report revealed staff did not always wear PPE or face coverings correctly in medical wards. One member of the nursing team was seen to be wearing a mask incorrectly in the ward where there had been an outbreak of the coronavirus.\n\nAt least seven members of staff were seen entering and leaving the ward caring for people who were suspected of having Covid-19 without adhering to hand hygiene practices.\n\nStaff did not always remove PPE upon entering a new clinical area of the emergency department. Nor did they always put on or take off their PPE when entering and leaving patient bays.\n\nWhile equipment was said to have been cleaned on the day, inspectors found this was not always recorded.\n\nThe report also detailed that five members of staff were seen in one room that was too small to enable the practised social distancing in that space.\n\nInspectors found staff and patients did not always have access to hand gel or hand washing facilities in the emergency department. It was also found that sanitiser bottles at the entrances to the assessment centre were empty.\n\nTed Baker, Chief Inspector of Hospitals, said: \"It is extremely disappointing to find that despite being warned about their hygiene, not enough work had been carried out to address infection control issues within the trust.\n\n\"It is particularly concerning during a time when infection control could never have been more important.\n\n\"Following the inspection, we reported our findings to the trust so its leaders know what they must address. We used our enforcement powers by imposing conditions on the trust's registration, to ensure people are safe.\"\n\nEast Kent Hospitals Trust chief executive Susan Acott said: \"In August, a CQC inspection team visited the William Harvey Hospital and saw examples of practice which falls short of the high standard we all want to provide for our patients.\n\n\"Keeping our patients and staff safe is our priority. We have responded to the CQC with the actions we are taking and we are committed to the care and safety of every patient in our hospitals.\"\n\n\"Rapid, long-lasting improvements are being led by our new, highly experienced, Interim Director of Infection, Prevention and Control - Dr Sara Mumford.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The universities said the majority of its teaching will be done online until at least 30 October\n\nThe two main universities in Manchester are teaching online until \"at least\" the end of the month after a coronavirus outbreak among students.\n\nManchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and the University of Manchester (UM) said it was a \"collaborative decision\" with public health bosses and \"won't impact\" on teaching quality.\n\nIt comes after 1,700 students were told to self-isolate at MMU on 26 September.\n\nUM said the move was to \"protect the health\" of students and staff.\n\nFace-to-face teaching is also being suspended at the University of Sheffield after it saw its biggest rise in cases on Monday.\n\nManchester has the highest rate of infections in England with 561 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThe University of Manchester said more than 1,000 students and 20 staff members have reported testing positive for the virus while the figure is understood to be over 500 at Manchester Metropolitan University.\n\nDavid Regan, the director of public health for Manchester, said: \"Clearly we need to introduce a contain approach with the universities just to manage transmission over the next three weeks.\"\n\nManchester has the highest rate of infections in England with 561 cases per 100,000 of the population\n\nThe universities said teaching will be done online until at least 30 October, but there will be a review on 23 October. Exceptions to the online teaching include accredited and professional programmes, and laboratory, clinical and practice-based subjects.\n\nThe University and College Union welcomed the move towards virtual learning but said Covid-19 outbreaks \"could have been prevented had the decision been taken earlier\".\n\n\"Hundreds of students that did not have to move into student accommodation are now self-isolating without their familiar support network,\" Martyn Moss, from the UCU said.\n\nAll teaching will be moved online at the University of Sheffield, with the exception of clinical teaching and research, from Friday until 19 October.\n\nA spokesperson said it would be \"working hard to resume these activities as soon as possible\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The streets of São Paulo, where most Brazilian deaths have been recorded, remain busy with shoppers\n\nConfirmed cases of coronavirus in Brazil have passed five million, with deaths in the country approaching 150,000, officials say.\n\nBrazil's health ministry reported 31,553 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the total infections to 5,000,694.\n\nThe country is the third worst hit for infections, after the US and India.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of downplaying the risks of the virus throughout the pandemic, ignoring expert advice on restrictive measures.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has rejected criticism of his handling of the pandemic, but his decision to oppose lockdowns and focus on the economy has been hugely divisive.\n\nOn Tuesday, Brazil recorded 734 new fatalities, bringing the death toll to 148,228, the ministry said.\n\nBrazil has the highest number of deaths in Latin America.\n\nThe state of São Paulo has been the worst hit, with around 36,000 deaths, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with about 19,000.\n\nIt is another milestone but the picture is not as grim here as it was a few weeks ago. The numbers of cases and deaths have been falling, although we are still talking around 5,000 fatalities a week - down from around 7,000 at the peak.\n\nThe absolute numbers are still far worse than in Europe, but life here feels like it is returning to normal - shops, restaurants and some schools are starting to re-open.\n\nDespite initial criticism over President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the crisis - his downplaying of the virus from the very start - his approval ratings have actually risen, thanks to generous government handouts to around 60 million informal workers.\n\nThe question is whether that support will continue as the government starts to reduce the payments while unemployment soars.\n\nIn August, Brazil's Vice-President Hamilton Mourão defended the government's handling of the pandemic, instead blaming a lack of discipline among Brazilians for the failure to limit the spread of Covid-19 through social distancing measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brazil's vice-president says the authorities have struggled to enforce social distancing measures", "Pubs, restaurants and visitor attractions are concerned about the possible impact of new restrictions on their businesses\n\nThe Scottish government is expected to announce stricter restrictions on licensed premises as part of efforts to slow a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nIt is thought that the new rules may be focused on pubs and restaurants in areas with higher levels of the virus.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already said the new measures will not be a return to full lockdown.\n\nThe virus has been spreading particularly quickly in the central belt of Scotland.\n\nIt is expected that the new rules will be primarily focused on \"hotspot\" areas, such as the Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Forth Valley and Ayrshire and Arran health board areas.\n\nThe Scottish Sun newspaper has said that a series of documents apparently giving details of the new rules for the hospitality sector have been leaked to its journalists.\n\nMs Sturgeon will confirm the new measures in a speech to the Scottish Parliament at about 14:50 BST.\n\nThe licensed trade has called on the Scottish government to provide financial support for any businesses that are affected.\n\nThe first minister said in June that she believed Scotland was \"not far away\" from eliminating the virus.\n\nBut the number of people testing positive has increased sharply in recent weeks - in keeping with some other parts of the UK and Europe - despite Scotland generally taking a more cautious approach to the virus than England.\n\nFigures released on Wednesday showed that Scotland recorded more than 1,000 new confirmed cases of the virus in a single day for the first time - although the country is doing far more testing now than at the height of the pandemic earlier in the year.\n\nAbout 730 new cases are being recorded every day in Scotland on average - compared with 285 a fortnight ago - with the number of people dying or being admitted to hospital also increasing.\n\nAcross the UK, a further 14,542 cases were confirmed on Tuesday - a figure that has trebled in a fortnight.\n\nLast month, people in Scotland were banned from visiting other homes, with strict limits also in force for outdoor meetings and a 22:00 curfew imposed for pubs and restaurants.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Tuesday that the rising number of cases meant \"additional targeted steps\" were now needed if the country was to attempt to bring the virus back under control before winter.\n\nWhen the 10pm pub curfew was announced a fortnight ago, Nicola Sturgeon made clear she would like to go further in restricting hospitality.\n\nThe reason she gave for not doing so was the limited capacity of the Scottish government to financially support affected businesses.\n\nTalks with the UK government have not resolved that issue yet, but the Scottish government is sufficiently alarmed by rising case numbers that it has decided to act anyway.\n\nThe trading hours and licensing conditions for pubs and restaurants are likely to be restricted further and these restrictions may be heaviest in the central belt of Scotland, where the prevalence of the virus is strongest.\n\nThe details were being debated and decided at a special meeting of the Scottish cabinet this morning.\n\nAffected businesses are likely to be offered some additional financial help from the Scottish government, while it continues to press for further Treasury support.\n\nToday's Scotland-only measures may not amount to the \"short, sharp, shock\" of the much discussed \"circuit-breaker\" - but they may not be the last restrictions to be imposed this autumn either.\n\nTourism and hospitality industry leaders have warned that many businesses will never recover from the impact of any further restrictions.\n\nBut the first minister has said the new measures would seek to strike a balance between protecting health and the economy.\n\nShe has already ruled out a nationwide travel ban or the possibility of people being told to stay at home, and has pledged that schools will only close for the duration of the October holidays.\n\nIt seems likely the new restrictions will primarily be targeted at \"hotspot\" areas with high levels of the virus, potentially alongside some new but possibly less stringent national measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister said on Monday the new measures would not amount to the lockdown seen in March\n\nThe rising number of cases in some cities was partly driven by a series of major outbreaks on university campuses - although the virus is increasingly being transmitted to older people too.\n\nMany more rural areas have seen far fewer cases - and have questioned the need for any new rules to apply to them.\n\nPaul Waterson, of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, said the prospect of tighter restrictions following the 22:00 closure time for pubs and restaurants was already affecting the industry \"very badly\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that Scotland could lose about a third of its pubs and about 25% of staff - or 12,500 people.\n\nBut he predicted that new restrictions could see these figure increase to two-thirds of premises and half of staff.\n\n\"To have more restrictions would really be a disaster, not only for pubs and bars but for the whole hospitality industry,\" he said.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said days of uncertainty about what new measures would be imposed had been \"unhelpful\" and had caused more emotional strain for employers and staff.\n\nIt called on the Scottish government to outline what new support it would be offering to firms impacted by the restrictions, and warned not doing so would further erode the trust of the business community.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have also called on the Scottish government to offer more than \"empty words\" to businesses, and said it was time for it to \"stop passing the buck back to the UK government\".", "Everyone living in Nottinghamshire has been asked to avoid mixing with other households indoors after a \"dramatic\" rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe government has not introduced tougher measures but local authorities have urged residents to start taking precautions now.\n\nNottingham currently has the fourth-highest infection rate in England, and the wider county has also seen a rise.\n\nLocal authorities expect a government decision by the end of the week.\n\nOn Tuesday, Nottingham City Council asked residents not to mix indoors with people from other households apart from within their bubble.\n\nThis includes in the home and at leisure and hospitality venues.\n\nOn Wednesday, Nottinghamshire County Council made the same request.\n\nIt added it expects the government to impose new restrictions on every part of the county.\n\nThe rate of infection for the city currently stands at 496.8 per 100,000 after cases increased from 314 in the week up to 27 September to 1,654.\n\nThe rate of infection for the county is 106 per 100,000 but varies from 53 to 150 across the districts, the county council said.\n\nFigures released on Wednesday show four districts out of seven - Broxtowe, Gedling, Rushcliffe and Newark and Sherwood - have rates above the England average.\n\nNottinghamshire's director of public health, Jonathan Gribbin, said: \"Covid-19 does not recognise geographical boundaries.\n\n\"The rapid and sustained increase in the numbers of positive cases is a serious cause for concern and the very dramatic rates in the city are a clear sign that action is needed now across the whole of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.\n\n\"We must now ask every resident to do their bit and not mix indoors with people from other households.\"\n\nNottinghamshire's care homes are also being advised to restrict visits to \"exceptional circumstances only\".\n\nThe University of Nottingham has confirmed 425 of its students have tested positive for the virus\n\nThe rise in cases coincides with the return of students to the city.\n\nNottingham City Council leader David Mellen said this has \"undoubtedly had a significant bearing on the increase in cases\".\n\nBut he added there has been a \"substantial rise in cases and infections across all parts of the city and in all age groups\".\n\nHis counterpart at Nottinghamshire County Council, Kay Cutts, added: \"No one group is responsible for the spread.\n\n\"If we want to see a return to normal life; to see our families again, to see our businesses flourish again, we must act now.\"\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.\n\nWales needs to prepare itself for \"quite a difficult winter\", the country's top doctor has warned.\n\nFrank Atherton told a press conference that further restrictions could not be ruled out as cases rise.\n\n\"We are going to have to learn to live with it,\" the chief medical officer said.\n\nHe also said he hoped \"most people in Wales don't take\" US president Donald Trump \"as their guide to how to deal with coronavirus\".\n\nHis comments came on the same day that Mr Trump separately retweeted criticism of Dr Atherton's rolling lockdown strategy.\n\nCases in Wales had gone from 20-30 cases a day in August to 752 on Tuesday, he said.\n\n\"Although all of us would like to see the back of coronavirus, it's going to be with us for some time and we're going to have to learn to live with it to some degree,\" he said.\n\nWales has 15 counties and one town under local lockdowns, with travel restrictions imposed.\n\n\"The situation is still very fluid in Wales as it is across the UK and rest of Europe and the world, in fact, and we can't rule out further restrictions.\"\n\nBut he added: \"I think we need to prepare ourselves for quite a difficult winter\".\n\n\"While we wait for and hope for a vaccine to become available we have to really look after ourselves and keep viral transmission low\".\n\nDr Atherton emphasised that the government was sticking to the local lockdown arrangements for the time being.\n\n\"At the moment, we're looking to the local health protection area arrangements to try to guide us through the current situation,\" he said.\n\nHe said there was \"some evidence\" for the arrangements working and improvements had been seen in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nThis was also the case in Blaenau Gwent and Merthyr Tydfil, he said, but high rates of transmission and new cases continued there.\n\nIn Newport a \"decline\" had been slowed because of an increase in cases \"related to house parties\".\n\n\"We're working on how we can now remove the restrictions in those areas, so that people can pick up their lives as usual,\" he said.\n\nHe warned of a \"rolling programme\" of putting restrictions in place and removing them.\n\nBut he said there are \"no plans\" for extra so called \"circuit break\" restrictions across Wales to coincide with schools' autumn half term.\n\nBangor is under \"active watch\", Frank Atherton said\n\nDr Atherton said Bangor is under \"active watch\" while Gwynedd is being \"considered\" for local lockdown, after a rise in cases in the city.\n\n\"An incident management team has been meeting on a daily basis up there and they are providing reports and suggestions into Welsh Government\", he said.\n\nOn a vaccine, Dr Atherton said he was \"more optimistic... about the prospect of an effective vaccine becoming available then I probably was six months ago\".\n\nHowever he said the timeframe was \"really difficult to judge\".\n\nFinding a vaccine would not follow a \"smooth journey\" and even though the UK had placed advance orders, global demand would be \"enormous\", he said.\n\nLocal health boards were planning how to deliver a vaccine if one becomes available, he added.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the Welsh Government should look at what was happening in Scotland where Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce tougher Covid restrictions.\n\nHe said: \"I think the latest figures from yesterday show more people in critical care in Wales than in Scotland, with more people hospitalised recently with Covid in Wales than in Scotland.\n\n\"The next few days is going to be critical because at some point, we may need to pull that emergency cord, as the Scottish Government has already decided to do\".", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mared Edwards' family home used to sit around a mile from the existing Wylfa power station\n\nA family whose home was demolished to help make way for a nuclear power station have been left \"angry\" and \"bitter\" at the decision not to go ahead with the project.\n\nMared Edwards, of Cemlyn on Anglesey, said they felt their sacrifice had been \"all for nothing\".\n\nHitachi announced in September it would be pulling out of the £20bn Wylfa Newydd project due to funding problems.\n\nIts UK subsidiary Horizon said work was always carried out \"in good faith\".\n\nMs Edwards was still a child when she and her family heard of the plans to buy the land surrounding their property.\n\nAround a mile from the original Wylfa plant, the family home looked straight out to the site.\n\nMs Edwards was a child when the family left the house\n\n\"It started off with someone coming along and wanting to buy Wylfa and all of a sudden there was a public meeting,\" said Ms Edwards.\n\n\"There was talk that we had to pack up and move out.\"\n\n\"I remember as a child it was over the basis of two years. We heard about it, moved out and that's it.\"\n\nShe had fond memories of the house which overlooked the old nuclear site\n\nTheir home and several others have now been demolished.\n\n\"We're angry and frustrated,\" Ms Edwards said.\n\n\"Why was there a need to knock down our home, and several other homes, and ruin the community?\n\n\"There's so much nature that has been ruined and now nothing's coming out of it.\"\n\nWhen Hitachi pulled out work had already been on hold for a year and a half.\n\nThe UK government has deferred its decision on the site's future until the end of the year.\n\nLetters sent by Horizon requesting the delay said talks with other \"third parties\" over the project were continuing.\n\nThe family home was demolished along with several others\n\nAlthough it is 12 years since Ms Edwards left the family home she has fond memories.\n\n\"It was a lovely home and such a nice place to be,\" she said.\n\n\"A lovely location and we knew everyone in the area.\"\n\nHorizon said it was not \"the end of the story\"\n\nHorizon said it understood local people's disappointment but said their work was carried out \"in good faith\".\n\nIt said the decision by Hitachi not to go ahead was not \"the end of the story\".\n\n\"Our work isn't done and as we explore options for the site we remain committed to working closely with the community to respect its wishes too,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUntil 2012, Horizon was owned by German power companies E.On and RWE.\n\nThey sold the company to Hitachi after they decided to pull out of the UK nuclear industry.\n\nIt includes a second development site at Oldbury in South Gloucestershire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pence's team had resisted the installation of plexiglass panels Image caption: Pence's team had resisted the installation of plexiglass panels\n\nAnticipation is building for the first and only vice-presidential debate between Vice-President Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Kamala Harris in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday night.\n\nWhen the pair lock horns on stage, there’ll be more than just political divisions on display.\n\nWearing masks, Harris and Pence will be seated more than 3.7m (12ft) apart, each with a plexiglass screen in front of them to mitigate the risk of coronavirus transmission.\n\nEvent staff were seen erecting the plexiglass partitions on the debate stage.\n\nHarris requested for there to be panels between her and Pence Image caption: Harris requested for there to be panels between her and Pence\n\nPence's team had opposed the barriers, deeming them unnecessary, but on Tuesday night agreed to have them installed.\n\nThe dispute came amid a growing number of positive cases among the inner circle of President Trump, who is continuing his recovery from Covid-19 at the White House.\n\nBoth Pence and Harris have tested negative for coronavirus in recent days.\n\nAt their debate, guests will be required to wear masks at all times and undergo coronavirus checks upon entry to the venue.\n\nThe BBC will be running a live page of tonight's debate, so check back in with the website a few hours from now if you want live coverage of all the twists and turns.\n\nRead more: Who has Trump met and who's tested positive?\n\nThe debate will take place in Salt Lake City on Wednesday night Image caption: The debate will take place in Salt Lake City on Wednesday night", "Some tourism and hospitality businesses may never recover from the effects of more coronavirus restrictions, industry leaders have warned.\n\nThe first minister will announce any further Covid curbs in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday.\n\nSome government advisers have backed the idea of a \"circuit breaker\" lockdown as a \"short, sharp shock\".\n\nAt her daily briefing Nicola Sturgeon said no final decisions had been taken but there would no return to lockdown.\n\nShe said schools would remain open, the remobilisation of the NHS would not be halted and there would be no nationwide restriction on travel.\n\nBut she did not rule out local travel limits or further controls on people meeting in bars or restaurants.\n\nStephen Leckie, the owner of the Crieff Hydro Hotel in Perthshire, said the developments made \"extremely harrowing reading\" for people working in hotels, restaurants, self-catering businesses or visitor attractions.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the next three weeks - covering many schools' October break - was the last chance for these businesses to make money before the end of the year.\n\n\"Any form of travel restriction would in effect be a lockdown those in this industry,\" he said.\n\n\"If we had to close for the remainder of this month for example, we'd walk from the frying pan straight into the fire.\n\n\"From November for the next five months, this industry, these people, our businesses, would simply lose money and many just wouldn't reopen next year.\"\n\nMr Leckie, who also chairs the Scottish Tourism Alliance, said consumer confidence had been knocked and people were cancelling bookings every time there are reports of possible further Covid restrictions.\n\nHe added: \"If we were to lockdown this Friday, we have our rotas seven days in advance.\n\n\"We cannot simply say to our people - and there will be 700 people working this weekend across our company - we cannot simply say to them, 'Look we're locking down, we're not going to pay you, we don't need you to come to work'.\"\n\nBusinesses also face a \"mammoth amount of work\" in paying back deposits to people if all the bookings are cancelled, he said.\n\n\"Surely there must be other levers that we can pull in order to restrict the spread of this virus,\" he said.\n\n\"Surely the blanket travel restriction, or circuit breaker or lockdown, as we're understanding it, surely that's not the answer. There must be other levers they can pull in order to halt this virus.\"\n\nCarina Contini, a restaurateur in Edinburgh, questioned whether the closure of hospitality was a \"fait accompli\". \"Is this absolutely the alternative?\" she asked.\n\nA further lockdown - however short - would have \"devastating consequences for many, many businesses\", she added.\n\nThe Scottish Hospitality Group (SHG), which represents nine of the country's largest independent hospitality operators, warned a two-week lockdown would cost its members £10m and harm their 6,000-strong workforce, including 1,500 under-25s.\n\nNic Wood, who runs the Signature Pubs chain and is a member of SHG, said: \"Not only does a bar or restaurant job provide much-needed money for young Scots, it gives them the people skills and experience that are vital in building their careers.\n\n\"It will be heartbreaking if we are forced to make redundancies because the government has shut us down again.\n\n\"Young people in Scotland will once again bear a disproportionate amount of the burden and coming on top of all the issues that students and young people are facing already, this will be a step too far.\"\n\nDuring her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said she hoped that her statement outlining what would not happen during a \"circuit-breaker\" would reassure the hospitality industry.\n\nShe added: \"Hopefully the fact that we are carefully weighing all of these factors and thinking about economic impact and how we mitigate that will also give a degree of reassurance.\n\n\"I understand how horrendously difficult this is for people like Stephen Leckie who has watched a business that has been built up with a lot of blood, sweat and tears over the years struggle in the way so many businesses have.\n\n\"I, like everyone does, find that heartbreaking, I find so many aspects of dealing with this pandemic utterly heartbreaking. I can't magic the virus away - I wish I could.\"", "As the new academic year begins at Cambridge, the university has exclusively revealed to the BBC that they have admitted a record number of 137 black UK students, the highest figure ever for the university and up 46 students on last year, which was also a record year.\n\nWhilst this is a step in the right direction for Cambridge, they admit there is still a way to go. BBC reporter Ashley John-Baptiste has followed three black students who started last year through what turned out to be quite an extraordinary year.", "Donald Trump sent the retweet on Wednesday afternoon\n\nUS president Donald Trump has retweeted criticism of plans for \"rolling lockdowns\" in Wales over the winter.\n\nFox News host Laura Ingraham tweeted it would be America's future \"under Biden\", with a link to a news story reporting comments from senior Welsh doctor Frank Atherton.\n\nCurrently 15 counties and one town in Wales are under local lockdown.\n\nSeparately on Wednesday Dr Atherton warned people in Wales not to follow coronavirus messages from Mr Trump.\n\nAt a press conference the chief medical officer hoped \"most people in Wales don't take President Trump as their guide to how to deal with coronavirus\".\n\n\"I think people are perhaps a little more thoughtful than that,\" he added.\n\nMr Trump, who returned to the White House after three days in hospital being treated for Covid-19, was criticised after he called on followers on social media not to be \"afraid of Covid\".\n\nFacebook also deleted a social media post from the president claiming the illness was less lethal than flu, while Twitter hid the same message.\n\nDonald Trump returned to the White House after three days in hospital\n\nDr Atherton said earlier this week that Wales could be \"going in and out of those restrictions over the next few months\".\n\nHe said: \"If the number of cases per 100,000 over a seven day period, comes down to below the 50 per 100,000 level, we can start to think with the local authority, in partnership with them, about lifting the restrictions.\"\n\nLocal lockdowns in Wales require people to stay in their county area, except for a limited set of reasons.", "Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been in budget talks with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he is ending negotiations over a Covid-19 relief bill, and will only resume talks after the election.\n\nHe predicted he would win next month's election and pass a bill afterwards. US stocks fell after the announcement.\n\nBudget talks between Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin began in July.\n\nDemocratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Mr Trump had \"turned his back\" on the American people.\n\n\"Make no mistake: if you are out of work, if your business is closed, if your child's school is shut down, if you are seeing layoffs in your community, Donald Trump decided today that none of that - none of it - matters to him,\" Mr Biden said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\nThe Republican president - who is himself currently being treated for Covid-19 - countered: \"Crazy Nancy Pelosi and the Radical Left Democrats were just playing 'games' with the desperately needed Workers Stimulus Payments.\n\n\"They just wanted to take care of Democrat failed, high crime, Cities and States. They were never in it to help the workers, and they never will be!\"\n\nHe said he had instructed Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to focus efforts on confirming his Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.\n\nMr McConnell later told reporters he supported the president's move because he believed a deal with the Democrats was looking too difficult. \"We need to concentrate on the achievable,\" he said.\n\nLawmakers from both parties had hoped for another round of Covid-19 relief spending to pass ahead of the 3 November election, but Mr Trump's tweet appears to have abruptly suspended that prospect.\n\nIt comes as coronavirus cases rise in several parts of the country, the outbreak widens among White House staff and Republican senators, and hits Pentagon top brass.\n\nDonald Trump's decision to kill Covid-19 relief negotiations may be a brave stand on principle, ultimately siding with conservatives who are against more massive deficit-financed spending, but it is also a very risky political move.\n\nA multi-trillion-dollar deal would have pumped stimulus into the economy at a time when the unemployment and business growth outlook is trending downward. A jobs and spending boost - or even the prospect of one - would have helped the president make the case that he, not Joe Biden, would be the best steward of the American economy for the next four years.\n\nInstead, the stock market dropped precipitously on the president's announcement, and the massive permanent layoffs that have already started in the travel and entertainment industries will continue apace.\n\nThis isn't good news for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, either, as her hardline negotiating strategy ended up with nothing to show for it. More moderate Democrats, who were already expressing frustration with the lack of a deal, will only sharpen their criticism of the Democratic leadership.\n\nWhoever wins the elections in November won't have long to savour their victories before having to face what is sure to be a large and growing economic crisis.\n\nIn an all-too-familiar story of Washington gridlock, both Republicans and Democrats refused to compromise enough to meet in the middle.\n\nThe White House said it would back a Covid-19 relief bill of $1.6 trillion. But Mrs Pelosi was holding out for a more generous package.\n\nHer House Democrats last week passed a $2.2tr stimulus bill, though that measure had no chance of advancing in the Republican-controlled Senate.\n\nThe Senate leader had indicated he would not support any legislation with a price tag of more than $2tr.\n\nMr Trump begrudgingly offered $250bn of funding for state and local governments. Mrs Pelosi was holding out for more than $400bn.\n\nRepublicans accused her of simply seeking a bail-out for Democratic-run states facing budgetary problems stemming from before the pandemic.\n\nThe White House said last week it favoured a $400 per week pandemic jobless benefit, but Democrats wanted $600.\n\nWhat is the economic situation in the US?\n\nAnalysts have warned that the economic recovery risks stalling without further aid. While the US has regained about half the jobs lost in March and April, more than 10 million people remain unemployed.\n\nIn a speech on Tuesday, the head of America's central bank, Jerome Powell, warned of \"tragic\" consequences should policymakers do too little and the pace of progress slow further.\n\n\"The expansion is still far from complete,\" he said. \"Even if policy actions ultimately prove to be greater than needed, they will not go to waste.\"\n\nMr Trump's unexpected announcement comes as many of the individual benefits previously approved by Congress have already run out.\n\nThe new Congress will not reconvene until January, following the November elections.\n\nMrs Pelosi accused Mr Trump of \"putting himself first at the expense of the country\".\n\n\"He shows his contempt for science, his disdain for our heroes… and he refuses to put money in workers' pockets, unless his name is printed on the cheque,\" she added.\n\n\"Clearly, the White House is in complete disarray,\" she said, calling on Trump officials to heed Mr Powell's advice.", "People arriving in the UK from abroad may soon be able to end their 14-day self-isolation early, as part of plans to be considered by a new taskforce.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the taskforce will look at introducing a Covid-19 testing system for travellers to the UK.\n\nPeople would have to pay for their own tests to avoid impacting NHS capacity.\n\nAirline and airport bosses reiterated calls to replace quarantine altogether, with a comprehensive testing system.\n\nThe aviation industry has struggled with the drop in passenger numbers since the start of the UK's epidemic, with industry figures repeatedly lobbying for testing at ports and airports - something ministers have rejected.\n\nAnyone arriving to the UK from abroad must currently self-isolate for two weeks, unless they have come from an exempt destination.\n\nThe plans to be considered by the Global Travel Taskforce include giving travellers the option of paying for a coronavirus test a few days after they arrive.\n\nA negative result would mean people could end their quarantine period early.\n\nThe taskforce will also consider whether people could self-isolate before travelling abroad, instead of upon arrival.\n\nIf you were running an airline or owned a travel agency I don't think you'd be jumping for joy.\n\nYou would probably be relieved that the government has eventually done what you've been calling for for months and given a firmer commitment to testing, as a way to allow people to avoid quarantining for the full 14 days.\n\nBut Heathrow had a facility for taking passengers' saliva swabs ready to go in mid-August.\n\nThat facility now appears redundant because the government has rejected the scientific rationale behind testing passengers at airports on arrival - on the basis that asymptomatic people who recently caught the virus could still produce negative results.\n\nAnd even though ministers have made their firmest commitment yet to privately-funded testing, travel bosses will, to some extent, be pulling their hair out that key details still haven't been worked out.\n\nNamely, after how many days of quarantine would someone be able to pay for a test? Between five and eight days is what the government is considering.\n\nWhat airlines really want is the option of people having a test two or three days before they arrive. With a second test after you arrive in the UK that could reduce quarantine even further.\n\nThe government has crucially indicated that it's willing to explore that idea. But aviation bosses just want ministers to get on with it - the creation of a taskforce wasn't the announcement they wanted on Wednesday.\n\nAnnouncing the plans, Mr Shapps said: \"The current measures at the border have saved lives. Our understanding of the science now means we can intensify efforts to develop options for a testing regime and help reinvigorate our world-leading travel sector.\n\n\"This new taskforce will not only help us move towards safer, smoother international travel as we continue to battle this virus but will also support global connectivity - helping facilitate more Covid-secure travel whilst protecting the population from imported cases.\"\n\nMr Shapps and Health Secretary Matt Hancock will lead the taskforce to consider:\n\nThe group is expected to report back to No 10 in November.\n\nOfficials from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will all be involved in the taskforce's work. But as health matters are devolved, decision making and implementation may differ across the four nations.\n\nWhile industry figures called the announcement a \"step in the right direction\", many also reiterated their belief that a testing programme should replace quarantine altogether.\n\nA spokeswoman for British Airways added: \"Although every step to improve the current situation is welcome, we do not believe quarantine is the solution. The best way to reassure people is to introduce a reliable and affordable test before flying.\"\n\nKaren Dee, chief executive of the Airport Operators Association - a trade association for UK airports - said: \"We believe that from a health perspective a testing regime can be far preferable to just relying on quarantine.\"\n\nAnd a Virgin Atlantic spokesperson said: \"Removing quarantine is the only way to truly open up the skies and enable the UK's economic recovery to take off.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nOne airline trade body says testing people before they travel - an idea known as \"pre-departure testing\" - was becoming the \"international norm\" and should be adopted in the UK too \"as soon as practically possible\".\n\n\"Aviation is at a critical juncture and we have no time to lose,\" added Airlines UK's chief executive, Tim Alderslade.\n\nMany industry figures also called for the taskforce to bring in changes - rather than just recommendations - within weeks.\n\nA joint statement from the CEOs of Easyjet, Heathrow, Manchester Airports Group (MAG) and Virgin Atlantic said a testing regime must be in place by early November because without \"rapid\" action, \"the UK will fall even further behind our competitors and the economic recovery will fail to get off the ground\".\n\nAlmost 900 jobs are at risk at MAG's three UK airports - Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands Airport - after the pandemic resulted in the \"toughest summer ever\".\n\nShadow transport secretary Jim McMahon said the government had been \"incompetently slow to react\".\n\n\"They've had months to set up a taskforce, months to look into airport testing and months to sort out the flaws of their quarantine proposals,\" the Labour MP added.\n\nHe also called for a financial support package for the aviation sector.", "People with \"long Covid\" symptoms will be offered specialist help at clinics across England, the head of NHS England has announced.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were \"tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands\" of patients affected.\n\nPeople with relatively mild coronavirus infections as well as those who have been treated in intensive care can have persistent health problems for months.\n\nThe most common symptom of long Covid is crippling fatigue.\n\nBut breathlessness, joint pain, anxiety, brain fog and many other symptoms have also been reported.\n\nAnd some estimates suggest one in 10 of those infected with the virus could be affected.\n\nSir Simon said £10m would be invested this year in setting up long-Covid clinics in every area across England, to provide one-stop services for physical and mental health issues.\n\nPatients will have access to assessments for health issues, memory problems or mental health conditions such as depression or anxiety.\n\nThey can then be referred to other specialist clinics if required.\n\nStudent Evie Connell used to go to the gym four times a week\n\nDundee student Evie Connell, 23, was going to the gym four times a week before she caught the virus, in March.\n\nHer symptoms were mild at first - a migraine, cough and temperature.\n\nBut they did not go away.\n\nAnd months later, she had a racing heart rate and worrying chest pain, which turned into chronic fatigue.\n\n\"I would come home and go to bed and sleep, then get up just in time to work again the next day,\" Evie says.\n\n\"I couldn't tell you anything I did outside of going to work.\"\n\nEvie was signed off work after her GP referred her to a Covid rehab team at her local hospital, where she is seeing a physiotherapist who is teaching her how to pace herself.\n\n\"It's completely changed my life,\" she says of long Covid.\n\nNow back at university, Evie has to take breaks during classes because she cannot concentrate.\n\nAnd she has been unable to focus on reading a book in six months.\n\n\"I don't know when I'll ever go back to the gym again,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm just hoping I can get back to work soon, otherwise the money will run out.\"", "Len McCluskey (pictured) has expressed concern about the direction the Labour Party is taking\n\nA meeting of the Unite union executive has decided to cut its affiliation money to the Labour Party by about 10%, BBC Newsnight understands.\n\nUnite is the Labour Party's single biggest donor, providing the party with millions in funding every year.\n\nBut there is anger in the union about Labour's direction under Sir Keir Starmer with a source saying he and his inner team were \"just not listening\".\n\nSir Keir said he enjoyed \"strong relations\" with Unite.\n\nThe party and the union would \"continue campaigning side-by-side and shoulder-to-shoulder\" on \"important\" issues facing workers, he added.\n\nUnite general secretary Len McCluskey was a major ally of the former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and is a stalwart of the party's Left. He is due to stand down as general secretary in 2022.\n\nAhead of the meeting of Unite's executive, he told Newsnight another cut in funding might happen if the party changed course too drastically under its new leader.\n\nHe said: \"I have no doubt if things start to move in different directions and ordinary working people start saying, 'Well, I'm not sure what Labour stand for,' then my activists will ask me, 'Why are we giving so much money'?\"\n\nHe went on to express dismay that Unite funds had been spent by Labour paying damages to whistle-blowers who contributed to a Panorama programme about Labour's handling of the anti-Semitism crisis.\n\nMr McCluskey said his executive was angry about the decision \"because they thought it was an absolute mistake and wrong to pay out huge sums of money to individuals who were suing the Labour Party based on the Panorama programme, when Labour's own legal people were saying that they would lose that case if it went to court. So we shouldn't have paid them anything.\"\n\nBut, when the payout was announced, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said it was a \"prudent move\" which was \"part of that healing process\" that the party needed.\n\nAnd, in a statement read out in the High Court, Labour said it unreservedly apologised and was determined to root out anti-Semitism in the party and the wider Labour movement.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the decision was \"for Unite as a union.\"\n\nThere is some frustration on the Labour left that Sir Keir ran for the leadership on the party's left but has quickly tacked to the centre since winning the contest in April this year.\n\nA Unite source said: \"Keir and his inner circle are just not listening.\n\n\"There's a lot of anger from the people who knock on the doors and man the phones. They don't want to be taken for granted.\"\n\nThe source went on to say that Mr McCluskey was likely to redirect the money to left-wing grassroots organisations to support a socialist programme, \"which he sees as vital to produce a Labour victory in 2024\".\n\nResponding to Mr McCluskey's comments, Sir Keir said: \"The decision was a decision for Unite as a union.\"\n\nHe added: \"I haven't spoken to Len in the last 24 hours but I speak to him on a regular basis. We've got a very good relationship with Unite and will continue to work with them.\"\n\nLast month, TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady told the BBC: \"Keir has had a really strong start. You only have to look at the opinion polls to see that.\n\n\"I hear Keir talking about decency, dignity. Those are really important values, along with people looking after each other.\"\n\nThe campaign to choose Mr McCluskey's successor begins next year.", "Supermarket giant Tesco has seen first-half profits rise by more than a quarter as customers bought more food during the pandemic and online orders doubled.\n\nPre-tax profit for the 26 weeks to 29 August was £551m, 28.7% up on 2019.\n\nIt is Tesco's first set of results under its new chief executive, Ken Murphy, who started last week.\n\nHe replaces Dave Lewis, who had been running the UK's biggest retailer since 2014.\n\nWith more customers turning to online shopping, Tesco more than doubled delivery capacity to 1.5 million slots a week during the first half, including serving 674,000 vulnerable customers.\n\nWhile demand for food rose, clothing fared less well, with sales down 17.2%.\n\nLike many of its rivals, Tesco was forced to overhaul its strategy in-store and online amid the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nMr Murphy told a conference call with journalists the first half of this year had \"tested our business in ways we had never imagined\", but employees had \"risen brilliantly to every challenge\".\n\nHe said he felt \"very comfortable in my own skin and my ability to lead this business\".\n\n\"I'm really happy with the strategy and direction of the company,\" he added. \"My job is to maintain momentum in the business and deliver a fantastic Christmas.\"\n\nTesco is in the process of selling its businesses in Thailand, Malaysia and Poland, but Mr Murphy said there was currently \"no plan for further retrenchment\".\n\nWhen Dave Lewis was parachuted into the top job in Tesco in 2014, the business was in crisis. Now Ken Murphy is presiding over his first set of results and Britain's biggest retailer is doing rather well.\n\nThe business, he says, is in \"great shape\". But his job is going to be far from easy.\n\nHe's got to steer Tesco through the ongoing Covid-19 crisis during the key festive trading period. Then there's the impact of a potential no-deal Brexit looming on the horizon.\n\nAnd as the job losses start to mount, shoppers' budgets will be coming under increasing pressure. The battle for our wallets is set to become even more intense.\n\nFinally, now that Tesco's turnaround is complete, Mr Murphy will have to focus in the longer term on how to grow the business. A new chapter begins.\n\nOperating profit figures told a different story, however, falling 15.6% to £1.037bn. One of the items dragging down the balance sheet was Tesco Bank, which made a loss of £155m.\n\nTesco said sales in the UK and Ireland rose 8.6% to £24.3bn, with overall revenue of £28.7bn. But it added that coronavirus-related costs had hit £533m.\n\nUK food sales went up 9.2% during the period, the retailer said.\n\nThe supermarket said it was increasing its interim dividend by 21% to 3.2p a share.\n\nIt also named a new chief financial officer, Imran Nawaz, who is joining from Tate & Lyle. He will succeed Alan Stewart, who is retiring in April.\n\n\"In spite of these positive results, Tesco will still have concerns after its valuation dropped below Ocado,\" said Julie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor.\n\nAnd even though Dave Lewis had left \"a well-oiled machine\" behind him, it would not be an easy ride for Mr Murphy as the new chief executive, she added.\n\n\"Facing a pandemic, an economic recession and an exit from the EU all at once is not the ideal recipe for success in anyone's book.\n\n\"However, add in growing competition from challenger brands such as Aldi with a new click-and-collect service, the M&S partnership with Ocado and the looming juggernaut of Amazon entering the field of play, and getting through this period with its position intact will be no mean feat.\"", "Children are not able to properly understand the lifelong consequences of taking puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, the High Court has been told.\n\nThe case has been brought by Keira Bell, who began taking puberty blockers when she was 16, and the mother of a 16-year-old awaiting treatment.\n\nThey are taking action against the UK's only children's NHS gender clinic, run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.\n\nThe landmark hearing in London is expected to last two days.\n\nThe Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based in Hampstead, north-west London, is a specialised unit for young people who have difficulties with their gender identity.\n\nLawyers representing Ms Bell, 23, and Mrs A, whose autistic child is currently on the waiting list for treatment at the service, argue that children going through puberty are \"not capable of properly understanding the nature and effects of hormone blockers\".\n\nThey argue there is \"a very high likelihood\" that children who start taking hormone blockers will later begin taking cross-sex hormones, which they say cause \"irreversible changes\".\n\nMs Bell and Mrs A are asking the High Court to rule that it is unlawful for children who wish to undergo gender reassignment to be prescribed hormone blockers without an order from the court that such treatment is in their \"best interests\".\n\nJeremy Hyam QC, who is representing the pair at the hearing, said: \"The use of hormone blockers to address gender dysphoria does not have any adequate evidence base to support it.\"\n\nHe said the effect of hormone blockers \"on the intensity, duration and outcome of adolescent development is largely unknown\", adding: \"There is evidence that hormone blockers can have significant side-effects, including loss of fertility and sexual function and decreased bone density.\"\n\nIn written submissions, Mr Hyam said: \"That children are not capable of giving informed consent to undergo a type of medical intervention about which the evidence base is poor, the risks and potential side-effects are still largely unknown, and which is likely to set them on a path towards permanent and life-altering physical, psychological, emotional and developmental consequences... is the common-sense and obvious position.\"\n\nHe told the court that referrals to GIDS had seen a \"20-fold increase\", rising from 97 in 2009 to 2,590 in 2018.\n\nKeira Bell, 23, is taking action against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nIn a witness statement before the court, Ms Bell, who began \"detransitioning\" last year, said: \"I made a brash decision as a teenager, as a lot of teenagers do, trying to find confidence and happiness, except now the rest of my life will be negatively affected.\"\n\nShe added: \"Transition was a very temporary, superficial fix for a very complex identity issue.\"\n\nFenella Morris QC, lawyer for the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, said the contention that children could not give informed consent to being prescribed hormone blockers was \"a radical proposition\".\n\nShe argued in written submissions that the claimants sought to \"impose a blanket exclusion\" on children under the age of 18 to be able to consent to medical treatment.\n\nMs Morris added the majority of children referred to GIDS between March 2019 and 2020 were over 12, with only 13 of the children referred being under the age of 13.\n\nIn a written submission, she added their use \"has been widely researched and debated for three decades\", adding: \"It is a safe and reversible treatment with a well-established history.\"\n\nThis is a controversial case with deeply held views on all sides.\n\nAt the heart of it is the complex question of whether a child under the age of 18 can give informed consent to treatment that Keira Bell's lawyers describe as \"experimental\" and \"life-altering\".\n\nThey say that with some children prescribed puberty blockers as young as nine or 10 (although this is rare), they can't possibly know how they will feel as an adult if they face difficulties having a child or having a fulfilling sexual relationship.\n\nLawyers for the Tavistock maintain there are careful checks and balances and, for years, such drugs have successfully given young people space to reflect before they transition.\n\nThey are also likely to point to the many young transgender people who already have to wait years just to see a gender specialist and the deep distress that causes.\n\nMs Morris also said the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust referred children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria to University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust or Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.\n\nShe argued that those two trusts were \"responsible\" for prescribing hormone blockers to children with gender dysphoria - not the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.\n\nLawyers representing London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust are expected to address the court on Thursday.\n\nIt is expected that the judges hearing the case - Dame Victoria Sharp, Mr Justice Lewis and Mrs Justice Lieven - will reserve judgment to a later date.\n\nCorrection 10th October 2020: This article originally included a quote from Fenella Morris QC about the use of hormone blockers, from agency reporting, which was subsequently found to be inaccurate. As a result we have removed this line from the story.\n• None NHS gender clinic 'should have challenged me more'", "The search involved police, firefighters, coastguard staff and search and rescue volunteers\n\nA man's body has been recovered following a major search of a river in north Wales.\n\nEmergency services had searched the river at Abergwyngregyn, Gwynedd, after reports a telephone engineer had fallen in at about 16:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nA body was found just before 19:15, North Wales Police said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alun Oldfield said the man's next of kin had been informed and his family were being supported.\n\n\"Our heartfelt sympathies are with the man's family and friends at this incredibly difficult time,\" he said.\n\n\"An investigation is now under way to establish what happened.\"\n\nA major search was launched with police, firefighters and the coastguard, and search and rescue volunteers.\n\nTwo specialist water rescue teams and three fire crews from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service searched the river, along with members of Ogwen Valley Search and Rescue Team.\n\nResidents saw the helicopter flying over the river\n\nThe coastguard helicopter attended and two coastguard rescue teams were sent from Bangor and Llandudno to assist in the search.\n\nEarlier this week homes in the village were flooded after the River Aber burst its banks following heavy rain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Repair work from previous flooding was still under way when these properties were hit again", "Pubs and restaurants across central Scotland are to be closed under the new measures\n\nThe Scottish government has published the evidence of its senior clinical advisers that guided strict new restrictions, especially on pubs and restaurants.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that the estimated total number of cases in Scotland is currently just 13% of the peak level back in March. But she warned that cases are rising quickly.\n\nThe evidence paper states that \"at the current rate of growth (7% increase per day), the number of infections would be at the level of the March peak by the end of October\".\n\nAlthough the increase is across Scotland, certain areas across the central belt were giving particular concern.\n\nThe clinical advisers said: \"Several health board areas including Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire and Lothian have been tracking rates in excess of 100 positive cases per 100,000 population over the past seven days.\"\n\nNHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Forth Valley also have rates which are a concern and are included in the central belt restrictions.\n\nThe rate of 86 cases per 100,000 in NHS Western Isles represents 23 cases over the past week.\n\nThe evidence paper - from Chief Medical Officer Gregor Smith, Chief Nursing Officer Fiona McQueen and National Clinical Director Jason Leitch - said Scotland is continuing to closely track the situation in France with a four-week lag - and six weeks behind Spain.\n\nDeath rates in Spain increased significantly in mid-September and are now at a level 10 times the rate in Scotland.\n\nBoth France and Spain have introduced strict new measures to reduce their rising numbers of infections and deaths, including the closure of all bars in Paris for two weeks from 6 October.\n\nThe resurgence in these countries was initially concentrated among younger people but spread to other age groups.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that the single most effective step to reduce transmission was taken 12 days ago when meeting in each other's home was stopped.\n\n\"That measure is vital, but the clinical advice I have received now is that it is not sufficient,\" she said.\n\nIn deciding what to do next there were some things she was not prepared to do.\n\n\"We are not closing schools, colleges or universities,\" she said. \"We are not halting the remobilisation of the NHS for non-Covid care. And we are not asking people to stay at home.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she wanted a more \"targeted approach\" than the March lockdown.\n\nThis involves pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes closing in the central belt and operating under greatly reduced circumstances in the rest of the country, with no alcohol being served indoors.\n\nThe evidence paper says hospitality was closed during the lockdown and opened again on 15 July.\n\nModelling of the R value (reproduction number) at that time shows that about three weeks later it rose above 1, the level at which the virus begins to spread much more rapidly.\n\nThe clinical advisors said \"this cannot be entirely attributed to hospitality\" but it was likely to have played a significant role.\n\nFrom the details of interviews that have been completed as part of Test and Protect, about 26% of individuals who have tested positive for Covid-19 since July have reported \"exposure\" to pubs, restaurants or cafes.\n\nAll ages are included but half of these people were 20-39.\n\nThe clinical advisers admitted that the data do not indicate where people who have tested positive were infected.\n\nUnless there is a \"clear and bounded outbreak\" linked to a pub it is not usually possible to say exactly where someone picked up the virus.\n\n\"However it does highlight that people who have been infected have been in hospitality settings where they could have spread the virus to others,\" the paper says.\n\nThe evidence paper says that pubs and restaurant settings are difficult places to maintain physical distancing and other factors, such as poor ventilation and noise, make them places that could spread the virus.\n\n\"Generally this setting involves people of different ages with different individual risk profiles mixing with other households, or being seated in close proximity to other households, for more than 15 minutes,\" it says.\n\nThe paper also mentions the \"disinhibiting impact of alcohol\", which may make people less inclined to strictly follow the rules.\n\n\"For all of these reasons, significantly restricting licensed premises for 16 days temporarily removes one of the key opportunities the virus has to jump from household to household,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"It is an essential part of our efforts to get the R number significantly below 1.\"\n\nThe choice of measures is a decision that the data cannot make for us.\n\nThe evidence shows that the current measures are not controlling the virus.\n\nThe number of people going into hospital with coronavirus is doubling roughly every fortnight and, if that pattern continues, the pressure would surely mount.\n\nBut the evidence cited by the first minister in support of the effectiveness of the measures announced today is not watertight.\n\nShe listed all of the reasons why indoor hospitality is a place where it is easy for the virus to spread and some data that support, but do not prove, that point.\n\nThe R value did rise above 1 about three weeks after pubs opened and just over 20% of people recently infected report having been to a pub, restaurant or café in the preceding week.\n\nThis doesn't prove that closing licensed venues after 6pm will turn the tide, or be more effective than doing so after 10pm.\n\nBut there is no single dataset or number that will map out a precise path through this epidemic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Leeds businessman Manni Hussain handed over 45 properties after investigators used an Unexplained Wealth Order\n\nAround £10m of property has been surrendered in a major victory against some of northern England's most dangerous criminals.\n\nThe apartments and homes were given up to the National Crime Agency by a Leeds businessman who investigators suspect of being a major money-launderer.\n\nThe NCA says Mansoor Mahmood Hussain acted for gangsters, including a murderer and drug trafficker.\n\nThe agency believes he laundered their profits through a property empire.\n\nOver two decades, Mr Hussain, known as Manni, developed his portfolio across West Yorkshire, Cheshire and London while posing as a legitimate businessman.\n\nHis social media accounts show him living a luxury lifestyle involving high-performance cars, executive jets, super-yachts and appearances at VIP events attended by celebrities. He filled his timeline with pictures of the famous - although there is no suggestion that any of VIPs he posed with knew who he was.\n\nVIP events: Mr Hussain showed off his purported lifestyle on social media. Here with Beyoncé...\n\nWhile the 40-year-old has never been convicted of a crime, investigators say they had intelligence linking him to serious gangsters - but could not obtain the detailed evidence needed for charges of money laundering.\n\nInstead, in 2019, they turned to the relatively new power of an Unexplained Wealth Order which required the businessman to open his books and show how his wealth had come from legitimate sources.\n\nThe NCA has now announced that Mr Hussain has given up fighting the case against him and has agreed a settlement in which he has handed over the vast majority of his empire - 45 properties, apartments, offices and homes. The settlement also includes the brand name Poundworld, which Mr Hussain bought after the original chain's demise.\n\nAs part of the settlement, the NCA has left him with four small properties that are still mortgaged, and cash in a bank account that was not part of the original investigation.\n\nGraeme Biggar, head of economic crime at the NCA, said: \"This case is a milestone, demonstrating the power of Unexplained Wealth Orders, with significant implications for how we pursue illicit finance in the UK.\n\n\"This ground-breaking investigation has recovered millions of pounds worth of criminally-obtained property.\n\n\"It is crucial for the economic health of local communities such as Leeds, and for the country as a whole, that we ensure property and other assets are held legitimately.\"\n\nThe biggest single property handed over to the NCA is a high-specification apartment and office development, Cubic, on the outskirts of Leeds, which Mr Hussain wholly owned through one of his many companies.\n\nThe other properties include a home on one of the city's most expensive roads, an apartment opposite Harrods in London and terraced housing in Leeds and Bradford.\n\nOnce all the property is eventually sold, the profits will be split 50/50 between the investigatory agency and central government.\n\nIn High Court legal papers, the NCA said it believed the seed money for Cubic's development and other property purchases must have come from Mr Hussain's criminal associates because they could find no legitimate source for his wealth. He had paid virtually no income tax in some years and many of his 77 companies were dormant.\n\nThe court was told Mr Hussain was thought to be a \"clean skin\" - a businessman free of convictions, acting as a professional money-launderer.\n\nToday the NCA said one of the developer's closest associates was Bradford gangster Mohammed Nisar Khan, known on the street as \"Meggy\".\n\nLast year he was jailed for life for murder - and investigators have long considered him one of the most significant organised crime bosses in northern England, involved in drug and firearms trafficking operations.\n\nMr Hussain has been close to Mohammed Khan since 2005 and frequently drove him to and from court, according to evidence gathered by investigators.\n\nHe also paid a £134,000 confiscation order for Khan's brother, Shamsher, who had been separately convicted of money laundering.\n\nThe NCA also said that Dennis Slade, who once headed an armed robbery gang, stayed rent-free in Mr Hussain's seven-bedroom Leeds home - one of the properties he's now surrendered.\n\nThis seven-bedroom home on Sandmoor Drive in Leeds has been handed over to the NCA\n\nThe highly unusual outcome of the investigation - including the settlement leaving the target with some property - comes after the future of the UWO powers was in doubt.\n\nOf the four cases launched since the orders were created, two are still being fought through the courts while the NCA lost the third after the High Court ruled the individuals being targeted had no case to answer.\n\nThe NCA today defended the decision to settle the Hussain case, saying Manni Hussain had been left with virtually nothing other than heavily mortgaged properties - and it had saved the taxpayer time and money by discouraging him from launching a potentially long and expensive legal battle. Investigators say that the settlement included no promise to Mr Hussain that he would not be investigated again in the future.\n\nDuncan Hames of Transparency International, an anti-corruption and white collar crime campaign group that lobbied for the introduction of UWOs, welcomed the outcome of the case.\n\n\"What's important is that there is a high level of transparency so people can see justice being done,\" said Mr Hames. \"Given the challenges on the court system, we need to be grateful when cases are brought to a conclusion - but we need to see many more of them.\"\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hussain for comment.", "However you look at the blizzard of statistics about the Coronavirus, the disease is still spreading - despite town after town being placed under extra limits.\n\nEven before Nicola Sturgeon's moves on Wednesday to try to break the spread in Scotland, ministers in SW1 were looking at the next steps they would need to take to stop the acceleration of the virus.\n\nAs we've reported, the government is likely to introduce a tiered approach to put different parts of the country with different spreads of the diseases into different categories.\n\nBut the exact nature of the strictest form of restrictions are yet to be set in stone.\n\nIt's a complicated equation. The Department of Health is worried about the spread of the disease, as well as other patients losing out on other treatments because of the focus on Covid.\n\nNo 11 is fearful about the impact on the economy, which has already had a profound shock.\n\nAnd it's No 10's job to worry about all of it, then reach a conclusion.\n\nBut Boris Johnson also knows that his own MPs and the opposition parties are more and more sceptical as each day passes about what the government proposes.\n\nIt's clear that shutting pubs and restaurants is a possibility - the \"circuit breaker\" that we have talked about on here lots of times.\n\nBut there are many questions still to be settled.\n\nWould that happen everywhere? Or just in the most affected parts of the country?\n\nWould closures be total or for a certain period of time only?\n\nWould they be temporary? Or put in place until an indeterminate time?\n\nA lot is unknown, but the discussions are serious. The Treasury is already looking at financial support for the different options, including not just closing pubs in the most affected areas, but potentially well beyond.\n\nThere is a lot yet to settle, and the next formal announcement is likely (as things stand) not to come until Monday.\n\nBut more action is clearly on the way.", "The number of people admitted to hospital with Covid-19 on one day has jumped by nearly a quarter in England.\n\nThere were 478 people admitted to hospital on Sunday - the largest daily figure since early June - up from 386.\n\nMore than two-thirds of those were in the North West, North East and Yorkshire.\n\nIt comes as a further 14,542 cases were confirmed across the whole of the UK on Tuesday. That daily figure has trebled in a fortnight.\n\nExtra restrictions have been introduced in many areas of the UK to try to contain the spread of the virus - including across the whole of Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn top of these national measures, parts of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and areas in the Midlands, Lancashire, Merseyside, West Yorkshire and the North East of England have seen additional rules imposed.\n\nBut Prof John Edmunds, who advises the government's coronavirus response as part of Sage, said more stringent national lockdown restrictions were needed to bring the pandemic under control.\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight local restrictions in the north of England had not been very effective, and the government's \"light tough\" measures were just \"delaying the inevitable\".\n\n\"We will at some point put very stringent measures in place because we will have to when hospitals start to really fill up,\" he said.\n\n\"Frankly, the better strategy is to put them in place now.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new coronavirus restrictions would be announced on Wednesday - but it will not be another full lockdown.\n\nAnd households could be banned from mixing in Nottingham after a surge in cases, a city health official has said.\n\nThe BBC understands that the government will push ahead with a new \"three-tier\" approach to restrictions in local areas of England, in an effort to replace the patchwork of existing measures.\n\nUnder the system, local areas would be put under one of three levels of restrictions based on the number of cases per 100,000 people.\n\nHowever, the mayors in Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Manchester - where cases are soaring - said a \"more nuanced approach\" than this was needed.\n\nThe current restrictions \"are not working, confusing for the public and some, like the 10pm rule, are counter-productive\", they said, in a letter to the health secretary.\n\nThey are demanding more powers for local police and councils to try to address the rising infection rates \"based on local knowledge\".\n\n\"Our response should consider broader local impacts than absolute numbers of infections: impacts on jobs and business; effects on poverty and deprivation; and relative infection rates in different sections of the population,\" they said.\n\nAs always, we should be cautious about reading too much into one day's change.\n\nBut of all the measurements of Covid, hospital admissions are perhaps the most reliable and they had been rising quite gradually before the jump on Sunday.\n\nSadly, we should expect cases to continue rising.\n\nThis is the time of year when emergency admissions for respiratory illness do go up.\n\nIn a normal year, we can expect 1,000 admissions a day for flu and respiratory viruses by December.\n\nWhat we don't know is to what extent the normal illnesses are adding to this Covid total.\n\nThese new admissions mean about 3% of hospital beds are now occupied with Covid patients.\n\nThere are reports that hospitals, particularly in northern England, are very busy.\n\nBut elsewhere beds are free. The reduction in other services, from cancer care to routine operations, means bed occupancy levels are about a quarter lower than normal.\n\nHowever, unions would point out that a shortage of staff means there are not always the doctors and nurses available to care for patients.\n\nCases and hospital admissions have been rising sharply in cities in the north of England, but are substantially lower in the south.\n\nIn Manchester, where the rate of infection is 529 cases per 100,000 people, the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University have said they will teach online only until \"at least\" the end of the month. More than a thousand students in the city have already been told to self-isolate.\n\nFace-to-face teaching is also being suspended at the University of Sheffield, after the city's rate increased to 287 per 100,000.\n\nIn Liverpool the rate is 487 per 100,000 and in Newcastle Upon Tyne it is 435. There are 60 cases per 100,000 people in London, 46 in Bristol and 32 in Norwich.\n\nAcross the UK, the latest daily figures show a further 76 people have died within 28 days of testing positive.\n\nThat is a long way off the death tolls reached in April, but BBC medical editor Fergus Walsh said there was concern hospital admissions and eventually deaths would \"just keep rising\", unless coronavirus cases were brought under control in the north of England.\n\nIn total, nearly 2,800 patients are in hospital with Covid in England, compared with more than 17,000 at the epidemic's peak. A total of 2,783 Covid-19 patients spent Monday night in England's hospitals - the highest daily total since 25 June. There were also 349 patients in mechanical ventilation beds.\n\nThe latest hospital admissions figures, released for Sunday, show there were 478 new patients admitted - the highest daily figure since 3 June.\n\nIn Scotland, 262 people confirmed to have Covid-19 are in hospital - a rise of 44. In Wales, 92 admissions were recorded on the government's coronavirus dashboard - but that figure includes people who are suspected to have coronavirus, as well as those who have tested positive. There were no admissions in Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the government won a vote on retaining the \"rule of six\" in England by 287 votes to 17.\n\nAmong the MPs who voted against it were 12 rebel Tories, one of whom called it a \"massive intrusion\" into people's lives that does not \"make sense\".\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman earlier described it as a \"sensible and helpful\" measure.", "Poorna Kaameshwari Sivaraj, 36, and her son Kailash Kuha Raj were last seen on 21 September\n\nA three-year-old boy and his parents have died at a flat in west London.\n\nThe bodies of Poorna Kaameshwari Sivaraj, 36, and son Kailash Kuha Raj were found at Golden Mile House on Clayponds Lane, Brentford.\n\nScotland Yard said it believed both had been dead for some time. They were last seen on 21 September.\n\nIt is thought Kuha Raj Sithamparanathan, Kalish's father and Ms Sivaraj's husband, fatally injured himself when officers forced entry.\n\nThe 42-year-old was found with stab injuries and pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.\n\nThe family's deaths mean London has recorded 100 violent deaths this year.\n\nPolice remain at the scene in Clayponds Lane, Brentford\n\nScotland Yard said officers initially received a phone call on Sunday from a family member raising concerns about the welfare of Ms Sivaraj.\n\nOfficers attended the address several times early on Monday but did not receive a reply.\n\nConcerns heightened after speaking to neighbours and officers decided to force entry just after midnight on Tuesday.\n\nA mandatory referral has been made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nNext of kin have been informed and post-mortem examinations are set to take place on Thursday.\n\nLead investigator, Det Ch Insp Simon Harding, said it was being treated as a murder investigation.\n\n\"We know the family often walked their dog, a poodle cross breed, in and around the local area and I would ask anyone who saw them at any time in the last month to contact police so we can begin to build a full picture of their lives,\" he added.\n\nOfficers were called to the property after receiving concerned calls from neighbours\n\nWest Area BCU Commander, Peter Gardner said: \"This horrific incident has understandably caused enormous shock and concern among local residents and across the borough. All our thoughts are with the family and friends of those affected.\n\n\"Local residents can expect to see officers at the scene and patrolling the local area to provide reassurance, and if they have any concerns, I would urge them to speak to our officers.\"\n\nNeighbours earlier told of their shock after the deaths of the family of three.\n\nSheri Diba said the family were \"very friendly\" and she used to regularly see them taking their dog for walks.\n\n\"I've always seen them in the lift. They were very friendly. They said 'Hi, how are you?' I always saw them together going for walks.\n\n\"I feel really bad (hearing the news) because they were very friendly, nice people.\"\n\nMs Diba, a mother of one, said she had lived in the building for seven years and described it as a \"nice area\", but said she had not seen the family for a number of months.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Panic buying of bottled water was reported in some local supermarkets on Tuesday\n\nResidents across large parts of east London have been without water following a \"major burst\" in a pipe.\n\nPeople in nine postcodes had no water or low pressure after a main ruptured at Hackney Marshes on Tuesday afternoon, Thames Water said.\n\nSome people complained that bottled water in shops had sold out and being unable to wash their hands created a coronavirus risk.\n\nThames Water said it expected supplies to improve during the day.\n\nThames Water said the picture above shows the extent of the challenge its staff are dealing with\n\nThe burst flooded an area of woodland 300m x 300m to a depth of 1m, Thames Water said\n\nThe 42in (106cm) diameter pipe burst in a woodland area on Hackney Marshes, causing problems in surrounding areas including Barking, Forest Gate, Leytonstone, Ilford, Plaistow and Stratford.\n\nThe utility firm said it had received about 1,000 calls by Tuesday evening from people who had no water or low pressure.\n\nMary Davies, a teacher from Forest Gate, told the BBC she had returned home just before 17:00 BST on Tuesday to find she had no water.\n\n\"It's been a tough night. We've had no water so things like cooking vegetables, making cups of tea, going to the toilet, having a shower, even the new Covid precautions... were 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 Vivi K. 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\nThames Water said engineers had been working throughout the night and tankers had been used to pump water into the system which had meant pressure was \"starting to build across our network\".\n\n\"It's likely some homes will continue to experience low pressure and this may come and go, particularly during the period of high demand early this morning,\" it said.\n\nThe firm added it expected \"supplies to improve as we move towards midday\".\n\nPeople on Twitter said shelves in some shops had been cleared of bottled water and reported panic buying in supermarkets on Tuesday evening.\n\nOne tweeted: \"Family members coming back from work struggling to at least wash their hands. Supermarkets and shops are being emptied by those who have cars and can get quantities of bottles of water.\"\n\nPeople took to social media to complain that bottled water in some shops had sold out\n\nThames Water apologised for the lack of running water, saying it understood \"how worrying and inconvenient this disruption is, particularly at this difficult time\".\n\nIt added it was prioritising vulnerable customers by delivering water to them while sites providing bottled water were being set up.\n\nThe company is also dealing with \"supply problems\" in Reading which began on Tuesday and left parts of the town with no running water or low pressure.\n\nThames Water said \"improvements\" had been made overnight with water being pumped into the area meaning it \"should start to return to affected homes throughout the morning\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The container had \"become a tomb\" the Old Bailey heard\n\nA lorry container became a \"tomb\" as 39 desperate men, women and children suffocated inside, a court has heard.\n\nTemperatures in the unit reached an \"unbearable\" 38.5C as the Vietnamese nationals were sealed inside for at least 12 hours, jurors were told.\n\nTheir bodies were found when the container was eventually opened in Purfleet, Essex, on 23 October, 2019.\n\nLorry driver Eamonn Harrison and Gheorghe Nica are on trial at the Old Bailey accused of manslaughter.\n\nThe pair are also accused of being part of a people-smuggling conspiracy with another lorry driver, Christopher Kennedy, and Valentin Calota.\n\nOpening their Old Bailey trial, Bill Emlyn Jones told jurors it was a \"sad and unavoidable truth\" that some people were prepared to go to great lengths to come to the UK \"for a better life\", adding the cost was some £10,000 per person.\n\nHe told jurors: \"Obviously, any time you fill an airtight container with a large number of people, where they will be left for hours and hours, with no means of escape and no means of communication with the outside world - well, it is fraught with danger.\"\n\nMr Emlyn Jones said the victims - aged between 15 and 44 - were \"husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters\".\n\nVictim Pham Thi Ngoc Oanh, 28 from Nghe An, wrote a text message that was never sent\n\nHe told how Mr Harrison drove them to Zeebrugge in Belgium, where the container was loaded on to a cargo ship bound for the UK.\n\nAnother lorry driver, Maurice Robinson, then collected the trailer from Purfleet in Essex when it arrived just after midnight on 23 October, the court heard.\n\nThe prosecutor said that by then it had been some 12 hours at least since \"any meaningful amount of fresh air had been let into the sealed container\".\n\nRobinson had been sent a message from his boss to \"give them air quickly, but don't let them out\", the court heard.\n\n\"What he found must haunt him still,\" Mr Emlyn Jones said. \"For the 39 men and women inside, that lorry had become their tomb.\"\n\nThe refrigerator had not been turned on during the journey, meaning the temperature inside the trailer rose to 38.5C, he added.\n\nWhen Mr Kennedy learned of the deaths, he told a friend there \"must have been too many and run out of air\", the court heard.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nMr Emlyn Jones said: \"What it must have been like inside that lorry does not bear thinking about. In fact, we do have some direct evidence of what the victims were going through, recovered from some of their mobile phones.\"\n\nOne victim - 28-year-old Pham Thi Ngoc Oanh - had written a text message that was never sent, saying: \"Maybe going to die in the container, can't breathe any more dear.\"\n\n\"They had no signal inside the container, so could not call for help or alert the outside world to their plight. But naturally, in desperation, they tried,\" Mr Emlyn Jones said.\n\nNica, 43, of Basildon, Essex, and Mr Harrison, 23, of Mayobridge, Co Down, Northern Ireland, deny 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nNica has admitted conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration between 1 May 2018 and 24 October 2019.\n\nMr Harrison, Mr Calota, 37, of Birmingham, and Mr Kennedy, 24, of Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, deny the conspiracy charge.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "During PMQs, Keir Starmer criticised the way local restrictions are being managed.\n\n“Twenty local areas have been under restrictions for two months, in 19 of those 20 areas infections rates have gone up,” he said.\n\nThe Labour party compiled a list of local authorities, and it looks like the increases are correct.\n\nBut their list also includes areas which haven’t actually faced local restrictions for two complete months.\n\nFor example, Oadby and Wigston did face additional restrictions at the end of June, but these were lifted after a month. They were only placed under restrictions again on 22 September.\n\nOn another point, Sir Keir said areas in parts of the north of England had been placed into local restrictions at rates lower than those experienced in parts of the south which are not under any kind of lockdown.\n\nBury, Tameside, Stockport and Wigan (to name a few) had case rates of between 20 and 30 per 100,000 people when they first went into lockdown.\n\nThe London borough of Hillingdon – the prime minister’s constituency – had rates of 46 cases per 100,000, while Redbridge had 57 and Barking and Dagenham 53, in the week ending the 27 September, according to Public Health England.\n\nAnd analysis by the BBC data team suggests that these rates have increased in the past week.", "19-year-old Dylan Irvine died in a crash near Crimond on Monday\n\nPolice have apologised to the family of a teenager after they were incorrectly told he had died in a car crash.\n\nThe 18-year-old was critically injured in an incident on the A90 near Crimond in Aberdeenshire at about 07:30 on Monday but his family were told he had been killed.\n\nIn fact, it was 19-year-old Dylan Irvine who had died in the crash.\n\nCh Insp Neil Lumsden said incorrect information had been given to police at the scene.\n\nHe said officers were \"faced with a confused scene including incorrect information provided by a witness\".\n\n\"Officers at the scene of a crash use every avenue available to help identify those involved as quickly and accurately as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said this included using personal effects found at the scene, using police systems to find out who the registered keeper of a vehicle is, looking at who is insured to drive it and checking for any other information through the agencies such as the DVLA.\n\n\"Finally, crash investigators will also use the information gathered from those involved who are able to identify themselves and others\", Ch Insp Lumsden said.\n\n\"On this occasion, officers were faced with a confused scene including incorrect information provided by a witness.\n\n\"Once identified, the error was promptly corrected and the families of those involved were spoken to and were understanding of the circumstances.\n\n\"We have apologised to the families for any unintended upset and will review to identify any learning.\"\n\nMr Irvine's family said he was \"a loving son, brother and grandson, and was loved by all that had the pleasure of knowing him\".\n\n\"He had an adventurous and outgoing soul and had the biggest heart,\" they said.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone with information about the crash to contact them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Royal Glamorgan Hospital is based in Rhondda Cynon Taf, where a local lockdown is in place\n\nTwenty-one patients have now died with coronavirus following an outbreak at a hospital.\n\nTo date 127 cases have been linked to an outbreak at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nTwo people have also died amid outbreaks at Prince Charles Hospital, and the Princess of Wales Hospital.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board said \"immediate measures\" had been taken to stop the virus spreading.\n\nMedical Director Dr Nick Lyons said there was no evidence of Covid transmission between the three hospitals, and the rise in cases was \"inevitable\".\n\nAs of Tuesday, 17 cases had been linked to an outbreak at Prince Charles Hospital, in Merthyr Tydfil, and one person had died.\n\nFigures also show 15 cases have been linked to Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, and one person has died.\n\nVisiting has been suspended at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, among others\n\nVisits to the hospitals were suspended in September, following concerns in a rise in coronavirus cases in communities.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil, are all currently subject to local lockdown restrictions, with people banned from socialising indoors and from entering or leaving the areas without a \"reasonable excuse\".\n\nOfficial Public Health Wales statistics show that as of Wednesday, 360 people were known to have died with coronavirus in the Cwm Taf health board area.\n\nIn addition, 194 new cases were confirmed in the area, with 93 in RCT, 33 in Bridgend and 23 in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil now has the highest case rate of coronavirus in Wales, with 200.6 cases per 100,000 of the population over the last seven days.\n\nDr Lyons said all of the confirmed cases linked to the outbreak had tested positive for Covid-19 within 14 days of attending one of the hospitals, but some patients may have caught it elsewhere.\"If we look at other outbreaks in other parts of the country, it was inevitable,\" he said.\n\n\"It's too early to say we've reached the top of the curve. It's too early to draw conclusions, and the focus needs to be on making the hospital safe.\"\n\nHe added: \"The safety of our patients and staff remains our first priority and immediate measures to contain the spread of the virus have been put in place.\n\n\"We are taking the outbreaks extremely seriously and the stringent and robust mitigating actions which have been taken across our sites are being closely observed.\n\n\"However given the nature of Coronavirus, there is an inevitable time delay when we will see the positive impact of these measures. \"\n\nThe Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend has also seen an outbreak of Covid\n\nAll routine surgery had already been cancelled at Royal Glamorgan, with patients attending the A&E sent elsewhere, while a field hospital is being used for patients to rehabilitate before being sent home.\n\nA helpline has been set up for any relatives or people living in the communities who have concerns, which can be reached on 01685 726464.\n\nDr Lyons said infection rates in communities were \"continuing to rise\" and appealed to people to not break social distancing and lockdown rules.\n\n\"We remain grateful to all members of our community who are continuing to adhere to the guidance in order to help control this virus,\" he said.\n\nLocal MP Alex Davies-Jones and Member of the Senedd (MS) Mick Antoniw said the rise in the number of deaths at the Royal Glamorgan was deeply troubling.\"It is an incredibly worrying deterioration in what was already a major incident and we know that local people will share our concern,\" they said. \"We are seeking urgent clarification from the health board on why this has happened and more importantly, what measures are being implemented to ensure that the outbreak is fully contained.\"", "Thirteen patients have now died with coronavirus following an outbreak at a hospital.\n\nBy Friday, 94 cases had been linked to the outbreak of Covid-19 at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nPlanned surgeries have been temporarily stopped, and non-Covid patients are due to be moved to a field hospital.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said restrictions would remain until the virus was contained.\n\nOn Wednesday the health board cancelled all planned surgeries, and patients attending A&E are being sent elsewhere.\n\nThe health board also announced the Tirion birth centre which was due to reopen on Monday had been delayed as it could not \"safely reopen\" at this time.\n\nA field hospital, Ysbyty'r Seren, will be opened in Bridgend on Thursday for patients who do not have Covid-19 and are \"medically fit to be discharged but need extra care\".\n\nProf Kelechi Nnoaham, director of public health, said the temporary restrictions would remain in place until the board was \"absolutely sure we have contained the spread of the virus on the site\".\n\n\"The opening of our field hospital next week will create capacity at the hospital for patients who need the most specialist care, and enable others to relocate to a Covid-free setting.\"He added: \"The safety of our patients and staff across all of our sites remains our first priority and we remain grateful to all members of our community who are continuing to adhere to the guidance in order to help control the spread of this virus.\"", "A surge in cases has seen Nottingham rise to fifth in England for coronavirus rates\n\nHouseholds could be banned from mixing in Nottingham after a surge in cases, a city health official has said.\n\nDirector of public health Alison Challenger said rules were likely to be similar to those already in place in parts of northern England.\n\nThis would mean people from different households would no longer be able to meet.\n\nIt follows a surge in the city's Covid rate to 440.1 per 100,000, giving it the fifth highest rate in England.\n\nNo new rules have yet been imposed, but Nottingham City Council is urging residents to \"follow stricter restrictions\", and not to mix indoors with people from other households apart from their bubble.\n\nThis includes in the home, others' homes and at leisure and hospitality venues.\n\nMs Challenger said: \"Rather than waiting for a national message to come through, it makes sense for people to address those issues now and look at reducing their household contact.\"\n\nThe government is expected to announce tougher rules for the city this week, similar to those introduced in Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds.\n\nEvery area in England with a higher rate of positive tests already has local restrictions in place.\n\nThe city has already seen its historic Goose Fair cancelled due to the virus\n\nMs Challenger told BBC Radio Nottingham the city had seen a \"dramatic\" rise in rates, from 71.2 per 100,000 in the week ending 26 September.\n\nIn the same period, the number of confirmed cases increased from 237 to 1,465.\n\n\"It's a worrying trend and it means the measures we have in place are no longer enough to stop the spread of the virus in the city.\n\n\"So we are going to have to do more to keep people safe,\" she said.\n\nThe \"sudden and very sharp\" rise has coincided with students returning to the city.\n\nThe University of Nottingham said there had been 425 confirmed cases among its student population in the week to 2 October, including 226 students in private accommodation and 106 others living in halls of residence.\n\nBut Ms Challenger said the reasons behind the surge were more complex.\n\nShe said: \"Cases were going up before students came back, but of course large numbers of people living in close proximity, then that's inevitable we will see an increase in a number of cases.\n\n\"But that's not the whole picture, cases are going up everywhere.\"\n\nPublic Health England was now looking at the situation closely, Ms Challenger said.\n\n\"We do expect later this week that the government will be introducing more restrictions in Nottingham, so we can expect to see tighter restrictions,\" she said.\n\n\"The sort of measures we will be looking at are very much around the households mixing in particular.\n\n\"So we may find we are returning to that situation where we are in bubbles and we're asking people not to mix in their households.\"\n\nDetails of any restrictions are currently unclear, including exact boundaries of affected areas and whether it will apply outdoors as well as indoors.\n\nMs Challenger felt, however, it was possible the limit on gatherings may be changed.\n\nThe city council has also said the regional Covid-19 testing site in London Road may need to be moved as the current location has poor drainage.\n\nProvisional applications have also been made for nine additional testing sites in Nottingham.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We work closely with local leaders and public health teams to inform decisions on local interventions, taking into account a range of factors.\n\n\"PHE and NHS Test and Trace are constantly monitoring the levels of infection across the country.\n\n\"We discuss measures with local directors of public health and local authorities, constantly reviewing the evidence and we will take swift targeted action where necessary.\"\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.", "Pubs and restaurants across central Scotland are to be closed under the new measures Image caption: Pubs and restaurants across central Scotland are to be closed under the new measures\n\nThe Scottish government has published the evidence of its senior clinical advisers that guided strict new restrictions, especially on pubs and restaurants.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that the estimated total number of cases in Scotland is currently just 13% of the peak level back in March. But she warned that cases are rising quickly.\n\nThe evidence paper states that \"at the current rate of growth (7% increase per day), the number of infections would be at the level of the March peak by the end of October\".\n\nAlthough the increase is across Scotland, certain areas across the central belt were giving particular concern.", "The BBC revealed how criminal gangs had set up fake companies to claim loans.\n\nUp to 60% of emergency pandemic loans made under the Bounce Back scheme may never be repaid, a report by the government's spending watchdog says.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) said taxpayers could lose as much as £26bn, from fraud, organised crime or default.\n\nThe lending scheme carried lighter checks than others and was aimed at small businesses unable to access other pandemic funding support.\n\nA recent BBC investigation revealed how fraudsters were using the loan system.\n\nMany of those affected will have no idea their names have been used until repayment letters begin arriving in early summer.\n\nOne of the victims spoken to by the BBC, Mark Telling, said he was worried \"to death\" to discover a company set up in his name by a criminal had \"borrowed\" £50,000 from the bail-out scheme.\n\nThe BBC also spoke to Sue Burden, who had also found her identity had been stolen to set up a bogus company to access the scheme. She said she had gone \"from tears to anger... now I'm going to be scared to do anything\".\n\nThe BBC reported last week that the government was warned back in May that the scheme was at \"very high risk of fraud\" from \"organised crime\".\n\nThe government said it has tried to minimise fraud through lenders' background checks.\n\nThe scheme provides firms with 100% government-backed finance worth up to £50,000.\n\nDemand has been greater than anticipated, and the total value of these loans is now expected to be £38bn-£48bn, up from an estimate of £18bn-£26bn.\n\nThey do not have to be paid off for 10 years and offer a range of flexible payment options.\n\nThe loan scheme is an extension of earlier offers which some businesses complained they could not access as the lending criteria was too strict.\n\nThe NAO report warned that the speed with which the scheme was rolled out heightened the fraud risk. It took a month to ensure businesses could not receive more than one loan.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee said it was the government's largest and most risky business support scheme.\n\nIt says it will not assess the value-for-money of the scheme, as the loans will not start being paid back until May next year.\n\nThe NAO analysis said losses from the scheme are likely to reach \"significantly above\" normal estimates for public-sector fraud of 0.5% to 5%.\n\nThe report also said the UK's five biggest banks will make nearly £1bn between them from the scheme.\n\nMeg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said the loans had been a vital lifeline for many businesses.\n\nBut she added that \"the government estimates that up to 60% of the loans could turn bad - this would be a truly eye-watering loss of public money\".\n\n\"The bounce back loan scheme got money into the hands of small businesses quickly, and will have stopped some from going under.\n\n\"But the scheme's hasty launch means criminals may have helped themselves to billions of pounds at the taxpayer's expense.\n\n\"Sadly, many firms won't be able to repay their loans and the banks will be quick to wash their hands of the problem.\n\nToday's report confirms what many people had suspected.\n\nIn May, the government had to get money to small businesses as quickly as possible, before tens of thousands of them went bust.\n\nBut to do that, they had to make compromises on credit and fraud checks. This opened the doors to a whole range of problems - including fraud by organised criminal gangs.\n\nWe've found evidence of more than 100 bogus firms set up by scammers to make fraudulent applications - getting the maximum £50,000 each time.\n\nThey've used the stolen, personal details of innocent victims to set up the fake companies - victims who won't know anything about it until the letters demanding repayment start arriving through their doors next summer.\n\nThe taxpayer is in the same position - waiting to find out how much the scheme will ultimately cost us. The warning from the National Audit Office is clear - it has the potential to be \"very high\".\n\nSue and Dave Burden, from the south of England, were shocked to find that Sue's identity had been stolen to set up a company and claim a bounce back loan.\n\n\"I've gone from tears to anger,\" she told the BBC. \"Now I'm going to be scared to do anything.\"\n\nThe state-owned British Business Bank (BBB), which supervises the bounce back loan scheme, twice raised concerns, firstly in May.\n\nThe BBB expects it will pay out £1.07bn in interest payments to the high street lenders that provided the cash.\n\nMost of this will go to UK's five biggest banks, Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest and Santander, which provided £31.3bn of funding.\n\nAccording to latest Treasury figures, there have been 1.55 million applications for the loans, with 1.26 million approvals.\n\n\"We targeted this support to help those who need it most as quickly as possible and we won't apologise for this,\" a government spokesperson said.\n\n\"We've looked to minimise fraud - with lenders implementing a range of protections including anti-money laundering and customer checks, as well as transaction monitoring controls.\n\n\"Any fraudulent applications can be criminally prosecuted for which penalties include imprisonment or a fine or both.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Warning letters sent to those falling seriously behind on debts are to be toned down to make them less \"thuggish\", under government plans.\n\nLong-standing laws require warnings about potential court action to be written in bold or in block capitals.\n\nA campaign by the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute claimed the letters were counter-productive and worsened mental health problems.\n\nNow the Treasury has vowed they should be \"less threatening\".\n\nHowever, the changes may not be fully implemented until mid-2021.\n\nUnder the rules of the Consumer Credit Act from 1974, warnings in these letters should be written in capitals or in bold.\n\nFor example, the letter states: \"IF YOU DO NOT TAKE THE ACTION REQUIRED BY THIS NOTICE BEFORE THE DATE SHOWN THEN THE FURTHER ACTION SET OUT BELOW MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU.\"\n\nThe institute said that this \"complex and intimidating\" language risked adding further distress to those already facing mental health difficulties.\n\nAccording to estimates produced by the institute, about 100,000 people in problem debt in England attempted suicide last year.\n\nRachel Edwards is among those who have received debt letters after bouts of depression led to financial problems.\n\n\"You get these letters and they make you bury your head even further - and that makes both your mental health and your debt problems worse,\" Mrs Edwards, from Bridgend, told BBC News in June.\n\n\"You know what they are, you open them to look at what you owe, then put them on the side and leave them there.\"\n\nShe said the proposed changes announced by the Treasury were vitally important.\n\n\"It will make a big difference, especially for people like me who have mental health problems as well as debt,\" she said.\n\nThe Treasury said the new rules should make the letters less threatening by restricting the amount of information that must be made prominent, and required lenders to use bold or underlined text rather than capital letters.\n\nLenders would also be able to replace legal terms with more everyday language, and letters would clearly signpost people to the best sources of free debt advice.\n\nEconomic secretary to the Treasury John Glen said: \"These new rules will help to take the fear out of finance by ensuring that letters are easier to understand, less threatening, and empower people to take control of their finances.\"\n\nMartin Lewis, who founded the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that this change could save lives.\n\n\"The last thing people struggling with debt need is a bunch of thuggish letters dropping through the letterbox, in language they can't understand, written in shouty capitals alongside threats of court action.\n\n\"The timing is crucial, with millions of people facing debt and distress due to the pandemic, the sooner we end these out-of-date laws which force lenders to send intimidating letters the better.\"\n\nLegislation should see the new rules in place in December, but lenders would then have six months to implement the changes.\n\nUK Finance, which represents lenders, said the letters - which are required to be sent - would now be \"more appropriate and supportive\".\n• None Six money-saving ideas for lockdown and beyond", "Students are rallying again in Minsk, backing the opposition\n\nGroups of workers and students in Belarus have heeded a nationwide strike call by exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, to press for the president's resignation.\n\nWorkers at some state-run plants downed tools and chanted slogans outside the gates.\n\nHundreds of students also marched out of several universities in Minsk clapping, chanting and linking arms.\n\nHowever, the government says key enterprises are still running smoothly.\n\nPresident Alexander Lukashenko ignored the opposition's midnight deadline for him to step down. Protests have gripped Belarus since he claimed victory in an August poll widely viewed as rigged.\n\nThe interior ministry says police arrested 523 people during mass anti-government demonstrations on Sunday, 352 of whom are still in custody.\n\nOn Monday, at least 155 people were arrested for supporting the strike action in Minsk, Borisov, Brest, Grodno, Mogilev and Novopolotsk, human rights group Vesna reports.\n\nThe full scale of the protests on Monday is not yet clear, partly because of the authorities' media restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police targeted protesters with stun grenades and raided flats in October 2020\n\nVideos posted to independent media site Tut.by show empty factories and students walking out of their universities.\n\nA source in Minsk following the protests told the BBC that the strike was affecting some major state enterprises, including the Grodno Azot chemical plant and Minsk Tractor Plant, but they had not been brought to a standstill.\n\nDozens of shops, cafes and restaurants are closed in Belarus, in solidarity with the strike. Many other small businesses are also supporting the strike, our source says. But big supermarkets and public transport are still running normally.\n\nThousands of pensioners walked through central Minsk, eventually merging with a procession of students. Pensioners have held protest rallies every Monday. Students have also been very active, despite threats of expulsion.\n\nEarlier an estimated 100,000 demonstrators marched for the 11th successive Sunday of protests. Many waved the opposition's red and white flags and chanted \"strike\" as they marched.\n\nAccording to Russian news agencies, citing their correspondents at the scene, at least 10 stun grenades went off. There were also reports that riot police had fired rubber bullets.\n\nSecurity forces also blocked roads in central Minsk and water cannon were put in place.\n\nBelarusian police blocked roads in central Minsk as tens of thousands of protesters marched on Sunday\n\nMs Tikhanovskaya issued her ultimatum on 13 October, threatening a mass walkout by workers if Mr Lukashenko - who has ruled Belarus for 26 years - ignored their demands.\n\nShe said that Belarus had \"had enough\" after two months of \"political crisis, violence and lawlessness\".\n\nShe issued three demands from a location in Lithuania, where she has been in exile since August. In addition to Mr Lukashenko's resignation, she demanded an immediate end to police brutality and the release of all political prisoners.\n\nEarlier anti-Lukashenko protests at state enterprises, in support of the opposition, were not sustained. There are reports of workers being warned they will lose their jobs if they go on strike.\n\nThe BBC's source in Minsk says fear is widespread, after many protesters were beaten up and tortured by police. It is common for masked men with batons to grab protesters, drag them into unmarked vans and drive off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mass arrests in September as crowds chant 'go away' to Belarus president", "\"It's a massive amount of pressure. I've sort of kept it to myself. My family don't know about this and I've often thought: 'Is that the right decision?' But I wouldn't want to put them through all this.\"\n\nJohn is not his real name but he didn't want to be identified. After all, he has spent more than two years keeping his financial worries hidden from his wife.\n\nHe is one of an estimated 50,000 people who have been hit by a controversial tax policy known as the loan charge. As a result, he now owes £180,000 to HMRC.\n\nThe pressure of the last two years has been enormous. He told BBC Radio 4's File on 4: \"It's really tough. I can't tell you the last time I slept and it's difficult. It's just relentless, with no real end in sight.\"\n\nThis substantial tax bill stems from how John was paid when he worked as a contractor for a number of years.\n\nHe used a company to manage his admin and also his tax affairs. It promised him he could take home 85% of his earnings and still be compliant with UK tax law.\n\nA number of different companies offered these tax schemes. Workers would be paid a small amount of salary as a standard, taxable income. Then they would receive a larger payment as a loan via an offshore trust.\n\nOnly a very small amount of tax was paid on these loans and there was no expectation they would be repaid. The government has closed this loophole and used the loan charge to demand large sums in backdated taxes from the freelancers and contractors who used them.\n\nThe policy effectively adds up third-party loans paid since 2010 and taxes them as income. This has meant substantial bills for many workers.\n\n\"There's a lot of people who just think I was a tax dodger and that's not the case,\" says John.\n\n\"It was more about the ease. If someone had said to me: 'You can take 90% [of earnings] but it's illegal,' would I have done it? Absolutely not.\n\n\"I've regretted it for the last two and a half years but I did nothing illegal and we've been made out to be criminals and we're not. We're just normal people earning a living.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The loan charge was introduced to ensure those who used disguised remuneration schemes to pay themselves income through loans, often via offshore trusts, contributed their fair share of tax.\n\n\"It is right that we continue to tackle these type of schemes.\"\n\nNow John is now considering bankruptcy and says that will be the moment he tells his wife.\n\n\"I guess at that point I've got a plan, I've got a way out, even though it'd be difficult. It's a bitter-sweet one, really. If I get the closure I need, it'll be a relief.\n\n\"It'll be a relief because I don't know how much longer I can keep doing what I'm doing and, you know, keep the fight up, I guess.\"\n\nA number of MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith's constituents have been affected\n\nBut while he's dealing with the ramifications of his tax bill he's angry that similar action isn't being taken against the firm that signed him up to the scheme.\n\n\"The only person getting hit with this is me, there's no liability whatsoever with these promoters. Everybody knows who they are, but it's the small people who are getting destroyed.\"\n\n\"I think the government and HMRC go after the wrong target, because it's the easy target to go after,\" says MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who has a number of constituents who have been affected by the charge.\n\n\"But they're not really going after the promoters.\"\n\nMary Aiston, director of the counter avoidance directorate at HMRC, says that it has become harder for tax avoidance promoters to operate and around 20 have left the sector. Meanwhile, the government recently consulted on new laws to strengthen HMRC's ability to tackle promoters sooner, before taxpayers owe such huge sums in backdated tax.\n\nIn the meantime, taxpayers should make sure they understand any tax or payroll systems they are signed up to.\n\n\"The main message is, if it sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is,\" Ms Aiston says.\n\n\"Somebody telling you that part of your income can come as a loan and that you keep it forever but you won't have to pay any tax or pay any tax on it. That is too good to be true.\"\n\nOne additional frustration for John is that loan-based and other potentially risky tax avoidance schemes are still being marketed, meaning growing numbers of people are potentially at risk of a large tax bill in the future.\n\n\"It makes me so angry you know. They're out there, you can Google, it's so simple to find where these people are. I'd tell anybody, just please, please, please stay clear. It's just not worth it.\"\n\nFile on 4: Taxing Situations will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 20 October at 20:00 BST or listen again on BBC Sounds", "Crowds looted a warehouse believed to be storing food supplies for distribution during Covid lockdowns\n\nNigeria's chief of police has ordered the immediate mobilisation of all police resources to put an end to days of street violence and looting.\n\nMohammed Adamu said criminals had hijacked anti-police brutality protests and taken over public spaces.\n\nA new wave of looting was reported on Sunday, a day after Mr Adamu ordered police to end the \"violence, killings, looting and destruction of property\".\n\nProtests calling for an end to police brutality began on 7 October.\n\nThe demonstrations, dominated by young people, started with calls for a police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars), to be disbanded.\n\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari dissolved the Sars unit - accused of harassment, extortion, torture and extrajudicial killings - days later, but the protests continued, demanding broader reforms in the way Nigeria is governed.\n\nThey escalated after unarmed protesters were shot in the nation's biggest city, Lagos, on Tuesday. Rights group Amnesty International said security forces killed at least 12 people. Nigeria's army has denied any involvement.\n\nLagos has in recent days seen widespread looting of shops, malls and warehouses, and property has been damaged, with the businesses of prominent politicians targeted. A number of buildings have been torched and prisons attacked.\n\nOn Sunday, there were reports of government warehouses being ransacked in the central city of Jos, as well as in Adamawa and Taraba states, with people taking away food and agricultural supplies.\n\nThere were similar reports of looting from warehouses in Bukuru city, near Jos, on Saturday.\n\nThe warehouses were said to have stored food supplies for distribution during lockdowns imposed to help control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe images of people carrying sacks of supplies from a warehouse in Bukuru were posted on social media\n\nPresident Buhari has said that at least 69 people have died in street violence since the protests across Nigeria began - mainly civilians but also police officers and soldiers.\n\nOn Saturday, the Nigerian police force tweeted that Mr Adamu, the inspector general of police, had told them \"enough is enough\" and ordered officers to \"use all legitimate means to halt a further slide into lawlessness\".\n\nA group that has been key in organising the demonstrations in Lagos had on Friday urged people to stay at home.\n\nThe Feminist Coalition also advised people to follow any curfews in place in their states.\n\nThe group said it would no longer be taking donations for the #EndSARS protests.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An organiser of protests against police brutality in Nigeria tells the BBC he saw soldiers shoot people dead", "More than 1.4 million people in South Yorkshire are the latest to move to England's top level of restrictions.\n\nTier three measures came into effect at midnight affecting areas including Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.\n\nSheffield City Region's mayor said the measures were needed but called on the government to \"define precisely what the exit criteria is\" from tier three.\n\nMeanwhile, Wales entered the first full day of a national lockdown amid border patrols to stop non-essential travel.\n\nGloucestershire Constabulary said it will patrol routes into the Forest of Dean area and pull over vehicles suspected of making unnecessary journeys out of Wales.\n\nDrivers without a valid excuse will be advised to turn around and, if they do not, will be reported to police in Wales who can issue fines, the force added.\n\nIt comes as another 174 deaths and 23,012 new confirmed cases were recorded on Saturday.\n\nAnd a leading epidemiologist has warned sending some children home from schools may be the only way to control infection rates.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, a former government scientific adviser, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the current restrictions on household mixing \"should have a significant effect\".\n\nBut he said beyond that there was a \"limit to what we can do\" without sending some school year groups home.\n\nProf Ferguson, whose advice led to the lockdown in March, also said it was \"too early to say\" what impact the restrictions were having, adding: \"I think we'll have to wait another week or two.\"\n\nAsked what the impact would be of relaxing lockdown rules for one or two days on Christmas, Mr Ferguson, who quit his role in May after an \"error of judgement\", said it was a \"balancing act\" and \"a political judgement\".\n\n\"It risks some transmission and there will be consequences of that,\" he said. \"But if it's only one or two days the impact is likely to be limited.\"\n\nSome 7.3 million people are now living under England's tightest restrictions.\n\nAs the Sheffield City region entered tier three - very high alert - mayor Dan Jarvis, urged people to \"do their bit\" and stick to the new rules.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he was \"clear what it takes our end\" to get out of tier three, such as a drop in new cases - but the government \"do have to be clear and transparent about the exit strategy\".\n\nElsewhere, Stoke-on-Trent, Slough and Coventry moved into tier two - high alert level - at midnight.\n\nIn Wales, a 17-day \"firebreak\" has started, meaning most non-essential businesses are closed, with people only able to leave home for limited reasons.\n\nIn line with new guidance, supermarkets removed non-essential items from sale - including clothing, kitchen electrical items and crockery - using barriers and plastic sheets to cover products.\n\nShoppers in Wales will not be allowed to buy non-essential items, such as clothing and tableware, in stores\n\nIn Scotland, a five-level system will be introduced from 2 November. The top level would be close to a full lockdown, but the aim is for schools to remain open at all levels.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, schools have been closed for two weeks as part of an extended half-term break. This is part of a four-week \"circuit-breaker\" lockdown, with some businesses being told to close temporarily.\n\nUnder England's tier three rules, pubs and bars not serving substantial meals have to close, while household mixing is banned indoors and outdoors in hospitality settings and private gardens.\n\nAdditional rules in South Yorkshire include the closure of betting shops, adult gaming centres, casinos, and soft play centres. However, gyms will remain open.\n\nThe new measures will be reviewed after 28 days, but Sheffield's director of public health, Greg Fell, said he feared four weeks \"will not be long enough\".\n\nIn a letter to residents, Mr Jarvis, who is also the Labour MP for Barnsley Central, said there was light at the end of the tunnel and the restrictions would \"help us reach it sooner, and at a lower cost\".\n\nHe warned South Yorkshire communities now have some of the highest numbers of cases in the north of England and infection rates are still going up.\n\nIn Barnsley the infection rate in the seven days to 19 October was 486 cases per 100,000 people, in Sheffield 415, in Rotherham 407 and in Doncaster 393. The average area in England had 117.\n\nMr Jarvis wrote: \"It's tempting to think that because new restrictions are not a silver bullet they are not worth the disruption.\n\n\"We don't have the luxury of easy choices. But I have no doubt this was the right one to make.\n\n\"The alternatives carry far too great a risk of causing more deaths, and ultimately more harm to our economy.\"\n\nSouth Yorkshire joins Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region and Lancashire in tier three.\n\nTier three rules will also come into force in Warrington on Tuesday, two days earlier than initially planned, to \"urgently\" reduce coronavirus cases, according to the local council.\n\nNottingham and parts of Nottinghamshire are expected to be moved into the highest tier next week, with the finer details such as whether or not gyms can stay open still to be decided.\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics data estimates cases in England have risen to more than 35,200 a day.\n\nThe ONS survey tests a representative sample of the general population to provide an estimate of the true spread of the virus, as it picks up asymptomatic cases that would not necessarily be identified in the daily figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHow are the restrictions affecting you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Marcus Rashford's campaign over the summer forced the government to U-turn on free school meals\n\nAmid the talks over Manchester's request for an extra £30m a month for jobs support, or indeed the tens of millions for half-term free school meals in England, and the debate over a tougher lockdown, the government and its top supporters are citing the idea that there is no money left.\n\nCertainly, this morning's public finances showed the government borrowing in the first half of the financial year at a record high, the highest levels of government debt in 60 years and the deficit this year heading for its highest ever level outside of a world war.\n\nThis is before the statisticians have accounted for likely losses from tens of billions of government-guaranteed lending to businesses.\n\nSeptember's numbers alone saw a fivefold increase in borrowing, up from £7.7bn last September to £36.1bn, driven by more spending on the furlough scheme, health and self-employment, as well as far less VAT and income taxes received.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) this afternoon also published a chart showing that of the £262bn that the Treasury has borrowed by issuing gilts, £246bn has been bought by the Bank of England.\n\nThe central bank has indirectly created and lent most of the extra money required by the government.\n\nOverall, the government has not had to raise the funds from the private sector or abroad.\n\nSo, no, we aren't really running out of cash.\n\nThe best evidence for that is that the government will indeed be announcing more borrowed money for some of its schemes in the coming days and weeks.\n\nAnd there is ample evidence that market demand for government debt is still strong.\n\nFor example, the European Union found huge demand this week for its new \"social bonds\" to help Spain and Italy fund pandemic jobs support.\n\nHowever, these Bank of England purchases do, in theory, have to be sold back into the market after the crisis.\n\nWith a large stock of debt, the government's finances are now very sensitive to even relatively small rises in the rate at which it borrows.\n\nIt seems unlikely right now, but is far from unthinkable over the next several years.\n\nThe government had already planned to borrow more to invest in infrastructure as part of its \"levelling-up agenda\".\n\nMuch higher levels of spending on health and pensions are already baked in to the spending cake as society ages.\n\nSo getting the public finances in shape does matter, as a medium-term priority.\n\nRight now, though, it is difficult to argue that \"no money\" is the constraint on extending free school meals, or furlough support.\n\nParticularly not on a day when it was confirmed pensions will rise by two percentage points more than inflation, at a time when average earnings are negative.\n\nThe cost of that triple lock policy, just as an example, is about £1.5bn in extra state pension costs in the coming year, according to Carl Emmerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nThese are political decisions to allocate money where the government feels an obligation to prioritise.", "Pressure is mounting on the government to reverse its decision not to provide free school meals over the holidays in England.\n\nSeveral Conservative MPs are opposing No 10's stance, as Labour threatens to push for another Commons vote and some 2,000 doctors call for a U-turn.\n\nIt comes as the PM faces calls to meet footballer Marcus Rashford to discuss his free school meals campaign.\n\nThe government has said it has increased welfare support.\n\nDowning Street has also highlighted tens of millions of pounds in funding for councils to help vulnerable families during the pandemic.\n\nBut there is increasing criticism from within Tory ranks over the government's decision to rule out extending meal vouchers for around 1.3 million vulnerable children in England to cover holidays.\n\nFormer Tory children's minister Tim Loughton, who did not support Labour's motion, said he would lobby ministers to reverse the decision for the Christmas break.\n\nAnd Tobias Ellwood, a former defence minister, said the free school meals scheme was \"well received\" and a \"simple and practical\" way of supporting families.\n\nJohnny Mercer, a defence minister, admitted on Twitter that the government had dealt with the issue \"poorly\".\n\nAnd more than 2,000 paediatricians who work with young people have signed a letter saying England should follow Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in providing meals during the holidays.\n\nMarcus Rashford has led a viral social media campaign highlighting organisations providing food during half term\n\nMeanwhile, chairman of the education select committee Robert Halfon said a meeting would help ministers create a long-term strategy to combat child food hunger.\n\nLabour has said it will force a new Commons vote on the issue if the government does not change its position before the Christmas Commons recess.\n\nTulip Siddiq, shadow minister for children, said she was sorry the issue had \"become a political football\" but some Conservative MPs \"are realising this is principles before party\" and she appealed for more to stand against the government.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast that, with some local councils agreeing to supply meal vouchers during the holidays, the issue had become \"a postcode lottery\" because not every council had \"stepped up\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Conservative MPs rejected Labour's Opposition Day motion to extend free school meals by 322 votes to 261, with five Tory MPs rebelling.\n\nOne of those rebels, Mr Halfon, called on Mr Johnson to meet Rashford, telling the BBC: \"It may be that they don't agree with everything that Marcus Rashford is proposing, but it would give us a chance to come up with a long-term plan to combat child food hunger once and for all.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Rashford, 22, tweeted to condemn the \"unacceptable\" abuse some MPs had received for voting against the motion.\n\nThe government extended free school meals to eligible children during the Easter holidays earlier this year.\n\nFollowing the Manchester United striker's campaign, it bowed to pressure to do the same throughout the summer holiday.\n\nBut this time it has refused to do so, saying it has given councils £63m for families facing financial difficulties due to pandemic restrictions, as well as increasing welfare support by £9.3bn.\n\nBusinesses have been offering to provide children with food during half-term\n\nThis puts it at odds with the other UK nations, which have all extended the policy beyond term time.\n\nHowever, hundreds of cafes, restaurants and some local councils have since pledged to help feed children facing hardship during the October half term - prompting Rashford to say he \"couldn't be more proud to call myself British\".\n\nRashford's petition on child food poverty was approaching 800,000 names on Sunday morning.\n\nMeanwhile, two Conservative MPs have said comments they made about the issue were \"taken out of context\" after their remarks were criticised.\n\nCommenting on a school in Mansfield, Ben Bradley said that \"one kid lives in a crack den, another in a brothel\". Another Twitter user responded, saying that \"£20 cash direct to a crack den and a brothel sounds like the way forward with this one\", to which Mr Bradley replied: \"That's what FSM [free school meal] vouchers in the summer effectively did...\"\n\nMr Bradley said the tweet, which has since been deleted, had been \"totally taken out of context\".\n\nSimilarly, Conservative MP, Selaine Saxby, used the same defence after writing in a since-deleted Facebook post that she hoped businesses who were giving away food for free \"will not be seeking any further government support\".\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStaggering the return to universities after Christmas and the use of testing will form the strategy to get students home in December.\n\nScotland's Education Secretary John Swinney has given more details of the plan to allow students to return home.\n\nIt follows a spike in coronavirus infections in September when students moved into university accommodation.\n\nHundreds tested positive across the UK, with thousands told to self-isolate in halls.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, the deputy first minister said the Scottish government was in discussions with the UK government and the other devolved administrations to learn lessons from the experience of early autumn.\n\nHe said: \"Some of the points we are looking at are staggered returns of students, arrangements for how testing can be part of the architecture of how we handle that return.\n\n\"Also, what expectations we have of students when they are returning home and when they return to universities, and how their learning will be undertaken.\"\n\nThe Scottish government is working with the rest of the UK nations to manage the movement of students at Christmas\n\nHe said the discussions involved \"intense detail\" to make sure the movement of students both home for Christmas and returning back to university was handled safely to prevent spread of the virus in other parts of the UK.\n\nHe said testing programmes would be involved.\n\n\"These are some of the options being looked at,\" he added. \"Practicalities are eased if return of students is staggered over a longer period and we are working with institutions because they have to be partners with us on how the learning is undertaken over that period.\n\n\"We want to avoid any situation where there is not too much strain on the testing system or on the possibility of the circulation of the virus when students return or when they return to their homes in the first place.\"\n\nMatt Crilly, president of the National Union of Students (NUS) Scotland, said it wanted to see a \"clear and coherent\" plan from the Scottish government \"urgently\".\n\n\"In terms of a return to campus in the new year, we must avoid a repeat of the mass outbreaks we saw among the student population in the autumn,\" he said.\n\n\"Universities and Colleges need to clearly communicate with their students on what their next semester is going to look like, so that students can make an informed decision on whether they wish to return.\n\n\"NUS Scotland continues to call for remote learning to be the default position. That way no student has to go back to campus unless absolutely necessary. No student should be left asking themselves, again, why they've been asked to return for no good reason.\"\n\nHe added: \"We welcome that the Scottish government and institutions are looking at mass asymptomatic testing for the student population. We would welcome further discussion on this issue.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat Leader Willie Rennie also welcomed the asymptomatic testing which he said could \"hunt down and drive out the virus from campuses\".\n\nOn Saturday he told the BBC the Scottish government was doing everything it could to get students home for Christmas.\n\nHe said he recognised the importance of family and community occasions but that suppressing the virus was paramount.\n\nStudents were asked to stay away from parties, pubs and restaurants for a weekend and were only allowed to return home if they could self-isolate and their households went into quarantine.\n\nAt the time Nicola Sturgeon said it was \"absolutely our priority\" to make sure that students are able to return home for Christmas.\n\nIt comes after children in Scotland were asked to stay at home this Halloween.\n\nStudents in Edinburgh staged a protest against their treatment by the university\n\nMeanwhile, students from Edinburgh University staged a protest over their \"mistreatment\" by the institution during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nProtesters claimed the university made a \"false promise\" of hybrid learning and said many students would not have taken out leases on flats if they had known most learning would be online.\n\nThey also claimed the university's treatment of first years had been \"terrible\", saying the university had \"locked them in halls of residences with zero regard for their mental health and wellbeing\".\n\nStudents gathered to protest in the city's Bristo Square on Saturday, calling for better treatment and services and an \"actual provision of hybrid learning\", saying if the university cannot provide this then a cut in fees for the online semester is needed.\n\nThe university said academic and support staff had been working \"tirelessly\" to provide students with the world-class education that they expect from the institution.\n\nStudents were unhappy at what they saw as a lack of support when cases soared at halls of residence\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We have been working closely with the Students' Union and other student groups to ensure that their views are heard at the highest level.\n\n\"Students are receiving a hybrid learning experience, in line with Scottish government guidance, with some in-person teaching taking place on campus. We are delivering more than 95,000 hours of teaching this semester and more than 35,000 hours of these are scheduled to take place on campus.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTao Geoghegan Hart became only the second British man to win the Giro d'Italia as he took the title in Milan.\n\nThe 25-year-old won Saturday's stage 20 to share the lead with Jai Hindley before the final stage, the first such instance in the race's history.\n\n\"Not in my wildest dreams did I imagine this would be possible when we started,\" said Geoghegan Hart.\n• None From Hackney to Milan - Britain's new cycling star\n\nChris Froome is the only other British man to win the Giro, in 2018.\n\nGeoghegan Hart is the fifth British man - alongside Froome, Bradley Wiggins, Geraint Thomas and Simon Yates - to win a Grand Tour.\n\nIn only his fourth Grand Tour, Geoghegan Hart began the race as one of Geraint Thomas' domestiques and was in 126th place after the opening stage.\n\nGeoghegan Hart described his victory as \"bizarre\", adding: \"All of my career I've dreamed of trying to be top 10 - top five maybe - in a race of this stature, so this is something completely and utterly different to that and it's going to take a long time to sink in.\"\n\nGeoghegan Hart grew up in Hackney in east London, where he joined Cycling Club Hackney.\n\nHe is also a keen swimmer and at the age of 13 was part of a group of teenagers who swam across the English Channel.\n\nAs a fan, he attended an event in London to mark Team Sky's launch in 2010 and would later sign for the British team, competing full-time on the top-tier World Tour since 2017.\n\nHe has remained with the team, who became Ineos in 2019, ever since.\n\nHis previous best finish at a Grand Tour was 20th at the Vuelta a Espana in 2019.\n\nAfter winning the Giro he shared a kiss with girlfriend Hannah Barnes, also a professional British cyclist.\n\n\"Tao bunked off school to come and ride behind the other guys [when Team Sky launched] and he has gone and won a Grand Tour,\" team boss Sir Dave Brailsford said.\n\n\"It is the stuff of comic books.\"\n\nHow the race was won\n\nGeoghegan Hart was not the leading contender in his team, let alone the race, when the Giro began.\n\nHe took on the role of Ineos leader after Thomas, the pre-race favourite, pulled out with a fractured hip suffered in a crash on stage three.\n\nOther expected contenders for the pink jersey, Yates and Steven Kruijswijk withdrew after testing positive for coronavirus over a remarkable three weeks which also featured team protests and withdrawals.\n\nGeoghegan Hart won stage 15 - his first Grand Tour victory - but at that point was still almost three minutes off the overall lead.\n\nHe followed that with a stunning performance in the mountains, catapulting himself into contention with second place over the Stelvio Pass on stage 18 and winning a gruelling stage on Saturday.\n\nThe final stage time trial saw the riders setting off in reverse order with the Brit starting three minutes before Australian Hindley on Sunday, Geoghegan Hart was always ahead at the intermediate time checks and finished in 18 minutes 14 seconds.\n\nHe became the first Giro winner to have never held the leader's pink jersey until the final finishing line.\n\n\"My DS (director sportif) told me I was 10 seconds up and then he kept giving me a few seconds,\" he said.\n\n\"I only knew we must be in a pretty good situation when they were screaming not to take any risks in the last kilometre.\"\n\nIneos' Filippo Ganna won the stage by 32 seconds, his fourth stage win of the race.\n\nWith seven stage wins, it was Ineos' most successful Grand Tour since they were formed.\n\nWilco Kelderman, who lost the overall lead to Sunweb team-mate Hindley on stage 20, took third place overall, 1min 29secs down.\n\nJoao Almeida, who led for 15 days, finished fourth and Pello Bilbao fifth.\n\nVincenzo Nibali was seventh, leaving Italy without a rider in the top five for the first time in Giro history.", "Danielle (right) and her sister\n\n\"I find it hard to remember ever having a cooked meal at home,\" says Danielle, who relied on free school meals as a child.\n\n\"I would eat spaghetti hoops cold out of the tin.\n\n\"We would have sliced white bread because it was 13p from [discount supermarket] Kwik Save, then put margarine on it and put it under the grill.\n\n\"Me and my sister thought we were going to open a café.\"\n\nDanielle, 39, is now a successful senior manager for a charity, living in London, but growing up she lived with food insecurity.\n\nShe has told the BBC how, as a child, she often had to resort to shoplifting or \"bin-diving\" for essential food at weekends or during the school holidays - once, when she was as young as 10.\n\n\"Food poverty in Britain isn't really spoken about because of shame,\" she says.\n\n\"When the holidays hit, hunger doesn't go.\"\n\nDanielle is calling on the government to \"support young people\" as the row about the decision not to extend free school meals for children in England into the half-term holiday continues.\n\nThe government extended free school meals to eligible children during the Easter holidays earlier this year and, after a campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford, did the same for the summer holiday.\n\nMinisters say that providing help through councils is the best way to reach those that need it.\n\n\"I was brought up in a household where we didn't have food at home,\" Danielle recalls.\n\nHer mother was ill, and couldn't work. A single-parent household, Danielle says she and her two siblings were often left to \"fend for themselves\", in addition to caring for their mum.\n\n\"Some days it was hard for her to get out of bed. She really put in a lot of effort but she couldn't cope. I don't hold it against her because she tried,\" Danielle stresses.\n\nThey would usually receive child benefits payments on a Monday. \"So we would often take a day off school and have lots of food then,\" says Danielle, \"but nothing afterwards.\"\n\nPackets of jelly were common because they cost 20p and \"would go quite far\", or instant custard - \"things to fill you up\".\n\nAt the weekend, meals would frequently consist of dry cereal and dry bread.\n\n\"I remember going to bed with hunger pains and coming home to an empty fridge,\" she says.\n\n\"You learn to shut off the signals from your brain that tell you you're hungry.\"\n\nThis habit stayed with her into adult life. \"I don't realise I'm hungry, and then it gets to 4pm and I realise I've been dissociating and suddenly have to eat.\n\n\"As a young adult I didn't know how to cook, so would just eat for survival. Something to take away the hunger.\"\n\nDanielle could sometimes eat at friends' houses or at Sunday school as a child, but her main source of hot meals was school.\n\nShe explains that because her mum was on benefits, that qualified her and her siblings for free school meals - which were limited to certain children.\n\n\"I have really strong memories of them,\" she says.\n\n\"Apple crumble and custard [her favourite pudding to this day], baked potatoes, roast dinners.\n\n\"I also have fond memories of sitting at the table with all of my friends.\"\n\nBut beyond that, she was forced to find other ways of sourcing food, when they had run out of essentials and she was \"starving\".\n\nThis included \"bin-diving\" for surplus food behind supermarkets, paying 10p for scraps from the local fish and chip shops, and shoplifting.\n\n\"It wasn't frequent, but when we were desperate,\" she says.\n\nDanielle was caught shoplifting a jar of Marmite aged 10 - carefully selected from the shelves because it could \"last weeks\" by only spreading a small bit on each piece of bread.\n\nAnd, while on the earlier occasion she was only told not to return to the shop, at 14-years-old she had her fingerprints taken, was placed in a police cell and later cautioned over shoplifting.\n\n\"I think that was for stealing jelly.\"\n\nDanielle says the incident came up on her record when she was applying for a job in later life, leaving her devastated.\n\n\"I feel like I'm quite a moral person. For it to tarnish your career when all you are trying to do is eat,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm not proud of it and I would never do it now, but it was survival.\"\n\nAs soon as Danielle was old enough to get various part-time jobs, she stopped shoplifting, and went on to get three \"A\" grade A-Levels and a First-class degree at university.\n\nBut she says that she could have gone \"either way\".\n\n\"I did have a supportive education system and that enabled me to not continue down the wrong path,\" she says.\n\n\"Because of the support that we have in the UK it allows people to go from poverty into middle class and be able to earn a living.\n\n\"Unless we support young people, give them opportunities, like food and education, then that wouldn't be able to happen.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marcus Rashford and his mother Melanie helped out at FareShare Greater Manchester\n\nResponding to the row over free school meals, Danielle argues that those who are making the decisions are doing so from \"a place of privilege\" without an understanding of \"what it's like to be a child and to be hungry\".\n\nShe also stresses that there are \"all sorts\" of family dynamics that can lead to financial difficulty, including debt, mental health issues, and addiction.\n\n\"It can happen to anyone,\" she says.\n\nAs Danielle hit her 30s, she developed a new relationship with food - teaching herself to cook from scratch and eventually batch cooking for the week.\n\n\"One of my friends set up a supper club and said I was their inspiration,\" she said.\n\n\"I just thought it's funny going from no food, to all my friends saying I was such an amazing cook.\"", "A no-deal Brexit could see import costs for some everyday items rise by almost a third, making them \"much more expensive\", a business group has said.\n\nThe cost of moving goods could also rise due to tariffs, and inflation could be driven up, Logistics UK added.\n\nIn a letter to the Sunday Times, David Wells, the group's chief executive, urged the PM to work towards a deal.\n\nA government spokesperson said a negotiated outcome by 31 December \"remains our preference\".\n\nMinisters have warned firms to \"get ready\" for change at the end of the transition period.\n\nIn the letter, Mr Wells said everyday household items imported will get more expensive under World Trade Organisation tariffs - some by 30% or more.\n\n\"This will make the household shopping basket much more expensive, particularly in the early part of 2021 when we rely on imports for much of our fresh food,\" he added.\n\nThe head of Logistics UK, previously known as the Freight Transport Association, and which represents hauliers, warned that restrictions to the number of lorry access permits available to enter the EU could put businesses across the country at risk.\n\n\"The permit quota available to UK operators will fall short by a factor of four, putting businesses at risk right across the country,\" he said.\n\n\"We are urging government to keep pressing for a deal with Brussels, to protect not only our industry but the economy as a whole.\"\n\nNegotiations have resumed following a week-long standoff, with the UK side agreeing to continue with talks after EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said \"compromises on both sides\" were needed.\n\nAt a summit in Brussels earlier this month, EU leaders called on the UK to \"make the necessary moves\" towards a deal.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has acknowledged that leaving the EU without a trade deal would cause \"some turbulence\".\n\nBut Mr Wells said that the potential impact on logistics businesses would be \"more than 'turbulence'\".\n\nResponding to the letter, a government spokesperson said: \"The prime minister has been clear that a negotiated outcome at the end of the transition period remains our preference.\"\n\nThere will be an \"intensification of negotiations\", with talks taking place daily, the spokesperson added.\n\n\"At the end of the year we will be outside the single market and the customs union and intensive planning is underway to help ensure that businesses are ready to seize the opportunities that it will bring.\"", "Scientists in Washington state fitted a tracking device to the insects using dental floss\n\nThe first nest of Asian giant hornets found in the US has successfully been destroyed by scientists.\n\nThe nest, in the state of Washington, was found by putting tracker devices on the hornets and it was sucked out of a tree using a vacuum hose.\n\nThe invasive species insects, known as \"murder hornets\", have a powerful sting and can spit venom.\n\nThey target honeybees, which pollinate crops, and can destroy a colony in just a matter of hours.\n\nThe nest in Washington was found when entomologists, scientists that study insects, used dental floss to tie tracking devices to three hornets.\n\nThe nest of around 200 insects was then discovered in the city of Blaine close to the Canadian border.\n\nOn Saturday, a crew of scientists wearing protective suits vacuumed the insects from the tree, which will now be cut down to remove any further nests.\n\nThe nest of around 200 Asian giant hornets was found in a tree in the city of Blaine\n\nAsian giant hornets are among the world's largest wasps - the queens can reach over 5cm (2in) long.\n\nTheir venomous sting can penetrate humans' protective clothing but the number of people they kill each year is low - about 40 annually in Asia, according to the Smithsonian museum in Washington D.C.\n\nNormally their natural habitat is in areas of Asia from China to Japan, but in 2019 there were several sightings of single \"murder hornets\" in North America.\n\nGlobally, conservationists are deeply concerned about falling insect populations. But it can be permissible to kill some insects if they are an invasive species - one that is not native to an area and preys on other insects there.\n\nHoneybees are under threat due to loss of food after habitat destruction, pesticides, and disease.\n\nWhen an Asian giant hornet enters a honeybee colony, it begins a \"slaughter phase\" in which it kills bee after bee and can destroy the colony in a few hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change can significantly reduces the habitats in which bees can survive", "Lewis Hamilton passed Valtteri Bottas to take a commanding victory in the Portuguese Grand Prix and break Formula 1's all-time win record.\n\nHamilton dropped to third in a manic first two laps that ended with McLaren's Carlos Sainz leading, but fought back to crush Bottas' hopes.\n\nAfter both Mercedes passed Sainz, Hamilton tracked Bottas before taking the lead on lap 20.\n\nFrom there, Hamilton dominated to take his 92nd career Grand Prix victory.\n\nHamilton received a standing ovation from the socially distanced crowd, before celebrating with team members and then a long embrace with father Anthony.\n\nHamilton said he \"owed it all\" to his Mercedes team, adding: \"I could only ever have dreamed of being where I am today.\n\n\"I didn't have a magic ball when I chose to come to this team and partner with these great people, but here I am.\n\n\"Everything we do together - we are all rowing in the same direction and that's why we're doing what we're doing.\n\n\"And my dad's here and my step mum Linda, and Roscoe [Hamilton's dog]. It is going to take some time for it to fully sink in. I was still pushing flat out as I came across the line. I can't find the words at the moment.\"\n\nHow did it all unfold?\n\nHis victory, on a humiliating day for team-mate Bottas, gave Hamilton a 77-point advantage in the championship as he moves ever closer to a seventh world title, which would match Schumacher's other surviving record.\n\nHamilton had to do it the hard way, cool temperatures and a sprinkling of rain at the start leaving his Mercedes grip-less on its medium tyres on the opening lap, on which he was passed by both Bottas and Sainz.\n\nSainz, using his soft tyres to great advantage over the medium-shod Mercedes, produced a stellar opening lap from seventh on the grid and passed Bottas for the lead at Turn Five on the second lap.\n\nBut once the Mercedes' tyres were up to temperature, they wasted no time in dispatching the McLaren and disappeared into a race of their own.\n\nHamilton never let Bottas get much more than a couple of seconds ahead and then after 15 laps started to pour on the pace, setting fastest lap after fastest lap to close in on the Finn and then pass for the lead into Turn One.\n\nOnce ahead, Hamilton left his team-mate behind, pulling out a lead of more than seven seconds in the next 10 laps, and continuing to inch further clear over the remainder of the race.\n\nHamilton extended his lead even further after they made their pit stops, as he was able to get the hard tyres into their temperature window more effectively than his team-mate.\n\nThe 35-year-old's only concern was cramp in the final 10 laps but it did not seem to affect him unduly, and he still crossed the line 25 seconds clear of his team-mate.\n\nIt was a masterful performance, befitting the monumental nature of his achievement, supplanting Schumacher at the head of the all-time win lists, where the German had been for 19 years.\n\nIt was an exciting race on a new track to F1, with overtaking and incident aplenty throughout the field.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen was third, after slipping down to fifth on the opening lap, while Charles Leclerc was impressive in recovering fourth place in the Ferrari after he, too, struggled for grip in the opening laps on the medium tyres and dropped to eighth.\n\nAlpha Tauri's Pierre Gasly was outstanding in taking fifth, grabbing the place with a lovely move around the outside of Racing Point's Sergio Perez with two laps to go.\n\nPerez, too, drove a strong race, recovering from a first-lap collision with Verstappen and spin, which required him to stop for fresh tyres and drop to last.\n\nPerez came under further pressure on the last lap, this time from Sainz, who passed him to take sixth place, with the Renaults of Esteban Ocon and Daniel Ricciardo and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel all close behind.\n\nKimi Raikkonen was just outside the points, after an outstanding first lap, rising from 16th on the grid to seventh place on his soft tyres, and then passing Leclerc's Ferrari for sixth, before the lack of pace of his Alfa told once the race settled down and he began to slip back.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nNext weekend, F1 moves on to Imola in Italy, an historic, challenging and popular track which holds a race for the first time since 2006.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHamilton: \"I really owe it all to[Mercedes team] for their teamwork, continually innovating and pushing the barrier even higher every year. It's such a privilege working with them. It really is absolutely incredible.\"\n\nBottas: \"The opening lap was pretty good, some cars behind with the soft tyre had the upper-hand but I was really pleased I could get the lead but after that, I just had no pace today. I don't understand why.\"\n\nVerstappen: \"It was very low grip at the start. I tried to stay out of trouble but had a touch with Sergio Perez. He didn't give me enough space so he took himself out. I did my own race after that.\"", "The body of the woman, believed to be in her 60s, was found at a National Trust estate\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a woman was discovered at a National Trust estate.\n\nPolice found the body in woodland on the Watlington Hill estate, Oxfordshire, just before 18:00 BST on Friday.\n\nThe arrested man is being treated in hospital for serious injuries.\n\nThames Valley Police said it was linking the murder to reports of a man seen acting suspiciously near a pub a few hours earlier.\n\nThe victim is believed to be in her 60s, the force added.\n\nOfficers have appealed for anyone who saw a man behaving strangely near the Fox and Hounds pub in the Christmas Common area of Oxfordshire at about 15:30 to get in touch.\n\nAnyone who saw anything suspicious in the Watlington Hill area at about 17:30 has also been asked to contact detectives.\n\nDet Supt Craig Kirby said: \"We are carrying out a thorough investigation to piece together what has happened to lead to this woman's death.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The suspects were detained on board the Nave Andromeda (in the middle of the three boats)\n\nSeven suspects have been detained after a suspected hijacking involving stowaways on a tanker off the Isle of Wight.\n\nUK special forces completed the operation in nine minutes, BBC Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale said.\n\nMilitary assistance had been requested after the stowaways on board the Liberian-registered Nave Andromeda reportedly became violent.\n\nAll 22 crew members, who were locked in the ship's citadel, are safe.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence called the incident a \"suspected hijacking\" and said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel authorised the operation in response to a police request.\n\nThe operation took place under the cover of darkness\n\nMr Wallace said: \"I commend the hard work of the armed forces and police to protect lives and secure the ship.\n\n\"In dark skies, and worsening weather, we should all be grateful for our brave personnel. People are safe tonight thanks to their efforts.\"\n\nMrs Patel tweeted she was \"thankful for the quick and decisive action of our police and armed forces who were able to bring this situation under control, guaranteeing the safety of all those on board\".\n\nMr Beale said the individuals were detained after they were met with \"overwhelming force\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the oil tanker situated off the Isle of Wight\n\nHe said members of the Special Boat Service based at Poole, in Dorset, were involved in the operation, which also featured six helicopters.\n\nA team of Royal Navy divers were also flown in one of the Royal Navy helicopters in case the vessel had been mined but it had not.\n\nConcerns over the crew's welfare were raised at 10:04 GMT when the vessel was six miles off Bembridge, police said.\n\nA spokesman said \"verbal threats\" had been made towards the crew.\n\nA three-mile exclusion zone was put in place around the vessel.\n\nRichard Meade, editor of shipping news journal Lloyd's List, had earlier said there were thought to have been seven stowaways on board.\n\nHe said it was believed they had become violent towards the crew after they attempted to detain them in a cabin.\n\nThe tanker Andromeda, owned by Greek shipping company Navios, was en route from Lagos in Nigeria to Fawley oil refinery on Southampton Water.\n\nIt had not stopped anywhere else.\n\nAccording to a source close to the shipping company, the crew were aware of stowaways on board, but the stowaways became violent towards the crew while it was off the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe crew retreated to the ship's citadel, a secure area in which they can lock themselves, making it impossible for attackers to get in.\n\nThis is standard procedure during a terrorist or pirate attack, but there is no suggestion the crew were doing more than protecting themselves from the stowaways.\n\nThe crew contacted the coastguard, which then alerted police.\n\nThe 748ft-long (228m) ship is known to have left Lagos in Nigeria on 5 October and was south of the Isle of Wight when the police were called.\n\nLawyers for the vessel's owners said they had been aware of the stowaways on board for some time.\n\nTobias Ellwood, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, said the boarding of the tanker was a \"good outcome\".\n\nHe said: \"Seven stowaways on board taking over a ship or causing the ship not to be in full command would have triggered a multi-agency alarm and then well-rehearsed classified protocols were then put into action.\"\n\nHampshire police said after the suspects were detained that all 22 crew members of the tanker were safe.\n\nIn December 2018, four stowaways were detained after they ran amok on a container ship in the Thames Estuary.\n\nThe men, from Nigeria and Liberia, waved metal poles and threw faeces and urine after being found hiding on the Grande Tema.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Footballer Marcus Rashford's campaign to provide free meals for children over half term has been turned into an interactive Google Map.\n\nJoe Freeman has so far been manually inputting each individual venue offering to help provide food.\n\nHe is using tweets by Rashford, who is sharing messages from local businesses which have pledged to support his campaign.\n\nMinisters have ruled out extending free meals beyond term time.\n\n\"I was eating my lunch, reading Marcus Rashford's tweets and thinking, 'This is amazing, wouldn't it be great if we could see them all in one place,'\" Mr Freeman said.\n\n\"It was easy to do - I started off just by searching by each restaurant and the place they were from.\"\n\nMr Freeman is a father-of-two from south London. He says that while his family does not require free meals, there are some children in his local school who do.\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 Joe Freeman 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 is now working on a website where restaurants will be able to fill in a form and request to be included in the map - and he hopes this will become a more automated process. Data is also starting to be pulled automatically from Rashford's twitter feed rather than being added by hand.\n\nA growing number of councils in England have also pledged to provide free meals for children of families facing hardship during the half-term school holidays.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Police clashed with some protesters as they tried to disperse the crowds\n\nEighteen people have been arrested at a protest in central London over coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nLarge crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace, where police were stationed, before moving on to Trafalgar Square.\n\nSome protesters carried placards calling for \"freedom\" and an end to the \"tyranny\" of Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the crowds had been dispersed but urged people to continue social distancing.\n\nThere was some disruption on Westminster Bridge as officers tried to break up demonstrators.\n\nThe force said three officers had suffered minor injuries.\n\nArrests were made for a variety of offences, including breaching coronavirus regulations, assaulting an emergency service worker and for violent disorder.\n\nThe capital was placed into tier two lockdown restrictions earlier this week.\n\nCommander Ade Adelekan, of the Met, said he had become \"increasingly concerned that those in the crowd were not maintaining social distancing or adhering to the terms of their own risk assessment\".\n\nHe added: \"Organisers did not take reasonable steps to keep protesters safe which then voided their risk assessment. At this point, officers then took action to disperse crowds in the interests of public safety.\n\n\"I am grateful that the vast majority of people listened to officers and quickly left the area. Frustratingly, a small minority became obstructive, deliberately ignoring officers' instructions and blocking Westminster Bridge.\n\n\"Although the majority of protests have concluded, our policing operation will continue into the night and I would urge Londoners to stick to the regulations, avoid gathering in large numbers and maintain social distancing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools may need to close to some year groups in order to get control over the coronavirus infection rate, a leading epidemiologist has warned.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, who modelled the epidemic's impact for the government, said restrictions on household mixing \"should have a significant effect\".\n\nBut he said beyond that there was a \"limit to what we can do\" without sending some school year groups home.\n\nProf Ferguson also said if rules were relaxed, deaths would increase.\n\nIt comes as the UK government announced on Saturday there had been a further 23,012 confirmed cases and 174 new deaths.\n\nMore than seven million people in England are now living under the top level of coronavirus restrictions, with South Yorkshire the latest region to have new rules come into force.\n\nThe whole of Wales - 3.1 million people - is also seeing its first full day of national lockdown, which is due to last for 17 days.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Prof Ferguson - who quit his role from the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies in May after breaking lockdown rules - said the situation was \"worrying\".\n\n\"We now have 8,000 people in hospital with Covid. That is about a third of the level we were at at the peak of the pandemic in March,\" he said.\n\n\"If the rate of growth continues as it is, it means that in a month's time we'll be above that peak level in March and that is probably unsustainable.\n\n\"We are in a critical time right now. The health system will not be able to cope with this rate of growth for much longer.\"\n\nProf Ferguson, who leads Imperial College London's Covid-19 response team, said it was \"too early to say\" if current restrictions were having an effect and \"we'll have to wait another week or two\".\n\nHe said while there were \"little hints\" of slowing, for example in the North East of England, \"we're not seeing the sort of slowing that we really need to get on top of this\".\n\n\"What we're seeing is case numbers coming down quite quickly in a narrow age band, in 18-21 year olds,\" he said.\n\n\"Unfortunately in every other age group case numbers continue to rise at about the same rate they were.\"\n\nProf Neil Ferguson's modelling of the spread of coronavirus was key to the government's decision to bring in the lockdown\n\nHe said the impact of rules on households mixing should be \"significant\" - although \"as yet we haven't been able to see it definitively\".\n\nHe added: \"If we go beyond that there is a limit to what we can do in terms of reducing contacts, short of starting to target, for instance, the older years in schools and sixth form colleges where we know older teenagers are able to transmit as adults.\n\n\"Of course, nobody wants to start moving to virtual education and closing schools even partially. The challenge may be that we are not able to get on top of the transmission otherwise.\"\n\nThe UK government has been keen not to close schools again, with Boris Johnson saying it was a \"national priority\" for children to be in school.\n\nProf Ferguson was also asked about Christmas and what the impact would be of relaxing lockdown rules for one or two days.\n\n\"It's always a balancing act,\" he said. \"It risks some transmission and there will be consequences of that. Some people will die because of getting infected on that day.\n\n\"But if it's only one or two days the impact is likely to be limited. So that really is a political judgement of the costs versus the benefits.\"\n\nIt comes after No 10 said it was Prime Minister Mr Johnson's \"ambition\" for people to celebrate Christmas with their families.\n\nThe PM was \"hopeful\" that some aspects of our lives could be \"back to normal\" by then, No 10 added.\n\nBut that differed to comments made by other politicians and scientists.\n\nProf John Edmunds, who sits on Sage, said the idea that people could \"carry on as we are\" and then have a normal Christmas with friends and family was \"wishful thinking in the extreme\".\n\nAnother Sage scientist said last week that Christmas was unlikely to be the \"usual celebration\" of \"families coming together\".\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's national clinical director Jason Leitch has said people should prepare for \"digital celebrations\", while Wales' first minister said the priority was \"saving lives not saving Christmas\".", "The two-week quarantine period for contacts of those who test positive for Covid-19 could be cut to 10 or seven days, amid criticism of Test and Trace.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin said a \"vacuum of leadership in Test and Trace\" was affecting compliance.\n\nTests could be offered to people after a week of isolation, the paper said.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the BBC the government would be \"led by the science\" on the issue.\n\nAnd Prof Sir Ian Diamond, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), added there was \"work going on\" to look at the length of self-isolation period and \"certainly it has been discussed at various times\".\n\nResearch by King's College London suggested just 10.9% of those traced as contacts of someone with Covid-19 remained at home for the full quarantine period.\n\nEarlier this month, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he was \"very hopeful\" of reducing the amount of time people needed to spend in quarantine on arrival in the UK from abroad and this could be done by testing them a week later.\n\nSir Bernard, chairman of the Commons liaison committee, said public consent and co-operation with England's system was \"breaking down\".\n\nHe added there should be a \"visible and decisive\" change, with a senior military figure put in charge of the system.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding, currently at the helm, should be \"given a well-earned break\" so she and others could \"reflect on the lessons learned so far\", he wrote in the paper.\n\n\"There is a spaghetti of command and control at the top, which is incapable of coherent analysis, assessment, planning and delivery,\" he added. \"People lack faith that there is a coherent plan.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) spokesperson said NHS Test and Trace had contacted more 1.1 million people and asked them to self-isolate.\n\n\"Dido Harding and her leadership team - drawn from the military, public and private sectors - have built the largest diagnostic industry the UK has ever seen,\" they said.\n\n\"It is the equivalent of building an operation the size of Tesco in a matter of months. We need to improve in areas and we are very much focused on that, but we should be talking it up not down.\"\n\nLast month, it was announced that former Sainsbury's chief executive Mike Coupe would be taking over as director of Covid-19 testing at England's NHS Test and Trace agency.\n\nMore than 20,000 tracers were recruited by the service, but many have complained they were given little or nothing to do.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Thursday that NHS Test and Trace required improvements so results were provided quicker. The government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, also acknowledged a need for change.\n\nFigures for the week ending 14 October reveal that just 15.1% of those who were tested received their results within 24 hours - dropping from 32.8% in the previous week.\n\nThe figures also showed a fall to 59.6% in the proportion of close contacts reached of people who tested positive.\n\nAccording to Sage, at least 80% of contacts would need to isolate for it to work properly.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has previously said up to 500,000 tests a day could be carried out by 31 October. Latest data showed 340,132 tests were processed on 22 October, with capacity at 361,573.\n\nMeanwhile, cabinet minister Mr Lewis told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that \"teams were looking\" at whether the self-isolation period cut be cut from 14 days but he added that \"any final decision on this will be led by the science and we're not in a position to make on a decision on that just yet\".\n\nProf Diamond told the same programme that identifying \"the optimal times for self-isolation is critical\" because it was an \"incredibly important part of the way in which we will control this virus\".\n\nIt comes as First Minister Mark Drakeford said the government would review the decision to prohibit supermarkets from selling non-essential items such as clothes and microwaves during Wales' 17-day lockdown.\n\nWales' health minister Vaughan Gething defended the ban, saying it was in place to ensure fairness to businesses that are closed during the 17-day lockdown and reduce the opportunities for people to \"go out and mix\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"We're reviewing with supermarkets the understanding and the clarity of the policy because there's been different application in different parts.\"\n\nA further 19,790 new coronavirus cases were reported on Sunday, with a further 151 deaths within 28 days of a positive test recorded.", "\"I still have nightmares most nights about being completely out of my depth.\"\n\nGemma, a ward nurse in Northern Ireland, was redeployed to a critical care unit at the end of March when the first wave of coronavirus struck.\n\n\"I had never looked after a critically ill intensive care patient in my life,\" she says.\n\n\"I just thought, I'm coming in here and I'm going to die. I'm going to catch Covid and I'm going to be one of those patients in the beds.\"\n\nAs the second wave of the pandemic takes deep root across parts of the UK, thousands of NHS workers are struggling to recover from what they have already been through.\n\n\"We were all in PPE all the time,\" recalls Nathan, a senior intensive care nurse at a hospital in the Midlands. \"All you can see is people's eyes, you can't see anything else.\"\n\nHe describes trying to help junior members of staff survive long and difficult days.\n\n\"And I'd see these eyes as big as saucers saying help me, do something. Make this right. Fix this.\"\n\n\"The pressure was insane, and the anxiety just got me,\" he says. \"I couldn't sleep, and I couldn't eat, I was sick before work, I was shaking before I got into my car in the morning.\"\n\nNathan ended up having time off with severe anxiety, but he is now back at the hospital, waiting for the beds to fill up again.\n\nWe've spoken to a number of nurses and doctors across the UK who are deeply apprehensive about what lies ahead this winter.\n\nWe're not using their real names because they shared their views on condition of anonymity, in order to speak freely.\n\nAll believe it is important that the general public hears first-hand about the enormous strain the health service and its staff have been under.\n\nIt has not just been about coping with the devastating effects of a new and deadly disease.\n\nPressure to deal with the huge backlog of other medical treatments, which had been put on hold, meant some health care workers didn't have much of a break during the summer either.\n\n\"I finally went on holiday in September and it was like I came out of a fog,\" says Danny, an intensive care doctor and anaesthetist based in Yorkshire.\n\n\"Almost the last six months of my life was just some kind of haze that I don't remember very well. You just became all about Covid and nothing else,\" he says. \"And I think that got us through the first wave, but obviously it isn't a sustainable mechanism to carry on.\"\n\nThat widely shared feeling of exhaustion has been heightened by long-standing concerns about staff shortages, and by deep resentment - particularly among nurses - about pay and conditions.\n\nOne of the lasting images of the first wave of Covid is of the weekly \"clap for carers\" - that moment of national unity that took place on doorsteps at 20:00 every Thursday night.\n\nHealth care workers have been very appreciative of public support, but many say they would prefer a proper pay settlement to another round of applause.\n\nAnd Jo Billings, a psychologist from the Covid Trauma Response Working Group at University College London, says \"the narrative of health care workers being heroes or angels has largely been really unhelpful.\"\n\nIt painted a picture that people do this because they're special, not because they're simply doing their job, for which they should be adequately paid and protected.\n\n\"It's also been a real barrier to people seeking help with their own problems,\" Dr Billings says, \"because they feel heroes don't struggle. An angel doesn't get PTSD.\"\n\nThe first wave of Covid-19 could have been much worse than it was. In fact, many doctors expected it to be. A lot of the extra capacity that was created so quickly in the health system, in temporary Nightingale hospitals and elsewhere, was not needed.\n\nBut health care staff speak of an \"all hands on deck\" mentality, when people were doing long shifts and were often away from home for extended periods to protect their families.\n\n\"It was mentally draining, and we've not really had a proper downtime,\" says Moussa, a respiratory consultant from Greater Manchester. \"As soon as the first wave finished, we started catching up with the backlog of other cases. So, there was another mountain to climb.\"\n\nThat sense of fatigue and frustration, in a health service already stretched to the limit before Covid struck, is captured in data put together by the Covid Trauma Response Working Group.\n\nIts Frontline Covid study of nearly 1200 health care workers from across the UK between May and July found that nearly 60% of them met the criteria for at least one of three things - anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nVarious risk factors were identified, including fear of transmitting Covid to others, unreliable access to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at the time, feeling stigmatised due to their role, and not feeling able to talk to a manager about how they were coping.\n\nConversations with NHS staff reveal a system of support for staff welfare and mental health which is patchy - fantastic in some places, not so in others.\n\n\"A junior doctor I spoke to the other day was talking about what a difficult time she'd found in another hospital,\" says Dorothy Wade, a psychologist at University College Hospital in London. \"And I said, 'Didn't you have anything like this at the other hospital?' And she said, 'No, absolutely nothing. There was nothing on offer at all.'\n\nShe says quite a lot of hospitals still don't have a staff psychologist, and didn't have resources to offer any provisions.\n\nIt has been a similar story in intensive care units, says Nicki Credland of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses.\n\n\"In some places there have been significant amounts of psychological support,\" but in others \"staff are reporting that they're needing to go to their GP.\"\n\nNHS England says nearly half a million staff were given extra support with their health and mental wellbeing needs during the first wave, via self-help apps, text services, online forums and telephone helplines.\n\nBut in most cases, it is down to local management, and sometimes support isn't available at the time that shift workers need it.\n\n\"Members of staff in our ward have been permanently scarred by Covid,\" says Jacqui, a nurse at a small community hospital in London. \"They sometimes struggle now doing some of the more minor tasks. [But] we were very lucky that we're in a very good, small trust,\" she says, \"which has taken all that on board and is supporting them.\"\n\nA large number of health care workers, however, were redeployed into new hospitals or new wards, or even into entirely new areas with very little training and very little preparation.\n\nAnd the Frontline Covid survey reveals that many of them were distressed by what they saw.\n\nThat is partly because even at the best of times in critical care, a lot of patients are going to die.\n\n\"You have to have this slight disconnect with what's going on because you have to accept that you can do everything right, and the patient still might not survive,\" says Danny, the ICU doctor in Yorkshire. \"But people coming from elsewhere in the hospital haven't had the time to develop that kind of mentality.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Gemma was asked recently by her manager if she would like to volunteer to go back into an ICU.\n\n\"I laughed in her face and said no,\" she admits. \"I don't know if I'll be made to go. But as soon as you walk over the threshold of a hospital, you cannot refuse to look after a patient. And the thought is, you've done it before, you can do it again.\"\n\nThere's little doubt that morale in the NHS would be higher if staff felt they were being rewarded more fairly.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) surveyed more than 40,000 of its members in the aftermath of the first Covid wave, and found that pay, and feeling under-valued, was their number-one concern.\n\n\"It may feel like now is not the time to talk about pay, with so many people in lockdown and in serious financial difficulty,\" says Mike Adams of the RCN, \"but we've thought about this very carefully.\n\n\"If you want to do one thing for nurses who need a boost to get through the rest of this year, and through the winter, it would be to show you value them with a meaningful pay rise.\"\n\nMany staff are frustrated because they know that is unlikely to happen.\n\nNearly three quarters of respondents to the RCN survey said they thought they were more valued by the general public after the onset of Covid-19. But less than one fifth thought they were more valued by the government in their part of the UK.\n\n\"All that clapping, and all that goodwill,\" says Nathan, \"and now it's back to normal.\"\n\nDoctors earn more money than nurses, but express similar sentiments.\n\n\"We've lost 40% of our pension pot in the last five years,\" says Jack, a consultant in London. \"And everyone is looking at it and wondering whether they should get out now before we lose any more.\n\n\"I think by next March, it's going to be a great deal worse,\" he says\n\nThat in turn highlights another message delivered by members of the RCN. In the aftermath of the first Covid wave, 35% of more than 40,000 people said they were actively considering leaving the profession.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson told the BBC that there are now more than 300,000 nurses in England, including 13,000 who joined recently.\n\n\"And this year there was a 22% increase in applications for nursing degrees, on top of our £28m fund to boost international recruitment,\" the spokesperson continued.\n\nIt takes years to train new recruits, however, and there were more than 40,000 nursing vacancies across the NHS at the beginning of the year.\n\nNow, with Covid an ever-present danger, many experienced members of staff are thinking of leaving, and many of them are not coming back.\n\n\"Nurses approaching retirement used to - in significant numbers - retire, and then return on a smaller number of hours,\" says Mike Adams at the RCN. \"But that is just not happening as much. We're losing the guides and mentors for the student nurses and the newly qualified nurses.\"\n\nGemma in Northern Ireland says she plans to leave the NHS when this next Covid phase is over, and get a job in the private sector where she won't be redeployed at a moment's notice.\n\n\"A lot of what got us through is the camaraderie, informal chats in the tearoom,\" she explains. \"But we're not even allowed to chat in the tearoom anymore. We have to sit apart with masks on.\n\n\"I'd say a large proportion of my team feel the same. A couple of nurses have just taken early retirement saying, 'No, not doing it anymore.'\"\n\nMany people in the NHS think the public aren't always aware of how acute staff shortages could become.\n\n\"The focus during the first wave was all on ventilators and the Nightingales and beds and things like that,\" says Danny in Yorkshire. \"But the actual thing we need is staff.\"\n\nHe highlights a concern raised by a number of NHS staff that we talked to - an awful lot of people were so burnt out by the first wave that they may not be able to commit so much this time.\n\nStaffing up of ICU became a focus in the early months of the pandemic\n\n\"We've noticed there's a real reluctance among doctors, nurses, everyone to pick up these extra shifts now,\" he says. \"People are realising the importance of family, the pandemic has encouraged everyone to make life simpler, and they want to do something more sustainable second time around.\"\n\nThe challenge could be particularly acute in intensive care.\n\nIn south-west London, Jacqui worked in an ICU during the first wave, and has the rights skills and experience. But she doesn't think she can do it again.\n\n\"Intensive care is incredibly physical, and I hurt my shoulder last time trying to roll a patient over,\" she says. \"Psychologically, I'm not sure I could completely cope with it again.\"\n\n\"It has actually made me go, 'Right, next year, I really will take my pension, I won't work full time anymore.' I've done my bit.\"\n\nBack in March and April, staff were redeployed in large numbers from other parts of the health system, particularly from operating theatres, to bolster intensive care.\n\nBut if the government wants things like elective surgery and operations elsewhere in the health system to continue, many of those extra staff may not be available.\n\n\"We haven't miraculously managed to find an extra 10,000 ICU nurses over the past five months,\" says Nicki Credland. \"That gives us a problem, which is compounded by staff that are off sick because of the psychological and physical response to the first wave of Covid.\"\n\nThere are potential solutions to ease serious staff shortages if the virus strikes specific areas hard. Seriously-ill patients could be moved to hospitals under less pressure, or experienced staff, based in areas where the virus is spreading more slowly, could be moved into hotspots.\n\n\"We're taking a much more local approach,\" the medical director of NHS England Stephen Powis said last week, \"and we are determined to keep the capacity for non-Covid services open for as long as possible.\n\n\"That involves hospitals helping each other, the use of independent sector hospitals where we can, and it might involve some of the Nightingale hospitals.\"\n\nA doctor at an NHS trust near Liverpool - which is in tier three - confirmed that her hospital was on standby to take patients from Liverpool City Region, even though its ICU was already full.\n\nAmbulances stand by in Strasbourg in March to load patients with Covid-19 into a medicalised train\n\nBut if the pandemic gets a lot worse, the effectiveness of local cooperation like this could be limited. And there is no national plan for moving people or resources around the country.\n\n\"In France, they reconditioned trains and made carriages into mobile intensive care units,\" says Jack, the consultant in London. \"In Holland, they had a big double-decker bus, a mobile ICU to move large numbers around. But I'm not aware that we've got anything other than fleets of ambulances.\"\n\nWhen you look back to March, there is no doubt some things have changed for the better. There is far more testing of NHS staff, including testing staff without symptoms in hotspot areas, and there is far less anxiety about the supply of personal protective equipment.\n\nDoctors also know more about the disease and ways to try to treat it, which should have a positive effect on staff morale.\n\n\"We still don't have a cure, but seeing people get better obviously makes staff stronger psychologically,\" says consultant Jack. \"We're only human after all.\"\n\n\"We will put our best foot forward, and we'll do the best for the patients,\" says Nathan, the ICU nurse in the Midlands, \"but I can genuinely say all of my colleagues, including senior management, are terrified.\"\n\n\"We're not sure how, in terms of resilience, we are going to be able to get through this.\"\n\nAcross the NHS you can hear similar concerns - a determination to step up to the plate again, but also the knowledge that adrenalin only gets you so far.\n\nThe desire to continue with business as usual in the NHS - treating other conditions and diseases as normal - is a laudable, and probably an essential, aim.\n\nBut that may not prove possible - some hospitals are cancelling operations already.\n\n\"The pressure to still run all the normal functions of the NHS and deal with a Covid second wave that's got the potential to be bigger than the first one,\" says Moussa, \"that's a harsh, harsh thing when we feel we need to prioritise.\"\n\nMany doctors were expecting a second wave to start around November, so it has come in some places a little earlier than predicted. And even in a normal year, the onset of winter and the flu season puts huge additional capacity pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe government argues that the system has shown extraordinary resilience in the face of a pandemic unprecedented in living memory.\n\nBut Moussa argues that as a country, \"we could have done more to be ready for the second wave\".\n\n\"When you think about it,\" he says, \"it's a bit of a perfect storm.\"", "The oldest person in Britain has died at the age of 112.\n\nJoan Hocquard shared her birthday, 29 March 1908, with the world's oldest man Bob Weighton, who died in Hampshire in May.\n\nShe died at her home in Dorset on Saturday, her nephew Paul Reynolds said.\n\nMr Reynolds said his aunt believed there was no secret to a long life and \"enjoyed butter and cream and she scoffed at idea of dieting\".\n\nMrs Hocquard spent her early life in Kenya where her father was a British colonial officer.\n\nShe went to boarding school in Sussex and later worked as a cook at a hotel in Geneva.\n\nMrs Hocquard moved to the south coast after World War Two\n\nAt the start of World War Two she drove an ambulance in London, before moving to the south coast where she became a keen sailor, having learnt to sail on the Solent as a child while visiting her grandmother in Lymington.\n\nShe married Gilbert Hocquard, who shared her love of sailing and travelling. When he died in 1981, she moved to Lilliput, near Poole.\n\n\"She has always had an independent spirit and it was typical of her that on her 100th birthday she refused a card from the Queen because she did not want people to know how old she was,\" Mr Reynolds told the Bournemouth Echo in August.\n\nMrs Hocquard was filmed with Mr Weighton in March as they celebrated their 112th birthdays.", "Britain finally outlawed all slavery across its Empire in 1833\n\nTwo sites linked to Wales' hidden slave trade have been revealed by a high-tech history project.\n\nA former mansion in Swansea and the remains of a vicar's home in a Denbighshire seaside resort now boast plaques with QR codes that can be scanned by smart phones.\n\nIt is part of the HistoryPoints venture to help the public learn more about places of importance around them.\n\nThe latest additions have been unveiled as past of Black History Month events.\n\nThe first is the former home of copper baron Pascoe St Leger Grenfell at Kilvey Hill in Swansea.\n\nA well-respected member of the community, he was regarded as one of the architects of the city.\n\nThe remains of Maesteg House at Kilvey Hill in Swansea now reveal the hidden links to the slave trade\n\nBut his Maesteg House home was built with the proceeds of slave exploitation in Jamaica.\n\nHe received the equivalent of £500,000 in compensation when slavery was abolished by Britain in 1833 when he was forced to free his captive workers.\n\n\"Pascoe St Leger Grenfell had a major influence on Swansea's development and was praised for his model housing for local workers,\" said Rhodri Clark, the editor of the HistoryPoints.org project.\n\n\"However, his hundreds of workers in distant Jamaica were paid nothing and received no compensation when they were eventually released from slavery.\"\n\nThe spot where ruins of the former mansion stand now have a plaque with a QR code, which when scanned by a phone reveals details of the hidden history of the house and Grenfell's role in slavery.\n\nWhile Grenfell's slave trade credentials were public knowledge, in north Wales a vicar and his family kept their past secret.\n\nThe Reverend Benjamin Winston was a parish priest in Kent when he changed his name to inherit his grandfather's estate and slaves in Dominica.\n\nLater he made Rhyl in Denbighshire his home, at a house called Bodannerch, today an unremarkable looking property that blends in to the seaside resort.\n\nHis son Thomas became something of a local celebrity when he became the town's first railway stationmaster.\n\nBut the truth about the plantations and 179 slaves were kept in the family.\n\nThe home of a former vicar in Rhyl, Denbighshire, hides a family secret linked to slavery\n\nThe history may have remained hidden, as large parts of the Winston home was demolished to build flats.\n\nBut Rhyl couple Christine and Michael Johnson saved about a third of the property and restored it.\n\nWorking with HistoryPoints and the Centre for the Study of Legacies of British Slave-ownership, it too now has a QR-code plaque.\n\n\"We're proud to have saved this piece of Rhyl's heritage for future generations. It's wonderful that people can now read the fascinating story of our house as they walk past,\" said Christine Johnson.\n\nRachel Lang, from the study centre added: \"The legacies of colonial slavery are all around us, from the houses built using the proceeds of slave-ownership to the challenges we face today in overcoming the deep-rooted racist policies we upheld for so long.\n\n\"This is a history we have all been shaped by, albeit unequally.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wales is under lockdown until 9 November\n\nA second Wales-wide lockdown in the new year is looking increasingly likely, according to a cabinet minister.\n\nDeputy Economy and Transport Minister, Lee Waters, said the current firebreak was unlikely to be the last in Wales - with England \"expected\" to follow.\n\nPreviously the Welsh Government had only gone as far as saying it \"could not rule out\" another lockdown.\n\nThe current national 17-day lockdown is due to be reviewed when it comes to an end on 9 November.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement Mr Waters said previous projections show pandemics have \"more than one peak\".\n\nHe added: \"This is not the last lockdown we are likely to see. The projections we published in a worst case scenario show it's likely we are going to need another firebreak in January or February.\"\n\nHe added that Wales is now witnessing a second peak, with critical care admissions increasing by 57% this week alone, and that was why the Welsh Government has introduced this \"short, sharp\" intervention.\n\nMr Waters said the UK was \"too late\" with the first lockdown\n\nMr Waters said he expected England to follow Wales with a firebreak \"before too long\" while the Welsh Government was trying to be \"consistent and cautious\" in trying to flatten the curve of cases.\n\n\"We are doing our best to flatten the curve. We can't stop the curve, we can't stop the virus spreading. Our best hope is to wait for a vaccine to help us bring it under control.\"\n\nEconomists have warned the lockdown may cost the economy more than £500m and the Conservatives have accused ministers of having \"no exit plan\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mixed views on the firebreak in Wales' first local lockdown area\n\nPlaid Cymru said it was vital the test and trace system was improved during this firebreak to break the cycle of \"devastating\" national lockdowns.\n\n\"It is concerning to hear talk of plans for future firebreaks at the start of this reset,\" said shadow health minister Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\n\"If the Welsh Government puts effective measures in place over the next fortnight, a new strategy for the months ahead, it should be aiming to avoid having to return to these tight nationwide restrictions.\"\n\nMeanwhile Mr Waters said the Welsh Government will sit down with supermarket companies on Monday to review how the first weekend of restrictions over the sale of 'non-essential' items.\n\nPressure has mounted on ministers to reverse the decision with more than 55,000 people signing the largest-ever Senedd petition to allow the sale of items, such as clothes and kitchen items, during lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the Labour-led government of \"incompetence and mixed messaging\".\n\nMr Waters said: \"We're not reviewing the requirements for supermarkets not to sell non-essential. We are going to review how it's working in practice, because clearly there are some bumps.\"\n\nMore than a hundred protesters gathered in Llandudno, Conwy, on Sunday, to demonstrate against the current lockdown.\n\nThe crowd marched along the seaside town's promenade demanding restrictions are lifted.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brandon Lewis MP says Michel Barnier staying in London is \"hopefully a very good sign\"\n\nThe chief negotiators for the UK and EU will continue post-Brexit trade talks in London until Wednesday.\n\nMichel Barnier arrived in the UK on Thursday to restart negotiations with Lord David Frost after they stalled last week - but he was due to return home on Sunday.\n\nEU sources told the BBC more talks are also planned in Brussels from Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said the extended talks were \"a very good sign\" a deal can be done.\n\nBut he told the BBC's Andrew Marr: \"We have got to make sure it is a deal that works, not just for our partners in Europe... but one that works for the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe two sides are thought to be working on legal texts, but Whitehall sources have indicated major sticking points - like fishing rights and competition rules - remain unresolved.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January but has been in a so-called transition period - continuing to follow EU rules and pay into the bloc - while the two sides hammer out a post-Brexit trade agreement.\n\nThe transition period is due to end on 31 December, but if a deal is not reached, the UK will trade with the EU on World Trade Organisation rules.\n\nSome critics fear a no-deal scenario will cause problems for businesses, but the government insists the UK will prosper.\n\nThe EU had said a deal needed to be agreed by the end of October to allow time for it to be ratified by all the relevant parliaments, but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had warned of walking away from talks on 15 October.\n\nAfter strong words from both sides and calls for \"fundamental changes\" to the approach to negotiations, a return to the table was agreed and Mr Barnier has been holding talks with UK chief negotiator Lord David Frost since Thursday.\n\nOn his arrival, Mr Barnier told reporters \"every day counts\" and the two sides shared a \"huge common responsibility\" in the talks.\n\nThe discussions had been expected to wrap up later on Sunday with the possibility of consequent conversations, but EU sources have told the BBC they will now continue in London for three more days, before moving to Brussels.\n\nMr Lewis said he was \"always an optimist\" around reaching a free trade agreement and he believed there was \"a good chance we can get a deal\".\n\nBut he told Andrew Marr: \"The EU need to understand it is for them to move as well, so that we can get a deal that works for the UK as well - a proper free trade agreement that recognises us as the UK being a sovereign nation.\"\n\nIn line with a demand made by the UK, the talks resumed on all subjects based on proposed legal texts prepared by officials.\n\nThey also said that \"nothing is agreed\" until progress has been reached in all areas - which has been a key demand of the EU.\n\nThe two sides have been at odds over the issue of so-called \"state aid\" rules, which limit government help for industry in the name of ensuring fair economic competition.\n\nThe UK has rejected an EU demand made earlier in the year for it to continue following the bloc's rules on such subsidies as part of a trade agreement.\n\nLord Frost has suggested the UK could instead agree \"principles\" for how subsidies are spent - something welcomed by Mr Barnier on Wednesday.\n\nThe two sides are also haggling over how much European fishing boats should be able to catch in British waters from next year.\n\nThe EU has so far resisted UK demands for annual talks to decide stock limits, as well as a reduction in access for its vessels to British fishing grounds.", "Can we trust the silver bullet of technology to fix climate change? The prime minister seems to think so.\n\nIn a speech due soon, he is expected to pledge his faith in offshore wind power, solar, carbon capture, hydrogen, clean cars, and zero-emission aviation.\n\nClean technologies are clearly a huge part of any solution.\n\nBut the PM is being accused of techno-optimism bias, because he does not mention other key factors in reducing emissions.\n\nIn fact, experts say, tackling climate change will need action right across society and the economy - with a host of new incentives, laws, rules, bans, appliance standards, taxes and institutional innovations.\n\nThey also warn that citizens’ behaviour must shift, with people probably driving and flying less, and eating less meat and dairy produce.\n\nIn other words, when it comes to cutting carbon emissions, there’s no silver bullet – it’s more like silver buckshot.\n\nBut Boris Johnson still seems to have a bandolero stuffed with technologies resembling silver bullets. Let’s see whether they’ll go with a bang.\n\nTake cars. The prime minister is due to accelerate the transition towards battery- and hydrogen-powered vehicles.\n\nBut Professor Jillian Anable from Leeds University warns that even electric cars pose \"their own problems that politicians seem reluctant to acknowledge.\"\n\n“Producing electricity and hydrogen requires huge numbers of wind farms or the like, and the cars themselves need resource-hungry tyres, and batteries.\n\n\"They also need roads and parking spaces that could otherwise be used for gardens and trees that soak up carbon dioxide,\" she said.\n\n“The harsh reality is that we have to find ways to limit the number of cars and the amount that we drive them”\n\nThere is widespread agreement that hydrogen will play a role in reducing climate change – but how much, and in what industrial sectors, is another matter.\n\nA key question is whether it’s sourced from natural gas – which is expensive and, depending on the process used, can yield troublesome carbon dioxide as a by-product - or by using surplus wind energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The latter process does the job cleanly but at still greater cost.\n\nJess Ralston, from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit think tank, said: “Hydrogen can power cars, but electricity seems to have won that technology race. It could heat homes, but electric heat pumps are emerging as a better bet.\n\n“Hydrogen could be really useful, though, in industries such as steelmaking and in heavy transport – including buses that we’re already seeing. But it’s no silver bullet.”\n\nOn aviation, the prime minister has launched his ambition to devise clean planes. He calls the project “jet zero”.\n\nIndustry figures appreciate his boosterish support, but critics warn \"jet zero\" mustn’t divert attention from the short-term need for rules and taxes to hold down aviation emissions after Covid.\n\nCait Hewitt from the Aviation Environment Federation told us: “No zero-carbon technology options are currently available for commercial aviation.\n\nShe explains: \"Planes use masses of energy. Batteries aren’t powerful enough except for tiny planes, and we can only produce biofuels sustainably in small quantities.\n\n“We need a major rollout of radical new technologies, and we need the capacity to remove remaining aircraft emissions from the atmosphere.\n\nBut she says that “given how far we are from delivering these things, we’ll also probably need to fly less.”\n\nUK governments have agonised for decades about nuclear energy, but Boris Johnson recently gave it the nod.\n\nThat means he’s likely to either agree a financial package for a new station at Sizewell or for small modular reactors, or both.\n\nThe existing nuclear power plant at Sizewell could be expanded.\n\nBut nuclear is still a divisive issue. While it \"could definitely help to reduce emissions,\" said Professor Jim Watson, from UCL, \"it’s very expensive.\"\n\n“To play a major role, the cost of new nuclear plants will really need to fall, especially when the costs of other technologies like wind and solar have dropped so far.\n\n“And nuclear developers will need to show that they can build their plants more quickly because we need all electricity to be low carbon within the next 10 years.”\n\nHe agreed that mini reactors might bring down costs – but said it was far too soon to be certain.\n\nThe prime minister has professed himself “an evangelist\" for the technology that captures carbon dioxide as it is emitted from factories and power stations and either stores it in underground rocks or uses it for new chemicals.\n\nTwo decades ago it was touted as a climate saviour, but it's very expensive and has never taken off.\n\nThe main climate authority, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says the technology must be used to capture the emissions from trees being burned for energy.\n\nThis way, the plants suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and the emissions are buried - helping to turn climate change into reverse. It's known as Bio Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS).\n\nBut the IPCC's Professor Jim Skea says there are \"potential problems.\"\n\nHe explained: \"If the trees are grown on land that would otherwise be used for producing food then there are problems with food security. And if we plant acres and acres of land with the same type of tree there are implications for wildlife.”\n\nSo much for silver bullets. But what about the silver buckshot I mentioned earlier?\n\nWell, a long list of policies requires government attention, including: standards for new homes; green recovery; food production; planning rules; peat; heat and buildings; meat eating; infrastructure statement; road building; carbon dioxide in soil; medium-term emissions targets; tree planting; energy storage; industrial strategy; appliance standards; and the comprehensive spending review.\n\nI’ll examine some of the non-technology innovations for tackling climate change in a future article.", "Frank Bough, one of the most familiar faces on BBC television from the 1960s to 1980s, has died at the age of 87.\n\nHe joined the BBC as a reporter on what was to become Look North, and went on to present some of the corporation's most popular shows, including Grandstand and Breakfast Time.\n\nBut his career was brought to an abrupt end after a scandal involving drugs and prostitutes.\n\nBough died last Wednesday in a care home, a family friend told the BBC.\n\nA talented sportsman, Bough began presenting Sportsview in 1964, taking over from Peter Dimmock before moving onto Grandstand - the BBC's leading sports show on a Saturday afternoon.\n\nOver the next two decades, he would become one of TV's best-known presenters, including with an 18-year stint as host of the BBC's Sports Review of the Year, which later became Sports Personality of the Year.\n\nHis reputation for a calm and unflappable style once prompted Michael Parkinson's remark that \"if my life depended on the smooth handling of a TV show he'd be the one I'd want in charge\".\n\nBough was the tranquil centre in a maelstrom of live sport\n\nIn 1983, Bough was involved in the launch of the BBC's new breakfast service, Breakfast Time. He proved a natural on the show, with his laid-back and comfortable style becoming an immediate hit with the early morning audience.\n\nFed up with early morning starts, he quit Breakfast Time in 1987 to present the Holiday programme.\n\nBut he was sacked by the BBC in 1988 after tabloid revelations about sex and drugs. The story came as a particular shock, given Bough's hitherto clean-cut family-man image.\n\nHe eventually returned to broadcasting, including fronting ITV's Rugby World Cup coverage, but this came to an end after a further scandal. Bough later spoke of his regret over his actions, saying his behaviour had been \"exceedingly stupid\".\n\nIn 2014, after years out of the spotlight, he contributed to a BBC documentary looking at 30 years of breakfast TV in the UK.\n\nMatch of the Day host Gary Lineker paid tribute, writing on Twitter: \"Sorry to hear that Frank Bough has passed away. Grew up watching him present Grandstand on Saturdays. He was a brilliant presenter who made it all look so easy. RIP Frank.\"\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 Gary Lineker 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\nGood Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan tweeted: \"RIP Frank Bough, 87. Star of Grandstand, Nationwide and Breakfast Time. His career was ruined by scandal, but he was one of the great live TV presenters. Sad news.\"\n\nAstrologer Russell Grant, a regular on Breakfast Time, said Bough was \"a great man to work with\" and was \"always there for advice 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 2 by Russell Grant 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\nNick Owen, who went up against Bough in Britain's breakfast TV battle on ITV's TV-AM in the 1980s, remembered him as \"the ultimate broadcaster who combined news and sport brilliantly\".\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 Nick Owen 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 BBC spokesperson said: \"Frank excelled as a live presenter with the BBC for many years and we are very sorry to hear of his passing. We send our condolences to his family and friends.\"\n\nSky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling remembered meeting Bough as a young reporter. \"He was kind, helpful and generous with his time,\" he wrote, adding that the presenter was \"one of the very best in the business\".\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 Jeff Stelling 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.", "Royal Mail is looking to fill a record number of temporary seasonal jobs due to a surge in online shopping during the pandemic.\n\nIt aims to hire 33,000 additional workers for the Christmas period - two-thirds more than usual.\n\nThe postal service typically employs between 15,000 and 23,000 extra staff between October and January.\n\nThe temporary workers will mainly work in sorting offices, delivery vans and data centres.\n\nRoyal Mail says that a higher number of workers is needed to help sort Christmas deliveries of letters, cards and parcels this year because many consumers are staying at home under Covid-19 restrictions and shopping online.\n\nMore than 13,000 mail centre sorting posts are available in England, about 1,400 posts in Scotland, 700 posts in Wales and 500 posts in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe temporary workers will support more than 115,000 postmen and women in permanent roles. About 1,000 of the new recruits will work for the company's new Covid-19 testing kit collection team.\n\nThe Royal Mail's Sally Ashford said: \"During these unprecedented times we believe it is critical that Royal Mail continues to deliver.\n\n\"We want to do our best to deliver Christmas for our customers and support the effort on the pandemic.\n\n\"This helps the whole country to celebrate and stay safe during these difficult times.\"\n\nRoyal Mail has been trying to capitalise on the rise in online shopping, which has been accelerated by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nEarlier in October, the firm announced it would start collecting parcels and mail from people's homes.\n\nIts \"Parcel Collect\" service, which has been trialled in parts of the west of England, will be available every day except Sunday, and there will be a 72p charge per parcel, plus postage costs.\n\nPre-paid return packages can be collected for 60p per item.\n\nThe new scheme will help online shoppers send back unwanted items and was described by Royal Mail as \"one of the biggest changes to the daily delivery since the launch of the post box in 1852.\"\n\nThe wider online retail industry has also been gearing up for an uptick in demand for deliveries in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nIn September, the industry body for online retailers warned that firms may struggle to cope if consumers leave ordering presents until the last minute.\n\nAndy Malcahy of the IMRG stressed that there was no need for shoppers to panic buy, but said: \"If you can spread out your shopping and do quite a lot of it in November, maybe even a bit of it now, then that would really help.\"\n\nMike Hancox, boss of the delivery firm Yodel, also told the BBC: \"It's been like Christmas for the last six months for us\".\n\nIt is adding 2,500 self-employed drivers and nearly 500 staff in its sorting centres across the UK to bolter its operations.\n\n\"We think it will be the biggest online Christmas ever, by some way,\" Mr Hancox said. \"Certainly at Yodel it will be our biggest ever year. We're planning for success and I think every other delivery carrier will be expecting the same.\"\n\nRoyal Mail has seen parcel deliveries increase in recent years but is still on track to make a loss in 2020.", "Mr Macron has hailed Samuel Paty, who was beheaded for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, as \"the face of the Republic\"\n\nFrance has recalled its ambassador to Turkey for consultations after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insulted his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.\n\nHe said Mr Macron needed a mental health check for pledging to defend secular values and fight radical Islam.\n\nMr Macron has spoken out forcefully on these issues after a French teacher was murdered for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class.\n\nFrance \"will not give up our cartoons\", he said earlier this week.\n\nDepictions of the Prophet Muhammad can cause serious offence to Muslims because Islamic tradition explicitly forbids images of Muhammad and Allah (God).\n\nBut state secularism - or laïcité - is central to France's national identity. Curbing freedom of expression to protect the feelings of one particular community, the state says, undermines the country's unity.\n\nResponding to Mr Macron's campaign to defend such values - which began before the teacher was murdered - Mr Erdogan asked in a speech: \"What's the problem of the individual called Macron with Islam and with the Muslims?\"\n\nHe added: \"Macron needs treatment on a mental level.\n\n\"What else can be said to a head of state who does not understand freedom of belief and who behaves in this way to millions of people living in his country who are members of a different faith?\"\n\nIn the wake of the remarks, a French presidential official told AFP news agency that France's ambassador to Turkey was being recalled for consultations, and would be meeting Mr Macron.\n\n\"President Erdogan's comments are unacceptable. Excess and rudeness are not a method. We demand that Erdogan change the course of his policy because it is dangerous in every respect,\" the official was quoted as saying.\n\nErodgan is a pious Muslim who has sought to move Islam into Turkey's mainstream politics since his Islamist-rooted AK Party came to power in 2002.\n\nPresident Erdogan said: \"Macron needs treatment at a mental level\"\n\nThe diplomatic spat is latest issue to strain relations between France and Turkey, who are allies under Nato but disagree on a range of geo-political issues, including the civil wars in Syria and Libya, and the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh.\n\nSeven people, including two students, have been charged over the beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty on 16 October near Paris. His killer, 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, was shot dead by police shortly after the attack, which took place near Mr Paty's school.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rallies have been held in Paris, Toulouse, Lyon and other French cities in support of Samuel Paty\n\nIn 2015, 12 people were killed in an attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The publication was targeted by extremists for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Macron described Islam as a religion \"in crisis,\" and announced plans for tougher laws to tackle what he called \"Islamist separatism\" in France.\n\nHe said a minority of France's estimated six million Muslims were in danger of forming a \"counter-society\".\n\nSome in Western Europe's largest Muslim community have accused Mr Macron of trying to repress their religion and say his campaign risks legitimising Islamophobia.", "Six months after getting coronavirus, Rebecca Logan is still feeling the effects\n\n\"We all thought we would get Covid. but we never really thought it would be a bad thing.\n\n\"I was young, I was fit, I was healthy.\"\n\nRebecca Logan, a fitness instructor and part-time nurse, began to feel unwell in April.\n\nThe 39-year-old mother of two felt dizzy and lost her sense of taste and smell.\n\n\"When I got the positive test, I thought: 'Okay, this is maybe how it's going to be for the next few days and then I'll pick up.'\n\n\"What happened to me was that, by day 14, whenever you usually expect to feel better, I actually was a lot worse.\"\n\nFive weeks later, however, and Rebecca was still not feeling better.\n\nNow, more than six months later, she still suffers from breathlessness, \"brain fog\" and has to take daily naps.\n\nRebecca believes she has so-called long Covid - a term being used to describe a range of symptoms identified in people months after they have had the virus.\n\nThere is no medical definition or list of symptoms shared by all patients - two people with long Covid can have very different experiences.\n\nHowever, the most common feature is crippling fatigue.\n\nOthers symptoms include: breathlessness, a cough that won't go away, joint pain, muscle aches, hearing and eyesight problems, headaches, loss of smell and taste as well as damage to the heart, lungs, kidneys and gut.\n\nMental health problems have been reported including depression, anxiety and struggling to think clearly.\n\nIt is estimated that as many as 60,000 people in England could have post-Covid conditions and NHS England has committed £10m to fund specialist clinics.\n\nNothing like this has been announced yet for Northern Ireland, but Stormont's Department of Health said it had set up a Strategic Clinical Advisory Cell to establish a clinical working group.\n\nIt said it expected \"a regional multidisciplinary working group will be formed to provide continuing guidance\" on the future needs of patients.\n\nBBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra revealed this week that none of Northern Ireland's health bodies are collating data on the number of people who are still suffering with symptoms associated with the virus.\n\nThe Department of Health said \"an agreed clinical definition of long Covid is required before numbers can be officially recorded\".\n\nThis definition is being developed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) which advises GPs on how to treat medical conditions.\n\nDr Toby Hillman is a respiratory consultant at one of the UK's first post-Covid clinics, based at University College Hospital in London. He is also helping NICE to define the condition.\n\n\"We accept the evidence is not great at the moment, that it's starting to be generated in ever greater depth and quality but the definition is going to change,\" he said.\n\n\"The definition is likely to include clinical diagnoses of this disease because we're aware of the difficulties of accessing testing and the problems with confirmatory testing, so it's going to be a fairly broad church.\"\n\nRebecca said she needs support now: \"People need to recognise that long Covid is a condition and that people need help physically and mentally because you feel so alone.\n\n\"People look at you whenever you say you're still not feeling great and you're still not able to do things because they think: 'Sure Covid, you get it and you're better in 14 days, what's the problem?'\n\n\"It's a very lonely position to be in.\"", "Lloyds Banking Group is to ask staff currently working from home as a result of the coronavirus pandemic to continue doing so until at least next spring.\n\nThe group said the decision was \"in line with guidance\". At present, the UK government recommends people work from home to limit the spread of Covid-19.\n\nLloyds has 65,000 staff, the majority of whom are presently working remotely.\n\nLast month, the group said it was cutting 865 jobs as part of plans to restructure the business.\n\n\"In line with guidance from the UK and national governments, and given the majority of our colleagues are working from home, we have asked them to continue to do so until at least spring,\" a spokesperson for Lloyds Banking Group said in a statement.\n\nLloyds Banking Group encompasses many household names including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Scottish Widows.\n\nTwo thirds of Lloyds employees are understood to be working from home at the moment, although staff continue to operate in high street bank branches.\n\nIn September, Catherine McGuinness, policy chair of the City of London, told the BBC she was \"disappointed\" by the \"blanket call\" by government for office workers to return to working from home where possible.\n\nShe said the virus was in danger of crippling the economy, adding \"we need to find a way of living with it\".\n\n\"This is important not so much for the big institutions that can work very well from home, but for the jobs that depend on them,\" Ms McGuinness said.\n\nLast week, Deloitte announced it would close four UK offices and offer the 500 employees who work in their offices in Gatwick, Liverpool, Nottingham and Southampton work-from-home contracts.\n\nIn September, Barclays also told the BBC that \"hundreds\" of UK staff who had gone back to the office would be asked to return to working from home.\n\nMore home working is likely to be a permanent fixture for many firms, according to a recent study by the Institute of Directors.\n\nA survey of just under 1,000 firms by the group found that 74% plan on maintaining the increase in home working.\n\nMore than half planned on reducing their long-term use of workplaces.\n\nCompanies are not likely to switch fully to home working permanently though, it said.", "Paul Harvey, 80, said it had been \"thrilling\" to hear the BBC Philharmonic orchestra perform his composition\n\nA piece of music composed by a former music teacher with dementia is to be released as a single after he recorded it with the BBC Philharmonic orchestra.\n\nPaul Harvey, 80, originally improvised the composition after being given four notes to play by his son.\n\nA clip of the performance, which went viral, was intended to show how musical ability can survive memory loss.\n\nOn Sunday, the single of Four Notes - Paul's Tune was aired on Radio 4's Broadcasting House for the first time.\n\nDespite being diagnosed with dementia late last year, Harvey, a composer from Sussex, has continued to be able to play piano pieces from memory and create new ones.\n\nHis son, Nick, who posted the video in September, said it had been an \"old party trick\" of his father's to request four random notes and then improvise a song.\n\nIn the video, which has had more than 60,000 likes, Nick picked F natural, A, D and B natural for his father to play.\n\nAfter the clip went viral, the performance was aired on Broadcasting House for World Alzheimer's Day on 21 September.\n\nThis prompted listeners to ask the BBC to have the performance orchestrated, which led to the BBC Philharmonic's involvement.\n\nHearing the recording of the single for the first time, Paul, who was joined by his son on the programme, said: \"It was very, very moving and very thrilling at the same time...\n\n\"It's quite amazing that all this has happened, and in my 81st year. It's fantastic.\n\n\"It's given me a new lease of life and after we've all finished here I'll go to the piano and find another four notes.\"\n\nNick said: \"It was amazing - it was absolutely gorgeous.\"\n\nArlene Phillips, the choreographer and former Strictly Come Dancing judge whose father had Alzheimer's, and is an Alzheimer Society's ambassador, said the piece was \"so beautiful\".\n\nShe said: \"It's just incredible that four notes can stir so many mixed emotions.\"\n\nJason Warren, professor of neurology at the Dementia Research Centre at University College London, said one reason people with dementia can continue to play music is because it \"makes sense on its own terms\".\n\n\"So unlike a lot of the tests and the things we might ask people with dementia to do in the clinic, for example, or in their everyday lives, music to some extent is almost self-contained.\"\n\nHowever, he said what Paul did in his piece was \"remarkable by any standard, because what that also shows is his creativity\".\n\nNick said it was hoped the single would be released on all major steaming platforms on Sunday, 1 November. All proceeds will be split between the Alzheimer's Society and Music for Dementia.", "Scotland has recorded 1,303 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe daily statistics from the Scottish government showed the most affected health boards were Greater Glasgow and Clyde with 437 new cases and Lanarkshire with 341 new cases.\n\nLothian had 155 infections and Ayrshire and Arran recorded 132 new cases.\n\nThe death of one more person who had tested positive for the virus has been registered.\n\nHowever, register offices are now generally closed at weekends.\n\nThe number of new cases represents 19% of newly tested individuals.\n\nThe daily update showed that 86 people were in intensive care with recently confirmed Covid-19 on Saturday, that is two more than the previous day. And a total of 1,016 people were in hospital, an increase of 31.\n\nOf the 18,026 new tests carried out that reported results, 7.9% of these were positive.\n\nThe death toll under the measure of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days has risen to 2,700.\n\nEarlier, the UK's national statistician said there was \"no question\" that the UK was experiencing a second wave of coronavirus cases.\n\nProfessor Sir Ian Diamond, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: \"I think there is no question we are in a second wave. We are seeing infections rise very quickly.\"\n\nHe said that in England about one in 130 people had the virus, with estimates for Scotland and Wales being \"a little lower\" and in Northern Ireland \"a little higher\".\n\nAsked if recent data suggesting a slowing growth in cases meant the country would leave a second wave earlier than previously expected, he said: \"I'd very much like to hope so. However, I am extremely nervous about taking just initial data and pushing things forward, and say 'it's fine'.\n\n\"Because, let's be clear, we might see the rate of increase slow a little as we get further data over the next few weeks, but we're still at a relatively high level. What we really need to do is to bring that level down.\n\n\"Even if we were to get R in the north to around about one, it would continue to have infections at a high rate.\n\n\"I really do think it's too early to say on slowing down.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday morning. We'll have another update for you at the same time on Monday morning.\n\nMinisters are considering reducing the 14-day quarantine period for contacts of those who test positive for Covid-19 amid criticism of NHS Test and Trace. Sources told the BBC the period could be cut to 10 or seven days. It comes after concerns were raised over compliance and amid intense criticism of the agency's leadership from a senior Conservative MP.\n\nThe government is facing mounting pressure to reverse its decision not to provide free school meals to children over the holidays in England. More Conservative MPs are opposing No 10's stance, as Labour threatens to push for another Commons vote. Meanwhile, some 2,000 children's doctors are calling on Boris Johnson to U-turn. The government argues it has increased welfare support as well as giving additional funding to councils to help vulnerable families during the pandemic.\n\nWales will review its ban on supermarkets selling non-essential items during the country's two-week lockdown, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said. It comes after government guidance said shops must close parts of their stores that sell products such as clothes, shoes, toys and bedding during the 17-day \"firebreak lockdown\".\n\nDog welfare charities in Wales are concerned the high demand for new pets during the pandemic will lead to an increase in \"dogfishing\" - where dog lovers are misled into buying a dog with no clear provenance, which has often come from overseas or an illegal puppy farm. It comes amid a fivefold increase in people searching for puppies online. Between the start of lockdown in March and the end of September, the Dogs Trust charity rescued 140 puppies illegally imported from central and eastern European countries.\n\nThis year has seen the cancellation of many events, but one farm in Hampshire is determined people do not miss out on traditional Halloween activities, such as picking pumpkins. In honour of the season, Sunnyfields Farm in Totton, has created a giant mural out of hundreds of the colourful vegetable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hampshire farm has created a huge mural out of pumpkins\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. Here's our summary of how changes to the furlough replacement scheme affect your job or business.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\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.", "Marcus Rashford said he was \"blown away\" by news of local businesses stepping up\n\nCafes and restaurants across England have promised to feed children in the school holidays, despite the industry struggling to survive coronavirus restrictions.\n\nResponses to Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford's child food poverty campaign escalated after the government voted against extending free meal vouchers out of term time.\n\nIt said there was enough support available through the benefits system for families facing hardship.\n\nThe England international has turned his Twitter feed into a network of restaurants, cafes and communities who will help feed children during the October school holidays.\n\nFrom horseboxes to beach cafes, high-end restaurants to chip shops, here are just a few of the many willing to help.\n\nLaura's Little Bakery and Cupcake Maker has decided to donate a birthday cake a week\n\nLaura, who has a baking business in Liverpool, said she understands how children in food poverty feel. After her father died, she and her siblings \"had bare cupboards, begged local shops to give us food or just plain went hungry\".\n\nLaura's Little Bakery and Cupcake Maker has decided to donate a birthday cake a week to a family who would otherwise be unable to afford it.\n\nSince making the announcement on Facebook, she says she has a list of about 80 other bakers keen to join in.\n\n\"It is just insane and amazing, a fair few of these are around the country too - Durham, Leeds, Manchester, Kendal, Warrington, St. Helens, Southport, Surrey, Glasgow, Preston and so on.\"\n\nAny child between the ages of 4 and 16 in the community can collect a free meal\n\nPaul and Harry run vegan restaurant Vutie Beets in Letchworth Garden City. They said they will do their bit to help in their area.\n\nAny child between the ages of 4 and 16 can collect a free meal throughout the school holiday.\n\n\"We stand with Marcus Rashford in making sure no child in our local community goes hungry this half term.\"\n\nLa Tabella is also asking people to nominate anyone too shy to come forward\n\nRob and Liza Smallman at La Tabella in Churchtown are offering free pasta dishes which can be warmed up at home to any children who need them during the October half term holiday.\n\nThey are also asking people to nominate anyone who may be too shy to come forward themselves.\n\n\"We couldn't sit back and let children in our local area go hungry,\" the couple said.\n\nA converted horsebox has been turned into a food bank\n\nThe team at Rosa restaurant in Westhoughton provides and delivers free holiday meals for children living in poverty.\n\nIt has now opened its converted horsebox as a food bank.\n\n\"We are offering free meals for children and essentials to help support families who are struggling over the school holidays - we would like to do something to help.\"\n\nFiona Crump said she thought she was doing a \"local, small thing\"\n\nThe owner of Castle Beach Cafe in Falmouth will be offering free lunch bags to children who normally get a free school meal.\n\nFiona Crump said she thought she was doing a \"local, small thing\", but was surprised by \"the sheer volume\" of social media shares of her announcement.\n\n\"It reminds you in times of doom and gloom that the vast majority of people are delightful, helpful, caring people and the world needs to be reminded of that.\"\n\nAndrew and May Mahon run the Aubergine Cafe in West Kirby. They are offering a free sandwich, cup of soup and piece of fruit to children.\n\nMr Mahon said they were \"dumbstruck\" by the government's decision. He said for every request for help they have had, they have received more than 20 times as many offers of support, with people asking to donate money to help pay for the meals.\n\nHe said: \"It's very heartening. We weren't expecting it.\"\n\nRashford said he was \"blown away\" by news of local businesses who had offered to help.\n\n\"Selflessness, kindness, togetherness, this is the England I know.\"", "With infections rising across Europe, tighter Covid restrictions are being enforced.\n\nMany countries have introduced a night-time curfew to try to curb the spread of the disease, meaning places usually filled with people are empty.", "Some owners of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro handsets have reported being shown an error message when trying to use the NHS Covid-19 app.\n\nApple's devices - which were released on Friday - can in fact run England and Wales' contact-tracing software.\n\nBut the issue arises if apps are transferred from an older iPhone via an iCloud Backup data transfer, which is common practice.\n\nThis can easily be addressed by making a change within the Settings menu.\n\nWhen users install the app from scratch, they are prompted to give the required permission.\n\nBut in what appears to be an oversight, when Apple transfers apps over, the phone does not ask owners to enable the permission and it is not obvious that it needs to be done.\n\nAs a result, the app cannot enable the Bluetooth-based matching functionality it needs to work.\n\nThe requirement is designed to protect user's privacy.\n\nHowever, the alert shown by the app suggested other factors might be at play.\n\nAnd to confuse matters further, when questioned about the matter the app's official Twitter account responded by highlighting that the iPhone 12 was not among devices checked for compatibility with the software.\n\nSome users had got round the problem by deleting the app and then downloading it again from the App Store, which triggered the exposure notification permission request.\n\nHowever, this technique results in all information previously stored by the app on the phone being wiped, including places the user had checked in to.\n\nAbout 18 million people have installed the NHS Covid-19 app so far. In addition to contact tracing, it is also used to log visits to restaurants and other leisure facilities, as well as to check symptoms and order a coronavirus test.\n\nThe BBC revealed last week that Huawei is also working with NHS Test and Trace officials to try and get the app working on some of its newer phones.", "Lee Kun-hee helped to grow Samsung Group into an economic powerhouse in South Korea\n\nLee Kun-hee, the chairman of South Korea's largest conglomerate, Samsung Group, has died aged 78.\n\nMr Lee helped to grow his father's small trading business into an economic powerhouse, diversifying into areas like insurance and shipping.\n\nDuring his lifetime, Samsung Electronics also became one of the world's biggest tech firms.\n\nHe was the richest person in South Korea, according to Forbes, with a net worth of nearly $21bn (£16bn).\n\nSamsung said Mr Lee died on Sunday with family by his side, but did not state the exact cause of death. A heart attack in 2014 had left him living in care.\n\n\"All of us at Samsung will cherish his memory and are grateful for the journey we shared with him,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nMr Lee was the third son of Lee Byung-chul, who founded Samsung Group in 1938. He joined the family firm in 1968 and took over as chairman in 1987 after his father's death.\n\nAt the time, Samsung was seen as a producer of cheap, low-quality products. But under his leadership radical reforms were introduced at the company.\n\nMr Lee became famous for telling employees in 1993: \"Let's change everything except our wives and kids.\" The firm then burned its entire mobile phone stock, consisting of 150,000 handsets.\n\nMr Lee, pictured with his parents as a child, was the third son of Lee Byung-chul, who founded Samsung Group\n\nMr Lee rarely spoke to the media and had a reputation for being a recluse, earning him the nickname \"the hermit king\".\n\nSamsung is by far the largest of South's Korea's chaebols - the family-owned conglomerates that dominate the country's economy.\n\nChaebols helped to drive South Korea's economic transformation after World War Two, but have long been accused of murky political and business dealings.\n\nMr Lee was twice convicted of criminal offences, including the bribing of former President Roh Tae-woo.\n\nHe stepped down as Samsung chairman in 2008 after he was charged with tax evasion and embezzlement. He was handed a three-year suspended jail sentence for tax evasion but was given a presidential pardon in 2009 and went on to lead South Korea's successful bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.\n\nHe returned as chairman of Samsung Group in 2010, but was left bedridden by the 2014 heart attack.\n\nMr Lee's son, Lee Jae-yong, has served jail time for his role in a bribery scandal which triggered the ousting of then-President Park Geun-hye from office in 2017. Last month, prosecutors laid fresh charges against him over his role in a 2015 merger deal.", "The first live episode of this year's Strictly Come Dancing got under way with a tribute to frontline NHS staff.\n\nHosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly thanked the workers, who were seated in the audience, before the celebrities took to the dance floor.\n\nReality TV star Jamie Laing was the first to dance live, performing the cha cha cha with his partner, Karen Hauer.\n\nStringent Covid measures are in place for this year's show, including judges sitting separately from each other.\n\n\"Thank you so much for everything you have done for us and everything you continue to do and we really hope you enjoy tonight,\" Winkleman said to the NHS staff, who sat at a social distance.\n\nOlympic boxer Nicola Adams (right) and Katya Jones made history as Strictly's first same-sex couple, dancing the quickstep\n\nMade In Chelsea star Jamie Laing was the first to dance live, dancing the cha cha cha with Karen Hauer\n\nLaing was invited back for a second year after having to leave the last series when he was injured.\n\n\"I've been waiting a whole year to do the Strictly training,\" he said. \"Now I'm here, I'm feeling the pressure.\"\n\nJudge Craig Revel Horwood called Laing's performance \"flat-footed, very tight and restricted\", and added: \"That might have something to do with those lovely trousers you are wearing, don't leave much to the imagination, do they!\"\n\nLaing said afterwards he was \"nearly physically sick\" at the prospect of dancing first, doing the cha cha cha with Karen Hauer.\n\n\"I had to go to the bathroom - I thought I was going to throw up. I gagged a little bit but I was fine,\" he said.\n\nActress Caroline Quentin became emotional after performing the American Smooth with her professional partner Johannes Radebe\n\nActress Caroline Quentin was in tears after performing the American Smooth with her professional partner Johannes Radebe.\n\nJudge Shirley Ballas told her she was \"graceful, charming, elegant and you have the most exquisite sense of timing... You did yourself so proud today\".\n\nFormer home secretary Jacqui Smith and Anton Du Beke took to the dancefloor with top hats, performing the foxtrot\n\nFormer Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Anton Du Beke took to the dance floor with top hats, performing the foxtrot.\n\n\"This is my chance to show you can have a new adventure, even when you're getting on a bit,\" Smith said.\n\nShe played on her former career as a politician, with a dance which began with Smith pretending to be a candidate sitting next to a ballot box.\n\nAfter spelling out his criticisms, Revel Horwood had some good news.\n\n\"When you consider [former prime minister] Theresa May and her dancing, I think you're 10 times better than that,\" he said.\n\nThe pair were awarded a three, five, and five from the judges.\n\nTV presenter and former marine JJ Chalmers with professional dancer Amy Dowden\n\nThey won a standing ovation from judges Motsi Mabuse and Ballas, with Smith called an \"absolute firecracker\".\n\nSinger HRVY and Janette Manrara closed the show with a jive\n• None 'It feels so good to be back dancing'", "The coronavirus pandemic means selling poppies and collecting donations for the Royal British Legion's annual Poppy Appeal will have to happen a little differently this year.\n\nThe charity has released a series of portraits of veterans, poppy collectors and serving members of the armed forces to coincide with the launch of this year's appeal.\n\nThe photographs, taken in the homes, doorways and streets of the subjects, provide a snapshot into the lives lived in lockdown and the impact of Covid-19 on the Poppy Appeal.", "Pictures posted on social media showed roads had been affected\n\nEmergency services were called out to rescue people stranded by overnight flooding in the north east of Scotland.\n\nResidents were evacuated from flooded properties in Ellon, and cars were stranded in water in Angus following heavy rain in the area.\n\nThe heavy rain forced the closure of the train line between Inverness and Aberdeen on Thursday afternoon.\n\nScotRail said reports of flooding, at locations including between Nairn and Elgin, required a full inspection.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for heavy rain was in force until 11:00 for Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, and Perth and Kinross.\n\nOne for Moray and the Inverness area expired at 08:00.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to reports of flooding in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, from about 04:50.\n\nResidents were rescued from six properties.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople were out in the streets of Ellon from the early hours, helping with sandbags and sweeping away flood water.\n\nThe heavy rainfall has also led to problems on the roads.\n\nIn Angus, the A92 was closed following flooding after three cars were stuck in water between Arbroath and Montrose at about 04:10.\n\nThe fire service went to the scene, however there were no reports of any injuries.\n\nThere was also flooding on the A90 at Toll of Birness in Aberdeenshire. Police advised motorists to drive with care in the area.", "Three-year-old Hadija is now an orphan. Her mum, dad and older sister were killed in a missile strike by Armenian forces on their house.\n\nArmenia and Azerbaijain are fighting a war for control of the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.\n\nBut civilians on both sides are also caught up in the conflict.", "Rudy Giuliani: \"At no time before, during, or after the interview was I ever inappropriate\"\n\nDonald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has dismissed as a \"complete fabrication\" a clip from a new Borat film appearing to show him with hands down his trousers.\n\n\"I was tucking in my shirt after taking off the recording equipment,\" the former New York City mayor tweeted.\n\nHe was referring to an episode in the film, starring UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, where he is interviewed by an actress posing as a TV journalist.\n\nThe actress plays Borat's daughter in the comedy Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.\n\nThe film - which is due to be released on Friday - is the sequel to Cohen's 2006 hit Borat, where he played a fictional reporter from Kazakhstan.\n\nIn the follow-up filmed earlier this year, Baron Cohen again tries to ambush US politicians and members of the public.\n\nThe scene with Mr Giuliani sees him being interviewed in a hotel room about the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe young actress then invites Mr Giuliani, 76, to join her for a drink. After his microphone is taken off, he lies down on the bed and appears to be putting his hands inside his trousers.\n\nReferring to that clip, Mr Giuliani tweeted: \"At no time before, during, or after the interview was I ever inappropriate. If Sacha Baron Cohen implies otherwise he is a stone-cold liar.\"\n\nIn July, Mr Giuliani said he had first thought he had been asked to do a serious interview.\n\n\"As soon as I realised it was a set up I called the police,\" he explained in another tweet on Wednesday.\n\n\"This is an effort to blunt my relentless exposure of the criminality and depravity of Joe Biden and his entire family.\"\n\nThe Trump camp has accused his Democratic White House challenger and his son Hunter of wrongdoing in regards to Ukraine and China while he was vice-president - a claim Mr Biden denies.\n\nNeither Baron Cohen nor his representatives have so far made any public comments regarding Mr Giuliani's latest tweets about the forthcoming film.", "Spain is the sixth nation worldwide to record more than one million cases\n\nSpain has recorded more than one million coronavirus cases, becoming the first western European country to pass that landmark figure.\n\nOn Wednesday the country reported 16,973 infections and 156 deaths in the previous 24 hours.\n\nSince its first diagnosed case on 31 January, Spain has now recorded a total of 1,005,295 infections.\n\nIt is the sixth nation worldwide to report one million cases after the US, India, Brazil, Russia and Argentina.\n\nEurope has seen a surge in new infections over the last few months, forcing governments to bring in strict new regulations to try and control outbreaks and ensure hospitals do not become overwhelmed.\n\nSpain was hit hard by coronavirus in the first months of the pandemic, and brought in some of the strictest measures to tackle it - including banning children from going outside.\n\nLike most European countries, the country lessened its regulations as case numbers dropped. Politicians highlighted the need to bring back tourists as a way to boost the struggling economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut by the end of August new daily case numbers were rising by 10,000 a day. Hospital admissions have ticked up by 20% in the past two weeks alone, while deaths have also begun to rise, with the toll climbing by 218 on Tuesday.\n\nIn total, 34,366 Covid-related deaths have been recorded.\n\nLawmakers however are bitterly divided over how to handle the situation. Politicians in the national parliament were debating a no-confidence motion in Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Wednesday filed by the far-right Vox Party, while central government has clashed repeatedly with regional leaders over how best to proceed.\n\nEarlier this month, Madrid's centre-right authorities successfully had a partial lockdown imposed on the capital overturned in court. But the Spanish government then ordered a 15-day state of emergency in the city.\n\nThe health minister will meet with regional leaders on Thursday to discuss next steps.", "Is President Trump right about US carbon emissions?\n\nIn the final presidential debate last night, Donald Trump said the US has had the \"best carbon emission numbers\" in the last 35 years. He went on to claim that countries such as China, Russia and India were \"filthy\". Last year, the US's carbon emissions per capita were at their lowest point in the past 35 years - if this is what Trump was referring to. The data shows that, in recent decades, total carbon emissions have been on a general downward trend, with some fluctuations. There's been a shift to both gas and renewable energy sources, and away from coal, largely because of cost. Trump would have burned more coal (which would have increased emissions), but it proved uneconomic to do so. As far as other countries are concerned, China has higher total CO2 emissions than the US, although emissions from the US are still much bigger than both India and Russia. And as far as emissions per capita go, the US is still ahead of China, Russia and India. Emissions from the US per capita in 2017 were over 16 tonnes while India's were the lowest – at fewer than two tonnes.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Mr Becker appeared at Southwark Crown Court where he denied all 28 charges against him\n\nEx-tennis champion Boris Becker has appeared in court accused of failing to hand over trophies from his playing days so they could be sold to pay debts.\n\nThe three-time Wimbledon winner was declared bankrupt in 2017 over money owed to a bank.\n\nHe is accused of not complying with obligations to disclose information.\n\nMr Becker denied all 28 charges against him at a Southwark Crown Court hearing in London on Thursday.\n\nThe 28-count indictment includes mention of his 1985 All England Club trophy, his 1989 silverware from the same tournament, and his Australian Open trophies from 1991 and 1996.\n\nBoris Becker was the youngest ever Wimbledon men's singles champion, aged 17\n\nThe 52-year-old German national is also accused of concealing more than £1m held in bank accounts, in addition to property in the UK and abroad.\n\nThe court heard that he failed to declare his property interest in an address in Chelsea, south-west London, with similar charges for two properties in his home town of Leimen.\n\nMr Becker is also accused of removing hundreds of thousands of pounds by transferring it to other accounts, including to former wife Barbara Becker, and estranged wife Sharlely \"Lilly\" Becker.\n\nIt is also alleged he hid his holding of shares in a firm called Breaking Data Corp.\n\nMr Becker appeared to record himself on his mobile phone at Southwark Crown Court\n\nMr Becker was released on bail ahead of his trial next September, which is set to last up to four weeks.\n\nProsecutor Rebecca Chalkley said the retired sportsman and television presenter may face further charges at a later date.\n\nDefence counsel Jonathan Caplan said: \"He (Mr Becker) is determined to face and contest these charges and restore his reputation in relation to the allegations made against him.\"\n\nThe former world number one and six-time Grand Slam champion collected 49 singles titles out of 77 finals during his 16 years as a professional tennis player.\n\nHe was picked to enter the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2003, and has been a commentator on the BBC and at tennis tournaments around the world.", "Demand in pubs and restaurants has collapsed after bans on households mixing were introduced in many areas\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is to unveil new support for workers and firms hit by restrictions imposed as coronavirus cases rise across the UK.\n\nHe is due to update the Job Support Scheme, which replaces furlough in November, in the Commons on Thursday.\n\nCritics say not enough is being done for firms in tier two areas that have seen demand collapse without being formally required to shut.\n\nIn tier three areas, firms ordered to shut get emergency support.\n\nTalks were held throughout Wednesday, with the government said to have acknowledged that while there are three tiers of alert level - medium, high, and very high - there are only two tiers of support.\n\nBusinesses in tier two areas, particularly in the hospitality sector, have complained that they would be better off if they were under tier three restrictions. They argue that although they would be forced to close, they would benefit from greater government support.\n\nTop London-based chef Yotam Ottolenghi said conditions for his restaurants were \"terrible\".\n\n\"We are on our knees now,\" he told the BBC. \"We just don't have customers coming through the door.\"\n\nHe said that before tier two restrictions were imposed in London, his restaurants were operating at 50% of capacity, but that this had now fallen to between 10% and 20%.\n\n\"This is just not a viable place for a restaurant to be,\" he said, describing tier two as a \"cursed\" category that \"deprives us of oxygen\".\n\nIn tier three areas, the government will pay 67% of affected workers' wages, up to £2,100 a month, from 1 November (\"lockdown Job Support Scheme\" in the chart below). Some workers can also claim Universal Credit.\n\nBut in tier two regions, the only help available will be the standard JSS (\"part-time Job Support Scheme\" in the chart below), which is more costly for employers.\n\nBusiness groups and unions say this means many firms will not be able to use it and will have to lay off workers instead.\n\nThe chancellor's spokesperson said: \"What we have always said is that our package of support is always flexible, and always up for review, to make sure that it is dealing with the situation as it evolves.\"\n\nAreas in tier two - the second-highest risk level - include London, Essex, much of the West Midlands, Leicester, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire, West Yorkshire and north-east England.\n\nCoventry is to move to tier two Covid restrictions from midnight on Friday, the city council has said.\n\nIn addition to national restrictions meaning pubs and restaurants must close by 22:00, people in tier two areas are banned from mixing with other households indoors - hammering demand in many leisure industries.\n\nKey Conservative figures, such as West Midlands Mayor Andy Street, have been critical of the disparities, along with a raft of Labour local leaders and MPs.\n\nFurlough and redundancy are cutting incomes - and millions of people's finances are not in a position to cope.\n\nSome 12 million people in UK have low financial resilience - meaning they find it hard to pay bills or make loan repayments, according to research by the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority.\n\nIt found that those from a black and minority ethnic background have been more likely than most to be affected by Covid-related falls in income, with 37% of those surveyed taking a hit.\n\nAlso, people aged between 25 and 34 were the most likely, by far, to have had a change in employment as a result of the pandemic.\n\nThat has led thousands of people to take payment \"holidays\" - deferrals on household bills such as rent or energy bills.\n\nFrom 31 October, anyone who arranges a break on repayments of mortgages, loans and credit cards will see their credit record marked - potentially making it harder to borrow more from then on.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told the BBC it was \"one of the oddities of the system\" that pubs and restaurants in tier three areas which had been forced to close were in a better position than those in tier two areas which remained open.\n\n\"You get full support, whereas if you're in tier two, you get no more support than similar businesses in the rest of the country and yet demand for your products is clearly massively reduced,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson said it was clearly right that the government should seek to close that support gap with new measures.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, told the BBC: \"We have a big distinction between tier one, tier two and tier three restrictions in theory, but the economic support packages don't go alongside those restrictions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Barnsley town centre react to tier three restrictions being announced\n\nAs more parts of the country are placed in tier two, critics say the standard JSS is likely to fall short, with many fewer firms than expected signing up.\n\nOptions being discussed in Whitehall include more generous taxpayer wage support for businesses in these regions, up from the current level of 22%, and grants offered through local authorities.\n\nWith so much of England now in tier two, even small increases in support could end up being very expensive. Business and union leaders will be briefed on the changes on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt comes amid warnings that unemployment could rise as high as 8.5% in the first half of next year without more government support for struggling businesses.\n\nIn the three months to August, redundancies rose to their highest level since 2009, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nThe number claiming work-related benefits, meanwhile, hit 2.7 million in September - an increase of 1.5 million since the beginning of the crisis in March.", "Ticketing site Viagogo may need to sell all or part of StubHub after an investigation by the UK's competition watchdog found the merger of the two firms could lead to higher fees.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the deal would reduce competition as the two firms have a combined market share of more than 90%.\n\nViagogo said it would work with the CMA to find a solution.\n\nThe CMA's findings are from its provisional report. Its final report is due in December.\n\n\"The evidence we've seen so far consistently points in the same direction - that Viagogo and StubHub have a market share of more than 90% combined and compete closely with each other,\" said Stuart McIntosh, chairman of the CMA inquiry group.\n\n\"We are therefore concerned that their merger could lead to secondary ticketing customers facing higher fees and lower quality services.\n\nThe CMA said its concerns would be addressed by a full sale of StubHub, while a partial sale would have to include \"at least the assets and operations of either StubHub or Viagogo that cover the relevant market - the supply of uncapped secondary ticketing platform services for the resale of tickets to UK events\".\n\nThe watchdog added: \"The CMA is mindful of the significant impact that the coronavirus (Covid-19) is currently having on the live events industry.\n\n\"However, the evidence is that Viagogo and StubHub would remain important competitors for the foreseeable future without the merger.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Viagogo said: \"Whilst we disagree with the provisional conclusion that the deal would reduce competition, we look forward to working with the CMA to deliver a comprehensive solution which addresses their concerns.\"\n\nThis is not the first time Viagogo has come under the eye of the competition watchdog.\n\nLast year, Viagogo dodged CMA legal action after improving what it tells customers about tickets, including seating information and whether the venue had banned ticket resales.\n\nThe CMA welcomed the changes but criticised the site's slowness to respond.\n\nThis summer, Viagogo was criticised for refusing to give refunds to people who had bought tickets on its site to events hit by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nConsumer organisation Which? said the ticketing site had added a clause to its cancellation policy which had left some customers unable to claim their money back.\n\nBut Viagogo said the claim was \"fundamentally inaccurate\" since their policy on refunding customers had not changed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner is rebuked after making the comment\n\nLabour's deputy leader has apologised for using the word \"scum\" during a debate over coronavirus restrictions.\n\nAngela Rayner made the comment in the Commons on Wednesday during a speech by Tory MP Chris Clarkson.\n\nThe MP questioned her remark, while the deputy speaker reprimanded her for her language.\n\nMs Rayner has now issued a statement, saying: \"I apologise for the language that I used in a heated debate in Parliament earlier.\"\n\nThe debate was brought to the Commons by Labour, to discuss \"fair economic support\" for areas of England being moved into tier three restrictions - also known as the \"very high\" Covid alert level.\n\nMs Rayner, who represents Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, opened the debate, speaking about her aunt who had recently died from the virus.\n\nLater, Mr Clarkson - also a Greater Manchester MP - gave a speech saying he was \"genuinely worried about the people and businesses we serve\".\n\nBut he criticised the area's Metro Mayor Andy Burnham and accused the Labour Party of \"opportunism\".\n\nAt this point, Ms Rayner was overheard saying scum from her seat on Labour's frontbench.\n\nShe was then rebuked by the Deputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing.\n\n\"We will not have remarks like that - not under any circumstances,\" said Dame Eleanor.", "Scottish pub and restaurant businesses have been shut down by the coronavirus lockdown\n\nScotland's licensed trade is facing a \"battle\" to survive after short-term Covid restrictions were extended, according to industry leaders.\n\nThe country is due to move to a five-tier system of virus alert levels from 2 November.\n\nUntil then the temporary regulations, targeting the central belt in particular, will continue.\n\nThe Scottish Hospitality Group warned the extension would have \"devastating consequences\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had made a range of grants available to help businesses weather the financial pressures.\n\nBut campaigners are demanding wider ranging support for the embattled industry after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it would \"not be safe\" to ease any restrictions in the short term.\n\nPaul Waterson, of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime: \"I don't think there is any doubt that very many successful businesses will not be able to ride this out and might not be able to open again.\n\n\"The battle is on to save the licensed trade in all its different forms.\"\n\nNeil Douglas, who runs the Ardnamurchan restaurant, said the sector was \"enormously frustrated\" and added: \"If we get to the end of the year without losing people I would be amazed.\"\n\nBars and restaurants in five NHS health board areas - containing about 3.4m people - were closed on 9 October as part of what Ms Sturgeon called a \"short, sharp action to arrest a worrying increase in infection\".\n\nHospitality venues in other parts of the country can only serve alcohol outdoors.\n\nThese measures were originally meant to expire on 26 October, but on Wednesday the first minister said they would now continue until a new \"strategic framework\" comes into force.\n\nThis multi-tier system will involve different levels of restrictions that can be applied nationally or regionally depending on the level of infection.\n\nIt is due to be published on Friday, and debated by MSPs after Holyrood's half term recess.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Neil Douglas, who runs Ardnamurchan, says: \"If we get to the end of the year without losing people I would be amazed.\"\n\nIn the meantime the Scottish government has pledged additional funding for businesses affected by the temporary restrictions:\n\nEconomy Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: \"While the extension of the restrictions is based on the fundamental need to reduce transmissions of the virus, I understand that many business owners will be very disappointed that they cannot reopen next week.\n\n\"Our funding plan will help these grants reach businesses as quickly as possible to protect jobs over this period and I encourage business owners to apply for support.\"\n\nShe added that the grants are \"the maximum level of support\" that can be provided before the new system is introduced next month but confirmed more help is being sought from the Treasury.\n\nStaff wore protective visors as they served pints at the SWG3 beer garden in Glasgow when it reopened in July after lockdown\n\nStephen Montgomery, spokesman for the Scottish Hospitality Group, said: \"Recent restrictions were framed as a 'temporary' short, sharp shock, but the extension is an indication that we can only expect a continued government stranglehold on hospitality that will have devastating consequences.\"\n\nMr Montgomery said the proposed £40m funding package, which was announced to coincide with the initial 16-day closure, was a \"drop in the ocean\" for the country's 16,700 licensed hospitality businesses.\n\nIn Manchester he said business owners could receive up to £31,000 per licensed premises from the UK government's £60m support package compared to the Scottish government's \"woefully inadequate\" grants.\n\nMr Montgomery added: \"Without further financial support, Scotland's hospitality industry will be crippled to the point of no return.\"\n\nAfter the first minister's announcement the Save our Jobs campaign demanded support from Holyrood and Westminster to protect jobs in bars and restaurants across the country when the furlough scheme ends on 31 October.\n\nMichelin star chef Tom Kitchin said: \"Our industry is in a real need of help, especially having only just partly recovered from the first lockdown.\n\n\"We have worked so hard to keep our guests and diners safe in hospitality settings, taking all safety precautions needed to remain safe while enjoying good food and drink.\n\n\"Eliminating the risks of the virus is obviously our greatest concern, but there needs to be a balance for the hospitality future of Scotland.\"\n\nSignature Group boss Nic Wood said he hopes the campaign would highlight the \"plight\" of the young hospitality workforce, with 50% of all staff aged between 16 and 24.\n\nThe Campaign for Real Ale described the week-long extension as a \"hammer blow\" to pubs and breweries across the country.\n\nJoe Crawford, director for Scotland, said: \"These businesses feel like they are being offered up as a sacrificial lamb without sufficient evidence that pubs - who have done everything they have been asked to track and trace customers and make their venues Covid-secure - are responsible for transmission of the virus.\"\n\nIndustry leaders have warned many pubs forced to close may not reopen.\n\nScottish Chambers of Commerce chief executive Liz Cameron said many employers have invested heavily to create safe and controlled environments in a bid to reduce the spread of the virus.\n\nMs Cameron added: \"We have been living with this virus for seven months now. We should be able to deliver the capacity to provide test and protect in every business premises and in every airport in Scotland.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish drinks industry charity has issued a warning about the mental health impact of the pandemic on the \"unbelievable\" number of workers who now face an uncertain future.\n\nJohn Hutchinson, president of The Ben, told Drivetime: \"The stories are harrowing.\n\n\"It can genuinely bring you to tears when you hear that people are living week to week with under £1 in their bank accounts, trying to support their families and keep their house warm.\n\n\"As we get into winter and times are getting tough people are now looking at eviction and really just losing their house as well.\"\n\nMr Hutchison said the charity has teamed up with Breathing Space and urged those struggling to contact the free support service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK tourists seeking winter sun have been given a boost, after Spain's Canary Islands and the Maldives were added to the government's safe travel list.\n\nIt means visitors will no longer need to quarantine for 14 days on their return, with the Greek island of Mykonos and Denmark also deemed safe.\n\nThe changes apply to anyone arriving in the UK after 04:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nBut Liechtenstein has been taken off the list, so arrivals must isolate.\n\nThe changes apply to citizens from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nThe Canary Islands are popular with winter holidaymakers, being one of the few parts of Europe warm enough for beach holidays at that time.\n\nHowever, the rest of Spain, including the Balearic Islands, remain subject to quarantine restrictions amid a surge in infections.\n\nBeyond having to fill in passenger locator forms, visitors to the Canaries and Mykonos currently face no restrictions to entry.\n\nBut all visitors to the Maldives are required to prove they have had a negative Covid test within 96 hours of arrival.\n\nAnd any UK citizen visiting Denmark must prove they have a \"worthy purpose\" for visiting, such as work or study, as Denmark deems Britain to be a high risk country.\n\nTourism is not considered a worthy purpose, although people with second homes in the country may visit.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the new additions to the safe list had seen a decrease in confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, it said \"a significant change in both the level and pace of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Liechtenstein\" had led to it being removed from the current list of \"travel corridors\".\n\nAfter so much doom and gloom, travel companies can suddenly see the sunshine. The Canaries are a key destination for UK airlines and tour operators.\n\nAnd it is not an exaggeration to say that the removal of the quarantine will help these companies make it through the winter.\n\nThe government has, in effect, dialled-up the tourism \"on switch\".\n\nHowever it will be a real test case for whether, in these uncertain Covid times, there is demand for travel.\n\nWith plenty of time for people to make winter bookings it's a timely moment.\n\nBritish Airways recently scheduled a direct flight to the Maldives, so maybe they knew something we didn't.\n\nTravel companies, which have seen demand slump due to the quarantine rules, welcomed the decision on the Canaries.\n\n\"The Canaries are a hugely important market for winter travel - representing over 50% of bookings for some tour operators - so this is very welcome news for the whole sector,\" said industry body Airlines UK.\n\nAndrew Flintham, managing director of TUI, said the holiday operator had not been able to take people on a holiday to the Canaries for 89 days.\n\n\"We're therefore delighted that UK flights will now resume from Saturday 24 October. The first flights will depart to Fuerteventura and Lanzarote this weekend, with many more added in the coming days.\"\n\nThere are now only a handful of places travellers from the UK can visit without facing restrictions - either when they arrive at their destination, or return.\n\nThere are hopes coronavirus testing for passengers could make travel to more destinations possible, by providing proof of a negative result before travellers leave the UK.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps, meanwhile, has said he is \"hopeful\" a new testing regime for arrivals to Britain can be in place by 1 December, reducing the amount of time people need to spend in quarantine.\n\nHowever, new British Airways boss Sean Doyle last week called for tests for returning Britons before departure, warning the UK would \"get left behind\" without more radical action.\n\nEarlier on Monday the airline cut flight numbers again, saying it would operate fewer planes than planned for the rest of the year as the pandemic continues to hit demand.\n\nThe Foreign Office still advises British nationals against all but essential international travel due to the pandemic.", "A Tory MP has quit her government job after voting for a Labour motion to offer free school meals during holidays until Easter 2021.\n\nCaroline Ansell said vouchers were not a long-term solution - but they helped families struggling with the pandemic.\n\nFootballer Marcus Rashford, who is leading a campaign on child hunger, urged MPs to \"unite\" and stop being influenced by \"political affiliation\".\n\nOn Wednesday evening, MPs rejected the Labour motion by 322 votes to 261.\n\nHome Office Minister Kit Malthouse insisted the government was helping low-income families through the welfare system.\n\nHe said the government had raised Universal Credit by £20 a week, adjusted housing benefit to help people with their rent and given £63m to councils to help with hardship funding.\n\nHe acknowledged the decision on free school meals was \"a tough one\" and praised Mr Rashford for his campaign to tackle child hunger.\n\nResponding to the vote, Mr Rashford said \"child food poverty has the potential to become the greatest pandemic the country has ever faced\" and called on MPs to \"face this head on\".\n\n\"I don't have the education of a politician... but I have a social education having lived through this,\" he said.\n\n\"These children matter... and for as long as they don't have a voice, they will have mine.\"\n\nFive Conservative MPs rebelled against their party by voting with Labour - including Ms Ansell who has now stepped down as parliamentary private secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.\n\nExplaining her decision, she said: \"In these unprecedented times I am very concerned to be doing all we can to help lower income families and their children who are really struggling due to the impact of the virus.\"\n\nShe said that food vouchers were \"not perfect\" arguing that it is better to link meals to activities so children \"can also benefit from extra-curricular learning and experience\".\n\nHowever. she added that vouchers could help families in her Eastbourne constituency who were struggling as a result of the pandemic.\n\nThe government's stance has also been criticised by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who tweeted: \"If the government can subsidise Eat Out to Help Out, not being seen to give poor kids lunch in the school holidays looks mean and is wrong.\"\n\nBut Conservative MP for Bassetlaw MP Brendan Clarke-Smith - who says he was a recipient of free school meals when he was a child - opposed the motion.\n\n\"Where is the slick PR campaign encouraging absent parents to take some responsibility for their children?\", he asked.\n\n\"I do not believe in nationalising children, instead we need to get back to the idea of taking responsibility.\n\n\"This means less celebrity virtue signalling on Twitter by proxy and more action to tackle the real causes of child poverty.\"\n\nTory MP Ben Bradley posted a series of tweets defending his decision to vote against the motion after getting into a row on Twitter on Wednesday over his opposition to the plan.\n\nHe said the vote was not \"help poor kids, yes or no\" but a promise to \"roll out a huge expansion of long term state dependency to millions, when a large [percentage] of those on [free school meals] are not impoverished and don't want or need it.\"\n\nMr Bradley defended the support the government offers to poorer families and attacked the Labour, saying: \"You'd think a truly 'caring' Labour party could recognise the huge difference between the majority of kids on [free school meals] who are not wealthy by any stretch, but who have good parents and are managing, and impoverished kids who are desperate.\"\n\nHowever, the former deputy leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson, said he could see a U-turn from the government on its decision to go against the campaign, due to wide support in the country.\n\nHe told BBC Two's Politics Live: \"They don't want a recurring commitment for free school means 52 weeks a year, but we are in a national crisis and there are kids going hungry.\"\n\nMr Watson said it was \"one of the saddest days of my life\" when he listened to a child in his old constituency describe the \"feeling in their stomach\" when they were going hungry.\n\n\"It is a tricky one for the government,\" he added, \"[but] I have got a feeling that if the pressure continues they may have to concede this one.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson, who left the Commons, last year, says hearing from the child was “one of the saddest days of my life”.\n\nChildren of all ages living in households on income-related benefits may be eligible for free school meals.\n\nIn England, about 1.3 million children claimed for free school meals in 2019 - about 15% of state-educated pupils.\n\nAnalysis by the Food Foundation estimates a further 900,000 children in England may have sought free school meals since the start of the pandemic.\n\nIn Scotland, the government has made £10m available to local councils to continue to fund free school meals over the Christmas, February and Easter breaks. Local authorities that offered provision over the October school break can apply to be reimbursed.\n\nThe Welsh government has also pledged to extend free school meal provision to every school holiday until Easter 2021, spending £11m on doing so.\n\nIn England and Northern Ireland, however, the scheme will only run during term time.", "BBC journalist Martin Bashir is \"seriously unwell\" with complications from coronavirus, the corporation has said.\n\nThe 57-year-old, who made headlines across the world with his 1995 interview with Princess Diana, is currently BBC News religion editor.\n\n\"Everyone at the BBC is wishing him a full recovery,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nMr Bashir is also known for interviews with pop star Michael Jackson and the suspects in the Stephen Lawrence case.\n\n\"We are sorry to say that Martin is seriously unwell with Covid-19 related complications,\" the BBC spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We'd ask that his privacy, and that of his family, is respected at this time.\"\n\nMr Bashir worked as a BBC news correspondent from 1987 to 1992, before joining the BBC's investigative programme Panorama.\n\nOn that programme in 1995, he interviewed Diana, Princess of Wales, who admitted to having had an affair - and spoke of Prince Charles's relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles, now Duchess of Cornwall.\n\n\"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded,\" she said, in a programme watched by one of the largest-ever audiences for the BBC.\n\nThe interview has seen renewed interest following a Channel 4 documentary examining the story behind Princess Diana's revelations, which was broadcast on Wednesday night.\n\nLater, Mr Bashir worked for Tonight on ITV before moving to the US in 2004, where he hosted ABC's Nightline programme and worked as a news anchor on MSNBC.\n\nHe resigned from MSNBC in 2013 with an apology for calling former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin a \"world-class idiot\".\n\nIn 2016, Mr Bashir rejoined the BBC as religious affairs correspondent. A former student of theology, he covers events in the UK and around the world affecting people of different faiths.", "Poor performance has been blamed for the fines\n\nThe train company contracted to run Transport for Wales services, KeolisAmey, has been fined £2.3m by the Welsh Government for poor performance.\n\nEconomy minister Ken Skates said the penalty notices were \"vital\", saying the company had not lived up to what was agreed.\n\nRecent improvements must continue, he added. The company took over the £5bn franchise in October 2018.\n\nKeolisAmey apologised for the disruption of the last few months.\n\nIt is not clear when the fines were imposed. Transport for Wales said it was a \"overall sum\" imposed over \"different periods\", with fines issued on a periodic basis.\n\nThe company was awarded the Wales and Borders franchise by the Welsh Government in 2018.\n\nThe day-to-day contract is managed by Transport for Wales - a part of Welsh Government which also provides the branding the train services use.\n\nIn December the organisation saw cancellations following the introduction of a new timetable. The company blamed staff shortages.\n\n\"So far, something in the region of £2.3m in penalty notices have been issued to KeolisAmey,\" Mr Skates told the assembly's economy committee.\n\nHe said the money would be reinvested in rail services.\n\nTransport for Wales said the fines were triggered because the operator had not met agreements for the subsidy it gives it.\n\nThe cash has been paid by deducting it from the subsidy, TfW said.\n\n\"A key challenge has been due to a shortage of fleet available to operate on a day-to-day basis,\" a spokesman added.\n\nTrains have been out of service due to modifications for people with reduced mobility, internal and external refurbishments and work to install wheel slip protection before the Autumn leaf fall.\n\nRecently extra capacity has been provided for 6,500 more passengers.\n\nKeolisAmey has been running services since October 2018\n\nVikki Howells, Labour AM for Cynon Valley, told the committee she was dealing with constituents who faced disciplinary action in work because of their lateness, have lost wages and had to spend cash on bus fares because of recent disruption.\n\nSimon Jones, Welsh Government director of economy infrastructure, told her a measure called \"passenger time lost\" had \"driven\" some of the penalty notices.\n\nHe said it focuses on the \"busiest journeys\" - creating more of a problem for the train company if there were problems at rush hour.\n\nMr Skates said the proportion of trains arriving within three minutes of the scheduled time had improved by 6% in the \"latest period\".\n\nThat has increased to 76.1%, but the minister said that was against a target of 77%.\n\nHe did not want to be issuing penalty notices. \"However it is something I feel is absolutely vital in order to incentivise better performance and to ensure passengers know when performance is not what people expect money is being returned.\n\n\"Performance has not been what has been expected and has not lived up to what the contract stated and what was agreed.\"\n\nHe told the committee the contract with KeolisAmey includes a break clause.\n\n\"If failure was to be seen in the future of course we would have to respond accordingly by looking at the contract,\" he added.\n\nKevin Thomas, chief executive of KeolisAmey Wales, apologised for the disruption of the past few months.\n\n\"We recognise that we have not been able to deliver the quality of service that we aim to and that our passengers across the network deserve,\" he said.\n\n\"It is encouraging to report that we are starting to see some improvements, with a 24% reduction in network delay minutes following the introduction of our December timetable.\n\n\"We have welcomed the arrival of the Class 170's, the recruitment of over 200 additional train crew and the introduction of more than 186 new Sunday services.\"\n\nCaerphilly Labour AM Hefin David welcomed the fines: \"I have had assurances from Transport for Wales that things are set to get better through 2020 and I will be monitoring this as a committee member and in my constituency.\"", "The curfew is already in place in Paris and eight other major cities\n\nFrance will extend an overnight curfew to dozens more areas in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus, Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced.\n\n\"The second wave is now under way,\" he said, shortly before the country announced a record 41,622 new cases.\n\nThe 21:00 to 06:00 curfew will come into force at midnight on Friday, and some 46 million people will now be affected by the measure.\n\nCountries around Europe are struggling with rising infection rates.\n\nFrance, Italy, Spain and the UK are all hotspots.\n\n\"The coming weeks will be hard and the number of deaths will continue to rise,\" Mr Castex told a press conference on Thursday. Over the last 24 hours France recorded 162 more deaths.\n\n\"If we fail to stop the pandemic, we will be facing a dire situation and we will have to mull much tougher measures,\" he added.\n\n\"We still have time to avoid that but we don't have much time,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister's announcement came less than a week after the same curfew was applied to the Paris region and eight other cities, including Marseille, Lyon, Lille and Toulouse.\n\nThe restrictions will be extended to 38 more administrative departments as well as the overseas territory of Polynesia, and will remain in place for six weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Lee reports from the epicentre of Europe's second wave, which is in Belgium\n\nThe overnight curfew has drawn complaints from restaurant owners, whose businesses are already suffering after the two-month lockdown in the spring.\n\nBut President Emmanuel Macron has said they are necessary to avoid the risk of hospitals being overrun.\n\nFrance has reported more than 20,000 new cases over the past six days, and the total number of confirmed infections now stands at nearly one million.\n\nNew \"level 5\" rules have come into force in Ireland - the highest level of Covid restrictions there. Its five million people have been ordered to stay at home for six weeks\n\nA second lockdown is in force in the Czech Republic which is facing a big surge in cases. Prime Minister Andrej Babis said the harsh restrictions were needed to avoid hospitals being overwhelmed\n\nSlovakia is closing schools until 27 November, imposing a week-long lockdown on its four most affected districts, a partial lockdown on the rest of the country, and embarking on two rounds of testing for the whole population, PM Igor Matovic said on Thursday\n\nGreece's prime minister has declared a night curfew in Athens and other areas. It will come into force from Saturday and applies between 00:30 and 05:00\n\nGermany has announced a record 11,287 daily number of infections. Health Minister Jens Spahn has himself caught coronavirus. The country also added the UK to its list of high risk countries from which visitors must quarantine\n\nIn the UK, officials announced that the urban areas of Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry and Slough would move into tier two restrictions on Saturday. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in all of these areas the infection rate was over 100 per 100,000 people\n\nItaly's Lazio region around Rome has joined two other Italian regions in declaring overnight curfews. Lombardy in the north starts its curfew at 23:00 (21:00GMT) on Thursday, and Campania and Lazio will follow suit on Friday. Prof Walter Ricciardi, who advises the government on health, has warned that \"some metropolitan areas like Milan, Naples and probably Rome are already out of control\"\n\nSpain is the first EU country to record one million infections and the northern region of Navarre has imposed restrictions on movement. The Rioja wine region says it will do the same\n\nBelgium's 45-year-old Foreign Minister Sophie Wilmes has been admitted to intensive care after testing positive for Covid-19 last week. Her spokeswoman said she was in a \"stable\" condition. Meanwhile, health workers have raised concerns over the rising number of cases in the country, with the head of a coronavirus testing centre in the city of Liège warning that the \"situation is close to catastrophe\"\n\nThe Netherlands may begin transferring patients to Germany within two days as its health system faces increasing strain from coronavirus admissions, the hospital association LNAZ said. The Netherlands also registered more than 9,000 new cases in a new daily record\n\nScroll table to see more data Please update your browser to see full interactive", "With tier three restrictions set to be introduced for South Yorkshire from Saturday, people in Barnsley spoke about what they think of the new rules.\n\nPeople had mixed reactions with some saying they were \"worried\" and others saying stricter measures were \"good\" because people were breaking the rules.\n\nThe new restrictions will apply to all four local authority areas in South Yorkshire - Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.\n\nLabour Mayor Dan Jarvis said the move to tier three followed \"extensive discussions\" with ministers.", "A man purporting to be Banksy asked an assumed onlooker to move away\n\nBanksy's spray painting of a Tube carriage showed London Underground was \"not safe\", the RMT union has said.\n\nA video posted on the artist's Instagram in July showed a man, thought to be Banksy, disguised as a cleaner.\n\nHe was wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) and used equipment Tube staff would use to disinfect trains.\n\nTransport for London said the Tube was safe but the RMT, which many Tube staff belong to, said it was not a lapse in security but showed \"there wasn't any\".\n\nThe work by Banksy, called If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get, featured a number of rats in pandemic-inspired poses and wearing face masks.\n\nIt was removed by TfL cleaning crews who were said to be unaware it was a Banksy artwork and treated it \"like any other graffiti on the network\".\n\nThe transport authority has now confirmed to the BBC, in response a Freedom of Information Act request, that it had completed an investigation into the incident but would not release its findings because of security concerns and not wanting to encourage copycats.\n\nTfL said the artist carried out the graffiti between Barbican and Paddington on the Hammersmith and City Line between 05:24 and 06:31 on 10 July.\n\nIt also confirmed it had no involvement with either the artist, his staff or lawyers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe footage also showed the artist painted the words \"I get lockdown\" on a wall right at the end of a station platform. TfL would not say which station it was but confirmed the artist did not go on the tracks.\n\nA spokesperson for the RMT said some stations had no gate-line staff at certain times of the day so people could \"literally walk on there with anything they like\".\n\n\"You can have a coffin under your arm let alone a canister full of paint,\" he said.\n\nHe said the union had been campaigning over staffing levels because the stations were unstaffed for \"long periods of time and the end result is anything could happen\".\n\n\"What happened with a canister full of paint is actually very minor, considering what could have happened.\"\n\nSafety has been a point of contention between the unions and TfL over the past few years, when the service underwent job cuts as ticket offices were closed.\n\nOn its website, TfL says it funds 2,500 police officers to work across London's transport network to keep people safe.\n\nThe BBC has approached TfL for a statement.\n\nSecurity consultant Will Geddes said it was difficult for Tube staff to check everyone to make sure they were who they appeared to be - for example, a cleaner. He said a balance had to be struck as TfL did not want to hold people up by having airport-style security.\n\n\"It's a bit of a human rights issue,\" he said. \"If you were to go to the Tube station, you would be very affronted if someone was asking you questions about why you were wearing that particular jacket today, or that hat or whatever it might be.\"\n\nMr Geddes said the wearing of face masks on the Tube was a security risk as it meant criminals were harder to spot.\n\nBrian Woodhead, Director of Customer Service for London Underground, said: \"The safety of our customers and staff is always our primary concern, and ensuring the security of our network is a key part of that.\n\n\"We work closely with our station staff, our trade unions and with partners including the British Transport Police to ensure that the network is as secure as possible.\"\n\nA Banksy spokesperson said they had no comment to add.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "It's been four years since Donald Trump made a string of promises during his long 2016 campaign to be the 45th president of the United States. Four years later, his supporters often cite \"promises made, promises kept\" as a reason why they're backing him again.\n\nMany of them made headlines - from banning all Muslims entering the US, to building a border wall paid for by Mexico.\n\nBut others went a little under the radar, like his pledge to eliminate the national debt.\n\nSo how has he done in keeping his promises?\n\nBefore election: Trump promised to lower the corporate tax rate and bring in huge tax cuts for working Americans.\n\nAfter: The Republican tax plan passed in December 2017, and it largely ticks the box for the president although its merits are hotly disputed. He has had to compromise on his pledge to bring corporation tax down from 35% to 15% (it will be 21% instead).\n\nAnd the tax cuts for individuals will expire, although Republicans say future governments will simply renew them. But wealthy Americans are expected to benefit more than poorer ones.\n\nNot everyone saw their taxes lowered. For some higher earners in urbanised, mostly Democratic states, taxes went up due to a cap on state and local property and income tax deductions.\n\nBefore: As a candidate, Mr Trump derided climate change as a hoax concocted by China, and the regulations of Paris as stifling to American growth.\n\nAfter: After three months of hemming and hawing behind the closed doors of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the president came down decisively on the side near the exits. Quitting the Paris deal, signed by nearly 200 countries, is unequivocally a promise kept. The exit officially takes effect 4 November, the day after the US election.\n\nBefore: \"I am looking for judges and have actually picked 20 of them. They'll respect the Second Amendment and what it stands for and what it represents.\"\n\nAfter: He vowed to appoint a conservative justice and he has appointed two - Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.\n\nMr Gorsuch's appointment required a procedural change to Senate rules, but it was Mr Kavanaugh's appointment that was particularly controversial.\n\nMr Kavanaugh faced sexual assault allegations - which he denied - and was eventually voted through by 50-48 - the tightest nomination vote since 1881.\n\nWhat's more, his third nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, is on course to be confirmed. If approved by the Republican-controlled Senate, she could ensure a conservative majority on the Supreme Court for decades to come.\n\nIn addition to making his mark on the top court, Mr Trump has appointed nearly 200 conservative judges to lower federal courts.\n\nIf approved, Amy Coney Barrett would be the third justice President Trump has successfully nominated for the top court\n\nBefore: One of Mr Trump's trademark rally pledges was to repeal and replace Obamacare - his predecessor's attempt to extend healthcare to the estimated 15% of the country who are not covered.\n\nIt is widely hated by Republicans, who say the law imposes too many costs on business, with many describing it as a \"job killer\" and decrying the reforms - officially the Affordable Care Act - as an unwarranted intrusion into the affairs of private businesses and individuals.\n\nAfter: Republicans have been unable to pass a repeal or reform bill.\n\nThat said, the Trump administration has managed to dismantle parts of the law - enrolment periods have been shortened, some subsidies have been axed, and the fine for people who did not purchase health insurance has been eliminated as part of the 2017 tax plan.\n\nAnd in December 2018, a federal judge in Texas ruled that repealing this penalty, an \"essential\" part of the law, meant the entirety of Obamacare is therefore unconstitutional.\n\nThe law, however, remains in place as an appeal heads to the US Supreme Court, with a ruling expected sometime in 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump's battles with Obamacare - in his own words\n\nBefore: His vow to build a wall along the US-Mexican border was one of the most controversial of Mr Trump's campaign promises. Mr Trump also insisted that Mexico would pay for it.\n\nAfter: Mexico poured scorn on the claim that it would pay for such a barrier, and even Mr Trump appears to have dropped that idea.\n\nDemocrats are vociferously opposed to a wall, whereas some Republicans have baulked at a bill that could reach $21.5bn (£17bn), according to a Department of Homeland Security internal report.\n\nIn December 2018 the US government went into shutdown after Democrats resisted Mr Trump's demands for $5bn to fund the wall. He has since redirected defence and some other funds to build or replace sections of the wall, a decision that has faced legal challenges.\n\nAs of late May, 194 miles of wall system had been built, mostly to shore up dilapidated or outdated designs of the barrier already in place - just three miles construction was part of an entirely new system.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many Trump voters are happy with his progress\n\nBefore: During a speech in Iowa in November 2015, Mr Trump warned that he would, using an expletive, bomb the so-called Islamic State group into obliteration.\n\nAfter: The president dropped the biggest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal on an IS-stronghold in Afghanistan. He also takes credit for driving IS out of parts of Iraq and Syria, saying the group has been \"largely defeated\", although that process was under way under Obama. Last year, IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself during a raid by US commandos.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this the end for Islamic State?\n\nBefore: Mr Trump pledged during his campaign to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a divided city which both Israelis and Palestinians claim.\n\nAfter: In 2017, he said he formally recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and approved moving the US embassy. It opened in May 2018 to coincide with Israel's 70th anniversary. The construction of a permanent US embassy building in Jerusalem was approved in 2019.\n\nBefore: \"I'm going to build a military that's going to be much stronger than it is right now. It's going to be so strong, nobody's going to mess with us,\" Donald Trump said on the campaign trail in October 2015.\n\nHe promised to reverse defence cuts brought in by President Barack Obama in 2013. \"We want to deter, avoid and prevent conflict through our unquestioned military dominance,\" he said.\n\nAfter: Defence spending has indeed risen steadily throughout the Trump presidency - although overall levels remain below the first years of the Obama administration.\n\nMilitary spending increased dramatically from 2002 as the US entered protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It peaked in 2010 as a percentage of GDP - the value of all goods and services - after which the US began stepping back from its engagement in the Middle East and Central Asia.\n\nBefore: Just a month before his election win in November 2016, Mr Trump said he could cut as many as 70% of US federal regulations if elected.\n\n\"It's just stopping businesses from growing,\" he told an audience in New Hampshire.\n\nThe promise drew him support from large and small businesses, who helped him to victory that year.\n\nAfter: The president has slashed through regulations on everything from labour to the environment.\n\nJust days after taking office he signed the Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs, which mandated that when government departments asked for a federal regulation, they had to specify two others they would drop.\n\nThroughout his term he has continued to slash back red tape. In January 2020 he scrapped protections for US wetlands and streams, and in July he announced changes to the National Environmental Protection Act in a bid to speed up infrastructure projects.\n\n\"We are reclaiming America's proud heritage as a nation that gets things done,\" he said.\n\nBefore: Mr Trump has long called for the US to leave the Middle East. On the 2016 campaign trail, he said the region was a \"total and complete mess\" and wished the government had spent the trillions of dollars in the US instead.\n\nHis talk of an end to US military deployments overseas predates his presidential run. In 2013, he tweeted: \"Our troops are being killed by the Afghanis we train and we waste billions there. Nonsense! Rebuild the USA.\" That same year, he said the US should \"stay the hell out\" of the Syrian war.\n\nAfter: In September 2017, the Trump administration announced the deployment of 3,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Mr Trump said his approach would be based on conditions on the ground. In Syria, the US had led a coalition against IS along with Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters, with around 2,000 troops on the ground.\n\nBy December 2018, Mr Trump ordered the withdrawal of all US troops from Syria, though about half the troops, approximately 500, still remain.\n\nMr Trump recently said he has plans to further cut troops in Afghanistan - after reducing them to 8,600 from 13,000 over the spring and summer - before the 3 November election. In February, US and Nato allies agreed to withdraw all troops from the country within 14 months if Taliban militants uphold a new peace agreement.\n\nThe president's efforts to pull down troops has at times been met with criticism from his own officials. Following Mr Trump's announcement of a Syria withdrawal in part prompted the resignation of US Defence Secretary James Mattis.\n\nBefore: Mr Trump called Nafta \"a disaster\" and warned that the TPP \"is going to be worse, so we will stop it\". He also pledged to correct the trade deficit with China.\n\nAfter: Mr Trump followed through in his first few days on his pledge to withdraw from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). He later said he would consider re-joining the TPP if he got a better deal.\n\nOn 30 November, after protracted negotiations, the US, Canada and Mexico signed the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which was designed to replace Nafta and recently came into force. However, the US has reimposed aluminium tariffs on Canada, and Ottawa reciprocated with retaliatory tariffs.\n\nThe US and South Korea also signed a revised trade pact in September 2018.\n\nThe US and China, meanwhile, became embroiled in an escalating trade battle - with both sides imposing tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of goods.\n\nDespite ongoing tensions, in August the US and China held talks over their so-called \"phase-one\" trade deal - signed early this year - that is aimed at easing the trade war.\n\nBefore: Mr Trump initially promised to ban all Muslims entering the US - a \"total and complete\" shutdown should remain until the US authorities \"can figure out what's going on\".\n\nBut he switched to \"extreme vetting\" after he became the party's presidential candidate.\n\nAfter: As president, he introduced two travel bans which became ensnarled in the courts - but the third had more luck. The US Supreme Court ruled President Trump's ban on six mainly Muslim countries can go into full effect, pending legal challenges.\n\nThe current ban restricts travellers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea.\n\nAnd in January, the US has announced it was expanding its curbs on immigration to include six more countries. Citizens from Nigeria, Eritrea, Sudan, Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar will now be blocked from obtaining certain types of visas.\n\nBefore: Mr Trump said in September 2016 that he would reverse the deal President Barack Obama had struck to reopen diplomatic relations and improve trade.\n\nAfter: As president, he told an audience in Miami that he was \"cancelling the Obama administration's one-sided deal.\"\n\nIn 2017, Mr Trump reimposed some trade and travel restrictions lifted by his predecessor. He kept the embassy open in Havana, although without naming an ambassador to the country.\n\nLast year, the administration announced a ban on travel to Cuba for American group tours as well as cruise ships journeying to the island\n\nUntil then, US tourism to Cuba was not permitted, but certain forms of organised group travel, known as \"people-to-people\" travel, had been allowed.\n\nThis month the US administration announced further restrictions, saying it would suspend all private charter flights between the United States and Cuba, to increase economic pressure on Havana. The suspension comes into force on 13 October.\n\nBefore: Mr Trump repeatedly pledged to label Beijing a \"currency manipulator\" on his first day in office, during an election campaign when he also accused the Asian powerhouse of \"raping\" the US. China has been accused of suppressing the yuan to make its exports more competitive with US goods.\n\nAfter: In August 2019, the administration officially named China as a \"currency manipulator\". The US Treasury department defines currency manipulation as when countries deliberately influence the exchange rate between their currency and the US dollar to gain \"unfair competitive advantage in international trade\".\n\nBut in January, the US reversed its decision when China had agreed to refrain from devaluing its currency to make its own goods cheaper for foreign buyers.\n\nBefore: \"I know the Wall Street people probably better than anybody knows them,\" Donald Trump told the Washington Post in 2016, and promised to clear the country's then-$19tn national debt \"over a period of eight years\".\n\nAfter: Halfway through that eight-year promise, the US national debt has ballooned by more than a third, hitting $27tn in October 2020. Mr Trump increased the national debt ceiling in 2017, before suspending it until after the 2020 election in July 2019.\n\nIt is predicted the debt will rise even further once the full economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic becomes apparent.\n\nBefore: Mr Trump repeatedly told his supporters that every single undocumented immigrant - of which there are estimated to be more than 11.3 million - \"have to go\".\n\nAfter: As polling day approached, his stance began to soften slightly, then after the election he scaled it back to some two to three million deportations of people who \"are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers\".\n\nIn fiscal year 2019 deportations were at 267,000, a slight rise on the year before, though not as high as the 2012 peak of 410,000 under the Obama administration.\n\nMr Trump's plans for immigration reform faced defeat this summer when the Supreme Court ruled against his administration's bid to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), which protects about 650,000 young people who entered the US without documents as children.\n\nBefore: The country's infrastructure \"will become, by the way, second to none, and we will put millions of our people back to work as we rebuild it\", he said in his victory speech in November.\n\nAfter: Has repeated his vow to spend big on the country's roads, rail and airports, but as yet, there is little sign of action. By March 2018 Congress had allocated $21bn for infrastructure spending - far short of the $1.5tn Mr Trump has called for. The money will be spent on a wide range of upgrades and investments, according to a congressional graphic.\n\nIn April 2019, Mr Trump and Democratic leaders agreed to spend $2tn on infrastructure, an agreement that later fell apart. This June there were reports the Trump administration had a $1tn plan in the works, but no announcement has been made.\n\nBefore: Mr Trump repeatedly questioned the military alliance's purpose, calling it \"obsolete\". One issue that irked him was whether members were pulling their weight and \"paying their bills\". In one New York Times interview in July 2016, he even hinted that the US would not come to the aid of a member invaded by Russia.\n\nAfter: But as he hosted Nato's secretary general at the White House in April 2018, the US president said the threat of terrorism had underlined the alliance's importance. \"I said it [Nato] was obsolete,\" Mr Trump said. \"It's no longer obsolete.\"\n\nIn July 2018, Mr Trump reiterated his support at the Nato summit, but suggested the US might still leave if allies did not acquiesce to his budget demands.\n\nMr Trump has continued to argue that Canada and European members of Nato are not spending enough to support the alliance, and recently said the US will move nearly 12,000 troops out of Germany.\n\nBefore: Mr Trump said he would approve waterboarding \"immediately\" and \"make it also much worse\", adding \"torture works\".\n\nAfter: But after his inauguration, the president said he would defer to the countervailing belief, espoused by former Defence Secretary James Mattis and then-CIA director Mike Pompeo, who is now secretary of state.\n\nMr Pompeo said during his CIA confirmation hearing that he would \"absolutely not\" reinstate such methods.\n\nBefore: \"Lock her up\" was one of the main rallying cries of Mr Trump's supporters.\n\nThey wanted to see Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in prison over the use of her private email server while secretary of state.\n\nAnd Mr Trump was more than willing to back their calls for, at the very least, a fresh investigation. During the debates, he told Mrs Clinton: \"If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation.\"\n\nAfter: The president-elect's tone changed almost as soon as he had won, describing the woman he had said was \"such a nasty woman\" as someone the country owed \"a debt of gratitude\". Later, he said he \"hadn't given [the prosecution] a lot of thought\" and had other priorities.\n\nIn November 2016 Mr Trump's spokeswoman said he would not pursue a further investigation - to help Mrs Clinton \"heal\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "New trains like these are expected to run between Cheltenham, Cardiff and Maesteg from December\n\nThe boss of Transport for Wales has admitted he understands passengers' frustration as TfW marks the first year of running the nation's rail services.\n\nOverall, 82% of passengers are satisfied, the same as 2018, according to the latest official survey.\n\nBut travellers reported seeing an improvement in how delays have been dealt with since TfW took over from Arriva Trains Wales.\n\n\"We've tried very hard,\" said TfW chief executive James Price.\n\nHe recognised there was frustration at the pace of change, with operators \"playing catch-up\" after damage to trains in last autumn's storms.\n\nTfW brought in trains from elsewhere to plug the gaps, although there will be delays in bringing in 10 new four-car trains for the valleys lines.\n\n\"We've delivered everything we said we'd deliver, sometimes in a slightly different way, because the mix of rolling stock is different,\" Mr Price said.\n\n\"The thing I'd really like to see us focus on is unit availability - and then moving into transforming the network, particularly the Metro, in the coming year.\"\n\nTfW chairman Scott Waddington said: \"There is a lot of expectation out there and rightly so. The service hasn't been where it should be in the past.\n\n\"But the scale of project we have is going to take time to deliver properly and effectively.\"\n\nHe appealed for patience and said he was confident people would see \"real change\" over the next four to five years.\n\nChristine Boston, Wales director of the Community Transport Association and chairwoman of advocacy body Transport Cymru, said positive steps had been made, but it was not easy, with rural communities to serve too.\n\n\"It's a tough job, they got off to a particularly difficult start, they have an extremely broad and challenging remit and public expectation is very, very high.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic, we can't expect transformation in transport overnight.\"\n\nShe said she was \"really disappointed\" the Welsh Government was requesting a delay in introducing new regulations to make trains accessible for people with disabilities due to a UK-wide backlog in train orders.\n\nCommuter Matthew Marshman - and standing room only on his train into Cardiff\n\nBut passenger Matthew Marshman, who travels daily from Ebbw Vale to his IT job in Cardiff, said it was \"disheartening\" change had not been felt yet, while fares have gone up.\n\n\"It's business as usual for me - no difference in my daily routine, still particularly busy, often late, often limited in carriage numbers.\n\n\"We looked forward to change happening and it hasn't happened. Fingers crossed it will be coming soon.\"\n\nTfW oversees public transport strategy for the Welsh Government and is working in partnership with train operator KeolisAmey, which was awarded the 15-year, £5bn contract.\n\nEconomy and Transport Minister Ken Skates said: \"It's clear that there are significant challenges and this journey will take time, but we have ambitious plans to transform transport across Wales to deliver a fully integrated network, with customers at the heart of everything.\"\n\nWhat questions do you have about Wales, or its people and places?\n\nIs there anything you've always wanted to know?\n\nUse this form to send us your questions:\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\nWe may get in touch if we decide to follow up on your suggestion.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Losing access to EU databases could make identifying people with a criminal history harder\n\nMany more EU citizens with criminal records will be barred from entering the UK from January, the Home Office has said.\n\nPeople sentenced to more than a year in prison will be turned away, in line with other foreign nationals.\n\nPreviously, officials had to show EU offenders presented a serious threat.\n\nBut there are concerns a no-deal Brexit could make it harder to identify foreign criminals, BBC home editor Mark Easton said.\n\nWith the UK in a transition period since it formally left the EU in January, an EU citizen can currently only be refused entry if they present a genuine, present and serious threat.\n\nRegulations being laid in Parliament on Thursday set out the new rules for when the transition period ends, which treat EU and non-EU citizens the same.\n\nThe new rules mean from 1 January:\n\nPeople involved in a sham marriage could be banned from entry, and anyone breaching customs regulations could also be turned away.\n\nThe changes also mean EU citizens found rough sleeping could be deported if they refuse support from authorities, such as the offer of accommodation, as is already the case for non-EU citizens.\n\nOfficials said this could apply to people living on the streets who commit crimes or act in anti-social ways, such as aggressively begging.\n\nBut they said it would be a last resort and checks would be carried out to ensure the rough sleepers were not victims of modern slavery or trafficking.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe regulations could mean tens of thousands of people from Europe can no longer enter the UK.\n\nBut with no long-term agreement on trade and other areas of co-operation with the EU when the transition agreement expires, the UK faces losing access to the European Criminal Records Information System and the EU's passenger database.\n\nThat could make it harder to identify arrivals with a criminal history.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the rules would be \"firmer and fairer\", applying the same rules on criminality to people from all countries.\n\nEU citizens living in Britain who have immigration status under the EU Settlement Scheme, or any others who are protected by the Withdrawal Agreement, are exempt from these rules.\n\nHowever, the Home Office said that their status could be revoked if they commit a crime after 1 January if it results in a prison sentence of more than a year.", "KeolisAmey has run Transport for Wales rail services since October 2018\n\nThe Transport for Wales rail service is to be brought under Welsh Government control from next February.\n\nMinisters have confirmed the takeover from KeolisAmey, with day-to-day services to be run by a publicly-owned company.\n\nIt follows significant falls in passenger numbers during the pandemic.\n\nThe Welsh Tories questioned how much nationalisation will cost taxpayers, while Plaid Cymru called for the Senedd to be recalled.\n\nEconomy Minister Ken Skates said the government had stepped in \"to stabilise the network and keep it running\".\n\n\"The last few months have been extremely challenging for public transport in Wales and across the UK. Covid has significantly impacted passenger revenues,\" he said.\n\nKeolisAmey was awarded the franchise in 2018, taking over from Arriva Trains Wales.\n\nIt covers most of Wales' trains - including key commuter services such as the Valley Lines.\n\nTransport for Wales will run Wales and Borders services from February\n\nThe financial risk of the Wales and Borders rail franchise, which is branded Transport for Wales (TfW), had already been taken over by taxpayers under a £65m agreement signed in May.\n\nBut from February next year KeolisAmey staff working on rail services will be transferred over to a publicly owned company, currently called Transport for Wales Rail Ltd.\n\nIt is happening under a part of railway law that allows for the creation of operators of \"last resort\".\n\nOfficials say the time gap between now and the start of the new operator will allow the Welsh Government to prepare the new operator for service.\n\nA part of the original agreement is staying - Amey Keolis Infrastructure Ltd will continue to be responsible for infrastructure on the Core Valley Lines, where the South Wales Metro upgrade is taking place.\n\nKeolis and Amey will also work with the Welsh Government quango Transport for Wales on improvements to the service - like rolling stock and ticketing.\n\nKevin Thomas, chief executive of KeolisAmey Wales, said: \"In light of Covid-19, we recognise the need for Welsh Government to have a sustainable way forward for delivering its ambitious objectives for rail.\"\n\nKeolisAmey took over from Arriva Trains Wales in 2018\n\nChallenged on the decision later on Thursday, Mr Skates told a Senedd committee that if the existing arrangements had continued it would have \"led to a collapse by the operator and a catastrophic transfer then to the operator of last resort [Transport for Wales Rail Ltd].\n\n\"What we're able to do now is manage a careful transition, which will take us through to February, and then beyond, with the establishment of TfW rail limited,\" he said.\n\nDeputy Transport Minister Lee Waters said: \"The whole business model collapsed in the face of Covid because the revenue was not coming in and Keolis in effect were not prepared to shoulder their share of the pain.\"\n\nAsked about the long-term costs of propping up the network, he said: \"It depends on Covid. We don't know.\"\n\nMinisters pledged to honour commitments worth more than £1bn to buy new trains and build the south Wales Metro.\n\n\"That will be delivered,\" Mr Skates said.\n\nJames Price, chief executive of Welsh Government quango Transport for Wales which oversaw the franchise and shared branding with it, said that rolling stock is \"on the way\" and \"in essence is paid for already\".\n\n\"What this allows us to do is to reduce the profit we pay to the private sector massively over time, and make sure that when the revenue comes back, it comes back in to the taxpayer.\"\n\nRussell George, economy spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives, said: \"Given the track record of the Welsh Labour-led Government, its decision to take control of our vital train industry has not filled me with any hope.\"\n\nHe said ministers should have consulted the Senedd on \"how much this decision is going to cost the Welsh taxpayer\".\n\n\"Eyebrows will be raised, too, on why any support is being left until February 2021,\" Mr George added.\n\nPlaid Cymru transport spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones said it \"could well be the right decision\", saying her party \"has always maintained that our railways should be brought into public hands and the government put passengers before profit\".\n\nBut she said there were \"crucial questions\" on financial implications and the nature of the subsidiary.\n\n\"Decisions of this importance should be announced in the Senedd so that members can ask questions on behalf of the people of Wales,\" she said.\n\nKeolisAmey already runs the Docklands Light Railway in London\n\nKeolisAmey is a joint-venture between two European companies, and was awarded the Wales and Borders franchise in May 2018 in a £5bn contract.\n\nIt was the first time the Welsh Government had awarded the franchise.\n\nKeolis is France's largest private sector public transport operator - but its major shareholder is state-owned French railway SNCF.\n\nAmey is a former one-time UK company owned by Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial.\n\nKeolisAmey took over services in October 2018. In January it emerged it had been fined £3.4m over the performance of services.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said: \"There is huge public support for public ownership because privatisation and profiteering has never been an efficient way to provide value for money, and this is even more the case when extra funding has been needed during the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nManuel Cortes, general secretary of the TSSA, said: \"This is a welcome and positive step from the Welsh Government, which will put our railways back in public hands and again shows the abject failure of privatisation.\"\n\nWe are told passengers will not notice the changeover. The same trains, staffed by the same drivers and conductors, will arrive at platforms.\n\nBut there are new risks for the taxpayer.\n\nTicket sales have plummeted. So in May the Welsh Government announced £65m and an emergency agreement to help the service cope.\n\nIn practice, that means almost all the financial risks associated with the railway are borne by the government.\n\nProfits and losses have moved from the private sector into the public sector.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK is \"ready to welcome the EU team\" to continue negotiations over a post-Brexit trade deal, says No 10.\n\nThe two sides' chief negotiators, Lord David Frost and Michel Barnier, spoke on the phone earlier after talks stalled last week.\n\nFollowing the conversation, Downing Street said the pair had \"jointly agreed a set of principles for handling this intensified phase of talks\".\n\nLord Frost said talks would begin again in London on Thursday.\n\nThe full statement from No 10 said it was \"clear that significant gaps remain between our positions in the most difficult areas\" and it was \"entirely possible that negotiations will not succeed\".\n\nBut, it added: \"We are ready, with the EU, to see if it is possible to bridge them in intensive talks.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Barnier said a deal would possible \"if we are both ready to work constructively and in a spirit of compromise over the next days, on the basis of legal texts. Time is short.\"\n\nBoth the UK and EU are calling on each other to compromise ahead of the looming December deadline for a deal.\n\nFrom 1 January 2021, the so-called transition period will be over, which has seen the UK continue to follow EU trading rules while a deal was negotiated.\n\nIf an agreement is not reached, the UK will move onto trade with the EU according to the default rules set by the World Trade Organization.\n\nKey areas of disagreement that remain between the two sides include fishing rights and post-Brexit competition rules.\n\nLord Frost said these \"intensive talks\" will take place \"every day\" while the two sides see if a deal can be done.\n\nYou could be forgiven for thinking that what we've witnessed over the past few days is a bit of political theatre.\n\nCover for the government - post chest-beating- to return to the negotiating table where they know the time has now come for tough compromises to be made.\n\nEU leaders also went out of their way to sound tough on Brexit at their summit last week. Privately, a number of EU figures now admit it was a misstep.\n\nBut EU leaders play to the domestic gallery too. They wanted to show they were \"standing up to the UK\" - that leaving the EU doesn't pay and that EU interests would be defended.\n\nThey accept they must compromise too now, if this trade and security deal with the UK has a chance of being agreed.\n\nTime is short and trust is in low supply.\n\nThe EU had previously set the end of October as a deadline to reach a deal, but Boris Johnson had pledged to walk away if it was not agreed by 15 October.\n\nThe day after the prime minister's deadline, Mr Johnson said it was time to \"get ready\" to leave without a deal, with No 10 going further by saying the talks were \"over\".\n\nA face-to-face meeting between the negotiators was cancelled for Monday and replaced by a phone call, which still left a stalemate between the two sides.\n\nBut Wednesday's conversation appeared to have been more fruitful.\n\nLord Frost (left) and Mr Barnier (right) have met several times since negotiations began in March\n\nNo 10 said Mr Barnier had \"acknowledged\" the UK's demands for the EU to be \"serious about talking intensively, on all issues, and bringing the negotiation to a conclusion\" and that he had accepted he was dealing with \"an independent and sovereign country\".\n\nIt also said the EU chief negotiator had accepted \"movement would be needed from both sides in the talks if agreement was to be reached\".\n\nThe statement added: \"On the basis of that conversation we are ready to welcome the EU team to London to resume negotiations later this week. We have jointly agreed a set of principles for handling this intensified phase of talks.\n\n\"It is clear that significant gaps remain between our positions in the most difficult areas, but we are ready, with the EU, to see if it is possible to bridge them in intensive talks.\"\n\nDowning Street reiterated its pledge to leave the transition period without a deal - or on \"Australian terms\" - and called on businesses and travellers to prepare \"since change is coming, whether an agreement is reached or not\".", "With the worst infection rate in western Europe, Belgium’s government has warned that parts of the country could soon see a “tsunami of cases” with the virus spreading uncontrollably.\n\nBrussels and Wallonia are at the epicentre of this second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Mike Berry casts doubt on the conviction of David Morris for Clydach murders\n\nFresh doubts have been cast on the conviction of the man jailed for the horrific Clydach murders in 1999.\n\nDavid Morris was found guilty of murdering an entire family of four including two young girls.\n\nBut potential new witnesses, along with the views of experts, have given campaigners calling for his release fresh hope.\n\nSouth Wales Police say Morris was convicted twice at two trials after an \"extensive investigation\".\n\nRelatives of the victims say they have no doubt Morris was responsible, and say the suffering caused by the deaths still affects them.\n\nThere may be disagreement over the details, but nobody disputes that an almost unspeakable crime was committed at 9 Kelvin Road in Clydach on the night of Saturday 26 into the morning of Sunday 27 June 1999.\n\nBeginning at about midnight on the Saturday, extreme violence was unleashed on Mandy Power, her 80-year-old mother Doris and Mandy's children Katie, aged 10, and Emily, aged eight.\n\nAll four were beaten to death with a metal pole and fires were started in different parts of the house.\n\nGrandmother Doris was found murdered in her bed\n\nNeighbours called the fire service and the scene was initially dealt with as a fatal blaze before the full horror of the murders emerged.\n\nIt wasn't until August 2006 that David Morris, also known as Dai Morris, was jailed for the final, decisive time for the crimes and sentenced to life, a term that was later reduced to 32 years.\n\nIn the years between the killings and his jailing, other suspects - including serving South Wales Police officers - had been investigated and Morris was convicted and jailed only to have that sentence quashed and a fresh trial ordered. He was then found guilty by a second jury.\n\nHe has always maintained his innocence and a campaign to free him is gathering pace.\n\nNow, BBC Wales Investigates has spoken to people who were not called to give evidence at either of his trials, along with experts who were either involved in the original investigation or have studied the case extensively.\n\nWhat they said raises questions about the strength of his conviction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe campaign to quash Morris's conviction has grown in size and volume over the years but while his family remain convinced he was not capable of the crime, his own actions at the time undermined his claims of innocence.\n\nThe investigation into the murders was given fresh impetus in 2001 when an off-duty police officer overheard a conversation about Morris having had sex with Mandy.\n\nHis name had been mentioned in the weeks immediately after the killings and he had given a statement to police but had been put on the back burner. Now he was front and centre.\n\nMorris initially withheld the fact he had been in a sexual relationship with Mandy. He also told a lie that would come back to haunt him.\n\nMorris's family have always maintained he is innocent\n\nIn police interview he was asked if a gold chain found at 9 Kelvin Road was his. He swore it wasn't. \"On the lives of my children,\" were his exact words.\n\nBut the chain was his, and when he finally admitted that it helped seal his fate.\n\nMorris says he hid his fling with Mandy from police because his then girlfriend Mandy Jewell was her best friend and it would have ended their relationship.\n\nMorris said he was afraid his then girlfriend Mandy Jewell would be furious about him having sex with Mandy Power\n\nThere were also issues with his alibi. Morris had been drinking at the New Inn on the edge of Clydach and said he had wandered the streets for hours, first towards his home then towards Swansea, before eventually getting home about 03:00 when he claimed his girlfriend Mandy Jewell let him in.\n\nMandy initially told police Morris had arrived home between 22:30 and 23:00 and she didn't let him in, but in court said she didn't know what time he came back, but that she did let him in.\n\nThe juries were also told Morris had previous convictions for violence, and at both trials - the first in 2002 and the second in 2006 - he was found guilty of all four murders.\n\nBut Morris wasn't the first suspect. The police had originally looked at two of their own.\n\nStephen Lewis, his wife Alison and his twin brother Stuart were arrested in July 2000, the married couple on suspicion of murder and Stuart on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.\n\nStephen's wife Alison Lewis, a former officer with South Wales Police, had been in a lesbian affair with Mandy, and suspicion had fallen on Stuart because of events on the night.\n\nAlison Lewis and her husband Stephen were initially suspects\n\nHe was then an Acting Inspector and was not only on duty the night of the murders but was the most senior officer to arrive at the scene.\n\nStuart stayed at 9 Kelvin Road for less than 10 minutes, failed to preserve the scene and his log book for that night went missing. He also didn't fill in his pocket book until the Monday.\n\nBut despite the initial suspicion over the trio, it was decided there was insufficient evidence linking them to the crime and they were not charged, eventually being ruled out as suspects in January 2001.\n\nThere is no DNA evidence or fingerprints linking Morris to 9 Kelvin Road, and no witnesses could place him there on the night of the murders.\n\nBut speaking for the first time, a potential witness has told the BBC they saw a man or men close to the house that night.\n\nStuart Lewis was one of the first police officers to arrive at the murder scene\n\nTaxi driver Mike claims he was driving down Vardre Road, a short walk from Kelvin Road, between 02:00 and 02:30 when he noticed two men walking along the pavement.\n\n\"What struck me was they were very, very similar,\" he said. \"Both had dark hair, cropped.\"\n\nWhen he heard about the murders the next day, he says he called the police to tell them.\n\n\"They took my details and said that person dealing with it, or that team, would be in touch,\" the driver said. But nobody called him back.\n\nTwo weeks later the driver says he called police again to say not only had he seen the men but he could now identify them - as Stephen and Stuart Lewis.\n\n\"When their pictures appeared in the press I realised that it was them that I'd seen that morning,\" said the man, who maintains he is \"100% convinced\" it was the Lewis brothers he saw.\n\nThe taxi driver was never called to give evidence at either trial.\n\nStephen Lewis and his wife Alison were arrested but never charged in connection with the murders\n\nOn the night of the murders, Nicola Williams was driving on Gellionnen Road in the early hours of Sunday 27 June 1999, and also thinks she saw Stephen Lewis near Kelvin Road around 02:30.\n\nNot only did Ms Williams pick Stephen out of a video identity parade, she also provided police with an e-fit. But it was never released to the public and in court the prosecution dismissed her account.\n\nHer evidence also doesn't appear to have affected the jury's decision about David Morris' guilt.\n\nThe most damaging fire in the house was started in the kitchen\n\nMs Williams says the man she saw was wearing a bomber jacket and carrying a rolled-up bundle under his arm - the same description another new potential witness has given the BBC.\n\nJohn Allen never came forward at the time of the murders, however he now claims that he saw a man in his headlights in a bomber jacket carrying a bundle as he drove down Gellionnen Road into Clydach between 04:00 and 04:30.\n\nHe says he is sharing his story now to \"get justice for the community and everybody that was involved\" and has \"no vendetta\" against the police despite his own criminal past.\n\nMorris's defence team say this sighting needs further investigation.\n\nIn a statement, Stephen Lewis told the BBC he had no part in the murders and that his alibi - that he was at home with his wife Alison - suggests that witnesses who suggested he was in Clydach the night of the killings were mistaken.\n\nAlison has always maintained that she was at home with Stephen and he was beside her in bed all night.\n\nStuart Lewis, questioned on previous occasions, said he did not see Stephen or Alison that night.\n\nMorris may have given a muddled account of his movements the night of the murders, but more than one expert thinks the official timeline undermines his conviction.\n\nMorris admits he drank eight pints at the New Inn, which witnesses say he left about 23:30. The prosecution said he also took amphetamines - something he denied.\n\nFrom the pub it's a walk of around 15 minutes to 9 Kelvin Road, and Mandy Power and her daughters are believed to have arrived home about 23:48 after they had been babysitting.\n\nUniversity lecturer and journalist Brian Thornton, one of the founders of the Crime and Justice Research Centre at the University of Winchester, has studied the Clydach murders for a decade.\n\nHe says those timings, and understanding who was killed first, are critical.\n\nThe campaign for David Morris's conviction to be overturned has gathered pace\n\n\"There are two areas that make us very confident that Doris died first,\" he said.\n\n\"First of all is the murder weapon.\"\n\nThe pole used to murder the family had traces of blood from Mandy and the two girls. However there was no blood from Doris suggesting she was killed first then later use of the bar removed traces of her.\n\n\"The second is the sequence. We know that Doris was upstairs in bed and then what the forensic scientists have worked out is that somebody has come in and for whatever reason has killed Doris in her bed.\n\n\"But in the process, the killer has smashed a light bulb which has caused at least the top floor of the house to go dark because it's been fused.\"\n\nThe metal pole used to kill the four victims\n\nBlood found on the murder weapon led one expert to conclude it was Doris who was killed first\n\nMr Thornton says the evidence indicates the killer went into the children's bedroom, removed a TV from a chair and took that chair downstairs to use it to reach the fuse box in the bathroom, fixed the lights and then waited for Mandy and the two girls to come home.\n\nThe sequence of events combined with the timeline of Morris's known movements have led Mr Thornton to conclude it's \"nearly impossible\" for him to have carried out the murders.\n\n\"He left the pub at half past 11, Mandy and the girls came back just before 12,\" he said.\n\n\"It means that he [Morris] will have had to walk to Kelvin Road, kill Doris, change the fuses - he'll have had to have done all those things.\n\n\"There simply isn't enough time to do that.\"\n\nForensic scientist Clair Galbraith was one of the first people to arrive at 9 Kelvin Road the night of the killings, and it was she who found the murder weapon.\n\nShe was one of only a handful of experts to express an opinion on who was killed first - she believes it was Doris.\n\nThe timeline of the killings is another angle Morris's defence team want to explore, as it was not something used in his defence at either trial.\n\nProfessor Mike Berry is a consultant forensic psychologist who has helped police forces in high profile killings - including the murder of Geraldine Palk in Cardiff.\n\nHe has studied the Clydach files and has raised a number of questions about the killer's behaviour and says he finds it hard to believe Morris was behind what happened afterwards.\n\nWhen all four residents of the house were dead, the killer did not flee but stayed to perform bizarre acts including taking Mandy's body to the bathroom and apparently washing it.\n\nSmall fires were started in various parts of the house, the main one in the kitchen.\n\nAlthough Emily and Katie Power were murdered, one expert says their mother was the main target\n\n\"The attack on Mandy shows that she was a target,\" said Prof Berry. \"The girls I think, to use that awful expression, were collateral.\n\n\"I think the motive for murder here is anger. The killer clearly is angry with Mandy by the amount of violence used on her.\"\n\nIf Morris had drunk a considerable amount of alcohol and taken drugs, Professor Berry doubts he would have behaved as the killer did after the murders.\n\nProf Berry concluded there were a number of people who might have carried out the murders - and he couldn't rule out David Morris as a strong contender.\n\nThe investigation into the Clydach murders was vast. Some 4,500 statements were taken and there were 4,000 exhibits.\n\nBut not all of that evidence was made available to the defence due to court orders made under Public Interest Immunity or PII.\n\nIt's a method by which the prosecution can justify the non-disclosure of material which assists the defence, and is therefore supposed to be used sparingly.\n\nBarrister and civil liberties expert Simon McKay is concerned about the use of PII in the Clydach trials.\n\nHe said there appears to be a \"significant volume of material\" which was withheld using PII and he cannot see an \"obvious reason\" to justify it.\n\n\"When one looks at the entire context of the case… then it's understandable that one walks away with serious concerns that justice has been done,\" said Mr McKay.\n\nMorris's defence team are planning to take the potential new evidence to the Criminal Cases Review Commission - the first step in getting any conviction quashed.\n\nSouth Wales Police says it acknowledges the \"significant impact\" the case continues to have on the victims' families and the wider community. It says it carried out an extensive investigation into the murders and points out Morris was convicted twice by a jury.\n\nA statement released this week on behalf of Mandy's family said the continued campaign for Morris's release was \"very upsetting\".\n\n\"Every day we live with the heartbreak of the loss of our family,\" it said.\n\n\"Katie and Emily were only 10 and eight when they were murdered they were never given the chance to grow up and have their own families, unlike Morris who has the privilege of seeing his children and grandchildren.\n\n\"We have always said we will fight for our family, but we never expected to be fighting 21 years on.\"\n\nSpeaking for the first time since the murders, Michael Power, Mandy's former husband and Katie and Emily's father, said time had not healed his pain.\n\n\"I miss my girls every day and not a day goes by that I don't think about them,\" he said.\n\n\"Both trials ended with the same verdict which we believe as a family was the right decision.\"\n\nBBC Wales Investigates The Clydach Murders: Beyond Reasonable Doubt on Thursday, 22 October at 21:00 GMT on BBC One Wales and afterwards on iPlayer\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ed Sheeran started performing publicly in 2005, aged 14, with his first gig taking place in his hometown of Framlingham\n\nEd Sheeran has donated personal items including handwritten lyrics to his hit song Perfect to a charity auction.\n\nIt was organised with help from his parents to support youngsters in his home county of Suffolk, including redeveloping a playground in Ipswich.\n\nFans can also bid for his childhood Lego and a £3 ticket to his first ever gig in Framlingham.\n\nDavid Beckham, Kylie Minogue and Usain Bolt also donated items to the online auction, which runs until 8 November.\n\nA ticket to his first gig, with a £3 entry price, is among the auction lots...\n\n... and 14 years later, Sheeran played four nights at Chantry Park in Ipswich in front of 160,000 fans\n\nThe auction's end date coincides with the final day of the Ed Sheeran: Made in Suffolk exhibition, which tells the story of his rise to global stardom.\n\nIt opened at the Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, in the week leading up to Sheeran's homecoming gigs last August.\n\nThe 29-year-old's parents John and Imogen Sheeran wanted to create a lasting legacy from the exhibition.\n\nEd Sheeran fans can also bid on handwritten lyrics to his hit song Perfect\n\nProceeds will help charity GeeWizz to redevelop a playground for children with special educational needs and disabilities at the Thomas Wolsey Ormiston Academy in Ipswich, estimated to cost up to £300,000.\n\nFunds will also benefit the town's St Elizabeth Hospice, which aims to help teenagers and young adults with incurable illnesses live their lives to the full.\n\nJohn Sheeran said: \"Imogen and I send our thanks to everyone who has organised, supported and donated to the auction.\n\n\"We cannot think of a better legacy for the exhibition to leave.\"\n\nDavid Beckham provided a signed photograph and England shirt for the auction\n\nAuction proceeds will support children and young adults in Sheeran's home county of Suffolk\n\nAmong the auction lots are guitars from John Mayer, Snow Patrol and Cockney Rebel frontman Steve Harley.\n\nThere is also a Rolling Stones gold disc and signed Pink Floyd memorabilia from drummer Nick Mason.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Non-essential business in Wales are being told to shut on Friday evening\n\nBusiness leaders say companies in Wales have been given just hours to finalise plans for the firebreak lockdown.\n\nAll non-essential businesses will have to shut for two weeks from 18:00 BST on Friday.\n\nBut the list of the types of business being forced to close was only published on Thursday morning.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there was only a \"small window\" to act to slow the spread of coronavirus and there were \"no easy options\".\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Wales said the Welsh Government had left it \"far too late in the day\" to provide the detailed information.\n\n\"Waiting until the day before the lockdown comes into force does not give businesses the time that they need to prepare,\" said Ben Francis, the FSB Wales policy chair.\n\n\"This week should have been spent engaging with staff, contacting suppliers and informing customers, but many firms simply spent this time in the dark.\"\n\nThe federation said it was still fielding questions from its members in Wales who are worried about what they need to do to comply with the lockdown\n\n\"Welsh Government needs to take steps to be more responsive to the needs of the business community as we move through the coming weeks, or they risk making an already difficult period even worse for the business community,\" added Mr Francis.\n\nThe 46-page document setting out the legal rules behind the firebreak lists the type of businesses that must shut, those that can remain open but with limited access, and those that can continue to trade.\n\nThe FSB said many will be \"incredibly relieved\" to have the rules in black-and-white.\n\nIt is last orders again for pubs and bars\n\nPubs, restaurants and cafes must close for consumption on the premises but takeaway food sales are allowed.\n\nHoliday and camping sites, along with hotels and B&Bs, holiday apartments and hostels must also shut - unless a resident cannot move elsewhere, or it is their permanent residence.\n\nPlaces of worship can only open for wedding vows or funerals, and crematoriums for funerals.\n\nBut there has also been some disquiet expressed by some sectors.\n\nThe Horticultural Trades Association, which represents businesses such as garden centres, said it was disappointed to learn those areas must shut.\n\n\"Back in May, Wales was the first UK administration to take the decision to reopen garden centres and we expected this to be a sign of support for the industry,\" said James Barnes, chair of the association.\n\n\"With no evidence to show why garden centres should be closed, we were crushed to see them included yet again as 'non-essential retail' for this Friday's lockdown.\"\n\nBangor has witnessed a series of closures including clothing retailer Peacocks, which has gone into administration\n\nTraders in Bangor plan on voicing their concerns over the Covid restrictions on Thursday by protesting outside their shops on what is Wales' longest high street.\n\nMost of the city has been under a local lockdown since 10 October, following a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\n\"Local businesses have seen a huge drop in trade, they've stayed open while customers are being instructed to stay way,\" said Danielle Asquith, who works at a tattoo parlour.\n\n\"The message is simple, allow us to work to normal capacity or fund our temporary closure. It is simply not viable to continue the way things are.\"\n\nResponding to business concerns across Wales, a Welsh Government official said: \"There are no easy options and we recognise this firebreak period will have an impact on businesses at the end of what has been an incredibly difficult year for us all.\n\n\"We have doubled the third phase of the Economic Resilience Fund, making nearly £300 million available to support businesses. This phase will open next week and we will work hard to get money out to businesses as quickly as we can.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit from one of Michael Jackson's accusers, who claimed Jackson's companies allowed the star to abuse him and other children.\n\nJames Safechuck has said the singer started abusing him when he was 10.\n\nIn 2014, he sued MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures, and has alleged they \"were created to, and did, facilitate Jackson's sexual abuse of children\".\n\nBut the judge dismissed the case, saying the companies didn't have a duty of care for Mr Safechuck.\n\nJonathan Steinsapir and Howard Weitzman, representing MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures, told the BBC: \"We are pleased that the court agreed that Mr Safechuck had no grounds to pursue his lawsuit.\"\n\nMr Safechuck was one of two men who accused the late pop star of abuse in last year's Leaving Neverland documentary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Safechuck (left) and Wade Robson told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire about the abuse in 2019\n\nIn his lawsuit, he said Jackson abused him hundreds of times at his homes and on tour in the late 1980s and early 90s.\n\nMJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures were set up by Jackson to run his career. But in the lawsuit it was claimed: \"The thinly-veiled, covert second purpose of these businesses was to operate as a child sexual abuse operation, specifically designed to locate, attract, lure and seduce child sexual abuse victims.\"\n\nMr Safechuck also featured with Jackson in a Pepsi commercial and often appeared on stage with the singer.\n\nMr Safechuck's lawyer Vince Finaldi told BBC News: \"He was an employee that was working on behalf of them as a dancer and entertainer on the stage with Michael.\n\n\"Because he was a minor, and he was an employee working for them, they had a duty to protect him. That's our argument.\"\n\nCalifornia judge Mark Young disagreed, saying the companies weren't directly responsible for causing emotional distress, and were not able to control Jackson, because he controlled the companies and everyone they employed. Corporations cannot be direct perpetrators, he said.\n\nMr Safechuck, who is seeking unspecified damages, will appeal.\n\nJackson vehemently denied the abuse. Mr Safechuck (a child at the time) reportedly gave a witness statement defending Jackson when allegations against the singer first emerged in 1993.\n\nMr Finaldi is also representing Wade Robson, who appeared in Leaving Neverland too, in a separate lawsuit, which is expected to reach trial next summer.\n\nLeaving Neverland director Dan Reed is reportedly making a sequel about the pair's legal battles. Deadline reported on Wednesday that Jackson's companies had taken legal action against the film-maker.", "Brazil has been conducting trials of the vaccine\n\nTrials of a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University will continue, following a review into the death of a volunteer in Brazil.\n\nBrazil's health authority has given no details about the death, citing confidentiality protocols.\n\nOxford University said a \"careful assessment\" had revealed no safety concerns.\n\nThe BBC understands that the volunteer did not receive the vaccine.\n\nOnly around half the volunteers in the trial are given the actual Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine. The second group are being given an existing licensed vaccine for meningitis.\n\nNeither the participants nor their families know which vaccine they are being given.\n\nThis enables the researchers to compare the results for the two groups in order to measure whether the vaccine is effective.\n\nAstraZeneca said in a statement that it could not comment on individual cases but it \"can confirm that all required review processes have been followed\".\n\n\"All significant medical events are carefully assessed by trial investigators, an independent safety monitoring committee and the regulatory authorities,\" it said. \"These assessments have not led to any concerns about continuation of the ongoing study.\"\n\nThere are high hopes that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine could be one of the first to make it onto the market.\n\nIt had successful phase 1 and 2 testing, while phase 3 testing is being carried out on participants in countries including the UK, Brazil and India.\n\nTrials of the Oxford vaccine were paused last month after a reported side effect in a patient in the UK, but were resumed days later when it was deemed safe to continue.\n\nPhase 3 trials in the US remain on hold while the regulator there conducts its own assessment. A senior official was quoted by Bloomberg on Wednesday as saying he expected US trials to restart later in the week.\n\nBrazil's health authority Anvisa said it was informed of the Brazilian volunteer's death on 19 October.\n\nBrazilian media report that the volunteer was a 28-year-old doctor who died of Covid-19 complications. They say the doctor had worked with infected patients.\n\nThis has not been publicly confirmed by Anvisa.\n\nIn a statement, Oxford University said: \"All significant medical incidents, whether participants are in the control group or the Covid-19 vaccine group, are independently reviewed.\n\n\"The independent review, in addition to the Brazilian regulator, have both recommended that the trial should continue,\" it said.\n\nBrazil has plans to purchase the vaccine if it is approved.\n\nThe country has had nearly 5.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases - the third highest tally in the world after the US and India - and is second only to the US in terms of deaths, with nearly 155,000 registered so far, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.", "Transport for Wales says 500 people were refused travel last week due to restrictions\n\nAs many as 8% of Transport for Wales (TfW) trains have been overcrowded since late July despite restrictions on travel, a leaked document shows.\n\nFrom the start of lockdown in March until Monday, only essential travel was allowed on public transport as trains operated at 20% capacity.\n\nBut an internal document seen by the BBC reveals challenges faced by staff.\n\nTfW said safety was a \"top priority\", adding 500 people were refused travel last week.\n\nIncidents described in the report, based on the accounts of conductors, include a 09:23 Holyhead to Birmingham two-carriage train which was carrying 67 passengers at Llandudno Junction, but then had 89 by the time it left Flint.\n\nMany of the incidents involved trains travelling to and from Barry Island, with one service from Pontypridd carrying 99 passengers by the time it reached Cogan.\n\nAn 08:40 train to Cardiff Central left Ebbw Vale Town with 56 passengers, including 30 children, mainly travelling to Barry Island.\n\nAnd a 12:31 Manchester Piccadilly to Carmarthen train with three carriages had 70 passengers when it reached Llanelli.\n\nTfW said that, on average, it is currently operating about 689 services every day, and that between 5% and 8% of trains have exceeded the permitted capacity.\n\nTfW says it has seen \"more people ignoring the essential travel message\" during hot weather\n\n\"The number of people (or capacity) we can safely have on board is worked out using a worst case scenario, aimed at keeping everyone 2m apart,\" a TfW spokesman said.\n\n\"In reality, families and those from the same household can sit together, which effectively raises the numbers over the capacity indicator allocated for each unit (without necessarily making it less safe).\n\n\"During the hot weather, we have seen more people ignoring the essential travel message.\"\n\nPeople are still required to wear face coverings on public transport in Wales, although there are some exceptions.", "'The only wasted vote is the one never cast'\n\nBrandon Swearengin is a law student. He has worked for state government officials and ran earlier this year for a local school board seat in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and will vote for the Libertarian Party nominee in the upcoming election. Why does this election matter to you? This election matters to me because political power at all levels of government is up for grabs. I feel that many people overemphasize the presidential election. Though the Executive does have considerable powers, many of those powers, like war powers and regulation-making for example, are only exercised by virtue of congressional enactment. The federal government also has less impact in the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans than state and local government. So while many Americans are paying close attention to the presidential race, I’m more interested in my state legislative/judicial, county commissioner, and city council races as well as in competitive congressional elections around the country. Why do you support your chosen candidate? In the presidential election, I’m voting for the Libertarian Party nominee, Jo Jorgensen. I’m a registered Libertarian voter, and I strongly agree with roughly 80% of her campaign platform. I’m opposed to the de-facto two-party system, I want a smaller federal government in favor of stronger states’ rights, and I refuse to vote for a “lesser of two evils” between the major party nominees. Many Americans will make the fallacious statement that voting for a third party is a “wasted vote,” but my response is that the only wasted vote is the one never cast. Brandon is a member of our US election voter panel. You'll hear more from him, and many of our other voters, throughout the week.\n• We want to hear from you -what questions do you have about the US election?\n• In five words, tell us what's at stake in this election.", "Facilities where migrants have been detained include containers where it is not possible to socially distance\n\nThe Home Office did not prepare for a predictable rise in English Channel migrant crossings, leaving men, women and children detained in unfit conditions, the prisons watchdog says.\n\nChief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke said migrants were often held in what looked like an unsafe building site.\n\nFacilities included containers where it was not possible to socially distance.\n\nThe Home Office said it has since improved facilities and the way it deals with arrivals.\n\nSo far, some 7,444 migrants have crossed in boats during 2020 - the third annual jump in arrivals.\n\nWhen the numbers began to rise in 2018, Sajid Javid, the then home secretary, described it as a \"major incident\".\n\nMigrants are generally taken to two facilities in Dover before being transferred to other units or released on immigration bail.\n\nWhile these facilities are not jails, the prisons watchdog has the power to inspect them because they are used to detain people.\n\nOne of the facilities, Tug Haven, received 2,500 migrants between June and August - but Mr Clarke said the facilities were completely unsuitable.\n\nOnce inside, there were a number of gazebos and three containers with chemical toilets - but no means to socially distance and reduce the risk of the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe facilities at Tug Haven were described as \"completely unsuitable\" by the prisons watchdog\n\nThe migrants - mostly from Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria and Eritrea - tended to be wet and cold but during the inspection, the facility ran out of both dry clothes and mugs for hot drinks.\n\nThe detainees - 200 of whom arrived on one day - then spent hours in the open air or in the container units.\n\nDespite the conditions, the detainees were positive about the way they were treated by the staff.\n\n\"We met detainees who had been extremely traumatised after their long journeys, and their positive feedback on the decency shown to them by many individual staff cannot be underestimated,\" said Mr Clarke.\n\n\"However, the detention facilities in Dover were very poorly equipped to meet their purpose and important processes had broken down.\n\n\"It is hard to understand this failure to prepare properly for what must have been a predictable increase in migrant numbers.\n\n\"Just because numbers are unprecedented, that does not mean they are unpredictable or cannot be planned for.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it has made improvements to Tug Haven since the inspection.\n\nThe nearby Kent Intake Unit - a larger facility - had better facilities, said the report.\n\nBut it was also not suitable for detaining the migrants for long periods - not least because social distancing was not possible.\n\nThe inspectors said measures to protect children were weak.\n\nMore than 70 unaccompanied children had been held in the unit in the three months to August, but often they had to wait a long time for an assessment because Kent County Council's social services was overloaded.\n\nOne 12-year-old boy and his 18-year-old brother were told to go to a London hotel but records did not show whether the local social services were aware of the pair's arrival.\n\nThe Home Office said it took the welfare of people in its care \"extremely seriously\" and ensured its facilities were \"decent and humane\".\n\n\"These crossings are dangerous, illegally-facilitated and unnecessary,\" the spokesperson added. \"We are committed to fixing the asylum system, to make it fairer and firmer, compassionate to those who need help and welcoming people through safe and legal routes.\"", "Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2016 with a pledge to bring down illegal immigration, famously blaming undocumented migrants from Mexico for a host of problems, including drugs and crime. In the four years since, how has this rhetoric translated into a wider immigration policy?\n\nThe number of foreign-born people living in the US has risen by about 3% from 43.7 million the year before Mr Trump's election to about 45 million last year.\n\nBut this rise conceals a big shift in the largest group by far within this population - those who have moved to the US from Mexico. Having remained at nearly the same level for years, the number of people living in the US who were born in Mexico has fallen steadily since Mr Trump's election.\n\nWhile this dip was more than offset by an increase in the number of people who have moved to the US from elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean, demographers at the US Census Bureau have estimated that net migration - the number of people moving to the US minus those moving out of the US - has fallen to its lowest level for a decade.\n\nThis is partly due to lower levels of immigration, but also because more people who were born outside the US are moving back overseas, according to Anthony Knapp of the US Census Bureau.\n\nBeneath this trend there are some important changes to the visa system.\n\nMr Trump has allowed more people to come to the US temporarily for work, but made it harder for people to settle permanently in the US. The reduction in permanent visas, from about 1.2 million in 2016 to about 1 million in 2019, has primarily affected family members of US citizens and residents hoping to join their relatives, with the number of permanent visas sponsored by employers largely unchanged.\n\nAlthough more people are affected by this, in percentage terms his most significant change to immigration policy has been to lower the number of refugees admitted to the US.\n\nThe number of people admitted to the US as refugees each year is determined by a system of quotas, the size of which are ultimately defined by the president. People seeking to move to the US as refugees must make their applications from outside the country, and need to convince US officials that they are vulnerable to persecution at home.\n\nMr Trump's hostility to any immigration from Muslim-majority countries is well known - he once pledged to enact a \"complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States\" - and a reduction in refugee quotas proved easier to implement than an outright ban, which became mired in legal challenges.\n\nAs a result, the number of refugees admitted from a number of majority-Muslim countries, including Iraq, Somalia, Iran and Syria, fell almost to zero soon after he took office.\n\nCurbing visas and refugee admissions is not the only way to reduce the number of people entering the country, and Mr Trump has also sought to make it harder to move to, or remain in, the US without any relevant documentation.\n\nHowever, this is more difficult than it might seem. To understand what has happened during President Trump's tenure, we first need to get to grips with what the official statistics on deportation mean, and they are broken down into two categories.\n\nPeople are said to be \"removed\" if they are taken out of the country under the authority of a court order, and people are \"returned\" if they are refused admission while trying to cross the border, or asked to leave the country without a court order.\n\nBeing removed has a lasting legal consequence, making it much harder to gain re-entry to the country. But many people who have been returned across the US-Mexico border simply tried to enter the US again at a later date. President Obama escalated a policy enacted by his predecessor, President George W Bush, to step up removals - particularly of those who had been accused or convicted of criminal offences.\n\nPresident Trump has not brought about any significant changes to the number of people in either deportation category compared with his predecessor.\n\nThe US Immigration, Customs and Enforcement agency, which handles most deportations, has described the current rate of removals as \"extremely low\", blaming a lack of resources and \"judicial and legislative constraints\", among other things.\n\nThe agency is also under pressure at the Mexican border, where the administration's changes to asylum policy have resulted a long backlog of cases, sometimes with families separated and children held in detention centres, and asylum seekers being returned to Mexico to await the processing of their claims.\n\nDespite widespread media coverage of the border crisis, the data for 2019 suggests that would-be migrants have not been deterred - the number of detentions at the border was more than double the number for the previous year, driven largely by a large rise in the number of families attempting to get across.\n\nThis shift is likely to translate into a significant rise in the returns numbers for 2019, which are due to be released in the next few months.\n\nOne interesting question is whether President Trump's tough stance on immigration is still a major selling point among his supporters. The number of people telling pollsters that immigration is a bad thing has fallen steadily since he took office, with many former detractors apparently now believing it is generally good for the US.\n\nAlthough there remains a gulf between Democratic and Republican voters on the issue, with Republicans far less likely to see immigration in a positive light, and far more likely to want stricter curbs on illegal immigration, the trend among both groups is the same.\n\nMr Trump will be hoping that there remain enough Republican supporters of his approach to help push him past the winning post on election night.", "Lastly, Jane Kirby of the Press Association asked Sir Patrick Vallance if a decent level of roll-out of a potential vaccine is achieved by next spring, how soon people might be able to stop social distancing and wearing face coverings.\n\nShe asked the PM if he would reconsider his opposition to a national circuit break - a short, sharp lockdown - if those in Northern Ireland and Wales are shown to be more effective than tier three restrictions in England.\n\nSir Patrick replies first, insisting he will not speculate on how effective the vaccines are going to be, but says once we know how effective they are, it could be determined \"how to use them best\".\n\n\"Clearly the aim of vaccination is to try to take most of the load of the infection spread onto the vaccine in order to be able to relieve other measures and that's got to be an aim we would all wish for,\" he adds.\n\nThe PM said a national circuit break would be \"very damaging\" economically, socially and mentally for the country.\n\n\"We do think the local measures are right, and I repeat my gratitude to local leadership across the country, people who are helping to get the R rate down across their neighbourhoods... and that's what we're going to continue with.\"", "Millions of Americans have already cast their ballots in early voting\n\nUS national security officials say Iran was responsible for sending threatening emails to Democratic voters ahead of next month's presidential election.\n\nThe emails appeared to come from a far-right pro-Trump group and were meant to \"incite unrest\", National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe said.\n\nMr Ratcliffe also said US officials found Iran and Russia had obtained \"some voter registration information\".\n\nBoth Iran and Russia denied the accusations of election interference.\n\n\"Iran's strong rejection of American officials' repetitive, baseless and false claims was conveyed to the Swiss ambassador [who represents US interests in Tehran],\" Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told state TV.\n\n\"As we have said before, it makes no difference for Iran who wins the US election,\" he added.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the BBC: \"We think this is unfortunate. These accusations come every day, they are all completely groundless, they are based on nothing.\"\n\n\"They are most likely some sort of internal political process connected with the upcoming elections.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe's decision to hold a briefing so close to the presidential election was seen as a testament to the government's concerns over voting interference and disinformation campaigns from foreign actors.\n\nThe intelligence chief said Iran's \"spoof emails\" claimed to be sent by the far-right Proud Boys group in order to \"intimidate voters, incite unrest and damage\" President Donald Trump.\n\nHe added that the voter data could be used in attempts to \"communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will sow confusion chaos and undermine your confidence in American democracy\".\n\nMr Ratcliffe said officials \"have not seen the same actions from Russia\", but are aware they have some voter information.\n\nIn many states, voter data is available upon request, though each state has different requirements on who can request voter information, what data is available and how this data might be used, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.\n\n\"If you receive an intimidating or manipulative email in your inbox, don't be alarmed and do not spread it,\" Mr Ratcliffe said, calling the actions to influence US voters \"desperate attempts by desperate adversaries\".\n\nThis announcement inevitably has shades of the 2016 Russian interference in the US election.\n\nIn that election thousands of fake bots were created on social media pretending to be American voters.\n\nFrom this announcement, though, it's unclear how Iran and Russia obtained the information - and exactly what info they have.\n\nYou only have to look at your spam filter to see that many people have your email address.\n\nThe main charge against Iran is it has sent \"spoof emails\" to voters in swing states. If true, this is unlikely to be a sophisticated attack.\n\nIn many states too, voter registration information is publicly available.\n\nAnd nowhere in the announcement was there any further information about how widescale the emails have been.\n\nFBI Director Christopher Wray joined Mr Ratcliffe at the news conference. He said that US election systems were still secure and \"resilient\".\n\n\"You should be confident that your vote counts,\" Mr Wray said. \"Early, unverified claims to the contrary should be viewed with a healthy dose of scepticism.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US election 2020: How to spot disinformation\n\nThe officials did not offer further details on how the voter data was obtained or what the Russians may be doing with the information.\n\nUS intelligence agencies concluded in 2016 that Kremlin-backed hackers were behind an effort to undermine Hillary Clinton's presidential run, using both cyber attacks and fake news stories planted on social media.\n\nIran has not managed to successfully hack US systems.\n\nThe emails in question were addressed to registered Democratic voters in several states, including the key battleground of Florida, and urged them to vote for Mr Trump - or else.\n\n\"You will vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you,\" the emails said, according to US media.\n\n\"Change your party affiliation to Republican to let us know you received our message and will comply.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, over 40 million Americans have cast early votes in the presidential contest between Mr Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.", "Supermarkets will only be able to sell items like food\n\nSupermarkets will be unable to sell items like clothes during the 17-day Covid firebreak lockdown in Wales.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it would be \"made clear\" to them they are only able to open parts of their business that sell \"essential goods\".\n\nMany retailers will be forced to shut but food shops, off-licences and pharmacies can stay open when lockdown begins on Friday at 18:00 BST.\n\nRetailers said they had not been given a definition of what was essential.\n\nThe Association of Convenience Stores and the Welsh Retail Consortium have written urgently to the first minister, expressing alarm over the new regulations.\n\nSara Jones, head of the Welsh Retail Consortium, said they wanted the Welsh Government to abandon the \"essential items\" rules.\n\n\"Compelling retailers to stop selling certain items, without them being told clearly what is and what isn't permitted to be sold, is ill-conceived and short-sighted,\" she said.\n\nWelsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies tweeted: \"The power is going to their heads.\"\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's Helen Mary Jones said \"smaller businesses should not be put at an unfair disadvantage during the firebreak lockdown\".\n\nBusiness leaders say companies in Wales have been given just hours to finalise plans for the firebreak lockdown, which ends at midnight on 9 November.\n\nMr Drakeford told a Senedd committee on Friday that \"in the last lockdown, people were reasonably understanding of the fact that supermarkets didn't close all the things that they may have needed to\".\n\n\"I don't think people will be as understanding this time.\n\n\"We will make sure there is a more level playing field in those next two weeks.\"\n\nClothes shops will have to close during the lockdown\n\nThe first minister was responding to Conservative Member of the Senedd Russell George, who said it was \"unfair\" to force independent clothing and hardware retailers to close while similar goods were on sale in major supermarkets.\n\n\"It felt very wrong and disproportionate to the small businesses,\" Mr George said.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"We will be making it clear to supermarkets that they are only able to open those parts of their business that provide essential goods to people.\n\n\"And that will not include some of the things that Russell George mentioned, which other people are prevented from selling.\"\n\nThere is no precise list of non-essential goods in the law coming into force on Friday, but any business selling goods or services for sale or hire in a shop will have to close.\n\nBut there are exceptions for food retailers, newsagents, pharmacies and chemists, bicycle shops, petrol stations, car repair and MOT services, banks, laundrettes, post offices, pet shops and agricultural supplies shops.\n\nUnder the law firms conducting a business that provides a mixed set of services will be allowed to open if they cease conducting the service that must close.", "Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2016 with a pledge to bring down illegal immigration, famously blaming undocumented migrants from Mexico for a host of problems, including drugs and crime. In the four years since, how has this rhetoric translated into a wider immigration policy?\n\nThe number of foreign-born people living in the US has risen by about 3% from 43.7 million the year before Mr Trump's election to about 45 million last year.\n\nBut this rise conceals a big shift in the largest group by far within this population - those who have moved to the US from Mexico. Having remained at nearly the same level for years, the number of people living in the US who were born in Mexico has fallen steadily since Mr Trump's election.\n\nWhile this dip was more than offset by an increase in the number of people who have moved to the US from elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean, demographers at the US Census Bureau have estimated that net migration - the number of people moving to the US minus those moving out of the US - has fallen to its lowest level for a decade.\n\nThis is partly due to lower levels of immigration, but also because more people who were born outside the US are moving back overseas, according to Anthony Knapp of the US Census Bureau.\n\nBeneath this trend there are some important changes to the visa system.\n\nMr Trump has allowed more people to come to the US temporarily for work, but made it harder for people to settle permanently in the US. The reduction in permanent visas, from about 1.2 million in 2016 to about 1 million in 2019, has primarily affected family members of US citizens and residents hoping to join their relatives, with the number of permanent visas sponsored by employers largely unchanged.\n\nAlthough more people are affected by this, in percentage terms his most significant change to immigration policy has been to lower the number of refugees admitted to the US.\n\nThe number of people admitted to the US as refugees each year is determined by a system of quotas, the size of which are ultimately defined by the president. People seeking to move to the US as refugees must make their applications from outside the country, and need to convince US officials that they are vulnerable to persecution at home.\n\nMr Trump's hostility to any immigration from Muslim-majority countries is well known - he once pledged to enact a \"complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States\" - and a reduction in refugee quotas proved easier to implement than an outright ban, which became mired in legal challenges.\n\nAs a result, the number of refugees admitted from a number of majority-Muslim countries, including Iraq, Somalia, Iran and Syria, fell almost to zero soon after he took office.\n\nCurbing visas and refugee admissions is not the only way to reduce the number of people entering the country, and Mr Trump has also sought to make it harder to move to, or remain in, the US without any relevant documentation.\n\nHowever, this is more difficult than it might seem. To understand what has happened during President Trump's tenure, we first need to get to grips with what the official statistics on deportation mean, and they are broken down into two categories.\n\nPeople are said to be \"removed\" if they are taken out of the country under the authority of a court order, and people are \"returned\" if they are refused admission while trying to cross the border, or asked to leave the country without a court order.\n\nBeing removed has a lasting legal consequence, making it much harder to gain re-entry to the country. But many people who have been returned across the US-Mexico border simply tried to enter the US again at a later date. President Obama escalated a policy enacted by his predecessor, President George W Bush, to step up removals - particularly of those who had been accused or convicted of criminal offences.\n\nPresident Trump has not brought about any significant changes to the number of people in either deportation category compared with his predecessor.\n\nThe US Immigration, Customs and Enforcement agency, which handles most deportations, has described the current rate of removals as \"extremely low\", blaming a lack of resources and \"judicial and legislative constraints\", among other things.\n\nThe agency is also under pressure at the Mexican border, where the administration's changes to asylum policy have resulted a long backlog of cases, sometimes with families separated and children held in detention centres, and asylum seekers being returned to Mexico to await the processing of their claims.\n\nDespite widespread media coverage of the border crisis, the data for 2019 suggests that would-be migrants have not been deterred - the number of detentions at the border was more than double the number for the previous year, driven largely by a large rise in the number of families attempting to get across.\n\nThis shift is likely to translate into a significant rise in the returns numbers for 2019, which are due to be released in the next few months.\n\nOne interesting question is whether President Trump's tough stance on immigration is still a major selling point among his supporters. The number of people telling pollsters that immigration is a bad thing has fallen steadily since he took office, with many former detractors apparently now believing it is generally good for the US.\n\nAlthough there remains a gulf between Democratic and Republican voters on the issue, with Republicans far less likely to see immigration in a positive light, and far more likely to want stricter curbs on illegal immigration, the trend among both groups is the same.\n\nMr Trump will be hoping that there remain enough Republican supporters of his approach to help push him past the winning post on election night.", "It is 60 years since the Severn Railway Bridge disaster which saw two tanker barges - the Wastdale H and the Arkendale H - collide in fog near to Sharpness.\n\nThe two barges were then caught in the tide and collided with a railway bridge which collapsed. Five men lost their lives.\n\nNew drone footage gives us a close-up view of the remains of the shipwrecked vessels.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Barnsley town centre react to tier three restrictions being announced\n\nSouth Yorkshire will move into tier three from 00.01 on Saturday, meaning 7.3 million people in England will be living under the toughest Covid rules.\n\nSheffield City region mayor Dan Jarvis said the move followed \"extensive discussions\" with ministers.\n\nThe rules will apply to all council areas in South Yorkshire - Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.\n\nGreater Manchester will be placed in the same tier on Friday, against local leaders' wishes.\n\nUnder tier three - England's \"very high\" level of alert which is already in place in Lancashire and Liverpool City Region - pubs and bars that do not serve substantial meals have to close, and there are further restrictions on households mixing.\n\nAdditional rules in South Yorkshire include the closure of betting shops, adult gaming centres, casinos, soft play centres and gym classes - though gyms will remain open.\n\nMeanwhile, Coventry is to move to tier two from midnight on Friday, the city council has said, which will prevent households from mixing in homes and hospitality venues.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to make an announcement relating to support for workers and businesses affected by tier two restrictions in the House of Commons on Thursday.\n\nBBC economics editor Faisal Islam said the government is understood to have acknowledged the reality that there are three tiers of pandemic shutdowns but only two tiers of support, with some firms suffering a collapse in business without being able to benefit from the Job Support Scheme.\n\nIt comes as a further 26,688 new coronavirus cases were recorded on Wednesday, while another 191 people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt is the highest ever number of recorded daily cases. However, mass testing was not available during the peak of the pandemic, when daily cases were estimated to have reached as many as 100,000.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar told MPs there have been more than 12,000 cases in South Yorkshire so far in October - more than in July, August and September combined - while the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care has reached more than half that seen at the height of the pandemic.\n\nHe said he was aware the measures would \"entail further sacrifice\", but \"bearing down hard\" would help to slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\nDoncaster's infection rate was 316 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending 17 October, compared to 370 in Rotherham, 395 in Sheffield and 415 in Barnsley.\n\nLocal leaders in South Yorkshire have agreed to a financial package of £41m, which includes £30m to support the region's businesses and £11m for local authorities to support public health measures like contact tracing.\n\nMr Jarvis said it was the \"responsible route\" and that \"inaction was not an option\" after its hospital admissions doubled in 10 days.\n\nHe insisted he had \"moved heaven and earth to secure the maximum amount\" of support for the region, which he said would help to reduce the re-infection rate and pressure on the NHS, while supporting the local economy.\n\nIt comes a day after new restrictions were imposed on Greater Manchester after talks with local leaders, who had called for at least £65m, broke down.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the £60m offered to Greater Manchester to support businesses and workers affected by the new restrictions would be distributed to the region's boroughs.\n\nWe all knew it was coming. But I was still surprised when the announcement leapt into my inbox at 09:02 BST this morning.\n\nOver a million people in South Yorkshire are to go into tier three on Saturday. The phone started ringing and it hasn't stopped yet.\n\nAgreed - or imposed? It depends who you talk to. It has been signed off by South Yorkshire but it doesn't mean all the leaders are happy about how it happened.\n\nChris Read, the Rotherham Council leader, is angrier than I've ever seen him.\n\nHe says it wasn't a negotiation at all - just the government telling South Yorkshire what it was prepared to offer. His point is if that was the case, why not do it a week earlier?\n\nMiriam Cates, the Conservative Penistone and Stocksbridge MP, says it's a fair deal and heaped praise on Labour mayor Dan Jarvis.\n\nWe're all digesting how it will affect us day to day. People will be working out how to run their businesses, provide childcare and take care of their mental health.\n\nA review is coming in 28 days but there is no magic number for when an area comes out of tier three.\n\nPeople in South Yorkshire are being asked to bear the toughest restrictions, without knowing when they'll end.\n\nThe government's three-tier strategy of regional measures is designed to avoid a national lockdown.\n\nAny areas in tier three will have its status reviewed after 28 days, the prime minister said.\n\nThe simplest way for areas to get out of those restrictions was to get the reproduction number, the rate at which the virus is spreading, down to one or below, Boris Johnson told MPs. Rates of admission to hospital and other data would also be taken into account, he added.\n\nMr Jarvis said it would be \"very challenging\" for his region to come out of tier three in 28 days \"given the pressures of winter\", but urged people to renew their efforts to ensure all local authorities had a \"fighting chance\" of coming out by then.\n\nOther areas in tier two but known to be in discussions about tighter restrictions are West Yorkshire, the North East, Teesside and Nottinghamshire.\n\nTalks between council leaders and No 10 about moving the North East into tier three have been \"paused\" following a fall in the region's infection rate over the past week.\n\nDavid Mellen, leader of Nottingham City Council, said no \"serious conversations\" have been scheduled with ministers or senior civil servants, but he would expect any economic deal to be as good as other areas have received.\n\nJamie Hawksworth, who owns the Sheffield Tap, said he saw the new restrictions coming - but that won't lessen the impact.\n\n\"I think I speak for most of my staff, and certainly the management team, that it's devastating. We've had the entire business pulled from under us.\"\n\nHe added that the knock-on effect would be fewer orders for local breweries, abattoirs and other suppliers.\n\nMeanwhile, Prof John Edmunds, a scientist advising the government, warned there was \"very little chance\" that Covid-19 would be eradicated.\n\nHe told two MPs' committees that people would have to learn to live with the virus \"forever more\" but it was an \"almost certainty\" that a vaccine could be ready in the \"not-too-distant future\", possibly towards the end of winter.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We do need to see faster turnaround times\"\n\nEngland's NHS Test and Trace system needs to improve to provide faster results, Boris Johnson has conceded.\n\nAt Thursday's coronavirus briefing, he said he shared \"people's frustrations\" at the turnaround times for results.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said it was \"very clear there's room for improvement\" in the system.\n\nIt comes as figures showed just 15.1% of people who were tested received their result within 24 hours.\n\nThese figures, for the week ending 14 October, are the lowest since the system began.\n\nThe PM previously pledged that all tests would be processed within 24 hours - unless there were issues with postal tests - by the end of June.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference at Downing Street, Mr Johnson said: \"I share people's frustrations and I understand totally why we do need to see faster turnaround times and we need to improve it.\n\n\"We need to make sure that people who do get a positive test self-isolate - that's absolutely crucial if this thing is going to work in the way that it can.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance says there is \"room for improvement\" in test and trace\n\nSir Patrick Vallance said the capacity for testing had increased, but \"it's really important to concentrate on numbers of contacts, isolation, as quickly as you can and getting things (results) back as quickly as you can. Ideally you get the whole process done within 48 hours\".\n\n\"It's very clear there's room for improvement on all that and therefore that could be diminishing the effectiveness of this.\"\n\nHe also said the the high number of infections diminished the effectiveness of the system.\n\nThe percentage of people who received a test result within 24 hours has dropped from 32.8% in the previous week.\n\nThe figures also showed a fall to 59.6% in the proportion of close contacts reached of people who tested positive.\n\nThis is also the lowest weekly percentage since the system began and is down from 63% in the previous week.\n\nThe UK recorded another 21,242 cases on Thursday and 189 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nSir Patrick also told the briefing some coronavirus measures would be needed for some time to come.\n\n\"The numbers (of cases) speak for themselves. They are increasing and they are not going to decrease quickly,\" he told the No 10 news conference.\n\n\"I think it is likely that some measures of restriction are going to need to be in place for a while to try and get those numbers down.\"\n\nSir Patrick added that \"a lot depends now on what happens over the next few weeks\".\n\n\"At the moment, the numbers are heading in the wrong direction but there are some signs in some places of a potential flattening off of that.\n\n\"We need to wait and see and monitor the numbers very carefully.\"\n\nEarlier the government released a job advert looking for a \"VP of operations\" to start immediately, with experience of \"turning around failing call centres\" on a day rate of up to £2,000.\n\nHours later, the Department of Health withdrew the advert, saying it was being redrafted and the text had not been approved.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the statistics on test and trace \"have been bad every week\", while his colleague, shadow health minister, Justin Madders said: \"To have over 40% of people not even being contacted by the test and trace system is an interstellar-sized black hole in the government's plan to reduce transmission.\"\n\nProf James Naismith, director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute at the University of Oxford, said the numbers showed \"a system struggling to make any difference to the epidemic\".\n\nHe said he worried the increasing percentage of household contacts indicated \"a tick-box system rather than proper tracing\" with the value of the system being in reaching non-household contacts who are infectious but asymptomatic.\n\nMr Naismith added the system \"has given a bird's eye view of the pandemic and done very little to halt it\".", "The claim: Employees unable to work in tier 3 areas will get a combination of Job Support Scheme and Universal Credit, which will mean they get 80% of their wages.\n\nVerdict: While that will be the case for some workers, especially those on very low incomes, some workers will get less than 80% under the new scheme.\n\nThe prime minister has repeatedly claimed that employees of closed businesses in tier 3 areas will get 80% of their income.\n\nThis is important because the furlough scheme, which closes at the end of October, made sure such workers received 80% of their wages up to a maximum of £2,500.\n\nBut the Job Support Scheme, which will replace it in November, will provide 67% of normal salary up to a maximum of £2,100 a month.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and several MPs have called for the support to be increased to 80%.\n\nBut Boris Johnson claims that the addition of Universal Credit (UC) means that it is already worth 80%.\n\n\"Combine the Universal Credit with the Job Support Scheme that we've just announced and workers will be getting 80% of their existing salary,\" he said at Prime Minister's Questions on 21 October.\n\nWhether a worker gets Universal Credit on top of the job support scheme depends on a number of factors such as the level of their income, whether they have savings and whether they have children.\n\nWhen the prime minister made the claim on 16 October he specified that he was talking about those on low incomes - clearly those on higher incomes will not qualify for Universal Credit and may be above the £2,100 a month limit for the Job Support Scheme.\n\nIt is certainly the case that some workers on low incomes will get at least 80% of their usual wages. In particular, people whose wages were low enough for them to qualify for Universal Credit before their employers were forced to close, are likely to get at least 80% of their wages.\n\nBut it is also the case that some workers will get less than 80%.\n\nWe asked the Department for Work and Pensions how the prime minister had reached this figure and were told: \"Those on low incomes getting the full entitlement [of Universal Credit] will receive at least 80% of their normal income.\"\n\nThe DWP said that the full entitlement meant the amount that you would get without reductions for having savings.\n\nThe point is that the prime minister failed to mention those who do not get UC at all, or only get a bit of it, who would receive less than 80% of their usual income.\n\nAn example comes from from the Institute for Fiscal Studies - a single person with no children who owns their own home and earns £11,000 a year, would be entitled to a bit of UC if they were put on the Job Support Scheme, but not much, so they would end up on 73% of their usual income.\n\nAlso, the amount of UC you are eligible for starts reducing once you have £6,000 in savings and a worker who has £16,000 in savings will not qualify for any UC, regardless of any other factors. So such a worker would not get 80%.", "Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry and Slough are to move into tier two restrictions on Saturday, the government has announced.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said in all of these areas the infection rate was over 100 per 100,000 people.\n\nMr Hancock also said discussions were under way over moving Warrington into the highest level of restrictions.\n\nIt comes as a minister said people should inform themselves about which rules apply to their area amid complaints the system is confusing.\n\nMr Hancock told the House of Commons the new restrictions would come into force in Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry and Slough on 00:01 on Saturday.\n\nStoke-on-Trent City Council had asked Mr Hancock for the area to be placed into \"high\" tier two restrictions amid a rise in infection rates.\n\nUnder the high alert level, there is a ban on households mixing indoors, including in pubs and restaurants, and people are encouraged to reduce their use of public transport.\n\nMr Hancock said cases in the areas moving into tier two were doubling around every fortnight - \"and we're seeing a concerning increase of cases among the over-60s\".\n\nSpeaking about Warrington, he said: \"We will formally start the talks and I hope that we can reach an agreement and a resolution soon.\"\n\nEarlier, the minister for crime and policing, Kit Malthouse, said England's three alert categories involves some \"complexity\" and recommended people go online to look up the measures.\n\nHe said everyone has an \"individual duty towards\" collective public health.\n\nPolice have said the new system makes the rules harder to enforce.\n\nMr Malthouse told BBC Breakfast that most people were complying and the number of fines issued by police was \"tiny\".\n\nHowever, he said officers were enforcing the rules where there are people \"taking the mickey\" - particularly those holding unlicensed music events.\n\n\"There's plenty of information out there on the internet where people can go and inform themselves about what the regulations are in their area and that fundamentally is what we would recommend everybody has to do,\" he said.\n\n\"We all need to recognise we have an individual duty towards our collective health and that means informing ourselves about what the regulations are in our area and complying with the rules.\"\n\nIan Hopkins, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, told BBC Radio Manchester that officers are still called to around 400 house parties a week - but do not want to give out fines for breaches of coronavirus rules.\n\nHe said crime was back at levels last seen before the pandemic.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nOn Wednesday, police officers told the Home Affairs Select Committee that coronavirus restrictions were clear and easy to enforce in the spring, but the tier system introduced this month has made it harder.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Owen Weatherill, one officer leading the response to the pandemic in England, said he has asked the government to simplify its messages to make them easier for the public to understand.\n\nHe told MPs he initially thought there would be \"simplified, consistent tiers\" under the new alert system - but nuances were \"creeping in\".\n\nThat, he said, leads to people becoming \"worn down, confused and less likely to comply\" because \"they don't know what to comply with\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Weatherill said there was further confusion because recent changes mixed regulations, which are enforceable by the police, with guidance, which is not.\n\nSometimes the police had not seen regulations drafted by the Department of Health until they had come into force, he said.\n\n\"I think introducing them in the way that we have done has introduced greater confusion,\" Mr Weatherhill added.\n\nThe committee was also told that only around half of the fixed penalty notices issued during the pandemic have been paid.\n\nOfficers told MPs they are focusing on clear breaches of the law, like illegal raves, rather than fining members of the public who are confused.\n\nAndy Rhodes, Chief Constable of Lancashire said his area had been through up to five changes in the rules - and that breaches increased as it moved from tier two to tier three.\n\n\"It was almost as if people felt we'll have a last blast,\" he said.", "More than £3bn of furlough job protection money could have been stolen by criminal gangs and employers, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said.\n\nThe spending watchdog said up to £2bn of taxpayer money may have gone to criminals using fake companies.\n\nFirms also claimed for workers not on furlough or inflated the money needed.\n\nThe NAO, which has already warned about \"bounceback\" business loan fraud, said nearly one in 10 workers on furlough had been asked to work by their boss.\n\nThe government defended the scheme as a \"lifeline\" without which lives would have been ruined during lockdown.\n\nBut in a report on Friday, the NAO said it was brought in so rapidly in March that \"considerable levels of fraud and error\" were likely.\n\nDesigned to help those who could not work due to lockdown, the Coronavirus Jobs Retention Scheme scheme supported more than 9.6 million workers at its peak.\n\nWorkers on leave have been paid 80% of their salaries, in full or part by the government, although it will be replaced by a less generous jobs scheme from 1 November.\n\nThe NAO said that a fraud hotline set up by the tax authorities, HMRC, received over 10,000 reports of contraventions, while its own survey, conducted by Ispos Mori, found 9% of furloughed workers had continued to work at the request of their boss.\n\nLondon's usually bustling Regent Street in June. Large parts of the economy were forced to shut down during lockdown.\n\nSome employers had also claimed furlough payments but not passed them on in full to employees, the NAO said.\n\nBy May about a third of the UK workforce was on furlough, while at least 2.6 million self-employed were also given state support via a separate programme.\n\nHowever, the NAO said as many as 2.9 million people were unable to access any help, \"either because of ministerial decisions about where to focus support, or because HMRC did not have data needed to properly guard against the risk of fraud\".\n\nThe civil service had done well to launch the job protection schemes so quickly, said Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, but due to the pace at which they were introduced it had not been able to follow standard procedures.\n\nHe said the tax office should have done more to prevent fraud including informing employees whether their employer was part of the furlough scheme.\n\n\"In future, the departments should do more while employment support schemes are running to protect employees and counter acts of fraud,\" Mr Davies said.\n\nEarlier this month MPs on the Public Accounts Committee also warned that setting up the schemes at such short notice had left \"unacceptable room for fraud\".\n\nThe NAO is recommending that any future support schemes should consider how to ensure more people are eligible, if they have suffered loss of income, as well as how to prevent further fraud.\n\nThe Treasury and HMRC should also focus on assessing fraud and error and recovering overpayments.\n\nA government spokesperson said it made \"no apology\" for the speed at which the schemes were delivered.\n\n\"The government's priority from the start of the outbreak has been on protecting jobs and getting support to those who need it as quickly as possible, and our employment support schemes have provided a lifeline to millions of hardworking families across the UK.\n\n\"Our schemes were designed to minimise fraud from the outset and we have rejected or blocked thousands of fraudulent claims. We will not tolerate those who seek to defraud taxpayers and will take action against perpetrators, including criminal prosecution.\"", "Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2016 with a pledge to bring down illegal immigration, famously blaming undocumented migrants from Mexico for a host of problems, including drugs and crime. In the four years since, how has this rhetoric translated into a wider immigration policy?\n\nThe number of foreign-born people living in the US has risen by about 3% from 43.7 million the year before Mr Trump's election to about 45 million last year.\n\nBut this rise conceals a big shift in the largest group by far within this population - those who have moved to the US from Mexico. Having remained at nearly the same level for years, the number of people living in the US who were born in Mexico has fallen steadily since Mr Trump's election.\n\nWhile this dip was more than offset by an increase in the number of people who have moved to the US from elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean, demographers at the US Census Bureau have estimated that net migration - the number of people moving to the US minus those moving out of the US - has fallen to its lowest level for a decade.\n\nThis is partly due to lower levels of immigration, but also because more people who were born outside the US are moving back overseas, according to Anthony Knapp of the US Census Bureau.\n\nBeneath this trend there are some important changes to the visa system.\n\nMr Trump has allowed more people to come to the US temporarily for work, but made it harder for people to settle permanently in the US. The reduction in permanent visas, from about 1.2 million in 2016 to about 1 million in 2019, has primarily affected family members of US citizens and residents hoping to join their relatives, with the number of permanent visas sponsored by employers largely unchanged.\n\nAlthough more people are affected by this, in percentage terms his most significant change to immigration policy has been to lower the number of refugees admitted to the US.\n\nThe number of people admitted to the US as refugees each year is determined by a system of quotas, the size of which are ultimately defined by the president. People seeking to move to the US as refugees must make their applications from outside the country, and need to convince US officials that they are vulnerable to persecution at home.\n\nMr Trump's hostility to any immigration from Muslim-majority countries is well known - he once pledged to enact a \"complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States\" - and a reduction in refugee quotas proved easier to implement than an outright ban, which became mired in legal challenges.\n\nAs a result, the number of refugees admitted from a number of majority-Muslim countries, including Iraq, Somalia, Iran and Syria, fell almost to zero soon after he took office.\n\nCurbing visas and refugee admissions is not the only way to reduce the number of people entering the country, and Mr Trump has also sought to make it harder to move to, or remain in, the US without any relevant documentation.\n\nHowever, this is more difficult than it might seem. To understand what has happened during President Trump's tenure, we first need to get to grips with what the official statistics on deportation mean, and they are broken down into two categories.\n\nPeople are said to be \"removed\" if they are taken out of the country under the authority of a court order, and people are \"returned\" if they are refused admission while trying to cross the border, or asked to leave the country without a court order.\n\nBeing removed has a lasting legal consequence, making it much harder to gain re-entry to the country. But many people who have been returned across the US-Mexico border simply tried to enter the US again at a later date. President Obama escalated a policy enacted by his predecessor, President George W Bush, to step up removals - particularly of those who had been accused or convicted of criminal offences.\n\nPresident Trump has not brought about any significant changes to the number of people in either deportation category compared with his predecessor.\n\nThe US Immigration, Customs and Enforcement agency, which handles most deportations, has described the current rate of removals as \"extremely low\", blaming a lack of resources and \"judicial and legislative constraints\", among other things.\n\nThe agency is also under pressure at the Mexican border, where the administration's changes to asylum policy have resulted a long backlog of cases, sometimes with families separated and children held in detention centres, and asylum seekers being returned to Mexico to await the processing of their claims.\n\nDespite widespread media coverage of the border crisis, the data for 2019 suggests that would-be migrants have not been deterred - the number of detentions at the border was more than double the number for the previous year, driven largely by a large rise in the number of families attempting to get across.\n\nThis shift is likely to translate into a significant rise in the returns numbers for 2019, which are due to be released in the next few months.\n\nOne interesting question is whether President Trump's tough stance on immigration is still a major selling point among his supporters. The number of people telling pollsters that immigration is a bad thing has fallen steadily since he took office, with many former detractors apparently now believing it is generally good for the US.\n\nAlthough there remains a gulf between Democratic and Republican voters on the issue, with Republicans far less likely to see immigration in a positive light, and far more likely to want stricter curbs on illegal immigration, the trend among both groups is the same.\n\nMr Trump will be hoping that there remain enough Republican supporters of his approach to help push him past the winning post on election night.", "Durham University says such behaviour \"will not be tolerated\"\n\nStudents have been left feeling \"threatened\" and unsafe after a LGBT university association Zoom meeting was \"hijacked\" by more than 15 people shouting \"homophobic slurs\".\n\nThe online meeting at Durham University was disrupted with loud music, shouted abuse and \"sexually explicit videos\", say LGBT groups at the university.\n\nThe event was for new students who are already facing Covid restrictions.\n\nDurham University said such behaviour \"will not be tolerated\".\n\n\"To hijack an event like this in such an aggressive and targeted way is nothing less than a hate crime,\" said a statement from LGBT groups at the university, including St Mary's College, where the incident took place earlier this month.\n\nThe anonymous attackers were able to join the Zoom meeting through an address shared within the college for the welcoming event.\n\nSuch \"malicious behaviour\" was even worse when the pandemic made it difficult for students to meet in person and support each other, said the LGBT associations' statement.\n\n\"The fact that this was not simply an individual acting alone, but rather a co-ordinated attack from a number of people, is a reminder of how routinely unsafe and unwelcome our community is made to feel,\" said the LGBT groups, which warned of a \"toxic culture\" at the university.\n\nEarlier this week, the Guardian reported on claims that students at Durham were being bullied and mocked over their northern accents and coming from poorer backgrounds.\n\nLast month, Durham University condemned what it called \"utterly abhorrent\" comments on social media by students set to start at the university.\n\nIt included references to competing to have sex with \"the poorest girl\".\n\nSam Dale, the university's director of student support and wellbeing, said the university knew of the \"Zoom bombing\" and how it had left participants feeling \"distressed\".\n\n\"Such behaviour is not acceptable at Durham University and will not be tolerated. Incidents will be reported to the police.\n\n\"Every member of the university is expected to treat others with respect and tolerance so that every member of our community can live, study and work in a safe and inclusive environment,\" said Mr Dale.", "Pubs in South Yorkshire will only be allowed to stay open if they serve a \"substantial meal\"\n\nBusiness owners in South Yorkshire fear for their survival prospects as they face tighter coronavirus restrictions.\n\nTier three restrictions will apply in the area from 00:01 on Saturday, it has been confirmed.\n\nThe rules impose further restrictions on households mixing, while pubs that do not serve substantial meals must close.\n\nOne pub owner in Sheffield says the hospitality sector has been \"thrown under a bus\".\n\nJamie Hawksworth, who owns the Sheffield Tap, said he saw the new restrictions coming.\n\n\"I think I speak for most of my staff, and certainly the management team, that it's devastating. We've had the entire business pulled from under us.\"\n\nHe added that the knock-on effect would be fewer orders for local breweries, abattoirs and other suppliers.\n\n\"Hospitality only accounts to 3% of the Covid risk at the moment,\" he said.\n\n\"We pay the most to the government and receive the least. We're basically being thrown under the bus, we're the scapegoat.\"\n\nPub owner Jamie Hawksworth says businesses like his have become \"the scapegoat\"\n\nThe Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) said publicans had done everything to make their premises Covid-secure and the news would be \"absolutely devastating\" for pubs and breweries.\n\nChief executive Tom Stainer said: \"If pubs across South Yorkshire are to avoid becoming a sacrificial lamb then they need a decent, long-term financial support package.\n\n\"This must properly compensate pubs for having to either close altogether or stay open with extremely low footfall whilst they serve food.\"\n\nHe said help would also be needed after restrictions were lifted to avoid pubs having to \"close their doors for good before Christmas\".\n\nThe family-run Acorn Brewery in Wombwell, Barnsley, is facing similar worries to other businesses.\n\nThe microbrewery's managing director Dave Hughes said the business was operating at about 20% of the level it was at before the pandemic.\n\n\"The whole hospitality sector seems to have been hit very hard compared to other places,\" he said.\n\nThe team of 11 at the brewery has been reduced to four.\n\n\"Our team has been broken up and it causes a lot of stress and anxiety,\" Mr Hughes said.\n\nHe said about 95% of his business was supplying pubs, bars and restaurants - like most microbreweries.\n\nMicrobrewery manager Dave Hughes says the restrictions mean a lot of \"stress and anxiety\"\n\nMr Hughes also runs a real ale pub which would have to close under the new restrictions.\n\n\"We can't offer a substantial meal. A lots of pubs that don't have a food offering will suffer and those that do, will they get the footfall?\n\n\"I suppose, in a sense, tier three for our pub, at least there is funding that we can now tap into.\"\n\nHe also has concerns about how trade will recover when the restrictions end.\n\n\"People find the new norm and go to different outlets and when you do reopen you have to battle to get them back.\"\n\nPubs that close under tier three rules will be eligible for financial support\n\nPaul McNicholas runs three bars in Barnsley and welcomed the tier three restrictions as it means financial support.\n\nHe said people were not coming out due to the 22:00 curfew and social mixing restrictions and he had only been opening at the weekend.\n\n\"We were finding it difficult to operate under the present restrictions on level two so there was a likelihood we would have closed anyway.\n\n\"We were opening the bars and they were running at a loss.\"\n\nOn the new restrictions he said he thought he could cope with the initial 28-day period, but was hopeful they would reopen before Christmas.\n\n\"We are reliant a lot on Christmas and I am trying to be optimistic but we feel that we do need that period,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Martin Usborne's family spent a lot of time in isolation answering phone call after phone call\n\nTwo weeks ago, Martin Usborne, a publisher who lives in east London, found out a close family contact had coronavirus. A few days later his wife, Ann, and their one-year-old daughter, also tested positive.\n\nFrom that moment on, Martin says his wife's phone would not stop ringing. Over the course of 10 days, Ann had 30 separate calls from NHS Test and Trace that she managed to pick up. On top of this were another 27 calls that were missed. And then there were the half a dozen calls her husband received.\n\n\"At one point she would finish one call and as soon as she put the phone down - literally seconds later - another contact tracer would ring. And as soon as that call was over, test-and-trace would call my phone.\n\n\"This really was not the easiest situation to deal with, particularly while looking after our two small children,\" Mr Usborne told the BBC.\n\nSome calls were made because Ann had been in contact with the family acquaintance, who works in her home, while others were to tell her that her young girls (one and three years old) had been near the same person.\n\nNext came the calls because Ann had tested positive, calls because her little one had tested positive and then calls to alert her older toddler that she had been in contact with someone else one who had the virus (this time her mother).\n\nThe family understands some of these calls were necessary and is keen to stress that everyone they spoke to was kind and considerate and did their job well, but Mr Usborne is very concerned there has been a significant waste of resources.\n\n\"The majority of calls were long and repetitive, with different callers reading out the same script each time, asking the same questions and giving the same answers,\" he says.\n\nAnd the family say when they told contact tracers they had heard the exact same thing several times already, the callers apologised but said they would have to complete the entire phone call or it would not register and someone else would simply ring again.\n\nMr Usborne told the BBC: \"Essentially we were dealing with a broken excel spreadsheet, personified by a very nice person.\n\n\"In a way it was quite impressive as they were really persistent - but it was like a dog who had got the wrong bone.\"\n\nLater in the week, calls from contact tracers became more helpful, with some checking the family were OK and giving them information on when their isolation would end.\n\nBut Mr Usborne says they received conflicting advice about how long they had to remain at home. The NHS Covid-19 app recommended his wife stay indoors a few days longer than contact tracers suggested, for example.\n\nHe added: \"The people were super-nice about it but one contact tracer admitted they worked on a different system to the app and would continue to use theirs. Which one is right?\"\n\nThey are now not quite certain when exactly it is safe to go out and are isolating for the longest suggested time. And, more crucially, they say they are not sure if they can trust the advice at all.\n\nThe family feels there needs to be a lot more done to join up the dots, so that contact tracers are alerted if someone has already been called and the system recognises when callers have already spoken to parents or carers responsible for small children in the same household.\n\nMr Usborne also feels there should be a way for the hard-working humans on the other end of the phone to override the computer system if a family tells them they have received multiple, repetitive calls, all week long.\n\nAccording to the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS Test and Trace has reached a total of 901,151 people since it was started.\n\nThe first week of October saw the service successfully reach 76.8% of people who tested positive and 76.9% of contacts where communication details were provided.\n\nBut there have been issues over the time taken for test results to be returned.\n\nAnd the system had its worst week for reaching close contacts who were not in the same household as the person testing positive. Just 62% were reached in the week to 7 October, down from 67% the week before.\n\nIn the same week, the number of people transferred to test-and-trace more than doubled, to 88,000.\n\nA spokesperson said the government's test-and-trace programme \"is working hard to break chains of transmission, with over 900,000 people who may otherwise have unknowingly spreading coronavirus contacted and told to isolate\".\n\n\"We all have a crucial part to play in keeping the number of new infections down, which is why there is now a legal duty to self-isolate, and steps have been taken to make sure that people are complying with the rules.\"\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "American voters will face a clear choice for president on election day, between Republican incumbent Donald Trump and Democratic hopeful Joe Biden.\n\nHere's a look at what they stand for and how their policies compare on eight key issues.\n\nPresident Trump set up a coronavirus task force at the end of January which he says has now shifted its focus to \"safety and opening up our country\".\n\nThe president is also prioritising the speedy development of coronavirus treatments and vaccines, directing $10bn towards such projects.\n\nMr Biden wants to set up a national contact-tracing programme, establish at least 10 testing centres in every state, and provide free coronavirus testing to all.\n\nHe supports a nationwide mask mandate, which would require face coverings to be worn on federal property.\n\nPresident Trump is a climate change sceptic, and wants to expand non-renewable energy. He aims to increase drilling for oil and gas, and roll back further environmental protections.\n\nHe has committed to withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord - the international agreement on tackling climate change - which the US will formally leave later this year.\n\nMr Biden says he would immediately re-join the Paris climate agreement if elected.\n\nHe wants the US to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and proposes banning new leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands, as well as a $2tn investment in green energy.\n\nPresident Trump has pledged to create 10 million jobs in 10 months, and create one million new small businesses.\n\nHe wants to deliver an income tax cut, and provide companies with tax credits to incentivise them to keep jobs in the US.\n\nMr Biden wants to raise taxes for high earners to pay for investment in public services, but says the increase will only impact those earning over $400,000 a year.\n\nHe supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 (£11.50) an hour from the current rate of $7.25 (£5.50).\n\nPresident Trump wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed under President Obama, which increased the federal government's regulation of the private health insurance system, including making it illegal to deny coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions. He says he wants to improve and replace it, although no details of the plan have been published.\n\nThe president also aims to lower drug prices by allowing imports of cheaper ones from abroad.\n\nMr Biden wants to protect and expand the ACA.\n\nHe wants to lower the eligibility age for Medicare, the policy which provides medical benefits to the elderly, from 65 to 60. He also wants to give all Americans the option to enrol in a public health insurance plan similar to Medicare.\n\nPresident Trump has reiterated his promise to bring down US troop levels overseas, while continuing to invest in the military.\n\nThe president says he will continue to challenge international alliances and maintain trade tariffs on China.\n\nMr Biden has promised to repair relationships with US allies.\n\nHe says he would do away with unilateral tariffs on China, and instead hold them accountable with an international coalition that China \"can't afford to ignore\".\n\nPresident Trump says he doesn't believe racism is a systemic problem within US police forces.\n\nHe has positioned himself as a firm advocate of law enforcement, but has opposed chokeholds and offered grants for improved practices.\n\nMr Biden views racism as a systemic problem, and has set out policies to address racial disparities in the justice system, such as grants to incentivise states in reducing incarceration rates.\n\nHe has rejected calls to defund police, saying additional resources should instead be tied to maintaining proper standards.\n\nPresident Trump has an expansive interpretation of the US constitution's Second Amendment protections giving Americans the right to bear arms.\n\nHe did propose tightening background checks on gun buyers after a string of mass shootings in 2019, but nothing came of the plan and no further legislation has been put forward.\n\nMr Biden has proposed banning assault weapons, universal background checks, limiting the number of guns a person can purchase to one per month, and making it easier to sue negligent gun manufacturers and sellers.\n\nHe would also fund more research into preventing gun violence.\n\nPresident Trump says it's his constitutional right to fill the vacancy on the court during the remainder of his first term in office, and has put forward conservative judge, Amy Coney Barrett.\n\nOne issue that the Supreme Court could soon rule on is the legal right to abortion in the US - something the president and Judge Barrett have opposed in the past.\n\nMr Biden wants the vacancy to be filled after the next president enters office.\n\nHe says if elected he would work to pass legislation to guarantee a woman's right to an abortion if the Supreme Court rules against it.", "The students were fined after officers spotted a house party in Kimbolton Avenue\n\nFour university students have been fined £10,000 each after telling police who broke up their house party they were \"spoiling their fun\".\n\nOfficers on patrol spotted a party in Lenton, Nottingham, on Tuesday night but were told everyone had left.\n\nBut inside they found more than 30 people hiding and, when challenged, organisers complained they should be having the \"time of their lives\".\n\nNottingham Trent University said the third-year students had been suspended.\n\nMixing of households indoors has been banned since Nottingham went into tier two restrictions on 14 October.\n\nOn Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said talks over moving Nottinghamshire into tier three were \"ongoing\" but the city council's leader said no discussions had started.\n\nNottingham had the highest level of infection in England for nine days running, with many of the cases centring on areas with a high student population.\n\nPolice said after being told the party in Kimbolton Avenue had ended, officers found people hiding in the kitchen, upstairs bedrooms and basement.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kate Meynell said the people at the property had shown a \"blatant disregard for the safety of those around them\".\n\n\"This needs to stop. The claims that police presented as a barrier to the students' fun are astounding,\" she said.\n\n\"How many fines do we have to give before the message is understood? We do not take pleasure in handing out fines and would much rather be in a situation where students could enjoy themselves but the reality is that if people do not follow the Covid-19 restrictions, more people will die.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Nottingham Trent University said: \"Any student who is found to have breached our disciplinary regulations can face a range of sanctions, up to and including expulsion.\"\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate for Nottingham has dropped again compared to the same time a week earlier.\n\nIn the seven days up to 18 October there were 2,012 new cases, down from 3,085 in the previous weekly period.\n\nThe rate of infection per 100,000 people has also gone down from 926.7 in the week up to 11 October to 604.4.\n\nFor a third day, the city has the second highest rate in England, behind Knowsley in Merseyside.\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. More than a dozen people have been evacuated from nearby properties\n\nTwo people have been killed in a suspected gas explosion at a shop in west London, firefighters have said.\n\nThe blast happened in a hair salon and mobile phone shop on King Street, Southall, just after 06:30 BST.\n\nFour adults and a child are known to have been rescued by the London Fire Brigade (LFB).\n\nEarlier, the Metropolitan Police said one man was found injured. The blast is not being treated as suspicious, the force said.\n\nThe explosion has damaged the Dr Phone shop and the Chandla Hair Salon on King Street\n\nStation Commander Paul Morgan said: \"Our crews continue to search the property using specialist equipment including the use of urban search-and-rescue dogs.\n\n\"We can confirm that sadly two people have died at the scene.\n\n\"The explosion caused substantial damage to the shop and structural damage throughout.\n\n\"It is a painstaking and protracted incident with firefighters working systematically to stabilise the building and search for people involved.\"\n\nLondon Fire Brigade sent about 40 firefighters to the scene\n\nLFB said search and rescue operations have finished for the evening and will restart in the morning.\n\nJatinder Sing, the owner of Dr Phone, said he was in \"total shock\" when he received a call about the blast.\n\nThe 36-year-old said: \"They have closed off everything. It seems like an explosion of a gas cylinder and there is a flat upstairs and my shop is downstairs.\n\n\"I was shocked because my shop looks totally dead, finished and the same with the barber.\n\n\"I can't see anything from where I am standing apart from the the shutter and the main door, which is all trashed.\n\n\"I have lost my everything. We were struggling from the coronavirus period as well - too much stock in the shop and no sales for a long time so I don't know how we will survive.\"\n\nRescuers are involved in a \"complex\" search for anyone who might still be inside the collapsed building\n\nResident Nurmila Hamid who lives nearby said she felt the blast as she was getting her children ready for school.\n\nThe 38-year-old said: \"The house shook, and I turned to my husband and said 'what is that?'\n\n\"And he said, 'It's a blast' and he went to look after taking the children to school - he said it was at a phone shop.\"\n\nMohammad Rafiq, 78, who lives two streets away, said he and his 76-year-old wife felt \"shocked\" and \"scared\" when the noise from the King Street blast woke them at their home.\n\nHe said: \"I heard it in the morning - it woke me up, it was scary. It sounded like a very dangerous blast so I was scared.\n\n\"We didn't sleep after that.\"\n\nSixteen people are known to have been evacuated from nearby properties\n\nI have counted 25 firefighters here sifting through the wreckage on King Street with the police this morning.\n\nThe explosion has also shut off a number of streets, with the police on the scene to prevent people approaching the scene.\n\nIt is a clear scene of devastation of several shops and flats, which the London Fire Brigade have called a \"structural collapse\". Sadly, it looks as though the explosion may have claimed a few lives.\n\nA further 14 adults and two children evacuated themselves from nearby properties after the blast.\n\nLFB was called at 06:38 and sent about 40 firefighters to the scene. It advised people to avoid the King Street area while the search continues.\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said paramedics had treated and discharged one person.\n\nEaling Council said it had switched off the electricity and gas supply to some homes and businesses in the area and warned more properties might need to be evacuated.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.", "Michel Barnier resumed talks on Friday after arriving in the UK on Thursday evening.\n\nTalks over a post-Brexit trade deal have resumed in London, after negotiators returned to the table following a week-long standoff.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss insisted a deal can still be done with the EU, as officials began a new round of \"intensified\" daily talks.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has warned that \"every day counts\" ahead of a looming December deadline.\n\nHe said both sides share a \"huge common responsibility\" as talks restarted.\n\nNegotiations stalled last week after a summit in Brussels where EU leaders called on the UK to \"make the necessary moves\" towards a deal.\n\nBut the UK side agreed to resume talks after Mr Barnier said \"compromises on both sides\" were needed, in a speech on Wednesday.\n\nBoth sides are seeking an agreement to govern their trading relationship once the UK's post-Brexit transition period ends in January 2021.\n\nKey areas of disagreement include fishing rights, post-Brexit competition rules and how any deal would be enforced.\n\nSpeaking after the UK formally signed its post-Brexit trade deal with Japan, Ms Truss said the UK also wanted to strike a \"good deal with the EU\".\n\n\"We're in intense negotiations with the EU. We've made real progress,\" she told reporters on Friday.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, she added any agreement would have to be based \"on the principle that the UK is a sovereign nation\".\n\nAt a signing ceremony in Tokyo, Japan's foreign minister also called on the EU and UK to reach a deal, which he said was important to Japanese firms.\n\nArriving in the UK on Thursday, ahead of a meeting with UK counterpart Lord David Frost, Mr Barnier told reporters it was \"important to be back at the table\".\n\nThe pair will meet again on Friday, during an \"initial\" renewed negotiation round running until Sunday, with subsequent talks planned in both Brussels and London.\n\nThese later talks could either take place in person or be held via video link if Covid restrictions apply, if both sides agree.\n\nIn line with a demand made by the UK, both sides will resume talks on all subjects based on proposed legal texts prepared by officials.\n\nThey have also agreed that \"nothing is agreed\" until progress has been reached in all areas - which has been a key demand of the EU.\n\nYou could be forgiven for thinking that what we've witnessed over the past few days is a bit of political theatre.\n\nCover for the government - post chest-beating- to return to the negotiating table where they know the time has now come for tough compromises to be made.\n\nEU leaders also went out of their way to sound tough on Brexit at their summit last week. Privately, a number of EU figures now admit it was a misstep.\n\nBut EU leaders play to the domestic gallery too. They wanted to show they were \"standing up to the UK\" - that leaving the EU doesn't pay and that EU interests would be defended.\n\nThe two sides have been at odds over the issue of so-called \"state aid\" rules, which limit government help for industry in the name of ensuring fair economic competition.\n\nThe UK has rejected an EU demand made earlier in the year for it to continue following the bloc's rules on such subsidies as part of a trade agreement.\n\nLord Frost has suggested the UK could instead agree \"principles\" for how subsidies are spent - something welcomed by Mr Barnier on Wednesday.\n\nThe two sides are also haggling over how much European fishing boats should be able to catch in British waters from next year.\n\nThe EU has so far resisted UK demands for annual talks to decide stock limits, as well as a reduction in access for its vessels to British fishing grounds.\n\nBy remaining in the bloc's single market and customs union, the UK has continued to follow EU trading rules during its post-Brexit transition period.\n\nThis 11-month period is due to end in December, and the UK has ruled out seeking an extension.\n\nFormal talks began in March and continued throughout the pandemic, initially via video link before in-person discussions resumed over the summer.\n\nIf a deal is not done, the UK will trade with the EU according to the default rules set by the Geneva-based World Trade Organization.", "Covid circuit breakers are \"doomed to fail\", according to a disease expert.\n\nIt comes as Health Minister Vaughan Gething said a circuit lockdown was being \"actively considered\" for Wales.\n\nThe short-term measures could include closing pubs and restaurants.\n\nBut Dr Roland Salmon, former director of communicable diseases at Public Health Wales, said: \"I simply don't think a circuit breaker will work.\"", "Online fashion group Asos added three million customers in the past year, with annual profits jumping thanks to cost-cutting and buyers returning fewer items amid the pandemic.\n\nIt now has 23.4 million customers, with more than seven million in the UK, where it makes the bulk of profits.\n\nWorldwide sales were up 19%, and pre-tax profits 329% at £142.1m, driven partly by fewer returned goods.\n\nBut Asos said it was worried about unemployment hitting young customers.\n\nIt singled out those in their 20s, for whom it said life was unlikely to return to normal for \"quite some time\".\n\nThe company's chief executive, Nick Beighton, also said he was expecting a \"very promotional\" trading period, starting at Halloween.\n\nHe also warned his company could take a hard hit from Brexit: \"If there is a Brexit deal with tariffs we would have to suck up a substantial amount of operating cost.\"\n\nSusannah Streeter, investment analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said the company was vulnerable in the face of continuing coronavirus restrictions: \"A depressed economic outlook may push down demand to refresh wardrobes.\n\n\"With venues forced to close at 10pm and the Christmas party season cancelled, profits from party wear will be thin. Job prospects are uncertain for its core group of customers in their 20s and so the company will have to be very choosy about the ranges and prices it offers.\"\n\nInvestors had marked the shares down 10% by lunchtime on worries trading could be tougher in the next few months.\n\nAs an online retailer, Asos is one of the few retailers that have benefitted from lockdown.\n\nThe company said in August it was expecting to see growth in profits and sales and these figures are at the higher end of the forecasts given then.\n\nIt also said buying habits had changed to reflect lifestyle changes enforced by the pandemic, and its customers were buying less special occasion-wear and more face products and leisurewear, fewer of which were likely to be returned.\n\nLike other online players, Asos had struggled with large volumes of returns in the past and had even threatened to block serial returners in 2019.\n\nHowever, its profit margin dipped slightly and it was cautious over the outlook for consumer demand as it said \"economic prospects and lifestyles of 20-somethings remain disrupted\" due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nNick Beighton said: \"After a record first half which saw us make progress in addressing the performance issues of the previous financial year, the second half will always be defined by our response to Covid-19.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am pleased by the improvements we have made this year but there is still more for us to do to continue our progress.\n\n\"Whilst life for our 20-something customers is unlikely to return to normal for quite some time, Asos will continue to engage, respond and adapt as one of the few truly global leaders in online fashion retail.\"", "Gal Gadot played Wonder Woman in the 2017 Hollywood film\n\nPlans for a new movie about Cleopatra have sparked a controversy before filming has even started.\n\nThe role of the famed ancient Egyptian ruler is to be played by Israeli actress Gal Gadot, best known for her Hollywood depictions of Wonder Woman.\n\nThe announcement has led to a row on social media with some alleging \"cultural whitewashing\", where white actors portray people of colour.\n\nSome have said the role should instead go to an Arab or African actress.\n\nCleopatra was descended from an Ancient Greek family of rulers - the Ptolemy dynasty. She was born in Egypt in 69BC and ruled the Nile kingdom when it was a client state of Rome.\n\nGadot herself reportedly commissioned the film and will co-produce it.\n\nThe row reflects a growing debate in Hollywood over casting and identity, and whether actors should play characters of different ethnicities to themselves.\n\nWriter on Africa, James Hall, said he thought the filmmakers should find an African actress, of any race.\n\nUS writer Morgan Jerkins tweeted that Cleopatra should be played by someone \"darker than a brown paper bag\" as that would be more \"historically accurate\".\n\n\"Gal Gadot is a wonderful actress, but there is an entire pool of North African Actresses to pick from. Stop whitewashing my history!\" posted another user..\n\nOther social media users argued that Cleopatra was more Greek or Macedonian than Arab or African.\n\nThe row over Gal Gadot as Cleopatra draws on contemporary arguments over national culture, religion and gender politics.\n\nBut the ancient Middle East wouldn't conform to many of our modern views of identity.\n\nCleopatra was on the throne well before Christianity, for example, and centuries ahead of the Arab conquests of North Africa - she was the last of the Ptolemaic rulers; born in Egypt, descended from Ancient Greeks and dominated by Rome.\n\nBut there are plenty more problems with popular depictions of the ancient Nile Queen - often cast as a powerful seductress replete with a sensual, oriental mystique.\n\nThat image - including Elizabeth Taylor's famous portrayal - is likely a myth handed down to us by Latin love poets years after Cleopatra's death.\n\nThe thousands of depictions of her through the ages are \"based on a perilous series of deductions from fragmentary or flagrantly unreliable evidence\" according to the British historian Mary Beard.\n\nSo little is really known, she adds, that Cleopatra should appear to us today as \"the queen without a face\".\n\nStatues of Cleopatra have been preserved but historians say we cannot be sure exactly how she looked\n\nIsraeli commentators suggested some criticism was based in anti-Semitism.\n\nThe Jerusalem Post journalist Seth Frantzman said it made no sense to exclude Jews from playing roles from the Middle East, \"when Jews are primarily a people from the Middle East either with distant or recent roots.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\n\"The idea that casting should exclude Jews is shameful and shows a lack of education for the commentators,\" he said.\n\nIsrael's embassy in Washington tweeted: \"One icon playing another! Excited for this new take on Cleopatra!\"\n\nGal Gadot's spokesperson declined to comment on the row.", "Tuesday's launch took place from Blue Origin's test facility in West Texas\n\nA rocket built by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space company has tested technology designed to return humans to the Moon in 2024.\n\nThe New Shepard booster, developed by Blue Origin, can land vertically on the ground after returning from space.\n\nThe rocket was carrying sensors, a computer and software designed to help space vehicles perform precision landings on other planetary bodies.\n\nNasa wants to try the technology on Earth before it's sent to the Moon.\n\nTuesday's test launch was the seventh for Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle, which is designed to carry space tourists on short \"sub-orbital\" trips.\n\nIt will eventually take passengers up to around 100km (62 miles) above the Earth, allowing them to experience microgravity. They will be carried up in a crew capsule mounted on top of New Shepard.\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 NASA Technology 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 pressurised capsule features the largest windows ever sent into space, according to the company. After reaching space, the capsule separates from the booster and both vehicles fall to Earth.\n\nDuring Tuesday's test (known as NS-13), the capsule gently parachuted down, while the rocket performed a perfect powered landing.\n\n\"Today's flight was inspiring. Using New Shepard to simulate landing on the Moon is an exciting precursor to what the Artemis programme will bring to America,\" said Bob Smith, Blue Origin's chief executive.\n\nThe payload it was carrying for Nasa is called Splice, which stands for Safe and Precise Landing - Integrated Capabilities Evolution.\n\nIt consists of two sensor systems, a computer and advanced algorithms - sets of instructions designed to be implemented by a computer.\n\nThe purpose of sending it up on New Shepard was to test how the different elements of the payload work together.\n\n\"We're taking the best of Nasa sensor developments across the agency, one or two commercial offerings, putting them on the propulsion module (rocket) of New Shepard,\" said Stefan Bieniawski, senior engineer at Blue Origin.\n\nInside the crew capsule: It features the largest windows ever flown in space\n\n\"What's really valuable about the propulsion module is coming all the way back from space and doing a propulsive landing, which is very akin to what we want to do with the lunar landing.\"\n\nThe first of the Splice sensor systems was developed by Draper, a research organisation based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's designed to perform \"terrain relative navigation\", in which cameras gather real-time information about the surroundings. The images are then compared with pre-loaded maps to determine the vehicle's precise location.\n\nBack in the 1960s, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin almost came down in a boulder field during the historic Apollo 11 landing.\n\nThe space agency wants to avoid something like this happening again, so sensor systems like Draper's are intended to make landings safer.\n\n\"[The Apollo missions'] landing target was on the order of miles, our landing target is 100 metres - or less,\" said Stefan Bieniawski.\n\nBlue Origin is leading a team that has won a contract from Nasa to start developing a lunar lander\n\nThe second sensor system is called a Navigation Doppler Lidar, which was developed at Nasa's Langley Research Center in Virginia. It is also designed to help vehicles land precisely, but instead sends laser beams to the surface of the planetary body and detects the reflected signal to determine the vehicle's velocity and altitude.\n\nBlue Origin is part of a team that was awarded a Nasa contract to start developing a lander capable of returning humans to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.\n\nUnder its Artemis programme, Nasa plans to send a man and a woman to the lunar South Pole. But that would be just an early step in a bigger plan to establish a long-term presence on the Moon.\n\nThe 18m-tall New Shepard rocket blasted off at 14:36 BST (09:36 EDT) on Tuesday from Blue Origin's test facility near Van Horn, Texas. The vehicle reached a maximum altitude of 105km (346,000ft) above the ground.", "A 45-year-old British man has been left with permanent hearing loss after developing Covid-19.\n\nUK doctors say it is the first such case they have seen linked to the pandemic coronavirus.\n\nAlthough rare, sudden hearing loss can follow other viral infections, such as flu.\n\nThe ear-nose-and-throat experts told BMJ Case Reports journal steroid drugs could help avoid this damage if given early enough.\n\nThe patient, who has asthma, had been admitted to a London hospital with Covid-19 symptoms and transferred to intensive care after struggling to breathe.\n\nTests confirmed he had coronavirus and he was put on a ventilator machine.\n\nHe also needed various drugs and a blood transfusion before beginning to recover and coming off the ventilator 30 days later.\n\nBut a week after the breathing tube was removed and he left intensive care, he noticed tinnitus (a ringing or buzzing noise) followed by sudden hearing loss in his left ear.\n\nA hearing test suggested the loss was linked to damage to the hearing nerve, the middle ear, or both, rather than inflammation or a blockage to the ear canal.\n\nDoctors could find no explanations for his hearing problem, other than his recent Covid-19 illness.\n\nThey gave him steroid tablets as well as injections into the ear, which helped a little, but he has some irreversible hearing loss.\n\n\"Given the widespread presence of the virus in the population and the significant morbidity of hearing loss, it is important to investigate this further,\" the team, from University College London and the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, said\n\nThe virus is thought to enter and infect a particular type of cell found in the lungs, by zoning in on a surface receptor they possess.\n\nThe researchers say this same receptor is found on the cells that line the middle ear.\n\nAnd they are recommending medics look out for hearing complications in Covid-19 patients and refer any with sudden hearing loss to an expert for urgent care.", "Cardinal Giovanni Becciu was removed from his post last month\n\nPolice in Milan say they have arrested a 39-year-old Italian woman, who has worked for Cardinal Angelo Becciu, a senior Vatican official who was demoted last month over embezzlement claims.\n\nCecilia Marogna says she was paid €500,000 ($587,000; £454,000) by Cardinal Becciu.\n\nMs Marogna was arrested after an Interpol warrant was issued at the Holy See's request, according to reports.\n\nBoth Ms Marogna and Cardinal Becciu have denied any wrongdoing.\n\nIn interviews with Italian media in recent days, Ms Marogna confirmed that she had been paid €500,000 by Cardinal Becciu through a company she operated in Slovenia. She said she received the money to provide \"parallel diplomacy\" to help missionaries in conflict areas.\n\nA senior Vatican source told Reuters news agency that Ms Marogna was suspected of \"embezzlement and aggravated misappropriation in complicity with others\".\n\nThe cardinal allegedly authorised the payments to Ms Marogna while serving as number two in the Vatican's Secretariat of State, which manages the Church's donations.\n\nShe has also denied allegations that she is the cardinal's mistress, telling the newspaper Corriere della Sera that she is a \"political analyst and intelligence expert\" with \"a network of relationships in Africa and the Middle East\" to protect the Vatican's representatives abroad.\n\nCardinal Becciu, 72, unexpectedly resigned last month, revealing he was told to do so by Pope Francis.\n\nHe said he was suspected of giving Church money to his brothers.\n\nThe cardinal was involved in a controversial deal to invest in a luxury London building with Church funds, which has since been the subject of a financial investigation.\n\nThe cardinal has denied any wrongdoing and has defended the London property deal.\n\nResignations at this level of the Vatican are extremely rare.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHarry Maguire's miserable start to the season continued with a red card as England had two men sent off for the first time in their Nations League defeat by Denmark.\n\nManchester United's captain suffered a 31-minute nightmare, shown a yellow card for a reckless early challenge on Yussuf Poulsen and then dismissed by Spanish referee Jesus Gil Manzano after he brought down Kasper Dolberg trying to retrieve his own poor touch.\n\nEngland's night got worse four minutes later when Christian Eriksen scored his 34th goal for Denmark on his 100th appearance after Kyle Walker was harshly adjudged to have fouled Thomas Delaney.\n\nChelsea defender Reece James was shown a red card after the final whistle for confronting referee Manzano.\n\nIn a low-key affair, England had their moments and it took a magnificent save from Kasper Schmeichel to claw away Mason Mount's close-range header as Denmark closed out the win.\n\nEngland are now third in their group, with only the winners progressing to the Nations League finals in 2021.\n• None Maguire has my full support, says Southgate\n• None Does Maguire need a break for club and country?\n• None Who would you pick in England's best XI?\n• None Misery for Maguire and England at Wembley - listen to Football Daily podcast\n• None All the reaction from England v Denmark here\n\nMaguire endured what must have been one of the most miserable nights of his career before he was sent off after only 31 minutes.\n\nIt was bad from the opening moments when he needlessly left his foot in on Poulsen, and the rest of his performance was distracted and chaotic.\n\nMaguire was ill-at-ease with England's three-man defensive system, often out of position, even pulling up holding the top of his hamstring at one point before his fate was sealed by a shocking first touch which he tried to retrieve with a lunge that injured Dolberg.\n\nHe looks like a player suffering mentally as well as physically following his recent arrest in Greece and it would be no surprise if he was also taken out of the line of fire at club level given his recent poor form.\n\nHe made an error that led to Tottenham's first goal in United's 6-1 home defeat before the international break and his display earned him a rating of just 1.85 out of 10 by BBC Sport readers - which was still higher than he carded for this defeat.\n\nEngland never seriously troubled Denmark apart from a couple of late scares, Harry Kane looking out of sorts and the failure of manager Gareth Southgate to introduce the creativity of Jack Grealish ahead of Jordan Henderson - which is no slight on the Liverpool captain - a mystery.\n\nThere was also more uncertainty involving goalkeeper Jordan Pickford and Walker that led to a somewhat dubious penalty award - summing up what was a very unsatisfactory and disjointed night for England and Southgate.\n\nChelsea's James was arguably England's best player on his full debut - only to ruin all that good work after the final whistle when he got verbally involved with referee Manzano and was shown a red card.\n\nIt was a moment of frustration for the 20-year-old but also inexcusable ill-discipline, which has been a trend in England's recent games given Walker's sending-off in Iceland last month and the two dismissals here.\n\nThis was a bad night for England but James was one of those who could have held his head high, until he unwisely showed dissent to the officials.\n\nJames had been solid in defence and a real threat in attack, on a night when England were struggling with reduced numbers and were being held at bay by a resilient Danish rearguard.\n\nSadly for James, a fine performance will now be remembered for the wrong reasons.\n\n'Very proud of the performance'\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate talking to Sky Sports: \"I was very proud of the performance. I thought we were excellent with 11 men and causing them all sorts of problems down our right-hand side. The sending off alters everything and the penalty - it's a foul on Kyle Walker and I don't see the foul at all. The less said the better.\n\n\"We showed resilience and showed a great example of how to play with 10 pragmatically, and when to press. Their keeper made an amazing save to keep it at 1-0. I couldn't be prouder of the boys in the last 10 days, they are learning and improving. We've had any number of changes to our preparation and showed resilience.\"\n\nThree defeats in 50 - the stats\n• None This was only England's third home defeat in their past 50 competitive internationals on home soil.\n• None Denmark have lost just two of their past 40 international matches, keeping clean sheets in nine of their past 11 games.\n• None Christian Eriksen has been directly involved in 32 goals in his past 35 appearances for his national side (24 goals, eight assists).\n• None This was Marcus Rashford's 40th England cap, making him only the third player to reach that tally before the age of 23, after Michael Owen in 2002 and Wayne Rooney in 2007.\n• None Attempt blocked. Conor Coady (England) header from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt missed. Dominic Calvert-Lewin (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Reece James with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Reece James (England) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the scene now make it big outside of London?", "John Leslie is accused of carrying out the assault in December 2008\n\nFormer Blue Peter presenter John Leslie has described sexual assault allegations against him as \"crazy\" and \"ludicrous\".\n\nGiving evidence at his trial at Southwark Crown Court the 55-year-old denied grabbing a woman's breasts at a Soho party in 2008.\n\nEarlier, a friend of the alleged victim said Mr Leslie's friend had apologised for his behaviour afterwards.\n\nMr Leslie has denied the charge of sexual assault.\n\nIn the years before the alleged incident, he told jurors, he had been made out in the tabloid press to be an \"aggressive, sexual monster\".\n\nGiving evidence, he said: \"The idea that I would do that is just crazy, especially the way that I was with everything that had been going on.\n\n\"I was paranoid, I was aware and conscious of wherever I was.\n\n\"To go up to a total stranger I had never met and do that is just ludicrous.\"\n\n\"I would have said 'hello', I would have talked to her. I would not have touched her like some mannequin and walked off.\"\n\nThe jury also heard how separate sex charges against him were dropped in 2003.\n\nOn the third day of Mr Leslie's trial the friend of the accuser said she had attended the party on 5 December and, while she did not remember seeing a sexual assault, she described what she remembered of \"the aftermath\".\n\n\"John's demeanour did not change,\" said the witness, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\n\"He was still very excitable and very happy to be there, but there seemed to be a sudden shift of atmosphere from [the complainant].\n\n\"And there was almost disbelief and sort of a galled feeling.\"\n\nThe witness said a woman who was also at the party, who she believed might have been an old friend of Mr Leslie's, approached her later in the evening and apologised for his behaviour.\n\nThe witness told the jury: \"The gist was, 'sorry about John, he's very excited to be here, it's been a long time since he has been to a party like this and sometimes he just gets over-excited and goes over the top'.\"\n\nThe complainant alleges Mr Leslie grabbed her breasts and laughed immediately after they shook hands.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker has recalled the night that she was shot and killed by police in her home.\n\nSpeaking to CBS This Morning, Mr Walker said he is \"a million per cent sure\" officers did not identify themselves before entering.\n\nMs Taylor, a 26-year-old black hospital worker, was shot six times when police forced their way into her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, on 13 March.\n\nNone of the three officers have been charged directly over the killing.", "PureGym trainer Matt Simpson says he's struggled with racist abuse since posting a \"slave\" workout on Facebook to mark Black History Month.\n\nIt was heavily criticised at the time and he apologised \"wholeheartedly\".\n\nBut he says he's continued to be trolled about it online with many comments referencing the fact he's black.\n\n\"It was wrong, I totally get that, and I'm sorry, but now I'm receiving racist abuse,\" he says.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to Radio 1 Newsbeat, Matt says he recognises the post was unacceptable and ill-judged, but the comments he's been getting are \"heart-breaking\".\n\nThe workout was put up on PureGym Luton and Dunstable's Facebook account on 1 October.\n\nHe called it 12 Years of Slave, referencing the Oscar-winning movie from 2013 with a similar name.\n\nIt said: \"Slavery was hard and so is this\", and included 12 different moves such as burpees, push ups and box jumps.\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 mattsimpt 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\nMatt says the reaction to the post has left him struggling.\n\n\"Some of the abuse has been things I am ashamed to say out loud. The most common theme has been in reference to slavery, and my skin colour.\"\n\nHe says some online comments have used racist language against him, including the N-word and some of them have come from black people.\n\n\"I have been told 'keep to your white company' and 'we're going to take his black card off him',\" Matt says.\n\n\"It's heart-breaking when you look at the sender and the sender resembles you.\n\n\"Things like that - there's no word to describe how that makes any person of an ethnic minority feel.\"\n\nMatt says the frequency and volume of the abuse has slowed down but there are over 1500 comments on his Instagram post and his mental health is suffering.\n\n\"I've stopped going out as much, my appetite has changed and I'm nowhere near as lively or as positive.\n\n\"I'm trying not to let it get on top of me but it's really hard. There's no shield at the moment.\n\n\"Those people attacking and trolling need to know it has an effect, it can put people into a spiral of negativity.\n\nPureGym said the post \"was removed as soon as it was brought to our attention\"\n\nPureGym removed the post at the time and apologised \"unreservedly\", saying it was \"not approved or endorsed by the company\".\n\nMatt also posted his own apology on Instagram the following day, but he says things have spiralled from there.\n\n\"There was a huge naivety on my part when I posted the workout,\" he says.\n\n\"I was thinking about raising awareness of Black History Month, as an Afro-Caribbean man, but I totally get now how badly it came across.\n\n\"Unfortunately I can't rewind time and take it back - it's my mistake and it's a big one.\n\n\"I made a poor judgement in a post and I've apologised. I don't know what else I can do.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "In Liverpool, revellers took to the city centre the night before new restrictions came into force\n\nThe new three-tier system of Covid-19 restrictions has begun in England.\n\nMost of the country is in the lowest tier - medium - but millions of people in the North and the Midlands face extra curbs on households mixing.\n\nThe Liverpool region is the only area to be under the toughest rules, with pubs and bars not serving meals closed.\n\nGovernment health officials are due to meet later to discuss the possibility of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and some other areas joining the top tier.\n\nHours before the top tier rules came into force in Liverpool, police were forced to disperse large crowds in the city.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has announced an extension of the half-term holidays for schools, from Monday, alongside other new measures aimed at curbing the spread of the virus.\n\nAnd in Wales a short circuit breaker lockdown is being \"actively considered\" by the Welsh Government.\n\nThe Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, tweeted that he had not spoken with the government about the new restrictions since Friday, claiming pressure was being \"piled on via media briefings\".\n\nA statement from Mr Burnham, his deputy and leaders of all 10 councils in the area, said the current evidence around infection rates and hospital admissions did not support the area going into Tier 3 (the top tier).\n\nThe financial package accompanying Tier 3 restrictions was \"nowhere near sufficient to prevent severe hardship, widespread job losses and business failure\", the statement added.\n\nIt comes after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for a two to three-week \"circuit-breaker\" lockdown in England to bring the infection rate under control.\n\nThe new three-tier system sees every area of England classed as being on medium, high or very high alert.\n\nAreas on medium alert are subject to the national restrictions currently in force, including the rule of six on indoor and outdoor gatherings and the 22:00 closing time for pubs, bars and restaurants.\n\nIn addition to these restrictions, in areas on high alert - including north-east England, much of the North West and parts of the Midlands, along with West and South Yorkshire - different households are not allowed to mix indoors.\n\nAreas on very high alert face extra curbs, with different households banned from mixing indoors or outdoors in hospitality venues or private gardens.\n\nPubs and bars will be closed unless they are serving substantial meals and there is also guidance against travelling in and out of the area.\n\nFurther restrictions may be agreed for particular regions in the top tier and in the Liverpool City Region gyms, leisure centres, betting shops and casinos will also close.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson defended the system at Prime Minister's Questions, saying the regional approach aimed to \"seize this moment now to avoid the misery of a national lockdown\".\n\nBut Labour's Sir Keir Starmer told the Commons the measures did not go far enough - a view he said was echoed by the government's scientific advisers.\n\nAnd MPs in Liverpool said the city \"risks being dragged back to the 1980s\" without proper financial support alongside the new restrictions.\n\nParliament has approved the legislation to write a new three-tier system into law, but 42 Tory MPs rebelled in a vote to express their disapproval of the 22:00 closing time for pubs and restaurants in England.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government is to implement its own three-tier framework of restrictions later in October. In the meantime, pubs and restaurants in Scotland's central belt, including Edinburgh and Glasgow, were closed on Friday until 25 October as part of a package of short-term measures.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, hospitality businesses will only be allowed to offer takeaway and delivery services for four weeks from Friday, alongside a raft of new restrictions.\n\nThe country's First Minister, Arlene Foster, said the decisions had not been taken lightly, adding: \"I don't shy away from the fact that a lot of these decisions will have huge impacts - we're very determined this will be a time-limited intervention.\"\n\nAnd in Wales, the Welsh Government is considering bringing in deeper lockdown measures over a short period of time, including closing pubs and restaurants during the school half-term holiday.\n\nThe government sees its three-tier system of localised restrictions as striking a balance between fighting the virus and protecting the economy.\n\nHowever, Sir Keir Starmer's decision to back a much tougher England-wide temporary lockdown does mean there is now an alternative plan on the table. And it is a plan that came recommended by the government's own scientists.\n\nDowning Street has not ruled out a \"circuit break\" completely - to do so, it maintains, would be irresponsible. But it has been very clear that it does not want to get there.\n\nA senior government source accused Labour of playing politics but the move will increase the pressure on Mr Johnson to show that his alternative works - and does so quickly.\n\nHe is likely to have the backing of his own MPs - many of whom are not keen to go further for now at least. The former minister Andrew Mitchell - who has voiced criticism in recent days - said the three tier system must be given time to show results.\n\nOutlining his call for a \"circuit breaker\" at a press conference on Tuesday evening, Sir Keir said current measures to curb the spread of coronavirus were not working.\n\nHe proposed that schools would remain open, with the circuit breaker taking place across half-term to \"minimise disruption\".\n\nHowever he said it would mean all pubs, bars and restaurants would be closed and compensated. Non-essential retail businesses would also shut.\n\nHis comments came after documents revealed government scientific advisers called for such action three weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday, a further 17,234 coronavirus cases were recorded in the UK, while 143 more people have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus.\n\nHow will the new restrictions affect you? Tell us 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Apple has confirmed its iPhone 12 handsets will be its first to work on faster 5G networks.\n\nThe company has also extended the range to include a new \"Mini\" model that has a smaller 5.4in screen.\n\nThe US firm bucked a wider industry downturn by increasing its handset sales over the past year.\n\nBut some experts say the new features give Apple its best opportunity for growth since 2014, when it revamped its line-up with the iPhone 6.\n\n\"5G will bring a new level of performance for downloads and uploads, higher quality video streaming, more responsive gaming, real-time interactivity and so much more,\" said chief executive Tim Cook.\n\nThere has also been a cosmetic refresh this time round, with the sides of the devices getting sharper, flatter edges.\n\nThe higher-end iPhone 12 Pro models also get bigger screens than before and a new sensor to help with low-light photography.\n\nLidar sensors are commonly used in self-driving car prototypes, but Apple is using one to help focus photos\n\nHowever, for the first time none of the devices will be bundled with headphones or a charger. Apple said the move was to help reduce its impact on the environment.\n\n\"Tim Cook [has] the stage set for a super-cycle 5G product release,\" commented Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nHe added that about 40% of the 950 million iPhones in use had not been upgraded in at least three-and-a-half years, presenting a \"once-in-a-decade\" opportunity.\n\nIn theory, the Mini could dent Apple's earnings by encouraging the public to buy a product on which it makes a smaller profit than the other phones. But one expert thought that unlikely.\n\n\"Apple successfully launched the iPhone SE in April by introducing it at a lower price point without cannibalising sales of the iPhone 11 series,\" noted Marta Pinto from IDC.\n\n\"There are customers out there who want a smaller, cheaper phone, so this is a proven formula that takes into account market trends.\"\n\nThe iPhone is already the bestselling smartphone brand in the UK and the second-most popular in the world in terms of market share.\n\nIf forecasts of pent up demand are correct, it could prompt a battle between network operators, as customers become more likely to switch.\n\n\"Networks are going to have to offer eye-wateringly attractive deals, and the way they're going to do that is on great tariffs and attractive trade-in deals,\" predicted Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\nApple typically unveils its new iPhones in September, but opted for a later date this year. It has not said why, but it was widely speculated to be related to disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe firm's shares ended the day 2.7% lower. This has been linked to reports that several Chinese internet platforms opted not to carry the livestream, although it was still widely viewed and commented on via the social media network Sina Weibo.\n\nApple said the iPhone 12 has the same 6.1in (15.5cm)-sized screen as its predecessor, but it now uses OLED rather than LCD technology for richer colours. This has also helped the firm make the device 11% thinner and have smaller bezels.\n\nThe OLED display is shielded by a new material that should be harder to damage\n\nIt added that the screen was also higher resolution and used a \"ceramic shield\" to protect its display to offer \"four times better drop performance\".\n\nA new A14 Bionic chip - the first to be built on a five nanometre process - is being used to carry out more advanced enhancements to photos.\n\nThe firm said it would deliver night-mode selfies without using the flash, as well as better deal with colour, contrast and noise in challenging settings.\n\nIt showed off a forthcoming mobile version of League of Legends as an example of the \"console-quality games\" it could now run smoothly.\n\nLeague of Legends: Wild Rift will launch later this year\n\nThe addition of a magnet array inside the phone's back will allow compatible chargers to \"snap on\" and renew the battery more quickly, as well as accessories including a wallet to be held in place.\n\nThe iPhone Mini shares these features but in a smaller form.\n\n\"The Mini is an interesting move from Apple, which I would have expected [to come] next year - but the smaller phone trend is clearly picking up,\" commented Carolina Milanesi from Creative Strategies.\n\nThe iPhone 12 will start at £799 - a £70 gain on last year - and go on sale on 23 October.\n\nThe iPhone 12 Mini will start at £699 and be released on 13 November.\n\nTwo steel-sided higher-end models have also been redesigned to feature bigger displays - the iPhone Pro goes from 5.8in to 6.1in, while the Pro Max goes from 6.5in to 6.7in.\n\nThe iPhone 12 Pro has three cameras and a Lidar sensor\n\nThey carry over the improvements made to the lower-end devices.\n\nBut they also gain a Lidar (light detection and ranging) scanner.\n\nThis creates depth-maps of the immediate environment, making autofocus in dim settings \"up to six times faster\". It can also be used for augmented-reality tasks, although these were given less emphasis.\n\nThe Pro Max's wide-angle rear camera lens has also been given a bigger sensor to improve low-light performance.\n\nFilming in high dynamic range (HDR) video, using Dolby Vision, is offered at a higher frame rate on the Pro phones\n\nBoth new Pro models now have at least 128 gigabytes of storage and are £50 cheaper than last year's devices, starting at £999 and £1,099.\n\nSamsung first launched a 5G-enabled Galaxy S10 phone back in February 2019, and Huawei, OnePlus and Google are among others to have added the capability too.\n\nBut experts say there has only been limited interest in the feature to date.\n\n\"Apple is rarely the first to launch new technologies but waits for a technology to be mature enough to build new customer experiences on top of it,\" commented Thomas Husson from the research company Forrester.\n\n\"I think we're slowly reaching this tipping point.\"\n\nApple said it had tested its devices at peak 5G speeds of 3.5 gigabits per second - which means a 20 gigabyte 4K movie could be theoretically downloaded in about 45 seconds.\n\nHowever, it warned that users' experiences would vary by network and region, and the 5G facility would not always be switched on.\n\n\"The ability of the iPhone 12 to switch between 5G and 4G when the consumer needs, in order to preserve battery, does highlight that 5G connectivity clearly isn't necessary 100% of the time for consumers,\" remarked Stephen Mears from the consultancy Futuresource.\n\nEach jump in communications tech has taken different mobile device behaviours mainstream\n\nThe UK was the second European nation to start rolling out 5G.\n\nBut while this has helped give it a lead, coverage remains sporadic.\n\nIn the US - Apple's largest market - 5G speeds are particularly slow. In fact, according to one study, downloads over Canada's 4G networks are typically faster,\n\nIn some countries, 5G has not yet become available to the public.\n\nHowever, in China - Apple's second-biggest market - the government has encouraged its rapid deployment, and recently announced both Beijing and Shenzhen had achieved \"full coverage\".\n\n\"There's no question that a large part of Apple's decision to settle a legal dispute with [5G modem chip-maker] Qualcomm was predicated on the fact that it couldn't afford not to have 5G in 2020,\" Mr Wood told the BBC.\n\n\"China would have been the driving force behind that.\n\n\"But there will also have been pressure from major operators across the world who are investing heavily in 5G networks and recognise the fact that the iPhone is a strategically important product.\"\n\nThe really interesting announcements here all came down to speed: 5G-ready phones with faster chips inside them.\n\nBut Apple arguably failed to sell what you can actually do with all this power.\n\nThe one area it will definitely help with is mobile gaming, with quicker response times for multiplayer titles as well as better graphics.\n\nAnd what else can 5G do? Well it could let you watch sporting events from multiple angles on your phone - one example the firm gave was of watching American football from seven camera feeds.\n\nOr - using augmented reality - you could design a room with virtual furniture in real-time.\n\nApple said the Lidar scanner could help with AR, video, and room scanning applications\n\nBut as the chief of US network Verizon noted during a guest spot during the presentation: \"Until now most people have taken a wait-and-see approach to 5G.\"\n\nAnd the question is whether the public saw anything that would make them want to rush out and add it to their lives now.\n\nMoreover, 5G networks in most countries are at best patchy - you won't be able to take advantage of the promised speed gains in many places.\n\nIn time, there are likely to be popular apps and games that are dependent on the tech.\n\nAnd many gadget enthusiasts will be tempted to upgrade to an iPhone 12 or Android equivalent to be ready.\n\nBut they will be investing in the promise of what's to come, rather than what they can do today.\n\nApple also launched a new version of its smart speaker - the HomePod Mini.\n\nIt supports a wider range of voice commands than before as well as introducing a home intercom system.\n\nApple promised the device would work with a wider range of third-party services than before\n\nThe £99 voice-controlled device also adds a facility that detects when an iPhone is nearby to produce visual and vibration effects that simulate the effect of music flowing between the gadgets.\n\nThe first HomePod was launched in 2018, and has lagged far behind Amazon and Google's rival speakers to date.\n\nThere was no mention, however, of a Mac computer set to run off the A14 chip.\n\nNor was there mention of Bluetooth-based tracking tags or over-ear headphones, which have both been rumoured to launch soon.\n\nThis will likely lead to speculation that Apple will hold a further event before the end of 2020.", "Twice as many men die from drug-related deaths, but cocaine deaths among women surged last year\n\nDrug-related deaths reached their highest level for a quarter of a century last year as the number of women who died after using cocaine surged.\n\nFigures showed 4,393 people died in England and Wales from drug poisoning.\n\nCocaine deaths increased for the eighth year running, rising by 7.7% for men and 26.5% for women.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said the overall death rate for men was twice as high as for women, however.\n\nAbout two-thirds of all deaths from drug poisoning were due to drug misuse, the ONS said - meaning the underlying cause was drug abuse or addiction, or they involved illegal drugs.\n\nOverall, deaths rose only slightly from 4,359 registered in 2018 to 4,393 registered in 2019. But that figure is the highest since records began in 1993.\n\nMen accounted for 2,968 drug-related deaths - more than two out of three - while 1,425 were women.\n\nOpiates such as heroin and morphine were involved in more than half of deaths where the drug type was known.\n\nThe ONS said rates of drug poisoning have been on a \"steep upward trend\" since 2012 due to rises in heroin and cocaine deaths.\n\nIn 2018, there were 637 registered deaths involving cocaine - including 117 women and 520 men. In 2019 there were 708 deaths - 148 women and 560 men.\n\nTaking age into account, the death rate for men declined slightly in 2019, while for women it increased for the tenth consecutive year.\n\nProf Julia Sinclair, chairwoman of the addictions faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said years of cuts had left services ill-equipped to prevent drug deaths.\n\n\"The tragic number of drug-related deaths should be all the evidence the government needs to substantially invest in addiction services, before more lives are needlessly lost,\" she said.\n\nNiamh Eastwood, director of drug policy charity Release, said two Parliamentary committees - the Health and Social Care Select Committee and the Scottish Affairs Select Committee - had called for reform of drug policy to tackle these deaths.\n\nThe health committee recommended \"non-judgemental harm reduction\" policies and called for a consultation on decriminalising drug possession for personal use.\n\nShe said the prime minister and home secretary should \"stop playing politics and listen to the evidence\".\n\nDeath rates were highest in deprived areas, with people in their 40s living in the poorest neighbourhoods at least five-and-a-half times more likely to die from drugs than those in the least deprived, the ONS said.\n\nThe north-east of England had the highest drug-related death rate, almost three times higher than the area with the lowest rate in 2019, the east of England.\n\n\"Investment in these communities, adequate housing, restoring benefits to a decent level, along with drug policy and harm reduction initiatives can save lives,\" Ms Eastwood said.\n\nThe age at which most people died from drug use is increasing, the ONS said, from 20 to 29-year-olds from 1993 to 2002 to 40 to 49-year-olds today.\n\nIt is \"possible\" that a generation born in the 1960s and 1970s, Generation X, has been dying in greater numbers from drug misuse over time, the ONS said.\n\nThe figures include deaths from all drugs, including prescription and over-the-counter medications.\n\nThey also include accidents and suicides involving drugs, as well as complications from injecting drugs such as deep vein thrombosis and blood poisoning.\n\nAbout half of the deaths registered last year will have occurred in previous years, statisticians believe, due to the time it can take for an inquest to be held.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nitrous oxide is sold in metal canisters often discarded in the street\n\nLaughing gas is \"not just a bit of harmless fun\" and can cause paralysis, Wales' chief medical officer has warned.\n\nNitrous oxide - as it is also known - is the second most commonly used recreational drug in the UK after cannabis for those aged 16-24.\n\nChief medical officer Dr Frank Atherton said the costs of misuse can be \"astronomical\".\n\n\"We see people who are no longer able to walk or use their arms or legs.\"\n\nHe added: \"Sadly that can be irreversible.\"\n\nAlthough it is illegal to sell nitrous oxide - or 'nos' - for the purposes of recreational use, it is legal to sell it for catering and medicinal use.\n\nTwenty-year-old Connor (not his real name) used to inhale laughing gas on a regular basis.\n\nHe said the \"buzz\" he would feel lasted for about 30 seconds so \"when you do one, it could be a minute after that and you want another one, and then another one\".\n\nProf Gino Martini, chief scientist at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Dr Amira Guirguis of Swansea University Medical School have been working together to raise awareness of the dangers.\n\n\"We think that what happens is that chronic use of nitrous oxide stops you absorbing vitamin B12,\" said Dr Martini.\n\n\"If you get a depletion, it erodes this protective covering and it damages your spinal cord.\n\n\"That's why we see people get issues like numbness, tingling, problems with walking, and in severe cases paraplegia, which is a type of paralysis.\"\n\nDr Atherton is concerned that young people don't know enough about the potential risks.\n\n\"I think the challenge is to get information to people to help them to understand that it is not just a harmless bit of fun. There are potentially significant consequences, particularly for people who are heavy users,\" he said.\n\n\"Even if you have just one case of paralysis... the lifetime costs of that to society, let alone the personal cost to that individual, are absolutely astronomical.\"\n\nEye On Wales is on air on Wednesday, 14 October at 18:30 BST on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Sounds.", "Many company boards look like nothing has changed since the 1970s, says Nels Abbey\n\n\"On my first day in my first banking job I was waiting in the reception area and was mistaken by the entire company for a security guard,\" says author and satirist Nels Abbey.\n\n\"They all showed me their ID cards one by one as they came in.\"\n\nIt was just one of many examples of racism he experienced as a black man working in the City and later for big media companies, including shocking pay disparities and few opportunities for promotion.\n\nMr Abbey, who has written a book about his experiences, Think Like a White Man, says the lack of black people at the top in business is a big part of the problem, and like others he is calling for change.\n\nBritain's biggest business lobby group, the CBI, has just unveiled a campaign to get at least one ethnic minority person onto every FTSE 100 board and every FTSE 250 one by 2024.\n\nIt says that more than a third of the boards of the biggest listed UK businesses are still all-white, with that rising to two thirds in smaller public companies.\n\nMeanwhile, one of the UK's biggest investment firms L&G says it will use its vote to put pressure on bosses who don't make their top teams more diverse by 2022, putting the people responsible for board appointments in the firing line.\n\n\"You need people on the board who actually reflect your customers and society, but a lot of boards look like nothing has changed since the 1970s,\" says Mr Abbey.\n\n\"You think, there are almost two million black people in the country, surely one of those people are good enough to be on your board.\"\n\nBoards help direct a company's affairs, so making them more diverse helps to change attitudes across the whole company, experts say.\n\nIt makes business sense too. Those with more ethnically diverse senior leadership teams are on average 36% more profitable, according to research from consultancy McKinsey.\n\nLord Karan Bilimoria, the CBI's president and co-founder of the well-known beer brand Cobra, says he's seen the benefits first hand, both in his own business and in other firms whose boards he has sat on.\n\n\"In the early days of building up Cobra our company literally was a mini United Nations. We had Americans, Europeans, people from different parts of South Asia, different religions, races and creeds,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nBut the British-Indian businessman says too few firms offer such an \"amazing melting pot\" and change has been \"painfully slow\".\n\nThat is why he is spearheading the group's Change the Race Ratio campaign, which also calls for companies to set tough targets to improve diversity and publish them within 12 months.\n\nIt won't be easy. The CBI's 2021 goal for ethnic diversity on FTSE 100 boards was actually recommended by the government-commissioned Parker Review back in 2016, and earlier this year that report's author said it would be \"challenging\" to meet.\n\nBut Lord Bilimoria thinks the appetite for change is growing, with this summer's Black Lives Matter protests lending a new urgency to the cause.\n\n\"We had the Davies Review [on improving the gender balance on boards] in 2011, and just last week we heard in the FTSE 350 there is only one company now that does not have a woman on their board,\" he says.\n\n\"Our aim is to do the same for ethnicity.\"\n\nMr Abbey thinks the CBI is sincere but believes it will take \"more muscle\" to fix the problem. He prefers L&G's approach, saying that \"things change when money talks\".\n\nFor many, however, there won't be real change until the government steps in - something Theresa May's government promised to do after the Parker Review.\n\nShe launched a consultation on making it mandatory for companies with over 250 staff to report their ethnicity pay gaps - the difference between what white members of staff get in average pay versus those from black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME).\n\nA similar requirement to publish gender pay gaps came into effect in 2017, with the first reports being due in April 2018. But the results of Mrs May's consultation on ethnicity have never been published.\n\nSandra Kerr CBE says the death of George Floyd has \"turbo charged the issue\"\n\nSandra Kerr CBE, race equality director at the charity Business in the Community, and a former Cabinet Office adviser, says the government has had a lot on its plate but now needs to act.\n\nPay reporting would not be a \"silver bullet\" but would \"focus minds and improve accountability\", she says.\n\n\"I have had countless conversations with government ministers about this... Everybody agrees we want inclusion, can we just move it along?\"\n\nSome companies fear asking staff for information about their ethnicity could infringe their privacy, but Ms Kerr is not convinced.\n\nShe adds that the desire for change is only getting stronger after the death of George Floyd in the US in May \"turbo-charged the issue\".\n\nThe charity's own Race at Work Charter, which helps big firms devise plans to improve diversity, now has 480 signatories, up from 250 before the summer.\n\n\"Things were changing before George Floyd. But the protests have seen white and black people out there asking for change, that was the real difference.\"\n\nThe government says it is still looking at ways to strengthen requirements around reporting on diversity. It also plans to launch a cross-government commission to examine continuing racial inequalities.\n\nA business department spokesman said: \"Building a fairer economy means ensuring the UK's organisations reflect the nation's diversity - from factory floor to boardroom. We are working closely with businesses to consider what steps can be taken to build more inclusive workplaces, including reporting on diversity.\"", "Dr Starkey said he had made \"a serious error for which I have already paid a significant price\"\n\nHistorian Dr David Starkey has said he is being investigated by police over an interview in which he made controversial comments about slavery.\n\nDr Starkey made the remarks on YouTube to conservative commentator Darren Grimes, who is also being investigated.\n\nDr Starkey has apologised for saying in June that slavery was not genocide because \"so many damn blacks\" survived.\n\nHe said he did not \"intend to stir up racial hatred\" and would \"defend myself robustly\" against the allegation.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was investigating \"a public order offence relating to a social media video\".\n\nIn a statement, the TV historian said: \"I have apologised unreservedly for the words used and I do so again today. It was a serious error for which I have already paid a significant price.\n\n\"I did not, however, intend to stir up racial hatred and there was nothing about the circumstances of the broadcast which made it likely to do so.\"\n\nHe said he only discovered he was under investigation on Tuesday, six days after the Met sent an email to notify him and Mr Grimes of the action, because the email had not been forwarded on to him.\n\nScotland Yard sent it to the Bow Group conservative think tank, of which he is vice-president, who thought it was a hoax, he said.\n\n\"The effect of this delay and confusion has been to throw the focus of the police investigation wholly on Mr Grimes. This is unfortunate and grossly unfair,\" Dr Starkey added.\n\nHis interviewer was \"a young, aspiring journalist and his role in the affair is - at most - secondary\", he said, and the focus on him \"raised fundamental questions\" about the freedom of the press and public debate.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said: \"On July 4, the Metropolitan Police Service was passed an allegation from Durham Police of a public order offence relating to a social media video posted on June 30.\n\n\"The matter was reviewed by officers and on July 29 a file was submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service for early investigative advice.\n\n\"On September 25 early investigative advice was received and officers began an investigation. This will remain under review. No arrests have been made.\"\n\nDuring the original discussion, Dr Starkey said slavery \"was not genocide\" because \"otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived.\"\n\nThe subsequent outcry led Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam College, Canterbury Christ Church University, The Mary Rose Trust and publisher HarperCollins to cut ties with him.\n\nUpdate: On Wednesday the Metropolitan Police said: \"On Monday, 12 October a senior officer was appointed to conduct a review of the investigation to ensure it remains proportionate and that all appropriate lines of inquiry are being considered. Whilst this process takes place, two scheduled interviews have been postponed. We remain in contact with the CPS.\"", "Edwin Connington has not had human contact with his family since March\n\nHundreds of strangers have wished a care home resident happy birthday after learning he would turn 100 in isolation from his family.\n\nWell-wishers have sent cards and presents to Edwin Connington, who has not hugged his daughter since March.\n\n\"The post lady turned up this morning with another load,\" said Phil Potter, of Aran Court care home in Birmingham.\n\nDaughter Pam Stallard-Connington said her father would be \"emotional and overwhelmed\" by people's generosity.\n\nMr Connington, a former electrical engineer in the RAF, has also been sent Lancaster Bomber memorabilia, as he worked on the aircraft during World War Two.\n\nNews of his 100th birthday was shared on BBC Radio WM as part of the station's Make a Difference campaign, which was set up to help people through the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHundreds of people sent messages of congratulations on social media to be included in a giant birthday card.\n\n\"I have been absolutely flabbergasted at the response,\" said Mrs Stallard-Connington, who will sing a socially-distanced Happy Birthday outside her father's room along with his sister, Betty, 93.\n\n\"There's a box full of stuff for him - it's just kept coming.\"\n\nEdwin on his wedding day with wife Joan\n\nCrystal & Glass, an engraving firm near the home in Tile Cross, sent a personalised glass for Mr Connington to enjoy his nightly whisky and ginger in.\n\nAnd worshippers at St Peter's Church in Coleshill, where Mr Connington rang bells for 50 years, have recorded a special video of bell-ringing and a tour of the church for him.\n\nThe kindness shown by strangers has been welcome after a difficult year keeping residents safe, said Mr Potter.\n\n\"It's hard - they need their families but they need to stay safe,\" he said.\n\n\"But we had to make a fuss of Edwin, he's the biggest character in the home.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "YouTube has pledged to delete misleading claims about coronavirus vaccines as part of a fresh effort to tackle Covid-19 misinformation.\n\nIt said any videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities, such as the NHS or World Health Organization, will be removed.\n\nIt follows an announcement by Facebook that it would ban ads that discourage people from getting vaccinated.\n\nHowever, that restriction will not apply to unpaid posts or comments.\n\nYouTube had already banned \"medically unsubstantiated\" claims relating to coronavirus on its platform.\n\nBut it is now explicitly expanding the policy to include content relating to vaccines.\n\n\"A Covid-19 vaccine may be imminent, therefore we're ensuring we have the right policies in place to be able to remove [related] misinformation,\" the Google-owned service said in a statement.\n\nIt said it would remove any suggestions that the vaccine would:\n\nYouTube said it had already removed 200,000 dangerous or misleading videos about the virus since February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFacebook's new policy is designed to stop it facing accusations of profiting from the spread of anti-vaccination messages.\n\nThe social network had previously allowed ads to express opposition to vaccines if they did not contain false claims.\n\nIt said the new rules would be enforced \"over the next few days\", but some ads would still run in the meantime.\n\nIt added that it was launching a campaign to provide users information about the flu vaccine, including where to get flu shots in the US.\n\n\"Our goal is to help messages about the safety and efficacy of vaccines reach a broad group of people, while prohibiting ads with misinformation that could harm public health efforts,\" the company blogged.\n\nAnti-vaccination groups will still be allowed on its platform.\n\nUnpaid posts or comments that discourage people from getting a vaccination are also still permitted.\n\nEarlier in the year, Facebook's public policy manager Jason Hirsch told Reuters the company believed users should be able to express personal anti-vaccine views. He said that more aggressive censorship could push people hesitant about vaccines towards the anti-vaccine camp.\n\nThe subsequent change is one of many that have recently been made to its free speech principles.\n\nOn Monday, Facebook banned posts denying the Holocaust, following years of pressure.\n\nAnd last week it also banned content related to the QAnon conspiracy theory ahead of the US election.\n\nThe moves come as the UK government faced renewed criticism over the amount of time it is taking to pass a new law to tackle online misinformation and other issues involving the social media giants.\n\nThe chair of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport Committee Julian Knight said that delays to passing the Online Harms Bill were \"unjustifiable\" and attacked the government for failing to empower a regulator to handle related complaints,\n\nMinisters have previously suggested Ofcom take on the role, but have yet to confirm the appointment.\n\nThe culture secretary Oliver Dowden was questioned by the committee about the bill.\n\nHe said draft legislation would be published in 2021, and added it should include \"tough penalties\" for those who break the rules.\n\nBut one expert raised concern that the tech companies would be left to self-regulate themselves in the meantime.\n\n\"The volume of content defined as misinformation overrides the number of employees to oversee such things, or [the automated] functionalities the platforms have,\" said Unsah Malik, a social media advisor.\n\n\"We should probably have stronger consequences for those who publish misinformation - make it unlawful and fine people.\"\n\nAs the possibility of a coronavirus vaccine edges closer, disinformation and conspiracy theories surrounding it increasingly circulate on social media.\n\nThat includes everything from false claims that a vaccine is a tool for mass genocide to baseless conspiracy theories about Bill Gates micro-chipping the world population.\n\nFor that reason, moves taken by YouTube and Facebook will be welcomed. Social media sites were widely criticised for not acting quickly enough to tackle health misinformation early on in the pandemic - and many will be reassured they're looking ahead.\n\nBut an entirely different question is how well these new measures will be enforced, how effective they will prove to be - and whether they could be too late.\n\nVaccine disinformation has thrived in large Facebook groups and YouTube videos from notorious pseudoscientists for months now. And it has spilled over into parent chats and community forums.\n\nIt's that gradual exposure to conspiracy theory content that could sow seeds of doubt in the minds of many about a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nPlus this disinformation undermines legitimate concerns that any available vaccine is safe and properly approved.", "Christopher Stalford of the DUP asks about support for those working in the hospitality sector.\n\nMrs Foster says she is aware that any in that sector are working on limited contracts, often for a “minimum wage”.\n\n“There is a need for us to be aware of that,” she says, adding she is due to meet with representatives from Hospitality Ulster later today.\n\nSinead McLaughlin of the SDLP says the decisions being taken have “to be right”.\n\nShe says “Derry is nine days into these restrictions already” and reads a letter she has received from a business leader in the area before asking the first minister for her thoughts.\n\nMrs Foster says “I hear what she’s saying in relation to the lowest paid”.\n\n“I accept that footfall is down,” says Mrs Foster, with regard to shops.\n\n“You can still travel in a taxi with all of the appropriate safeguards, but I do accept that there are people who will take this and will not want to be out and about,” she adds.\n\n“We need to get that balance of keeping the economy going, I accept at a lesser level than we would like,” says Mrs Foster.\n\nRobbie Butler of the UUP asks the first minister to confirm there will be support for online learning and student support, if required.\n\nMrs Foster says, “I have been clear that the last thing we want to do is get into that awful phrase yet again, of blended learning”.\n\nShe pays tribute to teachers for their efforts, adding “we should always try and ensure our children have an education and our children are at school”.\n\n“We have to take into account the impact this will have on their life chances in the future,” says the first minister.\n\nSDLP MLA Pat Catney asks the first minister to provide businesses with “clarity” and wants an outline of the support to be put in place.\n\nMrs Foster says she accepts businesses need clarity, adding that is why they will be in place on Friday.\n\nShe hopes the support package will be signed off tomorrow, she adds.\n\nRachel Woods of the Green Party says there are \"so many questions” in relation to the regulations announced today.\n\nMrs Foster says “I know there are a lot of people who are vulnerable, or who are perhaps older and who are very, very worried at present”.\n\n“I don’t have all of the answers,” she adds.\n\n“We’re dealing with a pandemic, we’re working at speed, and we’re trying to work through all of the answers.”\n\n“Six o’clock on Friday is the target for when these regulations will take effect.”\n\nMatthew O’Toole of the SDLP says the statement today doesn’t make clear that it’s “not to beat the virus in the short term”.\n\nHe says “the blunt truth is this is about buying time for our health service not to be overwhelmed”.\n\nMrs Foster responds, “what we’re trying to do is push down the transmission of the virus”.\n\nShe says the R rate, or rate of transmission is at present about 1.5, adding that the aim is to reduce it to below 1.\n\n“We have to take these interventions now. Mr Speaker. as the virus has got out of control in some places,” says the first minister.\n\n“We’re interfering with people’s lives,” she says, adding that is not something she wants to do.\n\nSinéad Bradley, also of the SDLP, asks about enforcement of the regulations.\n\nMrs Foster says “we will continue to work with those people who want to help us with compliance and enforcement of the regulations”.\n\n“Personal responsibility is a wonderful thing,” she says.\n\n“If people do what we’re asking them to do, then it has a consequence,” says the first minister.\n\nDolores Kelly of the SDLP says there are “still some concerns around schools” and wants to know if the two-week period will be “used constructively by the education minister and others” to ensure “more deprived children” get additional support if required.\n\nMrs Foster says “it is those children who don’t have access to the internet, who don’t have access to wi-fi, whose parents don’t have an interest in education” that suffer when schools are not sitting.\n\nThat concludes questions on the first minister's statement to the assembly.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Idiots\" gather in Liverpool on eve of new Covid rules\n\nPictures of large crowds gathering in Liverpool two hours before new Covid-19 restrictions came into effect \"shame our city\", its mayor has said.\n\nFootage on social media showed people dancing and surrounding a police car in Concert Square at 22:00 BST.\n\nLiverpool City Region is the only area in the top tier of the government's new system of restrictions.\n\nMayor Joe Anderson said ignoring facts about the virus was \"why we are in Tier 3 measures\".\n\nThe new rules mean pubs in the city region not serving meals must stay shut, along with gyms, leisure centres, betting shops and casinos.\n\nThe crowds gathered as nearby bars closed but police said they were dispersed quickly and safely, although 38 fixed penalty notices were issued for breaching coronavirus legislation.\n\nLiverpool City Region is the only area in the top tier of the government's new system of coronavirus restrictions\n\nLiverpool has the third highest infection rate in England\n\nMerseyside Police Chief Constable Andy Cooke said he was \"absolutely livid\" when he saw the scenes and described those involved as \"selfish, dangerous and childish\".\n\nHe said the \"vast majority\" of people were abiding by the rules but those who were \"blatantly disregarding the law\" were putting extra pressure on the force.\n\nLiverpool currently has the third highest rate of infections in England with 635 cases per 100,000 of population up until 10 October, behind Nottingham which has 880 and Knowsley with 667.5.\n\nPaul Brant, cabinet member for adult health and social care, said intensive care beds in the city were at more than 90% capacity and were soon expected to reach or exceed the levels of occupancy seen during the first wave.\n\nHe added: \"At the current rate of increase, we would expect Liverpool to surpass the peak of the first wave probably within the next seven to 10 days.\"\n\nMr Anderson, reacting to footage circulating of the crowds on social media, tweeted: \"These pictures shame our city.\"\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 Joe Anderson 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 added: \"Our health service is creaking, 300 in hospital & 30 people dead in [a] week. Ignoring these facts is why we are in Tier 3 measures.\"\n\nMr Anderson, who previously called for a circuit-breaker lockdown, questioned whether the measures would be enough to tackle the \"uncontrollable\" spread of the virus and called for unity.\n\n\"This city is in a Covid crisis. It's an enemy we are really finding it hard to get on top of and defeat,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to keep working together and pulling together.\"\n\nCity councillor Nick Small said those involved were \"idiots putting themselves, their friends, families and everyone else at risk, destroying jobs and our hospitality sector while they do it\".\n\nCalum Semple, professor of outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, said hospitals in the city faced a \"dire situation\".\n\nHe appeared in a video message issued by the city council and urged the public to \"please pay great attention to the regulations that are being brought in\".\n\nProf Semple said: \"We have got over 300 patients in beds and our intensive care capacity is currently running at 90%.\n\n\"At this rate we are looking at exceeding healthcare capacity in the next week or so.\"\n\nIn the top tier of the new restrictions pubs not serving meals must stay shut\n\nRichard Kemp, leader of the city's Liberal Democrat group, warned against scapegoating Liverpool's young people for something involving \"at most 300\" people.\n\n\"What they did was wrong and they should be ashamed of their behaviour,\" he said.\n\n\"However, we have 60,000 students in our city and a very large number of our resident population under 25.\n\n\"This means that 99.99% of the city's young people behaved themselves last night and should be congratulated for their restraint.\"\n\nLiverpool musician Ian McNabb took to social media to support youngsters \"partying loud and hard on the last night before the shutdown\".\n\n\"If I was 18 I'd be right there with them,\" the former frontman of the Icicle Works posted on his Facebook page.\n\nCh Supt Peter Costello, of Merseyside Police, said: \"While we understand the new rules are frustrating for some, we would continue to advise everyone to abide by them - including keeping social distancing - for the safety of everyone.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a number of gyms in Merseyside are defying the order to close.\n\nChris Ellerby-Hemmings, co-owner of EmpoweredFit gym in the Wirral, said: \"We are not staying open for financial gain but more for our members' mental and physical well-being.\"\n\nGym owner Mick Povall says if gyms do not get to open soon he might never reopen\n\nOne gym owner who has closed his business said it was a \"huge blow not just for myself but for the people in the local community who come here\".\n\nMick Povall, owner of Gravity Health and Fitness in Upton, Wirral, said: \"The government carries on about the importance of improving mental health and avoiding obesity during the pandemic and then in the same breath shuts down one of the best tools to achieve those goals.\n\n\"If we don't reopen soon, we might never reopen.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The European Union is about to formally reject a UK plea for special allowances for exports of electric cars in a post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nA draft addition to the deal says electric and hybrid cars will only get zero tariffs if a majority of the parts' value is from the two areas.\n\nThe draft, seen by the BBC, means that even if there is a deal, some UK car exports to the EU will not be eligible.\n\nAnd this means tariffs of 10% will apply from January.\n\nThe draft, was circulated among EU member states on Tuesday, says that Annex II of the agreement on \"Product Specific Rules of Origin\" will specify the \"maximum content of non-originating [that is non EU and UK] materials of 45% of the ex-works price of the vehicle\" for \"electrified vehicles\" from January 1st 2021.\n\nLast month, the UK circulated a proposal, also seen by the BBC, that in the case of electric and hybrid cars, only a minority of parts would at first need to be either from the UK or the EU - and up to 70% could come from elsewhere.\n\nThis had been requested by key car export factories, dependent on electric batteries, hybrid systems, and other technology, mainly from Japan.\n\nProf David Bailey, automotive specialist at the Birmingham Business School and UK in a Changing Europe, told the BBC: \"This will catch out some UK based car assemblers, particularly as the industry electrifies.\n\n\"The car industry is going through fundamental change, the EU see a threat from China, Korea and Japan, and is trying to build an electric vehicle supply chain in Europe.\"\n\nNissan, Toyota and Honda all have substantial manufacturing facilities in the UK, although Honda says it will close its Swindon factory next year with the loss of about 3,500 jobs.\n\nAlongside a separate but related request to treat Japanese parts as if they were British, which Lord Frost, the UK's chief Brexit negotiator, told the car industry he \"obviously cannot insist upon\", the BBC understands that some in the car industry are planning for the introduction from January of tariffs on some of their vehicle exports to the EU, even with an agreed deal.\n\nThese more relaxed arrangements had been requested by both the British and EU automotive sector in a letter last month.\n\nThe draft annexe to the deal also goes even further from 2027, only allowing the use of car batteries manufactured either in the EU or the UK in tariff free vehicle trade between the two.\n\nBoth sides are in a race to build \"gigafactories\" to service exploding demand for electric vehicles. The EU position would prevent the UK using a trade deal with the EU to become an offshore assembly hub for the export into the Single Market using mainly Asian or American parts, whilst guaranteeing long term tariff free access to the UK for EU manufacturers.\n\n\"A strong stable and predictable battery supply is of strategic importance for the long term competitiveness of the EU automotive sector,\" the draft annexe says. The terms of the proposal seeks to phase out reliance on non-European batteries.\n\nThe European Commission and Number 10 have been approached for comment.\n• None Blow to UK car industry in hunt for EU trade deal", "Baby River with her mother Reina Mae Nasino at hospital on the day of her birth\n\nThe death of a three-month-old baby separated from her jailed mother despite pleas to keep the pair together has shocked the Philippines, reports the BBC's Preeti Jha.\n\nReina Mae Nasino, a human rights worker, didn't know she was pregnant when she was arrested last year in Manila. She put her missed period down to the stress of a night-time police raid in which she was arrested, alongside two fellow activists.\n\nIt was only during a medical examination in prison that the 23-year-old found out she was in her first trimester.\n\nThe death of Ms Nasino's newborn last week - less than two months after the baby was removed from her care - has raised questions about the treatment of Philippine mothers in custody as many voiced their anger at the justice system for failing the child.\n\nMs Nasino, who worked for the urban poverty group Kadamay, was arrested in November 2019 with two fellow activists after police raided an office where they lived at the time.\n\nThey were charged with the illegal possession of firearms and explosives - charges all three have denied. They say the ammunition was planted by authorities amid a widening crackdown against left-leaning activists.\n\nDespite the circumstances, Ms Nasino \"was quite excited to be a mother\", her lawyer Josalee Deinla said. She was prepared for the challenge of giving birth in custody and aware the legal proceedings were likely to be lengthy.\n\nBut as the Covid-19 pandemic hit the Philippines, her concerns grew rapidly. The National Union of Peoples' Lawyers, a legal aid group representing Ms Nasino, filed a series of motions calling for her release.\n\nThe first one in April urged the temporary release of 22 political prisoners most vulnerable to contracting the coronavirus, including Ms Nasino. Later motions asked the court to allow the activist and her baby to remain together in hospital or at the Manila City Jail where she was detained.\n\n\"We were shocked that the court would deny such a plea. The judge only needed to consider the motions from her own perspective as a human. But unfortunately compassion and mercy were not extended to mother and child,\" said Ms Deinla.\n\nRiver Masino was born on 1 July. Her birth weight was low but after a few days she and Ms Nasino returned to Manila City Jail where they stayed in a makeshift room reserved for them.\n\nUnder Philippine law a child born in custody can remain with the mother for only the first month of their life, though exceptions can be made. By comparison, children born to mothers detained in Malaysia are permitted to remain with them until the age of three or four. In the UK, mother and baby units enable women to stay with their infants till they reach 18 months.\n\nCampaigners persisted in pressing authorities to release Ms Masino and her baby.\n\n\"We would tie blue ribbons to the the poles of the Supreme Court gates. They stood for River, the essence of life. We placed candles outside. But they didn't listen,\" said Fides Lim, who heads Kapatid, a support group of families and friends of political prisoners in the Philippines.\n\nMs Nasino's mother (in blue) had been fighting for the right of her daughter and granddaughter to remain together\n\nMs Nasino's mother, assisted by Kapatid, also delivered photos and letters to authorities nearly every week, pleading for her daughter's release\n\n\"We knew how important it was for baby River to be breast fed,\" said Ms Lim, who has also been campaigning for the urgent release of her husband, a political prisoner aged 70.\n\nThe hospital where Ms Nasino gave birth recommended the baby be kept with her mother, said Ms Nasino's lawyer, Ms Deinla. \"But the prison authorities said they lacked the resources. They came up with a lot of excuses, violating the child's right to her mother's breast milk,\" she said.\n\nUnder the \"Bangkok Rules\" - UN guidelines for the treatment of female prisoners - decisions on when a child is separated from its mother should be based on the best interests of the child.\n\nThe BBC has approached the Philippine prison authorities for comment but has not yet received a response.\n\nOn August 13, baby River was separated from her mother. Ms Nasino was \"inconsolable\", said Ms Deinla. \"She didn't want to give up her baby. She was actually pleading that the baby be allowed to stay longer.\"\n\nBecause of Covid-19 rules restricting access to prisoners, Ms Deinla and her colleagues have only been able to keep in touch with Ms Nasino by phone.\n\nBaby River's health began to deteriorate the following month, according to Ms Lim. The newborn had been passed into the care of her grandmother, Ms Nasino's mother, who told the support group that the family were \"very worried because the baby was having diarrhoea\", said Ms Lim.\n\nCalls to reunite the mother and child grew more urgent as River was hospitalised on 24 September and her condition worsened. But Ms Nasino was still not permitted to see her baby.\n\nLast week, River died from pneumonia, just over three months old. Her death has shocked many in the Philippines, where tributes and sympathies have flowed on social media.\n\nMany have also expressed their anger at the justice system, with some comparing the recent pardon granted to a US marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in the Philippines with the court's refusal to allow Ms Nasino to see her dying baby. \"*Selective* justice is served,\" wrote a Twitter user.\n\nMs Nasino was permitted to briefly attend her daughter's wake on Wednesday\n\nOthers highlighted the difference in how the young activist was treated compared to higher profile and more wealthy prisoners who have been allowed temporary release to attend events such as their children's weddings or graduations.\n\nOn Tuesday, a local court granted Ms Nasino a three-day furlough to attend the wake and funeral of her daughter.\n\nBut after prison officials intervened to reduce the length of her release she was only permitted to leave jail for three hours on Wednesday and Friday - the day of River's burial.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "The costs associated with building HS2, the high speed railway linking northern and southern England, have risen again.\n\nThe news comes less than two months after construction officially began.\n\nMinisters have admitted an extra £800m is needed due to more asbestos being discovered and the complexities of bringing the railway into a new hub station at London Euston.\n\nEarlier this year the government gave HS2 a revised budget of £98bn after previous costings became unrealistic.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it was \"relentlessly focused on controlling costs\" and still expects HS2 Ltd to complete the first stretch of the railway within its target cost of £40bn.\n\nThe latest admission over cost pressures came in the government's first six-monthly update on HS2 to parliament, since the government gave 'notice to proceed' with construction in April.\n\nIn the past HS2 Ltd, the public company charged with delivering the project, and the Department for Transport have been accused of misleading MPs about the true cost of the project.\n\nA letter written in May 2016, by the then Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, showed that ministers knew the scheme was over budget. However, at the time, it was not made public.\n\nFormer HS2 directors alleged that the project's ballooning budget was \"covered-up\", something HS2 Ltd denied.\n\nThe current government has admitted that more transparency over the progress of the project, which has been deeply divisive, is necessary.\n\nIn his first six-monthly review of HS2, the Transport Minister, Andrew Stephenson, claimed the government now had \"a stronger grip on delivery to time and budget\".\n\nMajor construction projects such as HS2 are fraught with risk and uncertainty, and the government has set aside £5.3bn of funding to cover any unknown costs which arise on Phase 1.\n\nHowever, ministers admit the latest £0.8bn overspend does not include the impact of the pandemic, which is likely to have driven costs up further.\n\nThe first stretch of the railway, between London and Birmingham, is not expected to be completed until 2029 at the earliest.\n\nPhase 2, which will create a 'Y-shape' linking Birmingham to Manchester and to Leeds might not be finished until 2040.\n\nThe project has also faced scrutiny over its impact on natural environments along the route.\n\nEnvironmental protestors have tried to prevent HS2 Ltd from cutting down trees along the route in ancient woodlands in Warwickshire.\n\nThe government says HS2 Ltd will set up a new Environmental Sustainability Committee which will publish its first report on the environmental impact of the project next year.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford wrote to the prime minister twice to ask if people living in Covid hotspots in England could be banned from travelling to Welsh communities.\n\nMr Drakeford said he had \"asked for the necessary work to be brought forward, which would allow for devolved powers to be used to prevent people from travelling into Wales from high prevalence areas of the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe first minister said if Boris Johnson did not implement travel restrictions in England the Welsh Government would use its powers to bring in its own ban on Friday evening.\n\n\"The timetable for the powers that we have in Wales is to do it by the end of the week,\" he said.\n\n\"That gives more time for the prime minister, the UK government, to do the things that we have asked him to do, to do the same thing for people who live in England as we have done for people who live in Wales.\n\n\"We've already heard from the first minister in Scotland, and she is eager to support what we're trying to do here.\n\n\"Now is the time for the prime minister to do the same thing.\n\n\"If he isn't willing to do so the timetable is for us to use the powers in Wales by the end of the week.\"", "Banks have told expat customers to close their accounts within months\n\nBanks must ensure closing expats' UK bank accounts does not leave customers in \"undue financial hardship\".\n\nThousands of expats living in the EU have been told their bank accounts will be closed owing to Brexit.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has stressed to banks that they must give at least two months' notice of plans to close any accounts in credit.\n\nIt said some were not informing customers in good time, but only certain banks plan to shut accounts.\n\nFollowing the UK's full departure from the EU, UK banks will no longer be allowed to provide services to customers in the EU without the right banking licences.\n\nThis is known as passporting, a system for banks in the EU which allows them to trade freely in any other state in the European Economic Area (EEA) without the need for more authorisation.\n\nSome, but not all, banks have decided it is not in their commercial interests to jump through these hoops and continue accounts for expats.\n\nSharon, who lives in The Netherlands, was shocked to receive a letter saying her current account will be closed unless she can provide a UK address\n\nThe effect on individuals was revealed by BBC Radio 4's Money Box last month.\n\nIt heard from people like Sharon Clarke, a Briton who has been living in the Netherlands for 20 years and who had banked with Lloyds for decades without any financial problems.\n\n\"I was shocked to receive a notification saying that my bank account is going to be closed in two months,\" she told the programme.\n\n\"They said that unless I provide a UK address, my account will be closed and I'll have to cut up my card.\"\n\nShe said she was given until early November to close her account and transfer all monies, standing orders and regular payments to another bank.\n\nThe issue was taken up by Mel Stride, who chairs the Commons Treasury Committee.\n\nIn response to Mr Stride's questions, the new FCA chief executive Nikhil Rathi said banks were being reminded of their responsibilities.\n\n\"This includes identifying whether closing accounts would cause any particular customers or classes of customer undue financial hardship, taking into account the availability of alternative products,\" he said.\n\nMr Stride described this as a \"welcome move\" and said his committee would continue to monitor the situation closely.\n\nHowever, there seems little chance of many, if any, of these banks reversing their decision to close accounts - leaving many expats needing to switch current account providers.\n• None 'My bank is shutting my account because of Brexit'", "People from Scotland have been warned against travelling to Blackpool after it was linked to a \"large and growing\" number of Scottish coronavirus cases.\n\nAbout 180 Scots have tested positive for the virus in the past month after travelling to the seaside town.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would write to the prime minister seeking urgent talks over UK-wide travel restrictions.\n\nAnd she warned against travelling for non-essential reasons.\n\nBlackpool Council said \"stringent Covid secure measures\" were in place, while local hoteliers said Ms Sturgeon singling out the town was \"a real kick in the teeth\".\n\nCoronavirus cases have been surging in Scotland in recent weeks, with a further 1,429 positive tests being recorded on Wednesday.\n\nA further 15 deaths of people who had tested positive have also been registered.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the country was at a \"really critical moment\", and said the government \"will not shy away from doing what we think is necessary to keep the people of Scotland as safe as possible\".\n\nShe said trips to Blackpool - and in particular coach parties - had been linked to \"a large and growing number of cases\" of the virus in Scotland, with a specific incident management team set up to deal with them.\n\nOver the past month, around 180 people have told contact tracing teams that they had recently been in the Lancashire holiday resort, with 94 of them in the past week.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the town was being \"mentioned in Test and Protect conversations far more than any other location outside of Scotland\", with a particular concern about coach trips.\n\nShe said she knew many people would have trips planned for the half-term holidays in October, but said: \"If you don't have to travel right now, do not travel.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Nicola Sturgeon urges Scots to not travel to Blackpool\n\nMs Sturgeon made an appeal to football fans in particular, saying supporters of Rangers and Celtic should not travel south to watch Saturday's derby match between the Glasgow rivals.\n\nPolice in England had already warned Old Firm fans about making a cross-border visit for the match while pubs and bars in Glasgow are closed.\n\nThe first minister said people should \"watch the football at home\", adding: \"Do not travel to Blackpool this weekend to watch the Old Firm match in a pub. If you do that you will be putting yourselves and other people at risk please do not do that this weekend.\"\n\nBlackpool attracts 18 million visitors each year, around a million of them said to be from Scotland.\n\nA spokesperson for Blackpool Council said there had not been outbreaks in the local tourism industry, or in the rest of the UK which had been linked back to the town.\n\nAnd Claire Smith of the StayBlackpool group of hoteliers said Scottish visitors were \"absolutely critical to the town's success\".\n\nShe said: \"It's demoralising when so many people have worked so hard to make their product safe. It's a real kick in the teeth when a town is mentioned so specifically.\"\n\nThe director of public health at Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group said other parts of the north west of England have much higher rates of infection.\n\nDr Arif Rajpura told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime: \"We are not necessarily a hotspot for Covid, as is being portrayed by the first minister.\"\n\nHe added that the seaside town has about 60 Covid marshalls active at weekends to make sure people are social distancing.\n\nDr Rajpura said: \"We have a lot going on in terms of making our town Covid secure so, from that point of view, the experience is safe.\"\n\nHe also told the programme Blackpool has not had any \"big hotel-based outbreaks\" and household transmission is the main driver of infections in the area.\n\nNo fans will be present at Celtic Park for Saturday's derby with Rangers - and Glasgow's pubs will be closed\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Sturgeon said she was seeking \"urgent talks\" with Mr Johnson about UK-wide travel restrictions following calls from the Welsh government.\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has been leading calls for travel restrictions to be imposed on virus hotspots across the UK, to stop people from carrying the virus from higher prevalence areas into other parts of the country.\n\nMr Drakeford said he had written to Mr Johnson twice without any formal reply, and that he was \"preparing new regulations to protect the health of people in Wales\" that would come into force 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 Mark Drakeford 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 a political row over the summer when Ms Sturgeon refused to rule out the idea of requiring visitors from areas with outbreaks to quarantine - with Mr Johnson calling the idea \"astonishing and shameful\".\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted in support of Mr Drakeford's move, stressing that \"these are public health decisions and nothing to do with constitutional or political debates\".\n\nAnd she said at her daily coronavirus briefing that she had written to Mr Johnson seeking a \"sensible agreement\" between the four nations about new rules.\n\nThe first minister said she would not hesitate to put \"formal travel restrictions in place if necessary\", but said she hoped people would choose to \"do the right thing\".\n\nShe said: \"It is people's good sense and good will and sense of solidarity with each other that should still guide us through this.\n\n\"I'm not expecting you to obey these rules just because I stand here and ask you to, I'm asking you to obey these rules because they are about keeping you and your loved ones safe and keeping the whole country safe.\"\n• None Sturgeon says virus not just killing the elderly", "Elton John and Renate Blauel got married in 1984 and divorced four years later\n\nSir Elton John and his ex-wife Renate Blauel have resolved a legal dispute that was triggered by the star's autobiography and the film Rocketman.\n\nMs Blauel sued Sir Elton in June, claiming he'd broken the terms of their divorce deal by discussing their four-year marriage, which ended in 1988.\n\nShe initially asked for an injunction to prevent future disclosures, as well as damages in the region of £3m.\n\nThe case has now been settled amicably, a spokesman for Sir Elton said.\n\nA joint statement on behalf of Ms Blauel and Sir Elton said: \"The parties are happy to announce that they have resolved this case, in a way that acknowledges Renate's need for privacy.\n\n\"For her part, Renate acknowledges that Elton has acted in a dignified and respectful way towards her in the last 30 years and has been always happy to help her.\n\n\"They will not be discussing each other, or their marriage, in future and will be making no further comment about the case.\"\n\nMs Blauel had claimed Sir Elton made \"repeated and flagrant\" breaches of their divorce agreement in both his book and the Oscar-winning biopic.\n\nHer lawyers said the disclosures had exacerbated longstanding mental health problems, including \"depression and anxiety\", and that her condition was \"exacerbated by press interest in her\" following the publication of Sir Elton's memoir, Me, a year ago.\n\nIn papers filed in his defence, the singer's legal team argued that the details in the book and film were public knowledge and that the divorce agreement applied \"only to private and confidential matters\".\n\nFive scenes from Rocketman were referenced in Ms Blauel's claim, including scenes showing their wedding day as well as the couple sleeping in separate bedrooms.\n\nAnother scene depicted Sir Elton in a group therapy session discussing the failure of his marriage \"on account of his unhappiness and in particular his sexuality\", the claim read.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Schools and residential trip providers fear they will no longer be covered by insurance for visits cancelled because of coronavirus.\n\nAfter changes last week, advice on the Association of British Insurers website no longer says schools will be covered for the loss of trips.\n\nIt now says schools should \"seek a refund from the venue\".\n\nThe ABI says the advice was amended to reflect exclusions in policies as the pandemic continues.\n\nOutdoor education centres across the UK have been closed since March under government coronavirus restrictions.\n\nLast week providers wrote to the prime minister asking him to save outdoor education, which they said \"faces an existential threat\".\n\nAdvising schools to ask for refunds rather than claim on their insurance for cancelled trips is another blow, according to Vanessa Fox, chief executive of the charity Farms for City Children.\n\nMs Fox says she spotted changes to the ABI's Frequently Asked Questions section last week after following a link from the Department for Education website.\n\nShe told the BBC she had copied and pasted the section into an email to a colleague on 6 October.\n\nAt the time it promised: \"In general, most schools will be covered under their insurance policy.\"\n\nThe guidance advised schools to first seek a refund from the venue or tour provider - but said if the venue could no longer host the trip \"because of official government guidance, the closure of the venue, or their reluctance to accept school trips due to their stated concerns about the spread of coronavirus, the school will be covered\".\n\nHowever, she says the following day, the mention of cover had disappeared, with the answer just saying \"the school should seek a refund from the venue\".\n\n\"For the ABI to have changed that advice and put the burden on us is so disappointing,\" she said.\n\n\"Thousands of children who have spent months in isolation, including many who live in high-rise flats with no outdoor space to play, have already missed out on the week of discovery at our farms, and now their schools and parents face having to shoulder the cost...\n\n\"We would like to see the ABI do the right thing, honour the cover that schools believed they had in place, and help ensure the outdoor learning sector survives so that children across the country can look forward to spending time exploring the great outdoors, reconnecting with their peers, and reigniting their passion for learning.\"\n\nFarms for City Children was founded 45 years ago by War Horse author, Michael Morpurgo\n\nFarms for City Children was set up 45 years ago by War Horse author Michael Morpurgo.\n\nFor some young visitors, their week-long trip to one of the charity's three working farms might be the first time they have ever left their neighbourhood, let alone fed chickens or helped harvest their own dinner, says Ms Fox.\n\nThe charity pays 60% of the cost but schools and families must find the rest.\n\nMs Fox says a quarter of the schools who had booked visits over the past seven months have managed to secure insurance payouts.\n\nMost of the others have rescheduled and she is hoping business will pick up in the spring, but says she is \"very nervous about how quickly it's coming round\".\n\nEd and Sara Jones, directors of Rhos y Gwaliau outdoor centre in Snowdonia, have refunded all fees and deposits but say their business interruption insurance does not cover a pandemic.\n\n\"The majority of schools have not been able to claim on their insurance policies either,\" they say.\n\n\"Schools are now rebooking in the hope that we will be open for 2021 but are worried about their money being safe.\n\n\"We are not taking deposits and we have had to rewrite our booking conditions to offer a full refund if Covid-19 forces the trip to be cancelled.\n\n\"This is the only way we can reassure our customers that they can book in confidence.\n\n\"We are doing the best by our customers but who is looking out for us?\"\n\nAndy Robinson of campaign group UK Outdoors said businesses in the sector were being destroyed.\n\n\"Government have pulled the rug from under schools and providers and this move by insurers only makes it worse.\n\n\"It can't go on,\" said Mr Robinson.\n\nIn a statement, the ABI said: \"If schools are planning trips they should check current government advice, the refund policies with venues or the tour operator, and the scope of their insurance cover.\n\n\"In the event of cancellation, schools should first seek a refund from the venue or tour operator.\n\n\"For any cost that cannot be recovered, schools should check the type and scope of their insurance cover. Claims will be paid if policy terms are met, however there may be Covid-19 exclusions in place for trips booked after the pandemic was declared.\n\n\"Where a tour operator has taken out a group travel insurance policy instead of the school, it is likely that the tour operator will be responsible to cover cancellations due to a change in government advice, as this will be considered a business risk which that company has taken on.\"", "Morrisons, Waitrose and John Lewis have said they won't be using glitter in own-brand Christmas products this year.\n\nThe tiny pieces of plastic can wash into the environment, harm wildlife, and get into the food chain.\n\nThe move is part of a wider push by retailers to try to reduce festive plastics pollution.\n\nBoots said it would be cutting out single-use plastic packaging from Christmas gifts, taking 2,000 tonnes of plastic from its ranges.\n\nAsda announced in September that it would launch its first sustainable Christmas range, and Tesco uses only edible glitter.\n\nSainsbury's said that this year \"customers will find no glitter on our Christmas cards, wrapping paper or gift bags.\" It has also removed glitter used on a range of crackers, decorations, and flowers.\n\nBetween four and 12 million tonnes of plastic waste makes its way into oceans every year, mainly through rivers, according to estimates.\n\nThat plastic then breaks down into smaller, toxic pieces, which can be ingested by creatures, harming and potentially killing them, if it fills their stomachs.\n\nMorrisons will ditch glitter on own brand Christmas products\n\nMorrisons said on Wednesday that it would completely remove glitter from all of its own brand Christmas ranges including cards, crackers, wrapping paper, present bags, flowers, plants and wreaths.\n\nIt will also include only paper, metal or wooden toys in its Christmas crackers, which will be completely plastic-free, it said.\n\nGlitter is an \"ecological hazard\" which \"takes hundreds of years to degrade\" once it gets into rivers and oceans, Morrisons said.\n\nMorrisons said its decision would remove 50 tonnes of plastic from its shelves during the festive period.\n\nChristine Bryce, Morrisons home director, said: \"Every time a cracker is pulled, or a card is opened, plastics have been used... but just the once.\n\n\"So, we've taken glitter and plastic out of our festive range this year - so that our customers can enjoy their festivities without worrying about the environmental impact.\"\n\nWaitrose and John Lewis will also remove glitter from all single-use products this Christmas.\n\n\"All own-brand cards, crackers, wrapping paper, gift bags are now 100% glitter-free,\" it said in a statement.\n\nWaitrose has been phasing out glitter over the past few years, and has a target to make its own brand packaging widely recycled, reusable or home compostable by 2023.\n\nBoots said searches for ecologically friendly products on its website had grown by almost a third in a year.\n\nIt said that it would completely ditch single-use plastic packaging this year, and that gift packaging \"is intended to be recycled or reused.\"\n\nRetailers \"are right to ditch unnecessary plastic this Christmas\" said campaign group Friends of the Earth.\n\n\"People can still enjoy the festive season without the glitter and pointless packaging that add to the waves of plastic pollution that pour into our environment every year and threaten our wildlife,\" said Friends of the Earth campaigner Tony Bosworth.\n\nBut he said \"we must go much further to end the scourge of plastic pollution\" and called for the UK government to set targets for firms to phase out the use of unnecessary plastic.", "Boris Johnson has been at pains to use every chance recently to say how much restricting our lives bothers him.\n\nBranding himself a \"freedom-loving Tory\", time and again his reluctance for further clamp downs is clear.\n\nBut can he, should he, hold out? It's clear in black and white now that the scientific advisers he used to boast of following think it is maybe even past the time to act.\n\nMinutes from Sage (the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) and the very public view from England's Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, that the national measures aren't adequate made that plain.\n\nAnd the BBC understands that health officials have been considering putting Greater Manchester and Lancashire into the highest level of restrictions, although a decision won't come on Tuesday.\n\nThe Labour leader's call for a \"circuit-breaker\" has added to the volume of demand for extra caution - marking the end of the phase of what he used to describe as constructive opposition.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has been inching away from the broad frontbench consensus on how to handle coronavirus for weeks.\n\nTo the frustration of some on his own side, rather than scream down the government's plans, he has developed an attack on the government's ability to handle the situation and to act quickly enough.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has become increasingly critical of Boris Johnson's performance\n\nBut his call for a circuit-breaker means he believes the government has simply got its wrong.\n\nPolling suggests too that there is public desire for tougher actions to prevent a terrible second wave. Some senior figures in government agree.\n\nYet the balance of desire in the Conservative Party has shifted, with more pleading for finding ways to live with the virus, rather than lock down again. The point has been made time and again on the back benches.\n\nNow a junior member of the government, Chris Green, has resigned in protest at the restrictions in his Bolton constituency, attacking the government's strategy completely. (If you have been paying VERY close attention to politics you might remember it's not the first time Mr Green has quit, and the last time round, Simon Hart, who is now Welsh secretary, was less than flattering about whether it mattered very much.)\n\nBut many ministers are cautious about anything that goes beyond the regional tiered approach that was announced only on Monday.\n\nAnd the Treasury in particular is reluctant to budge - fearing the economic savagery of even a short, sharp national period of more restrictions.\n\nAs we've discussed before, none of this is easy. There is no precedent for how to handle the situation. Nor is there a parallel universe where the government or MPs can judge what would have happened if they hadn't taken the actions they've done already.\n\nBut as cases continue to rise, one Whitehall insider told me that people are preparing for what looks logical on paper - a short period of more intense restrictions everywhere in England.\n\nIt's not what No 10 wants to have to do, but to use Whitehall cliché, the discussions are \"live\" - in other words, it may well happen.\n\nThe prime minister may boast about his love of liberty, but he'll be reluctant too to leave himself open to a repeat of the allegations he faced at the start of the pandemic - that government action to protect people's health was too little, and too late.", "Around two million viewers have been tuning in to each episode of Little Mix The Search\n\nFilming on Little Mix's BBC One talent show has been halted after a \"small number of people\" involved in the series tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nSaturday's broadcast of Little Mix The Search has been postponed as a result.\n\nIts producers said they hoped to be back on air by the following Saturday, 24 October.\n\nThey have not revealed who has tested positive or how many, but did confirm that none of the four members of the UK girl band had contracted the virus.\n\nThose who have tested positive \"are now self-isolating following the latest government guidelines,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Due to the format of the show we have made the decision to postpone Saturday's programme. There are rigorous protocols in place to manage Covid-19 as the safety of all those involved in the production is paramount.\"\n\nThe news comes a day after the Britain's Got Talent Christmas special postponed its filming because at least three crew members tested positive.\n\nAnother BBC TV talent show, Strictly Come Dancing, filmed its launch show on Monday, and will hope to avoid similar problems in the weeks ahead.\n\nOne contestant, YouTube star and singer HRVY, tested positive 10 days before the launch show, but was later given the all-clear.\n\nAround two million viewers have been tuning in to each episode of Little Mix The Search, which follows the chart-topping pop group as they look to create their own arena-filling pop group.\n\nThe task for Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson and Jade Thirlwall is to assemble six bands from thousands of wannabes, and eventually choose one group to support them on tour.\n\nThis Saturday's episode, which was due to be filmed on Friday, was due to be the first time the bands had performed head-to-head.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe series has been praised by reviewers for taking \"a kinder approach\" to the age-old talent show model.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News in September, Little Mix said they insisted on aftercare for contestants, having seen first hand how the music industry treats young hopefuls.\n\n\"We didn't have that, really, on the show that we came from,\" said Pinnock, referring to the band's experiences on The X Factor.\n\n\"We want to make sure that they're looked after properly and support them,\" added Thirlwall.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPremier League clubs have \"unanimously agreed\" that 'Project Big Picture' will not be \"endorsed or pursued\".\n\nThe controversial plans, proposed by Liverpool and Manchester United, were rejected at a meeting of the 20 clubs in England's top flight on Wednesday.\n\nInstead, the clubs agreed to \"work together\" on a new \"strategic plan\" for the \"financing of English football\".\n\nThey also decided on a £50m rescue package for League One and Two clubs at the meeting.\n\nA Premier League statement said \"discussions will also continue with the EFL\" over financial support for the Championship.\n\n'Project Big Picture' involved reducing the Premier League from 20 to 18 clubs and scrapping the EFL Cup and Community Shield.\n\nIn addition, the English Football League would have got 25% of all future TV deals, which would have been negotiated jointly, plus a £250m bail-out.\n\nHowever, it would also have seen more power transferred to the so-called 'big six' Premier League clubs.\n\nIn its statement, the Premier League said its members had \"agreed to work together as a 20-club collective on a strategic plan for the future structures and financing of English football, consulting with all stakeholders to ensure a vibrant, competitive and sustainable football pyramid\".\n\nIt added: \"Clubs will work collaboratively, in an open and transparent process, focusing on competition structure, calendar, governance and financial sustainability.\n\n\"This project has the full support of the FA and will include engagement with all relevant stakeholders including fans, government and, of course, the EFL.\"\n• None The Premier League cut from 20 to 18 clubs, with the Championship, League One and League Two each retaining 24 teams.\n• None The bottom two teams in the Premier League relegated automatically with the 16th-placed team joining the Championship play-offs.\n• None A £250m rescue fund made immediately available to the EFL & 25% of all future TV deals.\n• None £100m paid to the FA to make up for lost revenue.\n• None Nine clubs given 'special voting rights' on certain issues, based on their long time in the Premier League.\n\n\"Clearly there's some frustration that a proposal that hadn't had the input from the clubs has been pushed so hard in public,\" said Premier League chief executive Richard Masters.\n\n\"We don't have any beef with the EFL. We have a historic relationship - we want that to be constructive.\n\n\"It was a candid, positive and - in the end - a unanimous meeting.\n\n\"We decided to move on from 'Big Picture' and move on to a new review process.\n\n\"Solidarity is incredibly strong so while there's been a lot said, I don't think it's irreparably damaged the Premier League.\"\n\nFA chairman Greg Clarke had said a breakaway league was suggested \"as a threat\" by the organisers of 'Project Big Picture'.\n\nMasters added: \"I don't think anyone has been talking about breaking away.\n\n\"We acknowledge the English model is a huge success but it hasn't been reviewed for a long time, so maybe there are some systemic issues that haven't been dealt with.\"\n\nThe League One and Two rescue package\n\nThe Premier League said the financial package for League One and Two clubs was intended to make sure they \"will not go out of business as a result of the financial impact of Covid-19 and be able to complete the 2020-21 season\".\n\nIt conceded they were at more risk than Premier League and Championship clubs as they \"rely more heavily on matchday revenue and have fewer resources at their disposal\".\n\n\"This offer will consist of grants and interest-free loans totalling a further £50m on top of the £27.2m solidarity payments already advanced to League One and League Two this year, making a total of £77.2m,\" added the Premier League statement.\n\nThe EFL will meet all its clubs on Thursday to discuss the Premier League's proposal and said it was \"encouraging that there is an acknowledgment that a review of the current status quo is required\".\n\nIts statement went on: \"The EFL welcomes the opportunity to contribute to any wider debate with colleagues across the game as we seek to finally address impossible economic pressures and deliver on the objective of having a sustainable EFL in the long term.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden, who described 'Project Big Picture' as 'Project Power Grab', has previously called on the Premier League to look after those lower down the football pyramid.\n\n\"This morning I reiterated calls of many in the football family for bigger clubs to look after smaller clubs,\" he said.\n\n\"An offer has been made by the Premier League to EFL League One and Two which is a good start.\n\n\"I urge them to work together and stay focused on helping clubs through this crisis.\"\n\nThe wording of the Premier League statement is interesting.\n\nOn the one hand, Project Big Picture is not being endorsed; on the other, all 20 clubs have agreed to work on a strategic plan \"in an open and transparent process, focusing on competition structure, calendar, governance and financial sustainability\".\n\nSo, depending on how you look at it, the work of Liverpool owner John Henry and Manchester United counterpart Joel Glazer is either dead in the water or has opened discussion on something the EFL in particular has been calling for desperately.\n\nI was told the reaction to Liverpool and Manchester United in today's meeting was tame compared to what it might have been.\n\nHowever, there has been no apology and some clubs believe there is now a lack of trust between the 'big six' and the rest, which probably underlines why \"all 20 clubs\" and \"open and transparent\" were so high up in the Premier League's statement.\n\nWe can never know whether there would have been this new commitment to reform had Project Big Picture not made its way into the public domain. Its authors are sceptical that there would have been and hence feel justified - nor do they view their ideas as being over.\n\nEvidently though, the suggestion that the voting mechanism within the Premier League could be changed so six clubs out of a 'special' nine would have to power to create, change or block any issue has no support and will have to be changed.\n\nThe other interesting aspect of the past 72 hours surrounds EFL chairman Rick Parry.\n\nThere were some EFL clubs who were not entirely happy with Parry before this news came out. Now they are solidly behind him. It is fair to say this enthusiasm is not shared by his Premier League counterparts. The relationship between the two leagues now will be fascinating.\n• None Can the scene now make it big outside of London?", "An elderly patient with dementia was restrained on 19 separate occasions to allow hospital staff to forcibly treat him, BBC News has learned.\n\nThe man was repeatedly bruised by security guards and his requests for the restraints to be stopped ignored.\n\nOne incident, at Kent's William Harvey Hospital, saw a cloth held over his head while his arms and legs were held so nurses could insert a catheter.\n\nThe hospital apologised \"unreservedly\" to the patient and his family.\n\nThe East Kent Hospitals Trust, which runs the William Harvey, is at the centre of an independent investigation into maternity failures and was charged last week over the death of baby Harry Richford.\n\nIt has also been the subject of legal action by hospital inspectors over its failure to stop the spread of Covid-19 in the hospital.\n\nAccording to an internal investigation seen by BBC News, the man was admitted from his care home to the hospital, in Ashford, last November, with urinary retention.\n\nThe patient's condition, the reports say, could make him confused and aggressive, occasionally shouting and hitting out at staff and refusing treatment.\n\nBut the investigation shows staff rarely tried to de-escalate the situation and repeatedly failed to sedate him effectively.\n\nInstead, over the course of nearly three weeks at the hospital, the 77-year-old, who we are not naming at his family's request, was physically restrained 19 times, with the hospital's security guards assisting on 18 occasions, under orders from nursing staff on the ward.\n\nBBC reconstruction: Security guards were called to restrain the patient for treatment\n\nIn the first restraint, on 29 November, the guards \"held down arms and legs\", causing \"broken skin, redness to wrists and knees\", the investigation report says.\n\nBetween 6 and 15 December, security guards were called 15 times to control the patient, often in the middle of the night.\n\nOn another occasion, nursing staff managed to restrain him themselves.\n\nThe report records this as \"restraint by nursing staff for catheterisation without sedation, 20 minute restraint, intermittent release\".\n\nSecurity guards filmed the restraints, on their body-worn cameras, at least twice.\n\nAnd it was the review of the footage of the second restraint that prompted senior management to take action.\n\nA whistleblower who has seen the video said \"it is truly appalling\" as it showed \"22 minutes of silence\" with no-one speaking to the patient.\n\nThe staff member said the patient had been lifted from a sitting position, thrown on to a bed and had his arms and legs restrained by two security guards and four carers, a mix of healthcare assistants and nurses.\n\nThe patient had been struggling and repeatedly asking staff to stop.\n\nAt one point, he had spat out and a carer had responded by putting a cloth over his head.\n\nThe aim of the restraint was to insert a catheter.\n\nOn occasion, some members of staff had realised what had been happening had been wrong, the investigators found.\n\nOn 9 December, a security guard raised concerns about being asked to restrain the man.\n\n\"The security guard spoke to the patient about the procedure,\" the report says.\n\n\"And the patient said he did not want this.\n\n\"The security guard… felt uncomfortable about continuing and told the nurses he would stop the restraint.\"\n\nLater that same day, during another restraint, a supervisor \"threatened to stop assisting, as he felt we were denying human rights\".\n\nBut he was told there was a \"clinical need and [it was in the] best interest of patient\".\n\nA separate incident report, paints a damning picture of the Cambridge J ward, where the man was a patient, describing it \"chaotic\" with a \"poor\" reputation that had affected staff recruitment and retention.\n\nIt was often understaffed and \"unsafe on most shifts,\" this report says.\n\nMedicines \"would be left on lockers or tables\", so staff did not know whether patients had taken them.\n\nAnd the \"fundamental and basic nutritional needs of the patients were not always met\".\n\nThree days after the final restraint, the patient was moved to another hospital, the Kent and Canterbury.\n\nHe is now well and settled in a different care home.\n\nIn a statement, his family said: \"What happened to our dad should never have been allowed to happen and should never be allowed to happen again.\"\n\nAn investigation by Kent Police into the patient's care has ended without any charges.\n\nThe company that supplies the hospital's security guards, RightGuard, told BBC News: \"We did nothing wrong.\n\n\"Security staff will only ever act under the instructions of clinicians.\"\n\nCardiff University dementia-care researcher Dr Katie Featherstone said: \"It's a really shocking and extreme case.\n\n\"He was just seen as someone with dementia.\n\n\"And his wishes were totally ignored.\"\n\nIn a statement, East Kent Hospitals Trust said: \"We apologise unreservedly to the patient and his family for the failings in his care.\n\n\"This fell far short of what patients should expect.\n\n\"We are rolling out a programme of dementia training for every member of staff, which more than half of staff have completed.\n\n\"One member of staff has been referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNew Zealand will not play England at Wembley in an international friendly next month, because of travel and player availability complications.\n\nEngland were due to host the All Whites on 12 November but New Zealand Football (NZF) say the game could \"potentially jeopardise\" their players' careers.\n\n\"A number of the team would be subject to quarantine or restrictions on their return home,\" said NZF.\n\n\"This would heavily disrupt their domestic seasons.\"\n\nNew Zealand have not played an international match since their friendly defeat by Lithuania last November.\n\nSubsequent friendlies against Oman and Bahrain, scheduled for March this year, were cancelled because of restrictions amid the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"The shifting nature of travel restrictions and commercial flight availability under Covid means that we do not have certainty we could assemble a squad at Wembley,\" the NZF statement continued.\n\n\"Defaulting on this fixture at the last minute is not an option.\n\n\"Prior to Covid, we had a full calendar of fixtures planned and we have been proactive in seeking out matches but, unfortunately, it just isn't possible to make the games we have scheduled this year.\"\n\nEngland and New Zealand have not met in an international match since the late Graham Taylor managed the Three Lions to a 2-0 friendly victory in Wellington on 8 June 1991.\n• None Can the scene now make it big outside of London?", "Ken McCallum took up his role in April\n\nBritain is facing a \"nasty mix\" of national security threats, from hostile state activity by Russia and China to fast-growing right-wing terrorism, the new director general of MI5 has said.\n\nKen McCallum said terrorism remains the biggest threat - with Northern Irish and Islamist extremism also a concern.\n\nThe Covid lockdown raised the risk of online contact between groups, and made covert surveillance harder, he added.\n\nMr McCallum was speaking at his first media briefing as head of the service.\n\nThe new man at the top of the UK's domestic intelligence agency since April is a slim, youthful Glaswegian mathematician by training. He likes hiking up mountains when his parenting and work allows.\n\nAfter 24 years at MI5, some of it seconded to industry, he is surprisingly comfortable in front of the camera and he is setting about making parts of his organisation more visible to the public.\n\n\"We need to be increasingly visible, opening up new partnerships,\" Mr McCallum said, adding: \"MI5's operational successes are mostly invisible.\"\n\nMr McCallum said empty streets in lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic have made covert surveillance far harder.\n\nFewer crowds give adversaries fewer opportunities to attack but make the job of MI5's watchers more conspicuous.\n\n\"We spend our days and nights planting microphones in attics - with warrants - and meeting covert informants,\" said Mr McCallum, \"so we are used to operating in secret with extreme care.\"\n\nWith MI5's key workers being tasked with safeguarding national security it has had to try to maintain staff levels inside its headquarters building at Thames House with social distancing.\n\nData analysts, scientists, researchers and medically-qualified staff have been seconded to help the NHS and with vaccine research.\n\nTheir work, said Mr McCallum, has included protecting vaccine research from theft and combating deliberate disinformation.\n\nOn the threat from jihadists, Mr McCallum said there are still tens of thousands of people committed to that ideology.\n\nThe challenge was to make the difficult judgements on the small numbers amongst them who are going to turn to violence.\n\nMore terrorists these days, he said, have opted for fast, simple plots, giving away fewer clues and less time to find them.\n\nAround 950 UK-linked extremists travelled to war zones in Syria, he said.\n\nOn average, most of those who have returned did so early on and tended to be less extreme.\n\nA significant number of those who remained have been killed, others are in third countries, some are interned in camps in Syria while yet more are still at large in north-west Syria.\n\nMr McCallum said jihadist plots form the bulk of UK investigations.\n\nThe new threat is from right-wing terrorism, where MI5 took over the lead from the police in April.\n\nOut of 27 terrorist plots disrupted in the last four years, eight have involved right-wing extremists.\n\nMany of the adherents around the world are very young, indicating the problem may be around for some time.\n\nMI5 regularly compares notes with its counterparts in the FBI, European agencies and the other nations in the Five Eyes grouping - US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand .\n\nBut so far there has not emerged a single, global, unifying ideology in the way the Islamic State group or al-Qaeda have had.\n\nRussian, Chinese and Iranian espionage and disruption is all growing in severity and complexity, said Mr McCallum.\n\nThe threats are to people, the economy, infrastructure, academic research and democracy.\n\nMI5 has an operational role in investigating certain individuals and disrupting their activities, and a protective role building up UK's resilience in the cyber and physical spheres.\n\nDealing with China requires a complicated balance, he said.\n\nHe said there is a need to work with China on issues like climate change, but at the same time to be robust in confronting its covert activity.\n\nNew legislation is expected to make a big difference in bringing the law up to date in criminalising what foreign espionage agents get up to inside Britain.\n\nMr McCallum used a meteorological analogy, saying Russia was like bad weather but China was a far greater challenge in the long-term and more like climate change.\n\nSince 2018 Mr McCallum has spent part of career focusing on new technology and Artificial Intelligence, or machine learning.\n\nHe said when a suspect is arrested there are multiple digital devices to be trawled through, often containing terabytes of data.\n\nWith police allowed to hold a suspect for 14 days it can become a race against time to find court-usable evidence such as photographs of guns or proscribed IS flags.\n\nAI helps pluck these out far faster than humans can. It can also help with translations of vast tracts of text.\n\nAnd then there is CCTV footage.\n\nWhen a covert camera is placed watching a door, for example, it might only be opened after hours of no activity. AI will save someone having to trawl through all those hours of nothing.\n\n\"AI has massive applicability for our business,\" Mr McCallum said.\n\nThe Manchester bombing of 2017 prompted public criticism that MI5 should have done more to stop it.\n\nThe bombing was followed by two in-depth reviews looking at both the facts of the case and how MI5 can improve in the future, and the bomber's brother Hashem Abedi was successfully prosecuted.\n\nThere have been sweeping changes but the hardest thing for anyone in MI5 is that \"we cannot stop every single attack\", Mr McCallum said.\n\nMr McCallum, who spent years running covert informants and later led investigative teams before the 2012 London Olympics, is well used to a disrupted home life.\n\nAnd yet, he said: \"When my phone rings late in the evening my stomach still lurches.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says a two to three week “circuit break” in England will require “significant sacrifices”\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for a short lockdown or \"circuit-breaker\" in England of two to three weeks to bring the rising rate of coronavirus under control.\n\nHe said measures were not working and another course was needed to prevent a \"sleepwalk into... a bleak winter\".\n\nHis comments come after documents revealed government scientific advisers called for such action three weeks ago.\n\nAnother 143 people have died in the UK after testing positive for the virus.\n\nMPs have approved the legislation to write a new three-tier system for coronavirus restrictions in England into law - with every area of the country classified as being on medium, high or very high alert.\n\nSir Keir said his lockdown proposal would \"not mean schools closing\" but it should \"run across half-term to minimise disruption\".\n\nHowever, he said it would mean that \"all pubs, bars and restaurants would be closed\" and compensated \"so that no business loses out because of the sacrifices we all need to make\".\n\n\"The government has not got a credible plan to slow infections. It has lost control of the virus and it's no longer following scientific advice,\" Sir Keir said.\n\nHe suggested it would also provide a chance for the government to \"fix\" problems by handing over track and trace responsibilities to local authorities.\n\nDocuments detailing advice from scientists on the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) were released on Monday night. Their views and evidence feed into the government's decision making.\n\nSir Keir said his proposals were \"in line with Sage's recommendation\" for a circuit breaker to lower the reproduction number, or R value, of the virus - but acknowledged they would require significant sacrifices.\n\nMeanwhile, Wales' first minister has said he had asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson for a special Cobra meeting \"specifically to discuss the circuit-breaker idea\" earlier in the week - and repeated that call in a letter on Wednesday.\n\n\"I think it's an idea that will need further examination and needs to be shared in perspective between the four UK nations,\" Mark Drakeford added.\n\nMr Johnson has rejected Mr Drakeford's demand for a travel ban on people coming to Wales from England's virus hotspots.\n\nMinisters in Northern Ireland's devolved government have been warned that Covid-19 infection rates will keep rising if both schools and the hospitality sector remain open, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe Scottish government is to implement its own three-tier framework of restrictions later in October. In the meantime, pubs and restaurants in Scotland's central belt, including Edinburgh and Glasgow, were closed on Friday until 25 October as part of a package of short-term measures.\n\nThe daily figure of 143 deaths follows 50 deaths announced on Monday and was the highest daily total since the 164 deaths recorded on 10 June.\n\nThe latest government figures also show another 17,234 people have tested positive for Covid in the UK, compared with 13,792 cases the day before.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England's medical director, said the rising number of deaths was \"hugely concerning\".\n\n\"We have seen cases increasing especially in older age groups which is leading to more hospital admissions. This is a stark reminder for us to follow the guidelines,\" she said.\n\nThe Labour leader's call has added to the volume of demand for extra caution - marking the end of the phase of what he used to describe as constructive opposition.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has been inching away from the broad front bench consensus on how to handle coronavirus for weeks.\n\nTo the frustration of some on his own side, rather than scream down the government's plans he has developed an attack on the government's ability to handle the situation and to act quickly enough.\n\nBut his call for a circuit-breaker means he believes the government has simply got it wrong.\n\nPolling suggests too that there is public desire for tougher action to prevent a terrible second wave. Some senior figures in government agree.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock earlier defended the new measures, telling MPs that Covid-19 posed \"a formidable threat\" until a vaccine can be found.\n\nBut he said the government makes \"decisions that are guided by the science, taking into account all of the different considerations\".\n\n\"Protecting our economy and protecting our health are not alternatives\", he added, but said action was required to \"protect lives and livelihoods\".\n\nSir Keir said Labour would not vote against the measures - even though they did not go far enough.\n\n\"We are not going to vote down a package of restrictions because restrictions are needed,\" he said.\n\nA senior government source branded Sir Keir a \"shameless opportunist\", saying he was \"playing political games in the middle of a global pandemic\".\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nThe Liverpool region will enter a \"very high\" Covid alert level from Wednesday, the highest of the new three-tier system for coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nMost parts of England are on the lowest tier, but Essex has asked to be moved to \"high\" level restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile, London could be put in a stricter lockdown within days, Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the government examines a \"wide range of different data\" and takes advice from health experts before deciding which tier applies to an area.\n\n\"We look not only at infection rates but also the rate of positive tests, admissions to hospitals, and admissions to intensive care units,\" they said.\n\nA committee of senior government health officials have been considering putting Greater Manchester and Lancashire into the highest level of restrictions and will hold a further meeting on Wednesday.\n\nAndy Burnham, the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, said the government \"risks confusing people\" in the region just days after it was put in the second highest tier, adding \"unfunded restrictions are unfair\".\n\nThe highest tier of restrictions are set to come into force in Liverpool on Wednesday\n\nThe 143 new deaths reported is clearly a concern.\n\nIt is the highest daily figure since early June and feels significant, even taking into account the impact of the delayed reporting at the weekend which often pushes up the figures on a Tuesday.\n\nBut to understand what is happening you have to rewind a month or so and look at cases.\n\nCases were rising rapidly then - it is what promoted the government's senior advisers to warn there could be 50,000 cases a day by mid-October.\n\nThat has not happened. Just over 17,000 were announced today.\n\nThe trajectory has not been as steep as it could have been.\n\nWe have seen a similar pattern happen with hospital admissions. They are rising, but over the last week the rate of increase has slowed just a little.\n\nDeaths will, sadly, continue to go up in the coming days and weeks, but if the patterns seen with cases and hospital admissions are sustained those rises will slow too.\n\nIt is very, very different from the rapid surge we saw in the spring.\n\nBut a gradual and slow continual rise could still have a devastating impact over the long autumn and winter period.\n\nThat is why we are seeing politicians and scientists argue about what is the best way to contain the virus, while limiting the impact restrictions have on wider society and the economy.", "Birmingham City Council said about 25 kits had been given out by mistake in the student area of Selly Oak\n\nUsed coronavirus swab tests were accidentally given out to households in Birmingham, council officials said.\n\nBirmingham City Council said about 25 kits had been given out by mistake in the student area of Selly Oak as part of its \"drop-and-collect\" service.\n\nIt said the error was quickly realised, the kits remained intact and there was no evidence of cross-contamination.\n\nHowever, student David Lewes, 21, said he and four housemates used the tests without realising they were not new.\n\n\"We are really distressed, shocked, violated and one of my friends threw up after finding out they had been used before,\" he said.\n\nThe third-year University of Birmingham student said the council team dropped the test off at their home in Tiverton Road on Tuesday evening saying they would return a few minutes later to collect them.\n\n\"We are not familiar with the testing procedure and were a bit concerned there were no leaflets or information packs inside, but they came back and we said about the leaflets not being there and is that a concern?\n\n\"They said there's been a mistake and they'd rectify it. Then my housemate was asked if he'd done the test and he said yes and they said, 'OK, put it in the bag' and they left.\"\n\nStudents David Lewes (left) and George Scott (right) both used the testing kits they were given\n\nMr Lewes said they only found out later what happened via social media.\n\n\"The very least we expect is an apology and we have since spoken to the council and they have [apologised],\" he added.\n\n\"We know it's human error, but someone must be held accountable.. it's shambolic.\"\n\nThere are 237 Covid-19 cases currently in Selly Oak and neighbouring Edgbaston South and University wards, making them two of the worst hotspots in the city.\n\nVolunteers and RAF personnel distributed kits to households in those areas on Tuesday.\n\nStudent Sophie Dunne, who was given a used kit, said test tubes and swabs in sealed bags inside the box they were given \"had already been snapped off, so obviously it had been used\".\n\nAs soon as she and her housemate Natasha Ashbridge realised they \"went running up the street to notify the workers handing out the tests\".\n\nHousemates Sophie Dunne (left) and Natasha Ambridge (right) said they went running out of their house when they realised the testing kits were used\n\nMs Dunne said others had also come out of their homes with the kits, some of which had other people's addresses on.\n\nShe said she was \"in disbelief\" that such a thing could happen.\n\n\"I now know the council is saying apparently 25 tests were given out [but] from what we saw being collected in, [it] was a greater figure [or] number than that and people have used them and they have been opened which they've [the council] also said they've not.\"\n\nMs Ashbridge added: \"Obviously students have sort of been blamed for the spike and now it's probably going to rise potentially further because of this mix-up and it's not our fault.\"\n\nA city council spokesperson said: \"As soon as it became apparent that the wrong tests had been given out, steps were taken immediately to rectify the mistake.\n\n\"Drop and collect is a vital part of helping to tackle the spread of Covid in our city, with 100,000 tests being undertaken to date. The circumstances around this incident are being fully reviewed and any required changes to process will be implemented.\"\n\nDr Justin Varney, the city's public health director, said a seal had been broken on only one of the 25 kits and there was \"no evidence that that test tube was opened so we think that the risk of contamination from the sample itself is very, very unlikely\".\n\nHe said teams had been back out at the properties again on Wednesday \"to double check\" no-one had been put at risk. The risk of contamination from handling the boxes was also \"very, very low\", he added.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?\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. Zoe Powell and her three eldest children died in the crash while Josh Powell was critically injured\n\nTributes have been paid to a \"lovely\" mother and her three young children who were killed in a crash.\n\nZoe Powell, 29, died with Phoebe, eight, when their people carrier collided with a lorry in Oxfordshire.\n\nTheir deaths on Monday night came just months after the family lost everything in a blaze at their home in Chinnor.\n\nMrs Powell's son Simeon, six, and four-year old Amelia, died at John Radcliffe Hospital where their father, Josh, 30, and 18-month-old sister remain.\n\nMr Powell and his daughter are in a serious condition but showing signs of improvement and \"expected to make a recovery\", Thames Valley Police said.\n\nReverend Dr Jacky Barr said the tragedy had shocked the community in Chinnor, where the Powells had been living in temporary accommodation since the electrical fire in June.\n\nThe crash happened on the A40, near a railway bridge between Oxford and Cassington, at 21:50 BST on Monday.\n\nDr Barr, of St Andrew's Church, said the Powells were a \"delightful family\" and had attended the church's after-school sessions.\n\n\"They were just a lovely family, they really were. This has come as such a shock and loss to us all in the area,\" she said.\n\nThe vicar opened the church for prayers, candles to be lit, and so a book of condolence could be signed in tribute.\n\nThe crash happened on the A40, between Oxford and Cassington,on Monday\n\nChinnor Community Church said the family were \"much-loved members\" who had attended worships regularly and played an active role.\n\n\"The family placed their belief in Jesus as Lord and Saviour, and we are confident that Zoe and the children are now safe in the arms of God,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family as we pray for healing and recovery for Josh and Penny.\"\n\nA friend and neighbour of the Powells said the \"whole family would do anything for anybody\".\n\nThe woman, who asked not to be named, said Mrs Powell was a \"great neighbour and a lovely person\".\n\nZoe Powell, 29, and three of her young children died after a crash with a lorry\n\n\"She did a lot for the community, not just through the church,\" she added.\n\n\"I just can't believe what's happened, I'm too upset to talk any more about it really.\"\n\nMrs Powell, who had lived in Chinnor since the mid-2010s but was previously from Sheffield, was a blogger who wrote about motherhood, family life and the challenges of having young children.\n\nShe created a specialised diary called the Mama Book, which was written to help young mothers find \"mental space in the midst of motherhood\".\n\nAnother of the Powells' neighbours talked of how \"incredibly sad\" she felt, especially after the house fire.\n\nThe woman, who asked not to be named, said: \"It was a hard enough year for them regardless, and now this... it's just incredible.\n\n\"It's rather raw and it's horrendous. They were all absolutely lovely - the children were a delight, they were bouncy, bubbly, just really happy children.\n\n\"I can't imagine how any of the family are feeling right now.\"\n\nMaureen Dyroff, a supervisor at a pre-school one of the children had attended, said the family had \"lost everything in the fire\" and had been living in temporary accommodation since.\n\n\"They were a beautiful family and it was such a wonderful honour to work with the three older children,\" she said.\n\n\"We are all in deep shock and mourning over such a sad loss of so many members of that beautiful family.\"\n\nA JustGiving page set up by a railway worker colleague of Mr Powell already raised more than £10,000.\n\nThe 56-year-old driver of the lorry involved in the crash suffered minor injuries and is helping officers with their investigation.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n• None Mother and three young children killed in crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duchess of Sussex has said she avoids saying anything too \"controversial\" for fear of putting her family \"in a position of risk\".\n\nSpeaking at a virtual summit, Meghan said she instead chose to talk about \"fairly straight forward\" topics \"like exercising your right to vote\".\n\nBut she said she would not feel proud as a mother if she had not tried to \"make this world better\" for her son.\n\nThe duke and duchess recently urged US voters to \"reject hate speech\".\n\nThe Duke of Sussex made the remarks in a television broadcast alongside his wife last month - their first joint TV appearance since they ceased being working members of the Royal Family earlier this year.\n\nThe couple also urged US citizens to vote in the country's upcoming presidential election.\n\nA spokesperson for the Sussexes said the comments did not refer to any specific political party or candidate, but were instead \"a call for decency\".\n\nAppearing at Fortune's members-only Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit on Tuesday, Meghan was asked whether motherhood had made her more courageous or more cautious.\n\nSpeaking from her home in California, she replied: \"It's interesting because my gut is that it makes you more courageous.\n\n\"It makes you so concerned for the world they're going to inherit, and so the things that you're able to tolerate on your own are not the same.\n\n\"You go every single day: 'How can I make this better for him? How can I make this world better for Archie?' And that is a shared belief between my husband and I.\n\n\"At the same time, I am cautious of putting my family in a position of risk by certain things, and so I try to be rather very clear with what I say and to not make it controversial, but instead to talk about things that seem fairly straight forward - like exercising your right to vote.\"\n\nShe added: \"As a parent I can enjoy all the fun and silliness and games with my son, but I wouldn't be able to feel proud of myself as a mom if I didn't know that I wasn't doing my part to make it a better place for him.\"\n\nMeghan's son Archie was born in May last year\n\nAsked about her views on social media she compared it to an \"addiction\" for some, which could be \"unhealthy\", adding that she does not have any online accounts for her \"own self-preservation\".\n\nThe duchess closed her personal Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts four months before she married the Duke of Sussex, while her lifestyle blog thetig.com shut down in 2017.\n\nSince stepping back as a working member of the Royal Family in March, Meghan has spoken out on issues including racism and the death of African-American George Floyd in the US.\n\nThe couple gave up their roles as senior royals in a bid for personal and financial freedom. They now live in the US but are still members of the Royal Family.", "Donald Trump is campaigning for the 3 November election\n\nTwitter has suspended a number of fake accounts purporting to be owned by black supporters of US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe social media giant said the accounts broke its rules on spam and platform manipulation.\n\nMany of the accounts used identical language, including the phrase: \"YES IM BLACK AND IM VOTING FOR TRUMP!!!\"\n\nTwitter has not specified the number of accounts suspended so far or the source of them.\n\nIt said it was continuing to investigate the activity and may suspend additional accounts if they were found to be violating its policies.\n\nThe investigation was first reported by the Washington Post newspaper.\n\nDarren Linvill, a social media disinformation researcher at Clemson University, found more than two dozen such accounts, which had generated some 265,000 retweets or Twitter mentions.\n\nSome of the accounts used photos of black men that had appeared in news articles. Several had tens of thousands of followers.\n\nMr Linvill told Reuters news agency that most of the accounts were created in 2017, but had become more active in the past two months.\n\nHe said all of the accounts he had been monitoring had now been suspended but that they had \"already had their impact\".\n\nTwitter forbids using the platform \"to artificially amplify or suppress information or engage in behaviour that manipulates or disrupts people's experience\" on the site.\n\nIts action comes weeks ahead of the 3 November US presidential election.\n\nPolls suggest about 10% of black voters are supporting Mr Trump, according to polling website FiveThirtyEight.\n\nThis kind of alleged disinformation is much more akin to what we saw in the 2016 US elections.\n\nThese were fake accounts - often sourced from countries like Russia - deliberately stirring up discord on social media, or claiming to be genuine Americans with grievances when they were anything but.\n\nWe don't know the full details yet - Twitter has not revealed anything more about the source of the accounts.\n\nAnd it's worth saying that these accounts have been suspended pending further investigation. But all the evidence supplied so far suggests there was some level of co-ordination behind these accounts. It appears the same techniques were used to glean pictures from the internet. And the real smoking gun here is boilerplate tweets used over and over again.\n\nIf true, this really is quite damaging to Twitter - you obviously want to know that the people you're hearing from are authentic.\n\nIt's also worrying that Twitter didn't appear to pick this up itself, but rather was alerted to it.", "Disappointed Quality Street customers have taken to social media to complain that the selection is lacking a crucial ingredient.\n\n\"Where are the Chocolate Caramel Brownies?! My 8yr old son is devastated,\" wrote one.\n\nAnother customer complained they had been given extra Orange Cremes.\n\nThe company said that its manufacturing process was adversely affected during lockdown, resulting in a narrower range in some tins.\n\n\"In order to keep Quality Street production going during the Covid-19 lockdown period, we made some temporary changes to the way we operated, such as running fewer lines for a time,\" a spokesperson for Nestle said.\n\nWhile there was no change to the overall weight being sold, the range had been affected, she said.\n\n\"As a result, some consumers may find that they do not have all 12 varieties of Quality Street sweets in their mix.\"\n\nThe full range of chocolates was being produced and incorporated into more recent boxes, she added.\n\n\"We apologise for any disappointment caused but hope consumers understand why it was necessary to make these changes during such unprecedented conditions,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Tindale 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 limited edition Chocolate Caramel Brownies were removed from production for four weeks earlier this year.\n\nWhen the lockdown was at its height, a number of factory workers were shielding or looking after children, which was why Nestle made the change.\n\nThe Quality Street chocolates that are normally in a tin include a mix of:\n\nOther manufacturers have also been affected by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIn June, Marmite-owner Unilever said production of its spread was hit by a shortage of brewer's yeast after pubs were closed in March during lockdown.\n\nBut in the main, food producers around the world have said they have too much stock as restaurants and others areas of hospitality close for business.", "Christian Cooper filmed Amy Cooper after she refused to stop her dog running through woodland\n\nA white woman who called police on a black man bird watching in New York's Central Park made a second call accusing him of attempted assault, prosecutors say.\n\nAmy Cooper appeared in court on Wednesday charged with falsely reporting an incident.\n\nA viral video showed Ms Cooper threatening Christian Cooper, no relation, with the police when he asked her to put her dog on a lead.\n\nThis happened on 25 May, Memorial Day.\n\nThis was also the day that unarmed black man George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, triggering weeks of national and global anti-racism protests.\n\nMs Cooper lost her job and dog after the incident, and publicly apologised.\n\nManhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr said in a statement on Wednesday: \"We will hold people who make false and racist 911 calls accountable.\"\n\nMs Cooper did not enter a plea when she appeared before the judge.\n\nThe charge of filing a false report is punishable by up to one year in jail.\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 Melody Cooper 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\nChristian Cooper, who is prominent in the New York bird watching community, filmed his encounter with Ms Cooper, 41, after he asked her to put her dog on a lead to keep it from scaring away birds.\n\nMr Cooper, 57, said he offered the dog treats, as a way to convince Ms Cooper to contain her dog.\n\nIn response, Ms Cooper called emergency services. She told them: \"I'm in the Ramble,\" - a wooded area in Central Park - \"there is a man, African American, he has a bicycle helmet and he is recording me and threatening me and my dog,\" as her tone rose in apparent distress.\n\n\"I am being threatened by a man in the Ramble, please send the cops immediately!\" she said.\n\nProsecutors said that, in the second, previously unreported call, Ms Cooper repeated her accusation and said he had \"tried to assault her\".\n\n\"Amy Cooper engaged in racist criminal conduct when she falsely accused a Black man of trying to assault her in a previously unreported second call with a 911 dispatcher,\" District Attorney Vance said.\n\n\"Fortunately, no one was injured or killed in the police response to Ms Cooper's hoax.\"\n\nShe admitted to the police who responded to her call that the male had made no physical contact with her.\n\nMr Cooper, in a statement to CNN on Wednesday, said his focus \"has been and continues to be on fixing policing and addressing systemic racism like we saw in that incident\".", "The book had been owned by a private US college since the 1960s\n\nA copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio has been sold for a record $9.98m (£7.6m) at auction in New York.\n\nThe 1623 book, published seven years after the Bard's death, was the first collected edition of his plays.\n\nAbout 235 copies of the book exist, but only a handful of complete versions are known to be in private hands.\n\nThe edition sold on Wednesday was the first complete copy to go under the hammer since 2001, when one fetched $6.1m (£4.9m) - the previous record.\n\nIt was sold by Mills College in Oakland, California - a private college that has owned it since the 1960s. The identity of the buyer was not immediately known.\n\nThe book was sold at Christie's action house in New York\n\nAuction house Christie's had conservatively estimated its value at between $4m-$6m.\n\nThe First Folio brought together 36 plays, 18 of which would otherwise not have been recorded. Without its publication there would be no copy of such plays as Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar and The Tempest.\n\nMost of the 235 copies known to exist are incomplete. One, owned by Oxford University, sold for £3.5m in 2003. Five or six complete versions are believed to be in private hands.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Russia's Soyuz rocket has travelled from Earth to the International Space Station in record time.\n\nThe spacecraft, carrying two Russian cosmonauts and a Nasa astronaut, made the trip in just three hours and three minutes – half the usual journey time.", "BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty is to join Radio 5 Live, presenting three days a week in the mid-morning slot formerly filled by Emma Barnett.\n\nMunchetty will host the radio show from 10:00-13:00 on Mondays to Wednesdays, and will keep her spot on the Breakfast sofa from Thursdays to Saturdays.\n\nBarnett is leaving the radio station to move to Woman's Hour on Radio 4.\n\n\"5 Live has one of the most passionate, engaged audiences in radio,\" said Munchetty, who will start in January.\n\n\"The prospect of talking to those listeners every week really excites me.\"\n\nThe presenter was a stand-in host on the station over the summer. \"I have always wanted to work more in radio and after such an enjoyable experience presenting on the station recently, I jumped at this opportunity,\" she added.\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\n5 Live controller Heidi Dawson described Munchetty as a \"brilliant broadcaster and a fearless journalist\".\n\n\"She impressed us while working briefly at the station in the summer, when our listeners loved her warmth, wit and straight-talking interview style,\" she said.\n\nLast year, Munchetty found herself at the centre of a BBC crisis when the corporation partially upheld a complaint against comments she made about Donald Trump, before the ruling was later overturned.\n\nAdrian Chiles will continue to host 5 Live's mid-morning slot on Fridays, with the presenter for Thursdays still to be announced.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "New measures announced by Boris Johnson this week fell short of advice provided by scientists\n\nDocuments have revealed the UK government did not follow the advice given to it by scientists as coronavirus cases began to surge.\n\nThe Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) is a committee attended by scientists across a range of fields. While its members may not individually agree, their role is to look at the evidence, work out what it is suggesting, and present an agreed view to the government. It's then for the politicians to decide what rules to make.\n\nThe papers, which date from 21 September, were published on Monday night. They set out in black and white what scientists thought should happen on a number of important topics.\n\nWhat scientists recommended: They did not go as far as recommending a full lockdown on the scale of the one in the spring. This was also an outcome Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been extremely keen to avoid.\n\nTheir evidence said: The effect of a full lockdown, including closing non-essential businesses and banning contact between households, was clear: it would have had a big impact on coronavirus cases and deaths. But it would also have had a large knock-on impact - hurting people in other ways, such as their ability to work and socialise.\n\nWhat happened: The government opted for a three-tier system in England, with household mixing indoors banned only in the areas of highest concern. Businesses will broadly remain open.\n\nWhat they recommended: Sage said government should consider a short lockdown of two or three weeks, immediately, to bring down the number of cases.\n\nTheir evidence said: There were solid grounds to suggest this would have had \"similar levels of effectiveness\" to that of the national spring lockdown, in turning the tide of the pandemic. But its shorter period would have limited the overall effects - there would almost certainly have been fewer deaths but the line on the graph would look less dramatic. You would also have had to wait until after the restrictions had been lifted to see any benefit, since it takes time for the infections that would have been prevented to translate to lower hospital admissions and deaths.\n\nWhat happened: This idea was rejected by No 10 in favour of an option that keeps businesses open and household contact going for most of the country, but with the threat that such privileges could be taken away if cases rise. Now Labour leader Keir Starmer has called on the government to think again.\n\nMultiple anecdotal reports of outbreaks linked to bars in the UK, Europe, US... curfews likely to have a marginal impact\n\nWhat they recommended: The scientists recommended people be advised to work from home if they could.\n\nTheir evidence said: This would have been likely to make a significant dent in transmission as about a third of people's total contacts are made at work. But this will vary drastically by industry - and how much it would have dented the current transmission depends on how many people currently at work could have done their job from home.\n\nWhat happened: Those who can are once again being advised to work from home, in a reversal of the government's drive over summer to encourage more people back to the workplace .\n\nWhat they recommended: The advisory group said government should consider immediately putting a stop to contact between households, unless they were part of a support bubble.\n\nTheir evidence said: Being in an enclosed space, breathing the same air and touching the same surfaces, makes mixing indoors a high risk activity. Much of this risk is shared with people you live with, where cutting contact is not really possible. But spreading the virus to other households is what allows the epidemic to be sustained - though scientists say restrictions on different mixing would have been less effective in areas with lots of intergenerational households, where young and old mix within the same bubble.\n\nWhat happened: Mixing with other households indoors has been banned for people living in areas on \"high\" or \"very high\" alert. Outdoor mixing is allowed in groups of no more than six.\n\nWhat they recommended: Sage said government should consider the immediate closure of closure of all bars, restaurants, cafes, indoor gyms, and \"personal services\", for example hairdressers.\n\nThe evidence said: The risk in bars, restaurants and cafes was \"likely to be higher than many other indoor settings\" as people sit close together for long periods without wearing face coverings, and potentially talk loudly, risking spraying more virus into the air. Alcohol also affects people's behaviour. The scientists pointed to multiple outbreaks linked to bars - but also indicated the evidence suggested curfews were likely to have only a \"marginal impact\".\n\nWhat happened: The government largely rejected the advice. Most of England can continue going to pubs and restaurants, although since cases began to spike, a 22:00 curfew has been ordered. In \"very high\" alert areas, pubs and bars must close unless they are operating like a restaurant and only serving alcohol as part of a sit-down meal.\n\nWhat they recommended: Sage recommended all university and college teaching should be carried out online \"unless absolutely essential\", but schools should continue in person. It's possible a \"circuit-breaker\" could be timed to coincide with school holidays.\n\nThe evidence said: Closing schools, particularly secondary schools, might have had a moderate impact on transmission but would come with a high level of harm for children's education and their own and their parents' wellbeing. For adult students, the impact on transmission was considered to be higher and the harm to health and social equality lower.\n\nWhat happened: Schools and universities remain open - although many universities are beginning to move teaching online anyway due to outbreaks.", "Max Woosey has been sleeping in his back garden since the beginning of lockdown\n\nA 10-year-old boy has been sleeping outside in a tent for more than 200 days in memory of two family friends.\n\nMax Woosey, from Braunton, was inspired to sleep out every night in a tent left to him by his friend and neighbour Rick, who died in February.\n\nRick, who was 74, told Max \"promise me you'll have an adventure in here\", before he died from cancer.\n\nMax has raised more than £16,000 for the North Devon Hospice that cared for Rick and his wife in their final days.\n\nMax started his \"adventure\" after hearing fundraising for the hospice was getting cancelled\n\nThe 10-year-old said the best part of sleeping outside was \"escaping\" parents and getting to \"read the Beano for as long as you want\".\n\nAnd he added the worst bits had been the weather and finding an ants' nest underneath the tent.\n\n\"I sometimes get a bit freaked out when it's stormy weather, but I wouldn't say I get scared.\"\n\nHowever, Max said he now preferred sleeping in a tent to indoors and enjoyed listening to the birds and the weather \"battering\" against the tent.\n\nMax said staying up late and reading was one of the best things about sleeping in a tent\n\nMax began his adventure on 28 March after hearing hospice fundraising events were being cancelled.\n\nHe has since decided to try to extend the challenge and sleep outside for a year.\n\nMax has thanked everyone who has supported him and \"all the key workers\" fighting the coronavirus.\n\nNorth Devon Hospice cared for Rick and Sue in their final days\n\nRachael, Max's mum, said the hospice supported neighbour Sue when she died in 2017 and enabled Rick's friends to \"keep him at home and let him die peacefully\".\n\nUnfortunately Rick's tent did not last long and had to be replaced and the family were now looking for winter camping gear, she added.\n\nThe hospice's chief executive Stephen Roberts thanked Max for his \"phenomenal\" efforts and said the money raised \"could not come at a better time\".\n\nMax has been sleeping outside for more than 200 days\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We've been hearing today about the new \"tier\" levels of coronavirus alert in England, which put areas in medium, high and very high categories of risk and restriction.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region is the only area to be under the toughest Tier Three Covid-19 restrictions which came into effect at midnight, making it illegal for gyms in the area to open.\n\nBut some gyms in Liverpool are staying open - despite being ordered to close.\n\nChris Ellerby-Hemmings, co-owner of EmpoweredFit gym in the Wirral, said: \"We are not staying open for financial gain but more for our members' mental and physical wellbeing. The reason for doing it is to be listened to.\"\n\nThe gym, which has 14,000 members, is one of dozens in Merseyside that have remained open.\n\nSome medical experts say gyms could encourage the virus to spread, as they are humid and confined spaces with shared equipment.\n\nBut Mr Ellerby-Hemmings told the BBC his gym was Covid secure.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Liverpool City Regional Combined Authority and Merseyside Police for comment.", "Cafe owner Diane Cheshire said people were confused about the rules\n\nBusiness owners in Llanelli say people are \"making their own rules up\" because of confusion over Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nShops and cafes have seen a dramatic drop in trade since the first town-only lockdown in Wales was announced nearly three weeks ago.\n\nDiane Cheshire, from Joly's Cafe in the town centre, said people were \"not sure what is the right thing to do\".\n\nPublic Health Wales said restrictions would last at least another week.\n\nMs Cheshire, who has has owned and run the cafe for more than 20 years, said she has never seen the town so quiet.\n\n\"I'm very worried to be honest. I don't want total lockdown but that's the only way to stop this,\" she said.\n\nShe said the differences in rules in different areas meant people were \"making their own rules up because they're not sure what is the right thing to do\".\n\n\"I can't see an end to it. It's going to take a long time to even remotely get back to normal.\"\n\nThe case rate in Llanelli has reduced from 152 per 100,000 of the population to 99.9.\n\nBut this compares with a 58.8 per 100,000 case rate for the county of Carmarthenshire as a whole.\n\nPublic Health Wales said that while the signs are encouraging, the restrictions need to stay in place in the town for at least another week.\n\nBusiness owners said the uncertainty was crippling their trade.\n\nLlanelli was the first town-only lockdown in Wales\n\nAndrew Jones, who owns the D&A Heel Bar in Llanelli market, said: \"I know people are afraid to come out because they're shielding but it doesn't help business for me.\n\n\"I do have an older customer base here. I can understand they're afraid to come out. We're doing as much as we can to help them, offering collections service where possible, but people are frustrated - they can't see an end in sight.\"\n\nLlanelli town councillor Sean Rees said people living in his ward of Glanymor were confused about the rules.\n\n\"We need much clearer communication coming through to the community, particularly for our businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Our town centre is very much open for business for people within the area and I'd encourage people to shop locally to support family-run businesses and market traders, because they need our help right now.\"\n\nCarmarthenshire County Council said social distancing and behaviour inside licensed premises like pubs and clubs continued to cause concern.\n\nThe authority confirmed it had issued temporary closure notices for 10 premises within the last two weeks.", "Boris Johnson will decide on the \"next steps\" for post-Brexit trade talks after an EU summit later this week, Downing Street has said.\n\nNo 10 said the PM expressed \"disappointment\" at recent progress in a call with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday.\n\nMr Johnson has previously set Thursday's meeting of EU leaders as the deadline for a deal.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said the EU wanted a deal, \"but not at any price\".\n\nBoth sides are calling on the other to compromise on key issues, including fishing and limits on government subsidies to businesses.\n\nThey are locked in talks over striking an agreement to govern their trading relationship once the UK's post-Brexit transition period ends in December.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said Mr Johnson \"noted the desirability of a deal\" during his pre-summit call with Mrs von der Leyen.\n\nHowever, the PM also \"expressed his disappointment that more progress had not been made over the past two weeks,\" they added.\n\n\"The prime minister said that he looked forward to hearing the outcome of the European Council and would reflect before setting out the UK's next steps.\"\n\nEarlier, a No 10 spokesman said fishing rights remained the \"starkest\" point of difference ahead of Thursday's two-day EU leaders' summit.\n\nThe government's chief Brexit negotiator Lord David Frost was seen going into Downing Street on Thursday morning.\n\nBackbench Conservative Peter Bone told MPs Lord Frost was briefing the prime minister \"on whether to continue the negotiations or whether to call it a day and prepare for a no-trade deal Brexit\".\n\nSpeaking after her call with the prime minister, Mrs von der Leyen said: \"The EU is working on a deal, but not at any price.\"\n\nShe added that \"conditions must be right\" on fishing, post-Brexit competition rules and how a deal is enforced for the EU to sign an agreement.\n\nShe added: \"Still a lot of work ahead of us.\"\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel also joined the call with Mrs von der Leyen and the Mr Johnson on Wednesday evening.\n\nIn a letter to EU leaders ahead of Thursday's meeting, Mr Michel said reaching a deal before December was \"in the interests of both sides\".\n\nHe added that as well as fishing rights, \"key issues\" for a deal included post-Brexit rules on competition and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nEU leaders are not yet all on the same page when it comes to how much they should give up or give in to get a deal.\n\nBrussels keeps calling on the UK to make concessions but a successful outcome will require compromises on both sides.\n\nWill France's Emmanuel Macron relinquish his hard-line position about keeping current fishing quotas in UK waters? He'll have to, to get a UK deal.\n\nWill Germany's Angela Merkel give way on some demands on competition regulations (aka the level playing field) yet still grant the UK zero tariff, zero quota access to the single market?\n\nEU leaders must agree all this amongst themselves and it won't be straightforward.\n\nOver the summer, both the UK and EU seemed to agree the end of October was the final date to get a deal done - allowing enough time for it to be ratified before 31 December.\n\nBut come 7 September, Boris Johnson decided to shorten the deadline.\n\nHe said if a deal wasn't reached by 15 October, \"then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on\".\n\nThursday is that day - but Downing Street appears to have moved back from it as a hard deadline.\n\nFormal negotiations ended at the start of October, but Mr Johnson and Mrs von der Leyen pledged to \"intensify talks\" over the coming weeks.\n\nPressed on whether the UK would walk away on 15 October, the government's chief negotiator Lord Frost said it was his job to \"advise the prime minister\" on whether a deal was on the cards by then.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, France's foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian suggested EU leaders do not see this week as a hard deadline for a breakthrough.\n\n\"The date of 15 October, it's Prime Minister Boris Johnson who announced that, it is not the position of the European Council,\" he told French MPs.\n\nHe added that \"everything should be played out\" between October 15 and \"mid-November\".\n\nHe warned that the prospect of no deal was \"unfortunately very likely,\" but the EU was \"prepared for all eventualities\".\n\nBy remaining in the bloc's single market and customs union, the UK has continued to follow EU trading rules during its post-Brexit transition period.\n\nThis 11-month period is due to end in December, and the UK has ruled out seeking an extension.\n\nFormal talks began in March and continued throughout the pandemic, initially via video link before in-person discussions resumed over the summer.\n\nIf a deal is not done, the UK will trade with the EU according to the default rules set by the World Trade Organization.\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister and Labour leader clashed over coronavirus policy\n\nA new three-tier system of regional Covid-19 restrictions in England \"is the right way forward\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM told the House of Commons the policy \"can bring down the virus\" but that he did not rule out going further.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer again called for a \"circuit-breaker\" - a short, limited lockdown in England to bring the virus under control.\n\nHe said such a move was supported by government science advisers.\n\nThe PM said he hoped the three-tier system would \"avoid the misery of a national lockdown\".\n\nHe added: \"I rule out nothing of course in combating the virus, but we are going to do it with the local, the regional approach that can drive down and will drive down the virus, if it is properly implemented.\"\n\nIt comes as Wales prepares to ban people from parts of the UK that have high rates of coronavirus from travelling to the country from 18:00 BST on Friday.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19,724 coronavirus cases were recorded in the UK, while 137 more people have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe new tier system has begun in England, with the Liverpool region the first to enter the highest alert level.\n\nThe BBC understands that a meeting of the Joint Biosecsurity Centre (JBC) has suggested that Greater Manchester alongside much of north-west and north-east England, large parts of Yorkshire and parts of the Midlands should also be moved into the highest tier.\n\nThe JBC recommendations will not necessarily be enforced and discussions are likely to continue between local and national politicians and officials over the coming days.\n\nGreater Manchester's mayor Andy Burnham had a meeting with deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, and said further talks are to take place on Thursday morning with the \"PM's team\".\n\nMost of the country is in the lowest tier - medium - but millions of people in the North and the Midlands are currently in the second highest tier and face extra curbs on households mixing.\n\nSchools, close-contact services and all retail outlets will remain open under basic measures, even in the highest alert areas.\n\nLocal politicians in Greater Manchester have argued against the region being put into the highest tier saying that without increased financial support they would prefer a circuit-breaker.\n\nMr Burnham said he would consider a legal challenge if the government placed the area in Tier 3 restrictions, adding such a move would be \"by imposition, not consent\".\n\nBut Bolton Council leader David Greenhalgh said he was not in support of a circuit-breaker at this time.\n\nSteve Rotheram, mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said he and Mr Burnham were also considering legal action against the new job support scheme.\n\nHe said it appeared \"discriminatory\" that No 10 had offered to pay 80% of workers' pay in March under the furlough scheme while the latest help is providing two-thirds of wages to employees of businesses made to close under the restrictions.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nThe approach of targeting different restrictions at different parts of England has exposed a rift between Westminster and some local politicians, who have called for more say over what's happening in their areas.\n\nUnder pressure to say why he has so far rejected the idea of a national \"circuit-break\" period, Boris Johnson was keen to stress that the current package of measures could bring down transmission IF there was co-operation at a local level and proper enforcement.\n\nMore involvement for local leaders means more responsibility for things going well - or badly.\n\nFor now, the PM seems determined to continue to try to tread this middle path - mindful also perhaps of the chunk of his own MPs concerned about even the current range of restrictions and the impact on the economy.\n\nThe risk is that he may have lost valuable time, if he does decide to change course.\n\nThe Labour leader's initial call for a circuit-breaker in England came on Tuesday.\n\nSir Keir said such a course of action would help buy time to \"save lives, fix testing, and save the NHS\".\n\nSchools would kept open as normal because it would be timed to coincide with the October half term. However, Sir Keir said \"all pubs, bars and restaurants would be closed\" and compensated.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, he said Mr Johnson had rejected the advice of government science advisers, who had suggested a circuit-breaker when they met on 21 September.\n\nSeparately, a scientific report has suggested a two-week circuit-breaker at the end of this month may halve coronavirus deaths between now and the end of the year. The researchers said the measure \"buys more time to put other controls in place\", but there is huge uncertainty over some of their predictions.\n\nBut, responding to Sir Keir's comments, the PM told MPs the three-tier system was an \"opportunity to keep things going, to keep our kids in schools, to keep our businesses going\" and the \"logical thing to do\".\n\n\"That, I think, is what the people of this country want to do. This is our opportunity to do that and suppress the virus where it is surging,\" he said.\n\nThe PM said the disease was now \"appearing much more strongly\" in some parts of the country than others so a different approach was needed to that taken earlier in the year.\n\nHe highlighted the fact there were 670 coronavirus cases per 100,000 residents in the Liverpool region, compared with 33 per 100,000 in Cornwall.", "The number of secondary schools in England sending home pupils because of Covid is increasing rather than diminishing, the latest official figures show.\n\nThere are 21% of secondary schools counted as not fully open - up from 18% the previous week and 8% in mid-September.\n\nThis is usually because they have sent home pupils in response to Covid cases.\n\nAbout 7% of primary schools had to send home pupils, up from 5%.\n\nThese weekly figures from the Department for Education show a worsening picture for secondary schools being disrupted by the pandemic, with the highest figure for groups of pupils being sent home since schools went back in the autumn.\n\nIt follows the government announcing it would press ahead with a full set of GCSE and A-level exams next summer, prompting warnings about unfairness for those missing out on school.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the continuing fall in the number of fully open secondary schools showed how difficult it was to \"operate amidst rising Covid infection rates\".\n\nHe says schools are having to try to balance \"managing complex control measures while delivering education for those in school as well as those who are at home self-isolating\".\n\n\"The pressure is immense,\" he said - and he raised concerns about the well-being of school staff.\n\nThe figures on secondary schools not being fully open were, based on previous Thursdays:\n\n\"It is essential that government gets a grip on the testing system so that no pupil or teacher is out of school for longer than they need to be,\" said Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\nBut there are suggestions that when schools send home pupils, it is now a smaller number, and not necessarily a whole year group, as attendance in secondary school has slightly risen, from 86% to 87%.\n\nOverall attendance, including primary schools, has remained at about 90%.\n\nThere are also very few schools completely closed - only 0.2% of schools.\n\nThere is no regional breakdown to show where problems are concentrated - but secondary schools seem to be more adversely affected than primary schools, with a rate of sending home pupils three times higher than primary schools.\n\nAttendance in primary schools went down slightly, from 93% to 92%, but remains higher than in secondary.\n\nFigures in special needs schools are even lower, at 82% attendance, and in state-funded alternative provision, such as for pupils who might have been excluded from mainstream schools, attendance is 60%.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said schools were able to provide more online lessons and \"only a small minority of pupils are self isolating\".\n\n\"Regular and full-time attendance in school is absolutely essential to help pupils catch up on time out of the classroom.\n\n\"It is encouraging to see the vast majority of schools are open,\" he said.", "Ine Eriksen Soreide did not say what evidence there was for Russian involvement\n\nNorway has blamed Russia for a cyber-attack on the email system in the Norwegian parliament in August.\n\nForeign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide called it a serious incident affecting the country's \"most important democratic institution.\"\n\n\"Based on the information available to the government it is our assessment that Russia stood behind this activity\" she said without giving any evidence.\n\nMoscow has rejected the claim, calling it a \"serious and wilful provocation.\"\n\nMs Soreide said in a statement that Norway's security and intelligence services were \"co-operating closely to deal with this matter at the national level.\"\n\nIn response, Russia's embassy in Oslo hit back at the \"unacceptable\" announcement, saying no evidence had been presented.\n\n\"Millions of cyber attacks are annually committed from abroad against Russian state internet resources... but this does not give us the right to indiscriminately blame authorities of the countries of their possible origin,\" the embassy added.\n\nIn September, Norwegian authorities said that email accounts belonging to several officials had been compromised during a cyber-attack, and some information had been downloaded. But the full extent of damage caused by the hack has not been made public.\n\nNorway's allegation comes during a time of increasingly strained relations with Russia. Both countries share an Arctic border, and Norway is a member of Nato.\n\nThe email accounts of several officials were compromised during the attack on Norway's parliament\n\nIn August, Norway expelled a Russian diplomat on suspicion of spying. Russia retaliated by expelling a Norwegian diplomat days later.\n\nNorway also arrested a Russian national in 2018 who was suspected of gathering information on the country's parliamentary network. The individual was later released due to a lack of evidence.\n\nIn a report earlier this year, Norway's military intelligence agency warned that Russia was trying to fuel discord in the country through so-called influence operations, aimed at weakening public trust in the government, election processes and the media.\n\nNational legislatures are a key source of policy-related information, and so are frequently targeted by hacking campaigns.\n\nIn January, the personal details of hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, were stolen and published online.\n\nAnd last year, Australia's cyber-intelligence agency blamed China after hackers tried to break into the Australian parliament, something Chinese officials denied.", "Zoe Powell and her three eldest children died in the crash. Josh Powell was critically injured\n\nA mother and her three young children have died in a crash in Oxfordshire.\n\nPolice said a people carrier and a lorry collided near a railway overbridge on the A40 between Oxford and Cassington at 21:50 BST on Monday.\n\nThe mother, named locally as Zoe Powell, 29, died at the scene with her eight-year-old daughter Phoebe. Six-year-old Simeon and Amelia, four, died at John Radcliffe Hospital.\n\nTheir father Josh, 30, and an 18-month-old girl were critically injured.\n\nOxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said it worked with police and paramedics to free the father and daughter, who are from Chinnor in Oxfordshire, from the silver Subaru car.\n\nThe driver of the lorry, a 56-year-old man, suffered minor injuries and is helping officers with their investigation.\n\nNo arrests have been made, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nZoe Powell, 29, from Chinnor and three of her young children died after a crash with a lorry\n\nMrs Powell was a blogger who wrote about motherhood, family life and the challenges of having young children.\n\nShe created a specialised diary called the Mama Book to help young mothers find \"mental space in the midst of motherhood\".\n\nThe road reopened at about 13:00 after being closed both ways for accident investigation work.\n\nIn a statement on Facebook, Chinnor Parish Council said: \"As a close Chinnor community, we are all so saddened and shocked to hear about the tragic accident last night.\"\n\nA member of the parish told the BBC: \"At the moment it's just so raw. The community are very upset.\"\n\nSt Andrew's Church said it would be open daily from 11:00 to 17:00 \"for private prayer and lighting of a candle\".\n\nOxford City Council leader Susan Brown said: \"Horrible, horrible news and my thoughts are not just with the family and friends but with all those professionals doing their jobs who have seen sights they will sadly never forget.\"\n\nThe crash happened near a bridge where the A40 crosses a railway\n\nSgt Dominic Mahon, senior investigating officer, asked people \"not to speculate as to the cause of this horrendous incident\".\n\n\"We will leave no stone unturned to ascertain what has caused this tragedy,\" he said.\n\nSgt Mahon said officers and colleagues from the other emergency services were dealing with \"an extremely upsetting scene\".\n\nHe said the family's next of kin were being supported.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ikea will soon be selling pre-used versions of some of its best sellers\n\nThe Swedish giant will next month launch a scheme to buy back your unwanted Billy bookcases, and certain other of its furniture items you no longer need or want.\n\nUnder the plan, it will offer vouchers worth up to 50% of the original price, to be spent at its stores.\n\nThe \"Buy Back\" initiative will launch to coincide with Black Friday.\n\n\"By making sustainable living more simple and accessible, Ikea hopes that the initiative will help its customers take a stand against excessive consumption this Black Friday and in the years to come,\" it said in reference to 27 November, when lots of retailers offer discounts on their products.\n\nThe international scheme will see customers given vouchers to spend at Ikea stores, the value of which will depend on the condition of the items they are returning.\n\nCustomers must log the item they wish to return and will then be given an estimate of its value.\n\n\"As new\" items, with no scratches, will get 50% of the original price, \"very good\" items, with minor scratches, will get 40% and \"well used\", with several scratches, will get 30%.\n\nThey should then return them - fully assembled - to the returns desk where they will be checked and the final value agreed.\n\nThe offer, which will run in 27 countries, applies to furniture typically without upholstery, such as the famous Billy bookcases, chairs, stools, desks and dining tables.\n\nIkea said that anything that cannot be resold will be recycled.\n\nIkea plans to have dedicated areas in every store where people can sell back their old furniture and find repaired or refurbished furniture.\n\nThe company started its first collection in 1948 and some vintage Ikea products have become collectable in recent years.\n\nAuction websites carry a number of Ikea designs from previous decades, and some are on sale for thousands of pounds.\n\nThe company has been testing out furniture reselling in Edinburgh and Glasgow for more than a year.\n\nIkea, which has been taking steps to become more environmentally friendly, says it aims to become \"a fully circular and climate positive business by 2030\".\n\nA \"circular\" business is one which reuses or recycles materials and products.\n\nEarlier this month the group announced plans to open a record number of stores this year.\n\nThe Swedish company and its franchisees will open 50 stores worldwide - including in the UK - adding to the 445 stores currently run by the brand.\n\nIkea's biggest franchisee said demand was rising after lockdown as people seek to do up their homes.\n\nIts latest figures showed sales in the year to August were €39.6bn (£36bn).", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "The prime minister was asked how people prevented from working by Covid restrictions would make ends meet.\n\nHe said: “whatever happens, a combination of the Job Support Scheme and Universal Credit will mean that nobody gets less than 93% of their current income.”\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak gave an example on Monday of a worker in their late twenties, renting privately and working 35 hours a week.\n\nThe chancellor said that if that if Jack's employer was forced to close by restrictions, Jack would receive just over 90% of his previous income after taxes and benefits, even though the Job Support Scheme would only be getting him two thirds of his wages.\n\nHow much he would actually receive would depend on a number of factors including how much he earns and the rent he pay.\n\nIt is possible to come up with a scenario in which Jack would receive about 90% of his usual income because he would not pay as much tax and could be entitled to Universal Credit.\n\nBut the Institute for Fiscal Studies points out that if you took a worker making £12 an hour rather than the £8.72 minimum wage then their earnings would probably still be too high to qualify for Universal Credit even if their wages were cut by one third, so although they would pay less tax, they would still have to live on only about 70% of their previous income.\n\nWe can’t find the evidence for the PM’s 93% claim though and have contacted the Treasury. We'll let you know if they come back to us\n\nIn the meantime you can read more on this here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Moment WW2 bomb explodes during attempt to defuse it\n\nThe largest unexploded World War Two bomb ever found in Poland has detonated during the defusing process, a Polish Navy spokesman said.\n\nThe chance the bomb - at the bottom of a Baltic Sea shipping canal - would detonate had been put at 50-50 and all the divers were unharmed.\n\nAbout 750 residents had been evacuated near the port city of Swinoujscie.\n\nThe RAF dropped the Tallboy or \"earthquake\" bomb in a raid in 1945 which sank the German cruiser Lützow.\n\nSwinoujscie was part of Germany and called Swinemünde at the time of the bombardment.\n\nThe shock of the latest detonation was reportedly felt in parts of the city and a video shows the blast throwing up a large column of water into the air.\n\nThe bomb was 6m (19ft) long and weighed 5.4 tonnes, nearly half of which was its explosives.\n\nThe bomb was embedded at a depth of 12m and only its nose was sticking out.\n\nNaval forces used a remote-controlled device to try to \"deflagrate\" the bomb - a technique that if successful burns the explosive charge without causing a detonation, the BBC's Adam Easton reports from Warsaw.\n\n\"The deflagration process turned into detonation. The object can be considered neutralised, it will not pose any more threat to the Szczecin-Swinoujscie shipping channel,\" said Lt Cmdr Grzegorz Lewandowski, spokesman for the Polish Navy's 8th Coastal Defence Flotilla.\n\n\"All divers were outside the danger zone.\"", "Conservative MPs in northern England seats are launching a campaign to ensure Boris Johnson sticks to his promise to boost their regions.\n\nThe PM has made \"levelling up\" - spreading money and power around the country - one of his key priorities.\n\nBut the 35-strong Tory group say they want to ensure the government delivers.\n\nIt includes several MPs who won seats in traditional Labour heartlands - the so-called \"Red Wall\" - at last year's general election.\n\nPaul Howell, who won Tony Blair's old seat, in Sedgefield, Simon Fell, the MP for Barrow-in-Furness and Sara Britcliffe, who at 24 became the youngest Conservative MP when she won Hyndburn, in Lancashire, are among those who have signed up to the group provisionally named the Northern Research Group.\n\nMs Britcliffe said: \"I don't need to join a group to speak up for Hyndburn but I have also the responsibility of making sure that we do deliver on our promise.\"\n\nThe group's leader Jake Berry, who has been the Conservative MP for Rossendale and Darwen since 2010, said it was not \"about giving government a bad time\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The Week in Westminster: \"There are arguments that we collectively as northern MPs make together, to create a compelling case for the government to invest in the north\".\n\nThese include \"making sure that this government delivers on its promise to 'level up' the north, deliver that Northern Powerhouse and create wealth across the north of England,\" he added.\n\n\"We don't form a government unless we win the north.\"\n\nMr Berry is the former minister for Northern Powerhouse, which was set up by former Chancellor George Osborne to redress the North-South economic imbalance, and to attract investment into northern cities and towns.\n\nHe has recently accused Mr Johnson of \"enjoying\" his Covid-19 powers \"a little bit too much\" - and suggested the government had \"fallen into that fatal trap of making national decisions based on a London-centric view with London data.\"\n\nLast month Conservative MPs launched a \"levelling up taskforce\" which said the government should aim to increase wages and employment rates in the poorest areas.\n\nThe promise to \"level up\" the country was a key part of the Conservative's 2019 general election campaign which saw the party win a number of seats in northern England and the Midlands traditionally held by Labour.\n\nListen to the full interview on The Week in Westminster on BBC Radio 4, Saturday 10th October at 11:00 BST.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, seen hugging other attendees\n\nUS President Donald Trump's tweet on Friday confirming that he and his wife had tested positive for coronavirus shocked the world.\n\nWith Mr Trump now in hospital, there are growing questions about how the pair were exposed to the virus.\n\nA crowded Rose Garden event is coming under intense focus - the ceremony on 26 September where Mr Trump formally announced his nomination of the conservative Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. The World Health Organization says it commonly takes around five to six days for symptoms to start after contracting the virus.\n\nFootage from the scene showed few attendees wearing masks. The seating was not set two metres (six feet) apart, while some bumped fists, shook hands or even hugged one another in greeting.\n\nEight people who attended are now confirmed to have the virus - although it is unclear exactly where and when they caught it. Aside from the president and the First Lady:\n\nMr and Mrs Trump tested positive after the president's communications director, Hope Hicks, contracted the virus. She did not attend the Rose Garden event.\n\nGuidelines published by the Centers for Disease Control recommend six feet of distance between people outside your home, and covering your nose and mouth when others are around you.\n\nDozens of lawmakers, family members and staff from the White House were at the event. Those who have tested positive were seated in the first few rows of the crowd.\n\nThose who have tested positive were sat in the first few rows of the packed event\n\nGatherings of more than 50 people at an event are banned under Washington DC coronavirus regulations, although federal property like the White House is exempt.\n\nThe Washington Post reports that authorities have left contact tracing efforts to the Trump administration. An official from Mayor Muriel Bowser's office told the paper that if all eight people were infected at the event, it would be one of the highest community spread incidents Washington DC has experienced.\n\nCity council member Brooke Pinto told the Washington Post it was \"disappointing that the White House has flaunted not wearing masks and gathering large crowds\".\n\n\"That is not only dangerous messaging for the country, but it is directly threatening to our efforts to decrease our spread across the district,\" she said.\n\nSome of the event last Saturday also took place inside.\n\nSome of the event took place inside the White House\n\nThe president stood next to Amy Coney Barrett as she delivered her speech. Ms Barrett tested negative on Friday, according to a White House spokesperson.\n\nVice-President Mike Pence and his wife Karen also tested negative. Mr Pence sat across the aisle from Mrs Trump at the ceremony.\n\nAttorney General William Barr sat in the same row as the vice-president. A Department of Justice spokesperson announced on Friday that Mr Barr had tested negative.\n\nJohns Hopkins University coronavirus trackers say that 7.3 million people in the US have contracted the virus, the highest figure in the world.\n\nThe country also has the highest death toll, with more than 209,000 people killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump's seven days before his Covid-positive test", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un: \"I feel very grateful for all our people being healthy and sound\"\n\nThe parade marked the 75th anniversary of the Workers' Party.\n\nCorrespondents say that previously unseen \"massive\" long range ballistic missiles were displayed. North Korea typically uses its parades to show off new missiles and weaponry.\n\nIt is the country's first parade in two years and comes just weeks ahead of the US presidential election.\n\nNorth Korea had not featured ballistic missiles in its parades since President Donald Trump and Mr Kim held their first summit in 2018.\n\nAccording to South Korea's military, the parade took place before dawn on Saturday. The reason for its early timing is not yet known.\n\nNo foreign media or foreigners were allowed to attend, so analysts are relying on edited state-media footage which is being released to assess the parade.\n\nDuring the parade, none of those involved appeared to be wearing masks\n\nIn a speech, he said North Korea would continue to \"strengthen\" its military for \"self-defence and deterrence\".\n\nHe also said he was grateful that no North Koreans have contracted Covid-19.\n\n\"I wish good health to all the people around the world who are fighting the ills of this evil virus,\" he said.\n\nDespite claiming the country has no cases of coronavirus, Mr Kim continues to hold high-level meetings to ensure tight restrictions remain in place.\n\nAnalysts have said it is highly unlikely that North Korea has not experienced any coronavirus cases at all.\n\nKim Jong-un ended his speech with a cry of \"long live our great people!\", but only after conceding that his country was struggling economically.\n\nBut from seeing the military hardware trundling across Kim Il-sung Square on state television, it's clear there has been no expense spared on North Korea's armed forces.\n\nAnalysts watching the highly choreographed event online will have noticed soldiers armed with new assault weapons, along with what look like new air defence systems and armoured vehicles.\n\nHowever, it is the sight of new ballistic missiles that will cause the most concern in foreign capitals.\n\nFirst came the Pukguksong 4A submarine-launched missile, followed by a huge Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) on a launcher vehicle with a colossal eleven axles, so new we don't even know what name it's been given.\n\nNorth Korea has spent the last year or so saying it would build up its nuclear capabilities, and the show of the new ICBM at Saturday's parade is designed to bolster this message. Where that takes the prospects for peace and diplomacy on the Korean peninsula is anybody's guess.\n\nThere was no sign of anyone wearing masks during the parade. However, there were far fewer people involved in the event than usual, AFP news agency reports.\n\nNorth Korea closed its borders to the outside world in January to prevent an outbreak of Covid-19 spreading from neighbouring China.\n\nAuthorities have reportedly issued \"shoot-to-kill\" orders along the border and created a buffer zone to stop anyone entering the country.\n\nLast month Mr Kim apologised for the fatal shooting of a South Korean. South Korea said the 47-year-old man was found by troops while floating in the North's waters. He was then shot dead and his body was set alight, according to Seoul.\n\nFor weeks, satellite imagery has shown thousands of people practising for Saturday's parade.\n\nForeign officials in Pyongyang had been told to avoid travelling through the city, going near the event venue and taking photos of the event.", "Two billionaire brothers from Blackburn have been made CBEs a week after clinching a £6.8bn deal to buy the Asda supermarket chain from Walmart.\n\nMohsin and Zuber Issa were among a number of business bosses on the Queen's Birthday Honours list.\n\nGlaxoSmithkline chief executive Emma Walmsley was made a dame for services to the pharmaceutical industry.\n\nThe drugs firm is one of about 20 that is part of a global race to develop a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe billionaire Issa brothers started their business 20 years ago with one rented petrol station and grew it into a network of nearly 6,000 forecourts across 10 countries.\n\nIt was announced last week that the Issa brothers and private equity firm TDR Capital would take a majority stake in Asda.\n\nWalmart said that, under the new owners, Asda will invest £1bn in the supermarket over the next three years.\n\nA number of honours were awarded to people for their work during the coronavirus pandemic, including Ms Walmsley.\n\nShe was given a damehood for services to the pharmaceutical industry and business after leading the UK's biggest drugs manufacturer for the past three years.\n\nEmma Walmsley has been chief executive of GlaxoSmithkline since 2017\n\nGlaxoSmithkline (GSK) is part of the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine, and said last week it had started clinical trials with fellow drugs firm Sanofi.\n\nAs chief executive, Ms Walmsley has been instrumental in the company's involvement in international efforts to develop a vaccine.\n\nProperty tycoon Tony Gallagher was given a knighthood in relation to his service to \"land development and the property business\".\n\nThe Gallagher Estates founder is a friend of former Prime Minister David Cameron and a major donor to the Conservative party.\n\nAndrew Mackenzie, the former chief executive officer of mining giant BHP Billiton, was made a Knight Bachelor for services to business, science, technology and to UK and Australia relations.\n\nClare Woodman the chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley International was given a CBE for services to finance.\n\nFashion entrepreneur Sir Paul Smith was also recognised on the annual list, being named as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour.\n\nThere were also honours for a number of utilities bosses.\n\nRichard Flint, who recently retired as Yorkshire Water's chief, Olivia Garfield, chief executive at Severn Trent, and Chris Jones, who stepped down as chief of Welsh Water last year, all become CBEs.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nPolish teenager Iga Swiatek completed a stunning rise by becoming the lowest-ranked woman to win the French Open after beating American Sofia Kenin.\n\nSwiatek, 19, is a former junior Wimbledon champion but the world number 54's rise to Roland Garros history has been swift and surprising.\n\nShe showed few nerves to beat fourth seed Kenin 6-4 6-1, lifting the trophy without losing a set in the tournament.\n\n\"I don't know what is going on, I'm so happy,\" a smiling Swiatek said.\n\nSwiatek is the first player from Poland to win a Grand Slam singles title.\n\nShe is the youngest French Open women's champion since Monica Seles lifted the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen in 1992.\n\n\"It is crazy. Two years ago I won a junior Grand Slam and now I'm here,\" added Swiatek, who was laughing before her voice cracked with emotion.\n\n\"It feels like such a short time. I'm so overwhelmed.\"\n\nSwiatek dropped to her haunches and cupped her mouth in disbelief after cracking a forehand winner on her first match point.\n\nAfter asking the umpire for permission, she ran across Court Philippe Chatrier to find her nearest and dearest, eventually being pointed in the right direction to run up to her support team and family in the players' box.\n\nWho is Iga Swiatek? - some quick facts about the newest French Open champion\n• None Father is former rower Tomasz Swiatek, who competed at the 1988 Olympics\n• None She won the Wimbledon junior title in 2018 and the French Open girls' doubles alongside Caty McNally in the same year\n• None Said earlier in the tournament she might step away from the tour to go to university\n• None Employs a sports psychologist, Daria Abramowicz, to travel with her on tour\n\nAnother new name wins a women's Grand Slam title\n\nThe women's game has long been unpredictable and few would have backed Swiatek, even those who were already aware of her huge potential, to win Roland Garros.\n\nThe teenager is the ninth woman to win her maiden Grand Slam in the past 14 major tournaments.\n\nBut from the moment she shocked Romanian top seed Simona Halep in the fourth round, more began to believe it would be the fearless Swiatek who lifted the trophy on Saturday.\n\nAs well as Halep, Swiatek has also beaten Czech 2019 runner-up Marketa Vondrousova and now Kenin as her ability to hit powerfully and precisely off either flank paid dividends.\n\nOne question mark going into the final was whether she would not - in her words - \"choke\". She did not seem to think she would and so it proved.\n\nThe magnitude of the occasion did not faze her as she raced into an early 3-0 lead and, after Kenin fought back to level, she regained control to win the first set.\n\nKenin struggled to handle Swiatek's heavy and free hitting, with the Pole's confidence increasing as the match went on.\n\nAnother sign of Swiatek's calmness was the way she casually waved to Polish fans and practised a few serves when Kenin took a medical timeout for treatment on a heavily-strapped left thigh after the third game of the second set.\n\nSoon it was back to business, though. Swiatek ruthlessly won 16 of the next 19 points from when Kenin returned as she became the first woman to win the title without dropping a set since Belgium's Justine Henin in 2007.\n\n\"I was just mentally consistent. I just wanted to play aggressive as in previous rounds,\" said Swiatek, who hit 25 winners and made 13 unforced errors.\n\n\"It was really stressful for me, so kind of hard. I don't know what made the difference. I won the match point and that is important enough.\n\n\"It had to be like that that another underdog won a Grand Slam in women's tennis. It is so often right now that it is crazy.\"\n\nNot to be for Kenin\n\nWhile Kenin was the higher ranked player and had won her maiden Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January, it is easy to forget the 21-year-old's own rapid progress in light of Swiatek's achievement.\n\nThe American said she \"hated\" clay courts up to last year, when she announced her arrival at Roland Garros by beating 23-time major champion Serena Williams in the third round.\n\nThere did not seem to be too much she liked about the surface when her preparation for the French Open started and finished with a 6-0 6-0 humbling by former world number one Victoria Azarenka in Rome last month.\n\nBut the feisty New Yorker, who has unashamedly told how winning is what she loves most about the sport, has repeatedly shown how she will never back down from a challenge and proved it again in Paris by reaching the final.\n\nThis was one step too far for Kenin, however, who could not reach her best level as a total of 23 unforced errors contributed to her defeat.\n\nWhile she could not become the first woman aged 21 or under to win two majors in the same season since Henin and Williams in 2003, she will reflect on a wonderful year where she has emerged as one of the biggest talents in the game.\n\n\"I'm not going to use this as an excuse, but my leg obviously was not the best,\" said Kenin, who is set to move up to fourth in the world.\n\n\"After the first set I just felt it was so tight, I couldn't move. That's why I had to call the trainer. It just got worse.\"\n\nThree-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka, who is friends with Swiatek, led the congratulations on social media...\n\nAnd also a message from Poland's biggest sporting superstar...\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "US President Donald Trump hosted his first public event since testing positive for Coronavirus last Thursday.\n\nAddressing supporters from the White House Balcony, he thanked the public for their support before taking the opportunity to criticise Democratic rival Joe Biden.", "El Shafee Elsheikh (l) and Alexanda Kotey (r) were flown to the US on Wednesday\n\nTwo Islamic State (IS) suspects from the UK have pleaded not guilty in a US court to charges of conspiring to murder four American hostages.\n\nEl Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are accused of belonging to an IS cell dubbed \"The Beatles\" involved in kidnappings in Iraq and Syria.\n\nAppearing by videolink, they both pleaded not guilty at a hearing in Alexandria, Virginia.\n\nThey had been flown from US custody in Iraq to face charges on Wednesday.\n\nElsheikh, 32, and Kotey, 36, are facing trial for involvement in the murders of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and relief workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.\n\nBoth of the accused waived their right to a fast trial.\n\nSetting the date of the next hearing for 15 January, Judge TS Ellis described the case as \"complex and unusual\" and said it may involve classified information.\n\n\"Time is required in order to achieve the ends of justice in this case,\" the judge said.\n\nElsheikh and Kotey are suspected of involvement in the deaths of other hostages, including Alan Henning - a taxi driver from Salford, Greater Manchester, who was delivering aid - and Scottish aid worker David Haines, from Perth, as well as two Japanese nationals.\n\nThey are also face charges of supporting terrorism and conspiring to commit hostage taking.\n\nOriginally from west London, their alleged IS gang was given its 1960s pop group nickname by hostages due to their British accents. They were stripped of their UK nationality in 2018.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dilys Price said she felt free when she was jumping out of planes all over the world\n\nA woman who became the world's oldest female skydiver has died, aged 88.\n\nFormer teacher Dilys Price, from Cardiff, was scared of heights when she did her first jump in her fifties.\n\nBut she went on to complete hundreds of parachute jumps all over the world, and set the Guinness World Record for the oldest female solo parachute jump.\n\nShe also founded the Touch Trust charity championing art and creative movement programmes for disabled people.\n\nIts chief executive Bev Garside said she was always struck by Ms Price's \"intelligence, her energy and her warmth\".\n\n\"Always with a twinkle in her eye, she grabbed life with both hands until the end,\" she said.\n\n\"She has had a positive impact on the lives of so many and leaves the world a better place.\"\n\nIn 2018 Ms Price told BBC Wales: \"Skydiving is my passion, there you have the ultimate beauty of the sky... you just feel so free.\"\n\nAfter taking up the sport when she was 54, she went on to complete over 1,139 solo jumps all over the world.\n\nShe was no ordinary skydiver - with a background in drama and dance, she specialised in air acrobatics and freestyling.\n\nDilys Price setting her Guinness World Record for the oldest female solo parachute jump\n\nThe University of Wales Trinity Saint David, where she was an honorary fellow, said she was a \"remarkable, amazing and inspiring\" woman.\n\nMark James Parry tweeted: \"Very very sad that my Aunt ⁦@DilysPriceOBE⁩ has passed away. She touched many with her incredible personality and truly lived life to the full. An inspiration to all. Truly grateful that I got to call her my Aunt. We will miss you.\"\n\nLearning Disability Wales said she \"transformed the lives of thousands of people with profound multiple disabilities and people with autism\".\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 Cardiff Metropolitan University This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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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\nAged 80, the former Cardiff College of Education lecturer set the Guinness World Record for the oldest solo parachute jump (female).\n\nAt 86 she sold her parachute, but went on to do a tandem skydive with former Wales rugby star Gareth Thomas.\n\nShe was awarded an OBE for services to people with special needs in 2003, and was honoured for her work at the Pride of Britain awards in 2017.\n\nIn 2018, she was included on a list of the 100 women who have influenced Welsh life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dilys Price said she was \"amazed\" to be included on a list of the most influential Welsh women\n\nBack in 2018, Ms Price, who went on to model for Helmut Lang, said she wanted to inspire older people to keep active.\n\nShe said: \"We only get one shot at life\".", "Whoever had the book appears to have looked after it as the council said it was \"pristine\"\n\nAn overdue library book has been returned nearly 60 years late.\n\nIt was left in Middlesbrough Central Library's returns box this week but was due back in December, 1962.\n\nThe copy of Geoffrey Faber's poetry anthology The Buried Stream was still \"pristine\", Middlesbrough Council said.\n\nThe fine would have been more than £500 but charges have been suspended during the pandemic and there would be \"no questions asked\", a council spokesperson said.\n\nThe identity of the borrower is not known.\n\nLibrarian David Harrington said they were \"really grateful to the anonymous person who returned this book to us as it will be added back to our stock and placed in the Reference Library for future generations to enjoy\".\n\nHe urged anyone else with overdue books to return them while the library was not imposing fines.\n\nAround the time Middlesbrough Library was expecting the return of The Buried Stream:\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.", "Cases are highest in the North West, North East and Yorkshire and The Humber\n\nCoronavirus cases in England have \"increased rapidly\", data shows, as ministers grapple with what to do next.\n\nEstimates suggest between one-in-170 and one-in-240 people you meet in the street has the virus.\n\nBoth current cases, and the speed at which they are increasing, are much higher in the north of England than the national average.\n\nScientific advisers warn hospital admissions are \"very close\" to levels in early March.\n\nThe official government statistics do not capture the full pattern of the number of people infected.\n\nMeanwhile, the largest study of coronavirus, by Imperial College London, has also reported its analysis of 175,000 people, with the last samples taken on Monday.\n\nAcross England, it says cases are continuing to increase, but not as aggressively as at the beginning of September.\n\nBut this masks a stark regional picture - with cases doubling around twice as fast in the North West, Yorkshire and the West Midlands compared to the whole of England.\n\nIt also shows there has been an eight-fold increase in cases in people over 65 as the epidemic surge that started in younger age groups bleeds into the rest of the population.\n\nProf Steven Riley, from Imperial, said: \"I think it's clear that the prevalence is still increasing\" and that if new, tougher measures were needed in northern England, then they should come in \"sooner rather than later\".\n\nThe rise in cases and people being admitted to hospital is causing mounting political concern. New rules are expected to be announced on Monday and come into force on Wednesday.\n\nThe precise details are still being debated, but measures including closing pubs and restaurants, or a ban on overnight stays, are on the table.\n\nData presented to MPs by England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, appears to put the hospitality sector in the firing line, given that parts of society such as schools and universities are being kept open.\n\nA slide shown at the meeting lists hospitality as the most frequent setting for coronavirus exposure.\n\nIt says pubs, restaurants and the hospitality sector as a whole are a major area where people testing positive for the virus have been mixing.\n\nGillian Keegan, minister for skills and apprenticeships, said the government had to act to stem the rise in cases.\n\n\"This is serious - it is getting out of control, and we have to do something to bring it back under control,\" she said.\n\nThe Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) says it is \"almost certain that the epidemic continues to grow exponentially across the country and is confident that the transmission is not slowing\".\n\nSir Mark Walport, a member of Sage, told the BBC: \"On the 19 March, just before the first set of widespread restrictions, hospital admissions were 586 in England and on the 6 October they were 524.\n\n\"So we are very close to the situation at the beginning of March.\"\n\nHospital admissions are around one fifth of the level at the peak in spring, but are currently doubling every fortnight.\n\nSir Jeremy Farrar, another Sage member and director of the Wellcome Trust, says: \"We are back to choices faced in the early March... the longer the decisions are delayed, the harder and more draconian are the interventions needed to change trajectory of [the] epidemic.\"", "In all its glory: Mars pictured by Damian Peach on 30 September\n\nGet out there and look up!\n\nMars is at its biggest and brightest right now as the Red Planet lines up with Earth on the same side of the Sun.\n\nEvery 26 months, the pair take up this arrangement, moving close together, before then diverging again on their separate orbits around our star.\n\nTuesday night sees the actual moment of what astronomers call \"opposition\".\n\nAll three bodies will be in a straight line at 23:20 GMT (00:20 BST).\n\n\"But you don't have to wait until the middle of the night; even now, at nine or 10 o'clock in the evening, you'll easily see it over in the southeast,\" says astrophotographer, Damian Peach. \"You can't miss it, it's the brightest star-like object in that part of the sky,\" he told BBC News.\n\nEven though this coming week witnesses the moment of opposition, it was Tuesday of last week that Mars and Earth actually made their closest approach in this 26-month cycle.\n\nA separation of 62,069,570km, or 38,568,243 miles. That's the narrowest gap now until 2035.\n\nAt the last opposition, in 2018, Earth and Mars were just 58 million km apart, but what makes this occasion a little more special for astrophotographers in the Northern Hemisphere is the Red Planet's elevation in the sky. It's higher, and that means telescopes don't have to look through quite so much of the Earth's turbulent atmosphere, which distorts images.\n\nExperienced practitioners like Damian use a technique called \"lucky imaging\" to get the perfect shot. They take multiple frames and then use software to stitch together the sharpest view.\n\nDamian's picture at the top of this page shows up clearly the \"Martian dichotomy\" - the sharp contrast between the smooth lowland plains of the Northern Hemisphere and the more rugged terrain in the Southern Hemisphere. Evident too is Mars' carbon dioxide ice cap at the southern pole.\n\nThe image was captured using a 14-inch Celestron telescope.\n\n\"That's quite a serious bit of equipment; it's not something you get on a whim,\" says Damian. \"But even a telescope half that size will show up all the major features on Mars quite easily. And if you've got a good pair of binoculars, you'll certainly be able to make out that it's actually a planet and not a star.\"\n\nArtwork: The UAE's Hope probe will study Mars' atmosphere from next year\n\nIt's around opposition that space probes are launched from Earth to Mars. Obviously - the distance that needs to be travelled is shorter, and the time and energy required to make the journey is less.\n\nThree missions are currently in transit, all of which were sent on their way in July: The United Arab Emirates' Hope orbiter; China's Tianwen orbiter and rover; and the Americans' Perseverance rover.\n\nEurope and Russia had hoped to despatch their ExoMars \"Rosalind Franklin\" rover, too, but they missed the launch window and will now have to wait until late 2022. That's the penalty you pay when the planets align only every 26 months.\n\nHope, Tianwen and Perseverance are all on course to arrive at Mars in February.\n\nIn 2003, Mars made its closest approach to Earth around opposition in nearly 60,000 years - a separation of just 56 million km.\n\nThe distance between the two at opposition can be over 100 million km, as happened in 2012.\n\nThe variation is a consequence of the elliptical shape of the orbits of both Mars and Earth.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Workers at companies told to close as part of virus restrictions will get two-thirds of their wages\n\nThe Labour Party and business groups have voiced concern at the \"ripple effect\" of Covid shutdowns that are expected to be announced on Monday.\n\nOn Friday, the chancellor said staff at UK companies told to close would get 67% of their wages from the government under the expanded Job Support Scheme.\n\nBut no specific help was announced for workers who may be indirectly affected - for example, those in supply chains.\n\nThe Treasury denied firms that are not fully closed would not receive help.\n\nLabour claims close to one million workers will be at risk, including 500,000 people in the wedding industry, 369,000 in the sports industry, and 142,000 event caterers.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"There are massive holes in the new safety net.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said: \"We do not recognise these figures,\" adding that Labour had \"incorrectly\" listed some sectors as not benefitting from the scheme.\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"Companies that are open can use the other element of the Job Support Scheme which is aimed at those able to open but at lower levels of demand.\n\n\"And of course they can also access the other help we have made available, including billions of pounds of grants, loans and tax cuts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Job Support Scheme was announced by Mr Sunak on 24 September and will replace the \"furlough\" scheme from 1 November for six months.\n\nIt \"tops up\" the wages of employees who can't work their normal hours.\n\nThe expanded scheme, announced on Friday and available to firms ordered to shut down, will provide two-thirds of wages to employees unable to work.\n\nOn Monday, Boris Johnson is expected to announce a tiered system of measures for England in an effort to stall rising infection rates.\n\nUnder the new system, different parts of the country would be placed in one of three categories.\n\nThe worst-affected areas - which may include much of northern England - could see its pubs and restaurants closed.\n\nShadow Business Secretary Ed Miliband claimed the government had been \"forced into a climbdown\" over supporting shut-down businesses.\n\nBut he said businesses including weddings, theatres, cinemas, events, and many suppliers would be left out \"on a technicality\" because they have been \"forced to shut in all but name\", he said.\n\nMr Miliband added: \"Ministers must urgently rethink their damaging sink or swim approach which consigns whole sectors of our economy to the scrapheap.\"\n\nRoger Barker, Director of Policy at the Institute of Directors said the new measures set out by the chancellor on Friday were a \"useful step\" towards supporting businesses affected by the lockdown.\n\nBut he said their impact would be limited because they \"don't account for the ripple effects of restrictions across the economy\".\n\nHe added: \"It is becoming increasingly clear that the chancellor's previous strategy of phasing out business support and allowing supposedly 'unviable' companies to fail was premature in the face of a resurgent virus.\n\n\"Friday's measures should be seen as the start of renewed efforts to sustain the survival of companies and jobs if long-term damage to the economy is to be prevented.\"\n\nAdam Marshall, Director General of the British Chamber of Commerce, also said the new support did not go far enough to protect firms in supply chains and town and city centres and urged: \"Their cash flow concerns and worries about future demand must be heeded.\"", "Some of those who arrived last week needed to get treatment in hospital\n\nMore than 1,000 migrants from Africa have arrived in the Spanish Canary Islands over the last 48 hours, the Red Cross says.\n\nThese are figures that have not been seen for more than a decade.\n\nOn a visit to the islands, Spain's Migration Minister José Luis Escrivá promised a \"comprehensive response\".\n\nThis route from West Africa has grown in popularity since 2018. A previous peak, in 2006, saw 35,000 migrants arrive in the archipelago, the UN says.\n\nMany of the migrants would have set sail from Senegal, more than 1,600km (1,000 miles) away, where this week two boats carrying 186 people were intercepted by Senegalese marines, the AFP news agency reported quoting a military statement.\n\nThe passengers were reported to have been from Senegal and The Gambia.\n\nThe migrants who arrived in the Canary Islands since Thursday were rescued from 37 boats, Spanish news agency EFE reports.\n\nMany are being looked after by the Spanish Red Cross in camps near where they disembarked.\n\nA Red Cross spokesman told AFP that barring a few mild cases of hypothermia, all were in good health and had been tested for coronavirus.\n\nThe Spanish Red Cross is helping the migrants once they arrive\n\nMr Escrivá has been on a trip to three of the archipelago's main islands - Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria - to see the situation for himself.\n\nBut he was criticised by local council leader Blas Acosta for not offering any solutions to how the migrants should be housed, El Mundo newspaper reports.\n\nBetween January and the end of July this year, 3,269 migrants made the crossing from West Africa to the Canary Islands, which is nearly a 600% increase on the same period in 2019, the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.\n\nThis year so far, more than 250 people have died trying to reach the islands, the IOM adds.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritain's Simon Yates is out of the Giro d'Italia after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Tirreno-Adriatico champion will not start Saturday's eighth stage of the Grand Tour.\n\nYates, 28, was tested after he \"developed very mild symptoms\" following Friday's seventh stage, his Mitchelton-Scott team said.\n\nTeam staff and riders have also received rapid tests and been cleared to continue racing.\n\nYates, however, will remain under quarantine \"where the team can offer its best possible care\", Mitchelton-Scott added.\n\n\"Simon's health remains our main concern and, thankfully, his symptoms remain very mild and he is otherwise in good health,\" said team doctor Matteo Beltemacchi.\n\nYates was in 21st position in the race, three minutes 52 seconds behind the leader, Joao Almeida of Portugal.\n\nVictory at the Giro d'Italia was supposed to be a shoo-in for a British rider. Coming into the race Yates' form seemed slightly better than Geraint Thomas of Ineos Grenadiers.\n\nFrom a sporting perspective, it's an absolute disaster for this close-knit Australian team Mitchelton-Scott whose main objective this year was to win the Giro. And while Yates' symptoms are said to be mild, he is the first rider to contract coronavirus during a Grand Tour.\n\nFor organisers of the Giro, RCS, this is an unwanted milestone and a warning. They took a similar approach to Tour de France organisers ASO - testing riders and staff before the race and on rest days. But, while the Tour was seen as a success, this is proof the 'bubble' is not impermeable - and that Covid-19 has made it into the peloton.\n\nAs Yates' team boss Matt White said himself before the start of this hastily rearranged road cycling season: \"You have to have your head in the clouds if you think we'll cruise though this next three-and-a-half-month period scot-free.\"\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Speaking to the crowd about the coronavirus pandemic, he said \"I feel very grateful for all our people being healthy and sound.\"", "The singer has recorded dozens of hits with the Housemartins, The Beautiful South and Jacqui Abbott\n\nSinger Paul Heaton has been praised for his generosity, after the final editor of Q Magazine revealed how he supported staff when the publication closed.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Ted Kessler explained how the star made a large donation to the magazine, which was shared amongst 40 staff.\n\n\"It really was the most amazingly kind, selfless, generous act,\" he said. \"For some, it meant a bill could be paid.\"\n\nIn thanks, the staff commissioned a Q Award to honour the star.\n\nReceiving it on Friday, Heaton thanked the magazine for its support and the \"kind words\" about his donation.\n\n\"It was just meant to make sure people weren't left on their arse,\" he said in a video posted to Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Paul Heaton 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\nKessler, who was at the helm of Q Magazine when it closed in July, shared the story on what would have been the date of the annual Q award ceremony.\n\n\"We had the Roundhouse booked for two nights for the Q Awards next week,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"We didn't have talent sorted when we had to Covid cancel in April, but Nadine Shah was presenting and the two gigs were Liam Gallagher one night, Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott the other.\n\n\"The only award we knew for sure was to Paul Heaton, as we'd heard he'd never won one.\n\n\"Think of all the brilliant songs he's written for The Housemartins, Beautiful South, etc. Millions of records sold. No Q award (or Brit) for his songwriting. So we knew he'd be Classic Songwriter.\n\n\"Then, a few days after Q closed, we got a message from him saying that to thank Q for all the support we'd given him over 35 years, he was going to donate a large sum to thank us in our turmoil. Obviously, I politely declined.\n\n\"He was insistent. I accepted the donation and shared it amongst over 40 staff and freelancers working for Q at the time, all of whose minds - like mine - were blown.\"\n\nPosting a photo of Heaton's award, Kessler concluded: \"We got him that award in the end. Britain's greatest living pop star. A true legend.\"\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 Ted Kessler 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\nFans welcomed the anecdote with an outpouring of joy and gratitude.\n\n\"Such a non-2020 thing to happen,\" said Mat Osman, bassist for Suede. \"A musician who I love is suddenly trending and it turns out that it's just because he's a lovely guy.\"\n\n\"This kind of thing is just enough to retain faith in human nature. What a wonderful thing to do,\" added BBC 6 Music's Shaun Keaveny.\n\n\"A proper working class hero,\" added one fan, while another commented: \"Paul Heaton and his songs have pulled me out of very dark times. He deserves all the kudos, awards and love that goes his way,\" added another user.\n\nHeaton, who was formerly a member of the Housemartins and The Beautiful South, is known for his generosity.\n\nIn 2017, he revealed that he had offered all the royalties from his back catalogue to the government - meaning that every time a hit like Happy Hour, Rotterdam or Perfect 10 was played, the money would be used to fund schools and the NHS.\n\n\"I felt I'd made enough money from them, I didn't want to nationalise my savings, as such, I was just saying this was a gift to the British public,\" he told Channel 5's Matthew Wright programme.\n\nHowever, he said, the offer was turned down.\n\nThe star was also due to play a free concert for NHS staff on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis next week, along with his current singing partner Jacqui Abbott.\n\nThe show, in Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena, has been rescheduled for April, due to ongoing restrictions on live events.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The cause of the mid-air collision over Loches, Indre-et-Loire is under investigation\n\nTwo small planes have collided in mid-air before crashing in western central France, killing five people, local officials say.\n\nThe collision between two light aircraft happened south-east of the city of Tours at about 16:30 local time (15:30 BST) on Saturday.\n\nEmergency crew, including about 50 firefighters, were called to the scene. They cordoned off the crash sites.\n\nNo-one else was harmed when the planes came down.\n\nThe smaller aircraft, a microlight carrying two people, landed on a fence around a house in the town of Loches, situated about 46km (29 miles) south-east of Tours.\n\nPolice have cordoned off the crash sites\n\nA witness told AFP news agency it burst into flames after landing on the house's electricity meter.\n\nThe larger plane, a Diamond DA40, landed more than a 100m (328ft) away in an uninhabited area. It had three tourists on board.\n\n\"All five people involved died,\" local government official Nadia Seghier told AFP.\n\n\"Air emergency staff from Lyon were brought in at first to track down the plane, which was quickly found.\"\n\nThere were no immediate details about the identities of the victims or the cause of the collision.\n\nLocal police have launched an investigation into the incident.\n\nThe crash sites have been blockaded and residents have been told to stay in their homes, a witness said.\n\nThe mayor called the collision an \"unbelievable accident\"\n\nWitness Genevieve Allouard-Liebert, who lives in the area, said she had heard a \"big crash\" when the planes came down. She said she and her husband saw a man fall from the larger plane as it skimmed nearby rooftops.\n\nMid-air collisions between small aircraft are considered to be rare. One fatal incident in France happened over Quiberon Bay off the coast of Brittany in 1998, when a Beechcraft 1900D collided in mid-air with a light aircraft, killing 15 people.\n\n\"There's never any air traffic around Loches, it's an unlikely and unbelievable accident,\" the town's mayor Marc Angenault said.", "(From left to right) Li Qing Wang, Takieddine Boudhane, David Gomoh, Sgt Matiu Ratana, Sayagi Sivanantham and Louis Johnson have all been killed in London this year\n\nThe number of killings in London has exceeded 100 for a sixth consecutive year, BBC research has found.\n\nThe deaths of Poorna Kaameshwari Sivaraj and her son in Brentford mean there have been 101 homicides in 2020.\n\nNinety-nine of those murder and manslaughter investigations have been launched by the Met, while British Transport Police has recorded two.\n\nData gathered and analysed by the BBC found there had been 55 fatal stabbings so far this year.\n\nOther findings over the last 10 months include that 12 teenagers have been killed - all of them male - while six homicide victims were children aged 10 and under.\n\nThe data also showed 18 people were killed while the capital was put into lockdown as part of drastic measures to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHavering is the only London borough which has not seen a murder investigation launched in 2020, the BBC has also found.\n\nCharges have been brought in more than two-thirds of all investigations and there have been convictions in a number of cases, including the stabbing of teenager Louis Johnson who was killed at East Croydon station in January.\n\nSophie Linden, London's deputy mayor for policing and crime, said the milestone brought \"deep sadness and deep regret\".\n\nShe said: \"It is always sad that we have lost so many people in the last six years, and we have to remember that there are people and families behind these statistics.\n\n\"The difference in murders really shows the complexity, and ranges from young children to teenagers to violence on the street and women being killed in their own home.\"\n\nLast year London saw its deadliest year in a decade with more than 150 people killed in the capital. City Hall data showed that about 10% of those homicides were related to domestic violence.\n\nAdditionally during the lockdown period City Hall said there was a 25% increase in calls to the National Domestic Abuse helpline as well as a rise in domestic abuse-related incidents in the capital.\n\nLatest figures show that more than 440 people, mainly women, have been referred to an emergency programme to support individuals fleeing domestic violence and abuse.\n\nPoorna Kaameshwari Sivaraj, 36, and her son Kailash Kuha Raj were last seen on 21 September\n\nLooking at murders in the capital as statistics is always grim, but the most recent name on the list from 2020 is particularly poignant - Kailash Kuha Raj was just three years old.\n\nHe was stabbed to death in Brentford, his body discovered near that of his 36-year-old mother on Tuesday. Their deaths are a reminder that there are many different narratives underlying London's homicide figures, and while stabbings are still responsible for by far the highest number of deaths, the ages of those killed and where they lived in the capital vary greatly. Last year the number of domestic violence-related homicides reached a five-year high in the UK, and London charities have warned that many of the risk factors which can lead to women being abused have increased during the Covid 19 pandemic.There has been an increase in fatal shootings too - 13 so far this year compared with 10 in the whole of 2019.\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\nEmployees who work for UK firms forced to shut by law because of coronavirus restrictions are to get two-thirds of their wages paid for by the government.\n\nThe scheme, announced by Rishi Sunak, begins on 1 November for six months and a Treasury source said it could cost hundreds of millions of pounds a month.\n\nA restrictions update, which could see pubs and restaurants shut in the worst-affected areas, is expected on Monday.\n\nLeaders in areas now under restrictions said the scheme did not go far enough.\n\nIn a statement, the mayors of Greater Manchester, North Tyne, Sheffield and Liverpool said: \"We are pleased that the government has listened and recognised that any new system of restrictions must come with a substantial package of financial support.\"\n\nBut they said it was only a \"start\" and more help was needed \"to prevent genuine hardship, job losses and business failure this winter\".\n\nThe announcement comes just a fortnight after the government unveiled its Job Support Scheme - replacing the furlough scheme - to top up the wages of staff who have not been able to return to the workplace full time.\n\nThe latest scheme will only apply to businesses told to close - rather than those who choose to shut because of the broader impact of Covid restrictions.\n\nThe support will be reviewed in January. Until November businesses that are asked to close can continue to use the existing furlough scheme.\n\nThe grants will be paid up to a maximum of £2,100 per employee a month and the Treasury said they would protect jobs and enable businesses to reopen quickly once restrictions are lifted.\n\nOne pub manager in Otley, West Yorkshire, said the scheme \"doesn't even touch the sides\" in terms of its impact on pubs.\n\n\"Two-thirds of somebody's wage isn't going to cut it,\" said Mel Green, 41, of The Black Bull.\n\n\"We're in a trade where everyone's on national minimum wage pretty much. They're the ones that are losing out. A lot of them are living hand to mouth already and they've already had hours reduced.\"\n\nThe chancellor said the latest measures for companies forced to shut would provide \"reassurance and a safety net for people and businesses in advance of what may be a difficult winter\".\n\nIn addition, for businesses forced to close in England, Mr Sunak announced an increase in business grants - with up to £3,000 a month paid every fortnight.\n\nThe Treasury says the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive increased funding allowing them to bring in similar measures if they choose to.\n\nIt is a sign of how quickly the coronavirus situation has soured that the chancellor is having to return to a policy he thought he'd parked less than two weeks ago when he announced his Winter Economic Plan.\n\nThe government insists this is not a retread of the furlough scheme, which is due to expire at the end of this month, but in all important aspects this is furlough mark two.\n\nThe crucial bit is that small employers will not have to make any contribution to their workers' wages if they are legally forced to shut down.\n\nLarger businesses will have to contribute about 5% of employee costs in the form of National Insurance and pension contributions.\n\nThat is much more generous than the expiring furlough scheme and way more generous than the Job Support Scheme Mr Sunak announced 10 days ago, which requires employers to pay 55% of active workers' salaries.\n\nThe reason for that is simple - those measures applied to businesses that were allowed to be open. This new scheme only applies to businesses which are not.\n\nOther questions are not simple - who will be eligible? What about businesses that were never allowed to reopen since March?\n\nWill it be applied by postcode? Will you be able to walk 10 minutes down the road to go to the pub that is open but having to pay 55% of staff wages when it's less than half full?\n\nAnd perhaps most importantly for the expected \"beneficiaries\" of this scheme - the hospitality industry - how strong is the evidence on which this policy is based and can we see it in detail?\n\nLabour said the government's \"rather slow, incompetent, dithering response\" had caused \"unnecessary anxiety and job losses\".\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds welcomed the measures but called for further changes to the scheme to incentivise employers to keep more of their staff on.\n\nThe CBI business lobby group said the scheme \"should cushion the blow for the most affected and keep more people in work\".\n\n\"But many firms, including pubs and restaurants, will still be hugely disappointed if they have to close their doors again after doing so much to keep customers and staff safe,\" added CBI boss Dame Carolyn Fairbairn.\n\nFederation of Small Businesses boss Mike Cherry said the extra help for closed businesses would be \"welcomed by thousands of small businesses\".\n\nShop workers' trade union Usdaw said it was concerned retailers facing reduced business in an area subject to the new restrictions would not benefit from the scheme.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people in the UK to have tested positive for coronavirus rose by 13,864 - a decrease of 3,676 on Thursday's figures - with a further 87 deaths reported on the government's dashboard.\n\nThe chancellor described his announcement as \"a very different scheme to what we've had before, this is not a universal approach, this is an expansion of the job support scheme specifically for those people who are in businesses that will be formally or legally asked to close\".\n\nAsked whether the announcement suggested the government was going to ask businesses, such as those in hospitality, to shut, Mr Sunak said: \"The rise in cases and hospital admissions in certain parts of the country is a concern.\n\n\"It's right the government considers a range of options... but it's also right they engage with local leaders.\n\n\"That is what's happening this afternoon and over the weekend so those conversations can happen and collectively we can decide on the appropriate response.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The shadow chancellor welcomes a “U-turn” by the government to pay workers made to stay at home in any new lockdowns.\n\nThe Job Support Scheme, which will replace the furlough scheme from 1 November, will see eligible workers get three quarters of their normal salaries for six months.\n\nTo qualify, employees must be in a ''viable job'' where they can work for at least one-third of their normal hours.\n\nFor the hours not worked, the government and employer will each pay one-third of the remaining wages. This means the employee would get at least 77% of their pay.\n\nPubs and restaurants could be closed in the worst-affected areas under new measures\n\nA tiered system of measures for England is expected to be announced by Monday, in an effort to stall rising infection rates, to replace the patchwork of existing rules across the country.\n\nUnder the new system, different parts of the country would be placed in different categories - although ministers are still discussing the precise details.\n\nPubs and restaurants could be closed in the worst-affected areas, including parts of northern England and the Midlands, while a ban on overnight stays is also being considered.", "Only a few hundred North Atlantic right whales remain\n\nMore than 350 scientists and conservationists from 40 countries have signed a letter calling for global action to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises from extinction.\n\nThey say more than half of all species are of conservation concern, with two on the \"knife-edge\" of extinction.\n\nLack of action over polluted and over-exploited seas means that many will be declared extinct within our lifetimes, the letter says.\n\nEven large iconic whales are not safe.\n\n\"Let this be a historic moment when realising that whales are in danger sparks a powerful wave of action from everyone: regulators, scientists, politicians and the public to save our oceans,\" said Mark Simmonds.\n\nThe visiting research fellow at the University of Bristol, UK, and senior marine scientist with Humane Society International, has coordinated the letter, which has been signed by experts across the world.\n\n\"Save the whales\" was a familiar green slogan in the 1970s and 1980s, part of a movement that helped bring an end to commercial whaling.\n\nWhile stricken populations in most parts of the world have had a chance to recover from organised hunting, they are now facing myriad threats from human actions, including plastic pollution, loss of habitat and prey, climate change and collisions with ships.\n\nBy far the biggest threat is becoming accidently captured in fishing equipment and nets, which kills an estimated 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises a year.\n\nRally in Mexico to draw attention to the vaquita\n\nHundreds of scientists have expressed the same concern - that we are moving closer to a number of preventable extinctions. And unless we act now, future generations will be denied the chance to experience these intelligent social and inspiring creatures.\n\nThey point to the decline of the North Atlantic right whale, of which only a few hundred individuals remain, and the vaquita, a porpoise found in the Gulf of California, which may be down to the last 10 of its kind.\n\nAnd they say it is almost inevitable that these two species will follow the Chinese river dolphin down the path to extinction. The dolphin, also known as the baiji, was once a common sight in the Yangtze River but is now thought to have died out.\n\nThe letter, which has been signed by experts in the UK, US, Mexico, South Africa and Brazil, among others, points out that these \"dramatic\" declines could have been avoided, but that the political will has been lacking.\n\nDr Susan Lieberman of the Wildlife Conservation Society said she signed the letter to help scientists raise these issues more widely.\n\n\"It is critical that governments develop, fund, and implement additional needed actions to better protect and save these iconic species - so they don't end going the way of the baiji,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe scientists say that more than half of the 90 living species of whales, dolphins and porpoises, are of conservation concern, and the trend of acting \"too little, too late\" must end.\n\nThey are calling on countries with whales, dolphins and porpoises (cetaceans) in their waters to act to monitor threats and do more to protect them.\n\nSarah Dolman of Whale and Dolphin Conservation, UK, said accidental capture in fishing gear, known as bycatch, is an issue around UK waters, causing the deaths of thousands of cetaceans and other animals, including seals and birds, a year.\n\nThese include harbour porpoises and common dolphins, and increasing numbers of minke and humpback whales off the coast of Scotland.\n\nShe said entanglement in fishing nets was a \"horrible way to die\" with some animals surviving with broken teeth or beaks, or losing their young.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"We have a long way to go before we can be confident the fish we are eating is not causing bycatch of protected species like whales and dolphins.\"\n\nThe letter is part of a growing movement by scientists and conservationists to raise awareness of the threats faced by whales and their smaller relatives, the dolphins and porpoises.\n\nThe matter was discussed in September at a meeting of the scientific conservation committee of the International Whaling Commission, which has a core mission to prevent extinctions.\n\nMembers have set up an \"extinction initiative\" to work out how many extinctions we may be facing and what more we can do to prevent them.", "Rebecca Mack and her father Alan were ill at the same time\n\nA father who caught coronavirus from his daughter before she died from Covid-19 is donating plasma to help other people with the virus.\n\nAlan Mack, whose daughter Rebecca died in April, is part of a clinical trial of so-called \"convalescent\" plasma.\n\nThe hope is that antibodies built up by people who have had the virus will help others recover.\n\n\"I don't want anybody, if at all possible, to go through what we had to go through,\" Mr Mack said.\n\n\"There are so many people, I think, who just think it won't happen to them - and it can.\"\n\nAlan Mack has donated plasma eight times so far\n\nRebecca Mack, 29, who worked in the children's cancer unit at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary and for NHS 111, had been self-isolating at home.\n\nShe had called an ambulance but died before it arrived.\n\nMr Mack and his wife Marion believe they contracted the virus driving their daughter home from a course shortly before lockdown, so she would not have to travel on public transport.\n\nRebecca, from Morpeth, Northumberland, had no symptoms at the time but both she and Mr Mack later became very ill. Mrs Mack also had the virus but her condition was not as severe.\n\n\"It was just horrendous,\" Mr Mack said.\n\n\"Rebecca herself, when she was working for the 111 service, she just thought it was a glorified flu bug.\n\n\"A lot of people did think that but it isn't, it's nasty.\"\n\nMr Mack has donated blood plasma eight times and has been told he can continue while he has sufficient antibodies.\n\nOnly about 20 people have donated this many times, NHS Blood and Transplant said.\n\nMr and Mrs Mack are fundraising for the Great North Children's Hospital in their daughter's memory.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBelgium's Kevin de Bruyne believes England should be leading candidates at next year's European Championship and the 2022 World Cup.\n\nThe Manchester City midfielder will be part of the Belgium side against England in the Nations League at Wembley on Sunday (17:00 BST kick-off).\n\nBoth teams reached the World Cup semi-finals in Russia two years ago.\n\n\"They should be very excited,\" the 29-year-old said of England. \"It's a very young team with a lot of potential.\"\n• None Who made your England XI for Belgium?\n\nEngland have not won a major trophy since the 1966 World Cup but De Bruyne, who was voted last season's Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year, said: \"They should aim to win the next Euros and World Cup. I think they have that potential.\n\n\"There are always a lot of teams who want to win it, but I think the team they have - the players who play in top clubs - they should do that.\"\n\nBelgium manager Roberto Martinez agreed that England counterpart Gareth Southgate has an impressive squad at his disposal.\n\n\"His players are as good as anyone individually in world football and it is just a matter of time that they will get that trophy or major result in a major tournament,\" said former Swansea, Wigan and Everton boss Martinez.\n\nEngland, ranked fourth in the world, warmed up for Sunday's match with a 3-0 victory against Wales at Wembley on Thursday, with goals from Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Conor Coady and Danny Ings, while Jack Grealish impressed on his first senior start.\n\nBelgium, top of the Fifa rankings, beat England twice at the 2018 World Cup, but they will be without key forwards Dries Mertens and Eden Hazard on Sunday.\n\nDe Bruyne has revealed he is open to a new contract with Manchester City but says no discussions have taken place.\n\nHe joined City from Wolfsburg for £55m in August 2015 and has two and a half years to run on his existing deal.\n\nThere has been recent speculation in the media over a new two-year contract at Etihad Stadium.\n\nDe Bruyne has won two Premier League titles, four League Cups and the FA Cup during his spell with City.\n\n\"I have not spoken once to the club so I don't know why people are saying I have already agreed to something,\" he said.\n\n\"I always told everybody I am really happy at the club and I feel comfortable, so if the people at the club want to talk to me I am open to that and we will see what happens.\n\n\"But at the moment nothing has happened.\"\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "Another member of staff at Glasgow's Barlinnie prison has tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nTwo inmates and five staff at the jail have already been confirmed as having Covid-19.\n\nOn Saturday the Scottish Prison Service said more than 250 inmates were put into lockdown, with 12 staff from the jail's A hall also isolating.\n\nAll visits to A hall have been suspended until at least the end of October.\n\nAn SPS spokesman said the rest of the prison was not affected by the outbreak or visiting ban.\n\nHe added that contact tracing was being carried out for staff members.\n\nEarlier this year, the Scottish government approved new early release regulations to help the prison system cope with Covid cases.\n\nThe move, designed to free up more cells for single-use occupancy, could allow up to 450 inmates to get out of prison early.\n\nBut only those sentenced to 18 months or less and with 90 days or less left to serve are potentially eligible. Some serious offences are excluded.\n• None Up to 450 prisoners to be released early", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Celebrity cook Mary Berry and grime pioneer Dizzee Rascal have been honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.\n\nBerry, who has earned the status of national treasure over a six-decade career, was \"overwhelmed\" at being made a dame for services to broadcasting, the culinary arts and charity.\n\nIt is \"such a huge honour\", she said.\n\nDizzee Rascal, real name Dylan Kwabena Mills, has been made an MBE for services to music.\n\nReacting to the news, Dame Mary added: \"When I was first told that I was going to be a dame you don't really believe it. And then it's so exciting, and you feel very proud.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mary Berry on damehood: \"I'll still be the same person\"\n\n\"For most of my life I have been lucky enough to follow my passion to teach cookery through books and the media.\n\n\"To be a dame is really the icing on the cake.\"\n\nThe former Great British Bake Off judge joked: \"I just wish my parents and brothers were here to share my joy, as my only achievement at school was just one O-Level - in cookery of course.\"\n\nDame Mary is no stranger to the Royal Family, having made meringue roulades with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge last year, for her Berry Royal Christmas TV special.\n\nThe much-loved broadcaster, baker and food writer is also a patron of Child Bereavement UK, after having lost her son William aged 19 in a car crash in 1989.\n\nIn 2018, she told The Graham Norton Show she was once arrested at an airport after baking ingredients were mistaken for drugs.\n\nDizzee Rascal has had five UK number one singles\n\nDizzee Rascal is considered to have been one of the founding fathers of grime - a UK-based electronic rap genre which grew out of the English capital at the start of the century.\n\nIn 2003, aged 19, the East London MC became the youngest artist to win the Mercury Prize, with his debut album Boy in da Corner.\n\nThe elder statesman of the British rap game, who drops his seventh album E3 AF at the end of October, told the BBC in 2017 that he deserved to be given top billing at Glastonbury Festival.\n\n\"I've toured this festival for years, never disappointed,\" he said. \"You can always count on me.\"\n\n\"I'm basically at the stage where they need to make me headline this thing - because they ain't had no British rappers headline this festival.\"\n\nHis drive and success helped to pave the way for modern superstar Stormzy to eventually become the first black solo headliner in the history of the Worthy Farm event last year, bringing UK hip-hop and grime into the mainstream in the process.\n\nDame Mary is joined by veteran actress and Coronation Street star Maureen Lipman and The Woman in Black author Susan Hill, in being made a dame commander. The former played the title character's mother in Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning 2002 drama The Pianist.\n\nThere were knighthoods for one of the country's first rock 'n' roll icons Tommy Steele, for services to entertainment and charity, along with Brookside, Grange Hill and Hollyoaks creator Professor Phil Redmond, for services to broadcasting and arts in the regions. Hercule Poirot actor David Suchet was also knighted for services to drama and charity.\n\nDerrick Evans - more commonly known as Mr Motivator - has also been made an MBE after creating online home exercises during lockdown and hosting a week-long workout with Linda Lusardi to raise money for Age UK's Emergency Coronavirus Appeal.\n\nAnother English music star, singer Mica Paris, was also made an MBE, as well as performer and vocal coach Carrie Grant.\n\nDavid Attenborough and Lorraine Kelly also make the Queen's latest list\n\nElsewhere, broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough added to his legacy by being made a GCMG - one the country's highest honours.\n\nSir David, who has spoken to a big Glastonbury crowd himself in recent years, is considered to be an inspiration for people of all ages in the UK and beyond, for a lifetime spent warning world leaders of the need to protect the planet and of ongoing issues around climate change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Paul Smith, the chairman of the clothing label Paul Smith, was made a Companion of Honour, for services to fashion.\n\nLongstanding daytime ITV presenter and journalist Lorraine Kelly was made a CBE alongside Judy Craymer, the woman behind the movie Mamma Mia! and singer-songwriter/campaigner Joan Armatrading - for services to music, charity and equal rights.\n\nProfessor Brian Cox, scientist and presenter of BBC shows including The Wonders of the Universe, was also made a CBE alongside actor Adrian Lester, who is currently starring in BBC drama series Life and appeared in the films Primary Colors and The Day After Tomorrow.\n\nBernardine Evaristo was made an OBE and Professor Brian Cox was made a CBE\n\nOBEs went to ELO singer and music producer Jeff Lynne; and Tony Hatch - the man who wrote the theme tunes for Neighbours, Crossroads, Emmerdale and Petula Clark's Downtown; as well as Last Tango in Halifax screenwriter Sally Wainwright - for services to television.\n\nBooker Prize-winning-author Bernardine Evaristo was also appointed at the same level.\n\nThe Girl, Woman, Other novelist became the first black woman to win the award, when she shared it with Margaret Atwood in 2019, after the judges broke their rules by declaring a tie.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Atwood and Evaristo become the first authors to jointly win the Booker Prize since 1992\n\nHow to Train Your Dragon writer Cressida Cowell was made an MBE for services to children's literature, while ITV's Dr Hilary Jones was made an MBE too, for services to broadcasting, public health information and charity.\n\nRapper Lady Leshurr was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to music and charity.\n\nThe freestyle performer, whose real name is Melesha Katrina O'Garro, performed her distinctive rap, Quarantine Speech, for a YouTube fundraiser during lockdown.\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 Lady Leshurr This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nRap duo Krept and Konan, real names Casyo Johnson and Karl Wilson, were also awarded the British Empire Medal for services to music and the community in Croydon.\n\nThey launched the Positive Direction Foundation three years ago, which offers activities including including workshops in music production, engineering and songwriting for young people.\n\nLast year they also judged the first series of BBC Three's The Rap Game UK.\n\nKrept and Konan: Honoured for their music and work in their community\n\nThe Queen's Birthday Honours list is usually revealed in June, but it was delayed this year by several months due to coronavirus.\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.\n\nBar and restaurant workers have dumped piles of leftover ice outside the Scottish Parliament in protest at being forced to close by Covid restrictions.\n\nDemonstrations also took place outside the City Chambers in Glasgow after pubs in Scotland's central belt were told to close for 16 days.\n\nThe closures form part of new Scottish government rules to try and suppress the spread of coronavirus.\n\nAbout 3.4 million people are currently subject to the strictest curbs.\n\nThey involve licensed premises in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, Lanarkshire, Forth Valley and Ayrshire and Arran being closed until 25 October - although they can still serve takeaways.\n\nA truckload of ice was dumped outside the City Chambers in Glasgow\n\nPeople wearing masks cheered as dozens of Glasgow hospitality workers took part in the protest outside the City Chambers at George Square on Friday evening.\n\nBucket-loads of ice were thrown on the street before a truck dumped a huge pile in the road.\n\nCaitlin Lee, a worker at Blythswood Square Hotel in the city, said the ban on alcohol sales had brought uncertainty to the entire hospitality industry.\n\nShe said: \"Our occupancy within the hotel is obviously expecting to drop because people can't go out.\n\n\"We're now in a position where we don't know what's going to happen. Hospitality and everyone in hospitality has already went through the first wave of not being able to work and now we're coming into a second wave of it.\n\n\"Are we going to be able to work into Christmas and New Year?\"\n\nBar workers showed their contempt for the new rules\n\nChloe Fraser, who previously worked in hospitality for 10 years, said the industry was being punished. She blamed those attending illegal house parties for causing the virus to spread.\n\nShe said: \"It's clearly seen that people are not obeying the law or caring about the bigger picture.\n\n\"Hospitality is having to spend a lot of money putting the screens up, having to do all of these extra things which they've been abiding by in Glasgow. What's happening afterhours is the issue.\n\n\"These independent companies can't afford these losses. That's why we're seeing this.\"\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, said he had \"absolute sympathy for every sector that has had to take a hit\".\n\nBut he told BBC Scotland's Off The Ball programme: \"I also have sympathy for the thousand people who caught the virus yesterday, and the five people who died and their families. So all things are relative.\n\n\"Yes, we absolutely want every industry to get back to normal - football, elite sport, pubs and hospitality, oil and gas, everything.\n\n\"But there comes a time when the numbers reach a certain point and you've got to do things you don't want to do.\"\n\nHospitality venues in the rest of Scotland are allowed to open, but are only permitted to serve non-alcoholic drinks and food indoors between 06:00 and 18:00.\n\nLicensed premises in these areas are still able to serve alcohol in outdoor areas, such as beer gardens, up to the 22:00 curfew introduced in September.\n\nThe Scottish government has published details of a £40m support package for businesses forced to close due to Covid restrictions.\n\nAnd UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said employees who work for firms forced to shut by law because of coronavirus restrictions are entitled to get two-thirds of their wages paid by the government.\n\nThe scheme is due to begin on 1 November for six months.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK government update on Monday, which could also see pubs and restaurants shut in the worst-affected areas of England.", "Belarus police detained hundreds of people this week and used water cannon at protests against Mr Lukashenko\n\nThe UK has temporarily recalled its ambassador from Belarus amid growing tensions over political unrest there.\n\nAuthorities in Minsk have cracked down on protests against President Alexander Lukashenko, who claimed victory in disputed elections in August.\n\nThe opposition says he must quit but he says they are Western \"puppets\" trying to overthrow him.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the move was in solidarity with Poland and Lithuania - critics of Mr Lukashenko.\n\nOn Friday, Belarus expelled 35 diplomats from those two neighbouring countries.\n\nMr Raab condemned that as a \"completely unjustified\" decision, which, he said on Twitter, would \"only isolate the Belarusian people\" further.\n\nHe said the UK would temporarily recall its ambassador, Jacqueline Perkins, in solidarity.\n\nSeven other European countries, including Germany, Romania and the Czech Republic, have also withdrawn their ambassadors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We want a new president!\" Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Minsk\n\nThe diplomatic stand-off marks a further deterioration in relations between European capitals and Minsk.\n\nLast week, the EU followed Britain and Canada in imposing sanctions on senior figures in Belarus who they say are responsible for human rights abuses against opposition campaigners.\n\nWhere is Belarus? It has Russia - its former imperial master - to the east and Ukraine to the south. To the north and west lie EU and Nato members Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.\n\nWhy does it matter? Like Ukraine, this nation of 9.5 million is caught in rivalry between the West and Russia. President Lukashenko, an ally of Russia, has been nicknamed \"Europe's last dictator\". He has been in power for 26 years, keeping much of the economy in state hands, and using censorship and police crackdowns against opponents.\n\nWhat's going on there? Now there is a huge opposition movement, demanding new, democratic leadership and economic reform. They say Mr Lukashenko rigged the 9 August election - officially, he won by a landslide. His supporters say his toughness has kept the country stable.\n\nThis week, Belarus police detained 317 people and deployed water cannon during mass protests against Mr Lukashenko, whose re-election was widely seen as fraudulent.\n\nMany opposition activists have been beaten up by police and thousands have been arrested during months of unrest. They are demanding the release of all political prisoners and a free and fair re-run of the election.\n\nMr Lukashenko remains defiant, accusing the opposition of being Western \"puppets\" intent on overthrowing his government. He is backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe main opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya - who stood against Mr Lukashenko in August's election - was forced to go into exile in Lithuania after receiving threats following the disputed vote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Human life is the most precious thing': Svetlana Tikhanovskaya speaks out from exile\n\nBelarus says Lithuania and Poland are interfering in its internal affairs by hosting Ms Tikhanovskaya and other opposition figures and refusing to accept the election result.\n\nIt asked both countries to scale back the number of staff at their embassies amid tensions over the crackdown.\n\nBoth countries had initially refused to comply with the demand to cut staffing but then recalled their ambassadors in Belarus for consultations in the hope of reducing tensions.\n\n\"The Belarusian authorities requested us to limit the number of our diplomatic personnel in Belarus. That means that more than 30 diplomats are leaving Belarus right now and coming back to Warsaw,\" Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz told Reuters.\n\nLithuanian Foreign Ministry spokesman Rasa Jakilaitiene said the country had recalled five diplomats \"in hope that the step is sufficient to keep the possibility of a dialogue\".", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWorld Rugby's decision to prevent transgender women from competing at the highest levels of the women's game has provoked a mixed reaction.\n\nThe move has been criticised by LGBT charity Stonewall, while some women's rights and gay rights campaigners have welcomed the decision.\n\nNew guidelines published on Friday \"do not recommend\" transgender women play contact rugby \"on safety grounds\".\n\nNational unions can be flexible in their application of the guidelines at community level.\n\nStonewall says it is \"deeply disappointed\" with the decision, but Fair Play for Women - which \"works to protect the rights of women and girls in the UK\" - thanked World Rugby \"for not trading away women's safety\".\n\n\"The proposals were based on hypothetical data modelling that has little relevance to the questions of fairness and safety in rugby that the policy review sought to address,\" said Stonewall chief executive Nancy Kelley.\n\n\"Important policies like this should be based on robust, relevant evidence and work closely with trans people playing in the sport.\"\n\nHowever, Bev Jackson, co-founder of the LGB Alliance, said the organisation \"applauds World Rugby for conducting a thorough, evidence-based study and making a decision on that basis to protect safety in women's rugby. We are very pleased that they resisted political pressure and kept to scientific facts. Many lesbians play this sport and they are enormously relieved.\"\n\nShe added that \"judging by the reactions we have received, a great many LGB people and indeed many trans people think this was the right decision\".\n\nDr Nicola Williams, director of Fair Play For Women, said: \"World Rugby have taken a transparent and evidence-based approach and we welcome their decision to prioritise safety and fairness for elite female players.\n\n\"We now look to Rugby's national governing bodies to follow their lead and guarantee the same protections for the thousands of women and girls who play at club level.\"\n\nTransgender men remain permitted to play men's contact rugby union, but the sport's governing body says a review of its existing guidelines had concluded that \"safety and fairness cannot presently be assured for women competing against trans women in contact rugby\".\n\nWorld Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont said: \"We recognise that the science continues to evolve and we are committed to regularly reviewing these guidelines, always seeking to be inclusive.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport in August, Grace McKenzie, a trans woman who plays for Golden Gate Women's rugby club in San Francisco, said she was worried \"that other sporting federations will look at World Rugby and begin to second-guess the existing science that supports trans women's inclusion in sport, and begin to make policies based out of a place of fear instead of a place of logic and reason\".\n\n\"I want to be able to participate fully with my team and in the sport that I love. I think that there is still a path forward to allow us to do that,\" she said.\n\nFormer Great Britain swimmer Sharron Davies, who has been vocal on the issue of trans women in elite sport, also welcomed World Rugby's decision.\n\nThe 57-year-old, a silver medallist at the 1980 Olympics, posted on social media: \"If we, as a fair society, want equal opportunities for females to medals, team places, safe sport and scholarships, with all the associations, rewards and careers, sport must be based on biological sex.\"\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "The city of Bangor has gone into local lockdown from 18:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nIt means that about 16,000 people there cannot go in or out of the area without good reason, such as work or study.\n\nBangor's restrictions will affect eight wards in the city: Garth, Hirael, Menai, Deiniol, Marchog, Glyder, Hendre and Dewi.\n\nThe city had seen a significant cluster of coronavirus cases and the incident rate stands at about 400 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nIt becomes the second area to face a local lockdown while the rest of its county does not, following Llanelli in Carmarthenshire.\n\nDiscussions were held earlier but it was decided not to extend restrictions to anywhere else in Gwynedd.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said: \"We will continue to closely monitor the situation in Gwynedd and will meet with the local authority and with neighbouring local authority leaders at the start of the week to discuss the developing situation further.\"\n\nBangor's cases appear to be associated with young people and its student population, officials have said\n\nSeventeen areas around Wales are now facing local lockdown restrictions, affecting more than two million people.\n\nIn north Wales, the whole counties of Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham are already in lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government said cases in Bangor appeared to be closely associated with young people and the student population.\n\nBangor Students' Union president Henry Williams said it was \"working hard... to ensure that students are aware of the new restrictions\". \"We understand it is a difficult time for us all,\" he said.\n\n\"We must continue to support each other to deal with what lies ahead.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Department for Work and Pensions confirmed its Bangor service centre was temporarily closed on Friday due to coronavirus but would reopen on Monday.\n\nTattooist Jules Lee says it is \"difficult\" to make people abide by social distancing\n\nJules Lee, who runs a tattoo shop in Bangor, said it was \"very difficult to get people to follow the rules\" on social distancing.\n\n\"We've got massive signs saying one person at a time, and the amount of time that we'll have to tell them 'I'm sorry' [because] they come three or four people at the same time.\n\n\"It's really awkward. It's difficult to get people to comply,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nGwynedd council leader Dyfrig Siencyn said he appreciated the lockdown would impact residents and businesses, but steps had to be taken to \"avoid stricter and more disruptive measures down the line\".Mr Siencyn said the situation was \"serious\" and being monitored closely.\"Put simply, there is no room for complacency for any Gwynedd resident,\" he said.\n\n\"We must all play our part as individuals in following the national Covid-19 guidelines to protect ourselves, our loved ones and the wider community,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Mark Drakeford defended the local restrictions in place in Conwy.\n\nIt follows a letter from council leader Sam Rowlands requesting some measures be lifted to help its tourism industry.\n\nMr Drakeford said restricting travel to or from an area with rising community infections was \"more likely to prevent uncontrolled spread into nearby areas\".", "The Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has said that many people will be in \"severe hardship\" under the government's financial support package for businesses forced to close.\n\nEmployees who work for UK firms forced to shut by law because of coronavirus restrictions are to get two-thirds of their wages paid for by the government.\n\nDuring a press conference with other leaders from the north of England, Mr Burnham said that the package is \"insufficient to protect our communities\".", "A student isolating in Nottingham was given bread, jam and an apple for breakfast\n\nUniversities are facing anger from students over conditions some have faced while self-isolating in campus accommodation.\n\nStudents have criticised the cost and quality of food provided to them by universities while in isolation.\n\nUndergraduates say food parcels have often been filled with \"junk\", meaning they have had to request fresh fruit and vegetables from parents.\n\nInstitutions said they were working hard to provide students with supplies.\n\nPeople told to self-isolate because of coronavirus must stay at home for at least 10 days under rules punishable by fines.\n\nUniversities UK has issued guidance on best practice for supporting students who are required to self-isolate.\n\nFirst-year economics and politics student Tess Bailie, 18, began a social media campaign after hearing of especially poor conditions for those isolating on her campus.\n\nOut-of-date food and a lack of catering for religious and dietary requirements are among the complaints at the University of Edinburgh's Pollock Halls, dubbed the \"UK's most expensive prison\".\n\n\"Students are saying the only thing saving them was the fact that half of them have Covid and they can't taste it anyway,\" Ms Bailie said, referring to a common Covid-19 symptom.\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 pollockprisoner 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 University of Edinburgh admitted there had been a \"few occasions when students' needs have not been met\". But it said these were addressed quickly with work taking place to improve its systems.\n\nIn a statement, the university said: \"Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our students continues to be our absolute priority.\n\n\"We have teams of staff working 24 hours a day to provide those who are self-isolating in our catered and self-catered residences with three meals a day - including ready-to-heat meals - in line with their dietary requirements and preferences. Essential items are also being delivered on request.\"\n\nAt the University of York, students are given the option of a £70 meal deal providing a sandwich, crisps, chocolate bar and water for every day they are in self-isolation.\n\nWhile the university said the food was freshly made, Claire Baseley, a registered nutritionist, said a daily sandwich would be unlikely to provide adequate nutrition for those self-isolating.\n\n\"It is important that people do get a variety of vitamins and minerals to support their immune system,\" she said.\n\nFor three meals a day, including breakfast, lunch and a hot evening meal, students are charged £170 for the isolation period.\n\nA first-year psychology student at the University of Birmingham said she and her flatmates must now spend their weekly catering allowance on boxes of food that have included Pot Noodles and frozen ready meals.\n\nThey received an initial box free of charge as soon as they reported their self-isolation, but future supplies are uncertain and will come at a cost of £28 per person for six days.\n\nStudents in Birmingham received one free box full of essentials but must now pay £28 each for similar supplies\n\nShe said: \"We don't know if that is enough food to last for our period of isolation in terms of fresh food and vegetables which are lacking. It's a lot of just like frozen stuff in there.\n\n\"We don't know what will be in the next box but because of the [first box] people from my flat have contacted home and asked for them to send things like vegetables.\"\n\nWhile online teaching has been working well, there are shortages of things such as toilet paper and a £30 charge for washing 7kg of clothes has gone down badly with many students, she added.\n\nThe University of Birmingham said its initial food boxes were designed to last two to three days and include ready meals cooked by in-house chefs, which are designed to be nutritious. It said responses to surveys of students were \"very positive\" and that the laundry service is offered at a discount by a local dry cleaning company.\n\nSome universities are not charging for providing food and toiletries however, as this bundle of provisions from Lancashire's Edge Hill University shows:\n\nPart of the weekly provisions for a group of six to eight students\n\nVice Chancellor John Cater said anyone isolating was being given free food whether they were in catered halls or not.\n\nAt the University of Nottingham, one history student said the university should have been more prepared for possible cases - and students having to isolate - after it took a week for issues with food supplies to be resolved.\n\nThe teenager is in catered halls with breakfast and dinner usually provided and £25 for lunches each week - but she has been self-isolating after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nMeals have been provided - but she said some days, lunches weren't brought. And one day, her breakfast was crisps, a chocolate bar, an apple and a juice box - while the person in a neighbouring room had bread, butter and jam.\n\n\"It was really bad,\" she said. \"They kept missing days. I tried calling as well, but no-one answered.\"\n\nThings have improved in recent days, she added.\n\nA spokesperson for the University of Nottingham said it apologised to a small number of students in halls who had experienced issues with their catering and was working on a new process.\n\nThey said: \"Our staff have been working hard to support our students who are self-isolating, along with their households, in accordance with public health guidelines.\n\n\"We recognise how difficult this will be for all our students who are affected, many of whom are away from home for the first time, and we thank them for their co-operation in following the rules, doing the right thing, and helping to contain the virus.\"\n\nOne 18-year-old who recently started Durham University and told not to come into contact with anyone else said food boxes there were filled with \"junk food and a lot of dry food\".\n\n\"I've been going to bed with stomach pains because I'm hungry. It's making my throat hurt and making me dehydrated,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nDurham pro-vice-chancellor Jeremy Cook said he apologised to those students who felt they had not been given sufficient, or healthy, food. \"But we have acted fast, listened to our students and recognised their concerns.\"\n\nMore than 1,000 people have signed a petition accusing Lancaster University of \"profiting\" from self-isolating students with food deliveries, while the University of East Anglia cut the cost of its food supplies after a backlash.\n\nHillary Gyebi-Ababio, vice-president of higher education at the National Union of Students, said students were being seen as \"pounds not people\" and universities need to remember their \"duty of care\" towards them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Burnham: \"This package is insufficient to protect our communities\"\n\nPeople will not be surrendered to hardship, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has said, as the government prepares to bring in new restrictions in England to slow the spread of Covid.\n\nLabour mayor Mr Burnham said the chancellor's pledge to pay two-thirds of workers' wages if restrictions force UK firms to close was \"insufficient\".\n\nThe government is planning to bring in a three-tier local lockdown system.\n\nIt could mean tougher rules in parts of northern England and the Midlands.\n\nLiverpool, where there are currently 600 cases per 100,000 people, is expected to be placed under the most severe set of restrictions, with all the city's pubs forced to close.\n\nOn Saturday, 15,166 people in the UK were reported to have tested positive for coronavirus - an increase of 1,302 on Friday's figure - according to the government's dashboard.\n\nThere were a further 81 deaths - a decrease of six on Friday.\n\nIn a joint press conference with other mayors from northern England, Mr Burnham said negotiations about the lockdown in the North of England were ongoing but he was told by a \"senior figure in Number 10\" that the proposed financial help was \"non-negotiable\".\n\n\"I'm angry actually about being told the effect on people's lives is non-negotiable,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the chancellor's plans would hit the lowest paid - those on minimum or living wages. \"These people can't choose to pay two-thirds of their rent or two-thirds of their bills,\" he said.\n\n\"To accept the chancellor's package would be to surrender our residents to hardship and our businesses to failure or collapse - and we are not prepared to do that,\" he added.\n\nReferring to the chancellor's previous furlough scheme, Steve Rotheram, the Labour mayor of Liverpool City Region, said: \"If 80% was right in March, it's right now. You can't do lockdown for the North on the cheap.\"\n\nHe said if the new restrictions were as severe as during the national lockdown in March, a similar sort of package was needed.\n\nMr Burnham said he wanted the minimum package to be 80% of workers' wages, in line with the initial national furlough scheme.\n\nMr Burnham and Mr Rotheram, together with mayors from Sheffield and North of Tyne, have written to all MPs in northern England asking them to call for a separate vote in Parliament on the chancellor's latest package - and to reject it.\n\nThose who have long argued that mayors provide the best model for the leadership of a city often point to what they see as their principal advantage: a widely known figurehead locally, who can stand up for you nationally.\n\nToday, we have seen that in action.\n\nParty politics plays something of a role here: all four of the mayors making their case today represent the Labour Party, all four have sharpening critiques of the Conservative government at Westminster.\n\nBut, at the same time, about 30 Tory MPs from northern England have got together.\n\nThey are the intriguingly named Northern Research Group of Conservative MPs.\n\nIf that name sounds a little bit familiar, maybe you're remembering the European Research Group of Conservative MPs, who proved to be a never ending political migraine for former Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nBut they pointedly observe: \"We don't form a government unless we win the North.\"\n\nMinisters counter that financial support for the North of England and elsewhere is unprecedented and wide ranging.\n\nThe big question now is what happens on Monday when the prime minister addresses the Commons: what do the restrictions look like, what support will be offered, and to whom?\n\nMr Burnham said he would not rule out a legal challenge and did not accept hospitality workers were \"somehow second-class citizens\".\n\n\"This goes to the heart of everything we care about - the north of England is staring the most dangerous winter for years right in the face.\n\nThe chancellor's announcement that the government would pay two-thirds of employees' wages for six months from next month if their firm is forced to shut by law because of coronavirus restrictions came on Friday afternoon.\n\nIn response to the criticism from some mayors of the scheme, a government spokesman said: \"Ministers are continuing to work closely with local leaders on how we can combat coronavirus together.\n\n\"We will keep all financial support under review to support businesses who need it most and protect jobs over the coming weeks and months.\"\n\nUnder the new restrictions, expected to be detailed by the prime minister in a statement to MPs on Monday, pubs and restaurants could be closed in areas where some of the highest numbers of cases are occurring and a ban on overnight stays is also being considered.\n\nA senior adviser to Boris Johnson has written to MPs representing constituencies in the North of England to confirm that some areas were \"very likely\" to be placed under \"further restrictions\".\n\nIn the letter seen by the BBC, Sir Edward Lister said ministers would hold discussions with local authorities in the region during the weekend.\n\nIt has been suggested that the most severe measures - imposed for areas in tier three - would be agreed with local leaders in advance. However, on Saturday, northern mayors said there had been conversations with Downing Street but little consultation.\n\nThe details of each tier, including the level of infection at which an area would qualify for it and the nature of the restrictions, are being debated this weekend.\n\nIt comes as the British Medical Association (BMA), a doctor's trade union, has called on the government to bring in clearer and stronger measures to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nIt is recommending actions including modifying the current \"rule of six\" so only two households can meet and for the wearing of face masks to be made mandatory in all offices and workplaces.\n\nHow are the restrictions affecting you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Liverpool is expected to be placed under severe new restrictions next week\n\nThe prime minister is to make a statement to MPs on Monday giving details of new restrictions to slow the spread of coronavirus in England.\n\nA letter from Boris Johnson's adviser to MPs in the North West seen by the BBC says it is \"very likely\" some areas will face further restrictions.\n\nBut some regional leaders warn the new plan for a three-tier local lockdown system will only create more confusion.\n\nIt comes as a doctors' union calls for clearer and more stringent rules.\n\nUnder the new restrictions, pubs and restaurants could be closed in parts of northern England and the Midlands - where some of the highest numbers of cases are occurring - while a ban on overnight stays is also being considered.\n\nIt is understood that the most severe measures - imposed for areas in tier three - would be agreed with local leaders in advance.\n\nThe details of each tier, including the level of infection at which an area would qualify for it and the nature of the restrictions, are being debated this weekend.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was grossly irresponsible for anonymous government sources to tell newspapers on Thursday about plans for further restrictions on millions of people, without any detail, consultation or statement from the prime minister.\n\nThe letter to the MPs from Downing Street's chief strategic adviser Sir Edward Lister says the government is hoping to \"finalise these details as soon as possible\" amid \"rising incidence in parts of the country\".\n\nIt also cites the \"engagement that is taking place today and during the course of the weekend with local authority leaders in your region\".\n\nSir Edward says the set of measures being discussed \"present difficult choices. We must seek to strike the right balance between driving down transmission, and safeguarding our economy and society from the worst impact\".\n\nIn the face of pressure from MPs, elected mayors and council leaders, the prime minister has signalled he wants \"much closer engagement\" with local politicians.\n\nAs a senior government source said, they will bring \"expertise on what will work in their regions\".\n\nThe hope is for \"top tier\" restrictions in the new multi-level system to be agreed between the government and local leaders in advance.\n\nThere is an acknowledgement from inside government that this marks a change in approach. It is a shift away from what Labour described as a \"Whitehall knows best\" attitude.\n\nIt will allow local politicians, some of whom until now have complained of being frozen out, to have a greater input.\n\nBut it will also mean they are accountable, alongside government ministers, for the success or failure of the measures introduced.\n\nThey will have to share the responsibility, perhaps blame, if measures don't work or prove unpopular.\n\nAnd amid calls for clarity, it seems the new tiered system could vary region by region, making clear national messaging more difficult.\n\nSusan Hopkins, deputy director of Public Health England's national infection service, said the number of cases was rising all over the country, but more quickly in the North East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber than the South.\n\nShe said it was concerning that cases were rising \"quite fast\" in pockets of north-west England among the over-60s, the group most likely to need to be admitted to hospital.\n\nA number of areas in the North West, the North East and the Midlands are already subject to stricter restrictions. A tiered system of measures is designed to replace the patchwork of existing rules across the country.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions there needed to be \"greater freedom for local areas to design measures for themselves\".\n\nHe said there was \"a merit to simplicity\", adding that in local areas \"local leaders will know best\".\n\nLiverpool's Labour Mayor Joe Anderson said he expected Liverpool - where there are currently 600 cases per 100,000 people - to be placed in tier three, under the highest set of restrictions.\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme he understood this would involve the lockdown of all the city's pubs from Wednesday.\n\nHe said the government was wrong to allow Liverpool's bars and pubs to stay open this weekend, with infection rates so high.\n\nHe accepted people in the city should take individual responsibility and said he was \"angry and frustrated\" at those flouting the rules, but added: \"I'm not convinced people trust the government's decisions.\"\n\nAsked what his role would be in setting the restrictions, he said there had been conversation with Downing Street, but no consultation. It was clear the decisions had already been made, he said, but they were listening to his suggestions about how spikes in the city could best be dealt with.\n\nMartin Gannon, Labour leader of Gateshead Council, said there had been \"warm words\" in a meeting with civil servants but ultimately the laws would be made by government.\n\nHe said he would oppose any further restrictions placed on the North East, saying they could be \"counter-productive\" and lead to resistance from the public. Current measures were starting to bring down case numbers, he insisted, and the government needed to help local authorities win people's confidence.\n\nAnd Glen Sanderson, Conservative leader of Northumberland County Council, said he did not want blanket restrictions on Northumberland, which has large rural areas \"virtually unaffected\" by the virus as well as towns where case numbers were rising.\n\n\"I don't think the argument is there to bring in much tougher restrictions - we have to take people with us. If we can't get people to conform, we won't make any progress,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMeanwhile, the British Medical Association (BMA) said the government's measures to reduce the spread of the virus had not worked, given the uncontrolled escalation, and has made its own recommendations.\n\nIt wants to see masks worn in all offices and outdoors where two-metre distancing is not possible; free medical grade masks for the over-60s and vulnerable groups; financial support for businesses to become Covid-secure; and the \"rule of six\" tweaked to allow only two households to meet in groups of no more than six.\n\nChairman Dr Chaand Nagpaul said: \"The infection has risen following rapid relaxation of measures and with the Westminster government letting down its guard - as recently as August, the government was encouraging people to travel, go to work and mix in restaurants and pubs.\"\n\nSpeaking at the Co-operative Party virtual conference, Labour leader Sir Keir accused the government of serial incompetence, saying a test, trace and isolate system was \"critical\". Without that, \"thousands and thousands of people are walking around today who should be in self-isolation\", he warned.\n\nOn Friday the number of people in the UK to have tested positive for coronavirus rose by 13,864 - a decrease of 3,676 on Thursday's figure - with a further 87 deaths reported on the government's dashboard.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? What have restrictions meant for you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Leon and Nikita are brothers who need a \"retirement home\" at the age of 21\n\nTwo elderly feline fellows are hoping to find a new owner, at the grand old age of 21.\n\nThe cats, Leon and Nikita, are \"bonded\" brothers, meaning they do everything together, and are very affectionate, the Northamptonshire RSPCA branch said.\n\nThe average age a domestic cat lives to is about 14, but the oldest on record lived to an amazing 38 years.\n\nThe black cats now need a home to live out their twilight years, as the Northampton Chronicle reported.\n\n\"Poor Leon and Nikita find themselves in our care at the grand age of 21,\" the RSPCA wrote on its branch website.\n\n\"They are bonded brothers and were signed over to be rehomed as they were not coping with family life,\" Michelle Billingham, from the Northamptonshire adoptions team, said.\n\nThis \"affectionate pair... enjoy chin tickles and human company\" and would need a quiet \"retirement home\" with no children.\n\nNikita's fur was very matted when he arrived at the RSPCA branch last month\n\nThe brothers have been together their entire lives, and came into the branch \"through no fault of their own\", Ms Billingham told the BBC.\n\nDespite their age - which could equate to more than 100 years each in human terms - they are in \"fairly good health\", although Nikita has been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism.\n\n\"He will need blood tests over the next few weeks or months at our vet's to check how he is responding to medication,\" said the RSPCA, which will offer support to a new owner within the county.\n\nA report by the Royal Veterinary College states the average life expectancy of a domestic cat in the UK is about 14 years, although many can live far longer.\n\nElderly gentleman Leon will need to be rehomed with his brother\n\nAccording to Guinness World Records Creme Puff was the oldest cat on record, and lived to the age of 38.\n\nCreme Puff was born in August 1967 and died in Austin, Texas, USA on 6 August 2005 - three days after her 38th birthday.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@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. Hurricane Delta is the 10th named storm to make US landfall so far this year\n\nHurricane Delta has made landfall in the US state of Louisiana, which is still recovering from the damage caused by a previous hurricane in August.\n\nThis is the 10th named storm to make US landfall so far this year, breaking a record that has stood since 1916.\n\nDelta hit Creole, Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane at 18:00 local time (00:00 BST) on Friday, with winds of 100 mph (155 km/h).\n\nIt weakened to a Category 1 as it moved inland, causing widespread power cuts.\n\nThe US National Hurricane Center (NHC) also warned of an eight-foot-high \"life-threatening storm surge\" across the Louisiana coast, caused by high winds from Delta.\n\nThe hurricane first made landfall near Puerto Morelos on Mexico's Caribbean coast on Wednesday, forcing thousands of tourists and residents to move into shelters for safety.\n\nHaving crossed the Gulf of Mexico, Delta is now moving across central and north-eastern Louisiana, and will enter northern Mississippi and the Tennessee Valley on Saturday.\n\n\"Rapid weakening is expected overnight and Saturday,\" the NHC said. \"Delta is forecast to weaken to a tropical storm tonight and to a tropical depression on Saturday.\"\n\nMany residents left home in order to avoid the hurricane's path\n\nSchools and government offices shut their doors and officials in a dozen parishes called for evacuations.\n\nLouisiana Governor John Bel Edwards previously said that 2,400 National Guard personnel were being mobilised to help the state's residents.\n\nMany people left their homes to try to get out of the storm's path.\n\nParts of the state were already severely storm-damaged from the more powerful Category 4 Hurricane Laura, which ripped through homes and uprooted trees when it hit on 20 August.\n\nMore than 6,000 people are still displaced and living in temporary accommodation, such as hotels, after their homes were destroyed.\n\nStreets in cities such as Lake Charles, which was particularly badly-hit by Hurricane Laura, remain littered with debris.\n\nThe streets in many cities are still littered with debris from Hurricane Laura\n\nLake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter told Reuters news agency that Hurricane Laura \"is still very fresh and very raw, and I think that had something to do with more people evacuating for Delta\".\n\n\"In this community, there are a lot of homes that were damaged and so a lot of people are concerned about staying in that structure again,\" he added.\n\nGovernor Edwards also previously warned that although Delta was less strong than Laura, it could sweep up debris from the previous hurricane and hurl it like missiles.", "England player Marcus Rashford was named in the Queen's delayed birthday honours list for services to vulnerable children in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 22-year-old Manchester United forward successfully campaigned to extend free school meals over the summer after pressing the government into a U-turn on the issue.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, seen hugging other attendees\n\nUS President Donald Trump's tweet on Friday confirming that he and his wife had tested positive for coronavirus shocked the world.\n\nWith Mr Trump now in hospital, there are growing questions about how the pair were exposed to the virus.\n\nA crowded Rose Garden event is coming under intense focus - the ceremony on 26 September where Mr Trump formally announced his nomination of the conservative Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. The World Health Organization says it commonly takes around five to six days for symptoms to start after contracting the virus.\n\nFootage from the scene showed few attendees wearing masks. The seating was not set two metres (six feet) apart, while some bumped fists, shook hands or even hugged one another in greeting.\n\nEight people who attended are now confirmed to have the virus - although it is unclear exactly where and when they caught it. Aside from the president and the First Lady:\n\nMr and Mrs Trump tested positive after the president's communications director, Hope Hicks, contracted the virus. She did not attend the Rose Garden event.\n\nGuidelines published by the Centers for Disease Control recommend six feet of distance between people outside your home, and covering your nose and mouth when others are around you.\n\nDozens of lawmakers, family members and staff from the White House were at the event. Those who have tested positive were seated in the first few rows of the crowd.\n\nThose who have tested positive were sat in the first few rows of the packed event\n\nGatherings of more than 50 people at an event are banned under Washington DC coronavirus regulations, although federal property like the White House is exempt.\n\nThe Washington Post reports that authorities have left contact tracing efforts to the Trump administration. An official from Mayor Muriel Bowser's office told the paper that if all eight people were infected at the event, it would be one of the highest community spread incidents Washington DC has experienced.\n\nCity council member Brooke Pinto told the Washington Post it was \"disappointing that the White House has flaunted not wearing masks and gathering large crowds\".\n\n\"That is not only dangerous messaging for the country, but it is directly threatening to our efforts to decrease our spread across the district,\" she said.\n\nSome of the event last Saturday also took place inside.\n\nSome of the event took place inside the White House\n\nThe president stood next to Amy Coney Barrett as she delivered her speech. Ms Barrett tested negative on Friday, according to a White House spokesperson.\n\nVice-President Mike Pence and his wife Karen also tested negative. Mr Pence sat across the aisle from Mrs Trump at the ceremony.\n\nAttorney General William Barr sat in the same row as the vice-president. A Department of Justice spokesperson announced on Friday that Mr Barr had tested negative.\n\nJohns Hopkins University coronavirus trackers say that 7.3 million people in the US have contracted the virus, the highest figure in the world.\n\nThe country also has the highest death toll, with more than 209,000 people killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump's seven days before his Covid-positive test", "A technical glitch that meant nearly 16,000 cases of coronavirus went unreported has delayed efforts to trace contacts of people who tested positive.\n\nPublic Health England said 15,841 cases between 25 September and 2 October were left out of the UK daily case figures.\n\nThey were then added in to reach Saturday's figure of 12,872 new cases and Sunday's 22,961 figure.\n\nPHE said all those who tested positive had been informed. But it means others in close contact with them were not.\n\nThe issue has been resolved, PHE said, with outstanding cases passed on to tracers by 01:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe technical issue also means that the daily case totals reported on the government's coronavirus dashboard over the past week have been lower than the true number.\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym said daily figures for the end of the week were \"actually nearer 11,000\", rather than the about 7,000 reported.\n\nLabour has described the glitch as \"shambolic\".\n\nThe BBC has been told by senior public health officials in the north-west of England that a significant proportion of the unreported cases are from the area.\n\nCities such as Liverpool and Manchester already have among the highest infection rates in the country, at about 10 times the national average.\n\nBBC analysis found the number of cases reported for the week to 1 October increased by 92.6% in the north west after taking in the missing tests - with similar rises reflected across England.\n\nThe increase is mostly down to the missing tests, but the figures also included some results which came back after 2 October.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I can't give you those figures but all those people are being contacted\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the cases data had been \"truncated\" and \"lost\", but added all people who had tested positive had been contacted and the tracers were \"now working through all the contacts\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of the government's vaccine taskforce, Kate Bingham, has told the Financial Times that less than half of the UK population could be vaccinated against coronavirus.\n\n\"There is going to be no vaccination of people under 18,\" she said. \"It's an adult-only vaccine for people over 50, focusing on health workers, care home workers and the vulnerable.\"\n\nMr Johnson has warned it could be \"bumpy through to Christmas\" and beyond as the UK deals with coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday, the PM said there was \"hope\" of beating Covid, and called on the public to \"act fearlessly but with common sense\".\n\nIn an interview with the Sun, Rishi Sunak has defended his Eat Out to Help Out scheme, saying he had \"no regrets\", after suggestions it may have helped fuel the second wave of coronavirus cases.\n\nAt a time when the testing system has come under intense scrutiny after reports of delays and a system struggling to keep up with demand, the latest revelation could not have come at a more awkward moment for the government at Westminster.\n\nBecause the nearly 16,000 extra positive test results had been not entered into the test and trace system, their recent contacts were not immediately followed up.\n\nExperts advise that ideally contacts should be tracked down within 48 hours.\n\nOfficials say the technical problem - thought to be IT related - has been resolved, with all the new cases added into totals reported over the weekend.\n\nBut all this will hardly improve public confidence in the testing system in England.\n\nAnd it muddies the waters for policy makers and officials trying to track the spread of the virus at what the prime minister has called a \"critical moment\".\n\nOn Sunday, the government's coronavirus dashboard said that, as of 09:00 BST, there had been a further 22,961 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 502,978.\n\nAnother 33 people were reported to have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Sunday.\n\nPublic Health England's interim chief executive Michael Brodie said a \"technical issue\" was identified overnight on Friday, 2 October in the process that transfers Covid-19 positive lab results into reporting dashboards. He said the majority of the unreported cases had occurred in the \"most recent days\".\n\nIt was caused by some data files reporting positive test results exceeding the maximum file size.\n\nMr Brodie said they worked with NHS Test and Trace to \"quickly resolve the issue and transferred all outstanding cases immediately into the NHS Test and Trace contact tracing system\".\n\n\"We fully understand the concern this may cause and further robust measures have been put in place as a result,\" he said.\n\nTest and Trace and Public Health England joint medical adviser Susan Hopkins said a thorough risk assessment had been undertaken \"to ensure outstanding cases were prioritised for contact tracing effectively\".\n\nPHE said NHS Test and Trace have made sure there are enough contact tracers working, and are working with local teams to ensure they also have sufficient resources to be urgently able to contact all cases.\n\nThe number of call attempts is being increased from 10 to 15 over 96 hours.\n\nThere have been clear problems with the government's Test and Trace data, but they do not change our view of the UK's trajectory.\n\nCases surged at the beginning of September, they may still be climbing, but not as quickly as anticipated just a few weeks ago.\n\nThis perspective comes from three key sets of data - the Office for National Statistics, the React study by Imperial College London and the Covid symptom tracker app.\n\nNone are blighted by either the current issues with the Test and Trace data or by people struggling to access a test.\n\nThe real fallout of the weekend's statistical chaos is not the numbers, but the people who should have been contact-traced, told to quarantine and instead may have been unwittingly passing on the virus.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"This is shambolic and people across the country will be understandably alarmed.\"\n\nHe called for Health Secretary Matt Hancock to explain \"what on earth has happened\" and what he plans to do to fix test and trace.\n\nMr Hancock is due to update MPs about coronavirus on Monday afternoon.\n\nBridget Phillipson, shadow chief secretary to the treasury, told BBC Breakfast she wanted to know whether it had had \"any impact on government decision making around local restrictions\".\n\nPHE data shows Manchester now has the highest rate of infection in England, at 495.6 cases per 100,000 people in the week to 1 October, from 223.2 the week before. Liverpool has the second highest rate, up to 456.4 from 287.1 per 100,000. Knowsley in Merseyside, Newcastle, Nottingham, Leeds and Sheffield have also seen sharp rises.\n\nNews of the glitch in the daily count first emerged late on Saturday, when the UK announced more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time since mass testing began.\n• None 1,980cases per day, on average, were missed in that time\n\nThe government said the technical issue meant some cases during the week were not recorded at the time, so were included in Saturday's data.\n\nThe daily total rose from 4,044 on Monday to a then-high of 7,143 on Tuesday. However, over the next four days the daily total remained stable at a time when continued increases might have been expected.\n\nThen came the big leap in numbers - a far bigger day-on-day increase than at any time in the entire pandemic - which was announced on Saturday, five hours later than usual, and was accompanied by the government explanation.\n\nHave you recently tested positive? Have you been contacted by test and trace? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Heavy rain has brought flooding and travel disruption to parts of the UK.\n\nThe Met Office said parts of Somerset and Hampshire saw a month's worth of rainfall in 42 hours, while homes were flooded in Hemel Hempstead, Herts.\n\nThe River Coquet burst its banks at Rothbury in Northumberland, and there are now more than 40 flood warnings in place in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nSafety checks are being carried out on rail lines and bridges following heavy rain overnight in parts of Scotland.\n\nTrain passengers have been warned to expect disruption after Network Rail inspectors discovered flooding on lines in Fife, Aberdeenshire and Angus.\n\nThe Met Office said it expected between 25-50mm (1-2in) of rain to fall on Sunday, with as much as 70-90mm over higher ground.\n\nIt said delays or cancellations to train and bus services were possible, while spray and flooding could lead to difficult driving conditions and some road closures.\n\nA yellow warning for rain remains in effect in Northern Ireland until 18:00 BST.\n\nAn amber warning for parts of the West Midlands, west and south-west England and most of Wales, and a yellow warning affecting eastern Scotland, northern, central, southern and western England came to an end at midday.\n\nThere had been 116mm of rain at Blackpitts Gate in Somerset, and 101mm at Princes Marsh in Hampshire by 18:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nHomes in Abergwyngregyn in Gwynedd have been flooded for the second time in six weeks after a river burst its banks.\n\nThe River Brue near Westhay in Somerset flooded\n\nFlooding has hit homes at Abergwyngregyn for a second time\n\nThe River Coquet burst its banks in Rothbury, Northumberland\n\nMeanwhile, Flood barriers have been put in place in the Aberdeenshire towns of Stonehaven and Kemnay.\n\nBBC weather forecaster Chris Fawkes said the number of flood warnings have risen as the rain works its way into already high river levels.\n\nThere are currently 17 flood warnings in England, including on the River Ure in North Yorkshire, the River Stour in Warwickshire and the River Aller in Somerset.\n\nThe Scottish Environmental Protection Agency has 30 flood warnings and 12 flood alerts covering areas across the whole of the country.\n\nIn Wales there are two warnings for the River Aeron at Aberaeron and the River Rheidol in Aberystwyth.\n\nThe London Marathon got under way in rainy conditions\n\nThe London Marathon got under way on Sunday morning in heavy rain at St James' Park - although around 45,000 runners are taking part in a virtual London Marathon around the world.\n\nThe rainy weather affecting the UK comes after Storm Alex struck brought devastation to south-eastern France and northern Italy. At least three people have died and dozens more are missing.\n\nHave you been affected by the adverse weather and 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A one-legged duck has been given a wheelchair to help improve his quality of life.\n\nStumble lost a leg in an accident with a fishing line and now lives at a sanctuary for disabled animals in Nottinghamshire.\n\nDi Slaney, founder of the Manor Farm Charitable Trust, said she decided to order a custom-made wheelchair for the 12-year-old bird to help relieve the pressure on his remaining leg.\n\n“The fact that he won’t quit means that I won’t quit,” she said.\n\nIt is hoped Stumble will one day be able to use the wheelchair independently.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, was seen hugging other attendees at a White House event on 26 September.\n\nSeveral people who also attended are now confirmed to have the virus – including President Trump – although it is unclear exactly where and when they caught it.\n\nRead more: White House event under scrutiny over virus spread", "Heavy rain is continuing to fall, amid warnings that parts of the UK face the risk of flooding.\n\nThe Met Office has issued amber warnings for parts of eastern Scotland, the West Midlands, south-west England and most of Wales.\n\nPolice warned motorists to take care, while in Essex, firefighters rescued a family of four when their car became trapped in floodwater.\n\nYellow, less severe, warnings for rain affect much of the rest of the country.\n\nRain is forecast to continue overnight, with warnings in force until 06:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe last time amber warnings for rain were issued was in March, the Met Office said.\n\nThe places worst hit so far on Saturday include parts of Exmoor, with 84mm of rain recorded in 36 hours in Liscombe and 74.4mm recorded in Brendon Hill.\n\nScotRail tweeted there would be reduced train services in amber warning areas, with \"a controlled shut down of the network\" around 19:00 BST.\n\nIt comes after Storm Alex, which has caused chaos in France and Italy on Saturday, brought gale-force winds and rain to southern England on Friday.\n\nA gust of 71mph (114km/h) was recorded at Berry Head on the Devon coast during the day.\n\nThe wind direction associated with the weekend's rainfall is \"unusual\" and rainfall was likely to occur in some areas that are normally well sheltered and drier, the Met Office said.\n\nDrains could also become blocked with debris as trees are now in full leaf.\n\nIn areas covered by amber weather warnings, the Met Office warned deep and fast-flowing floodwater may pose a \"danger to life\" in some areas and there was a \"good chance\" communities could be cut off.", "Andrew Marr has challenged the prime minister over comments in which he said \"probably... everybody got a bit, kind of complacent and blasé\" over Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC One presenter also asked Boris Johnson whether the 22:00 curfew on pubs and bars was working.\n\nRead more: Act fearlessly but with common sense on Covid - PM", "The Royal Opera House is to sell a David Hockney portrait of its former boss in a bid to raise money to plug a shortfall caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe painting of Sir David Webster will be auctioned at Christie's this month and is expected to fetch up to £18m.\n\nCurrent chief executive Alex Beard said it was \"tough call\" to sell the picture, but there was no alternative if the organisation was to survive.\n\n\"We have to face the situation we are in... and get through this,\" he said.\n\nThe London venue, home of international opera and the Royal Ballet, is the UK's biggest arts employer.\n\nIt says it has lost £3 in every £5 of its income since the national lockdown forced it to close its doors in March.\n\nThe sale of the Hockney portrait is part of a four-pronged plan to help the venue balance the books. There will also be significant redundancies and a fundraising appeal for public donations.\n\nIn addition, the opera house has applied for a loan to the government's culture recovery fund.\n\n\"We knew we had to look at any assets we had,\" said Mr Beard. \"And there is only really one of any note that stands out and that is this portrait.\"\n\n\"If we can remain viable and get through this, then we can get back to employing people in the future.\"\n\nSir David Webster ran the Royal Opera House between 1945 and 1970 and played a key role in the establishment of the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera companies at Covent Garden.\n\nHockney was commissioned to paint his portrait - which in recent years hung in the Covent Garden venue - after he stepped down in the 1970s.\n\nIt depicts Sir David sitting in profile, in front of a glass-topped coffee table and a vase of pink tulips.\n\nAccording to the Christie's catalogue, the picture was \"the first of a rare handful of commissions completed by Hockney: he would not accept another until three decades later, when he painted Sir George and Lady Mary Christie of Glyndebourne for the National Portrait Gallery\".\n\nMr Beard said the artist had been notified of the impending sale: \"We have a good relationship, but he does not much like it when any of his work is auctioned,\" he told the Observer.\n\nThe Royal Opera House reopened in June with a concert which was broadcast on TV, radio and online - but without a live audience.\n\nAt the time, Mr Beard said the venue, in common with many theatres and arts venues, was facing \"unprecedented financial stress\". Mr Beard was understood to have taken \"a significant reduction\" in pay, while music director Sir Antonio Pappano waived his salary during lockdown.\n\nLast week, the Royal Opera House announced a limited return of public performances of ballet and opera, in front of a reduced audience, beginning later this month.\n\nAmong the productions it is hoping to stage is The Nutcracker, a traditional part of its Christmas programme since 1984.", "Two teenagers armed with knives were trying to rob a grocery store in Chapter Street, Westminster, police said\n\nA police officer has been stabbed as she tried to detain two armed robbers.\n\nTwo officers were in Chapter Street, Pimlico, at 15.42 BST on Sunday when they spotted armed suspects attempting to rob a shop.\n\nThe shopkeeper managed to push the two teenagers out of the Westminster store. Officers then tried to detain the pair.\n\nDespite being stabbed in the abdomen, the officer chased the suspects along Vauxhall Bridge Road, a spokesperson for the Met Police said.\n\nThe suspects, both believed to be 15 years old, were detained a short time later with the assistance of firearms officers.\n\nThe injured officer was taken to hospital, and she was discharged on Sunday evening.\n\nCh Insp Simon Brooker said: \"For this officer to be stabbed on duty is unacceptable but, fortunately, she does not appear to be seriously injured.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"Every day our courageous police officers put themselves in harm's way to keep Londoners safe.\n\n\"Attacks on our police are utterly unacceptable and perpetrators will feel the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump has made a short trip to wave to the crowds of people lining the streets outside the hospital where he is being treated for coronavirus.\n\nOn Twitter, the president said he would \"pay a little surprise to some of the patriots we have out on the street\".\n\nMr Trump, who wore a face mask, waved and clapped to his supporters.\n\nBBC's Jon Sopel was reporting live from the scene at the time.", "Tenovus Cancer Care estimates 30,000 people missed out on mammograms between March and July\n\nHundreds of women in Wales have \"undetected breast cancer\" because screening was suspended during lockdown, according to a charity.\n\nTenovus Cancer Care estimates 30,000 people missed out on mammograms between March and July, and fear a repeat as coronavirus cases rise again.\n\nClaire Williams, 39, was told she might not have survived breast cancer if she had not been treated when she was.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had worked hard to ensure screening can continue.\n\nBreast cancer screening was suspended by NHS Wales in March as the health service was gripped by the pandemic.\n\nThe service resumed in August, but Judi Rhys, chief executive of Tenovus Cancer Care, said 30,000 people missed out on a screening appointment during this time.\n\n\"That actually means there are 300 women in Wales walking around with undetected breast cancer at the moment.\"\n\nWomen should contact their GP if they notice any changes to their breasts, Judi Rhys said\n\nMs Rhys said it was a \"potentially very serious\" situation for those women.\n\n\"We do know that if breast cancer is diagnosed at a very early stage then the prognosis is far, far better and the outcomes are far, far better than if it is picked up at a later stage,\" she added.\n\n\"If people notice anything at all we are urging them to make an appointment with their GP.\"\n\nClaire Williams was told she might not have survived breast cancer if she had not been treated when she was\n\nThings could have been very different for Claire Williams, from Swansea, who went to see her GP when she found a lump on her breast last year.\n\nShe was told she would have to wait nine weeks for further tests on the NHS, but was able to access private healthcare through her employer.\n\n\"Within two hours\" of her consultation she was told she had breast cancer and would need chemotherapy, a mastectomy and radiotherapy.\n\n\"Looking back on the last 18 months and the experience I have had, I am grateful that I am here,\" Ms Williams said.\n\n\"And I am grateful the children will be growing up with me in their lives.\"\n\nPeople should be \"familiar with their bodies\", says Ms Williams\n\nMs Williams said the number of people who had missed out on screening during lockdown was \"astounding\".\n\n\"It's scary for the women who might have missed them,\" she added.\n\nShe called on people to \"be familiar with your bodies\" and get checked if they were concerned about anything.\n\nMs Rhys said the health service was in the process of clearing a \"backlog\" of 30,000 screening appointments.\n\nBut she said it was vital that people continued to be screened, even in the event of another lockdown.\n\n\"We are worried that with Covid on the rise again that people are either too scared to come forward or that some services may need to be paused again,\" she added.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Welsh Government said it had taken action to ensure staff and patients were safe from coronavirus, and encouraged women to attend their screening appointments.\n\n\"The NHS has undertaken extensive work to ensure as much cancer care as possible can continue during the pandemic,\" she added.", "The debate will take place in Salt Lake City in Utah on Wednesday Image caption: The debate will take place in Salt Lake City in Utah on Wednesday\n\nOn Wednesday night, Republican Vice-President Mike Pence will face Democratic Senator Kamala Harris for the only vice-presidential debate ahead of November's election.\n\nThis election cycle has seen increased scrutiny on Pence and Harris, as they support the campaign of two presidential candidates in their 70s.\n\nWith President Trump now receiving treatment for Covid-19, and more members of the White House announcing positive virus tests, there’s a new emphasis on precautions from event organisers.\n\nFor one, the vice-presidential candidates will stand more than 3m (9.8ft) apart (podiums at the first Trump-Biden debate last week were 2m apart). They will be separated by plexiglass, CNN reports.\n\nCovid testing is already under way for reporters and others planning on attending the debate in Salt Lake City, Utah.\n\nWhether everyone will be required to wear a mask this time remains to be seen.\n\nNow, we want to know: What questions do you have about the vice-presidential debate? You tell us here and we’ll get to work finding the answers.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Donald Trump's personal physician has told reporters he's \"extremely happy with the progress the president has made\" after starting treatment for Covid-19.\n\nDr Sean Conley and other doctors from Mr Trump's medical team spoke from outside Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington on Saturday morning.\n\nThey said he was doing \"very well\" and in \"exceptionally good spirits\".\n\nHowever, their account was later disputed.", "The 49-year-old mother died \"as a result of pressure to the neck\", Lancashire Police said\n\nA doctor who was found dead with her daughter has been described as a \"joy to work with\" by colleagues.\n\nThe bodies of Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi and Vian Mangrio, 14, were found after a fire at their home in Colne Road, Reedley on Thursday.\n\nThe 49-year-old mother died \"as a result of pressure to the neck\", Lancashire Police said.\n\nDetectives have launched a double murder inquiry and appealed for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nIn a social media post, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust said: \"Our thoughts are with Dr Sacharvi's family and friends at this terribly sad time.\n\n\"She was a well-loved and well-liked colleague here at the Trust, described as 'brilliant' and a 'joy to work with'.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination also found Dr Sacharvi had been assaulted.\n\nTests to establish Miss Mangrio's cause of death are under way.\n\nPolice said the 14-year-old, who was a student at Marsden Heights School in Nelson, was found badly burnt inside the house.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The warning says areas which are usually drier could face peak rainfall levels over the weekend\n\nHomes and businesses are likely to face flooding and some communities could be \"cut off\" as heavy rain is expected to hit Wales.\n\nThe Met Office issued an amber rain warning across most of Wales from midday on Saturday to 12:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nIt said fast-flowing or deep flood-water could cause \"danger to life\".\n\nMany places will see 1-2in (25-50mm) of rainfall, with totals of 2.5-3.5in (70-90mm) expected on higher ground.\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 Gwent Police | Monmouthshire Officers This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than 4.5in (120mm) is expected in some of the most exposed high ground of Snowdonia.\n\nThe warning, which also covers large areas of south-west England and parts of the West Midlands, comes after a day of downpours on Friday, as Storm Alex moved in from France.\n\nThe amber warning also now covers parts of Anglesey and Pembrokeshire\n\nThere are several flood warnings in place, according to Natural Resources Wales.\n\nThe Met Office warned that delays and cancellations to train and bus services were likely and conditions would make driving difficult.\n\n\"The unusual wind direction associated with the rainfall will mean that the peak rainfall totals are likely to occur in some areas that are usually well sheltered and drier during unsettled spells of weather,\" its forecast warned.\n\nRoad police in Powys tweeted they had been dealing with a crash on the A40 Brecon bypass which has now been cleared.\n\nHowever they added: \"With the heavy rainfall we are experiencing today please drive to the road conditions.\"\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 Powys Roads Policing 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\nTwo temporary water pumps have been set up in a Rhondda Cynon Taf village already hit four times by flooding this year.\n\nThe pumps are to provide \"added protection and reassurance\" for residents of Pentre.\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 RCT Council 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.", "Supporters of the president spent hours outside the hospital where he is being treated, and they were rewarded when he drove past on Sunday evening. Before that, they told the BBC's Lebo Diseko why it was important to be there.\n\n\"Donald Trump FOREVER!\" shout his supporters gathered outside Walter Reed military hospital where the US president is being treated.\n\nAs passing cars and trucks hoot support, there are cheers and whoops from the the crowd of MAGA-hat wearers and Trump-Pence 2020 flag-wavers.\n\nThe crowd and the hooting seem to grow every hour - as the world's media stand across the road.\n\nA convoy of cars and trucks honking their horns and waving US flags streams past us.\n\n\"This feels like a soccer parade after a win!\" my colleague remarked.\n\nIt's just a couple of hours since Donald Trump's medical team gave an update on his health, and said that they hope he will be back at the White House on Monday. The crowd and their convoys have grown steadily since.\n\n\"We're cheering for his good health,\" says an African-American supporter called Barbara. \"We want him back as soon as possible, so we're here to tell him that we love him, we're praying for him and we need him in America.\"\n\n\"In America and the WORLD!\" her friend Wanji chips in.\n\nBarbara and Wanji show their love for Trump\n\nShe says the president's critics are persecuting him because he stands up for Christians. \"He has been taking all the stress of America and the world.\"\n\nHis sickness just shows the country is sick, she adds, and like him it is recovering.\n\nNo-one has done as much for African Americans as Donald Trump, they say. That's echoed by a Latino gentleman standing next to them.\n\nWaving two flags - a blue one, which is his and a pink one belonging to his wife, Maurio says: \"I'm very much for such a good president - he's done a lot of stuff for the Spanish people.\"\n\nA little further down the line are a couple who say they flew in from Arizona - a journey of about 2,400 miles, which took them more than four hours. \"We support our president 100%\" says Danny Carroll, who adds they would have travelled even further if they needed to.\n\n\"That's our president - we're all in it together, red, yellow , black and white - we're all precious in his sight.\"\n\nHis wife Jeanie says she doesn't always like the way the president expresses himself but she appreciates his results. She says the couple drive across the country a lot and six years ago, the country was dying economically but now he's brought it back. They plan to stay until he's back at the White House - then make the long journey home.\n\nMauro and Jeanie travelled all the way from Arizona\n\nOf course, the president is no ordinary patient, and when he does go home he will be monitored by his medical team 24/7. But there are still questions left unanswered after Sunday's briefing from his medical team.\n\nThey admitted he his oxygen levels had dipped twice in the last few days - Friday and Saturday - but pressed for details on the second round of oxygen Dr Sean Conley said he would have to check with the nurses.\n\nAnd when it came to possible damage to the president's lungs. Dr Conley said there were some \"expected findings\" but didn't expand on that.\n\nThis comes a day after mixed messages from the medical team and his chief of staff on Saturday.\n\nHe admitted the was trying to present an \"upbeat attitude\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction and in doing so, you know, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn't necessarily true.\"\n\nThe fact that last sentence was considered necessary shows an awareness that for at least some Americans, there is a trust gap when it comes to the president's medical team.\n\nBut that's certainly not the view of the crowd gathered here.\n\nFamilies with children joined senior citizens in the festival of well wishers.\n\nThe president knows they're there and rewarded them with an unexpected appearance. His supporters know he appreciates them and they appreciate him.", "The difference in rules for Oldham and Manchester has drawn criticism\n\nNorthern England faces a \"winter of dangerous discontent\" unless the test and trace system improves, the mayor of Greater Manchester has warned.\n\nAndy Burnham said the system was the \"first line of defence against the virus\" and the government were \"over-relying\" on restrictions.\n\nExtra rules are now in force for a growing number of areas in the North.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, Boris Johnson said it was \"too early to say\" if the restrictions were working.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"The advice that we're getting is that, in these areas where we have got stringent local lockdowns, we need to wait and see whether the R [infection rate] starts to come down because some of these things have been intensified […] just in the last few days.\"\n\nMr Burnham said: \"If there are to be local restrictions, they must come with local control of test and trace, a local furlough scheme, and support for our councils and businesses.\n\n\"Put it under local control because the government are using call centres to try and contact people, but we will put boots on the ground and I am absolutely certain that that approach will be more successful.\"\n\nHe also urged the government to consult more with local authorities and clarify rules for neighbouring areas, which he said were \"inconsistent\".\n\nIn Greater Manchester, funerals are limited to 30 people, except Oldham, where they are restricted to 20 people since further rules were enforced in August to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, the rate of cases has recently risen to 336 per 100,000 people in Manchester, while dropping to 177 per 100,000 in Oldham.\n\nBoris Johnson was speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show\n\nThe prime minister said he \"understands people's frustrations\", adding: \"No one has come up with any better proposals that I am aware of.\"\n\nMr Burnham also voiced concern the North West would be \"levelled down by not just the virus but by the government's failure to support us\".\n\n\"It was frankly unforgiveable that businesses in Bolton were closed down without the people working given support with their wages. That is going to cause massive damage if that approach continues.\n\n\"This could be a winter of dangerous discontent here in the north of England and I think the prime minister needs to wake up to that.\n\n\"I think there's a very real and present danger that Covid-19 is going to widen the north-south divide because we are heading into a winter where the north of England is under restrictions unlike the south.\"\n\n\"It's got be a change moment where the government says if we put you under restrictions, this is the guaranteed support you get in return. We haven't got that at the moment.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Storm Alex: See the moment a building is swept into raging flood waters\n\nAt least two people have died and up to 20 are still missing after a powerful storm hit south-eastern France and north-western Italy.\n\nA number of villages north of Nice in France suffered serious damage from floods and landslides, with roads, bridges and homes destroyed.\n\nIn north-western Italy, flooding was described as \"historic\". A section of a bridge over the Sesia river collapsed.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex has deployed the army and released emergency funds to tackle the worst floods for decades in south-eastern France.\n\nUp to 20 people are either missing or have not checked in with relatives.\n\n\"There are very many people of whom we have no news,\" Mr Castex said.\n\nFlood damage in Saint-Martin-Vesubie in the Alpes-Maritimes of south-eastern France\n\nBernard Gonzalez, prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes region, said: \"Just because their loved ones haven't been able to get in touch doesn't mean that they have been taken by the storm.\"\n\nHe said the prospect of more rain was \"a worry\".\n\nMeteorological agency Météo-France said 450mm (17.7in) of rain fell in some areas over 24 hours - the equivalent of nearly four months at this time of year, reports Reuters news agency.\n\nThe southern Alps region appeared the worst hit, with serious damage in the Roya, Tinée, Esteron and Vésubie valleys.\n\nThe villages of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and Rimplas were cut off, with roads inaccessible.\n\nA collapsed bridge after heavy rains hit the village of Roquebillière in southern France\n\nA road in Roquebillière was partially washed away during the storm\n\nOne 29-year-old resident of Roquebillière told Agence France-Presse: \"I lost everything but we are alive. There must be one room left in my house.\"\n\nTwo elderly people were swept away as their house collapsed in the village and their fate is unknown.\n\nOn Friday, the storm also buffeted France's western Atlantic coast, causing tens of thousands of homes to lose power.\n\nWinds of more than 180km/h (112mph) were recorded in Brittany on Thursday and Friday.\n\nThe two fatalities were a 53-year-old firefighter in the Aosta Valley who died during a rescue operation, and a 36-year-old man whose car was swept into a river in the Piedmont region. His brother managed to get out of the car.\n\nA section of a key bridge over the Sesia river in Piedmont's Vercelli province collapsed shortly after it had been reopened on Saturday afternoon.\n\nDamaged caused to a road near Cuneo in Italy's Piedmont region\n\nIn the rest of Piedmont, several villages were cut off after the rains made roads impassable. The situation there was described as \"extremely critical\" by officials.\n\nPiedmont President Alberto Cirio told La Stampa that 630mm of rain had fallen in 24 hours, an amount \"unheard of since 1954\".\n\nHundreds of aid workers have been sent to help rescue efforts in the cut-off villages.\n\nThe storm also affected the north-western regions of Lombardy and Liguria. The Roja river in Ventimiglia has also flooded.\n\nFlood alerts remain for sections of the Po river which have swollen by 3m in 24 hours.\n\nOne good piece of news was the rescue of about 20 people reported missing by Italian authorities just over the border in France.\n\nThe city of Venice, which had been braced for high waters after suffering violent storms in August, was successfully protected by a flood barrier system recently declared fully operational.\n\nDo you live in regions affected by the adverse weather and flooding? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK has announced more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time since mass testing began.\n\nThere were 12,872 new cases, while a further 49 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHowever, the government said a technical issue meant some cases this week were not recorded at the time so these were included in Saturday's data.\n\nIt comes after data earlier this week had suggested infections may be rising more slowly than in previous weeks.\n\nThat data was based on weekly testing among a sample of people in the community to get an idea of how many people in England have the virus at any time.\n\nThe government also closely watches the daily number of positive cases, as it provides the most up-to-date snapshot.\n\nHowever, it published a cautionary message on its \"data dashboard\", explaining that the totals reported over the coming days would include some cases from the previous week, \"increasing the number of cases reported\".\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said the issue did not affect people receiving test results, and all those who tested positive have been informed in the normal way.\n\nThe announcement of the apparent glitch in the daily count comes \"at an awkward moment\", according to BBC health editor Hugh Pym, \"when there is intense scrutiny of daily Covid-19 data as ministers and health chiefs try to assess the rate of spread of the virus\".\n\nHe added: \"After criticism in recent months over the way total tests are counted, ministers and officials will now face more questions over the compilation of daily case data.\"\n\nThe daily total saw a significant rise from 4,044 on Monday to a then-high of 7,143 on Tuesday. However, over the next four days the daily total remained stable - varying between 6,914 and 7,108 - at a time when continued increases might have been expected.\n\nAnd then came the big leap in numbers announced on Saturday, a far bigger day-on-day increase than at any time in the entire pandemic, which were announced five hours later than the usual time and were accompanied by the government explanation.\n\nThe figures announced on Saturday would also have been partially inflated by the fact that 264,979 tests were processed the previous day, the third highest there has been so far in a single 24-hour period.\n\nSaturday's figure brings the total number of recorded cases in the UK to 480,017.\n\nThe increase in the UK is largely reflected across Europe.\n\nMiddlesbrough has been on the government's watchlist following an increase in cases\n\nOn Saturday tighter restrictions came into force in parts of northern England after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nIt is now illegal to meet people indoors from other households in the Liverpool City Region, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Warrington.\n\nIt means than a third of the UK is now under heightened restrictions.\n\nThey were also tightened this week in Newcastle, Northumberland, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland and County Durham, as well as four areas of north Wales.\n\nThe new rules come as hundreds of Northumbria University students are self-isolating after testing positive for Covid.\n\nThe Mayor of Greater Manchester, Labour's Andy Burnham, called for \"local control\" on measures to tackle the virus, telling Sky News' Sophy Ridge: \"At least our own destiny would be in our hands. It feels we are a little powerless.\"\n\nElsewhere, people arriving in the UK from Turkey and Poland now have to quarantine for two weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which also apply to the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba - came into force at 04:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nAfter a steady decline since the first peak in April, confirmed coronavirus daily cases in the UK have been rising again since July, with the rate of growth increasing sharply from the end of August.\n\nSage, the body which advises the UK government, say it is still \"highly likely\" the epidemic is growing exponentially across the country.\n\nTheir latest R number estimate - indicating how fast the epidemic is growing or falling - rose to between 1.3 and 1.6.\n\nBut an Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey estimates there were 8,400 new cases per day in England in the week to 24 September - slightly down on the previous week's estimate of 9,600 daily cases.\n\nThe ONS's estimates of how much of the population is currently infected are based on testing a representative sample of people in households with or without symptoms.\n\nIt is different to the number published daily by the Department of Health. That records positive cases in people with potential Covid symptoms who request tests.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nWorld record holder Eliud Kipchoge was beaten in the London Marathon as Shura Kitata won a thrilling sprint finish to claim an unexpected victory.\n\nFour-time winner Kipchoge was the favourite, but fell behind with two laps to go and finished eighth.\n\nEthiopian Kitata pushed ahead of Kenya's Vincent Kipchumba on the home straight to finish in two hours five minutes and 41 seconds.\n\nBrigid Kosgei, who holds the women's world record, defended her title.\n\nBoth races were run in cold and wet conditions on a specially designed closed-loop course because of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe women's race started at 07:15 BST with the men's following three hours later and the wheelchair races, with male and female athletes competing at the same time, coming after.\n\nGreat Britain's David Weir was denied a ninth London Marathon wheelchair title as Canada's Brent Lakatos emerged victorious in the men's race, while Manuela Shar suffered a shock defeat to Nikita den Boer in the women's.\n\nKipchoge, who last lost a marathon in 2013, said: \"I am really disappointed. I don't know what happened.\n\n\"The last 15km, I felt my right ear was blocked. I had cramp in my hip and leg.\n\n\"It just happened in the race. I started well. It's really cold but I don't blame the conditions.\"\n\nIt was supposed to be a straightforward victory for defending champion Kipchoge, with Kenenisa Bekele pulling out injured on Friday.\n\nBut the 35-year-old Kenyan, who set a world record of 2:01.39 in 2018, never took the opportunity to pull away from an eight-strong leading pack in a slow start.\n\nKitata pushed the pace with 15 minutes to go and Kipchoge looked increasingly uncomfortable as he fell back.\n\nOthers dropped off too and eventually Kitata rounded the final corner into the home straight with compatriot Sisay Lemma and Kipchumba.\n\nThe 24-year-old managed to surge ahead and finish one second before Kipchumba, with Lemma three seconds further back.\n\n\"I prepared very well for this race,\" Kitata said. \"Kenenisa Bekele helped me. I am very happy to win the race.\"\n\nBritain's Mo Farah, a four-time Olympic champion on the track who was working as a pacemaker, said he was surprised by the result.\n\n\"It was a shock for all of us. We had expected him to win by miles, considering what times he has run,\" Farah told the BBC.\n\n\"But it was a good field. It's part of racing, it's part of sport, it happens.\"\n\nKosgei, 26, went clear of world champion Ruth Chepngetich after mile 18 and finished in 2:18.58, three minutes and three seconds ahead of American Sara Hall.\n\nShe was almost five minutes outside her world record set in Chicago last year.\n\n\"The weather was not good, so we struggled,\" Kosgei, who earned $30,000 (£23,200) in prize money with her win, told BBC Sport. \"I struggled up to the moment I finished.\n\n\"We have not prepared well due to the pandemic. I will be prepared for good results next year.\"\n\nThe London Marathon, rescheduled from its traditional April date because of the coronavirus pandemic, took place for elite runners only over 19 laps around St James's Park.\n\nThe usual mass participation event happened virtually because of covid-19 restrictions, while there were no spectators cheering on the elite runners.\n\nGiven a stellar lead-out by Farah, marathon debutant Ben Connor slowed on the home straight, but managed to cross the line 10 seconds inside the Olympic qualifying time.\n\nJonny Mellor, who had achieved the marker before, claimed the British title as he finished in 2:10.38.\n\nIn the women's race, Steph Twell, who reached world finals and won a European medal on the track, missed out on the Olympic qualifying time of 2:29:30.\n\nThe 31-year-old limped out around mile 16 as she failed to repeat her rapid time from Frankfurt last year. Lily Partridge, the 2018 British champion, also could not finish, suffering from cramp and later saying on social media that she had never been so cold out running.\n\nIn their absence, Natasha Cockram and Naomi Mitchell fought for the domestic title, with Cockram finishing four seconds ahead of her rival in 2:33:19.\n\nMeanwhile, around the world\n\nWhile the elite competed in London, 45,000 people aged from 18-87 are covering the 26.2 miles from 109 countries across the world.\n\nRunners had 24 hours to complete the distance on a course of their choosing, logging their progress on the event app and raising thousands for pounds for charity.\n\nThe oldest participant was 87-year-old Ken Jones, who has run every London Marathon since the inaugural race in 1981. Jones will be running 26.2 miles near his home in Strabane, Northern Ireland with his daughter, Heather.\n\nBBC Sport and Public Health England's Couch to 5K challenge aims to have you confidently running 5km in nine weeks - even if you have never run before. Find out more here.\n• None Me, My Brother and Our Balls:\n• None New series of the quirky comedy is streaming now", "Supporters of Donald Trump have gathered with placards and flowers outside the Walter Reed National Military Hospital near Washington where the president is being treated for coronavirus, and across the United States.\n\nMr Trump's positive Covid-19 diagnosis was made public early on Friday, and that evening he was transported to the hospital for treatment.\n\nHis medical team said late on Saturday that he had made \"substantial progress since diagnosis\" but was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nThe diagnosis has upended the 3 November presidential election campaign.\n\nSupporters outside Walter Reed send their best wishes to the president.\n\nCounter-protesters were also in attendance outside the military hospital.\n\nAround the country rallies were held on Saturday where people wished the president a speedy recovery. In California, they held a pro-Trump car caravan....\n\nElsewhere in the country, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, they took to their boats...\n\nPeople also gathered in the New York City borough of Staten Island. The pro-Trump rally had been organised prior to the president's diagnosis.", "Tuesday Gale said she felt frustrated some people did not respect her decision to continue shielding\n\nA young woman with a life-limiting condition who has been shielding alone for six months has said the challenges have been \"enough to drive you insane\".\n\nTuesday Gale, 31, who has rare immune disorder chronic granulomatous disease, has been largely confined to a one-bedroom flat with no garden in Newquay, Cornwall, since March.\n\nShe has relied on writing poetry and the companionship of her dog.\n\nShielding advice was paused in August, but medics advised Ms Gale to continue.\n\nMs Gale, who was told two years ago she \"would be lucky to live into her early 30s\", said shielding had affected every aspect of her life, including her physical and mental health and relationships.\n\nTuesday says her dog, who is regularly walked, has provided essential companionship\n\nThe possibility of a bone marrow transplant to prolong her life has been put on hold due to the impact of the virus.\n\n\"All I've done is wake up, move from my bedroom to the living room and back to bed - it is enough to drive you insane,\" she said.\n\nThe government relaxed advice from 1 August for 2.2 million people in England who had been shielding due to being deemed extremely vulnerable to Covid-19.\n\nBut many, like Ms Gale, chose to continue on consultants' advice.\n\n\"It's like being punished for something that is completely out of your control,\" she said.\n\nShe \"wanted to scream and shout\" at some public reactions to recent national government restrictions.\n\n\"You can still go to the pub, you just have to leave at 10pm,\" she said.\n\nTuesday lives a short walk from Newquay's beaches but has had to avoid them all summer\n\nMs Gale described how the sense of community and camaraderie in lockdown had disappeared.\n\n\"My friendships have deteriorated a lot. We haven't seen each other face-to-face - their lives have begun again... but I am still stuck here in my prison cell,\" she said.\n\nShe has been \"battling with feelings of isolation, loneliness\", feeling judged by some as over-cautious, and \"struggling to get mental health help from services\".\n\nHer shielding has no end in sight, she said, but there were rays of hope.\n\nJoining a weekly online poetry-writing group has \"fulfilled that human need of connection\" and given her \"distraction, confidence and new friendships\".\n\nOne of the few social interactions she has had this year was a recent small family garden barbecue for her birthday - which she described as her \"best ever birthday\".\n\nMs Gale is due to move to a house with a garden this month and said she \"cannot wait\".\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues in this story, find out what help is available for mental health here.", "Transport for London (TfL), the capital's transport authority, has not renewed the licence of Indian taxi app Ola over public safety concerns.\n\nThe cab company has been operating in London since February.\n\nTfL said the firm reported a number of failings including more than 1,000 trips made by unlicensed drivers.\n\nOla said it will appeal the decision and has 21 days to do so. It can operate in the meantime, according to the appeal rules.\n\nThe transport authority said Ola did not report the failings as soon as it knew about them.\n\n\"Through our investigations we discovered that flaws in Ola's operating model have led to the use of unlicensed drivers and vehicles in more than 1,000 passenger trips, which may have put passenger safety at risk,\" Helen Chapman, TfL's director of licensing, regulation and charging, said.\n\n\"If they do appeal, Ola can continue to operate and drivers can continue to undertake bookings on behalf of Ola. We will closely scrutinise the company to ensure passengers safety is not compromised.\"\n\nThe ride-hailing company began operating in Cardiff in 2018 and has since spread to other UK locations.\n\n\"We have been working with TfL during the review period and have sought to provide assurances and address the issues raised in an open and transparent manner,\" Marc Rozendal, Ola's UK Managing Director, said in a statement.\n\n\"Ola will take the opportunity to appeal this decision and in doing so, our riders and drivers can rest assured that we will continue to operate as normal, providing safe and reliable mobility for London.\"\n\nLast week, major rival Uber secured its right to continue operating in London after a judge upheld its appeal against TfL.\n\nThe ride-hailing giant has been granted a new licence to work in the capital, nearly a year after TfL rejected its application, also over safety concerns because of unlicensed drivers.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard that 24 Uber drivers shared their accounts with 20 others which led to 14,788 unauthorised rides.", "As Spain experiences the worst second wave in Europe, a new rapid antigen test to diagnose Covid-19 is being used.\n\nIts manufacturer says it's 93% accurate in detecting Covid-19 infection.", "A double murder inquiry has been launched after the deaths of Vian Mangrio and Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi\n\nA woman who was found dead with her daughter after a fire at their home \"died as a result of pressure to the neck\", police have said.\n\nDr Saman Mir Sacharvi and Vian Mangrio, 14, were found inside a house in Colne Road, Reedley, Lancashire on Thursday.\n\nA post-mortem examination also found Dr Sacharvi, 49, had been assaulted. Tests to establish Miss Mangrio's cause of death are under way.\n\nMiss Mangrio, a pupil at Marsden Heights School in Nelson, was found badly burnt inside the house, police said.\n\nSupt Jon Holmes said they were \"following a number of lines of enquiry\".\n\n\"This is a truly harrowing set of circumstances and my thoughts are very much with the loved ones of Dr Sacharvi and Miss Mangrio.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for information and extra patrols are taking place in the area to reassure residents.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zef Eisenberg \"dedicated himself\" to \"pushing the boundaries of both human and machine\", said his family\n\nA millionaire fitness firm founder who died attempting a British land speed record was a \"true genius with unique talents\", his family has said.\n\nMaximuscle founder Zef Eisenberg died at Elvington Airfield, near York, on Thursday where in 2006 ex-Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond crashed.\n\nHis car \"went out of control at high speed at the end of a run\".\n\nPaying tribute his family said the 47-year-old \"injected his positivity into everyone he came into contact with\".\n\nIn the tribute on Facebook, they said the father of two left people \"feeling upbeat and in an enlightened mood\".\n\nMotorsport UK said his 1,200 horsepower Porsche car \"went out of control at high speed at the end of a run\".\n\nLondon-born and Guernsey-based Mr Eisenberg set more than 90 speed records on two wheels and four including the holding the iconic \"flying mile\" record.\n\nZef Eisenberg sold his Maximuscle firm to pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in 2011 for £162m\n\nThe former competitive weightlifter and bodybuilder had honed his knowledge of sports nutrition with research at the British Medical Library and founded company Maximuscle in 1995.\n\nFifteen years later it was selling £80m worth of products a year. It was sold to pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in 2011 for £162m.\n\nMr Eisenberg moved to Guernsey after he sold Maximuscle and \"dedicated himself\" to \"pushing the boundaries of both human and machine\", said his family.\n\nHis \"infectious enthusiasm and his unique ability to explain in layman's terms the most complex subjects\" led to him presenting Speed Freaks on ITV, focusing on the design, build and engineering of extreme cars.\n\nHe also became a champion of a £200,000 restoration of a much-loved children's playground and helped create Guernsey's first skate park.\n\nMr Eisenberg leaves behind his partner Mirella D'Antonio and two children.\n\nHis family said his parents and four siblings \"all adored him\" and followed his progress with \"great admiration\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump's seven days before his Covid-positive test\n\nPresident Donald Trump's coronavirus diagnosis came after a busy week running his administration and campaigning for November's election.\n\nThe president announced that he and his wife and his wife, Melania has tested positive for Covid-19, in a tweet sent on Friday at around 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT).\n\nThis followed a positive test for his close aide, Hope Hicks, who reportedly started feeling symptoms on Wednesday.\n\nSince the president's diagnosis, several people close to him have tested positive too, including his press secretary.\n\nSo far the majority of publicly released results have been negative. However, test accuracy can vary depending on when a sample is taken during the course of the illness. One taken very soon after exposure may not give an accurate result.\n\nThe White House says it has begun contact-tracing. Here's a look at some of the people we know Mr Trump has crossed paths with during the last week - starting with an event that is being investigated as a possible \"super-spreader\":\n\nPresident Trump announced his Supreme Court pick, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, in front of a crowd of about 200 people on the White House lawn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, seen hugging other attendees\n\nJudge Coney Barrett said on Friday that she had tested negative. Sources told US media she had the virus earlier this year.\n\nAlong with Mr Trump and his wife, at least seven other people who attended the Rose Garden event say they have tested positive - although it's not known where they caught the virus.\n\nThey are: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany; former White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway; Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who are both on the judiciary committee; the president of the University of Notre Dame, John Jenkins; and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who said he checked himself into a hospital on Saturday as a precaution.\n\nThe White House Correspondents' Association said an unnamed reporter at the event had also tested positive with symptoms.\n\nDuring the evening, President Trump held a rally at Harrisburg International Airport in Middletown, Pennsylvania.\n\nSince the afternoon's ceremony, Judge Coney Barrett has held meetings with various senators - including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell - ahead of her much-anticipated confirmation hearing, due to take place on 12 October.\n\nThe president played golf at his club in Potomac Falls, Virginia, in the morning and led a White House reception for the families of military veterans during the evening.\n\nOn Monday, President Trump held a news briefing in the White House Rose Garden - giving an update on his administration's coronavirus testing strategy.\n\nIt was attended by Vice-President Mike Pence, Health Secretary Alex Azar, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and the chief executive of Abbott Laboratories, Robert Ford, among others.\n\nLater, Trump viewed a model of a new pickup truck - being built at a factory in Ohio - on the White House lawn. Representatives from the company, Lordstown Motors, attended, as well as two members of Congress.\n\nThe White House regularly tests officials who come in contact with the president. However, US media has noted that mask-wearing and social distancing around him is less common - suggesting that people may be too reliant on the testing system, which is not foolproof.\n\nThe president faced his election rival, Joe Biden, at their first face-to-face debate in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday evening.\n\nPresident Trump flew there on his presidential plane, Air Force One, alongside his wife, adult children and multiple aides. Many were seen not wearing masks when boarding or disembarking.\n\nAlso on the plane were: White House Chief of staff Mark Meadows; campaign strategist Jason Miller; policy adviser Stephen Miller; Robert C O'Brien, the national security adviser who tested positive for the virus in July; and Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan.\n\nAfter landing, the president's campaign manager, Bill Stepien, was spotted getting into a staff van with Ms Hicks, the New York Times reports. Late on Friday, it was announced that Mr Stepien had tested positive for Covid-19 and was experiencing mild flu-like symptoms.\n\nThe debate was held at Cleveland Clinic's Health Education Campus, a shared facility with Case Western Reserve University.\n\nThe organisers, the Commission on Presidential Debates, brought in numerous Covid-era safety precautions. There were no handshakes between the two candidates and everyone attending - including the 80 or so audience members - was tested before the event and asked to wear masks throughout.\n\nIn the run-up, Mr Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka, posted a picture of herself backstage in a mask, alongside her sister Tiffany, sister-in-law Lara and stepmother Melania.\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 ivankatrump 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\nHowever, during the event itself, Ivanka Trump and other family members, including siblings Don Jr and Eric, were pictured mask-less. Moderator Chris Wallace has since told Fox News that they were offered masks by event staff but they refused them.\n\nObservers said those on Mr Biden's side of the room kept their masks on.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Biden kept a distance during the debate, at podiums on opposite sides of the stage.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Biden loudly spoke over each other throughout the contentious debate\n\nWhen the candidates were greeted by the wives on stage afterwards, Jill Biden wore a mask and Melania Trump didn't.\n\nAt a separate campaign event in Pennsylvania, Vice-President Mike Pence said he had been in the Oval Office with President Trump earlier that day. It is thought to be their last in-person meeting.\n\nPresident Trump and much of his entourage flew back to Washington DC on Tuesday night.\n\nThe day after the debate, President Trump was straight back into campaign business, flying to Minnesota. Ms Hicks was among those accompanying him.\n\nAt a press conference on Saturday, the president's physician Dr Sean Conley said Mr Trump had been diagnosed 72 hours previously, which would place his diagnosis on Wednesday. But the White House later clarified that he was diagnosed on Thursday.\n\nHe attended a closed-door fundraiser at a private home in Minneapolis, and later held a rally at an airport in Duluth, in front of a crowd of thousands. Few wore masks but there was distance between them and the president.\n\nMinnesota Congressman Kurt Daudt tweeted a picture of himself close to Mr Trump, with neither wearing masks.\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 Kurt Daudt 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\nOn Wednesday evening, Mr Trump and various aides returned to Washington DC on Air Force One again.\n\nMeanwhile Ms Hicks, who was feeling unwell, was isolated in a separate cabin, according to US media. She reportedly disembarked from the back of the plane, instead of the front alongside the other passengers.\n\nThe following day, Ms Hicks tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nPresident Trump flew to his Bedminster golf resort in New Jersey for a private fundraiser. Several aides who were in proximity to Ms Hicks scrapped their plans to accompany the president, according to the Associated Press.\n\nKayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, is thought to have been in close contact with Ms Hicks. Ms McEnany held a briefing for reporters at the White House on Thursday, without mentioning her colleague's test and without wearing a mask. She has since said she did not know about the diagnosis.\n\nThat night, in pre-taped remarks to the annual Al Smith dinner in New York City - held virtually this year - Mr Trump said that \"the end of the pandemic is in sight\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The end of the pandemic is in sight,\" President Trump told a dinner on Thursday\n\nHe later announced in an interview on Fox News that he and the first lady were being tested for the virus.\n\nIt is not known how many supporters he came into contact with in recent days, he but told Fox presenter Sean Hannity that people were always wanting to get close to him. \"They want to hug you, and they want to kiss you,\" he said.\n\nPresident Trump announced that he and Mrs Trump had tested positive, adding that they will begin the \"quarantine and recovery process immediately\".\n\nJust before 11:00, his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, told reporters the president has \"mild symptoms\" but remains in \"good spirits\".\n\nMrs Trump tweeted to say she also had mild symptoms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The president has \"mild symptoms\" but will \"remain on the job\", says White House chief of staff Mark Meadows\n\nThat day, several other people announce that they've tested positive: Kellyanne Conway, former White House counsellor; Bill Stepien, Mr Trump's campaign manager; Mike Lee, Utah senator; Thom Tillis, a senator for North Carolina; Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee; Rev John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame University; and Senator Ron Johnson, head of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.\n\nMeanwhile Joe Biden, the Democrats' presidential candidate, tests negative, as does: Jill Biden, his wife; Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence; Kamala Harris, the Democrats' vice-presidential candidate; Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court nominee; Mike Pompeo, secretary of state; Steve Mnuchin, treasury secretary; Alex Azar, secretary of health and human services; William Barr, attorney general; Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr, the president's daughter and son; and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law.\n\nFormer New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Nicholas Luna, a White House presidential aide, both test positive.\n\nMr Trump waved to well-wishers from behind the glass of a sealed car after tweeting that he would pay a \"surprise visit\" to \"patriots\" outside the hospital.\n\nInside the car, at least two people could be seen wearing protective gear in the front seats, with Mr Trump sat in the back.\n\nThere were concerns that the president who wore a mask, may have endangered others inside the car. But White House spokesperson Judd Deere said the trip had been \"cleared by the medical team as safe\".\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany announces on Twitter that she has tested positive.", "The stone marks the life of a man, known only as Abell, who died in 1717\n\nA stone commemorating the first recorded black resident in Liverpool has been unveiled more than 300 years after his death.\n\nRecords show the man, known only as Abell, was buried at St Nicholas' Church on 1 October 1717.\n\nThousands of enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic on Liverpool-registered ships in the 18th Century transatlantic slave trade.\n\nWritten evidence shows there was also a rising population of black residents at the time.\n\nMuch of the city's 18th Century wealth came from the slave trade\n\nThe stone, which marks the anniversary of Abell's funeral and coincides with Black History Month, was unveiled by Councillor Anna Rothery, who became Liverpool's first black lord mayor last year.\n\nShe said: \"As a city we are facing up to the grim injustices of our past and, by setting them in their context, we are a better place.\"\n\nHundreds of people joined a Black Lives Matter protest in Liverpool this summer\n\nMore than 12.5m Africans were traded as slaves between 1515 and the mid-19th Century.\n\nSome two million of the enslaved men, women and children died en route to the Americas.\n\nRector of Liverpool, Revd Canon Dr Crispin Pailing, said: \"We cannot hide from our past, and there is no institution from this era of our history which is free from the taint of this horrific trade.\n\n\"We cannot give justice to Abell and other enslaved Africans, but we can give them the dignity of naming them when we can, and we can give them status within the history of our city.\"\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\nLaurence Westgaph, who is historian-in-residence at National Museums Liverpool, said: \"This gesture by St Nicholas Church records in stone the presence of black people in this town for more than 300 years and at a time when Liverpool's population was less than 10,000 people.\"\n\nFollowing Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the summer, the city's council launched a project to ensure streets named after affluent slavers were given special plaques to explain their links to the trade.\n\nThe city also launched its own Race Equality Taskforce.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Cineworld is set to temporarily close its UK cinemas in the coming weeks.\n\nAs first reported in the Sunday Times, the firm is writing to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden to say the industry is now \"unviable\".\n\nThe firm says it has been hit by delays in the release of big-budget films, putting 5,500 jobs at risk.\n\nThe premiere of James Bond film No Time To Die has been postponed twice and is now due for release in April 2021.\n\nIt is hoped that the Cineworld cinemas will be able to reopen next year, with staff being asked to accept redundancy in the hope of rejoining the company when theatres open again.\n\nThe head of the UK Cinema Association said he feared the Cineworld closure was \"indicative of challenges faced by the entire UK cinema industry at the moment\".\n\nPhil Clapp said: \"Although cinemas opened in July and have been able to deliver a safe and enjoyable experience, without major new titles then we understand we aren't able to get as many people out of the home as we'd like.\"\n\nThe Bectu union says the delay in releasing the new Bond film has hit cinemas\n\nHe said no-one would be \"untouched by the current challenges\".\n\nPhilippa Childs of entertainment and broadcasting union Bectu said: \"The delay in the release of the Bond film along with the other delayed releases has plunged cinema into crisis.\n\n\"Studios will have to think carefully when considering release dates about the impact that will have for the long-term future of the big screen.\"\n\nWhen approached by the BBC, major UK chains Vue and Odeon refused to comment on how many cinemas they might be keeping open.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it was supporting cinemas through a VAT cut on tickets and concessions, business rates holiday and bounce-back loans.\n\n\"We urge the British public to support their local cinema and save jobs by visiting and enjoying a film in accordance with the [Covid-19] guidance.\"\n\nCineworld's sites in the US, where it operates 546 theatres, could also be forced to close.\n\nCineworld said in a statement: \"We can confirm we are considering the temporary closure of our UK and US cinemas, but a final decision has not yet been reached.\n\n\"Once a decision has been made we will update all staff and customers as soon as we can.\"\n\nIn September the firm reported a $1.6bn (£1.3bn) loss for the six months to June as its cinemas had to close because of coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nAnd it warned at the time that it might need to raise more money in the event of further restrictions - or film delays - due to Covid-19.\n\nCineworld is the world's second largest cinema operator, and the largest in the UK with 120 sites. It also owns the Picturehouse chain of smaller venues.\n\nIts other theatres globally include the Regal, Cinema City, and Yes Planet brands.\n\nAccording to the UK Cinema Association, operators should \"organise seating to ensure two-metre distancing can be maintained; where two metres is not viable, one metre with risk mitigation is acceptable. Mitigations should be considered and those introduced set out in the risk assessment\".\n\nBut in Scotland they must \"organise seating to ensure two-metre distancing can be maintained\".\n\nIt also says cinemas should introduce one-way flow through auditoriums, and provide floor markings and signage to remind customers to \"follow social distancing wherever possible.\"\n\nThe film industry had hoped the release of No Time To Die would spark a movie-going revival in the UK, with so many cinemas having been mothballed for months following the Covid-19 lockdown in March.\n\nBut on Friday the movie's release was further delayed until 2 April 2021 \"in order to be seen by a worldwide theatrical audience\".\n\nRob Arthur, an industry analyst at cinema strategists The Big Picture, said \"the current market is broken\".\n\n\"It has been a very challenging year both for Cineworld, and the world's largest cinema group AMC,\" he added.\n\n\"Film release schedules are being changed on a daily, never mind weekly, basis. It has been a catastrophic, devastating, year for operators.\"\n\nHe said the decision by Cineworld to put their UK operation \"into hibernation\" until next year made sense.\n\n\"You can't keep meeting the fixed operating costs of electricity, gas, air conditioning, staff, social distancing measures, and so forth when audience numbers are only a small percentage of what they were before,\" he said.\n\n\"Meanwhile, customer confidence in visiting cinemas has to be restored and I don't see that at the moment,\" Mr Arthur added.\n\n\"The crowds you used to see in London for example going from work directly to the cinema are not there.\"\n\nHe also said Cineworld's cash reserves were running low and that both they and AMC had a high percentage of financial liabilities compared with their assets.\n\nHe added: \"Landlords to date have acted reasonably and the deferral of rent has helped the cinema industry, but that comes to an end as does furlough payments so the operators will have to seek remedies to restructure their businesses.\"\n\nAs lockdown restrictions around the world were gradually lifted in mid-to-late summer Cineworld had been able to reopen 561 out of 778 sites worldwide.\n\nBut lockdown closures meant its group revenues sank to $712.4m in the first six months of the year, compared with $2.15bn a year earlier.\n\nThe group loss this year also marked a huge fall from the pre-tax profits of $139.7m seen in the first six months of 2019.\n\nHowever, when it released those financial figures, Cineworld said recent trading had been \"encouraging considering the circumstances\", with solid demand for Christopher Nolan's spy film Tenet which was released in September.\n\nIn June, Cineworld pulled out of a $2.1bn deal to buy the Canadian cinema chain Cineplex, a move which could lead to a legal battle.\n\nIt is not just Cineworld which has struggled this year, with independent London cinema Peckhamplex closing its doors on 25 September due to falling visitor numbers and delayed releases.\n\nIt had hoped to reopen in November, around the time the next James Bond film was due to be released.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Boris Johnson's government has \"lost control\" of coronavirus, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSpeaking to the Observer, Sir Keir accused the prime minister of \"serial incompetence\" over the virus.\n\nHe has called for ministers to set out a new \"road map\" for dealing with Covid-19 until a vaccine is rolled out.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister had already set out \"a package of measures\" that could be in place for the next six months.\n\nThe package \"balances the need to suppress the virus while also protecting the NHS, keeping children in schools and keeping the economy moving over what is going to be a challenging winter\", the spokesman added.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, the Labour leader laid out a five-point plan to fight rising infection rates.\n\nThe proposals urge the government to:\n\nSir Keir said the prime minister was guilty of \"governing in hindsight\", as he ramped up his attack on the government's handling of the pandemic.\n\nThe choice of words echoes Mr Johnson's own frequent criticism of Sir Keir during Prime Minister Questions, having labelled him \"Captain Hindsight\" for criticising the government's actions.\n\nThe Labour leader, who was elected in April, added: \"I think they've lost control of the virus.\n\n\"And I don't want to see death rates go up. Nobody does.\n\n\"But this is serial incompetence.\"\n\nSir Keir blames divisions in the top of government and says that local health officials should have been more involved in tackling outbreaks, according to the paper.\n\nSpeaking about his plans for returning Labour to power after four election defeats, Sir Keir said: \"We have a mountain to climb.\"\n\nBut he said he is breaking his leadership into \"phases\", with the next six months involving answering the question: \"What's our positive vision for the country?\"\n\nHe added: \"This is going to take four years. And we're going to have to be at this every day, every week, every month for the whole of the four years.\"\n\nThe Labour leader's comments come as one in three people in the UK are now living under tougher social restrictions.\n\nMerseyside became the latest area to enter into a local lockdown on Saturday. Similar restrictions were also applied in Warrington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough to tackle the spread of the illness.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said there were \"no clear guidelines as to why an area goes into restrictions\" and local authorities in England needed to be \"properly involved\" before new measures started.\n\nHe told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show it was \"not clear why\" some areas with high case rates escaped tighter restrictions.\n\nHe said these include locations with Tory ministers as their MPs, adding: \"There is a suspicion that there is political interference - I hope there isn't. But until the government publish clear guidelines, that suspicion will always linger.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the UK announced another 12,872 new cases of coronavirus, and reported a further 49 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), which advises the UK government, say it is still \"highly likely\" the epidemic is growing exponentially across the country.\n\nIts latest R number estimate - indicating how fast the epidemic is growing or falling - rose to between 1.3 and 1.6.", "Sending thousands of older untested patients into care homes in England at the start of the coronavirus lockdown was a violation of their human rights, Amnesty International has said.\n\nA report says government decisions were \"inexplicable\" and \"disastrous\", affecting mental and physical health.\n\nMore than 18,000 people living in care homes died with Covid-19 and Amnesty says the public inquiry promised by the government must begin immediately.\n\nAccording to Amnesty's report, a \"number of poor decisions at both the national and local levels had serious negative consequences for the health and lives of older people in care homes and resulted in the infringement of their human rights\" as enshrined in law.\n\nResearchers for the organisation interviewed relatives of older people who either died in care homes or are currently living in one; care home owners and staff, and legal and medical professionals.\n\nAmnesty said it received reports of residents being denied GP and hospital NHS services during the pandemic, \"violating their right to health and potentially their right to life, as well as their right to non-discrimination\".\n\nIt adds that care home managers reported to its researchers that they were \"pressured in different ways\" to accept patients discharged from hospital who had not been tested or had Covid-19.\n\nAmnesty says the public inquiry into the pandemic should begin with an \"interim phase\".\n\n\"The pandemic is not over,\" it added. \"Lessons must be learned; remedial action must be taken without delay to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.\"\n\nIn July, care homes in England were allowed to reopen again for family visits - as long as local authorities and public health teams said it was safe. That was followed by a similar reopening of homes in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe report said regular testing needs to be made available for care home residents, staff and visitors to ensure visits can take place safely.\n\n\"Regular testing can help break the isolation that is so damaging to people's physical and mental health and could mean the difference between families being torn apart for months again,\" Amnesty said.\n\nThe report added that all the families interviewed whose relatives are currently in care homes said the current restrictions on visits - that there can only be one visitor per resident and no possibility of holding hands - made little sense.\n\nThey argue that staff can interact normally in the community and are only tested once a week at most, while having sustained physical contact with residents.\n\nThe report criticises the initial government advice in March against the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) \"if neither the care worker nor the individual receiving care and support was symptomatic, describing it as \"heedless at best\".\n\nIt also highlights concerns that \"do not attempt resuscitation\" orders - designed to communicate a resident's wishes to healthcare professionals - were adopted inappropriately during the pandemic.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care stressed it was \"completely unacceptable\" to apply such orders in a blanket fashion and it had taken \"consistent action\" to prevent this from happening.\n\nThey added: \"From the start of the pandemic we have been doing everything we can to ensure care home residents and staff are protected.\n\n\"This includes testing all residents and staff, providing over 228 million items of PPE, ring-fencing over £1.1bn to prevent infections in care homes and making a further £3.7bn available to councils to address pressures caused by the pandemic - including in adult social care.\"", "The bodies of Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi and Vian Mangrio, 14, were found on Thursday\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a mother and her daughter whose bodies were discovered inside a fire-damaged house.\n\nDr Saman Mir Sacharvi and Vian Mangrio, 14, were found dead at their home in Reedley, Lancashire on Thursday.\n\nThe men, from Burnley, aged 51 and 56, were both held on suspicion of two counts of murder, two of rape and one of arson with intent to endanger life.\n\nThe 56-year-old was released without charge. The other remains in custody.\n\nDr Sacharvi was described as a \"well-loved and well-liked colleague\"\n\nLancashire Police has urged anyone with information to contact them and said there were \"a number of lines of inquiry\".\n\nDet Supt Jon Holmes, head of major crime, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Dr Sacharvi and Miss Mangrio's family and friends at this awful time and we send them our deepest condolences.\n\n\"We have a team of detectives dedicated to the investigation and we will leave no stone unturned.\"\n\nDr Sacharvi, 49, was described as a \"well-loved and well-liked colleague\" in a tribute issued by Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nShe had worked in the trust's specialist perinatal community mental health team since February and most recently at its Daisyfield site in Blackburn.\n\nPerinatal lead consultant Gill Strachan said: \"She was approachable, diligent and had formed good working relationships with the team.\n\n\"She was empathic and well-liked by the women and families that she worked with.\n\n\"During lockdown when Covid-19 restrictions were in place, she went out of her way to support the care of women, personally delivering prescriptions to women isolating at home.\n\n\"The team are shocked and saddened, and she will be greatly missed.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been left outside the family home\n\nAlyson Littlewood, the head teacher of Marsden Heights Community College where Vian was a student, said: \"We are heartbroken by the tragic deaths of Vian and her mother and our whole school is mourning the loss of two much-loved members of our community.\"\n\nShe said Vian was an \"outstanding student\" who had a \"wonderful mix of academic ability coupled with an enthusiasm for everything else that school can offer\".\n\n\"She was very popular and was extremely supportive of her friends, was generous to all and had a smile that could fill a room.\n\n\"We were all very fortunate to have her in our lives and we will miss her on a daily basis.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been left outside the family home by well-wishers.\n\nOne card read: \"RIP Gorgeous. Thank you for everything you have done for me and made me a better person.\n\n\"You'll always be in my heart. I miss you so much. May you and your mom rest in peace. Love from Sky xxx\"\n\nAnother unsigned message said: \"May some good love come out of this horrendous crime. May people learn tolerance.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with you both. Stupid, stupid. So sad, bad, wrong.\"\n\nDr Sacharvi died \"as a result of pressure to the neck\" and had been assaulted, police said.\n\nVian was found badly burnt inside the house but the cause of her death has yet to be determined, the force added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@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. Priti Patel: \"We will address the moral, legal, and practical problems with the asylum system\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has pledged to fix the \"fundamentally broken\" asylum system in the UK to make it \"firm and fair\".\n\nSpeaking at the Conservative Party conference, she promised to introduce legislation next year for the \"biggest overhaul\" of the system in \"decades\".\n\nAnd she said those against her plans were \"defending the indefensible\".\n\nIt comes after it emerged this week that the UK considered sending asylum seekers to an island in the Atlantic.\n\nMs Patel said changes \"would take time\" and she would \"accelerate the UK's operational response\" to the issue in the meantime.\n\nThe chief executive of charity Refugee Action, Stephen Hale, said it was a \"positive step\" for the home secretary to \"realise what we've been trying to tell her - the asylum system is not fair or effective\".\n\nBut he urged her to push for \"quicker decisions and better support\" for those seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds accused the Conservatives of being \"the political party that broke\" the asylum system, having been in power for 10 years.\n\nHe added: \"Recent experience suggests they have not learned any lessons at all, with unconscionable, absurd proposals about floating walls and creating waves in the English Channel to push back boats and sending people thousands of miles away to process claims.\n\n\"The truth is the Tories are devoid of compassion and competence.\"\n\nMs Patel pledged to introduce a new asylum system that welcomed people through \"safe and legal routes\" and stopped those arriving illegally \"making endless legal claims to remain\".\n\nThe system will include expediting the removal of those \"who have no claim for protection\", she said.\n\nShe added: \"After decades of inaction by successive governments, we will address the moral, legal, practical problems with this broken system. Because what exists now is neither firm nor fair.\n\n\"I will take every necessary step to fix this broken system amounting to the biggest overhaul of our asylum system in decades.\"\n\nThe promised overhaul follows record numbers of people making the journey across the English Channel to the UK in September, which Ms Patel has vowed to stop.\n\nAccording to Refugee Action, 35,566 asylum applications were made in the UK in 2019 - down from a peak of 84,000 in 2002.\n\nAt the same time, delays in processing UK asylum applications have increased significantly.\n\nFour out of five applicants in the last three months of 2019 waited six months or more for their cases to be processed.\n\nMs Patel said the UK would make more \"immediate returns\" of people who arrived illegally \"and break our rules, every single week\".\n\nIt emerged this week the government considered building an asylum processing centre at Ascension Island - a remote UK territory in the Atlantic Ocean\n\nRefugee Action's Stephen Hale said to make the system fair her \"immediate priority\" should be to \"honour her words and commit long-term to creating safe and legal routes for refugees to reach the UK\" - including restarting settlement schemes that were paused during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nPre-empting criticism of her proposals, Ms Patel said she expected some would \"lecture us on their grand theories about human rights\".\n\nBut, she added: \"Those defending the broken system - the traffickers, the do-gooders, the lefty lawyers, the Labour Party - they are defending the indefensible\".\n\nIt comes after it emerged this week that the government had considered building an asylum processing centre on a remote UK territory in the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nMs Patel asked officials to look at asylum policies which had been successful in other countries, the BBC was told.\n\nLabour said the \"ludicrous idea\" was \"inhumane, completely impractical and wildly expensive\".\n\nDuring her speech, the home secretary said the government would \"explore all practical measures and options to deter illegal migration\".\n\nShe added: \"A reformed system will prosecute the criminals and protect the vulnerable. That is what a firm and fair system should look like.\"\n\nAndy Hewett, head of advocacy at the Refugee Council, said he agreed with Ms Patel that the current system was \"broken\" and \"leaves vulnerable people languishing for months on end, fearful for their future and unable to start rebuilding their lives\".\n\nBut he said it was wrong to say it was illegal for people to arrive in the UK via small boats for the purpose of seeking asylum - which is covered in the UN Refugee Convention - although they would like to see fewer people attempting the dangerous journey.\n\n\"To this end, we're calling on the home secretary to restart the resettlement programme without delay, dismantle the inhumane family reunion rules that prevent parents from being reunited with their children in the UK, and introduce humanitarian visas so that refugees can travel safely to the UK,\" added Mr Hewett.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two-year-old Prince Louis: \"What animal do you like?\"\n\nNaturalist Sir David Attenborough has revealed his favourite animal is the monkey, when quizzed by the children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis were given the chance to ask the 94-year-old broadcaster one question about the natural world.\n\nIt is the first time Prince Louis, two, has been heard speaking in public.\n\nThe young prince asked: \"What animal do you like?\" \"I like monkeys best because they are such fun,\" Sir David replied.\n\n\"Mind you, you can't have monkeys sitting around the home because that's not where they live,\" he cautioned, mindful perhaps of the duke and duchess's domestic life at Kensington Palace.\n\n\"So what can you have at home that you like? Well, which would you choose - a puppy or a kitten?\" said Sir David, before continuing: \"It's a very difficult question. I think I'd go for a puppy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Other children put their questions to Sir David Attenborough earlier in the week\n\nPrince George, the eldest son of Prince William and Catherine, wanted to know: \"What animal do you think will become extinct next?\"\n\n\"Well, let's hope there won't be any,\" said Sir David.\n\n\"There are lots of things we can do when animals are in danger of extinction. We can protect them.\"\n\nHe related how the population of mountain gorillas in central Africa, which were \"very, very rare\" 40 years ago, had grown from 250 animals to more than 1,000, thanks to public awareness and global fund-raising.\n\n\"So you can save an animal if you want to and you put your mind to it,\" the famous naturalist told the seven-year-old prince.\n\n\"People around the world are doing that because animals are so precious, \" he added. \"So let's hope there won't be any more that go extinct.\n\nLike her brother, Princess Charlotte, five, began her question with a confident: \"Hello David Attenborough!\"\n\n\"I like spiders, do you like spiders too?\" she asked\n\n\"I love spiders. I am so glad you like them!\" said Sir David. \"I think they're wonderful things.\"\n\n\"Why is it that people are so frightened of them? I think it's because they have actually got eight legs, which are much more than us. And if you've got eight legs you can move in any direction - so you can never be quite sure which way that spider is going to go!\n\n\"But spiders are so clever. Have you ever watched one try to build its web? That is extraordinary. How does it make this circular web like that... how do they do it? Try and watch and see how they do it - it's marvellous.\"", "Civilians are being forced to flee the city of Stepanakert as clashes continue over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.\n\nThe enclave is officially part of Azerbaijan but run by ethnic Armenians.\n\nMore than 200 people are now known to have been killed, including civilians, since the fighting between troops from Armenia and Azerbaijan began a week ago.", "More than a third of the UK is now under heightened restrictions\n\nTighter restrictions have come into force in parts of northern England after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nIt is now illegal to meet people indoors from other households in the Liverpool City Region, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Warrington.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was \"necessary\" to bring the new measures, which includes places like pubs and restaurants, into force.\n\nMore than a third of the UK is now under heightened restrictions.\n\nThe new rules come as hundreds of Northumbria University students are self-isolating after testing positive for Covid.\n\nMiddlesbrough has been on the government's watchlist following an increase in cases\n\nThe new rules have split opinion in Hartlepool.\n\nSteven Brittan said: \"This could have been stopped a long time ago but people haven't stuck to the restrictions so now we are all having to suffer the consequences.\"\n\nShelia Calvert said: \"It's absolutely totally wrong, [the rules] are far too harsh.\n\n\"People have suffered enough with not seeing their families.\"\n\nAndy Bostwick said: \"It's very frustrating that you can go to work with people but you then can't go for a beer with them after work, which is something I do quite a lot on Friday with the lads.\"\n\nPeople in Hartlepool are among those who have to abide by new restrictions\n\nAfter a steady decline since the first peak in April, confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK have been rising again since July, with the rate of growth increasing sharply from the end of August.\n\nOn Friday, another 6,968 people tested positive, slightly down from more than 7,000 a day earlier in the week.\n\nMeanwhile, Germany has issued a warning to its citizens against travelling to Scotland and northern England because of increases in infections.\n\nThey were also tightened up this week in Newcastle, Northumberland, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland and County Durham, as well as four areas of north Wales.\n\nAnnouncing the latest restrictions, Mr Hancock told the House of Commons \"cases continue to rise fast\" in Teesside and the north-west of England.\n\nKnowsley, an area in the Liverpool City Region, had the second highest infection rate in the country at 262 per 100,000 on 27 September.\n\nLiverpool's weekly infection rate rose to 258, Warrington's was 163 and Hartlepool and Middlesbrough both had 121 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nBurnley, where no further restrictions are yet to be imposed beyond the Lancashire-wide ones already introduced, has the highest infection rate in England at 327 per 100,000.\n\nMr Hancock also \"recommended against all social mixing between households\", but said he wanted the restrictions to stay in place for \"as short a time as possible\".\n\nPeople in those areas should also:\n\nThe independent mayor of Middlesbrough said the changes would damage the local economy and people's mental health.\n\nBut people in Liverpool had been expecting the tighter measures.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Matt Ashton, director of public health for Liverpool, acknowledged there were \"so many different rules, so many different regulations, it is confusing for people to understand\".\n\nHe added: \"We need to move the conversation now to people really understanding the risk of Covid in our communities... to do the right thing and just to minimise their contact with other people as much as possible.\"\n\nAndy McDonald, Labour MP for Middlesbrough, said it was \"imperative\" people \"accept and abide by\" the new measures but called for \"improvement in communication\" between the government and local councils.\n\nHe said: \"These restrictions have been imposed without due consideration or dialogue.\n\n\"We have no idea of what exit strategy is planned or what achievements have to be attained in order to see these restrictions lifted.\n\n\"It is simply not good enough.\"\n\nAlice Wiseman, director of public health for Gateshead, said introducing new restrictions was a \"tricky balance\" but was about putting a \"package of measures together that enable us to keep as much of the economy open while reducing the transmission of the virus\".\n\nA spokesman for Northumbria University, in Newcastle, confirmed 770 students had tested positive for coronavirus, 78 of whom are symptomatic.\n\nAll infected students and their close contacts are self-isolating for 14 days in line with government guidance.\n\nIt comes as people arriving in the UK from Turkey and Poland now have to quarantine for two weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which also apply to the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba - came into force at 04:00 BST on Saturday.", "For months US President Donald Trump and his aides have regularly gone without masks, often appearing to behave as if there was no pandemic. Then the president tested positive, and their world changed. This is the story of a seismic day.\n\nEarly on Friday evening, it was peaceful at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, nine miles (14km) from the White House, and so quiet you could hear an acorn drop. But the mood was tense. Police tape was stretched from a tree to a basketball hoop, marking the landing zone for Marine One, the president's helicopter, and a dog sniffed for explosives. Donald Trump would arrive soon, and no-one knew quite what to expect.\n\nA security official tried to tell his colleagues where they should stand for the arrival of the president's helicopter. The official admitted that his plan was a work in progress. \"I don't think anyone knows what's going on,\" he said.\n\nIt was an accurate observation outside the hospital - and for much of the day at the White House, too.\n\nThe uncertainty began in the early morning hours, just before 01:00 in Washington, with the president's announcement on Twitter that he had tested positive. Afterwards, White House aides and staffers did their best to maintain a sense of normality in the midst of a chaotic environment, but the mood spiralled into something that looked a lot like chaos. There was anxiety, shouting and a few tears.\n\nThe president had long managed to project a sense of optimism about the US health crisis - as if he could will the pandemic away. More than 200,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the US, yet he has been saying recently that the pandemic is \"getting under control\".\n\nIn a pre-recorded address to a charity event on Thursday, Mr Trump asserted that \"the end of the pandemic is in sight\". Meanwhile at a presidential debate earlier this week, he made fun of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, for always wearing a mask.\n\nThe president's claims and the language that he uses to talk about the virus alienate many Americans. However, his approach appeals to his base of supporters, men and women who are conservative and mostly white - a group of individuals who resent the Democratic elites in Washington and other cities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US President Donald Trump on Covid-19 in his own words\n\nThe president's casual language about the virus over the last few months has been amplified by his aides and staffers in both their words and actions. They often seemed to exist in a pre-Covid era. Few of them wore masks at their offices in the West Wing, and they crowded together at small lunch tables next door at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. They invited hundreds of guests onto the south lawn at the White House for events.\n\nThe administration relied on rapid Covid-19 testing machines to screen those in contact with the president. But experts have raised questions about the reliability of the quick turnaround tests, suggesting they might have given officials a false sense of security.\n\nNow the president is sick, and his aides are struggling to cope with the reality of the virus as it unfolds around them and invades their offices. One of the president's top advisors, Hope Hicks, has tested positive, as has his campaign manager Bill Stepien, two Republican senators, and Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman.\n\nSenior White House staffers are now in isolation. Junior staff members were frantically fielding calls as part of a massive contact tracing programme. News about the president's visit to the hospital leaked accidentally - by someone who sent an email before reading it.\n\nIn the midst of the confusion, White House aides have tried to put on a brave face. The president's economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, assured me and other journalists on Friday morning that the president was working hard and that there was plenty of good economic news.\n\nBesides, Mr Kudlow pointed out, the president was not the first world leader to become infected - the leaders of Britain and Brazil had both had the virus. \"Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London, who's a longtime friend of mine, had a very rough time of it - a very rough time,\" Mr Kudlow said. \"I hope and pray that President Trump does not.\"\n\nIn addition, Kayleigh McEnany, Mr Trump's press secretary, insisted that the White House was operating smoothly. The president was taking care of business, she said, adding: \"He's had mild symptoms, but he is hard at work. We're having to slow him down a little bit.\"\n\nShe said that the president had spoken on the phone with senators including Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham.\n\nMeanwhile in the West Wing, people were shouting. \"You're in here without a mask,\" someone yelled at a journalist, telling him to leave the premises. A junior staffer, exhausted and overworked, broke down in tears. A miasma of uncertainty hung over the offices known as \"lower press\", a warren of desks cluttered with bottles of hand sanitiser, newspapers, a baseball and a hair straightener.\n\nWhite House officials sought to reassure the public and the media on Friday\n\nThe anxiety of those of us who spend time in the West Wing is palpable: for months, almost no-one wore a mask while sitting at their desks in the lower press office. Now everyone in the room has one on. Journalists came here on Friday to ask officials about additional testing. Others wanted to know more about the president's condition.\n\nOn Friday three journalists who cover the White House tested positive, reported CNN. The reporters who remained at the White House wanted to know if they, too, had the virus. (I was tested in the morning - 10 quick swabs - and got a clean bill of health.)\n\nBy mid-afternoon, it was clear things were not going well. A staffer told me and other members of a small press pool, the journalists who follow the president, to gather for a trip to the military hospital, where we would wait for the president.\n\nWe climbed into a black van, one with government plates and dark windows. As we arrived at the hospital, the \"wig-wags\", or flashing lights, came on. The van pulled to a stop near the emergency entrance.\n\nI know how powerfully the president's messages resonate with his base and how much they admire the way he has handled the health crisis (\"Millions more would have died\" without him, one of his supporters told me). But standing outside the hospital's emergency room, I could see that the world the president has described - one of health and prosperity, with him as its creator - was in jeopardy.\n\nAs Marine One hovered near the landing zone, yellow leaves scattered in the air. Mr Trump walked down the stairs, holding the rail, and climbed into an SUV. From the glimpse I got, he seemed subdued. It was the end of a long day for the president - and for the nation too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump's seven days before his Covid-positive test", "Sam Law said the situation left him feeling angry and \"completely left out\"\n\nA man who uses a wheelchair said he pulled himself up three flights of stairs to take his driving theory test as the centre had no disabled access.\n\nSam Law, 21, from Cardigan, Ceredigion, said the experience left him feeling angry and \"completely left out\".\n\nHis mother took photos of what happened at the centre in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire on Thursday.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) said it was \"extremely sorry for the unacceptable distress\".\n\nA spokesman said it was investigating as a matter of urgency, adding: \"We want everyone who is able, to take any driving test and will always make reasonable adjustments for people who are disabled and want to pass their theory or practical exam.\"\n\nService providers have to make reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability so they are not put at a substantial disadvantage compared to those who are not disabled when accessing services.\n\nMr Law said he specified he used a wheelchair when he booked his test online and requested to have it in Aberystwyth as he knew the centre there had wheelchair access.\n\nHe said he tried calling the Haverfordwest centre on the morning of the test to check access but no-one picked up.\n\nMr Law said he found climbing the steps \"very hard work\"\n\n\"I was very disappointed and angry,\" he said.\n\nHe said staff at the centre advised he return home and book another test, but he did not want to delay the test so decided to climb the steps with his brother's assistance.\n\nMr Law said he specified he used a wheelchair when he booked his test online\n\n\"It was very, very hard work - lifting yourself. Because I sit down all the time, I break bones easily,\" he said.\n\nMr Law, who has used a wheelchair since having a spinal stroke when he was 16, said he was shocked a building used by a government department did not have disabled access.\n\n\"It shouldn't be a case of 'you need to go to another centre',\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "William Henry and Brian McIntosh were found shot dead in the car in Brierley Hill on Wednesday afternoon\n\nA man has been charged with murdering two men found shot dead in a car.\n\nWilliam Henry, 31, and Brian McIntosh, 29, both from Bartley Green, were found in a car park off Moor Street in Brierley Hill, Dudley, just before 15:30 BST on Wednesday.\n\nA post-mortem examination found both men died from gunshot wounds, West Midlands Police said.\n\nJonathan Houseman, 32, from Stourbridge, has been charged with two counts of murder.\n\nMr Houseman, of Quarry Park Road, is set to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday, police said.\n\nA second person arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released without charge, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Rodolfo Piskorski moved to Wales to study in 2013 and has fallen in love with his adopted country\n\nA Brazilian man hoping to become a UK citizen has become one of the first to pass a citizenship test using Welsh.\n\nDr Rodolfo Piskorski said Wales was the only place he had lived in the UK - so he wanted to take the exam in his adopted country's language.\n\nHis passion for Wales also paid off when he asked for help to crowdfund the £1,500 needed to pay citizenship fees.\n\nMost of the cash was raised within a week - and he now hoped to finish the process before Brexit is completed.\n\n\"It's a silly test, like a pub quiz, and it doesn't integrate you so I thought 'how can I make the process more Welsh and give myself the challenge to do it in Welsh?'\" the Cardiff University lecturer said.\n\n\"I've heard people talk about Welsh as something quaint, but for me it's exciting, cool and young - that's been my experience in Cardiff.\"\n\nThe 34-year-old moved to the Welsh capital in 2013 to study for his PhD, and began learning Welsh two years later.\n\nCelebrating the language when Cardiff hosted the National Eisteddfod in 2018\n\nEven though he has EU settled status through his Italian partner, he wanted to become a citizen because of uncertainty over the UK's exit from the European Union.\n\n\"The right is there and it's important to use language rights,\" said Dr Piskorski, who is originally from Florianόpolis in south Brazil.\n\n\"I wanted to make a stand and show that there are different ways of being British.\n\n\"I wanted to show a different element to British identity and make those in power acknowledge that fact and acknowledge the right.\"\n\nHe took the £50 multiple choice test in January, and learned he was the first to pass the Welsh language version when he was given the results.\n\nThen he faced his second challenge, raising the rest of the money he needs to pay for the full citizenship application.\n\nFollowing a friend's advice, he set up an internet funding appeal - and within a week had already hit £1,400.\n\n\"The response has been amazing,\" said the Portuguese-language lecturer.\n\n\"It's one thing to be accepted as a citizen but it' a special feeling to be supported by the people of your country.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Trump says that when he came to a military hospital near Washington for coronavirus treatment a day ago, he was not feeling well, but now felt much better.\n\nHe said the next few days would be the real test.\n\nRead more: Trump says he is doing well, but next couple of days the 'real test'", "Kenzo was known for his love of graphics and bright colours\n\nThe Japanese founder of popular fashion brand Kenzo has died aged 81, from complications linked to coronavirus.\n\nTributes have poured in from all across the world for Kenzo Takada who died at the American Hospital in Paris.\n\nKnown for his bright graphics, jungle inspired prints and eclectic use of colour, he was the first Japanese designer to gain prominence on the Paris fashion scene.\n\nHe settled in France in the 1960s and spent the rest of his career there.\n\nWith his \"nearly 8,000 designs\", the Japanese designer \"never stopped celebrating fashion and the art of living\", his spokesman said.\n\nParis Mayor Anne Hidalgo paid tribute to him on Twitter: \"Designer of immense talent, he had given colour and light their place in fashion. Paris is now mourning one of its sons.\"\n\n\"I was a fan of the brand in the 1970s when he started. I think he was a great designer,\" fashion news website WWD.com quoted Sidney Toledano, CEO of luxury conglomerate LVMH which owns the Kenzo brand, as saying.\n\nMany Japanese Twitter users posted their condolences on the platform, some of whom shared that their first ever luxury product was one from Kenzo.\n\n\"The first wallet I ever owned was from Kenzo,\" said one Twitter user. \"Even though it's a small thing - I'll always remember it. Rest in Peace.\"\n\n\"I have a Kenzo [outfit] passed down from my mum,\" said another. \"I still wear it.\"\n\nMany others said they owned Kenzo handkerchiefs - an accessory which is still popular in Japan.\n\nBorn in 1939 in Himeji, near the city of Osaka, Kenzo Takada decided to make his way by boat to Paris in 1965, despite hardly speaking any French.\n\nAt first he sold sketches to fashion houses but later decided to strike it out on his own, with a small store called Jungle Jap.\n\n\"I decorated the shop myself with little money,\" Takada told the South China Morning Post newspaper recently, in what was one of his last media interviews. \"One of the first paintings I saw in Paris and fell in love with was a jungle painting... and that was the inspiration for the shop.\"\n\nHis clothes were heavily influenced by Japanese designs. Takada said he didn't want to \"do what French designers were doing\".\n\n\"His native Japan remained [the] source of inspiration for every collection he did. He kept the use of vibrant colours and volumes present at all times,\" said Circe Henestrosa, head of the school of fashion at Singapore's Lasalle College of the Arts.\n\n\"I think he was ahead of his time and was one of the first designers to experiment with the idea of genderless fashion. He would never conform to the stereotypical idea of masculine and feminine fashion,\" said Ms Henestrosa.\n\nKenzo Takada during his autumn-winter 1983-1984 fashion show in Paris\n\nTakada's \"big break\" finally came when fashion magazine Elle put one of his looks on their cover, and when international fashion magazine editors attended his fashion show in 1971, he told SCMP.\n\nThere was controversy over the brand initially, as Takada had called himself and his label \"Jap\" - a term that some in the United States found offensive, which he discovered when he started reaching out to the American market.\n\n\"I knew it had a pejorative meaning,\" he told the New York Times in a 1972 interview. \"But I thought if I did something good, I would change the meaning.\"\n\nTakada rechristened the label with his first name - and thus Kenzo the brand was born.\n\nIt flourished and became an internationally known fashion label, adding a menswear line in 1983 and then more casual sportswear lines Kenzo Jeans and Kenzo Jungle. Kenzo fragrances and eyewear soon followed.\n\nThen, at the height of the brand's success in the 1990s, Takada sold it to LVMH.\n\n\"The hardest year of my life was 1990, when my life partner Xavier died and my business partner had a stroke,\" he told SCMP. \"That's why I sold the company to LVMH [in 1993]. I felt I couldn't do it on my own.\"\n\nHe stayed at the label for a few years and retired from fashion in 1999 at the age of 60.\n\nBut even in his retirement he remained active creatively, designing costumes for opera productions and taking up painting.\n\n\"He was supposed to be in Paris only for two years [but] spent the rest of his life there. He took Paris by storm,\" said Ms Henestrosa.\n\n\"As [fashion journalist] Suzy Menkes said, 'he wanted to make happy clothes'. His work was avant-garde... it is sad when creative minds like Kenzo leave this world.\"", "Shannon and Matthew Steele said staff at Ipswich Hospital provided \"excellent care\"\n\nA nurse who shared her journey of having triplets on social media said her pregnancy \"could've been so different\" if it were not for Covid-19.\n\nShannon Steele, from Ipswich, gave birth to Ronnie, Maddison and Emilia on 24 August after an emergency Caesarean.\n\nShe said what was her first and will be her only pregnancy felt \"stolen\" due to measures in place due to coronavirus.\n\nAs reported, she shared her story on Instagram to help others with fertility battles after her own.\n\nMrs Steele said she felt like her pregnancy was \"stolen\" because there were many things the couple missed out on that first-time soon-to-be parents would normally experience - especially given they will not be having any more children after having triplets.\n\nBut the NHS nurse said her experience at Ipswich Hospital was \"excellent\" and staff there were \"supportive every step of the way\".\n\nShe added: \"They provided excellent care for the babies but took time to ensure I was OK as well as my husband - they are an outstanding group of passionate people.\"\n\nMrs Steele said she did not meet the triplets for two days as she had become \"very poorly\"\n\nMrs Steele started her Instagram feed our.triplets.journey with the aim of helping others going through \"fertility battles\".\n\nShe was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) at the age of 15 and a thyroid condition about three years ago.\n\nShe said she and her 35-year-old husband were \"one step\" away from going down the IVF route.\n\nShe said it was \"almost poetic\" that her husband got to have a lot of \"firsts\" with the babies\n\nThen in March they discovered they were due to have not only one baby but three.\n\nAlthough the wait to get pregnant had been long, when it came to the babies' arrival, she said it was a \"rush to get them out\" at Ipswich Hospital.\n\nOne of the triplets was in \"a lot of distress\" and Mrs Steele herself became \"very poorly\".\n\nRonnie, left, and Maddison, middle, were born two minutes after their sister Emilia\n\n\"I didn't see them for two days after they were born,\" said Mrs Steele.\n\n\"My husband was the first to see and cuddle them.\n\n\"Considering he missed out on the scans and coming to the hospital with me, he got to have a lot of firsts with the babies which was nice and almost poetic.\"\n\nThe triplets were born at almost 33 weeks, Emilia first, with Maddison and Ronnie following two minutes later together.\n\nThey spent four weeks in hospital before, along with their mother, they were able to go home.\n\nMrs Steele shared a photo of her scan on Instagram\n\nThe triplets spent four weeks at Ipswich Hospital before they were able to go home\n\nWhile Mr and Mrs Steele have been enjoying the early days of parenting and establishing a new routine, Mrs Steele said it had been hard for other family members who have not been able to be with them as coronavirus restrictions are still in place.\n\n\"There have been a lot of tears, especially from my mum and sister,\" she said.\n\n\"Not only did they want to see the babies but they wanted to be there to support me.\n\n\"It's been tough for everybody but the services at the hospital were fantastic and made it such a positive experience.\"\n\nAccording to the NHS website, about one in 65 births in the UK are twins, triplets or more.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samantha Morton starred in I Am Kirsty last year\n\nOscar-nominated British actress Samantha Morton has said she is \"fuming\" about how society treats abused women, like her late mother.\n\nThe star reflected on her difficult childhood, in and out of care homes, and her relationships with her parents for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.\n\nShe said she \"wouldn't be who I am today\" without her mum Pamela, whom she was unable to live with as a child.\n\n\"But I am fuming at how society behaves around mental health issues for women.\"\n\nShe added: \"My mum had a very, very traumatic childhood. And it's fascinating now as a mother and as a woman growing up to go 'wow'.\"\n\nShe described her mother, whom she said was abused as a child, as \"kind, subservient. vulnerable, funny\" and \"beautiful\", but noted how nobody else had a good word to say about her.\n\n\"She is a saint in a way to me,\" said Morton, who lost her to cancer several years ago.\n\n\"There's something fascinating in what I did get from her from not getting what I thought I wanted from her.\"\n\n\"I was not privy to seeing her when she was very poorly when I was very small with her mental health issues,\" she continued. \"That's what people were rude about and mean about.\n\n\"Women aren't allowed to be angry if they'd been raped or sexually abused - things weren't talked about.\"\n\nMorton pictured here in Cider with Rosie in 2015\n\nMorton was Oscar-nominated in her early 20s for best supporting actress in 2000, for the film Sweet and Lowdown. She was listed again in 2004 for the best actress Oscar for In America, and later won a Bafta - this time as a director on The Unloved in 2010.\n\nShe told Desert Island Discs host Lauren Laverne that as well as being given \"a good hiding\" by her father when she was younger, and being repeatedly expelled from school, she was also sexually abused in a care home.\n\n\"People abused positions of power,\" said the 43-year-old Nottingham actress and director, who apologised on the programme for having \"snapped\" at one point and threatened a bully herself while in one of her riotous care homes.\n\nMorton confirmed she had still been in the care home system when she got her big break as an actress, on Peak Practice, fittingly playing \"a runaway\", she joked.\n\nShe concluded by saying that she has \"absolute forgiveness\" and understanding for everybody who mistreated her, but had not forgotten.\n\n\"I think that people in a professional role have a duty of care, not only to the children that they're looking after, to do their jobs properly,\" she said.\n\n\"And I think a lot of people failed in those jobs in regards to me and many of my friends, my foster siblings, my siblings, and I just wish certain individuals would put their hands up and say, 'Yeah, we were wrong, we could have done better.'\n\n\"But people don't want to admit any liability in the culture that we are now because it's like, people get sued or... what's that gonna achieve?\n\n\"Unless people say, 'We got it wrong, we want to get it right', how are we going to change?\"\n\nSamantha Morton's Desert Island Discs is on Radio 4 at 11:00 BST on Sunday 4 October, after which you can listen back on BBC Sounds.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson spent three nights in intensive care after contracting coronavirus\n\nDominic Raab has said he was \"really worried\" the PM could have died from Covid-19 after he was admitted to intensive care in the spring.\n\nThe foreign secretary stood in for Boris Johnson during his time in intensive care and while he recovered.\n\nSpeaking to the Conservative Party conference, Mr Raab said the virus \"nearly took the life\" of the PM.\n\nMr Raab also said he worried for the PM's fiancee Carrie Symonds but \"always had faith\" he would \"pull through\".\n\nMr Johnson spent three nights in intensive care at London's St Thomas' Hospital in April after contracting coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking about his experience after leaving hospital, the PM said it \"could have gone either way\" and thanked healthcare workers for saving his life.\n\nMr Raab told the virtual conference that coronavirus had \"hit us hard, taking lives on a tragic scale\".\n\n\"It nearly took the life of our prime minister, our friend as well as our leader.\n\n\"I get asked a lot how I felt, when I covered for him.\n\n\"Well, I really worried we might lose him, and I was worried for Carrie (Symonds), pregnant with baby Wilf.\n\n\"But I always had faith that with the outstanding NHS care he received and his fighting spirit, he'd pull through.\"\n\nAdmitting there would be \"lessons to be learnt\" following the government's handling of the crisis, the foreign secretary added: \"I have to say, for every hurdle we faced, with every heart-rending loss, there was also a tale of courage, a moment of inspiration.\"\n\nDominic Raab stepped in for the prime minister during his sickness\n\nMr Raab also spoke about the prospect of a post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe UK and the EU have pledged to \"work intensively\" in order to resolve their differences and reach a deal.\n\nBut Mr Raab said that although the government wanted a free trade deal with the EU, \"any deal must be fair\".\n\n\"The days of being held over a barrel by Brussels… are long gone,\" the foreign secretary said.\n\nHe added there was \"no question the government will control our fisheries\".\n\nBoth sides have been calling on the other to compromise on key issues, which include fishing and government subsidies.\n\nAlso speaking at the conference, Michael Gove outlined the government's plans to move more Civil Service jobs outside of London - part of its \"levelling up\" agenda to spread investment and opportunity beyond London and south-east England.\n\nThe Cabinet Office minister said \"far too many government jobs\" were based in Westminster and Whitehall.\n\nMr Gove added: \"We have an amazing Civil Service and it has drawn its resources and people from lots of different communities - I think we now need to give back to those communities as well.\"\n\nPlans to open a second headquarters in Leeds were also announced.\n\nThe new headquarters will provide the party with \"a base at the heart of the blue wall\", party co-chairman Amanda Milling said, referring to the northern constituencies who voted for the party for the first time at the general election in December.", "Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen spoke via video conference on Saturday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have \"agreed the importance\" of finding a post-Brexit trade deal, Downing Street has said.\n\nThey agreed progress has been made in talks between the EU and UK but \"significant gaps\" remain, No 10 said.\n\nBoth have instructed their chief negotiators to \"work intensively\" in order to try to bridge those gaps.\n\nNegotiations between the UK and EU broke up on Friday without agreement.\n\nBoth sides are calling on the other to compromise on key issues, including fishing and government subsidies.\n\nMr Johnson and Mrs von der Leyen spoke during a phone call on Saturday and agreed to speak on a regular basis.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said the two had agreed on the importance of finding an agreement \"as a strong basis for a strategic EU-UK relationship in future.\"\n\nThe UK's chief negotiator, Lord Frost, tweeted that work to resolve differences between the UK and EU \"begins as soon as we can next week\".\n\nSpeaking earlier, while on a visit to Leeds, Mr Johnson said he wants a deal like one struck between the EU and Canada, but reiterated the UK was ready should it have to leave without a deal.\n\n\"We're resolved on either course, we're prepared for either course and we'll make it work but it's very much up to our friends and partners,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nIt comes after Mrs von der Leyen called for talks to \"intensify\", as both sides set an October deadline to settle their differences.\n\nThe significance of today's call between Boris Johnson and the head of the EU commission is that both sides have agreed to keep talking.\n\nAlthough formal negotiations ended yesterday without agreement, instead of throwing in the sponge - as Boris Johnson would put it - talks will now intensify.\n\nBut a Downing Street statement made clear that while there are notable (and well-known) differences over fishing rights and subsidies to businesses, these aren't the only issues that need to be solved.\n\nThere is the potential to compromise - for example, on phasing in new fishing arrangements and on having state aid provisions similar to other free trade agreements - but it's not clear the political willingness is yet there on both sides.\n\nThe EU has to satisfy the demands of 27 different states.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson has to convince Brexit-supporting backbenchers that he hasn't sold out.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab aimed to reassure them by stating today that the days of being \"held over a barrel\" by Brussels are long gone.\n\nAsked about potential compromises that could be made, Mr Johnson said: \"The balance of trade is overwhelmingly on the side of the EU in the sense that they export much more to us than we do to them, certainly in manufacturing goods, and so we think there is a big opportunity for both sides to do well.\"\n\nHe pointed out that Canada is \"some way away\" but had managed to strike a deal with the EU while the UK remained the bloc's biggest trading partner.\n\nBut he acknowledged a no-deal outcome where the UK would follow mainly World Trade Organization rules on trade with the EU was possible and would \"work very well\" - describing it as an Australia-style arrangement.\n\nSpeaking at the virtual Conservative Party conference, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the talks with the EU had been \"a tough process\" but \"with goodwill we should be able to get a deal\".\n\nHe added: \"Recognising that we share the same high environmental and workforce standards as they do, but we want to do things in our own way, is a bit difficult for them and also there is the very vexed issue to do with fisheries.\"\n\nHowever, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the conference the \"days of being held over a barrel by Brussels are long gone\", as he stressed any trade deal must be \"fair\".\n\nThe EU wants access to UK fishing grounds for its boats and says reaching a \"fair deal\" is a pre-condition of a deal, while the UK says they should be \"first and foremost for British boats\".\n\nThe prime minister has set the deadline of the EU Council meeting on 15 October for securing a deal.\n\nAfter six months of trade talks with the EU, Lord Frost has claimed the outlines of an agreement are visible, but he warned that, without further compromise from the EU, differences over the contentious topic of fishing may be impossible to bridge.\n\nHe described the final round of negotiations as \"constructive\" but \"familiar differences remain\".\n\nOn fishing, the gap was \"unfortunately very large\" and he called for the EU to \"move further before an understanding can be reached\" on state aid.\n\nHis EU counterpart, Michel Barnier, agreed the negotiations had been conducted in a \"constructive and respectful atmosphere\", with some \"positive new developments on some topics\" - such as aviation safety and police co-operation.\n\nBut he said there was \"a lack of progress on some important topics\", such as climate change commitments, \"as well as persistent serious divergences on matters of major importance for the European Union\", including state aid and fishing.\n\nThe UK formally left the EU in January, but entered a transition period - where the UK has kept to EU trading rules and remained inside its customs union and single market - to allow the two sides to negotiate a trade deal.\n\nFormal talks began in March and continued throughout the pandemic, but there have been concerns over whether a plan would be agreed before that period runs out on 31 December.\n\nIssues that have become particular sticking points between negotiators are state aid - where governments give financial support to businesses - and fishing rules.\n\nThe EU has said a deal must be reached before the end of October to allow it to be signed off by the member states before the end of the year, while Mr Johnson has said both sides should \"move on\" if agreement was not reached by the middle of the month.\n\nIf a deal is not done, the UK will go on to trade with the bloc on World Trade Organization rules.", "The executive is actively considering \"additional planned interventions\" to deal with the spread of Covid-19, the health minister has said.\n\nRobin Swann said he did not \"want a return to a long-term or indefinite lockdown\".\n\nMeanwhile public health experts in the Republic of Ireland have recommended the highest level of restrictions be applied to the entire country.\n\nIt is expected politicians will meet the chief medical officer on Monday.\n\nA further 462 cases of Covid-19 were announced by the Department of Health on Sunday.\n\nOne person has died in the past 24 hours after testing positive.\n\nThere are 65 people in hospital after testing positive for the virus, of whom nine are in intensive care.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 364 new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Sunday, with no new deaths reported.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said \"any notion of a circuit breaker only works if it's across the Island of Ireland\".\n\nThe executive's Chief Scientific Advisor, Prof Ian Young, said \"other levers are likely to be needed\" in addition to NI-wide restrictions on household gatherings.\n\nIn a statement issued on Sunday evening, he said the hospitality sector was the \"second most important\" for interventions \"to reduce adult contacts\".\n\nHe said contacts in this sector \"tend to be closer and longer\" than in many other settings, while alcohol consumption \"will also be a factor in failure to comply with social distancing\".\n\nProf Young added there had been a \"number of identified clusters associated with the hospitality sector\", however, minister will have to weigh up measures \"while also seeking to mitigate adverse consequences for society and the economy\".\n\nEarlier, Stormont Finance Minister Conor Murphy told BBC's Sunday Politics that \"all options\" would be discussed when the executive meet on Monday.\n\nFinance Minister Conor Murphy said \"all options\" would be considered by the executive\n\nMeanwhile, a 46-year-old woman has been charged with breaching coronavirus regulations in Strabane.\n\nThe woman is the first person in Northern Ireland to be charged under the new legislation.\n\nShe is due appear at Londonderry Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMr Murphy said he was \"concerned\" about the rising cases, adding \"as are all of the executive\".\n\n\"The primary focus of the executive is to protect life and whatever steps have to be taken we will take them,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to take a balanced view and one which we are sure the population will come along with us.\"\n\nRobin Swann said NI's hospitals were \"already under growing pressure and this will intensify in the coming weeks given the extent of the new cases\".\n\n\"Concrete action has been taken by the executive on a number of fronts and I will not hesitate to recommend further restrictions,\" he continued.\n\n\"Saving lives and protecting our health service must come first.\"\n\nThe health minister also urged people not to \"look for loopholes or grey areas in the regulations\".\n\nNew restrictions for the Derry City and Strabane Council area were announced by the Stormont executive on Thursday in an effort to stem spiralling infection numbers.\n\nThey include hospitality businesses being limited to takeaway, delivery and outdoor dining, and a call to avoid unnecessary travel.\n\nSpeaking about the rise in cases across NI, Dr Gerry Waldron of the Public Health Agency said a circuit-breaker lockdown was \"almost inevitable\".\n\nA circuit breaker is a short, sharp period of tightened restrictions for everyone to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\n\"It's not a place we expected to be at this time of the year, at the beginning of October, we thought, if anything, we might be seeing that maybe middle of October,\" he told Radio Ulster's Sunday with Steven Rainey show.\n\n\"We are absolutely insisting that people follow the advice of maintaining a social distance from other individuals, as far as possible, of two metres.\n\n\"We'll just have to brace ourselves and see how things pan out over the next few days and the next week.\"\n\nHe stressed the need to stick to the basics - keep a social distance, wear a face mask and keep washing your hands.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It's going to continue to be bumpy through to Christmas\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, Boris Johnson urged people to behave \"fearlessly but with common sense\" in their approach to the coronavirus.\n\nThe prime minister warned of a \"bumpy ride\" until Christmas and beyond, saying the winter could be \"very tough\" for everyone.\n\nHe added there had to be a balance between saving lives and protecting the economy.", "With a month to go before the presidential election, voters around the US are digesting the news that President Donald Trump is infected with Covid-19.\n\nMr Trump is currently experiencing mild symptoms - but aged 74 and within the clinical definition of obesity, he has risk factors that raise his chance of having a severe reaction.\n\nWe asked some older members of the BBC voter panel how they felt when they heard the news.\n\nMark Falbo is a retired higher education administrator who recently moved to Windham, Maine. He is a Democrat voting for Joe Biden.\n\nI am very concerned when anyone gets a diagnosis of being Covid positive - being someone my age and my size, I know how bad that can be for them, so I'm hoping that the president and first lady, and all those who may have been exposed, will recover well.\n\nI'm also hoping that it will create an area of seriousness around the president about this, because this still is a very dangerous situation and hopefully [this will be] his way of having to learn how leaders need to respond to threats to their population.\n\nI don't think he underestimated the crisis - it's pretty clear that he was aware of the threat. I personally think he mismanaged. And I think that's been a huge disservice to not simply Americans, but to the world.\n\nHere in Maine, we are pretty sensitive about Covid-19 and I'm fortunate to be in a state where the governor and our CDC director has taken this very seriously, with the exception of some silly activities by a few families.\n\nLaura Powers is a materials scientist from Wilmot, Wisconsin. She identifies as Independent and will vote for Joe Biden.\n\nWhen I woke up this morning and listened to the news, and heard that he had tested positive, my first thought was that maybe this is a wake-up call to his followers who think that this is all a hoax.\n\nMy second thought was that unless he has symptoms that are a little more severe - and I don't wish that on anyone including him and Melania - he's going to pull out and broadcast to his followers that Covid-19 is nothing to worry about, and even at his age he got through it.\n\nI have been extremely careful and I do take the health situation very seriously. I don't have underlying conditions but I know many people who do. I worry about people who are not, and I think that this will be a wake-up call. But as I said, I think that if [Trump has only a mild case], he will convince his followers that Covid has been blown out of proportion by the media.\n\nKathleen McClellan from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is a Republican voting for Donald Trump.\n\nI'm very sorry that [Donald and Melania Trump] caught the infection. I hope they do well. But my brother also caught it and he said he's had flus that felt worse. So, I know that it varies quite a bit. But I think that's just the way a virus works - it has to infect a certain number of people before it's going to go away.\n\nI don't think he's underestimated the crisis. I think he's in a position where he has seen people die, but he has a different philosophy, where you push forward. It's an individual decision for each person and I don't think anybody really knows that much about the virus. But it seems like at this point in time we may need to just get on with our lives, protect people who are especially vulnerable.\n\nIt's just a reminder that [Covid-19] is not something anyone should take for granted. But you can't be paranoid. It's not like back in April, when a complete shutdown made sense because we didn't know what we were dealing with.\n\nEric Scholl, 65, is a media coordinator from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He voted for Trump in 2016, but will vote for Joe Biden this year.\n\nCovid is not a Republican issue, it's not a United States issue, it's a global health issue. Unfortunately, and I do mean very unfortunately, the president never [listened to] the medical experts, let alone the fact that he totally blew off first protecting the country. So, it's sad - I'm just very sad for him and his wife and I hope they recover, but that's not gonna change who I vote for.\n\nI respect that there will be a small percentage [of the population] that will be more proactive in protecting themselves [after the president got the virus]. But here where I live in Oklahoma, the attitude is \"Hey I'm bulletproof. It's not going to affect me.\"\n\nThe president has greatly underestimated the power of Covid-19.\n\nJim Hurson from the San Francisco Bay Area in California is a Republican voting for Donald Trump.\n\nMy first reaction was, obviously, I thought it's very unfortunate. My second reaction is wondering what his opposition is going to do, to try and leverage this into making him look bad again. I think for sure they will play a game of \"we told you so\".\n\nWe have to remember that we have the benefit of hindsight.\n\nIf you listen to purely health oriented people, they want to make things as safe as they can from the standpoint of virology. But the president also has to deal with the consequences of disastrous economic fallout, what are the mental health problems of sequestering people in their homes... what is the society as a whole going to suffer from, and the government spending money that it frankly does not have?\n\nIt's an incredibly complicated situation when you look at it from a national standpoint. Given that, I don't think anybody could have done any better.\n\nIf you don't assume that the government can solve all of this, and you look at individuals and say how they are behaving, we're all going through this nicely.\n\nAre you an American voter? Join Jim, Kathleen, Mark, Eric and Laura on our US election voter panel.\n\nUse this form to get in touch.\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 response.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It's going to continue to be bumpy through to Christmas\"\n\nBoris Johnson has warned it may be \"bumpy through to Christmas\" and beyond as the UK deals with coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, the PM said there was \"hope\" in beating Covid, and called on the public to \"act fearlessly but with common sense\".\n\nHe said the government was taking a \"balanced\" approach between saving lives and protecting the economy.\n\nIt comes as a further 22,961 UK cases are reported, as previously unreported cases are added amid a technical issue.\n\nPublic Health England said an investigation into a technical glitch with the government's coronavirus dashboard identified 15,841 cases which were not included in the daily reports between 25 September and 2 October.\n\nIt said more than 75% of those cases - 11,968 - should have been reported between 30 September and 2 October.\n\n\"Every one of these cases received their Covid-19 test result as normal and all those who tested positive were advised to self-isolate,\" Public Health England's interim chief executive Michael Brodie said.\n\n\"NHS Test and Trace and PHE have worked to quickly resolve the issue and transferred all outstanding cases immediately into the NHS Test and Trace contact tracing system.\"\n\nThe prime minister said: \"The best thing we can do now for all those who have suffered in the course of this pandemic is bring it to an end in the speediest possible way.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he believed over the \"next few weeks and months\" the \"scientific equation will change whether that is vaccines or testing\" and there will be \"progress\" in beating the virus.\n\nAs a result, he said there was \"hope\" and \"things can be significantly different by Christmas\", as well as being \"radically different\" by spring.\n\nBut, the prime minister warned there could be \"a very tough winter for all of us\", adding: \"I tell you in all candour, it will continue to be bumpy through to Christmas and may even be bumpy beyond.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health minister, Alex Norris, criticised the interview as a \"wasted opportunity\" to set out a \"serious strategy to improve public confidence in the government's handling of this crisis\".\n\nHe said: \"Instead [the PM] waffled and ducked every question. His serial incompetence is holding Britain back.\"\n\nLabour has been a long-standing critic of the performance of the Test and Trace system, with its leader, Sir Keir Starmer, accusing the government of having \"lost control\" of the virus.\n\nMr Johnson said the system was \"not perfect\" and that he was \"frustrated with it\".\n\nBut he defended its \"massive increase in capacity\", saying it had \"made a huge difference\" in tackling Covid-19.\n\nIs Boris Johnson optimistic or pessimistic about the fight against Covid? He seems to be a bit of both.\n\nThe prime minister's prediction for the next few months is gloomy - winter will be \"bumpy\".\n\nRestrictions of varying degrees could be with us for months.\n\nBut at the same time, he is urging people to be fearless if they use common sense - and believes a \"radically different\" spring is around the corner.\n\nThe short-term forecast is downbeat. But the PM wants to retain hope that things could improve again in the not so distant future.\n\nMr Johnson also stood by the Eat Out to Help Out restaurant discount introduced in August, which some critics have said added to the rise in coronavirus cases in September.\n\n\"In so far as that scheme may have helped to spread the virus then obviously we need to counteract that and we need to counteract that with the discipline and the measures that we're proposing,\" he said.\n\nBut he insisted it was \"right to reopen the economy\" as the government tries to \"strike the right balance\".\n\nMr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility for everything that has happened since the pandemic began\".\n\nAsked about how effective the latest local lockdowns were in tackling the growing number of cases, the prime minister said it was \"too early to say\".\n\nMr Johnson said he understood the \"frustrations\" of people living in the affected areas - as well as a number of his own backbench MPs - but defended the action, saying: \"I'm a freedom-loving Tory. I don't want to have to impose measures like this, are you crazy?\n\n\"This is the last thing we want to do. But I also have to save life. And that's our priority.\"\n\n\"And I also think, by the way, that's the priority of the British people and I think they will want to see their government continue to work, continuing to fight the virus and that's what we're doing.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth earlier called for the government to publish guidelines on what criteria they used to impose local lockdowns, and to involve local council leaders and health officials.\n\nHe said there were questions as to why current areas have extra restrictions, while the constituencies of cabinet ministers with higher case numbers remained unchanged.\n\n\"Because there are no clear guidelines as to why an area goes into restrictions, and how an area comes out of restrictions, then there is a suspicion that there is political interference,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\n\"I hope there isn't. But until the government publish clear guidelines, that suspicion will always linger.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Marr challenged the PM over his comments about people becoming \"complacent\" over Covid-19\n\nMr Johnson was also asked about his health following his own experience of fighting coronavirus in March and April - and in light of US President Donald Trump testing positive.\n\nThe prime minister said when he had the virus he was \"too fat\" and it was a \"teachable moment for our great country\" to get on top of the issue of obesity.\n\nBut he claimed it was \"balderdash\" that he was still suffering from the effects of coronavirus, known as \"long Covid\".\n\nHe said the claim was \"drivel\", adding: \"It is balderdash and nonsense. I can tell you I'm fitter than several butchers' dogs.\"\n\nThe Conservatives are currently holding their first virtual party conference due to coronavirus restrictions on mass gatherings.", "Nottingham has consistently recorded one of the highest infection rates in England\n\nNottingham and parts of the surrounding county will move into the top tier of Covid restrictions, it has been confirmed.\n\nPeople living in the city, along with Rushcliffe, Gedling and Broxtowe, face the toughest restrictions.\n\nThe measures come into force at one minute past midnight on Thursday and will expire after 28 days.\n\nIt comes after the city consistently recorded one of the highest infection rates in the country.\n\nAbout eight million people in England will be living in the tier three - \"very high\" alert level by the end of the week.\n\nThis means pubs that do not serve substantial meals have to close, and there are further restrictions on households mixing.\n\nThe affected parts of Nottinghamshire join Liverpool City Region, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, South Yorkshire and Warrington in the highest tier.\n\nDetails of the lockdown will be formally announced on Tuesday, but in a joint statement local councils said the measures \"have been agreed to achieve a sustained reduction in infection rates\" and to \"protect our vulnerable residents, the NHS and social care services\".\n\nResidents and businesses who are affected will receive \"a package of support similar to those secured in other parts of the country\".\n\nThough it did have the highest figures in the UK earlier this month, Nottingham's seven-day rate of infection has dropped again, according to the latest data.\n\nThe city had the 24th highest rate of infection per 100,000 people in England, at 443.7, in the week up to the 23 October, down from 677.4 the previous week.\n\nIt is still the highest in the county, but the surrounding boroughs are all seeing an increase, with Broxtowe's infection rate having risen from 310.4 to 342.9, Gedling's up from 373.2 to 418.2 and Rushcliffe rising from 359.1 to 393.5.\n\nDavid Mellen, leader of Nottingham City Council, appealed to residents to \"work together\" and stick to \"very difficult\" restrictions.\n\nThough the seven-day infection rate for the city has dropped steadily after being the highest in the UK earlier this month, he said there were still concerns over rising rates among older age groups and hospital occupancy levels.\n\n\"We've got a growing number of people, way over 200 people, in our hospitals with Covid, and an increasing number in [intensive care units], so we are concerned about those numbers,\" he told BBC Radio Nottingham.\n\n\"Obviously we had many people die in Nottingham [and] Nottinghamshire earlier in the year and we don't want to add to that number with many more deaths as a result of this.\"\n\nMr Mellen also said the level of financial support from the government - which is to cover additional track and trace costs, enforcement and extra support to affected businesses - is \"not enough\".\n\nHe said he did not feel Nottingham had been \"fully funded by the government, and we do believe that if we do a really good job on track and trace, which is absolutely necessary, it will cost us more than what is being offered\".\n\n\"We tried to argue for more money, but the kind of formula that's been applied in four other [local] authority areas wasn't going to be changed for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.\"\n\nJason Weston from Ye Olde Salutation Inn said it was \"looking very, very dark\" for the pub\n\nNottingham South MP Lilian Greenwood criticised the government for what she said was \"woeful\" communication over the move into the toughest restrictions.\n\n\"It's more than a week since Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock said they were talking to [Nottinghamshire] about going into tier three, yet talks didn't even begin until Thursday and MPs weren't even briefed until Friday,\" she tweeted.\n\nJason Weston, who runs Ye Olde Salutation Inn in the centre of Nottingham, said he will not have to close because the pub serves meals, but with capacity already down to 20% of what it was in summer because of the 22:00 curfew he said it was \"almost irrelevant\" whether they were allowed to open or not.\n\n\"I'm very worried,\" he said.\n\n\"We're watching the bank balance go down week by week - it's looking very, very dark.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "A former paratrooper has attempted to break two world records after jumping from an aircraft into the sea.\n\nJohn Bream, 34, nicknamed \"the Flying Fish\", dropped about 130ft (40m) from a helicopter off Hayling Island on the Hampshire coast.\n\nSupport divers said he was briefly unconscious when he hit the water and was taken to hospital as a precaution.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The stowaways had posed \"a clear threat to life on the ship\", the Defence Secretary said\n\nSeven people have been arrested on suspicion of seizing control of an oil tanker, police have said.\n\nThe men were detained when military forces stormed the Nave Andromeda which was thought to have been hijacked off the Isle of Wight on Sunday night.\n\nSixteen members of the Special Boat Service (SBS) ended a 10-hour stand-off which started when stowaways on board the ship reportedly became violent.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said there had been a \"threat to life\".\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the seven men were being held on suspicion of \"seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force under Sections 9(1) and (3) of the Aviation and Maritime and Security Act 1990\".\n\n\"All 22 crew members are safe and well and the vessel is now alongside in the port of Southampton,\" a spokesman said.\n\nInvestigators are now speaking to the ship's crew to establish what happened.\n\nThe Nave Andromeda docked in Southampton after seven people were detained by military forces\n\nThe stowaways, believed to be Nigerians, were handed over to Hampshire police on Sunday night.\n\nMr Wallace said: \"What was emerging was a clear threat to life on the ship and at that point the police made representation to the Ministry of Defence that they didn't have the capability to do what was needed in these challenging circumstances.\n\n\"We were under the awareness that the suspects were also threatening to do something with the ship.\n\n\"If they were threatening to take control of the ship then, of course, that is a hijack and the threat to the environment and, more importantly, to the lives of people on the ship is something the state can't tolerate.\"\n\nThe nine-minute operation took place during darkness\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said British forces descended on to the vessel by rope from four Royal Navy helicopters after nightfall.\n\n\"The seven stowaways - believed to be Nigerians seeking asylum in the UK - were detained and handed over to Hampshire Police,\" he said.\n\nFormer Royal Navy officer Rear Adm Chris Parry said the operation to take control of the ship was over in \"under nine minutes\".\n\nHe said; \"From the time the helicopters went in and the SBS roped on to the ship, they rounded up the people pretty quickly.\n\n\"I think the stowaways themselves accepted this was probably the end of the journey for them and there probably wasn't any point in resisting heavily armed men approaching them.\"\n\nNavios Tanker Management, operator of the crude oil tanker, said the master of the Liberian-registered vessel became concerned for the safety of the crew \"due to the increasingly hostile behaviour of the stowaways\" who had \"illegally boarded\" in Lagos, Nigeria.\n\nIn a statement released on Monday, the company thanked the UK authorities for their \"timely and professional response\".\n\n\"Navios would also like to pay tribute to the master of the Nave Andromeda for his exemplary response and calmness and to all the crew for their fortitude in a difficult situation,\" it added.\n\nThe operation by Special Boat Service commandos is exactly what this elite and secretive unit trains intensively for.\n\nThe SBS, headquartered at Poole in Dorset, is less well-known than its Hereford-based counterpart, the Special Air Service (SAS), but both units have been called on over the years for delicate counter-terrorism and hostage rescue missions, often in arduous conditions.\n\n\"Fast-roping\" down from helicopters at sea and at night can be fraught with dangers but it often results in taking assailants by surprise - this operation took just nine minutes.\n\nIt would not have been possible though, if the crew had not followed a maritime drill enshrined in the manual called BMP5 - Best Management Practice 5th edition.\n\nWithdrawing to the ship's strong room known as \"the citadel\" and locking themselves inside meant they were able to call for assistance from a secure space.\n\nIn most cases of maritime piracy off Somalia hostage rescues were only ever undertaken if all the crew were safely inside the citadel.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence called the incident a \"suspected hijacking\" and said Mr Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel had authorised the operation in response to the police request.\n\nMrs Patel tweeted she was \"thankful for the quick and decisive action of our police and armed forces who were able to bring this situation under control, guaranteeing the safety of all those on board\".\n\nMr Beale said along with the SBS squad, a team of Royal Navy divers was deployed in one of the Royal Navy helicopters in case the vessel had been mined - but it had not.\n\nMr Beale said a defence source confirmed the master of the ship was on the bridge and in control of the vessel at all times, while the rest of the crew was locked away safely in a secure area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the oil tanker situated off the Isle of Wight\n\nThe 748ft-long (228m) ship left Lagos on 5 October bound for Southampton.\n\nAs it approached the Isle of Wight on Sunday morning it was reported that seven stowaways on board had become violent.\n\nConcerns over the crew's welfare were raised at 10:04 GMT when the vessel was six miles off Bembridge, police said.\n\nThe 22 crew members locked themselves in the ship's citadel - secure area - and were safe.\n\nA three-mile exclusion zone was put in place around the vessel.\n\nTobias Ellwood, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, said the boarding of the tanker was a \"good outcome\".\n\nHe said: \"Seven stowaways on board taking over a ship or causing the ship not to be in full command would have triggered a multi-agency alarm and then well-rehearsed classified protocols were then put into action.\"\n\nBob Sanguinetti, chief executive of the UK Chamber of Shipping, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Nothing at this stage suggests that this was hijacking and in fact hijacking of this nature is extremely uncommon.\"\n\nIn December 2018, four stowaways were detained after they ran amok on a container ship in the Thames Estuary.\n\nThe men, from Nigeria and Liberia, waved metal poles and threw faeces and urine after being found hiding on the Grande Tema.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mohammed Agha told the inquiry he had worked at more than 30 concerts at the arena\n\nSuicide bomber Salman Abedi was smiling as he walked to his death and murdered 22 bystanders by detonating his home-made bomb, a public inquiry has heard.\n\nAbedi, 22, was on his mobile phone as he made his \"final walk\" after waiting for crowds to emerge at the end of a concert at Manchester Arena in 2017.\n\nSeconds later he detonated his device packed with 3,000 nuts and bolts.\n\nShowsec security guard Mohammed Agha told the inquiry he was not initially suspicious of Abedi.\n\nMr Agha had seen Abedi outside the Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017, dressed in black and carrying a big, bulky rucksack, three times earlier that night, but he did not think him suspicious until minutes before the bombing when he agreed it \"crossed his mind\" Abedi might be a suicide bomber.\n\nHe denied he \"fobbed off\" a member of the public, Christopher Wild, who came to him to report his suspicions about Abedi at about 22:15 BST.\n\nFifteen minutes later Abedi left his position at the back of the City Room, a CCTV \"blind spot\", to detonate his device.\n\nPaul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry said: \"How did the man seem to be at that stage as he made that final walk?\"\n\nMr Agha replied: \"He was on the phone, mobile phone, he was smiling.\"\n\nMr Agha said he had passed on Mr Wild's comments about Abedi to a colleague, Kyle Lawler, at 22:25, some eight minutes after Mr Wild had first raised his concerns.\n\nTop row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nMr Agha, aged 19 at the time and being paid the minimum wage of £7.90 an hour, said that night his job was to stand by a fire exit.\n\nHe had no radio and said if he left his post, except for an emergency, he might lose his job.\n\nFamilies of some of the victims wiped away tears and others shook their heads as the witness continued his evidence.\n\nMr Agha said he tried but failed to attract the attention of his boss, standing 30 metres away across the room, by raising his hand.\n\nWhen Mr Lawler passed by him, he spoke to the fellow Showsec steward, who had a radio, in order to report what Mr Wild had said to his superiors in the control room.\n\nAs he and Mr Lawler looked at Abedi, he described the bomber as, \"kind of looking nervous, or kind of looking fidgety. He was playing with his hands\".\n\nMr Greaney asked the witness if he thought one possibility was that the suspicious man with the backpack might be a suicide bomber.\n\nMr Agha replied: \"Not, not like, I did think about it, but it was not fully in my head.\"\n\nMr Greaney continued: \"Do you agree, it did cross your mind that this man might be a bomber?\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emiliano Sala died when his plane crashed into the English Channel in January 2019\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with offences related to a plane crash which killed footballer Emiliano Sala.\n\nThe plane carrying 28-year-old Sala and pilot David Ibbotson crashed into the English Channel in January 2019.\n\nDavid Henderson, 66, of the East Riding of Yorkshire, appeared via video link at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday.\n\nMr Henderson denies endangering the safety of an aircraft and attempting to discharge a passenger without valid permission or authorisation.\n\nMr Henderson is alleged to have arranged the flight of 21 January 2019, which was bringing the striker from Nantes in France to Cardiff, when it crashed into the English Channel near Guernsey.\n\nOn Monday, the court heard how Mr Ibbotson was not licensed to fly an aircraft commercially, and a rating to enable him to fly the Piper Malibu aircraft had expired months before the crash.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) reported at the start of the year that the plane had been leaking carbon monoxide during the flight and a final manoeuvre by Mr Ibbotson to pull up the plane had caused it to break up mid-air.\n\nLast week the senior coroner for Dorset, Rachael Griffin, said the full jury inquest - which had been scheduled to take place in March 2021 - would now be adjourned until the conclusion of Mr Henderson's trial.\n\nDefence counsel Stephen Spence questioned whether Cardiff was an \"appropriate venue\" for the trial, given the level of support for Cardiff City FC in the area.\n\nHe added it would be \"unsatisfactory to have anyone on the jury who's a fan\".\n\nJudge Tracey Lloyd Clark asked that any application for a change of trial venue should be submitted by 23 November.\n\nMr Henderson, who denies all charges, was granted bail and will go on trial on 18 October 2021.", "Students are rallying again in Minsk, backing the opposition\n\nGroups of workers and students in Belarus have heeded a nationwide strike call by exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, to press for the president's resignation.\n\nWorkers at some state-run plants downed tools and chanted slogans outside the gates.\n\nHundreds of students also marched out of several universities in Minsk clapping, chanting and linking arms.\n\nHowever, the government says key enterprises are still running smoothly.\n\nPresident Alexander Lukashenko ignored the opposition's midnight deadline for him to step down. Protests have gripped Belarus since he claimed victory in an August poll widely viewed as rigged.\n\nThe interior ministry says police arrested 523 people during mass anti-government demonstrations on Sunday, 352 of whom are still in custody.\n\nOn Monday, at least 155 people were arrested for supporting the strike action in Minsk, Borisov, Brest, Grodno, Mogilev and Novopolotsk, human rights group Vesna reports.\n\nThe full scale of the protests on Monday is not yet clear, partly because of the authorities' media restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police targeted protesters with stun grenades and raided flats in October 2020\n\nVideos posted to independent media site Tut.by show empty factories and students walking out of their universities.\n\nA source in Minsk following the protests told the BBC that the strike was affecting some major state enterprises, including the Grodno Azot chemical plant and Minsk Tractor Plant, but they had not been brought to a standstill.\n\nDozens of shops, cafes and restaurants are closed in Belarus, in solidarity with the strike. Many other small businesses are also supporting the strike, our source says. But big supermarkets and public transport are still running normally.\n\nThousands of pensioners walked through central Minsk, eventually merging with a procession of students. Pensioners have held protest rallies every Monday. Students have also been very active, despite threats of expulsion.\n\nEarlier an estimated 100,000 demonstrators marched for the 11th successive Sunday of protests. Many waved the opposition's red and white flags and chanted \"strike\" as they marched.\n\nAccording to Russian news agencies, citing their correspondents at the scene, at least 10 stun grenades went off. There were also reports that riot police had fired rubber bullets.\n\nSecurity forces also blocked roads in central Minsk and water cannon were put in place.\n\nBelarusian police blocked roads in central Minsk as tens of thousands of protesters marched on Sunday\n\nMs Tikhanovskaya issued her ultimatum on 13 October, threatening a mass walkout by workers if Mr Lukashenko - who has ruled Belarus for 26 years - ignored their demands.\n\nShe said that Belarus had \"had enough\" after two months of \"political crisis, violence and lawlessness\".\n\nShe issued three demands from a location in Lithuania, where she has been in exile since August. In addition to Mr Lukashenko's resignation, she demanded an immediate end to police brutality and the release of all political prisoners.\n\nEarlier anti-Lukashenko protests at state enterprises, in support of the opposition, were not sustained. There are reports of workers being warned they will lose their jobs if they go on strike.\n\nThe BBC's source in Minsk says fear is widespread, after many protesters were beaten up and tortured by police. It is common for masked men with batons to grab protesters, drag them into unmarked vans and drive off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mass arrests in September as crowds chant 'go away' to Belarus president", "Deserted High Streets and home working are stifling the British job market's recovery, new research suggests.\n\nUrban areas in Scotland and southern England have seen the biggest declines in job postings, according to the Centre for Cities (CfC) think tank.\n\nVacancies have failed to return to pre-pandemic levels across all 63 towns and cities it analysed across the UK.\n\nCfC boss Andrew Carter said local lockdowns, while necessary, will exacerbate the situation over winter.\n\nThe slow jobs recovery is linked to a \"collapse\" in the number of jobs in services being advertised, CfC said.\n\nAberdeen, where the oil industry has struggled during the pandemic, recorded the steepest fall, with a 75% decline in job vacancies at the beginning of October, compared to the same time last year.\n\nIt is followed by Edinburgh at 57%, and both Belfast and Crawley, a West Sussex town near Gatwick Airport, at 55%.\n\nLondon has seen the sixth biggest fall in job postings at 52%. Overall, UK vacancies are 46% behind last year's level, said the report from the think tank and jobs website Indeed.\n\nAndrew Carter, chief executive of Centre for Cities, said: \"This could have potentially catastrophic long-term consequences for people and the economy.\n\n\"The government has told us to expect a tough winter and while local lockdowns are necessary to protect lives, it is vital that ministers continue to listen and reassess the level of support given to help people and places to cope with the months ahead.\"\n\nThe think tank's analysts said in general, the lag in hiring was concentrated in sectors exposed to Covid-19 restrictions, such as retail, arts and leisure. Stricter coronavirus rules are now in force for nearly six million Britons.\n\nThey also said working from home was stifling industries which depended on High Street footfall.\n\nAreas where footfall has returned to normal more quickly, such as Birkenhead, Chatham and Hull, have seen a faster recovery in the number of jobs advertised.\n\nPawel Adrjan, UK economist at Indeed, said: \"The timid recovery in job vacancies is a portent of the distress towns and cities could face if restrictions continue to spring up in parts of the country already reeling from imposed lockdowns and reduced footfall.\"\n\n\"With the remote work trend showing no sign of abating, and entire regions being placed under stricter control, service jobs in large towns and cities could become scarcer still and pull the UK into a jobs spiral,\" Mr Adrjan said.\n\n\"That could mean a very long winter ahead for the millions of people currently unemployed,\" he added.\n\nThe UK unemployment rate stood at 4.5% in the three months to August - the highest level seen in over three years.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, an estimated 1.5 million people were out of work and job hunting between June and August.\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said it had put in place a comprehensive plan to protect and create jobs in every region of the UK, and increased the generosity of its winter support schemes.\n\n\"We are also providing additional funding for local authorities and devolved administrations to support local businesses,\" they added.", "Marcus Rashford's campaign over the summer forced the government to U-turn on free school meals\n\nAmid the talks over Manchester's request for an extra £30m a month for jobs support, or indeed the tens of millions for half-term free school meals in England, and the debate over a tougher lockdown, the government and its top supporters are citing the idea that there is no money left.\n\nCertainly, this morning's public finances showed the government borrowing in the first half of the financial year at a record high, the highest levels of government debt in 60 years and the deficit this year heading for its highest ever level outside of a world war.\n\nThis is before the statisticians have accounted for likely losses from tens of billions of government-guaranteed lending to businesses.\n\nSeptember's numbers alone saw a fivefold increase in borrowing, up from £7.7bn last September to £36.1bn, driven by more spending on the furlough scheme, health and self-employment, as well as far less VAT and income taxes received.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) this afternoon also published a chart showing that of the £262bn that the Treasury has borrowed by issuing gilts, £246bn has been bought by the Bank of England.\n\nThe central bank has indirectly created and lent most of the extra money required by the government.\n\nOverall, the government has not had to raise the funds from the private sector or abroad.\n\nSo, no, we aren't really running out of cash.\n\nThe best evidence for that is that the government will indeed be announcing more borrowed money for some of its schemes in the coming days and weeks.\n\nAnd there is ample evidence that market demand for government debt is still strong.\n\nFor example, the European Union found huge demand this week for its new \"social bonds\" to help Spain and Italy fund pandemic jobs support.\n\nHowever, these Bank of England purchases do, in theory, have to be sold back into the market after the crisis.\n\nWith a large stock of debt, the government's finances are now very sensitive to even relatively small rises in the rate at which it borrows.\n\nIt seems unlikely right now, but is far from unthinkable over the next several years.\n\nThe government had already planned to borrow more to invest in infrastructure as part of its \"levelling-up agenda\".\n\nMuch higher levels of spending on health and pensions are already baked in to the spending cake as society ages.\n\nSo getting the public finances in shape does matter, as a medium-term priority.\n\nRight now, though, it is difficult to argue that \"no money\" is the constraint on extending free school meals, or furlough support.\n\nParticularly not on a day when it was confirmed pensions will rise by two percentage points more than inflation, at a time when average earnings are negative.\n\nThe cost of that triple lock policy, just as an example, is about £1.5bn in extra state pension costs in the coming year, according to Carl Emmerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nThese are political decisions to allocate money where the government feels an obligation to prioritise.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Danielle (right) and her sister\n\n\"I find it hard to remember ever having a cooked meal at home,\" says Danielle, who relied on free school meals as a child.\n\n\"I would eat spaghetti hoops cold out of the tin.\n\n\"We would have sliced white bread because it was 13p from [discount supermarket] Kwik Save, then put margarine on it and put it under the grill.\n\n\"Me and my sister thought we were going to open a café.\"\n\nDanielle, 39, is now a successful senior manager for a charity, living in London, but growing up she lived with food insecurity.\n\nShe has told the BBC how, as a child, she often had to resort to shoplifting or \"bin-diving\" for essential food at weekends or during the school holidays - once, when she was as young as 10.\n\n\"Food poverty in Britain isn't really spoken about because of shame,\" she says.\n\n\"When the holidays hit, hunger doesn't go.\"\n\nDanielle is calling on the government to \"support young people\" as the row about the decision not to extend free school meals for children in England into the half-term holiday continues.\n\nThe government extended free school meals to eligible children during the Easter holidays earlier this year and, after a campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford, did the same for the summer holiday.\n\nMinisters say that providing help through councils is the best way to reach those that need it.\n\n\"I was brought up in a household where we didn't have food at home,\" Danielle recalls.\n\nHer mother was ill, and couldn't work. A single-parent household, Danielle says she and her two siblings were often left to \"fend for themselves\", in addition to caring for their mum.\n\n\"Some days it was hard for her to get out of bed. She really put in a lot of effort but she couldn't cope. I don't hold it against her because she tried,\" Danielle stresses.\n\nThey would usually receive child benefits payments on a Monday. \"So we would often take a day off school and have lots of food then,\" says Danielle, \"but nothing afterwards.\"\n\nPackets of jelly were common because they cost 20p and \"would go quite far\", or instant custard - \"things to fill you up\".\n\nAt the weekend, meals would frequently consist of dry cereal and dry bread.\n\n\"I remember going to bed with hunger pains and coming home to an empty fridge,\" she says.\n\n\"You learn to shut off the signals from your brain that tell you you're hungry.\"\n\nThis habit stayed with her into adult life. \"I don't realise I'm hungry, and then it gets to 4pm and I realise I've been dissociating and suddenly have to eat.\n\n\"As a young adult I didn't know how to cook, so would just eat for survival. Something to take away the hunger.\"\n\nDanielle could sometimes eat at friends' houses or at Sunday school as a child, but her main source of hot meals was school.\n\nShe explains that because her mum was on benefits, that qualified her and her siblings for free school meals - which were limited to certain children.\n\n\"I have really strong memories of them,\" she says.\n\n\"Apple crumble and custard [her favourite pudding to this day], baked potatoes, roast dinners.\n\n\"I also have fond memories of sitting at the table with all of my friends.\"\n\nBut beyond that, she was forced to find other ways of sourcing food, when they had run out of essentials and she was \"starving\".\n\nThis included \"bin-diving\" for surplus food behind supermarkets, paying 10p for scraps from the local fish and chip shops, and shoplifting.\n\n\"It wasn't frequent, but when we were desperate,\" she says.\n\nDanielle was caught shoplifting a jar of Marmite aged 10 - carefully selected from the shelves because it could \"last weeks\" by only spreading a small bit on each piece of bread.\n\nAnd, while on the earlier occasion she was only told not to return to the shop, at 14-years-old she had her fingerprints taken, was placed in a police cell and later cautioned over shoplifting.\n\n\"I think that was for stealing jelly.\"\n\nDanielle says the incident came up on her record when she was applying for a job in later life, leaving her devastated.\n\n\"I feel like I'm quite a moral person. For it to tarnish your career when all you are trying to do is eat,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm not proud of it and I would never do it now, but it was survival.\"\n\nAs soon as Danielle was old enough to get various part-time jobs, she stopped shoplifting, and went on to get three \"A\" grade A-Levels and a First-class degree at university.\n\nBut she says that she could have gone \"either way\".\n\n\"I did have a supportive education system and that enabled me to not continue down the wrong path,\" she says.\n\n\"Because of the support that we have in the UK it allows people to go from poverty into middle class and be able to earn a living.\n\n\"Unless we support young people, give them opportunities, like food and education, then that wouldn't be able to happen.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marcus Rashford and his mother Melanie helped out at FareShare Greater Manchester\n\nResponding to the row over free school meals, Danielle argues that those who are making the decisions are doing so from \"a place of privilege\" without an understanding of \"what it's like to be a child and to be hungry\".\n\nShe also stresses that there are \"all sorts\" of family dynamics that can lead to financial difficulty, including debt, mental health issues, and addiction.\n\n\"It can happen to anyone,\" she says.\n\nAs Danielle hit her 30s, she developed a new relationship with food - teaching herself to cook from scratch and eventually batch cooking for the week.\n\n\"One of my friends set up a supper club and said I was their inspiration,\" she said.\n\n\"I just thought it's funny going from no food, to all my friends saying I was such an amazing cook.\"", "If you want to see one of the great monuments to what is called \"the special relationship\" between Britain and the United States, take a stroll to Grosvenor Square, a leafy haven in the heart of London.\n\nThere you will find a grand statue of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the great wartime American president, set high on a stone pedestal, dominating the square. Below it there is a surprise, an inscription revealing that the statue, unveiled in 1948, was paid for by \"small sums from people in every walk of life throughout the UK\".\n\nThink of it: at a time of grim post-war austerity and food rationing, 160,000 Britons were so admiring of America they were willing to pay five shillings each - about 8 pounds in today's money - to erect a statue in memory of its former president.\n\nThis memorial marks perhaps the zenith of US-UK relations. It is doubtful today many Britons would fork out hard-earned cash to raise a likeness of Donald Trump.\n\nA survey last month by the Pew Research Center found only 19% of Britons have confidence in Mr Trump to do the right thing in world affairs. Transatlantic relations over the past four years have been ragged.\n\nPresident Trump publicly criticised Theresa May's Brexit negotiations; on Twitter he accused British intelligence of spying on him; down the phone he shouted at Boris Johnson about the UK's approach to the Chinese tech giant, Huawei.\n\nThere have been \"ups and downs at a political level\", the ever-diplomatic Lord Sedwill, Britain's recent national security adviser, told the BBC. \"President Trump is a very unusual occupant of that office.\"\n\nPresident Barack Obama meeting Prince George at Kensington Palace in London in 2016...\n\nAnd Donald Trump and his wife Melania meeting the Queen at Windsor Castle in 2018\n\nOf course, the official relationship between Britain and the US endures; the military, diplomatic and intelligence links that run deep into the fabric of both nations.\n\nBut the occupant of the White House shapes that relationship, and that is why the election on November 3 matters.\n\nThe big question about a second Trump term is whether he would double down, unconstrained by electoral concerns, or moderate his behaviour as he looked to his legacy.\n\nSome reckon there might just be more of the same. For the UK, that would mean reasonably warm personal relations at the top between the president and a prime minister he once called \"Britain Trump\". There would be more positive noises about Brexit and a future trade deal. But there would likely also be more disputes over policy such as relations with China or Iran.\n\nIn terms of substance, the big unknown is whether Trump mark 2 would withdraw the US even further from the defence alliance Nato. In recent interviews, John Bolton, Trump's former National Security Adviser, has said there was real risk of this.\n\nOthers say it would be resisted by the US political establishment. But if the US did step back from Nato, Britain and the rest of Europe would have to spend more on their own defence and that could mean substantial tax rises.\n\nOn Iran, a second Trump administration would push harder for the collapse of the deal Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear ambitions. Britain would come under more pressure to split from European allies or risk tougher US sanctions that apply indirectly to British businesses and banks. The transatlantic divide on this and other issues would likely grow if Mr Trump gets four more years.\n\nIf Joe Biden were to win, the US would be less hostile towards the international organisations that Britain values so much, such as the United Nations. It would try to repair global partnerships. He's promising a \"summit of the democracies\". Transatlantic relations would be easier, less unpredictable, with fewer unexpected tweets.\n\nRelations between the US and the UK over some policy issues would improve. Take climate change. Next year Britain is hosting a big UN summit - known as COP26 - where it is hoped the world will agree new carbon reduction targets. President Trump, who pulled the US out of the previous Paris climate accord, is unlikely to help get a deal, whereas Mr Biden has promised to re-join Paris and push for even more ambitious targets.\n\nBoth Mr Biden and Mr Johnson share a tough approach towards Russia. They are closer on China, agreeing on the need to challenge malign behaviour but also allow for engagement on global issues. Divisions over Iran may become less stark as Mr Biden has promised to re-engage with the nuclear deal.\n\nThat is not to say a Biden presidency would not pose difficulties for the UK.\n\nHe is not a natural fan of the prime minister, describing him last December as \"a physical and emotional clone\" of President Trump. He strongly opposed Brexit. And as someone with a strong sense of his Irish heritage, Mr Biden has expressed concern about the potential impact Britain's departure from the European Union could have on Ireland's economy and Northern Ireland's security.\n\nPresidential candidate Joe Biden outside Downing Street in 2013, when he was vice-president\n\nMany analysts believe a Biden presidency would shift its focus towards Germany and France, seeing them and the EU as America's primary transatlantic partners.\n\nSir Peter Westmacott, former UK ambassador in Washington, said: \"Biden will lean towards Paris and Berlin not because he has anything intrinsic against the UK, but because we will count for less in Washington because of Brexit. Our importance to the US has always been linked to the difference we can make to US interests in Europe, and vice versa.\"\n\nRegardless of who wins on November 3, many observers believe some trends will continue: the gradual US retreat from global leadership and military intervention as the country rediscovers its isolationistic instincts. Mr Biden might be more internationalist in outlook than Mr Trump, but he too is promising to end US involvement in \"forever wars\", focus his foreign policy on improving the lives of America's middle classes, and protect US jobs from the tide of globalisation.\n\nAccording to Sophia Gaston, director of the British Foreign Policy Group, that means Britain will come under pressure to fill that vacuum and defend the multilateral organisations that have served the West so well.\n\n\"Even if Biden wins,\" she says, \"Britain is going to have to take a bigger role in those international institutions and a bigger role in leadership on issues like climate change, democracy and human rights because the US president is going to be more concerned by a fractious domestic landscape.\"", "The Lion King was due for a run in Cardiff this summer - it will now be back in 2022\n\nHit West End shows may not return to the Wales Millennium Centre \"without a Covid-19 vaccine\", it has been warned.\n\nVisiting tours of The Lion King and Phantom of the Opera to Cardiff have been cancelled as the £125m venue, which shut in March, remains closed.\n\nArtistic director Graeme Farrow said it hoped to stage \"test events\" with about 150 people in the audience in January.\n\nHowever he said the venue cannot \"flick a switch\" and fill a 1,800 capacity hall.\n\nMr Farrow has said discussions with Welsh Government had started in a bid to allow test events to take place, involving about 150 people sat at cabaret tables spread across the venue's main stage.\n\nProductions were cancelled when the UK shut down because of the Covid-19 crisis in March and the WMC remains shut to the general public \"until April 2021 at the earliest\".\n\nIt estimated the venue would lose £20m in commercial income this year and said in June that 250 jobs were at risk.\n\nThe WMC received £3.9m from the Arts Council of Wales's cultural recovery fund earlier in the week to help them through the pandemic.\n\nBut the venue has now made 63 permanent members of staff redundant due to the financial impact of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nWales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay is one of Wales' top arts venues\n\nBut Mr Farrow hopes performances can return in the new year.\n\n\"We want to run a series of test events for live performance with audiences,\" he said.\n\nThe Wales Millennium Centre has released all of its casual staff during the Covid-19 crisis\n\n\"We think we can start testing that from January with the audience on the stage and not in the stalls.\n\n\"Because come the summer or the autumn, without a vaccine we won't be able to just flick a switch and have 1,800 people back in this auditorium.\n\n\"We need to be able to plan through for that from early in the new year with small audiences, then we need to test 250, 500, 1,000 before we can even think about reopening for big shows.\n\n\"At the minute we are thinking May at the very earliest for that, and that may move back. But we will plan for every scenario, and what the money gives us is the ability to do that with people.\"\n\nPeople watched outside as Mared Williams performed in a pilot at Theatr Clwyd in August\n\nSix and Everybody's Talking About Jamie are set to become the first musicals back in London's West End in mid-November, eight months after the curtain came down.\n\nOther theatres are also experimenting while Covid restrictions prevent them resuming traditional shows.\n\nTheatr Clwyd in Mold has held outdoor performances and has begun experimenting with streamed online events, while Sherman Theatre in Cardiff has made a series of audio plays by new and established writers.\n\nBut while Welsh Government guidelines currently prevent theatre shows from going ahead, Theatr Clwyd's artistic director Tamara Harvey said she hoped the rules would change after the firebreak lockdown.\n\n\"The frustrating thing for us is that we had a whole autumn season ready to go,\" she said.\n\n\"The theatre is laid out as a cabaret space with socially distanced seating. We are able to bring people into our cinema, so we know we can do that safely, and where pubs and restaurants are still allowed to stay open that has been really frustrating.\n\n\"We are really good, in theatres, at keeping people safe and keeping them in their seats.\"\n\nWales Millennium Centre has called for similar rules for live events as those which exist in hospitality.\n\n\"How can cinemas open but this place can't? Even if we were to put 50 people in this auditorium, we could have them 10 metres apart. But we can't,\" added Mr Farrow.\n\n\"I think we need to start asking the question 'Why not?' rather than 'Why?'.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said its programme of pilot events with spectators at both outdoor and indoor events has \"been put on hold, the public health position takes precedence\".\n\n\"We understand this is a very difficult time for the sector and we will continue to work in partnership towards a safe reopening when the time is right,\" said a spokesperson.", "The Post Office is to cut a third of its cash machines in the next 18 months with 600 ATMs to be shut by March 2022.\n\nThe move has raised concerns that rural and deprived communities face being cut off from access to cash.\n\nATMs set for closure are little-used and have other free cash facilities close by, the Post Office said.\n\nIt added that in areas where it is closing cash machines, customers can still withdraw cash over the counter free of charge.\n\nMartin Kearsley, banking director at the Post Office, said the business was keeping 60 non-commercially viable ATMs \"to serve the community's needs\".\n\nCurrently the Post Office does not run any of the cash machines at its branches; they are operated by Bank of Ireland, which is pulling out of the business.\n\nThat has prompted the review, which will mean closing 600 ATMs, while the Post Office has said it will spend £16m to maintain and upgrade other machines.\n\nIt said by mid-2023 all ATMs it keeps will be replaced with new devices that have the latest cash dispensing technology and security measures.\n\n\"This is one of the largest investment programmes in the free to use ATM market for over a decade,\" said Mr Kearsley.\n\nThe Post Office will also become a member of the Link ATM network.\n\nCash use has declined sharply during the coronavirus pandemic, with many businesses asking customers to pay by alternatives such as cards.\n\nCorrespondingly the use of cash machines has slumped. In central London it has fallen by up to 80%, according to figures published by Link, the cash machine network.\n\nAcross the UK, cash machine withdrawals between April and September fell by 48% compared to the same time last year.\n\nIn London and Westminster the number of withdrawals dropped 81%, while there were 71% fewer in Saffron Walden and Glasgow Central.\n\n\"Every city, town and village has a different story,\" said Link's head of financial inclusion Nick Quin. \"In places like city centres, it's less busy overall, so there are fewer people using ATMs.\n\n\"In some rural areas, though, there have been fewer tourists or perhaps the local shop, where the ATM is hosted, temporarily closed.\"\n\nThere are currently 42,000 free-to-use ATMs across the UK and 13,000 charging ATMs.\n\nIn the early stages of the pandemic around 7,200 ATMs closed. These were mainly in premises that shut due to government restrictions, such as shops, airports, garden centres, pubs, or they were closed for social distancing purposes, such as at train stations and supermarkets.\n\nBy the end of September more than half of them had reopened.\n\n\"What's clear is that there are places around the country, where more people rely on cash,\" said Link's Nick Quin.\n\n\"They're often some of the most deprived places in the country. That's important because while there are more people who prefer to use cards and shop online, there are a lot of people out there where digital payments still don't work.\"\n\nThe Access to Cash Review revealed eight million people were at risk in the UK from the demise of cash.\n\n\"Our research demonstrates that the majority of people are uncomfortable at the pace at which we are moving towards a cashless society,\" said David Fagleman, from financial consultancy Enryo.\n\n\"Not everyone is comfortable with making digital payments and we have to ensure that the rush to digitise does not leave people behind. Cash is still a very important payment method.\"\n\nBut going cashless also has benefits, said Amy Gavin from fintech consultancy 11:FS. \"Electronic payments are faster, some feel safer not carrying cash around, and electronic payments can also help consumers with budgeting.\"\n\nHowever, she added: \"It remains true that a reduction in cash use in society disproportionately negatively impacts its most vulnerable segments - such as older people and those with very low incomes who use cash to manage their budgets.\"\n\nThe government has proposed to legislate to protect cash and one option is for cashback to become more widely available in shops.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The roots of Northern Ireland’s Troubles lie deep in Irish history\n\nGovernment proposals for dealing with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles are under fresh attack, with MPs dismissing them as \"unhelpful\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Affairs Committee also said it was \"dismayed\" at a lack of consultation.\n\nIts report stated the plan to permanently close cases of serious crimes \"raises profound legal, ethical and human rights issues\".\n\nLast March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with the past, which radically departed from what had been proposed in 2014 in the Stormont House Agreement.\n\nVictims' group WAVE recently claimed Secretary of State Brandon Lewis was \"dangerously deluded\" if he thought the ideas will help reconciliation.\n\nThe committee said the lack of detail around the proposals was \"deeply concerning\" and urged the government to conduct \"meaningful and transparent\" consultations with parties and victims' groups.\n\nSimon Hoare MP said the proposals were a unilateral departure from the Stormont House Agreement\n\nThe Conservative chairman of the committee, Simon Hoare, said: \"The Stormont House Agreement, not without its weaknesses, had appeared to be the basis on which we could move forward.\n\n\"But the government's new proposals are a unilateral departure from that.\n\n\"We are calling on the government to urgently introduce legislation based on the core principles of the Stormont House Agreement and return to a collaborative approach, engaging with victims' groups, parties and where necessary the Irish government.\"\n\nMr Hoare told BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster that there was an opportunity for the Irish government to give their views, as the issue required \"partnership and collaboration\".\n\n\"We will wait to hear from them, very often they don't respond to these sorts of things, given the fact that it is a different country and we are a parliamentary committee in a different jurisdiction.\n\n\"But I think on this issue, given the need for cross-border co-operation and of course given the views that have been expressed by some ministers in the Irish government in response to what the UK government has been proposing then I certainly think it would be very helpful to our deliberations to receive their views.\"\n\nMr Hoare also said that following the committee's interim report, there was an opportunity for the Northern Ireland Office to \"set out where it is and what its next steps are\".\n\nJude Whyte, whose mother, Peggy, was murdered in a UVF bomb attack at the front of her home in Belfast's University Street in 1984, said that Northern Ireland was \"22 years into a peace process\" and \"we are no further on with victims\".\n\n\"That simply reflects the body politic I suppose in Westminster, that this place is a total irrelevance, it's somewhere out there and 'we have bigger things to deal with in this Covid-19 pandemic that we are in the middle of'.\n\n\"It is interesting when you read the report. Many of the comments are very solid and the critique of government policy is very solid, but people here have to realise that nobody really cares too much about what goes on here.\"\n\nMr Whyte told BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster it was an \"intractable\" issue the government was dealing with.\n\n\"People do not even agree on what a victim is,\" he said.\n\n\"This society really needs to stand up, take a serious look in the mirror and either deal with this issue or don't deal with it and the only way, in my view, to deal with this issue is very straightforward - we have to learn to forgive each other, we have to learn to deal with the past as a group of people - nobody is going to do it for us.\"\n\nRev David Clements, whose policeman father, William, was murdered by the IRA in 1985 at the gates of Ballygawley police station, said he was \"glad\" the NI Affairs Committee had issued an interim report but that it was \"a shame\" the NI Secretary had not appeared before the committee in September.\n\nRev Clements said the Stormont House proposals were built on \"very solid principles\" and he was \"glad\" that the committee had \"reiterated\" those \"at least three times in the report\".\n\nHe said the principles, which included \"promoting reconciliation, upholding the rule of law, acknowledging and addressing the suffering of victims\" were \"very good ones on which to build\".\n\n\"If the secretary of state, the Northern Ireland Office can come up with a better model and better suggestions then let them crack on with it and do it,\" he added.\n\n\"It will be almost impossible to find a scheme that everyone will buy into 100%, but surely we can do better than we are doing at the moment.\"\n\nDUP MP Gregory Campbell and SDLP MP Claire Hanna both sit on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.\n\nMr Campbell said that the UK government needed to \"take account of the many victims that there are\" and that people needed to see \"much more\" than a written ministerial statement.\n\n\"That's what has caused the degree of anger that there has been, we need to see the substantive nature of the proposals to take us forward, that is what needs to happen so that the range of victims' groups know their views have been taken seriously and progress is going to be made,\" he said.\n\nSDLP MP Claire Hanna said that \"criticism\" was not only \"of the silence from the UK government\", but that the proposals were \"flimsy\".\n\n\"They depart so massively from what was agreed among both governments and among nearly all parties and with support from victims' groups at Stormont House,\" she said.\n\nThe Shadow NI Secretary of State Louise Haigh accused Brandon Lewis of a \"cavalier approach\" which has \"undermined trust with victims\".\n\nShe added: \"He must urgently re-think his approach before it is too late.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary of State Brandon Lewis was previously criticised by victims' group WAVE for a failure to consult on the proposals\n\nAs part of the New Decade New Approach deal in January, the government had pledged, within 100 days, to introduce legislation implementing the Stormont House Agreement.\n\nInstead, however, it set out new proposals which have been seen, in part, as a way of curtailing future investigations into killings carried out by the Army during the Troubles.\n\nThe committee said its report was an interim one because the government had not yet provided a fuller explanation of its plan beyond a two-page written statement on 18 March.\n\nIt said the NI secretary had also pulled out of a planned oral evidence session in September.\n\nThe report stated: \"While acknowledging the challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, we would have expected further detail to be made available on the government's plans by this point.\"\n\n\"Delay and uncertainty perpetuate an unacceptable situation that has already gone on too long.\"\n\nThe MPs also called on the NI Executive Office to fill the victims' commissioner position vacated by Judith Thompson in the summer.", "Lewis Hamilton passed Valtteri Bottas to take a commanding victory in the Portuguese Grand Prix and break Formula 1's all-time win record.\n\nHamilton dropped to third in a manic first two laps that ended with McLaren's Carlos Sainz leading, but fought back to crush Bottas' hopes.\n\nAfter both Mercedes passed Sainz, Hamilton tracked Bottas before taking the lead on lap 20.\n\nFrom there, Hamilton dominated to take his 92nd career Grand Prix victory.\n\nHamilton received a standing ovation from the socially distanced crowd, before celebrating with team members and then a long embrace with father Anthony.\n\nHamilton said he \"owed it all\" to his Mercedes team, adding: \"I could only ever have dreamed of being where I am today.\n\n\"I didn't have a magic ball when I chose to come to this team and partner with these great people, but here I am.\n\n\"Everything we do together - we are all rowing in the same direction and that's why we're doing what we're doing.\n\n\"And my dad's here and my step mum Linda, and Roscoe [Hamilton's dog]. It is going to take some time for it to fully sink in. I was still pushing flat out as I came across the line. I can't find the words at the moment.\"\n\nHow did it all unfold?\n\nHis victory, on a humiliating day for team-mate Bottas, gave Hamilton a 77-point advantage in the championship as he moves ever closer to a seventh world title, which would match Schumacher's other surviving record.\n\nHamilton had to do it the hard way, cool temperatures and a sprinkling of rain at the start leaving his Mercedes grip-less on its medium tyres on the opening lap, on which he was passed by both Bottas and Sainz.\n\nSainz, using his soft tyres to great advantage over the medium-shod Mercedes, produced a stellar opening lap from seventh on the grid and passed Bottas for the lead at Turn Five on the second lap.\n\nBut once the Mercedes' tyres were up to temperature, they wasted no time in dispatching the McLaren and disappeared into a race of their own.\n\nHamilton never let Bottas get much more than a couple of seconds ahead and then after 15 laps started to pour on the pace, setting fastest lap after fastest lap to close in on the Finn and then pass for the lead into Turn One.\n\nOnce ahead, Hamilton left his team-mate behind, pulling out a lead of more than seven seconds in the next 10 laps, and continuing to inch further clear over the remainder of the race.\n\nHamilton extended his lead even further after they made their pit stops, as he was able to get the hard tyres into their temperature window more effectively than his team-mate.\n\nThe 35-year-old's only concern was cramp in the final 10 laps but it did not seem to affect him unduly, and he still crossed the line 25 seconds clear of his team-mate.\n\nIt was a masterful performance, befitting the monumental nature of his achievement, supplanting Schumacher at the head of the all-time win lists, where the German had been for 19 years.\n\nIt was an exciting race on a new track to F1, with overtaking and incident aplenty throughout the field.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen was third, after slipping down to fifth on the opening lap, while Charles Leclerc was impressive in recovering fourth place in the Ferrari after he, too, struggled for grip in the opening laps on the medium tyres and dropped to eighth.\n\nAlpha Tauri's Pierre Gasly was outstanding in taking fifth, grabbing the place with a lovely move around the outside of Racing Point's Sergio Perez with two laps to go.\n\nPerez, too, drove a strong race, recovering from a first-lap collision with Verstappen and spin, which required him to stop for fresh tyres and drop to last.\n\nPerez came under further pressure on the last lap, this time from Sainz, who passed him to take sixth place, with the Renaults of Esteban Ocon and Daniel Ricciardo and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel all close behind.\n\nKimi Raikkonen was just outside the points, after an outstanding first lap, rising from 16th on the grid to seventh place on his soft tyres, and then passing Leclerc's Ferrari for sixth, before the lack of pace of his Alfa told once the race settled down and he began to slip back.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nNext weekend, F1 moves on to Imola in Italy, an historic, challenging and popular track which holds a race for the first time since 2006.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHamilton: \"I really owe it all to[Mercedes team] for their teamwork, continually innovating and pushing the barrier even higher every year. It's such a privilege working with them. It really is absolutely incredible.\"\n\nBottas: \"The opening lap was pretty good, some cars behind with the soft tyre had the upper-hand but I was really pleased I could get the lead but after that, I just had no pace today. I don't understand why.\"\n\nVerstappen: \"It was very low grip at the start. I tried to stay out of trouble but had a touch with Sergio Perez. He didn't give me enough space so he took himself out. I did my own race after that.\"", "Peter Florence was made a CBE in 2018 for services to literature and charity\n\nThe director and co-founder of the Hay literary festival has been suspended after a complaint by a member of staff.\n\nPeter Florence was suspended at the start of October pending the outcome of grievance proceedings, the festival has confirmed.\n\nMr Florence set up the festival with his parents in 1988. It is one of the biggest events in world literature.\n\nThe matter is unrelated to a claim that a festival employee was sexually assaulted by a senior Gulf royal.\n\nThe Hay Festival has attracted many leading writers and public figures to Hay-on-Wye, in Powys, including former US President Bill Clinton, who called it the \"Woodstock of the mind\".\n\nMr Florence was made a CBE in 2018 for services to literature and charity, and he chaired the jury of the 2019 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.\n\nCaroline Michel, the festival chairwoman, said Mr Florence had been signed off sick, which had delayed the conclusion of the grievance procedure.\n\nTania Hudson has been appointed interim chief executive, alongside the international director, Cristina Fuentes La Roche.\n\nThe Hay Festival was not held as a physical event this year because of the pandemic\n\nMs Michel added: \"The Hay Festival Board would like to reassure all supporters and sponsors that the festival is in good hands.\n\n\"We are not at liberty to offer any further comment on personnel issues until this matter is resolved.\"\n\nNormally the festival brings thousands of visitors to Hay every spring, but this year it was forced to go online because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFestival officials say the claim against Mr Florence is a separate matter to allegations made by one of its employees, Caitlin McNamara, who has said she was sexually assaulted by Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan while in Abu Dhabi.\n\nMs Michel has said that the festival will not work in Abu Dhabi again while Sheikh Nahyan remains minister of tolerance.", "Brian Clamp says he's had a traumatic few days\n\nWe are standing in full PPE, in one of the two hospital intensive care units which are solely for Covid patients. This is a bright, modern ward - sunlight pouring in.\n\nAt one end there is a large black plastic barrier taped across an opening. On the other side, none of the patients has Covid-19. The makeshift divider is a reminder that all this is still relatively new. It is the first winter where the NHS's response to the usual heavy demands will have to be adjusted for coronavirus.\n\nOn the Covid unit, something else is immediately apparent: the sound of conversation.\n\nWhen I first reported from a Covid intensive care unit in April, I was left haunted by what I'd seen. All but one patient had been on a ventilator, in a medically induced coma. It was eerily quiet, just the rhythmical sound of machines pumping air into lungs.\n\nThe medical teams were at a loss to know how best to treat a savage condition which was ravaging victims' lungs and other organs. Lives hung in the balance, often for weeks on end. In early April, two out of three ventilated patients did not survive.\n\nToday, in this intensive care unit (ICU) at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, only one of the five patients is on a ventilator. The others are sitting up, engaging with the nurses, reading or watching TV.\n\n\"The Jedi is my nickname,\" says Brian Clamp. The 62-year-old is a steward at a social club, where he works behind the bar.\n\nHe had been getting better but was readmitted to intensive care when his breathing worsened. It is still a little laboured, despite the nasal oxygen supply, but his sense of humour and laughter are intact. Brian admits the experience has been \"absolutely terrifying\", but adds, with a smile, \"they will get us better, I know that\".\n\nHe is determined to get home to watch his granddaughter, Millie, play football.\n\nI’m lucky to have got it in the second wave - the doctors know so much more\n\nAt least half the patients here are on clinical trials. Brian has received convalescent plasma, packed with antibodies against coronavirus, donated by someone who recovered from the infection. It's not clear whether blood plasma works against Covid-19, but trials are ongoing. I donated plasma earlier this year and there's still an urgent need for more adults to do so.\n\nFurther down the ward is Edmund Derrick, who is relieved to have his sense of taste back. He is savouring an egg sandwich.\n\n\"I had this foul, acrid, burnt taste in my mouth for days, which invaded absolutely everything,\" he says. His other symptoms included violent uncontrollable shuddering and sudden temperature swings.\n\nThe 71-year-old retired local government worker is, like everyone here, keen to get home to his family. His wife contracted coronavirus at the same time as him but didn't fall seriously ill. Men are still twice as likely as women to end up in intensive care with Covid-19.\n\n\"I think I'm lucky to have got it in the second wave,\" he says, \"now the doctors know so much more.\"\n\nThere's no doubt more patients are surviving Covid-19, although it's too early to give precise figures. Ventilators are used more sparingly and there is greater reliance on other, non-invasive means of giving oxygen.\n\nAbout 1,000 Covid patients a day are being admitted to hospitals across the UK, roughly a third of the numbers at the peak. Covid-related deaths are running at about a fifth of the level in early April.\n\n\"Now, we know the beast that is Covid pneumonia,\" says Dr Lewis Gray, a consultant in intensive care. \"We know how it develops, how it's treated, how people can and do recover.\"\n• None 173Covid patients in Newcastle NHS Trust, at peak of first wave, with...\n• None 71Covid patients, when BBC visited in October, with...\n\nPatients are given dexamethasone, a cheap steroid which is proven to cut the risk of dying by up to a third. They also receive remdesivir, an antiviral drug which has been fully approved in the US, although its effectiveness is still under review.\n\nPatients are also given increased doses of anti-coagulant medication, to prevent blood clots, which can be a serious complication of Covid. And they are often nursed on their front, prone, as this helps with breathing.\n\nBut the impact of Covid is felt in the hospital way beyond the ICU. The more Covid there is, the greater the impact on other non-emergency care - hip replacements, eye operations, myriad other conditions.\n\nIn March, there was concern that hospitals would be overwhelmed, so all non-urgent surgery was cancelled. This time, the aim is to ensure that non-Covid patients don't lose out. But every bed allocated to Covid care requires specialist nurses. Already, the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) has had to close four of its 50 operating theatres to reallocate the nurses to intensive care.\n\nDame Jackie Daniel, chief executive of Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust and a former nurse, says the situation in the hospital is finely balanced.\n\nIf you are a frail, elderly person, isolated and fearful, we are pushing them into deeper anxiety\n\n\"At the moment we're managing, but are not complacent, because it's going to be tough.\"\n\nLike other trusts, waiting times for non-life threatening surgery, from hips to hernias, have increased. The Newcastle trust has maintained cancer services, but elsewhere there is a backlog of \"tens of thousands of patients\", says Dame Jackie.\n\n\"Cataracts are a good example - a relatively simple procedure, but if you are a frail, elderly person, isolating, fearful, we are pushing those patients into deeper anxiety.\"\n\nKathleen Lawson, from Durham, had been due a thyroid operation in March. Only now has the 67-year-old had the surgery.\n\n\"I feel fortunate it's happened. I'm absolutely elated,\" she says.\n\nOn another ward I spoke to several patients who were recovering from a serious Covid infection.\n\nEpifania Garcia, a 66-year-old care worker, and her husband, are on separate wards. Epi is positive they will both get better but worries about her two grown-up daughters, both nurses.\n\n\"I feel emotional because I cannot see them. I have never left them this long,\" she says.\n\nA few beds along lies Mohammed Siddique, a former mill worker, bus and taxi driver. Aged 87, he suffers confusion, so his daughter Shamim - who's had Covid - is allowed to stay with him. She sits by his bedside, stroking his hands.\n\n\"He was very close to dying. It was very scary,\" says Shamim, who lives in the next street to him, with her family. Her husband spent two weeks in hospital, including time in ICU. Covid has swept through the extended family.\n\nAlbert Brown, 67, still has a slight tan from his holiday in Turkey. He says he thinks got infected on his return, while on a local night out. At home one night, two weeks later, he collapsed on his hands and knees gasping for breath.\n\n\"I was very afraid,\" he says.\n\nWhile at the RVI, he has witnessed several younger people being admitted with Covid complications.\n\n\"It can attack anybody, it doesn't pick and choose, but it's certainly not a joke. We need to take it seriously.\n\nI'm the BBC's medical editor. Since 2004 I have reported on a huge range of topics from cancer, genetics, malaria, and HIV, to the many significant advances in medical science which have improved people's health. I've also followed pandemic threats such as bird flu as well as Sars and Mers. Now I'm focusing on Covid-19 and its immense global impact.", "The suspects were detained on board the Nave Andromeda (in the middle of the three boats)\n\nSeven suspects have been detained after a suspected hijacking involving stowaways on a tanker off the Isle of Wight.\n\nUK special forces completed the operation in nine minutes, BBC Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale said.\n\nMilitary assistance had been requested after the stowaways on board the Liberian-registered Nave Andromeda reportedly became violent.\n\nAll 22 crew members, who were locked in the ship's citadel, are safe.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence called the incident a \"suspected hijacking\" and said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel authorised the operation in response to a police request.\n\nThe operation took place under the cover of darkness\n\nMr Wallace said: \"I commend the hard work of the armed forces and police to protect lives and secure the ship.\n\n\"In dark skies, and worsening weather, we should all be grateful for our brave personnel. People are safe tonight thanks to their efforts.\"\n\nMrs Patel tweeted she was \"thankful for the quick and decisive action of our police and armed forces who were able to bring this situation under control, guaranteeing the safety of all those on board\".\n\nMr Beale said the individuals were detained after they were met with \"overwhelming force\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the oil tanker situated off the Isle of Wight\n\nHe said members of the Special Boat Service based at Poole, in Dorset, were involved in the operation, which also featured six helicopters.\n\nA team of Royal Navy divers were also flown in one of the Royal Navy helicopters in case the vessel had been mined but it had not.\n\nConcerns over the crew's welfare were raised at 10:04 GMT when the vessel was six miles off Bembridge, police said.\n\nA spokesman said \"verbal threats\" had been made towards the crew.\n\nA three-mile exclusion zone was put in place around the vessel.\n\nRichard Meade, editor of shipping news journal Lloyd's List, had earlier said there were thought to have been seven stowaways on board.\n\nHe said it was believed they had become violent towards the crew after they attempted to detain them in a cabin.\n\nThe tanker Andromeda, owned by Greek shipping company Navios, was en route from Lagos in Nigeria to Fawley oil refinery on Southampton Water.\n\nIt had not stopped anywhere else.\n\nAccording to a source close to the shipping company, the crew were aware of stowaways on board, but the stowaways became violent towards the crew while it was off the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe crew retreated to the ship's citadel, a secure area in which they can lock themselves, making it impossible for attackers to get in.\n\nThis is standard procedure during a terrorist or pirate attack, but there is no suggestion the crew were doing more than protecting themselves from the stowaways.\n\nThe crew contacted the coastguard, which then alerted police.\n\nThe 748ft-long (228m) ship is known to have left Lagos in Nigeria on 5 October and was south of the Isle of Wight when the police were called.\n\nLawyers for the vessel's owners said they had been aware of the stowaways on board for some time.\n\nTobias Ellwood, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, said the boarding of the tanker was a \"good outcome\".\n\nHe said: \"Seven stowaways on board taking over a ship or causing the ship not to be in full command would have triggered a multi-agency alarm and then well-rehearsed classified protocols were then put into action.\"\n\nHampshire police said after the suspects were detained that all 22 crew members of the tanker were safe.\n\nIn December 2018, four stowaways were detained after they ran amok on a container ship in the Thames Estuary.\n\nThe men, from Nigeria and Liberia, waved metal poles and threw faeces and urine after being found hiding on the Grande Tema.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nabil Abdulrashid joked that he had \"kept workers at Ofcom from being made redundant\"\n\nMore than 3,000 complaints about comedian Nabil Abdulrashid's routines on Britain's Got Talent have been rejected by media watchdog Ofcom.\n\nAbdulrashid's jokes about race and religion took him to the final.\n\nOfcom said it took freedom of expression into account when deciding not to launch an investigation.\n\n\"The comedian's satirical take on his life experiences as a black Muslim was likely to have been within audience expectations,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nAlmost 1,000 people complained about Abdulrashid's performance in the semi-final on 3 October, in which he joked about police treatment of black people, and about what \"angry far-right guys\" would think about someone joking about being black and Muslim.\n\n\"We just tell jokes about our lives because they matter - right?\" the Croydon comic said.\n\nAnother 2,200 complained about the final on 10 October, when he laughed off the \"snowflakes\" who had objected to the previous week's routine.\n\n\"They complained because we said black lives matter - thousands of complaints,\" he said. \"To be honest I'm shocked that many of them know how to write.\n\n\"They sent in thousands of angry letters. Hopefully if I annoy them today they can progress onto words.\"\n\nHe also joked that Winston Churchill was black, because \"when was the last time you met a white man called Winston?\" and \"What colour is his statue? Eh?\"\n\nAnd Abdulrashid suggested ITV should have had a different response to the 24,500 people who complained about dance troupe Diversity's Black Lives Matter-inspired performance in September.\n\n\"I would have sent an email to everyone who complained. It would just say: 'We understand you viewers are offended. But all viewers matter.' Let's see how they like it then.\"\n\nResponding to the number of complaints on Twitter, he joked: \"I'm just happy I've kept workers at Ofcom from being made redundant. I'm a hero and should be appreciated for my contribution to the economy. @Ofcom you're welcome.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tesco were “simply wrong” to tell a woman she could not buy period products during lockdown, Wales' health minister has said.\n\nThe supermarket has since apologised and admitted it had incorrectly applied rules that say they can only sell essential items until November 9.\n\nIt later said an area of its store in St Mellons, Cardiff had been cordoned off due to a break-in.\n\nThe issue has prompted protests and calls for the Senedd to be recalled.\n\nSpeaking at a Welsh Government briefing, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said meetings would be held with the supermarkets this afternoon to make clear they could use “some discretion” to sell non-essentials to those in “genuine need”.\n\nHe said he was “very sorry” a woman was wrongly told sanitary products could not be sold.\n\n“It’s an incorrect reading of both the regulations and the guidance. And I’m very sorry this woman was given this information.”\n\nDuring the lockdown supermarkets are unable to sell items other high-street stores can’t provide as they have been told to close.\n\nTesco later said the aisle in question had been cordoned off due to a break-in Image caption: Tesco later said the aisle in question had been cordoned off due to a break-in", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Plaid Cymru said the Welsh Government had \"made a mess of the messaging\" over the essential items issue\n\nTesco was \"simply wrong\" to tell a woman she could not buy period products during lockdown, Health Minister Vaughan Gething has said.\n\nThe supermarket apologised after saying it could not sell sanitary towels and tampons from a store in Cardiff.\n\nThe Welsh Government has banned the sale of non-essential items in supermarkets during a 17-day lockdown.\n\nOpposition parties have called that \"absolute madness\" and said better communication was needed with shops.\n\nThe Welsh Government said revised guidance will be published on Tuesday.\n\nMr Gething told the Welsh Government briefing that supermarkets would now be able to use their \"discretion\".\n\nTesco had blocked off the aisle after a \"break-in\" at the store in St Mellons, Cardiff\n\nThey have been told to close parts of their stores that sell items such as clothes, bedding and toys during Wales' firebreak lockdown.\n\nUnder Welsh Government guidance, shops which have been allowed to remain open are not allowed to sell goods classed as \"non-essential\" during the 17 days, which would normally be sold by businesses that have been made to close.\n\nThis includes homeware, electrical goods, telephones, clothes, toys and games, and garden products.\n\nThe policy has been criticised in a petition signed by more than 60,000 people.\n\nHomeware and bedding has been taped off in Tesco in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nOne customer wrote on Twitter she was \"raging and in tears\" after not being able to buy period products at Tesco's St Mellons store in Cardiff, after the aisle was blocked off.\n\nIn a tweet that was later deleted, Tesco responded to the complaint by saying it had been told not to sell the items during the lockdown.\n\n\"This is wrong - period products are essential,\" the Welsh Government tweeted in response.\n\nThe supermarket later issued a statement saying the area had been closed off following a break-in at the store, which the police were investigating.\n\nSouth Wales Police confirmed it was investigating a burglary which happened between 02:30 GMT and 04:30 on Monday when an estimated \"£20,000 worth of beauty products were stolen\".\n\nTesco said the reply to the customer, which had implied sanitary towels were non-essential, \"was sent by mistake\".\n\nIn Tesco's Penarth store, carbon Monoxide and smoke alarms were covered in sheeting\n\nIn Tesco in Penarth shelves containing smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors were covered in plastic sheeting, with the store putting up a sign saying they were \"non essential\".\n\nBut under the Welsh Government guidelines shops can sell products you can normally buy from food and drink stores, newsagents, pharmacies and DIY and hardware stores - as they remain open.\n\nOn Monday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said meetings would be held with the supermarkets to make clear they could use \"some discretion\" to sell non-essentials to those in \"genuine need\".\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh Government's coronavirus briefing he said he was \"very sorry\" a woman had been incorrectly told she could not buy sanitary products.\n\nMr Gething said shoppers and retailers should use \"common sense\" and there would be a \"very small number\" of cases where there would be a genuine need to buy a non-essential item in a supermarket.\n\n\"For the great majority of us though of course, we will be able to manage for the next two weeks - with the hardship, with the interruption that causes, yes - but to avoid the much greater hardship and much greater interruption to people's lives and their ability to still see family and friends in the future,\" he said.\n\nBooks have been covered in cellophane\n\nThe Welsh Government has come under pressure to abandon the measure and a petition against the ban is now the largest ever submitted to the Senedd.\n\nSecretary of State for Wales Simon Hart has urged Mr Drakeford to \"scrap the policy\" while Welsh Conservative leader Paul Davies called for Members of the Senedd to be recalled \"virtually\" to debate the matter.\n\n\"This is absolute madness by the Welsh Government, preventing people from buying the products which they want to buy,\" he said.\n\nPlaid Cymru's leader Adam Price called on ministers to admit they had sent out confused messaging about a policy, and the public health message had got \"lost\".\n\n\"If they'd had the conversations with the retail sector earlier, so we heard from the minister that they had a meeting on Thursday, I would suggest that was too late,\" he said.\n\n\"That has eroded public trust over the weekend and obviously that is concerning because it's the public support, the public health message is ultimately the one thing that keeps us all safe.\"\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 RT Davies 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\nTim Batcup, who has had to close his Swansea book shop during the lockdown, said the Welsh Government had made the \"right call\".\n\nBut he said that while some supermarkets had stopped selling books, others were still selling them, and the messaging was a \"bit mixed\".\n\n\"I don't really understand the fuss... I don't know why people can't go a couple of weeks without a pair or pants or a candle,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"I think it's a sincere attempt at levelling up, how effective it will be I don't know. It might drive people towards the online giants, but they all seem to clean up anyway.\"\n\nThe toy aisle at Tesco on Western Avenue in Cardiff has been blocked off\n\nNicky Small, who has had to close her craft shop in Llandudno, said she believed wool and other craft items were essential as the hobbies were helping many through the pandemic.\n\n\"I think there's a balance, what is one person's non-essential could be another person's essential,\" she said.\n\n\"The difficulty is anybody trying to dictate what essential is, because that will depend on who you are, what you are needing to get, if you have been waiting for payday.\"\n\nHead of the Welsh Retail Consortium, Sara Jones, said the rules were confusing, and banning people from buying certain items set a dangerous precedent.\n\n\"I think this policy is the wrong way to go about it, because rather than levelling the playing field, it's just creating winners and losers, it's pushing people online,\" she said.\n\nShe said allowing an element of discretion would go against the purpose of the policy, as people would have to approach staff for items and spend more time in store.\n\n\"It's distorting competition, which I think is setting a bit of a dangerous precedent,\" she said.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe government is continuing to insist it will not bow to pressure, including from some Conservative MPs, to fund free meals for school children in England over half-term. More than 800,000 people have signed a petition, started by footballer Marcus Rashford, calling for provision to continue. Some local councils have promised to supply meal vouchers and, thanks to Rashford, scores of pubs, cafes and restaurants have also offered free food. However, Labour says a postcode lottery means many will lose out. One woman, Danielle, told the BBC what holiday hunger felt like for her as a child.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marcus Rashford and his mother Melanie helped out at FareShare Greater Manchester\n\nPeople aged 16 to 25 are more than twice as likely as older workers to have lost their job during this time BBC Panorama has found. Research seen by the programme also suggests the education gap between privileged and disadvantaged young people has widened further. Elsewhere, a report suggests deserted high streets caused by local lockdowns and home working are taking a toll on the number of job vacancies.\n\nRoberta, aged 16, says it has been a struggle to keep up with her peers from privately educated backgrounds\n\nPeople without symptoms who want to get a coronavirus test will now be able to pay for one at Boots stores across the UK. The firm says a nasal swab test which gives results in 24 to 48 hours is being introduced now, and within weeks an even faster test will offer customers results in just 12 minutes. The initial cost will be £120, but Boots says it hopes that price will fall significantly if there is sufficient demand for the service. People with one of three key coronavirus symptoms - a fever, a new continuous cough or a loss of smell or taste - should seek a free NHS test.\n\nTough new coronavirus measures are being introduced in Italy and Spain. Madrid has declared a national state of emergency and imposed a night-time curfew country-wide. Restrictions have also been imposed on travel between regions. In Italy, bars and restaurants will close for table service at 6pm, and gyms, cinemas and theatres will shut. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told the nation he hoped that \"by gritting our teeth\" for a month \"we'll be able to breathe again in December.\" Case numbers, hospital admissions and deaths have been increasing across Europe - see our global tracker for more.\n\nIt's a hugely difficult time for theatres and others arts venues, but at Sunday night's Olivier Awards, some of the biggest stars of the stage tried to encourage those working in the industry to stay positive. Fleabag's Andrew Scott urged them to \"keep the faith\" as he accepted his best actor trophy by video link. Another winner, director Marianne Elliott, said the event must remind everyone \"what theatre is, what it can do, and how it can touch hearts, minds and souls\".\n\nAndrew Scott said a sense of humour had helped many in the theatre world get through this period\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, mother-and-baby units provide vital support for new mothers and pregnant women with serious psychological problems. Find out why they are facing unique challenges right now.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\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.", "American voters will face a clear choice for president on election day, between Republican incumbent Donald Trump and Democratic hopeful Joe Biden.\n\nHere's a look at what they stand for and how their policies compare on eight key issues.\n\nPresident Trump set up a coronavirus task force at the end of January which he says has now shifted its focus to \"safety and opening up our country\".\n\nThe president is also prioritising the speedy development of coronavirus treatments and vaccines, directing $10bn towards such projects.\n\nMr Biden wants to set up a national contact-tracing programme, establish at least 10 testing centres in every state, and provide free coronavirus testing to all.\n\nHe supports a nationwide mask mandate, which would require face coverings to be worn on federal property.\n\nPresident Trump is a climate change sceptic, and wants to expand non-renewable energy. He aims to increase drilling for oil and gas, and roll back further environmental protections.\n\nHe has committed to withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord - the international agreement on tackling climate change - which the US will formally leave later this year.\n\nMr Biden says he would immediately re-join the Paris climate agreement if elected.\n\nHe wants the US to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and proposes banning new leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands, as well as a $2tn investment in green energy.\n\nPresident Trump has pledged to create 10 million jobs in 10 months, and create one million new small businesses.\n\nHe wants to deliver an income tax cut, and provide companies with tax credits to incentivise them to keep jobs in the US.\n\nMr Biden wants to raise taxes for high earners to pay for investment in public services, but says the increase will only impact those earning over $400,000 a year.\n\nHe supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 (£11.50) an hour from the current rate of $7.25 (£5.50).\n\nPresident Trump wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed under President Obama, which increased the federal government's regulation of the private health insurance system, including making it illegal to deny coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions. He says he wants to improve and replace it, although no details of the plan have been published.\n\nThe president also aims to lower drug prices by allowing imports of cheaper ones from abroad.\n\nMr Biden wants to protect and expand the ACA.\n\nHe wants to lower the eligibility age for Medicare, the policy which provides medical benefits to the elderly, from 65 to 60. He also wants to give all Americans the option to enrol in a public health insurance plan similar to Medicare.\n\nPresident Trump has reiterated his promise to bring down US troop levels overseas, while continuing to invest in the military.\n\nThe president says he will continue to challenge international alliances and maintain trade tariffs on China.\n\nMr Biden has promised to repair relationships with US allies.\n\nHe says he would do away with unilateral tariffs on China, and instead hold them accountable with an international coalition that China \"can't afford to ignore\".\n\nPresident Trump says he doesn't believe racism is a systemic problem within US police forces.\n\nHe has positioned himself as a firm advocate of law enforcement, but has opposed chokeholds and offered grants for improved practices.\n\nMr Biden views racism as a systemic problem, and has set out policies to address racial disparities in the justice system, such as grants to incentivise states in reducing incarceration rates.\n\nHe has rejected calls to defund police, saying additional resources should instead be tied to maintaining proper standards.\n\nPresident Trump has an expansive interpretation of the US constitution's Second Amendment protections giving Americans the right to bear arms.\n\nHe did propose tightening background checks on gun buyers after a string of mass shootings in 2019, but nothing came of the plan and no further legislation has been put forward.\n\nMr Biden has proposed banning assault weapons, universal background checks, limiting the number of guns a person can purchase to one per month, and making it easier to sue negligent gun manufacturers and sellers.\n\nHe would also fund more research into preventing gun violence.\n\nPresident Trump says it's his constitutional right to fill the vacancy on the court during the remainder of his first term in office, and has put forward conservative judge, Amy Coney Barrett.\n\nOne issue that the Supreme Court could soon rule on is the legal right to abortion in the US - something the president and Judge Barrett have opposed in the past.\n\nMr Biden wants the vacancy to be filled after the next president enters office.\n\nHe says if elected he would work to pass legislation to guarantee a woman's right to an abortion if the Supreme Court rules against it.", "A Covid test that can provide a result in 12 minutes will be made available at high street pharmacy Boots.\n\nThe nasal swab test, which will cost £120, will be available in selected stores in the UK to people who are not showing symptoms.\n\nThe company says the aim is to offer customers peace of mind.\n\nAnyone in the UK who thinks they have symptoms should stay at home and contact the NHS to book a Covid test in the usual way.\n\nThe technology has been developed by LumiraDx, which has also struck a deal to provide supplies to the NHS in Scotland.\n\nTrials suggest it is accurate enough to identify cases, although, like any Covid test, there are some false results meaning they are not 100% reliable.\n\nThe Lumira tests, due to lauch at 50 Boots stores in November, take minutes to give a result, analysing a nose swab sample on the spot, via a small, portable machine.\n\nAnyone who tests positive should then isolate to avoid spreading the infection to others.\n\nOther rapid tests, which give results within 90 minutes, are also being trialled by the NHS.\n\nProf Paul Hunter from the University of East Anglia said while the test could give peace of mind at the time it was taken: \"A negative test today tells you nothing really about whether you are going to be positive a day or two later.\"\n\nSpeedy and comprehensive testing is thought vital to efforts to contain the second wave of the virus while the world waits for an effective vaccine.\n\nBut figures released last week showed that just 15.1% of people are currently receiving results within 24 hours through the official system in place in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, admitted there was \"room for improvement\" in the NHS Test and Trace system.\n\nBoris Johnson previously pledged that all tests would be processed within 24 hours - unless there were issues with postal tests - by the end of June.\n\nResearch suggests that on average people develop symptoms of Covid 5.1 days after they were infected.\n\nWhile a small proportion develop symptoms within three days, others may take nearly two weeks to become ill.", "More than 800 former judges and legal professionals have signed a letter accusing Boris Johnson and Priti Patel of \"hostility\" towards lawyers representing migrants seeking asylum.\n\nIn a letter to the Guardian, they claimed the PM and home secretary \"endanger\" lawyers' safety with their comments and undermine the rule of law.\n\nThe signatories called for them to \"behave honourably\" and apologise.\n\nNo 10 said lawyers were \"not immune from criticism\".\n\nIn August, the Home Office removed a video posted on social media accusing lawyers representing migrants of being \"activists\".\n\nThe Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, branded the video \"misleading and dangerous\".\n\nEarlier this month at the Conservative Party conference, Ms Patel referred to \"do-gooders\" and \"lefty lawyers\" in a speech on what she called the \"broken\" asylum system.\n\nHer comments came after it emerged that the UK considered sending asylum seekers to an island in the Atlantic.\n\nMs Patel promised to introduce legislation next year for the \"biggest overhaul\" of the system in \"decades\" and said those opposed to her plans were \"defending the indefensible\".\n\nMr Johnson went on to say he would stop the whole criminal justice system being \"hamstrung\" by \"lefty human rights lawyers\".\n\nAmong those to sign the letter were three former justices of the UK supreme court - Lords Collins, Dyson and Walker - retired appeal court judges, former high court judges and scores of QCs and law professors, plus the directors of Liberty and Justice.\n\nThe letter stated: \"We are all deeply concerned at recent attacks, made by the home secretary and echoed by the prime minister, on lawyers seeking to hold the government to the law.\n\n\"Such attacks endanger not only the personal safety of lawyers and others working for the justice system, as has recently been vividly seen; they undermine the rule of law, which ministers and lawyers alike are duty-bound to uphold.\n\n\"We invite both the home secretary and the Prime minister to behave honourably by apologising for their display of hostility, and to refrain from such attacks in the future.\"\n\nOne of those to sign the letter, the former director of public prosecutions Lord Ken Macdonald, said lawyers were being \"crudely and dangerously vilified\".\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said that, while lawyers played an important role in upholding the law, \"they are however not immune from criticism\".\n\nThe spokesperson said the government is clear that any form of violence is unacceptable.", "The Irish News reported the review focuses on the work of a consultant urologist at Craigavon Area Hospital\n\nA number of patients are being recalled after a review was started into the work of a consultant urologist in the Southern Health Trust.\n\nThe trust said \"clinical concerns\" were raised and the consultant \"no longer works in the health service\".\n\nIt said \"a small number\" of patients are affected.\n\nThe Irish News reported that an investigation began in the summer and focuses on care at Craigavon Area Hospital.\n\nThe newspaper also said the consultant retired in June. However, the trust told BBC News NI it had no further comment to make on the matter.\n\nThe trust said the patients were being contacted \"so that their care can be reviewed\".\n\n\"The Department of Health is being kept updated on the progress of the review and the potential impact on patients,\" a statement added.\n\n\"If anyone is concerned and would like information please phone us on 0800 4148520 between 10am and 3pm.\"\n\nThe Department of Health confirmed it is \"being kept apprised\" on the review and said Health Minister Robin Swann \"plans to make a statement to the assembly very shortly\".", "When he was seven years old, President Donald Trump punched his school music teacher.\n\n\"I actually gave a teacher a black eye,\" he wrote in his 1987 book The Art Of The Deal, \"because I didn't think he knew anything about music.\"\n\nMr Trump says he was \"almost expelled\" over the incident, and it suggests he's as opinionated about music as he is about trade or taxes.\n\nThe president is a big fan of The Rolling Stones, Eminem and Elton John (a decidedly one-way relationship), but his favourite song is Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is? It's an interesting choice: Lee's nihilistic ballad essentially says life is a series of meaningless disappointments, so you might as well drink away your sorrows and forget about the rest of the world.\n\nMr Trump sees it differently. \"It's a great song because I've had these tremendous successes and then I'm off to the next one. Because, it's like, 'Oh, is that all there is?'\" he told his biographer Michael D'Antonio, in 2014.\n\nSo what about his Democratic rival, Joe Biden? Well, his tastes are no more up-to-date. His favourite band is traditional Irish folk outfit The Chieftains, he told People Magazine in 2012, adding: \"I would sing Shenandoah if I had any musical talent.\"\n\nShenandoah, which The Chieftains recorded in 1998, actually dates back to the early 19th Century. The story of a fur trapper who falls in love with the daughter of a Native American chief, it's steeped in romanticism for the early days of America.\n\nNone of these songs have been played on the campaign trail this year - but the candidates' musical preferences at rallies and in advertisements offer a glimpse into what they think works for their supporters.\n\nMr Trump's playlist leans heavily on classic rock songs that project power and combative self-confidence.\n\nHe frequently plays Queen's We Are The Champions - whose refrain, \"No time for losers,\" could almost be the president's inner monologue.\n\nTina Turner's The Best (\"you're better than all the rest\") and Survivor's pugnacious Eye Of The Tiger (\"just a man and his will to survive\") fulfil similar functions - conveying the idea of Mr Trump as a lone wolf, fighting the political establishment.\n\nMr Trump often seems to be trolling critics with his choices. Why else would he play Gnarls Barkley's Crazy, or The Rolling Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want? And his perceived persecution by the media gets a musical airing, too, through songs like Michael Jackson's Beat It.\n\n\"They told him, don't you ever come around here,\" sings the star, who once kept a home in one of Mr Trump's buildings in New York. \"Don't want to see your face, you'd better disappear.\"\n\nBut the song actually advocates retreat. \"You'd better leave while you can,\" Jackson advises, the message being: You think you're tough, but your opponents are tougher... so be the better man and walk away.\n\nMr Trump's song choices are usually based on how they feel, rather than a scholarly analysis of the lyrics. His pre-speech playlist is designed to keep the audience pumped up. They often stand for hours before he comes on stage, so the focus is on timeless sing-alongs, seemingly targeted at white voters in their 50s and 60s.\n\nThat means songs like Elton John's Tiny Dancer and Laura Branigan's Gloria, mixed with rousing classical numbers like Nessun Dorma and the patriotic Battle Of The Hymn Republic (Glory, Glory, Hallelujah).\n\nIn recent months, as the president has courted black voters (\"I did more for the Black community in 47 months than Joe Biden did in 47 years\") he has also started including a few soul classics in his set. James Brown's Please, Please, Please and Barry White's My First, My Last, My Everything were given an airing during last week's rally in Erie, Pennsylvania.\n\nMr Biden's playlist has been almost evenly divided between black and white artists since he announced his candidacy in April 2019.\n\nRecently, his walk-on music has been The Staple Singers' deep cut We The People - an uplifting, soulful hymn to unity, whose title was lifted from the preamble to the US Constitution.\n\n\"You may have the black blood / Or you may have the white blood,\" sing the gospel group, \"But we are all living on blood / So don't let nobody slip into the mud.\"\n\nIt's the sort of message Mr Biden has sought to build his campaign around, calling for harmony and stability.\n\nHe tends to favour feel-good songs like Bill Withers' Lovely Day or Jackie Wilson's (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher. But for those paying attention, there's often a message hidden in the lyrics.\n\n\"Powers keep on lyin' / While your people keep on dyin,'\" sings Stevie Wonder in campaign staple Higher Ground - a not-so-thinly veiled reference to the Trump administration's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nAfter speaking, Mr Biden usually leaves the stage to the strains of Bruce Springsteen's We Take Care Of Our Own. Like Born In The USA, the song is actually a critique of America, originally written in response to President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina.\n\n\"There ain't no help, the cavalry stayed home,\" sings The Boss, who says he's \"looking for the map that leads me home\". Mr Biden is, presumably, trying to align himself with Springsteen - a working-class hero who's determined to set America back on the right path.\n\nBut sometimes, the candidates select songs that make you wonder if they've paid attention to the words at all.\n\nWhat is Mr Trump trying to say when he blasts out Sympathy For The Devil, a song literally written from the perspective of Satan?\n\nAnd, wonderful though Haim's The Wire is, does Mr Biden realise he's being welcomed onto the stage with the lyrics: \"I fumbled it when it came down to the wire\"?\n\nMr Biden suffered another musical misfire last month, when he attempted to woo a large Puerto Rican audience in Florida by playing the Reggaeton song Despacito from his phone, while dancing awkwardly behind the podium (Luis Fonsi, who recorded the song, had just introduced him to the crowd).\n\nAs right-wing pundits gleefully pointed out, Despacito is Spanish for \"slowly\" - a perfect descriptor for the candidate they refer to as Sleepy Joe.\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 Sarah Mucha 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 his brush with Covid-19 earlier this month, Mr Trump has also been keen to prove he's neither slow nor sleepy, and TikTok is awash with memes of him dancing to The Village People's YMCA.\n\nIn fact, the president seems functionally incapable of staying still when the song strikes up - pumping his fists back and forth, and lurching from side to side like a priest at a wedding. His supporters have even recorded a new version of the track, where YMCA becomes MAGA.\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 Abigail Marone 🇺🇸 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 70s disco classic has been part of Mr Trump's playlist since at least last year, but it got bumped up the running order in June when the Rolling Stones threatened to sue the campaign over the use of their song You Can't Always Get What You Want.\n\nThey're not the only ones to object: Neil Young, Adele, Aerosmith, Pharrell Williams, Rihanna, Guns N' Roses and Phil Collins have all demanded not to be played at Mr Trump's rallies, with varying degrees of success.\n\nThe Village People were more relaxed. \"Like millions of Village People fans worldwide, the President and his supporters have shown a genuine like for our music,\" they wrote on Facebook in February. \"Our music is all-inclusive and certainly everyone is entitled to do the YMCA dance, regardless of their political affiliation.\"\n\nMr Trump also has the endorsement of country star Lee Greenwood, whose sentimental ballad God Bless the USA has been his walk-on music since 2016.\n\n\"That made me very proud,\" Greenwood told the Taste of Country website in 2017. \"I love the model 'Keep America Great' and 'Let's make it great again' so I'm all on board for that.\"\n\nRapper Cardi B is among the stars who've endorsed Joe Biden's campaign\n\nBut Mr Trump enjoys very little support from the current crop of pop stars, with Cardi B, Taylor Swift, Lizzo, Frank Ocean and DaBaby all endorsing Mr Biden this year.\n\nAnd the Democratic candidate has deployed pop music to take down his opponent in campaign ads targeted at younger voters.\n\nOne video posted to social media in May featured Mr Trump complaining about his treatment by the press, set to a soundtrack of Justin Timberlake's Cry Me A River.\n\nBut in the end, music can only set a mood. Voters won't decide who wins based on the candidates' CD collections.\n\nIn fact, a 2016 Ohio survey concluded that star endorsements had no effect on most voters' intentions in that year's presidential race - and some celebrities actually put people off. An endorsement from Beyonce was, apparently, the biggest turn-off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does the music used in both Biden and Trump's campaign trail tell us?\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hospitals in Liège are transferring patients elsewhere and cancelling non-urgent surgeries as coronavirus admissions surge\n\nDoctors in the Belgian city of Liège have been asked to keep working even if they have coronavirus amid a surge in cases and hospital admissions.\n\nAbout a quarter of medical staff there are reportedly off sick with Covid-19.\n\nNow 10 hospitals have requested that staff who have tested positive but do not have symptoms keep working.\n\nThe head of the Belgian Association of Medical Unions told the BBC they had no choice if they were to prevent the hospital system collapsing within days.\n\nDr Philippe Devos acknowledged that there was an obvious risk of transferring the virus to patients.\n\nOne in three people tested are coming back positive with the virus in the eastern Belgian city. Hospitals are transferring patients elsewhere and cancelling non-urgent surgeries, days after Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke warned the country was close to a \"tsunami\" of infections where authorities \"no longer control what is happening\".\n\nThe decision comes as governments across Europe try to tackle fresh waves of coronavirus infections.\n\nAt a news conference on Monday, World Health Organization (WHO) officials suggested travel restrictions, stay at home orders or even national lockdowns may be needed across the continent to tackle the fresh outbreaks.\n\n\"Right now we are well behind this virus in Europe, so getting ahead of it is going to take some serious acceleration in what we do,\" warned WHO emergencies head Dr Mike Ryan.\n\nItaly - hit hard by the virus in March - has closed gyms, theatres and swimming pools in a bid to bring down case numbers. The country reported more than 21,200 new infections on Sunday.\n\nThe Italian government has warned that the rise in cases was putting a huge strain on health services, but Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said that a full lockdown would be catastrophic for the economy.\n\nRestaurants, bars and cafes must stop table service at 18:00 and offer only take-away until midnight. Contact sports are prohibited but shops and most businesses will remain open.\n\nThe new restrictions, which are in force until 24 November, will also see 75% of classes at Italy's high schools and universities conducted online instead of in a classroom.\n\nRegional governments had asked for all classes to be conducted via distance learning, Italian media reported, but the move was opposed by Education Minister Lucia Azzolina.\n\nBars and cafes across Italy must end table service by 18:00\n\nThe government is also urging people not to travel outside their home towns or cities unless absolutely necessary and to avoid using public transport if possible.\n\n\"We think that we will suffer a bit this month but by gritting our teeth with these restrictions, we'll be able to breathe again in December,\" Mr Conte told a news conference on Sunday.\n\nThe latest restrictions have triggered demonstrations in cities including Naples, Turin and Rome.\n\nGyms and pools have also closed in the Belgian capital Brussels, and shops must shut at 20:00. Masks are now compulsory in public spaces. These rules will remain in force until 19 November.\n\nIn the UK, people aged 16 to 25 are more than twice as likely as older workers to have lost their job during the pandemic, BBC Panorama has found. Research seen by the programme also suggests the education gap between privileged and disadvantaged young people has widened further.\n\nIn France, health experts have warned that the number of new Covid-19 cases per day could be about 100,000 - twice the official figure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProf Jean-Francois Delfraissy, the head of France's scientific council which advises the government on the pandemic, said the estimated figure included undiagnosed and asymptomatic cases.\n\nHe told RTL radio he was surprised by the \"brutality\" of the second wave which he expected to be much worse than the first, adding: \"Many of our fellow citizens have not yet realised what awaits us.\"\n\nFrance has already imposed night-time curfews on major cities, including Paris. The country has recorded more than 1.1 million cases in total and 34,780 deaths.\n\nThe Czech Republic has also introduced a night-time curfew, which came into effect on Tuesday at midnight for a week. Nobody will be allowed to leave the house between 21:00 and 04:59 each night except to travel to and from work, for medical reasons or a few other exceptions. All shops will be shut on Sundays and will close at 20:00 on other days.\n\nAnd Spain has declared a national state of emergency and imposed a night-time curfew amid a new spike in Covid-19 infections.\n\nPrime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the curfew, which came into force on Sunday night, would be in place between the hours of 23:00 and 06:00.\n\nUnder the measures, local authorities can also ban travel between regions. Spain has seen more than one million cases and 34,750 deaths.\n\nRussia has registered a record 17,347 new daily coronavirus cases, officials said on Monday. Total reported cases have surpassed 1.5 million - but the mayor of the worst-hit city, Moscow, said that while \"there is still growth... it is slower\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Lee reports from the epicentre of Europe's second wave, which is in Belgium\n• None How the Czech Covid response went wrong", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bream leapt from a helicopter into the sea without a parachute\n\nA former paratrooper has attempted a new world record for jumping from an aircraft into water without a parachute.\n\nJohn Bream, 34, nicknamed \"the Flying Fish\", dropped about 130ft (40m) from a helicopter off Hayling Island on the Hampshire coast.\n\nSupport divers said he was briefly unconscious when he hit the water and was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nHe was raising money for mental health charities for services personnel.\n\nThe former member of the Parachute Regiment from Havant, Hampshire, fell about four seconds before hitting the Solent at about 80mph (130km/h).\n\nDivers who reached Mr Bream after the jump said he had landed awkwardly and was briefly unconscious after hitting his head.\n\nHe was later seen walking and chatting with paramedics as he was being checked over.\n\nJohn Bream was picked up by his support boat after the jump\n\nCash raised from Mr Bream's attempt will be donated to the All Call Signs and the Support Our Paras charities.\n\nSpeaking in July, he said knowing veterans who had taken their own lives was \"so painful\".\n\n\"The transition from the military is difficult but I want to show that we don't need to live in the past and we all can still achieve brilliance,\" he said.\n\nA spokesperson for Guinness World Records said it was still awaiting evidence of Mr Bream's attempt and could not verify it until then.\n\nJohn Bream, from Havant, Hampshire, is nicknamed the Flying Fish\n• None Ex-paratrooper to tackle jump with no parachute", "Frank Bough, one of the most familiar faces on BBC television from the 1960s to 1980s, has died at the age of 87.\n\nHe joined the BBC as a reporter on what was to become Look North, and went on to present some of the corporation's most popular shows, including Grandstand and Breakfast Time.\n\nBut his career was brought to an abrupt end after a scandal involving drugs and prostitutes.\n\nBough died last Wednesday in a care home, a family friend told the BBC.\n\nA talented sportsman, Bough began presenting Sportsview in 1964, taking over from Peter Dimmock before moving onto Grandstand - the BBC's leading sports show on a Saturday afternoon.\n\nOver the next two decades, he would become one of TV's best-known presenters, including with an 18-year stint as host of the BBC's Sports Review of the Year, which later became Sports Personality of the Year.\n\nHis reputation for a calm and unflappable style once prompted Michael Parkinson's remark that \"if my life depended on the smooth handling of a TV show he'd be the one I'd want in charge\".\n\nBough was the tranquil centre in a maelstrom of live sport\n\nIn 1983, Bough was involved in the launch of the BBC's new breakfast service, Breakfast Time. He proved a natural on the show, with his laid-back and comfortable style becoming an immediate hit with the early morning audience.\n\nFed up with early morning starts, he quit Breakfast Time in 1987 to present the Holiday programme.\n\nBut he was sacked by the BBC in 1988 after tabloid revelations about sex and drugs. The story came as a particular shock, given Bough's hitherto clean-cut family-man image.\n\nHe eventually returned to broadcasting, including fronting ITV's Rugby World Cup coverage, but this came to an end after a further scandal. Bough later spoke of his regret over his actions, saying his behaviour had been \"exceedingly stupid\".\n\nIn 2014, after years out of the spotlight, he contributed to a BBC documentary looking at 30 years of breakfast TV in the UK.\n\nMatch of the Day host Gary Lineker paid tribute, writing on Twitter: \"Sorry to hear that Frank Bough has passed away. Grew up watching him present Grandstand on Saturdays. He was a brilliant presenter who made it all look so easy. RIP Frank.\"\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 Gary Lineker 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\nGood Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan tweeted: \"RIP Frank Bough, 87. Star of Grandstand, Nationwide and Breakfast Time. His career was ruined by scandal, but he was one of the great live TV presenters. Sad news.\"\n\nAstrologer Russell Grant, a regular on Breakfast Time, said Bough was \"a great man to work with\" and was \"always there for advice 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 2 by Russell Grant 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\nNick Owen, who went up against Bough in Britain's breakfast TV battle on ITV's TV-AM in the 1980s, remembered him as \"the ultimate broadcaster who combined news and sport brilliantly\".\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 Nick Owen 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 BBC spokesperson said: \"Frank excelled as a live presenter with the BBC for many years and we are very sorry to hear of his passing. We send our condolences to his family and friends.\"\n\nSky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling remembered meeting Bough as a young reporter. \"He was kind, helpful and generous with his time,\" he wrote, adding that the presenter was \"one of the very best in the business\".\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 Jeff Stelling 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.", "US stock markets suffered their sharpest drop in weeks as concerns about the economic impact of surging coronavirus cases sent shares tumbling.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 2.3%, after dropping more than 3% earlier in the day. The S&P 500 fell 1.8% and the Nasdaq 1.6%.\n\nStocks in Europe, where a rise in virus cases has prompted new restrictions, also declined.\n\nShares in travel and energy firms took some of the heaviest losses.\n\nIn the United States, cruise lines Royal Caribbean Group, Carnival and Norwegian all dropped more than 8%, while in the UK, British Airways owner IAG closed 7.6% lower.\n\nTravel firms have been some of the most sensitive to warnings about the virus, which experts worry will intensify as winter approaches.\n\nOn Monday, Michael Ryan, an emergencies expert for the World Health Organization, said that Europe would need \"much more comprehensive\" measures to get the virus under control.\n\n\"Right now we're well behind this virus in Europe, so getting ahead of it is going to take some serious acceleration in what we do,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, France's CAC 40 ended 1.9% lower, while Germany's Dax index dropped 3.7%. In the UK, the FTSE 100 fell nearly 1.2%.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has vowed to avoid widespread restrictions on activity, similar to the lockdown restrictions seen this spring, saying such limits are not worth the economic cost.\n\nBut such decisions are typically handled by local leaders in America, some of whom, such as the mayors of El Paso, Texas and Newark, New Jersey, tightened rules on Monday.\n\nOver the last week, the number of new virus cases reported daily in the US has repeatedly passed 80,000, sending the seven day average to a new high of nearly 69,000 - roughly double what it was in September.\n\nThe number of hospitalisations has jumped 40% in the past month and death rates are also rising, though more slowly.\n\nOn a per capita basis, the number of new cases in the US over the past seven days remains lower than some other countries, including the UK, Spain and France, which have announced new restrictions recently.\n\nBut analysts say the economy is unlikely to mend until concerns about Covid-19 are resolved.\n\nAmid those strains, investors are also worried about the impasse in Washington over the need to fund additional coronavirus economic relief.\n\nOn Monday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who has been trying to broker a deal for the White House, said the two sides remained far apart. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, who leads Democrats in the House of Representatives made similar comments.\n• None Covid map: Where are cases the highest?", "Paul Harvey, 80, said it had been \"thrilling\" to hear the BBC Philharmonic orchestra perform his composition\n\nA piece of music composed by a former music teacher with dementia is to be released as a single after he recorded it with the BBC Philharmonic orchestra.\n\nPaul Harvey, 80, originally improvised the composition after being given four notes to play by his son.\n\nA clip of the performance, which went viral, was intended to show how musical ability can survive memory loss.\n\nOn Sunday, the single of Four Notes - Paul's Tune was aired on Radio 4's Broadcasting House for the first time.\n\nDespite being diagnosed with dementia late last year, Harvey, a composer from Sussex, has continued to be able to play piano pieces from memory and create new ones.\n\nHis son, Nick, who posted the video in September, said it had been an \"old party trick\" of his father's to request four random notes and then improvise a song.\n\nIn the video, which has had more than 60,000 likes, Nick picked F natural, A, D and B natural for his father to play.\n\nAfter the clip went viral, the performance was aired on Broadcasting House for World Alzheimer's Day on 21 September.\n\nThis prompted listeners to ask the BBC to have the performance orchestrated, which led to the BBC Philharmonic's involvement.\n\nHearing the recording of the single for the first time, Paul, who was joined by his son on the programme, said: \"It was very, very moving and very thrilling at the same time...\n\n\"It's quite amazing that all this has happened, and in my 81st year. It's fantastic.\n\n\"It's given me a new lease of life and after we've all finished here I'll go to the piano and find another four notes.\"\n\nNick said: \"It was amazing - it was absolutely gorgeous.\"\n\nArlene Phillips, the choreographer and former Strictly Come Dancing judge whose father had Alzheimer's, and is an Alzheimer Society's ambassador, said the piece was \"so beautiful\".\n\nShe said: \"It's just incredible that four notes can stir so many mixed emotions.\"\n\nJason Warren, professor of neurology at the Dementia Research Centre at University College London, said one reason people with dementia can continue to play music is because it \"makes sense on its own terms\".\n\n\"So unlike a lot of the tests and the things we might ask people with dementia to do in the clinic, for example, or in their everyday lives, music to some extent is almost self-contained.\"\n\nHowever, he said what Paul did in his piece was \"remarkable by any standard, because what that also shows is his creativity\".\n\nNick said it was hoped the single would be released on all major steaming platforms on Sunday, 1 November. All proceeds will be split between the Alzheimer's Society and Music for Dementia.", "Chinese financial technology giant Ant Group looks set to make the world's largest stock market debut.\n\nAnt, backed by Jack Ma, billionaire founder of e-commerce platform Alibaba, is to sell shares worth about $34.4bn (£26.5bn) on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock markets.\n\nAdvisers to Ant set the share price on Monday amid reports of very strong demand from major investors.\n\nThe previous largest debut was Saudi Aramco's $29.4bn float last December.\n\nAnt, an online payments business, is only selling about 11% of its shares. But the pricing values the whole business at about $313bn.\n\nMr Ma's Ant shares are reportedly worth about $17bn, taking his net worth to close to $80bn and confirming him as China's richest man.\n\nAnt runs Alipay, the dominant online payment system in China, where cash, cheques and credit cards have long been eclipsed by e-payment devices and apps.\n\nIn fact, Alipay says the total volume of payments on its platforms in China for the year ending in June was a massive $17.6tn.\n\nAccording to Alibaba's most recent annual report, Alipay has 1.3 billion users. Most are in China, with the rest coming from its nine e-wallet partners elsewhere in Asia.\n\nThe company is expected to make its dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong next week, underlining the latter exchange's growing importance as a financing hub.\n\nThe Trump administration has threatened to limit Chinese firms' access to US capital markets, a move that is part of the long-running trade row between Washington and Beijing. In response, China called on its flagship tech giants to list on domestic stock markets.\n\nChinese tech firms, including NetEase and JD.Com, have already raised billions by selling their shares via the Hong Kong stock market.\n\nAccording to the Bloomberg news agency, Mr Ma told a conference in China on Saturday that the flotation would be of huge significance for Shanghai and Hong Kong.\n\n\"This was the first time such a big listing, the largest in human history, was priced outside New York City,\" he told the Bund Summit.\n\n\"We wouldn't have dared to think about it five years, or even three years ago,\" said Mr Ma.\n\nMajor investors to have signed up to the share offering ahead of flotation, scheduled for 5 November, include Singapore state investor Temasek Holding and Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds GIC and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.\n\nAnalysts said the flotation offered investors a chance to secure a slice of Asia's fast-growing tech sector.\n\n\"Digital commerce and infrastructure platforms in Asia provide an unprecedented opportunity for Asian and global investors to be part of the next wave of value creation in Asia,\" said Varun Mittal, an emerging markets expert at consultancy EY, in Singapore.\n\n\"Earlier this year, India saw a rush of international investors keen to invest in infrastructure and platforms ecosystem, which is being replicated in the Chinese ecosystem now.\"", "Letnany, near Prague, is now home to a field hospital, built by the army in just seven days Image caption: Letnany, near Prague, is now home to a field hospital, built by the army in just seven days\n\nThe Czech Republic was praised for its swift response to the coronavirus crisis back in spring, but seven months on it's now recording 15,000 new cases a day and has the second highest per capita death rate over seven days in the world.\n\nColonel Ladislav Slechta, a commander in the Czech Army, has just overseen the building of a field hospital.\n\nHe is used to building such hospitals in Afghanistan or Iraq. Not on the outskirts of Prague.\n\n\"There's no time at this moment to think about emotions. But I'm sure they're coming, because it's really an unusual situation,\" he told me.\n\n\"We were discussing it, and going back in history, we think the last time this type of facility was deployed in this country was during the First World War.\" So what went wrong?\n\nThousands of people celebrated the end of coronavirus in the city of Prague in the summer Image caption: Thousands of people celebrated the end of coronavirus in the city of Prague in the summer\n\nCzech efforts to fight the virus haven't been helped by the man who wrote the rules being caught in the act of breaking them.\n\nCzech Health Minister Roman Prymula says he will resign as soon as his successor is named, after the tabloid Blesk published a late-night photograph of him emerging maskless from a restaurant, holding his wallet.\n\nAll pubs and restaurants are supposed to be closed to customers, and can only provide hatch service until 8pm.\n\nRead more from Rob here.", "Prue Leith, right, with the prime minister at the Royal Berkshire Hospital\n\nFood served around the clock and digital menus are among the recommendations in a review of hospital meals led by celebrity chef Prue Leith.\n\nIt is possible to serve \"delicious, nutritious\" food on a budget, the Great British Bake Off judge said.\n\nThe review was launched after a deadly outbreak of listeriosis in hospitals last year was linked to pre-packaged sandwiches and salads.\n\nBoris Johnson said it was \"therapeutic\" for patients to have good food.\n\nA group of advisers, tasked with reviewing hospital food, set out ways NHS trusts can prioritise food safety and provide healthier meals.\n\nRecommendations included upgrading kitchens to provide 24/7 service that caters for a variety of needs, from new mothers in a maternity ward, to patients hungry after a long fast due to surgery, and staff working overnight.\n\nLeith said: \"The review provides best-in-class examples of how hospitals can serve delicious, nutritious and nicely presented meals on a budget.\n\n\"Food is not only important to health, but to morale. Hospital mealtimes should be a moment of enjoyment and a pleasure to serve. They should inspire staff, patients and visitors to eat well at home.\"\n\nThe prime minister said: \"It's massively important for patients and for staff that they should have hot and nutritious meals available in the wards and across hospitals at all times of the day.\"\n\nIt is \"therapeutic, it's beneficial\" for patients to have good quality food, he added.\n\nHe visited the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading with Leith and Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Monday to mark the launch of the review. On the visit, he said that in the 40 new hospitals being constructed or rebuilt \"there will be kitchens and facilities on the wards so people can get hot toast at all times of the day\".\n\nThe review said introducing digital menus and food ordering systems that factor in a patient's needs could improve communication between dieticians and caterers, reduce food waste and provide patients with the right food for recovery.\n\nAn agreed set of national professional standards for NHS chefs - with mandatory professional development, including appropriate compulsory food hygiene and allergen training - was also recommended in the review.\n\nIncreasing the role of nurses, dieticians, caterers and staff wellbeing leads in overseeing food services could help to make sure nutritious meals are part of patients' recovery plans, the report said.\n\nHenry Dimbleby, co-founder of Leon Restaurants and independent lead on the National Food Strategy, said hospitals must be a \"guiding light\" in efforts to \"get to grips with the slow-motion disaster that is the British diet\".\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said \"every meal that patients get in hospital should be appetising and nutritious\" and that the NHS should play its part in tackling the nation's obesity crisis.\n\nThe government is putting together an expert group of caterers, dieticians and nurses to decide on next steps.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: 'We don't want to see children going hungry'\n\nBoris Johnson has defended his refusal to extend free school meals for children in England over the half-term holiday, saying he was \"very proud\" of the government's support so far.\n\n\"I totally understand the issue of holiday hunger,\" he said. \"The debate is, how do you deal with it.\"\n\nHe said the government will \"do everything in our power to make sure that no kid, no child goes hungry\".\n\nPressure has risen on the PM, including from his own MPs, to rethink the issue.\n\nMr Johnson also said he had not spoken to Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford - who has been leading a high-profile campaign to extend free school meals into the holidays - since the summer.\n\nThe UK government extended free school meals to eligible children during the Easter holidays earlier this year and, after Rashford's campaigning, did the same for the summer holiday.\n\nBut it has refused to do so again. A petition created by the England striker calling for provision to continue in the holidays had gained more than 900,000 signatures by Monday evening.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have already introduced food voucher schemes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marcus Rashford and his mother Melanie helped out at FareShare Greater Manchester\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a hospital in Reading to launch a review of hospital food, Mr Johnson said \"I totally salute and understand\" where Rashford was coming from.\n\nBut he said the government was supporting families with a Universal Credit increase of £20 a week, introduced in April.\n\nThe government also said it gave £63m to councils - first announced in June - to help people who are struggling to afford food and essentials.\n\nHowever, the Local Government Association said this funding was intended to be spent before the end of September and had been \"outstripped\" by demand.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We are very proud of the support we have given, I have said repeatedly throughout this crisis that the government will support families and businesses, jobs and livelihoods, across the country.\n\n\"We're going to continue to do that.\n\n\"We don't want to see children going hungry this winter, this Christmas, certainly not as a result of any inattention by this government - and you are not going to see that.\"\n\nDowning Street doesn't want to do a U-turn; at least not in too obvious a fashion.\n\nSo it isn't stumping up the cash to extend holiday food vouchers in England.\n\nBut listen carefully to Boris Johnson and it's clear that he might stump up cash in other ways, for pretty much the same purpose.\n\nSo, for example, could councils be given further funds to help struggling families?\n\nThen ministers can try and argue that they're simply carrying on with an existing policy that they believe is more effective.\n\nThe PM was at pains today to show that he both recognises and cares about this issue.\n\nBut some Tories fear that, because of cack-handed communications, Downing Street lost the PR battle on compassion days ago.\n\nOne mother, Nicola Palmer from Leicestershire, said the meal vouchers had been an \"absolute lifeline\" for her family during the Easter and summer holidays.\n\nShe receives Universal Credit but said that, after paying bills, she and her partner and their two children \"would be lucky\" to have £40 a month to live on.\n\n\"Me and my partner have been disabled. I've been disabled since 2017 with multiple sclerosis. My partner has been disabled for a lot longer than that with Crohn's disease and a few other health issues,\" she said.\n\nMs Palmer said the vouchers helped her and her partner feed their two children when they were struggling with money\n\nShe said one day last week - which was their half-term - she and her partner had no dinner at all, to make sure the children could eat.\n\n\"Yes, we are in receipt of Universal Credit, however due to our low income and having to pay for bills as well as trying to put a meal on the table, the very slight increase on this has not made any difference for us whatsoever.\"\n\nLucy Houghton, 36, from Norfolk, also relies on free school meal vouchers and said there are times she will not eat so her children can.\n\n\"It's going to be tough this week,\" she said.\n\n\"It's all very well businesses offering free food, but I'm in a rural location and would need fuel to get there. And it's humiliating. I hate asking for help from anybody and I know I'm not alone in that.\"\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said the government had been \"incredibly generous\" during the pandemic, with support such as wage subsidies, increases to benefits and business rates relief.\n\nHe added: \"If there is still need or if this Covid crisis continues to kick in and more lockdowns happen, of course the government will look at other alternatives, or other solutions. We're not going to sit there in a static environment.\"\n\nLabour said Mr Johnson's \"warm words\" would \"do nothing\" for the children at risk of going hungry this week.\n\n\"Labour will not not give up on the children and families let down by this government, and we will hold the prime minister to his word, forcing another vote in Parliament if necessary,\" said shadow education secretary Kate Green.\n\nRashford's campaign has led to businesses including fish and chip shops, pubs, restaurants and cafes promising to dish out free food to eligible children over half-term, which began on Monday in many areas.\n\nAnd Manchester United says it will distribute 5,000 meals - cooked at the Old Trafford kitchen facilities - to children eligible for free school meals across Greater Manchester.\n\nSome charities have set up websites and maps allowing parents to search for places nearby providing free meals.\n\nDavid Pickard, head of community operations at Midland Mencap, said he expected \"hundreds\" of families to access free lunches from its community centre in Birmingham this week.\n\nMother-of-three Aisha, who spoke to a reporter as she collected food donations from a community centre in Birmingham, said: \"I am usually really good with my budget. Their father, who I'm divorced from, usually pays for their uniforms but he got ill and he couldn't work, so I bought them this time.\n\n\"But the £200 I used came from money I use to pay my bills, because the school said if I brought in the receipts I could get some help from them.\n\n\"I did that - but it's been seven or eight weeks now, and I haven't heard anything back from the school, so I'm struggling.\"\n\nSome councils - including several Tory-run local authorities - have promised to supply meal vouchers or food parcels for children facing hardship.\n\nCafe staff in Liverpool prepare sandwich bags for children, as businesses offer to help\n\nLast week, Conservative MPs voted against Labour's attempt to extend free school meals by 322 votes to 261, with five Tory MPs rebelling and voting for Labour's motion.\n\nStuart Anderson, Tory MP for Wolverhampton South West, said he had received threats and his office had been vandalised after he opposed the plan to offer free school meals in the holidays.\n\nChildren of all ages living in households on income-related benefits may be eligible for free school meals.\n\nIn England, about 1.4 million children qualified for free school meals in January 2020 - about 17.3% of state-educated pupils.\n\nAnalysis by the Food Foundation estimates a further 900,000 children in England may have sought free school meals since the start of the pandemic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe stress levels rocketed for Ian Scott-Browne earlier this month, when one of his colleagues radioed him and told him to call the fire brigade.\n\nSmoke had been spotted coming from one of the sorting machines at the Smallmead recycling centre, just outside Reading in southern England.\n\nHe knew that a fire in one of the machines could be catastrophic as burning plastic, paper and cardboard could be quickly spread by conveyor belts which connect all the machines in the facility.\n\n\"My concern was that we'd lost control of where the fire was,\" says Mr Scott-Browne, who is an operations manager at the recycling facility.\n\nFor him there was a tense 15 minutes while firefighters, helped by some of his staff, urgently took heavy metal panels off the side of the sorting machines to track down and extinguish the fire.\n\nSmall fires like that are surprisingly common at recycling centres. Somewhere in the UK there is one every day, on average.\n\nAs a result the industry has become good at extinguishing them, but they would rather not deal with them at all, particularly as recycling centres are full of combustible materials.\n\nLike all recycling centres Smallhead has piles of combustible materials\n\nThe problem is that however attentive staff might be to the threat of fire, they can't control what people put in their recycling bins.\n\nThe Environmental Services Association (ESA), which represents waste firms like Biffa, Veolia and Suez, says too many batteries are going into either recycling bins or black rubbish bags, where they are easily damaged by sorting equipment and start to burn - so-called \"zombie\" batteries.\n\nThe ESA has launched a campaign called Take Charge which encourages people to dispose of batteries properly.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the majority of batteries thrown away in the UK at the moment are not put in the proper recycling bins. Fires caused by carelessly discarded zombie batteries endanger lives, cause millions of pounds of damage and disrupt waste services,\" says Jacob Hayler, executive director of ESA.\n\nLithium-ion batteries, which power mobile phones, tablets and toothbrushes, can be extremely volatile if damaged. CCTV footage taken at several recycling centres shows explosions sending flames and debris shooting across sorting areas.\n\nAnd those sorts of batteries are a growing menace. Between April 2019 and March 2020, lithium-ion batteries were suspected to have caused around 250 fires at waste facilities. That is 38% of all fires, up from 25% compared to the previous year, according to the latest data from ESA.\n\nIn many cases the precise cause of a fire is never established but ESA says it is likely that lithium-ion batteries account for an even bigger proportion of fires.\n\nWaste sorters have to watch for hidden batteries\n\nPaul Christensen, professor of pure and applied electrochemistry at the University of Newcastle, has deliberately damaged lithium-ion batteries in experiments to make them explode.\n\nThe experiments are part of his work to help fire brigades tackle fires involving lithium-ion batteries.\n\nProf Christensen is a \"massive fan\" of the batteries and points out that they are perfectly stable under normal conditions.\n\nHowever, he says that even small lithium-ion batteries, similar to the ones in your mobile phone, would explode \"with a rocket flame\" if punctured.\n\nHis real concern though is with the much bigger batteries found in electric cars, or used to store electricity in homes and businesses.\n\nBatteries for electric cars are made up of lots of individual cells\n\nThey are generally divided into many small cells and managed by software that keeps the battery running smoothly. But if a car crashes and some of those cells are damaged, the chemicals inside can generate huge of amounts of heat, damaging and igniting other cells.\n\n\"An electric vehicle will burn for much longer than an internal combustion vehicle. They give off potentially explosive and toxic fumes. They can reignite hours, days or weeks after the incident,\" says Prof Christensen.\n\nElectric cars are still relatively rare on the roads, but that will change in the coming years.\n\nIn February the UK government brought forward a ban on selling new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars from 2040 to 2035 at the latest.\n\nGovernments elsewhere in the world are also encouraging electric car sales - in China the government wants 25% of new cars sold to be electrified by 2025.\n\n\"That means not just more electric vehicles, but the production facilities will get more and bigger... the storage facilities are going to get more and bigger,\" Prof Christensen says.\n\nHe wants planning and safety regulations to take account of the risks of having so many more powerful batteries. He also wants better training for firefighters.\n\nEurobat represents European Automotive and Industrial Battery Manufacturers. It says safety is always \"high on the agenda\", and is supporting a colour-coding system for batteries that would make sorting them easier.\n\nIn the meantime the UK waste industry just wants people to be more careful when disposing of any battery.\n\n\"We urge consumers to please recycle their batteries responsibly by using battery recycling points in shops and recycling centres, or a separate battery kerbside collection if available,\" ESA's Jacob Hayler says.", "A prison officer was dismissed after she \"failed to notice\" a sex offender was dead on the floor when unlocking his cell, a report said.\n\nStephen Maddock, 59, died at HMP Rye Hill on the Northamptonshire and Warwickshire border on 7 December.\n\nA report said an officer opened his cell but did not check on him, \"which meant that no-one realised [he] was dead for another half an hour\".\n\nHMP Rye Hill's director said it \"fully accepted\" the report's recommendations.\n\nThe Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) report said Maddock was serving a 16-year sentence, having been convicted of sexual offences in 2015.\n\nMaddock, who was clinically obese, had diabetes and high blood pressure, which he received medication for.\n\nOn the morning of 7 December, the report said, officers at the G4S-operated Category B prison for sex offenders carried out roll checks of inmates on Maddock's wing twice before an officer unlocked his cell at 08:00 GMT.\n\nThe report said: \"About half an hour later, prisoners called for staff after they had found Maddock on his cell floor.\n\n\"He had rigor mortis, which indicated that he had been dead for some time.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nA post-mortem examination discovered he died from acute pancreatitis and the ombudsman found the healthcare he received \"was of a standard equivalent to that he could have expected to receive in the community\".\n\nBut the report added the officer, who was later dismissed after a disciplinary investigation, \"failed to notice that he was dead on the floor\".\n\n\"When unlocking a prisoner's cell, the officer is supposed to get a response from the prisoner to satisfy themselves that they are alive and well.\n\n\"This did not happen, which meant that no-one realised that Maddock was dead for another half an hour.\"\n\nThe PPO also recommended \"that all staff understand what is expected of them when conducting roll checks and that all staff adhere to these expectations\".\n\nPeter Small, director at HMP Rye Hill, said: \"Mr Maddock's family and friends remain in our thoughts at this difficult time.\n\n\"We have fully accepted the recommendations made by the PPO; staff conducting welfare checks do so with regular managerial supervision, and daily reports are issued to the deputy director.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Some say America is now a house divided. In many American families, their houses are indeed divided by political differences, putting strains on their relationships.\n\nBut a Chinese American family in Maryland made it work.\n\nThirty-one-year-old Cathy Shao has decided to vote for Biden in the US presidential election, while her husband Chenren Shao, 35, will be voting for Trump a second time.\n\nThe couple has been married for eight years, raising their three daughters together.\n\n“I know she's Democrat, and she knows that I'm a Republican,” Mr Shao says the political difference has never been a problem for their marriage. “I think being humble is the key of not being offended,” he says, “We're not trying to persuade each other.”\n\nWhen Mr Shao speaks, Mrs Shao looks at him lovingly. Other than agreeing to disagree, Mrs Shao believes their common goal bonds the family together. “We want to provide a better environment for our children.”\n\nThough Americans have become less willing to date their political opponents in the Trump era, politically mixed marriages are not uncommon. A high-profile example is Kellyanne Conway, a former counselor to President Trump, and George Conway, who is a harsh critic of the President.\n\nWhat does managing a politically divided but happy marriage tell us about how to govern a politically divided country?\n\nAs American politics has become more polarised, Mrs Shao says she always appreciates a different perspective from her spouse.\n\n“All Republicans should get married with Democrats, then we naturally have different views,” she says with a laugh.\n\nMrs Shao hopes the two major political parties will recognise that their common goal is “to make the country better, rather than attacking each other”.", "Biscuit is also known as Bikkit, and has returned close to the anniversary of the death of Keith Bigland's mother, who originally owned him\n\nThe return of a family cat after going missing three years ago really \"takes the biscuit\", its owners say.\n\nKeith Bigland's pet cat, Biscuit - originally owned by his late mother Shirley - had escaped from their home in March, Cambridgeshire.\n\nBut last Wednesday, Mr Bigland and his wife Su were left in disbelief when a local vet called them to say their gold and white pet, now 14, had been found.\n\nAnd, he was spotted just a mile away from their house.\n\n\"I still can't quite believe it, I had totally given up hope, we never thought the call would come. When he arrived at our house my wife threw her arms around the vet in relief,\" Mr Bigland, 53, said.\n\n\"What makes it even more special is that Biscuit was handed in just a few days after the third anniversary of my mother's death, which makes you wonder if she's watching over us.\"\n\nMr Bigland and his wife Su were in disbelief when a local vet called them last Wednesday to say their fluffy gold-and-white moggy, now aged 14, had been handed in\n\nBiscuit, nicknamed Bikkit by the family, was captured on CCTV escaping the house at 04:00 GMT on 1 December 2017.\n\nMr Bigland confessed he probably went \"overboard\" during the \"frantic\" search, distributing posters around the local area and looking everywhere he could.\n\nHe said: \"I had hope at first, for months afterwards I was calling his name around every corner. Biscuit is the last link I have left to my mother.\"\n\nBiscuit was caught on CCTV escaping the house at 04:00 GMT on 1 December 2017\n\nOn his return Biscuit \"was not in great shape\" and was found to have problems with his breathing and heart.\n\nMr Bigland estimates Biscuit's veterinary care costs will be about £1,500, and has launched a GoFundMe page to help cover the costs.\n\nHe said: \"Although he looks and acts differently to before, I recognised him straight away, and he recognised me and hasn't stopped purring since.\"", "Welsh Government ministers are meeting again on Sunday to discuss a 'fire-break' national lockdown\n\nOfficials are \"not blind\" to the impact another national lockdown would have on the economy, Wales' health minister has said.\n\nVaughan Gething said the concern being voiced \"weighs heavily\" on ministers.\n\nA decision on a two or three-week \"fire-break\" lockdown is expected on Monday.\n\nHowever, Conservative leader in the Senedd Paul Davies said he would not support the measure \"until I know what the details are\".\n\nMr Gething told BBC Politics Wales he recognised a circuit-breaker lockdown to slow the infection rates would have real impacts \"in terms of people being able to pay their bills\".\n\n\"We're also not blind to the fact that doing nothing means that Covid will continue to grow and we will continue to see harm,\" he added.\n\n\"We want to be able to get to the end of the year with a pattern that people can live with.\n\n\"What we can't do though is give people a guarantee that things will not happen during the winter. That depends on all the choices that we make.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government cabinet met on Sunday afternoon to continue its discussions, and agreed to meet again on Monday ahead of the expected announcement from First Minister Mark Drakeford.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Ministers have held a number of meetings over the weekend with senior Welsh Government officials, scientists and public health experts to consider their advice on a potential need for a 'fire break' set of measures to control the virus.\n\n\"The Welsh cabinet met this evening to consider that advice. The cabinet will meet again tomorrow morning to make a final decision. The first minister will update the people of Wales on any decisions taken tomorrow.\"\n\nSeventeen areas in Wales currently have local lockdown rules in place\n\nPrior to the cabinet meeting, Mr Gething insisted no final decision had been taken on lockdown measures.\n\nIt follows the publication of a letter on possible dates for a short, Wales-wide lockdown.\n\nIt prompted calls from the Welsh Conservatives for an emergency recall of the Senedd on Monday.\n\n\"They should come now to the Senedd tomorrow to make a statement to explain that (letter), and also to explain what their plans are, because it's unacceptable that they are actually briefing organisations and the media,\" said Mr Davies.\n\n\"They should be making the decisions and making the announcements in the Senedd, that's the point we're making.\"\n\nThe letter was sent to all Confederation of Passenger Transport members by the Welsh director\n\nIn the letter to members of the Confederation of Passenger Transport, Wales director John Pockett said lockdown would start at 18:00 on 23 October and end on 9 November.\n\nBut Mr Pockett has since told PA Media he was assuming what would happen.\n\n\"The letter is genuine and it contains what I assume or surmised would be the position,\" he said.\n\n\"It was me advising my bus operator members to be prepared for something and this is what it may well be.\n\n\"It could be more - it could be anything. I think other associations have communicated with their members in the same way.\"\n\nThe speculation over the possible lockdown has led to \"frustration\", said one of Wales' police and crime commissioners.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement: \"We have had meetings last week in relation to the preparation for what may be happening in the future.\n\n\"The reality, and I will be very open about this, the detail of that has not necessarily been shared in a huge amount with us and there is sometimes - and has been during the whole period - some frustration on the part of policing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Laura Foster explains what a circuit breaker is and how it could help tackle Covid-19\n\nPlaid Cymru Member of the Senedd Sian Gwenllian said the Welsh Government \"must urgently set out its plans for a national fire-break\".\n\n\"We are concerned about the lack of clarity and anxiety caused by a drip-feed of information circulating in the media and elsewhere over the weekend,\" she added.\n\nBaroness Wilcox, the former head of the Welsh Local Government Association, said there was a \"growing consensus that we need a different set of measures\".\n\n\"We need different actions to respond to the virus,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"The measures we have put in place at both a local and a national level, with help from the public, have kept the spread of the virus under check.\n\n\"However, there is a growing consensus that we now need to introduce a different set of measures and actions to respond to the virus as it is spreading across Wales more quickly through the autumn and winter.\n\n\"We are actively considering advice from SAGE and our TAC Group.\n\n\"A 'fire-break' set of measures to control Covid-19, similar to that described in the SAGE papers, is under consideration in Wales. But no decisions have been made.\"", "Helen Pye said there had been shift toward staycations, resulting in more visitors to Snowdonia\n\nWales' tourism sector faces \"very dark days\", with firms closing and hotels \"mothballed\" amid the coronavirus pandemic, an industry body has said.\n\nWales Tourism Alliance (WTA) said a Covid resurgence meant hopes of making up for several \"lost months\" had faded.\n\nBut some in the sector said it could be a chance to attract new visitors and improve sustainability.\n\nThe Welsh Government said a £1.7bn support package had helped and it was committed to delivering sustainability.\n\n\"If things pick up and businesses do make it through, then I think we're very well-placed to pick up customers that would normally have gone overseas,\" said Adrian Greason-Walker of the WTA, which represents thousands of firms.\n\n\"However, we've probably had five weeks of trade this year instead of what would normally be 20 solid weeks over the summer.\n\n\"At the moment things are dark.\"\n\nIt comes after the Welsh Government announced a ban on visitors travelling from coronavirus hotspots elsewhere in the UK, which came into effect on Friday.\n\nThat followed mounting tension over fears from some residents around an \"influx\" of tourists to areas not currently subject to lockdown restrictions in Wales, such as Ceredigion, most of Carmarthenshire, Powys, Pembrokeshire and Gwynedd.\n\nA two-week \"fire break\" - a period with tighter restrictions to help break the trajectory of coronavirus cases rising in Wales - is also expected within days.\n\nMr Greason-Walker said about half of tourism businesses surveyed by the WTA feared they might not survive the next six months, with some facing the \"worst possible scenario\".\n\n\"If we can pick up any silver lining from this awful situation then it's that we can still offer people some respite from it all.\n\n\"I think we've seen a return to family holidays to Wales, whereas before they might have caught a flight to Spain and spent a week on a beach over there.\n\n\"We've got a fantastic landscape and environment here. We're going to have to come out of this crisis at some point.\"\n\nOne area significantly bucking the trend for reduced footfall was Snowdonia, with figures from Visit Wales suggesting more people intended to visit the national park than anywhere else in Wales over the next few months.\n\nWish you were here? Visit Wales said Snowdon was top of most people's to-do list in Wales\n\n\"I would say it's been the busiest summer that we have ever seen,\" said Helen Pye, the park's engagement officer.\n\n\"August was incredibly busy - and September the figures were up by about 40 to 50% compared to a normal year.\"\n\nHowever, having large numbers of visitors concentrated in certain areas has heightened fears about over-tourism.\n\n\"The tourism industry is incredibly important to us, but we've been seeing a huge increase in the challenges we already had,\" said Ms Pye.\n\n\"There's been an increase in traffic, pollution and noise in the national park. We've also seen huge amounts of litter in the area and anti-social behaviour and fly camping.\"\n\nHowever, she and others in the industry hope Wales can follow the lead of countries such as New Zealand and Iceland in introducing a sustainable tourism model - which would aim to spread visitors more evenly by promoting less well-known places.\n\nLouise Dixey would like to see a change to the way Wales is seen and treated as a destination\n\n\"Sustainable tourism is about reducing the negative impacts of tourism and maximising the benefits,\" explained Louise Dixey, from Cardiff Metropolitan University's Next Tourism Generation project.\n\n\"It's not about the number of visitors, but it's about how much they spend and whether their visit can benefit local communities.\n\n\"There needs to be an emphasis on almost de-marketing some of these hotspots like Snowdonia and marketing unheard of places in Wales to try and spread the visitor load and make it more manageable.\"\n\nA winter break centred around long walks and dining out can be seen as bringing in far more benefit for less impact than a daytrip to the beach in the height of summer, for example, where the only expenses may be car parking and an ice cream.\n\nHowever, for some, the strategy still would not go far enough.\n\nHoward Huws, from Welsh language group, Cylch yr Iaith, said some Welsh-speaking communities had been feeling \"overwhelmed\" by the tourist trade for decades.\n\n\"We're constantly being told that the only way to deal with tourism is to bolster it further - but we are in a situation where it's already wreaking damage,\" said Mr Huws.\n\n\"People find themselves with few job opportunities - and any opportunities in tourism are seasonal and low paid.\n\n\"The cost of having those jobs is people then find themselves priced out of the housing market. We find ourselves unable to access the sites within our own landscape where tourism has taken control.\n\n\"They are talking about diversifying it and spreading it - but not about controlling it. Without controlling it - nothing is sustainable.\"\n\nWales' travel ban bars visitors from Northern Ireland, England's tier two and three areas and the Scottish central belt\n\nAcross the industry there is an acknowledgement coronavirus may have created a strange paradox, simultaneously crippling businesses while potentially increasing their future demand - as people switch from foreign holidays to staycations.\n\n\"There is a slight concern given the current situation that many tourism and hospitality businesses might not survive until spring 2021,\" said Ms Dixey.\n\n\"But there has been a surge in domestic demand. So we might actually be in a situation next year where market demand exceeds supply, particularly in relation to accommodation, which would limit the number of visitors.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said its £1.7bn support package was the \"most generous\" in the UK and included a £500m economic resilience fund which had \"helped protect the livelihoods of more than 100,000 people\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"Over the course of the pandemic and in the coming years we will continue to listen closely to the people of Wales, the industry and visitors to ensure what we're delivering is sustainable and provides prosperity for everyone.\"", "Manchester has resisted being put into the \"very high risk\" tier\n\nEarly in the pandemic, the government consistently said it was \"following the science\" - but what does that really mean, and is the divergence between politics and science now wider than it has ever been?\n\nSome with heels clacking on the cobbles, others capturing the moment on their phones - it's like the aftermath of a big win in the football, or the Saturday after pay day. The videos show Concert Square in Liverpool heaving with crowds.\n\nAnd this in a city on the crest of a second wave of coronavirus, where almost all the intensive care beds in the hospitals are full.\n\nIt was Tuesday night, hours away from the Liverpool City Region entering the toughest restrictions in the country. But the footage sparked anger, and on Twitter there was a fight over the damage to the city's reputation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crowds gather in Liverpool on eve of new Covid rules\n\nDozens of tweets insisted that those present must have been students, that no true Liverpudlian would set foot in Concert Square, let alone behave like that. The tweeters were adamant - these people came from outside.\n\nThe mayor and the metro mayor condemned the scenes - but that wasn't the only thing they were angry about.\n\nThey accused the government at Westminster of not providing enough financial support - workers affected by the closure of businesses such as bars and gyms will only get two-thirds of their wages.\n\nOn the first day of lockdown, one gym owner showed his defiance by remaining open and was fined for it.\n\nGyms have indeed provided a source of confusion. Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson questioned why gyms in the Liverpool City Region had to close when the area moved into tier three - very high alert - but those in Lancashire, which went into tier three on Saturday, were allowed to stay open.\n\nLiverpool was the first place in England to go into the strictest measures\n\nIn Blackburn, with 438 cases per 100,000 (in the week to 13 October), you can work out, but in Wirral, with 284 cases per 100,000, you can't.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged inconsistencies. \"There are anomalies, that's inevitably going to happen in a complex campaign against a pandemic like this.\"\n\nBut do these discrepancies encourage those who feel the government's decision-making sometimes veers away from the science?\n\n\"Following the science\" was a phrase we heard a lot of earlier in the year. It's what, we were repeatedly told, the government at Westminster was doing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe reality was always more nuanced. There was a range of scientific views on a topic about which precious little was known at the outset, and there are still vast amounts to learn.\n\nAdded to that, from the perspective of ministers, this could never only be about scientific advice.\n\nThere was a constant swirl of broader considerations, what we might call the three Ls - lives, liberties and livelihoods. Ministers have been tussling with the three Ls from the start of the pandemic. But the divergence has never been wider than it is now.\n\nClaire Hamilton is the BBC's political reporter for Merseyside @chamiltonbbc\n\nThe critical moment in recent weeks can be traced back to 21 September, when Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser and Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser, warned of the need for immediate action.\n\nIn a televised briefing, Sir Patrick warned cases could reach 50,000 a day by mid-October if they doubled every seven days, as had happened in recent weeks.\n\nWe now know that on that same day, the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) met and suggested the \"immediate introduction\" of a \"short period of lockdown,\" and a series of longer term measures, including:\n\nA day later, what actually happened?\n\nThe prime minister said people should work from home if they could and a 22:00 curfew for pubs and restaurants was introduced. In other words, not a lot of change.\n\nWhat happened to \"following the science\"?\n\nPlenty at Westminster whispered, even before we had seen the minutes from the Sage meeting, that this was a victory for those in government, like Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who worried about the pandemic's crippling economic consequences.\n\nMr Sunak has been consistent - warning again, just this week, of the danger of \"rushing to another lockdown\". He warned, instead, of the \"economic emergency\", touching on another of the three Ls - livelihoods.\n\nWhen you speak to people in the Treasury, you get an insight into what informs this outlook.\n\n\"We have to keep an eye on the medium term. There may not be a vaccine. Listening to the scientists recently, the mood music has changed. They're more pessimistic,\" says one.\n\nThis is no longer about dealing with a short-term emergency, but being resilient through a medium or long-term slog of a crisis.\n\nAnd that means the Treasury is well aware of what is going out - in public spending - and what is coming in, in taxes.\n\n\"There isn't the headroom there was,\" an insider says - a reference to the £200bn already spent.\n\nAnd there is a keen awareness of the economic consequences of shutting pubs. \"Our economy is comparatively very reliant on social consumption,\" is how it is described.\n\nThe experts know the ministers have to take into account a variety of factors. One Sage member said: \"Our job is to give clear unvarnished science advice so they can do that with their eyes open.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer advocated a short, limited lockdown - the circuit-breaker suggested by the scientific advisers.\n\nBut does Sir Keir calling for a circuit-breaker make it more or less likely to happen?\n\nSince then, the government - to quote Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab - has been \"leaning in\" to its regional response for England.\n\nPolitical convention says, everything else being equal, it is harder to adopt a policy advocated by your opponents than it is by independent advisers.\n\nThen there's the last of the three Ls. Liberties.\n\nAmong the most influential Conservative backbench voices is Sir Graham Brady, who said ministers had got used to \"ruling by decree\" and \"the British people aren't used to being treated like children\".\n\nThis unease at how the pandemic has, in their view, swept away some of the checks and balances on those in power, is widely held in Parliament.\n\nThen there's the question of geography. First there was devolution for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but now we're all aware of the big English cities that have metro mayors because they are fighting back against Westminster.\n\nAccording to well-placed sources, Health Secretary Matt Hancock had argued for tougher measures in private. But the need to get local leaders on board has meant the tiered system has had to leave some wriggle room for negotiation.\n\nMinisters were stung when Middlesbrough mayor Andy Preston said he flatly rejected the restrictions that the government announced there in early October. \"It was a real problem for us - it undermined the public health message and threatened to undo what we were trying to achieve,\" one government source said.\n\nSteve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, had been asking for a lockdown circuit-breaker for at least two weeks - but he said any measures must come with a bespoke financial support package for businesses. It appears this hasn't been forthcoming.\n\nBut the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has gone much further than his colleague in Liverpool. On Friday, he was described as \"effectively trying to hold the government over a barrel\" by Mr Raab.\n\nMr Burnham, a former Labour cabinet minister, who lost out to Jeremy Corbyn in the 2015 Labour leadership contest, is suddenly back on the national stage. He is demanding noisily and frequently the need for more generous support for those unable to work because of tier three restrictions.\n\nThere is nervousness within the Labour Party nationally, and elsewhere in the north of England, about this stance. Some worry it imperils people's health, others that it's become \"the Andy show\" - as one figure put it.\n\nThe idea of \"metro mayors\" voted for directly by the people of the region has long been championed by the Conservatives. David Cameron was a particular fan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Top SAGE scientist tells us the regional restriction row is dangerous\n\n\"Some Conservatives are now realising you've got to be careful what you wish for,\" an early advocate of them says.\n\n\"And remember this, Boris Johnson was a mayor. There is a path to Downing Street that can pass via a town hall. Perhaps Andy Burnham has realised that too.\"\n\nWhat we are seeing is how different parts of the UK have tilted in different directions. Loyalty to region, to nation, to party. The legacies of past perceived slights and injustices. The realities of perceived injustices now.\n\n\"We owe a big thanks to George Osborne for bequeathing us this incredible standoff,\" a senior Conservative says about the row.\n\nSome Conservative ministers ponder privately that - in the end - Mr Sunak will be forced to be more generous to those unable to work under tier three restrictions. They don't think it'll be politically sustainable to pay people normally on the minimum wage, less than the minimum wage, for months on end.\n\nThe rows between local and central government leaders are \"very dangerous\" and \"very damaging to public health\", according to Prof Sir Jeremy Farrar, Sage member, and director of the Wellcome Trust.\n\nBut these are not the only rows that have been taking place. Across the scientific and medical community tempers are frayed and the pandemic is taking its toll.\n\nThere is a network of committees that feed into Sage, bringing together a wide range of experts from sociologists and public health directors to epidemiologists.\n\nMany are not paid for their advice and instead are fitting it in around their day jobs. \"We do it because we care and it's our life's work,\" said Prof Devi Sridhar, an expert in global public health at Edinburgh University, who has been advising the Scottish government.\n\nTalk to these experts and it is clear they are exhausted.\n\n\"The requests just keep coming in,\" one said. \"We're fed up, especially when we hear that test-and-trace consultants are getting paid £7,000 a day, and we have to put up with MPs going on the TV telling the world we are naïve and don't live in the real world. It's demoralising.\"\n\nBut it is not just between politicians and scientists that disputes have developed. Rival camps of scientists are clashing. Two online petitions have now been established: the Great Barrington declaration for those who want to see controlled spread of the virus and protection of the vulnerable, and the John Snow Memorandum for those arguing for outright suppression until a vaccine is developed.\n\nProf Francois Balloux, director of the UCL Genetics Institute, says the toxic atmosphere that is developing is really \"unhelpful\".\n\nBrought together, it has created a climate where almost every utterance or development is examined for double-meaning.\n\nThe problem facing advisers and decision-makers is two-fold. First, the nature of the virus means it is a lose-lose situation - whatever decision is taken has negative consequences either for the spread of the virus, or for the economy, education and wider health and well-being. What's more, there is not a simple binary choice of one thing or the other.\n\nFor example, much has been made in recent weeks about the need for the NHS to also focus on non-Covid work, which has taken a terrible hit during the pandemic.\n\nReferrals for urgent cancer check-ups and the number of people starting treatment have dropped, while the amount of routine surgery being done is still half the level it was before the pandemic.\n\nThis can have tragic consequences. This week the British Heart Foundation warned the number of younger adults dying of heart disease had increased by 15% during the pandemic.\n\nThe argument put forward by some is that the government should choose to do more non-Covid work. But, and this is a point the health secretary has been making week after week, if hospitals fill up with coronavirus patients, it makes non-Covid work harder to do.\n\nThe second key issue - and this goes to the heart of the disagreements we have seen bubble up in recent weeks among the scientific and medical community - is that there are huge gaps in the evidence and knowledge.\n\nThis is true on everything from the numbers infected already and the level of immunity exposure brings to the true impact of \"long Covid\", and exactly what effect any restrictions beyond a full lockdown actually have.\n\nIn normal times, the scientific and medical community is able to reach more of a consensus off the back of rigorous randomised controlled trials and painstaking peer review.\n\nBut in a fast-moving pandemic with a new virus, that has simply not been possible. Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia, says it means there is such \"uncertainty in the science\" that he does not think any plan is guaranteed to work.\n\nAnd then there is the human factor - the unintended consequences of actions that are impossible to take into account in the modelling. Hence the prospect of scenes like the ones we saw in Liverpool, which were not taken into account by Sage in its latest advice.\n\nBut Prof Keith Neal, an infectious disease expert at Nottingham University, says it shouldn't come as a surprise that people react in the way they do. Both young and old are suffering, he says, from not being able to meet up with people. \"This degree of isolation is not allowed in prisons under human rights legislation.\"\n\nPeople from different households will not be able to drink together inside, after London went into tier two\n\nIt is, he says, therefore natural that some people will ignore the rules. Closing pubs may sound good on paper, he says, but it could lead to an increase in house parties where people are \"far more at risk\".\n\nSo where has this left us?\n\nThe complexity of competing interests, uncertainty in the science and general exhaustion across society both among decision-makers and the public has, some fear, left us in the worst of both worlds.\n\nDelay and deliberation, says Sir Jeremy Farrar is a \"decision in itself\".\n\nBut by reaching a decision by default there is a risk - another adviser says - of making the same mistakes we made at the start of the pandemic.\n\n\"In March we toyed with the Swedish model of limited restrictions with the hope of developing immunity and then hesitated. But we then went for a lockdown, but it was introduced bit by bit and it was too late anyway.\n\n\"The same thing has happened again - we have delayed and then gone for some half measures. I can understand why. This is bloody difficult.\"\n\nThe government is now hoping it will be just enough that we can get through this wave without a devastating number of deaths or hospitals being overwhelmed. But it's a big risk - it could all unravel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We've gone 12 months without an elephant being shot and killed by poachers at Mana Pools National Park, which is a huge result.\"\n\nFor Nick Murray, a conservationist born in Pontypridd, this result has followed years of hard work.\n\nNick now runs a conservation project with his wife Desiree covering the Lower Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe, an area of 10,000 sq km (3,800 sq miles).\n\nOver the past 23 years, he has seen the wildlife populations of the valley decrease rapidly. In particular, the elephant population at the Unesco World Heritage site has nearly halved in the past two decades from 20,000 to 12,000.\n\nNick said poaching had \"hammered\" the elephant population, and the drop in tourists caused by the coronavirus pandemic was expected to lead to an increase in the illegal practice. Thankfully that has been avoided.\n\nThe anti-poaching work of Bushlife Conservancy - the project Nick runs - is complex and dangerous, training armed national park rangers to protect the animals, and keeping rangers mobile via boats and jeeps to track wild animals.\n\nNick Murray has worked with Sir David Attenborough, advising a BBC crew filming in Zimbabwe\n\nThe 52-year-old said: \"In 2008 and 2009 it was really bad. Poachers would put cyanide in trees targeting elephants, but when that was too slow they'd poison the watering holes.\n\n\"The aim was to kill elephants but the results were it would kill all wildlife which drank from it, from a little bird to a leopard or a lion.\n\n\"On one occasion a pack of wild dogs, which are an endangered species, eight elephants and a number of other animals were killed at a poisoned watering hole. That really brought it home that we needed to up our game.\n\n\"It wasn't just a case of listening out for gun shots and tracking poachers down anymore, you've got to be proactive and be there to prevent them getting to the watering holes.\n\n\"Thankfully, with the hard effort we've put in with Zimbabwe national park rangers, we've curbed that.\"\n\nWalking with elephants is a \"unique experience\", says Nick\n\nNick studied Zoology at university in South Africa and has guided in many African countries. He has spent the past 23 years canoeing the Zambezi River and working in all the wildlife areas of Zimbabwe.\n\n\"I got interested in wildlife at a very young age. I remember being in Swansea with my grandfather, who played rugby for Wales - a gentleman called Dai Thomas - and he gave me a BBC wildlife magazine from 1971. That was my earliest stimulation into my passion for wildlife.\n\n\"An elephant is such an intelligent animal so it's about spending time with them because they can smell you and recognise your voice, but they also know who you are by a vibe from your body and you can just sense each other's mood. Some will seek out human company.\n\n\"It's a unique experience and Mana is one of the few places you can get out and walk with these amazing creatures.\"\n\nThe conservation project constantly monitors the herds by first collaring the animal.\n\nA vet will fire an anaesthetic dart, then the team works quickly to attach the tracker before an antidote is injected.\n\n\"A lot of the big bulls [male elephants] were wiped out by poaching. If they leave the national park and go into hunting areas, we can act on that now.\n\n\"If the collar is reading stationary, that triggers an alarm that alerts us to the animal and we can go and investigate, and if he's been poached we can follow that up.\"\n\nElephants are poached for their ivory tusks\n\nCoronavirus has hit Zimbabwe's tourism industry hard and fewer tourists usually leads to an increase in poaching, but the rangers and conservation teams have been working hard to prevent it.\n\n\"Tourism is a major factor toward conservation and without the tourist camps being open there's been no presence.\n\n\"The park has been an empty shell except for a few rangers, but they have managed to keep poaching at bay, which is a fantastic success.\"\n\nElephants use their tusks to protect themselves, move objects and gather food, but their ivory is highly lucrative on the illegal market.\n\nA study published in 2016 estimated up to 40,000 elephants were being killed by poachers - who remove the tusks with an axe - every year.\n\nIn 2018, all trade in ivory in China was banned, but the illegal market is still thriving. The price can be as much as $2,000 (about £1,500) a kilogram.\n\n\"Ivory has been sought after by man for thousands of years, but it's the market in the Far East which drives the poaching,\" said Nick.\n\n\"China has done a lot recently to try and stop the trade but it's just driven it further underground.\n\n\"A large well-carved ivory tusk in China could go for $100,000.\n\n\"The poacher on the ground, who is risking his life, will get around $500. So the further away from Africa it goes the higher the price goes.\"\n\nHe said poaching was indiscriminate, killing of all sexes and ages of elephant.\n\n\"But over the last five years there have been over 300 arrests and 1,500 years of jail time handed down, so this has also been a massive deterrent.\"\n\nNick got involved in conservation work after seeing the results of poaching for himself\n\nIt was seeing the effects of poaching for himself that got Nick involved in his current role.\n\n\"I was guiding one backpacking photography safari 10 years ago and we got surrounded by poachers at a watering hole.\n\n\"There were vultures all around this amphitheatre at the spring, so you could tell from that how many elephants had been killed there.\n\n\"It was a dozen and we found another bunch of dead elephants in the next valley. We alerted the park rangers and luckily the poachers were caught.\n\n\"So, just from that one walk 30 pairs of elephant tusks were recovered and 11 poachers arrested. It was from that one safari that it really brought it home to me that the level of poaching was horrendous and that's what made me so determined to start this conservation work and do what we've been doing.\"\n\nNick is due to start advising on a new series with Sir David Attenborough\n\nIn 2017, Nick finished guiding and advising a BBC crew on a film shoot capturing wild dogs (also known as painted wolves) for Sir David Attenborough's Dynasties series.\n\nHe will start working on a new Attenborough series called Green Planet this month, while continuing to focus on his conservation work.\n\n\"We are proud of what we've done and the impact it has had. It's been far greater than I thought we would be able to achieve,\" Nick said.\n\n\"We were losing an elephant a day in the valley through poaching and now we have not lost one in Mana for 12 months - that's unbelievable. At this rate it means the elephant population here will increase by 5% per annum.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan's lawyers say he is \"surprised and saddened\" by the allegations\n\nThe Hay literary festival has accused a senior Gulf royal of an \"appalling violation\" after he allegedly sexually assaulted one of their employees.\n\nCaroline Michel, Hay chair, said they would not work in Abu Dhabi again while Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan remains minister of tolerance.\n\nTheir employee, Caitlin McNamara, claims he attacked her earlier this year and is seeking legal redress.\n\nMs McNamara, 32, told the Sunday Times that the alleged attack happened on 14 February at a remote private island villa where she had been summoned, she thought, to discuss preparations for the first-ever Hay Festival in Abu Dhabi, which was opening 11 days later.\n\nShe said she told both her employer and embassy officials soon after the attack, and went to the police in the UK when coronavirus lockdown restrictions lifted.\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\nAccording to the Sunday Times, Ms McNamara is waiting to hear whether the Crown Prosecution Service will take up her case, and said she had decided to waive her right to anonymity because \"I feel I have nothing to lose\".\n\n\"I want to do this because I want to highlight the effect of powerful men like him doing things like that and thinking they can get away with it,\" she told the newspaper.\n\n\"It seemed clear from the set up I was not the first or last. It really took a massive mental and physical toll on me for what to him was probably just a whim.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times said Sheikh Nahyan had not responded to its approach for a comment on the allegations, but had received a statement from London libel lawyers Schillings which said: \"Our client is surprised and saddened by this allegation, which arrives eight months after the alleged incident and via a national newspaper. The account is denied.\"\n\nSchillings declined to give further comment to the BBC.\n\nIn a statement, posted on Twitter, Hay Festival Chair Caroline Michel, said: \"What happened to our colleague and friend Caitlin McNamara in Abu Dhabi last February was an appalling violation and a hideous abuse of trust and position.\n\n\"Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan made a mockery of his ministerial responsibilities and tragically undermined his government's attempt to work with Hay Festival to promote free speech and female empowerment\".\n\n\"We continue to support Caitlin in seeking legal redress for this attack and we urge our friends and partners in the UAE to reflect on the behaviour of Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan and send a clear signal to the world that such behaviour will not be tolerated. Hay Festival will not be returning to Abu Dhabi while he remains in position.\"", "A group of Tory MPs have urged Greater Manchester's mayor to \"engage\" with the government's regional approach to restrictions - prompting anger from some of their own colleagues.\n\nIn a letter to Andy Burnham and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, 20 MPs said a national lockdown would impose \"severe costs\" on areas with low transmission.\n\nBut four Conservative MPs for the region said the letter was unhelpful.\n\nMinisters say Greater Manchester needs to be in the top tier of restrictions.\n\nThe letter was organised by Jerome Mayhew, MP for Broadland in Norfolk, and was signed by MPs representing constituencies currently at the lowest tier of Covid restrictions.\n\n\"It does not make sense to shut down the whole country when the virus is spiking in particular locations,\" the letter reads.\n\n\"Our constituents, like yours, have made many sacrifices to get - and keep - the virus under control in our areas,\" it adds.\n\nMeanwhile, Liverpool City Region's metro mayor Steve Rotherham announced his area will receive an additional £44m from the government to \"support local jobs and businesses\" and fund a local test-and-trace service after its move to tier three - very high.\n\nA similar package worth £42m was given to local leaders in Lancashire as part of negotiations over its move to the highest alert level.\n\nSir Keir has backed calls for a shorter but stricter national lockdown - also known as a circuit-breaker.\n\nThe MPs lending their names to the letter argue that a regional approach offers protection to businesses in low prevalence areas.\n\nBut Christian Wakeford, the Conservative MP for Bury South, tweeted to say the intervention was \"neither wanted nor helpful\".\n\nJames Daly, MP for Bury North, described the letter as \"deeply disappointing... unnecessary and ill-advised\".\n\nAnd fellow Conservative William Wragg, MP for Hazel Grove in Greater Manchester, suggested colleagues focus on their own constituencies and asked for \"time and space\" to work on improving the situation in Greater Manchester.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the government will pay two thirds of staff wages if businesses are forced to close under new restrictions\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Burnham has accused Chancellor Rishi Sunak of being \"the problem\" as the Manchester mayor reiterated his call for greater financial support for workers and businesses in the area.\n\nHe told the New Statesman magazine: \"I think the problem now is, to a large degree, the chancellor. I think he's made wrong judgements throughout this.\"\n\nMr Sunak has offered a 66% subsidy for those whose businesses are forced to shut by tier three restrictions.\n\nBut Mr Burnham wants a return of the original furlough scheme, which saw the Treasury pay 80% of workers wages.\n\nHe said the cost of the Eat Out to Help Out meal subsidy programme should have been paying for the furlough now.\n\nHowever, the responsibility ultimately lies with the PM, Mr Burnham added.\n\nNo 10 told the BBC it had arranged a call with Mr Burnham on Sunday morning, but the Greater Manchester Mayor's office said no such call had been scheduled.", "Firms are calling for more financial support to avoid \"catastrophic consequences\" from tougher coronavirus restrictions.\n\nWithout more help there could be mass redundancies and business failures, the British Chambers of Commerce warns.\n\nIts call for a new approach comes as tougher restrictions are imposed on large parts of the UK.\n\nThe government said it had already put in place support worth more than £200bn to help firms cope.\n\n\"We know this continues to be a very difficult period for businesses,\" a spokesman said. \"That's why we have put in place a substantial package of support.\"\n\nThe government has already announced extra supportfor firms affected by new measures to control the virus, including providing two thirds of workers' wages where firms have been told to close. Firms will also receive grants of up to £3,000 per month.\n\nThere is additional funding for local authorities and devolved administrations.\n\nThe director general of the BCC, which represents 75,000 firms of varying sizes across the UK, has written to the prime minister calling for a new set of criteria to be applied before imposing tougher restrictions.\n\n\"The situation for business grows graver by the day,\" Adam Marshall wrote.\n\n\"Enhanced support must be given to those facing the indirect impacts of restrictions and closures - in supply chains, tourist destinations and town and city centres.\"\n\nThe letter outlines a set of conditions firms would like to see in place before restrictions are imposed.\n\nIt says there should be evidence of the effectiveness of the proposed measures, businesses should be given time to prepare, and financial support should be available, both for firms forced to closed, and those indirectly affected.\n\nWhile some businesses are required to close in areas under the strictest measures, many more firms say their business will be badly affected by a drop in demand as people are asked to limit some activities, travel and socialise less.\n\nSome businesses in England say they would rather be closed down under the tier three (very high alert) measures and receive financial support, than see demand for their services destroyed in a tier two (high) area, the BCC said.\n\nThe prime minister announced the new three tier system for England last week - pointing to sharply-rising transmission rates for the virus in some parts of the country.\n\nMr Johnson told the House of Commons: \"This is not how we want to live our lives but this is the narrow path we have to tread between the social and economic trauma of a full lockdown and the massive human, and indeed, economic cost of an uncontained epidemic.\"\n\nThe government has introduced the toughest tier three restrictions in Liverpool and Lancashire, which means pubs and bars not serving food must close and households are not permitted to mix.\n\nMany other parts of England, including London, York and Essex, are now in tier two, the second highest level of measures. This means people from different households may not meet indoors including inside cafes and restaurants.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, pubs, restaurants and cafes have closed to sit-in customers for the next four weeks, while in Scotland's central belt most licensed premises are closed under temporary restrictions.\n\nIn Wales, a two-week \"fire break\" - a period with tighter restrictions to help break the trajectory of coronavirus cases rising - is expected within days.\n\nThe BCC is also calling for changes to the NHS Test and Trace system.\n\n\"The need for additional restrictions cannot be blamed on a lack of care by hardworking people in businesses across the country,\" the letter said.\n\n\"Instead it represents a failure of the test and trace system, which must be urgently improved and expanded.\"\n\nIt suggests any period of enhanced restrictions should be used to speed up the effectiveness of NHS Test and Trace, including putting a focus on rapid testing and low-cost testing in workplaces.\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that the number of people being tested was higher than ever before and that \"contact-tracing was improving all the time\".\n\nBut he said that \"any test and trace system has less utility as the virus grows\".\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, the number of people employed across the UK is down by around half a million, according to the Office for National Statistics, while some self-employed workers and entrepreneurs have lost significant amounts of work.\n\nThe government provided support to employees and businesses at the start of lockdown in March, including VAT cuts, business rates holidays, extended loan schemes and the furlough scheme which provided 80% of wages for those unable to continue working.\n\nHowever, the furlough scheme is being phased out, and will be replaced at the end of this month by a less generous job support scheme.", "The team have been monitoring road crossings, roadkill and use of tunnels\n\nUp to 335,000 hedgehogs are dying each year on UK roads, a study suggests.\n\nThe figure represents a three-fold mortality rate on 2016 data, described as \"alarming\" by a team at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) researchers.\n\nA study in 2016 put the UK road death figure at 100,000 but experts suggested that was a \"mid-line estimate\".\n\nResearchers said measures such as tunnels and speed bumps \"could\" protect the animals but ultimately relied on drivers' behaviour to change.\n\nPhD student Lauren Moore led the review, which has been jointly funded by wildlife charity People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) and NTU.\n\nNew research suggests as many as 335,000 hedgehogs are killed on UK roads each year\n\nRecent estimates put the hedgehog population in England, Wales and Scotland at about one million, compared with 30 million in the 1950s.\n\n\"Hedgehog roadkill is sadly a very familiar sight both in the UK and in Europe,\" Ms Moore said.\n\nThe research considered a number of measures to protect the creatures, including speed bumps, road signs and tunnels, but concluded none would be effective without help from drivers.\n\n\"Although we know some hedgehogs use road-crossing structures, we don't yet know how effective these solutions are,\" Ms Moore continued.\n\n\"Changing drivers' behaviour has been shown to be difficult to achieve and sustain, reducing the potential for meaningful reductions in roadkill.\"\n\nNew signs featuring a picture of a hedgehog started to appear in 2019\n\nShe thought the solution may lie in a combination of measures constructed \"in carefully chosen locations\" close to hedgehog hotspots.\n\nNida Al-Fulaij, grants manager at PTES, said: \"With thousands of hedgehogs killed on UK roads every year, the continuous development of road networks, without any mitigation, puts this already endangered species at even further risk.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Vessels carrying migrants were intercepted by Border Force and brought to Dover\n\nUp to 170 migrants in 12 boats have crossed the English Channel after days of choppy sea conditions improved.\n\nA further 222 people were stopped from making the \"perilous\" journey by French authorities, the Home Office said.\n\nThe authorities later confirmed the body of a man in a lifejacket, found on a beach near Calais at 08:00 BST, was that of a migrant.\n\nSix migrants on two kayaks tied together were also rescued by the French navy off the coast of Calais.\n\nThe man, who was found dead on the beach at Sangatte, had almost certainly been trying to cross the Channel, said Pascal Marconville, the prosecutor of nearby town Boulogne-sur-Mer.\n\nThe number of people reaching the UK by boat had fallen in October amid harsher conditions in the Channel.\n\nMr Marconville said initial examinations of the man's body indicated there was no third party involvement in his death.\n\nSix migrants were rescued from a makeshift raft in French waters\n\nThere was also no suggestion he had been in the water for any length of time - washing up just a few hours after attempting to make the crossing.\n\nOfficers investigating his death would work with the migrant communities based in Calais and Dunkirk to try to establish his identity and the circumstances around his death, he added.\n\nAbout 260 people have successfully made the crossing this month, compared to a record 1,951 in September.\n\nHome Office minister Chris Philp said the government was \"taking action at every step of these illegally-facilitated journeys to make this route unviable\".\n\nThe National Crime Agency this week arrested 12 people alleged to be responsible for smuggling migrants into the UK, he said.\n\nA 30-year-old man was arrested in Hastings on Friday on suspicion of sourcing boats in the UK and transporting them to France, where they were allegedly used to cross the Channel.\n\nA demonstration was held in support of asylum-seekers outside a barracks in Folkestone\n\nMeanwhile, about 250 people gathered in Folkestone, Kent, to show support for asylum-seekers being housed inside a former army barracks.\n\nIt followed claims that far-right activists were using the arrival of asylum-seekers at the Napier barracks to \"fuel hate\".\n\n\"There's a narrative that has been put forward by a group of people saying that these fellow human beings aren't wanted in Folkestone and we know that isn't the case,\" said Bridget Chapman, of charity Kent Refugee Action Network.\n\nAnd Clare Moseley, co-founder of refugee charity Care4Calais, said they were only risking crossing the Channel \"because they are frightened, fleeing appalling horrors in some of the most dangerous places on earth\".\n\n\"They [also] do it because of the grim and unsanitary conditions in Calais, where they are constantly harassed and abused by the authorities,\" she continued.\n\n\"They do it because there is no safe and legal way to have their UK asylum claim heard.\"\n\nKent Police thanked \"the vast majority of the attendees\" at the Folkestone protest at what it described as a \"peaceful event\".\n\nOne man was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage following a confrontation with a small counter demonstration.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A vehicle carrying the royal family arrives back at Huis ten Bosch palace in The Hague\n\nThe Dutch royal family is back in the country after a holiday that lasted just one day, following a coronavirus-related public backlash.\n\nKing Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima headed off to the Greek sun on Friday but flew back on Saturday evening.\n\nThey left as a new partial lockdown was introduced and although they did not break any rules they said they had been affected by intense criticism.\n\nPM Mark Rutte is under pressure to explain any advice he may have given.\n\nThe royals flew out on a government plane but were immediately criticised for going on holiday when the population was being advised to stay at home as much as possible to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThey flew back on a scheduled KLM flight and the royal standard was flying over the palace in The Hague on Saturday evening.\n\nThe royal statement read: \"We do not want to leave any doubts about it: in order to get the Covid-19 virus under control, it is necessary that the guidelines are followed. The debate over our holiday does not contribute to that.\"\n\nThere appeared to be some confusion about who in government knew about the trip and whether advice was given.\n\nThe Dutch monarchy has no formal role in the day-to-day running of the Netherlands. But the Ministry of General Affairs, headed by the prime minister, is responsible for what the monarchy says and does.\n\nAs a result, several MPs are calling on Mr Rutte to explain why he did not advise the royals to cancel their holiday.\n\n\"If Rutte had said that this was a bad idea, you can assume that the king would have changed his plans,\" said Peter Rehwinkel of the PvdA party.\n\nThe GroenLinks leader also called the trip \"an error in judgment\" and abandoning the trip was the \"only correct decision\".\n\nThe daily tally of coronavirus infections continues to grow in the Netherlands. On Saturday, more than 8,000 new cases were recorded for the first time since the country's outbreak began.\n\nMark Rutte is facing questions over any advice he gave\n\nBars, restaurants and cannabis \"coffee shops\" have been ordered to close for four weeks.\n\nIt is not the first time the royal couple have been in the spotlight for their conduct. In August, they were pictured breaking social distancing rules with a restaurant owner during another trip to Greece.\n\nThe royal family's annual budget is under review amid growing pressure from opposition lawmakers.", "A statue on Place de la Republique, Paris, symbolically \"gagged\" by protesters after the Charlie Hebdo attacks\n\nWhen French President Francois Hollande gave a sombre televised address to the nation, hours after the shocking attack on Charlie Hebdo, he vowed to protect the message of freedom that the magazine's journalists represented.\n\nCharlie Hebdo's \"heroes\" had defended freedom of speech and this was an attack on the entire republic, he said.\n\nBut since the start of the week, 54 people have been detained and several jailed for a variety of remarks, shouted out in the street or posted on social media, and France's judiciary has been lampooned for what appear to be double standards.\n\nThe so-called comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala will face trial for writing \"I feel like Charlie Coulibaly\", hours after 3.7 million French citizens had taken to the streets behind the \"je suis Charlie\" rallying cry.\n\nHe said the posting was meant to be humorous. But in the context of his past convictions for anti-Semitism, the authorities saw it as a voice of support for one of the gunmen, Amedy Coulibaly, who had murdered four Jewish men in a kosher supermarket.\n\nDieudonne could face up to seven years in jail for his Facebook comment\n\nPrime Minister Manuel Valls set it out plainly: freedom of speech should not be confused with anti-Semitism, racism and Holocaust denial.\n\nBut Dieudonne has plenty of young fans who watch his shows and follow his social media posts, however tasteless they may be, and many in France saw his arrest as an example of double standards.\n\nAfter all, Charlie Hebdo's entire ethos has been tasteless lampooning of the establishment.\n\n\"Extremely clumsy to detain Dieudonne when you've just made the whole world march for freedom of speech,\" read one tweet.\n\nBut the crackdown extends way beyond a notorious comic with a string of convictions.\n\nThe justice ministry has revealed that a number of fast-track custodial sentences have been handed down in cities across France in the past few days for expressions of support for the gunmen.\n\nIn Toulouse alone, three men in their early twenties have been jailed, two of them for 10 months, for shouting obscenities at police.\n\nOne threatened to attack police with a Kalashnikov while another said the Kouachi brothers were \"just the start\".\n\nIt was in Toulouse that Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah killed seven people in a series of attacks in 2012, including one on a Jewish school.\n\nIn Nanterre, east of Paris, a man was sent to prison for a year for posting a video on Facebook that mocked policeman Ahmed Merabet, who was shot at point-blank range by one of the Kouachis.\n\nThe French government tightened anti-terror laws in November, clamping down on online comments\n\nHuman rights groups have been less than impressed with what would seem to be a knee-jerk response by the authorities after what Mr Valls admitted had been clear failings by the security services.\n\nFrance's League of Human Rights (LDH) has condemned the fast-track sentences, which it argues are handed down in dreadful conditions and largely apply to drunks or fools.\n\nBut while the sentences may look startling and in some cases even draconian, they are following the letter of an anti-terror law that was passed by the National Assembly as recently as last November.\n\nDirectly provoking or publicly condoning terrorism in France now commands a five-year jail term and a fine of €75,000. And if it is done online, the penalty can be extended to seven years and €100,000 (£76,000; $116,000).\n\nSo for the many French who did not feel \"je suis Charlie\", where does France now see the boundary between freedom of speech and condoning terrorism?\n\nThe right to say, write or print what you want is rooted in the declaration of rights that came with the 1789 French Revolution, but even then abuse of that freedom was limited by law.\n\nThose exceptions were defined in 1881 (in French) as defamation, slander and incitement to hate. There is also explicit reference to condoning crimes of war, crimes against humanity or collaboration with the enemy.\n\nNot everyone has felt comfortable with the \"je suis Charlie\" message in France\n\nHowever, not since the revolution has blasphemy been against the law in France, and according to Mr Valls it never will.\n\nThe restrictions on freedom of speech go well beyond those in the US. A former editor of Charlie Hebdo had to defend himself against incitement in 2007 after reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nSince November those restrictions have gone further still. What was previously a law against condoning terrorism in the media has been extended to social media too.\n\nAnd it will not just be careless tweets or Facebook posts that are caught in the crosshairs. US-based social media companies will be required to police their sites too.", "Mark Rutte is facing questions over any advice he gave\n\nDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has conceded he \"made the wrong assessment\" by not intervening against plans by the royal family to holiday in Greece.\n\nKing Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima headed off on Friday but flew back a day later, following a public backlash.\n\nThey left as the Dutch government introduced a new partial lockdown - which included discouraging unnecessary travel - but did not break any rules.\n\nMr Rutte has acknowledged that he had been aware of the royal plans.\n\nIn a letter to parliament, the prime minister said he had \"realised too late\" that the holiday \"could no longer be reconciled with the increasing infections and the stricter measures.\n\n\"This should have prompted me to reconsider the intended holiday. I bear full ministerial responsibility,\" he added.\n\nThe royals flew out on a government plane but were immediately criticised for going on holiday when people were being advised to stay at home as much as possible to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThey flew back on a scheduled KLM flight on Saturday evening.\n\nIn a statement, the royals said: \"We do not want to leave any doubts about it: in order to get the Covid-19 virus under control, it is necessary that the guidelines are followed. The debate over our holiday does not contribute to that.\"\n\nInitially there appeared to be some confusion about who in government knew about the trip and whether advice had been given.\n\nThe Dutch monarchy has no formal role in the day-to-day running of the Netherlands. But the Ministry of General Affairs, headed by the prime minister, is responsible for what the monarchy says and does.\n\nAs a result, several MPs are calling on Mr Rutte to explain why he did not advise the royals to cancel their holiday.\n\n\"If Rutte had said that this was a bad idea, you can assume that the king would have changed his plans,\" said Peter Rehwinkel of the PvdA party.\n\nThe Green party's leader called the trip \"an error in judgment\" and abandoning the trip was the \"only correct decision\".\n\nThe daily tally of coronavirus infections continues to grow in the Netherlands. On Saturday, more than 8,000 new cases were recorded for the first time since the country's outbreak began.\n\nBars, restaurants and cannabis \"coffee shops\" have been ordered to close for four weeks.\n\nIt is not the first time the royal couple have been in the spotlight for their conduct. In August, they were pictured breaking social distancing rules with a restaurant owner during another trip to Greece.\n\nThe royal family's annual budget is under review amid growing pressure from opposition lawmakers.", "Kath Sharpe says the division is \"crackers\"\n\nPeople across the country have opposing views about the government's new coronavirus tier system.\n\nBut in the case of Langwith, on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border, the division is somewhat more literal.\n\nThe county boundary runs down the middle of Portland Road, meaning houses on one side have \"tier one\" restrictions, while the other side is \"tier two\".\n\nIt's caused some amusement among residents, but also much frustration due to the difficulty of living in a community with two sets of rules.\n\nThe division between the two tiers runs right down the middle of Portland Road\n\nPeople on the Derbyshire side of the street, currently in tier one, can meet socially in groups of six indoors, while those on the other side are subject to more stringent restrictions - due to the fact Nottinghamshire became tier two this week.\n\nKath Sharpe, a 72-year-old parish councillor who lives in the village, said people had been joking about building a wall down the middle of the road.\n\n\"It's crackers,\" she said. \"As far as I'm aware, we've not had any cases of Covid in the village.\n\n\"People here have been very good at following the rules but I don't think they're going to stick to this - plus, who's going to come and enforce it?\n\n\"It should have been looked at as a whole community, not some of it lumped in with what's happening miles away.\"\n\nDave Mather says tier one ends at his garden wall\n\nDave Mather, 69, a retired miner who lives on the Derbyshire side of Portland Road, said: \"It's absolutely crazy - Derbyshire and tier one ends at my garden wall.\n\n\"They should have realised you can't divide a village up.\"\n\nDawn Wakeling doubts people in the village will follow the different restrictions\n\nDawn Wakeling, 49, lives on the tier one side of the road but her mother, whom she helps look after, lives across the street.\n\nShe said they will remain unaffected, as they are in a bubble, but added: \"People aren't going to follow it.\n\n\"I wouldn't be going to Nottingham but I won't be avoiding parts of the village. It has to be done on a village-by-village basis.\"\n\nBeverley Booker, 54, lives on the tier two side.\n\n\"When the border is just a walk to the other side of the street, it's a bit daft, isn't it?\" she said.\n\nKath McCormack, 66, who lives on the Nottinghamshire side, said: \"I know we're technically in Nottinghamshire, but Derbyshire is just a road away.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense to split a village in two.\"\n\nIt's not just people on the street that are feeling divided - the split has affected the whole village.\n\nJanice Mitchell, 64, said she will not be able to see her seven-year-old granddaughter because she lives in tier two.\n\n\"It's difficult to understand,\" she said. \"I know they have to have borders but why not go to the end of the road, rather than cut through the middle?\n\n\"I'll follow the rules but now I can't have my granddaughter to stay.\"\n\nThe village's pubs also fall into different tiers.\n\nBev Plumb, landlady of the Jug and Glass Inn, which is in tier two, said she had already had customers contacting her to cancel bookings.\n\nShe said the fact people can meet in pubs just a short walk down the road is an issue, and questioned how she would be able to enforce the ban on households mixing.\n\n\"People are trying to do the right thing, trying not to break the law, but it does affect our business,\" she said.\n\n\"There shouldn't be a blanket approach for the whole of Nottinghamshire.\"\n\nThe village pub that falls into tier two has had cancellations\n\nDerbyshire Labour councillor Joan Dixon drew attention to the anomaly on social media.\n\nShe said: \"There is some local amusement but there is also the sense that the rules are becoming very complicated and people are weary now.\n\n\"There are a lot of close-knit families in that community who will be affected.\"\n\nBoth Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire county councils urged residents to stick to the restrictions.\n\nA Nottinghamshire spokesperson said: \"If they are in Nottinghamshire, it will be a legal requirement not to mix with other people indoors unless they live with them, have a support bubble with them or fall under one of the other exceptions.\"\n\nA Derbyshire spokesperson said: \"These are government restrictions and we would urge people to follow all the latest guidelines.\"\n\nIt added it was the government that decided which tier areas were placed in.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said decisions were made in \"close consultation\" with local leaders.\n\n\"We... constantly review the evidence and will take swift action where necessary,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock, who made history by beating two men at the PDC World Darts Championship, has narrowly failed to qualify for the 2021 tournament.\n\nShe lost out despite winning the last of four women's events which offered two spots for the championship, which starts at Alexandra Palace in December.\n\nDeta Hedman edged through on a total of 85 legs to 83 for the second place, after Lisa Ashton had sealed her spot.\n\nShe played in the 2019 World Championship while Hedman will make her debut.\n• None Insight: Hedman's life on and off the oche\n\nSherrock earned the nickname 'Queen of the Palace' after becoming the first woman to win a match en route to the third round of the 2020 tournament.\n\nBut the 26-year-old from Milton Keynes finished just outside the top two in the PDC Women's Series Order of Merit despite reaching two finals, a semi-final and a quarter-final over four events in Barnsley.", "Rallies are held across France in support of Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson.\n\nBanners reading \"Je suis enseignant\" (I am a teacher) and \"Je suis Samuel\" (I am Samuel) were on display in solidarity.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The Scottish government has called on the Treasury to exempt the new self-isolation payment from tax.\n\nSocial security secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak saying people may not apply for the £500 because of tax concerns.\n\nApplications for the payment, intended to help those on low incomes who are Covid-positive, opened this week.\n\nThe Treasury has said tax arrangements throughout the UK will be \"fair to everyone\".\n\nIn Scotland, the payments will be made through the Scottish Welfare Fund and administered by local authorities.\n\nInitially, the money will go to those on Universal Credit or similar benefits.\n\nMs Somerville said: \"I welcome your consideration of an exemption from National Insurance contributions (NICs) and I believe a similar approach should be taken in respect of income tax.\n\n\"Subjecting these payments to tax risks detracting from the important public health measures they are intended to support.\n\n\"In a worst case scenario, the prospect of a future tax liability may prevent a person from applying, leading to them having to make the difficult choice between self-isolating and returning to work so they can support themselves financially.\"\n\nShe added: \"I would ask that you consider an income tax exemption in respect of payments made under the self-isolation support grant scheme, similar to the exemption you have put in place for NICs and the test and trace support payment scheme in England.\"\n\nA Treasury spokeswoman said: \"We have treated the Scottish government scheme exactly the same as we have similar schemes in the rest of the UK by making it subject to income tax but also exempting it from National Insurance Contributions. That's fair to everyone.\n\n\"We have also ensured that it has no detrimental impact when calculating Universal Credit and tax credits so that no-one receiving these payments will see their welfare payments reduced.\"", "The rufous bush chat is rarely seen in northern Europe\n\nBirdwatchers have descended on a salt marsh to see a bird not seen in Britain for 40 years.\n\nThe rufous bush chat was spotted at Stiffkey, north Norfolk, prompting up to 100 birdwatchers to go to see it.\n\nNative to southern Spain, Africa and the Balkans the bird, also known as the rufous warbler and rufous bush robin, is rarely seen in northern Europe.\n\nDick Filby, of Rare Bird Alert, said it \"would have been heading for a tropical climate and went the wrong way.\"\n\nHe said the last time the bird was spotted in Britain was at Prawle Point in Devon in 1980.\n\nThe bird was first spotted on the Stiffkey marshes on Saturday morning\n\n\"In 1998, one was seen in Jersey (part of the British Isles but not classed as part of Britain).\"\n\nMr Filby said he hoped birdwatchers would be wearing masks and keeping socially-distanced as they enjoyed the view.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Look East 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 BBC Look East\n\nNorfolk Police called on birdwatchers visiting the site in the hope of seeing the rare visitor to keep to Covid regulations.\n\nBirdwatchers in the British Isles last caught a glimpse of the bird when it was seen in Jersey in 1998\n\nCh Supt Chris Balmer said: \"People may arrive on their own but some have started to gather in groups larger than six to be able to see the bird. This is a breach of the law.\n\n\"In the first instance officers will engage, explain and encourage people to leave but enforcement is an option and we will be issuing fixed penalty notices should people not comply.\"\n\nScores of birdwatchers descended on Stiffkey on the Norfolk coast\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The construction of a second golf course at President Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire resort has been approved.\n\nThe 18-hole MacLeod course is to be built to the south and west of the controversial original course at Menie, built in 2012.\n\nIt is named after his mother Mary Anne MacLeod, who was born on Lewis but emigrated to New York.\n\nCouncillors gave construction the go-ahead on Friday, despite local objections.\n\nThere were 15 conditions, mainly focused on environmental issues such as preventing pollution, protecting wet dunes and safeguarding bird habitats.\n\nPermission for the resort - including houses, holiday homes and a hotel - was granted in 2008 while plans for the second course were approved last year.\n\nThe Menie resort has made losses in the last seven consecutive years.\n\nIt was blamed for \"destroying\" the sand dune system, causing permanent habitat loss.\n\nThe Trump Organisation previously reacted to the suggestion the area should lose its protected status by calling the move a \"stitch-up\".\n\nThe construction of the second course was met with disapproval from locals who said it would \"severely affect the natural habitat and landscape\" and \"restrict resident access\" on the beach.\n\nOne local claimed there had been \"little meaningful public consultation\" on the matter.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) also objected to the application, saying the water management plan was inadequate and the environmental management plan was not appropriate.\n\nSarah Malone, executive vice president of Trump International Scotland, said: \"We continue to remain focused on the long-term vision for our magnificent estate and are moving steadily forward with our infrastructure and development plans for the next phase of construction at our world-class resort.\n\n\"Golf, more so now than ever, is the sport of choice for many people, including families, and we are delighted to have the support of Aberdeenshire Council to move forward with our second golf course.\n\n\"The MacLeod Course, will be built to the highest specifications and standards to complement our award-winning championship links. The course will be constructed alongside our estate residencies, cottages and country homes that were approved at the end of last year. \"", "Health Secretary Sajid Javid says there are \"no guarantees\" when it comes to ruling out new restrictions or another circuit breaker before Christmas.\n\nBut what exactly is a circuit breaker in Covid terms?\n\nThe UK, Northern Ireland, Singapore and Israel have all previously used circuit breakers to try to reduce their coronavirus cases.\n\nBut how do they work? How long is a Covid circuit breaker? How can it help tackle Omicron?\n\nBBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains it all in a minute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Time is of the essence\" for Manchester - Boris Johnson\n\nBoris Johnson says the spread of coronavirus in Greater Manchester is \"grave\" and he may \"need to intervene\" if new measures are not agreed.\n\nThe prime minister urged mayor Andy Burnham to \"engage constructively\" with the government over the region entering \"very high\" tier three measures.\n\nHe said the situation was worsening every day and \"time is of the essence\".\n\nMr Burnham, who wants more financial aid for workers affected, said regional leaders will meet No 10 at \"any time\".\n\nMeasures under tier three include pub closures and a ban on household mixing indoors, in private gardens and in most outdoor venues. Liverpool City Region was the first of England's regions to enter the very high alert level.\n\nLancashire has agreed to move into tier three from Saturday with a financial support package worth £42m. Around 1.5 million people, including those living in Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, Lancaster and Preston, will be affected by the new rules.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street briefing on Friday, Mr Johnson said he understood the \"reluctance\" of local leaders to put the region under tougher restrictions and said it would be \"far from a pain-free course of action\".\n\nHe warned: \"Of course, if agreement cannot be reached I will need to intervene in order to protect Manchester's hospitals and save the lives of Manchester's residents.\n\n\"But our efforts would be so much more effective if we work together.\"\n\nRevealing that a deal had not been reached between No 10 and the region's leaders, Mr Johnson said it was time for action to be taken.\n\n\"Each day that passes before action is taken means more people will go to hospital, more people will end up in intensive care and tragically more people will die,\" he said.\n\nIn a joint statement with Greater Manchester's deputy mayors and council leaders, Mr Burnham said they had sought a further meeting with Downing Street officials - and this did not happen.\n\n\"We can assure the prime minister that we are ready to meet at any time to try to agree a way forward,\" they said.\n\nThey said they had done \"everything within our power to protect the health of our residents\" but are not convinced that closing pubs and bars is the only way to protect hospitals.\n\nInstead, they want other measures like shielding to be considered, and tougher penalties on venues that do not comply to Covid regulations, including instant closure powers.\n\n\"We firmly believe that protecting health is about more than controlling the virus and requires proper support for people whose lives would be severely affected by a tier three lockdown,\" they said, adding that the current proposals do not \"provide adequate support\".\n\nAndy Burnham says northern England has been treated with contempt\n\nThe latest government figures showed there were 15,650 new cases reported on Friday, bringing the total to 689,257.\n\nThere were a further 136 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, bringing the total to 43,429.\n\nMr Johnson said he hoped the most stringent \"very high\" restrictions could be lifted as quickly as possible for the affected regions.\n\nHe said: \"The amount by which we need to reduce the R is not as big as it was right back in the beginning of the spread of this disease.\n\n\"If we all work together on the measures we have outlined we can definitely do it.\"\n\nThe reproduction (R) number has risen slightly to 1.3-1.5, with growth of the epidemic still widespread across the country.\n\nThe PM said he wanted to avoid another national lockdown \"if at all possible\" amid calls for a circuit-breaker - a short, limited lockdown - across the country.\n\nHe said he disagreed with those who argued in favour of a national lockdown \"instead of targeted local action\", insisting: \"Closing businesses in Cornwall where transmission is low will not cut transmission in Manchester\".\n\nMr Johnson said that while he could not \"rule anything out\", he wanted to avoid a national lockdown because of \"the damaging health, economic and social effects it would have\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said during the briefing that the nation is in a \"different situation\" from when the Sage group of scientists recommended a two-to-three week national \"circuit break\" to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHe said the situation had changed, adding: \"We recommended in September taking a circuit break. The idea there was that actually a two-week interruption would set cases back probably to the levels they were in August and then at those levels, test and trace is more effective to keep control.\n\n\"Where we are now is of course a different situation. It's crucial that where the R is above 1 and the numbers are high we get R below 1 for all the reasons that have been outlined, including of course the hospitalisations which are increasing. So it's crucial that's done, and there are a number of ways that can be done.\"\n\nHe added that would only be achieved by combining \"tier three baseline conditions\" suggested by the government with some extra measures agreed in an affected region using \"local knowledge and local insight\".\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nThe PM said accepting increased coronavirus restrictions was the \"right and responsible\" measure to protect the NHS.\n\nHe added: \"Without action, there is no doubt that our NHS would soon be struggling to treat the sheer number of people seriously ill with Covid.\n\n\"Non-Covid treatments and surgeries would need to be cancelled to cope and many more people would die.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health minister Alex Norris MP said it was \"damaging\" for Mr Johnson to avoid a full lockdown and that the regional approach is not enough.\n\n\"We need this circuit-breaker to give us time to sort these significant problems in testing and tracing,\" he said. \"We've had the worst week last week for tracing. The system's falling over. The prime minister is desperate to avoid lockdown just as he was at the beginning of the pandemic - but we know that that delay at the beginning was really damaging.\"\n\nOn Thursday, London, Essex, York and parts of Surrey, Derbyshire and Cumbria were moved up to tier two and will face tougher measures from Saturday.\n\nMore than half of England's population will now be living under high or very high-alert restrictions.\n\nThe PM also revealed that the UK is developing the capacity to manufacture millions of new fast turnaround tests for coronavirus - with some saliva tests able to deliver results in 15 minutes.\n\nHe said distribution and trials of the tests would start over \"the next few weeks\" and would enable NHS and care home staff to be tested \"more frequently\".\n\nSchoolchildren and university students would also be able to be tested, he said, to help keep education \"open safely over the winter\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"We hope the EU will change their position\"\n\nThe door is \"still ajar\" for talks with the EU over a post-Brexit trade deal but only if it moves ground in key areas, Michael Gove has said.\n\nHe said the EU must speed up the negotiations and offer better terms.\n\nIt comes as the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier will not travel to London for talks tomorrow but will join \"remotely, as planned\", his team said.\n\nNegotiations between the UK and the EU have stalled amid disagreements over fishing access and competition issues.\n\nThe EU has said it is prepared to \"intensify\" talks but it would not agree a deal at \"any price\".\n\nThe CBI and other business organisations urged the UK government to focus on bridging its differences with the EU, saying a deal was vital to help the post-Covid recovery.\n\nThey warned that uncertainty about the UK's future trading relationship with its largest market was \"chipping away at business resilience\" at a time when many firms were being battered by coronavirus.\n\nDowning Street said on Friday that official negotiations over a future economic partnership were \"over\" and the UK should \"get ready\" to trade with the EU from 1 January without a specific agreement.\n\nBoris Johnson has accused the EU of resisting the UK's preferred outcome of a deal based on the one the bloc has with Canada.\n\nThe prime minister has said the UK should now be prepared for the alternative of a much more limited relationship, based on the EU's existing arrangements with Australia.\n\nHowever, this would see tariffs applied on goods crossing the channel once the UK leaves the EU's single market at the end of the year, pushing up the cost of imports and exports.\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, was due in London for talks with his counterpart, David Frost, on Monday, but the UK said this would be pointless without a fundamental change in direction from the bloc.\n\nSenior EU sources had indicated on Friday that Mr Barnier would be attending in person. But it is now expected that he will hold a video conference call with Lord Frost to discuss the structure of any future talks.\n\nMr Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr that the EU \"effectively ended the current round of talks\" when its 27 leaders met in Brussels on Thursday to take stock of progress and said more was required from the UK.\n\n\"It was the case we were making progress but then the EU retreated from that,\" he said.\n\n\"We have drawn the conclusion that unless their approach changes, they are not interested and they have in effect drawn stumps.\"\n\nMichael Gove said the EU \"effectively ended the current round of talks\" in Brussels\n\nMr Johnson previously indicated that the UK would walk away from the talks unless EU leaders agreed an outline deal at last week's summit in Brussels.\n\nAsked by Andrew Marr whether the UK was engaging in sabre-rattling or the door was still ajar to further discussions, Mr Gove replied: \"It is still ajar. We hope the EU will change their position and we are certainly not saying if they do change their position we can't talk to them.\"\n\nMr Gove said the UK was preparing for a range of outcomes, including leaving on what he described as \"Australian terms\", which would see trade between the two partners default to World Trade Organization rules.\n\n\"That is not going to be a picnic,\" he said on this scenario. \"The key thing is we are taking the steps alongside business to be ready for that outcome.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We've left, now we need to decide some important trade aspects\": Michael Gove says UK still holds cards for negotiations\n\nAnd he said he was \"not embarrassed\" by comments he made during the 2016 EU referendum campaign, when he was a key figure in the Vote Leave campaign, when he claimed that reaching a trade deal would \"not be any more complicated or onerous than the day-to-day work\" of the UK's diplomats.\n\nHe said the remarks, and comments in a March 2019 newspaper interview in which he said the British public did not vote for Brexit in order to leave without a deal, should be placed \"in context\", given the UK had since negotiated a withdrawal agreement and left the EU.\n\nBusinesses have warned that a failure to reach a deal will accentuate the damage done by the Covid pandemic. Trade bodies representing 190,000 firms have written to Mr Gove urging him to reach an agreement.\n\n\"With each day that passes, business resilience is chipped away,\" the CBI and other groups said.\n\n\"A swift deal is the single most effective way to support recovery in communities across Europe.\n\n\"After four years of debate, there must be a resolution. 2021 can then be a year to rebuild, rather than regret.\"", "The eldest brother of Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson has died in hospital with coronavirus.\n\nThe politician confirmed the news in a Tweet and thanked staff at Liverpool Hospital's intensive care unit.\n\nHe said his brother had died at 22:45 BST on Friday.\n\nLiverpool has since Wednesday been in tier three of the new lockdown system, which has the strictest rules, after a rise in coronavirus cases in the area.\n\nHe urged people to \"follow the rules\", which include the closure of pubs not serving meals, along with gyms, leisure centres, betting shops and casinos.\n\nIn the social media post, Mr Anderson wrote: \"We want to thank the dedicated [hospital] staff risking their lives for us.\n\n\"Thank you all for your messages of love and support. Let's stick together and support each other and win this battle.\"\n\nLiverpool has the highest number of cases in England, with 3,204 cases recorded on Tuesday, slightly more than the 3,191 cases registered a week before.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Anderson criticised crowds that gathered in the city just before the new rules came into effect, saying the images \"shame our city\" and \"our health service is creaking\".", "The feline is about 37m long\n\nThe figure of a relaxing cat has been discovered in the Nazca desert in Peru.\n\nThe Nazca lines, a Unesco World Heritage site, is home to designs on the ground - known as geoglyphs - created some 2,000 years ago.\n\nScientists believe the cat, as with other Nazca animal figures, was created by making depressions in the desert floor, leaving coloured earth exposed.\n\nThe cat then went unnoticed until plans were recently drawn up for a new path leading to an observation platform.\n\nThe platform would have provided a vantage point for visitors to see many of the other geoglyphs.\n\nIn a statement, Peru's culture ministry said: \"The figure was scarcely visible and was about to disappear, because it's situated on quite a steep slope that's prone to the effects of natural erosion.\"\n\nIt added that the geoglyph, which is about 37m (120ft) long, has been cleaned and conserved over the past week.\n\nThe geoglyphs mostly depict different animals\n\nJohny Isla, Peru's chief archaeologist for the Nazca lines, told Efe news agency that the cat pre-dates the Nazca culture - which created most of the figures from 200 to 700 AD.\n\nThe cat, he said, was actually from the late Paracas era, which was from 500 BC to 200 AD.\n\n\"We know that from comparing iconographies,\" he said. \"Paracas textiles, for example, show birds, cats and people that are easily comparable to these geoglyphs.\"", "People in Greater Manchester are facing confusion over possible changes to Covid-19 rules, as local leaders denied Downing Street's claim that talks have been arranged to resolve a row.\n\nNo 10 told the BBC it had arranged a call with the region's mayor, Andy Burnham, on Sunday morning.\n\nBut Mr Burnham's office said no such call had been scheduled.\n\nTighter rules kicked in for millions of people in England on Saturday as areas moved up a tier in a new alert system.\n\nBBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake said the conflicting information could be as a result of negotiating tactics.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care confirmed 16,171 more people had tested positive for coronavirus in the UK as of Saturday and a further 150 people had died within 28 days of a positive test - taking the total to 43,579.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that infection rates in Greater Manchester were \"grave\" and added: \"Each day that passes before action is taken means more people will go to hospital, more people will end up in intensive care and tragically more people will die.\"\n\nMr Burnham and other local leaders have so far resisted a move from tier two to tier three's strict rules on hospitality - pressing instead for more shielding measures for the vulnerable, extra financial aid and stricter local powers to shut down venues breaking virus guidelines.\n\n\"We firmly believe that protecting health is about more than controlling the virus and requires proper support for people whose lives would be severely affected by a tier three lockdown,\" the deputy mayors and council leaders said in a joint statement.\n\nWhen two sides cannot even agree on the arrangement of a phone call, it doesn't bode well for the bigger picture.\n\nAfter 48 hours of stand-off between Downing Street and the mayor of Greater Manchester, it seemed there might be some progress.\n\nDowning Street claimed they had \"reached out\" and a call had been arranged between Andy Burnham and No 10 for Sunday morning. But soon after that Mr Burnham's spokesperson said nothing had been agreed.\n\nThese moves could be seen as negotiating tactics, the result of a breakdown in communication or a lack of trust between the two sides.\n\nThey may also seem like a tedious running commentary on the logistics of negotiations, and on one level it is.\n\nBut as coronavirus cases continue to rise there is a lot riding on these discussions, or lack thereof.\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester may be wondering how long it will be before action of some sort is taken, and what restrictions they'll be asked to endure when it is.\n\nMore than half of England - in excess of 28 million people - is now under extra coronavirus restrictions, under the new three-tier alert system.\n\nLancashire has joined the Liverpool City Region in the top tier - tier three. Pubs have closed and households cannot mix indoors or in many outdoor settings.\n\nLondon, Essex, York, Elmbridge, Barrow-in-Furness, North East Derbyshire, Erewash and Chesterfield have moved into tier two, meaning they can no longer mix inside with those from other households, including in pubs and restaurants.\n\nAreas of England in the lowest tier must keep to the nationwide virus rules such as group sizes being capped at six people, and the hospitality industry closing at 22:00.\n\nMeanwhile, calls for a circuit-breaker - a short but strict national lockdown - have been supported by Labour as well as some Conservative MPs.\n\nKate Green, Labour MP for Stretford and Urmston, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The Labour leaders in Greater Manchester support the call for a national circuit-break because what we're seeing in Manchester today - the rest of the country is coming along behind. The rate is rising everywhere.\"\n\nMs Green, who is also shadow education secretary, added that extra restrictions would not be effective without a package of support to \"enable people to close their businesses [and] to isolate at home if they need to\".\n\nConservative MP and former health secretary Jeremy Hunt called for an end to the \"public war of words\" between local and national leaders on Saturday, but added he had \"sympathy\" for the idea of a circuit-breaker.\n\nBritain's largest teachers' union, the National Education Union, has called for secondary schools in England to shut for two weeks at half term, rather than the traditional one week.\n\nMr Johnson has said that while he could not \"rule anything out\", he wants to avoid a national lockdown because of \"the damaging health, economic and social effects it would have\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There were scuffles between police and pub goers in Soho ahead of London moving to Tier 2\n\nAs coronavirus cases continue to rise rapidly across the UK, the devolved nations are taking their owns steps to curb the spread of infections.\n\nPubs, restaurants and cafes across Northern Ireland have closed to sit-in customers for the next four weeks while in Wales, talks continue over a potential two-week \"fire break\" - a period with tighter restrictions to help slow the spread.\n\nMost licensed premises in Scotland's central belt are closed under temporary restrictions, which are expected to be replaced by a similar multi-tiered system to the one in England by the end of the month.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? What do the current restrictions mean for you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Dave Toole's performance at the 2012 Paralympics was watched by millions on television around the world\n\nA dancer who appeared in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics Games in London has died at the age of 56.\n\nDave Toole, from Leeds, was watched by a TV audience of millions as he performed an aerial routine suspended high above the Olympic Stadium.\n\nHe was born without the use of his legs, which were amputated when he was 18 months old.\n\nAlan Lane, artistic director of the Slung Low theatre company, described Mr Toole as an \"extraordinary talent\".\n\nMr Toole was a professional dancer for almost 30 years and toured the world in a number of productions.\n\nHe was appointed OBE in January for services to dance and disabled people.\n\nAs well as Slung Low, Mr Toole worked in Leeds with the StopGap Dance Company and DV8.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in 2013, he said his dance routines were built on his everyday movement.\n\n\"I got around on my hands at home, standing on one hand to reach up to turn lights on and off and things, so I used things like that in performing,\" he said.\n\n\"It looked amazing, but to me it was no big deal. But it looked good. Things like that worked in my favour and I never questioned it because I seemed to be good at something.\"\n\nThe Paralympics opening ceremony was watched by a TV audience of 146 million, as well as 80,000 people inside the stadium.\n\nPaying tribute in a blog post, Mr Lane described the dancer's 2012 performance as \"mighty, beautiful and with a grace utterly beyond the ordinary human\".\n\nHe added: \"We are all so sad to hear of Dave Toole's passing. It was such a privilege to make so many adventures with him.\n\n\"He had an extraordinary talent; he was a brilliant actor and the very finest dancer we've ever seen.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People in England who have been told to self-isolate through NHS Test and Trace could have their details shared with the police on a \"case-by-case basis\".\n\nForces will have access to information telling them if an individual has been told to self-isolate, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said it was worried police involvement might put people off being tested.\n\nIn England there is a legal requirement to isolate after a positive test.\n\nPolice will not have access to data from the NHS Covid-19 app. The app is anonymous so the government does not know who has been sent instructions to self-isolate.\n\nJust under 11% of people traced as a close contact of someone with coronavirus said they self-isolated for 14 days, according to a government-commissioned study.\n\nReasons given for breaking self-isolation included believing there was no point isolating from strangers if you cannot properly distance from those in your household; not developing symptoms; or visiting shops or a pharmacy.\n\nThe DHSC updated its guidance about how testing data will be handled on Friday.\n\nA memorandum of understanding was issued between the DHSC and National Police Chiefs' Council to allow forces to access information that tells them if a \"specific individual\" has been told to self-isolate, as first reported by the Health Service Journal.\n\nThose who fail to do so face fines starting at £1,000, which can increase to £10,000 for serial offenders or serious breaches.\n\nA DHSC spokesman said it was a legal requirement for people who had tested positive and their close contacts to self-isolate when formally notified to do so.\n\n\"The memorandum of understanding ensures that information is shared with appropriate safeguards and in accordance with the law. No testing or health data is shared in this process,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for the British Medical Association, which represents doctors in the UK, said the test-and-trace system needed \"the full confidence of the public\" to be effective.\n\nHe said: \"We are already concerned that some people are deterred from being tested because they are anxious about loss of income should they need to self-isolate - and we are worried should police involvement add to this.\n\n\"Therefore, the government's emphasis should be on providing support to people - financial and otherwise - if they need to self-isolate, so that no-one is deterred from coming forward for a test.\"\n\nA National Police Chiefs' Council spokesperson said forces would continue to encourage \"voluntary compliance\" but would enforce regulations and issue fines where appropriate.\n\n\"Officers will engage with individuals to establish their circumstances, using their discretion wherever it is reasonable to do so,\" they said.\n\nSir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, said ministers should \"reverse the policy urgently\".\n\n\"Anything that further undermines the public's dwindling trust in this government's handling of the pandemic is damaging, and few things could have been better designed to do that, than this,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Baroness Dido Harding, the head of NHS Test and Trace, has told the Sunday Times that the Test and Trace service was not a \"silver bullet\".\n\n\"It has never been and it never will be,\" she said, adding it is one of a number of different interventions needed to control Covid-19.", "Jack Merritt, right, who died in the London Bridge attack, worked with Steve Gallant, left, on the Learning Together rehabilitation course\n\nA convicted murderer who helped thwart an attack on London Bridge will be considered for parole 10 months early.\n\nSteven Gallant, 42, was jailed for 17 years in 2005 for the murder of ex-firefighter Barrie Jackson in Hull.\n\nHe was on day release attending a prisoner rehabilitation event when he confronted Usman Khan with a narwhal tusk after the 28-year-old began stabbing people in November 2019.\n\nGallant's Parole Board will decide whether he can be released early.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"The lord chancellor has granted Steven Gallant a Royal Prerogative of Mercy reducing his minimum tariff by 10 months in recognition of his exceptionally brave actions at Fishmongers' Hall, which helped save people's lives despite the tremendous risk to his own.\"\n\nKhan, who killed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt, was later shot dead by police.\n\nMr Merritt's father David told the Daily Mirror: \"Steve fully deserves this pardon, or reduction in sentence.\n\n\"It is fantastic. He was very close to Jack and he turned his life around and reformed. I am really pleased for him.\"\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\nGallant was one of two men convicted of the murder of Jackson, 33.\n\nDuring the trial, Hull Crown Court heard the attack was carried out because Gallant wrongly believed Mr Jackson had attacked his girlfriend.\n\nMr Jackson's student son Jack, 21, told the Mirror: \"In my mind, Gallant has nearly done his time and if someone has undergone rehabilitation and change, which it seems he has, then it's fair enough.\"\n\nGallant was one of three people who were filmed restraining Khan on the bridge during the attack.\n\nHe said earlier this year that he \"did not hesitate\" to intervene.", "Christmas is unlikely to be the \"usual celebration\" of \"families coming together\", a leading scientist has said.\n\nJeremy Farrar, who sits on the Sage committee that advises the government, warned it would be a \"tough\" Christmas.\n\nThe Wellcome Trust director also told Sky News there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" as he believed a vaccine would be ready early in 2021.\n\nPM Boris Johnson has warned things will be \"bumpy to Christmas and beyond\".\n\nEarlier this week, Prof Farrar told BBC Newscast arguments between Westminster and local leaders were \"very dangerous\" and also that a circuit-breaker, or a short, limited lockdown, was needed now.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, Prof Farrar said the UK faces a \"very, very difficult\" period.\n\n\"Christmas will be tough this year. I don't think it's going to be the usual celebration it is and all families coming together, I'm afraid,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we have to be honest and realistic and say that we are in for three to six months of a very, very difficult period.\n\n\"The temperatures drop, we are all indoors more often, we have the other infections that come this time of year.\n\n\"It's much better for us to be upfront and honest now, and say we are in for a really difficult time, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.\"\n\nProf Farrar said he thought a vaccine and effective treatment would be ready early next year.\n\n\"I do believe the vaccines will be available in the first quarter of next year, I do believe that monoclonal antibodies to treat patients and save lives will be available in the coming months,\" he said.\n\n\"It's with that context that I think we need to reduce transmission now and we need to get ourselves back to the beginning of September as a country, not in piecemeal, not in fragments across the country, but as a whole country.\"\n\nSpeaking further about the need for a circuit-breaker, Prof Farrar claimed there could be 50,000 cases per day in England.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, warned in a press conference on 21 September that the UK could face 50,000 cases a day by mid-October if no action was taken.\n\nProf Farrar said an Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey, which he described as the \"best data in the country at the moment\", showed that 27,000 people were getting infected each day in England as of 10 October, but he said, given a time lag, it would actually be more than 50,000 by now.\n\nThe ONS survey tests a representative sample of the general population to provide an estimate of the true spread of the virus, as it picks up asymptomatic cases that would not necessarily be identified in the daily figures.\n\nThe ONS figures are far higher than the number of confirmed cases announced by the government each day.\n\nOn Sunday, the government figures showed 16,982 people tested positive for the virus and a further 67 people had died.\n\nProf Farrar said the \"best time\" to have introduced the short, limited lockdown would have been around 20 September, but said the \"second best time is now\".\n\nHe said the worst time would be at the end of November when things had got worse.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also called for a circuit-breaker but the prime minister has said its three-tier system of regional restrictions avoids the \"misery of a second national lockdown\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I was petrified\" - Det Sgt Nick Bailey on being poisoned by Novichok\n\nA police officer who was poisoned in the Salisbury Novichok attack has quit because he \"can no longer do the job\".\n\nDet Sgt Nick Bailey was contaminated with the nerve agent at the home of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the targets of the poisoning operation.\n\nAfter returning to duty last year, he said the aftermath took \"so much from me\" and \"I [have] had to admit defeat\".\n\nHe worked for the police for 18 years and said he was \"so sad\" after wanting to be an officer since his teens.\n\nAngus Macpherson, police and crime commissioner for Wiltshire, where Det Sgt Bailey worked, said throughout his career the officer has symbolised \"dedication and a sense of public duty\".\n\nAnd in a statement, the force said he represents the \"determination that all of us want to see in police officers across the country\".\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\nDet Sgt Bailey and two Wiltshire Police colleagues were sent to Mr Skripal's home in March 2018, after the former Russian spy and his daughter, who was staying with him, were found seriously ill on a bench in Salisbury.\n\nHe was contaminated when he touched the door handle of Mr Skripal's home in the city.\n\nThe Skripals survived the attack after spending several weeks in hospital\n\nThe Skripals survived the attack, which prompted then Prime Minister Theresa May to tell the House of Commons the operation had \"almost certainly\" been approved by the Russian state.\n\nIn a series of tweets earlier, Det Sgt Bailey said the impact on him of the attack \"shouldn't be underestimated\".\n\n\"I wanted to be a police officer since I was a teenager, I couldn't envisage doing anything else, which is why this makes me so sad,\" he said.\n\n\"Like most police officers, I've experienced my fair share of trauma, violence, upset, injury and grief.\n\n\"Although I've tried so hard to make it work, I know that I won't find peace whilst remaining in that environment. For me, it's time for a change.\"\n\nMr Macpherson thanked Det Sgt Bailey for his \"service and dedication to Wiltshire Police\".\n\n\"Nick found himself at the centre of an international, criminal incident which not only affected his health but I am certain changed the course of his family's lives too,\" he said.\n\n\"The events in Salisbury and Amesbury back in 2018 remain unprecedented and Nick, himself, has found himself in a situation that no other police officer in this country has been through.\n\n\"I know that the force has offered as much welfare support to Nick as possible but I hope today brings Nick and his family some sense of closure and allows them to start to look to the future.\"\n\nIn the months after the attack two Russian nationals were accused of travelling to the UK to try to murder Mr Skripal with novichok.\n\nThe pair - known by their aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - were caught on CCTV in Salisbury the day before the attack.\n\nThe alarm was raised about the Novichok attack when Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found very ill on a bench in the centre of Salisbury\n\nDet Sgt Bailey was one of the first to be involved after the alarm about the attack was raised.\n\n\"These shocking and unprecedented events changed his life and his family's lives significantly,\" the force said in a statement.\n\n\"It is impossible for any of us to fully understand the impact this event has had on Nick and his family, and the sacrifices they made in trying to come to terms with the situation.\"\n\n\"Day in and day out, officers put themselves directly into harm's way in order to help and protect others,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"Nick should be incredibly proud of all that he has achieved and will always be considered to be part of the Wiltshire Police family.\n\n\"I am sure that as one chapter closes, another opportunity will open up for Nick.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A record number of shops closed on UK high streets during the first half of this year as the coronavirus lockdown hit many stores hard, data shows.\n\nSome 11,120 chain store outlets shut between January and June, according to research by the Local Data Company and accountancy firm PwC.\n\nAlthough more than 5,000 shops opened during the same period it was not enough to fill the gaps, resulting in a net decline of 6,001 stores.\n\nThe final total could even be higher.\n\nResearchers did not count outlets that had yet to reopen after the coronavirus lockdown ended. Many never will.\n\nThe data includes shops, hospitality chains, and services such as post offices and banks, but it does not include small independent businesses.\n\nHigh streets were already experiencing upheaval long before the pandemic struck.\n\nShops were closing at an average rate of 16 per day in 2019, according to the Local Data Company, which tracks vacancies rates.\n\nBut the pandemic is turbo-charging change as more people shop online. The research found that York has been the worst affected area, with a net loss of 55 outlets.\n\nHarpenden, in Hertfordshire, meanwhile has fared better than any other location with a net increase in stores.\n\nHigh streets have borne the brunt of the closures. Retail parks have proved far more resilient. Standalone stores mean units which are out of town, but not in a retail park or shopping centre, for instance a large supermarket or an Ikea.\n\nThe Local Data Company and PwC have been analysing the changes in the top 500 shopping locations for the past decade. This year's findings include all high streets, shopping centres and retail parks in Britain. They've reviewed existing data to allow comparisons with the previous five years.\n\nThese new figures show the profound impact the pandemic is having on our town centres and high streets.\n\n\"For local authorities, it's now critical how they respond to this significant and growing decline in store occupants,\" says Lucy Stainton, head of retail and strategic partnerships at the Local Data Company.\n\nWhilst many city centres remain quiet, the pandemic has prompted something of a resurgence in local high streets with people increasingly wanting to shop locally if they're working from home.\n\nLisa Hooker, consumer markets leader at PwC, says amid the turmoil, there continues to be a steady flow of openings: \"With the continued roll out of value retailers, the boom in takeaways and pizza delivery shops and demand for services that can still only be delivered locally, such as tradesmen outlets, building products or locksmiths, shows that despite the stark numbers there remains a future for physical stores.\n\n\"It's likely that whatever happens retail will come out of this smaller and stronger,\" she believes.\n\nMore closures are still to come, however. Retailers and hospitality chains are continuing to restructure their businesses, cutting stores and many thousands of jobs to survive.\n\nMany have done deals with landlords to reduce rent bills, but billions of pounds of rent still remains unpaid thanks to the government ban on evictions to give struggling firms some breathing space, arrears which have only been postponed.\n\nAnother key factor is business rates. Thanks to the government's rates holiday, retail and hospitality firms don't have to start paying this tax again till April next year.\n\nThey say if it isn't extended, this could deal a final blow for the viability of many stores.\n\nCorrection: an earlier version of the first graphic showed the worst performing cities in the wrong order.", "Energy regulator Ofgem is introducing new rules from 15 December to help vulnerable customers who struggle to pay their energy bills this winter.\n\nSuppliers will be required to offer emergency credit to customers who cannot top up prepayment meters.\n\nAnd if customers are in debt, suppliers must put them on \"realistic and sustainable\" repayment plans.\n\nIn March, suppliers voluntarily agreed with the government to support people affected by the pandemic.\n\nNow Ofgem has updated its licence rules to formally require suppliers to help customers in financial difficulty.\n\nThe industry watchdog said those in financial distress would get some breathing space, but ultimately all customers will need to pay for the energy they use.\n\nThis follows Ofgem cutting the price cap on default tariffs and prepayment meters, due to falling gas wholesale prices, which means cheaper energy bills for millions of people this winter.\n\n\"Suppliers have stepped up to the challenge of supporting their customers during the Covid-19 crisis, especially those in vulnerable situations,\" said Ofgem's director of retail Philippa Pickford.\n\n\"Customers who are struggling to pay their bills should contact their supplier as soon as possible. The extra protections we have announced today will help ensure they get some breathing space this winter.\"\n\nFrom 15 December, suppliers will be required to offer emergency credit or extra prepayment credit to households in vulnerable circumstances.\n\nThis could be because people are temporarily unable to afford to top up their prepayment meters, or are unable to visit their local shop due to having to self-isolate or having a mobility issue.\n\nEnergy suppliers need to offer emergency credit to people on prepayment meters who are temporarily unable to top them up\n\nOfgem wants to reduce the number of prepayment customers who run out of credit and end up being without energy.\n\nThe regulator also wants to make sure that suppliers have appropriate credit management policies, make proactive contact with customers, and set repayment rates based on their ability to pay.\n\nIn September, Citizens Advice estimated that 6 million people in the UK have fallen behind on paying at least one household bill during the pandemic, and that many more are on the cusp of being unable to afford to make ends meet.\n\n\"This raft of new protections from Ofgem should help more people who are struggling to stay afloat,\" said Citizen Advice's chief executive Dame Gillian Guy.\n\n\"Energy is an essential service and everyone should be confident they can adequately heat their home and protect their health - especially during a global pandemic.\n\n\"We've been pressing for the measures agreed between government and energy suppliers to help people through the coronavirus pandemic to be extended and widened, so we're very pleased to see this announcement from the regulator.\"\n\nHowever, she warned that many consumers will still struggle to \"pay for the basics\", even with help from energy suppliers.\n\nDame Gillian added: \"Government needs to do more to support those who need it most, including making the temporary uplift to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit permanent.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Burnham: \"This is not just Greater Manchester's fight\"\n\nGreater Manchester's mayor has called on Boris Johnson for help in \"breaking the impasse\" over stricter Covid-19 curbs in the region.\n\nAndy Burnham said in a letter to the PM and other party leaders that Parliament should hold an urgent debate to end the deadlock.\n\nLater the mayor said he had a \"constructive call\" with Mr Johnson's chief strategic adviser.\n\nEarlier, minister Michael Gove said: \"We hope to agree a new approach.\"\n\nMr Gove said the government wanted the best for Greater Manchester and that he hoped \"we can find a way through together\".\n\nBut he criticised what he described as the \"incoherence\" of politicians in that region and warned that if an agreement could not be reached the government would \"look at\" having to impose restrictions.\n\nLeaders in Greater Manchester, including Mr Burnham, have rejected a move to England's tier three alert level without better financial support.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he may \"need to intervene\" if local leaders do not accept a move to tier three curbs.\n\nA further 16,982 people tested positive for the virus as of Sunday, the Department of Health figures showed, with a further 67 deaths occurring within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the figure for positive Covid cases in Scotland should be \"treated with some caution\" due to \"a delay within the UK lab system\". Cases rose by 316 in Scotland with no further deaths recorded.\n\nThe UK government said there was no capacity issue at a Lighthouse laboratory in Glasgow and that rerouting of tests to other laboratories was routine practice.\n\nMr Burnham has said he would be \"ready to speak to the prime minister at any time\" to discuss the situation. The mayor's spokesman confirmed Mr Burnham had spoken to Sir Edward Lister, a No 10 official, in a phone call on Sunday afternoon.\n\nIn the letter, Mr Burnham said the prospect of tier three - very high - restrictions on hospitality and other areas \"is not just a Greater Manchester issue\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Establishing clear national entitlements of the kind we had during the first lockdown will create a sense of fairness which in turn would help build public support for, and compliance with, any new restrictions.\"\n\n\"As leaders of the main political parties in Westminster, I urge you to work together to help resolve this current dispute and establish a fair financial framework for local lockdowns that the whole country will be able to support,\" he added.\n\nIn the language of negotiation, it seems the government and mayor of Greater Manchester may have stepped back from the brink.\n\nBoth sides softened their tone in interviews this morning, there was talk of ending the war of words and finding a new way through.\n\nBut it's important to remember this is not just a two-way row.\n\nThe most telling intervention of the last 24 hours has not been from Andy Burnham or Michael Gove, but the senior Conservative MP Sir Graham Brady.\n\nHe represents a constituency in the region and says MPs, council leaders and mayor are \"united\" across party lines in resisting tier 3 restrictions.\n\nSo, while the argument plays out in public between the government and Mr Burnham, it may be won or lost in private between ministers and their own backbenchers whose support is crucial to the government's approach.\n\nEarlier, Mr Burnham told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show there had been \"exaggeration\" by the prime minister of rising case numbers in Greater Manchester.\n\nMr Johnson said on Friday cases in the region had doubled over the previous nine days. Mr Burnham said that while cases were \"up slightly\" they were \"certainly not doubling every nine days\".\n\nSir Graham Brady, a senior backbench Conservative and MP for Altrincham and Sale West in Greater Manchester, described the region's Labour and Tory MPs as \"pretty united\" and said positive tests were \"flattening\".\n\nThe latest data on infection rates in the city of Manchester itself show they have fallen slightly, to around 458 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nAcross Greater Manchester as a whole - which includes another nine boroughs including Salford, Stockport and Bury - the infection rate is slightly up.\n\nSo it is a mixed picture, but the region as a whole is still a long way off other areas such as Derry, Nottingham and Liverpool.\n\nBut in many ways it is not the infection rate that matters. What counts are the number of people who are falling so seriously ill they end up in hospital.\n\nWe know that lots of otherwise fit and healthy students falling ill with Covid-19 is not going to have a significant impact on the local health service, but lots of older people falling ill would change the picture quickly.\n\nLast week it was reported that, in Liverpool, around 95% of intensive care beds were occupied.\n\nBut Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham told the BBC on Sunday morning there were only 64 occupied beds in the city region.\n\nAcross Greater Manchester, leaders accept there is a serious problem. But they question whether it is serious enough to warrant the kind of economic impact - not to mention the effect on people's mental health - that moving to tier three - very high - would have.\n\nMr Burnham also described \"side deals\" with councils in regions moving into tier three - very high - as not \"good enough for me\".\n\nLiverpool City Region's metro mayor Steve Rotherham announced his area will receive an additional £44m and a similar package worth £42m was given to local leaders in Lancashire.\n\n\"Let's remember, the places they're trying to close in tier three - pubs, bookies, gyms - these are places where people are on low wages. And what we're saying is you cannot take away their place of work and not give them support,\" Mr Burnham said.\n\nHe called on the government to re-introduce the 80% furlough scheme used previously in the pandemic to support the low paid affected by tier three closures. Currently, a less generous scheme to provide two-thirds of wages is on offer.\n\nThe Labour mayor added: \"The truth is health, protecting health, is about more than controlling the virus.\"\n\nA letter from Tory MPs representing areas on the lowest tier of England's Covid alert system called on Mr Burnham to accept a move to tier three - very high - rather than allow national restrictions through a so-called \"circuit-breaker\".\n\n\"It does not make sense to shut down the whole country when the virus is spiking in particular locations,\" it said.\n\nBut four Conservative MPs representing seats in Greater Manchester hit back, describing the letter as \"deeply disappointing... unnecessary and ill-advised\", \"neither wanted nor helpful\" and a \"No 10 approved communication\".\n\nAnd Mr Burnham said: \"I'm not sure a sort of 'we're alright, Jack' letter from a group of southern Conservative MPs is going to cut much ice [in Greater Manchester].\"\n\nMeanwhile, Prof Jeremy Farrar, a scientific adviser to the government, said Christmas will be \"tough\" this year with traditional family celebrations unlikely.\n\n\"Christmas will be tough this year. I don't think it's going to be the usual celebration it is and all families coming together, I'm afraid,\" he told Sky News.\n\n\"I think we have to be honest and realistic and say that we are in for three to six months of a very, very difficult period.\"\n\nBut the Wellcome Trust director said there is \"light at the end of the tunnel\", as he believes a Covid-19 vaccine and effective treatment will be ready in the first quarter of 2021.", "Nicola Sturgeon has played down a row with the UK government over delays to Covid-19 tests in Scotland, saying she has no interest in a \"war of words\".\n\nOnly 316 new cases of the virus were reported on Sunday - a dramatic drop from 1,167 on Saturday.\n\nThe Scottish government said this was due to tests being diverted from the UK government's Lighthouse lab in Glasgow to other sites across the country.\n\nThe UK government spokeswoman insisted this was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the governments were \"working very hard\" to improve turnaround times for tests and did not disagree on the \"substance\" of the issue.\n\nShe said there were \"intermittent frustrations\" about the testing system, but said people should have confidence that it \"does work\".\n\nThe number of positive tests registered jumped back to 993 on Monday, with the number of people in hospital also continuing to rise.\n\nAfter the figures for Sunday bucked the recent trend, a post on the Scottish government website claimed that \"demand from outwith Scotland\" had caused a delay in test results coming back from the Lighthouse lab in Glasgow, with swabs being redirected elsewhere.\n\nThe UK government issued a response insisting there was \"no capacity issue at the UK government's Glasgow Lighthouse lab\", and that \"rerouting tests to other laboratories is a routine practice to ensure timely processing\".\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, the first minister said it was \"not in anybody's interest to have a war of words\".\n\nShe said: \"We are working very hard with the UK government to ensure turnaround times, particularly for tests that are already taking longer than we would want, are as quick as possible.\n\n\"When I looked at the UK government statement I'm not sure they are denying or challenging the substance of what I am saying - it recognises that a large number of tests have been diverted to labs elsewhere in the UK.\n\n\"We hope that redirection will have stopped as of yesterday.\"\n\nThe Lighthouse laboratory is based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow\n\nMs Sturgeon said tests from drive-through centres - which are usually taken by people who have symptoms and are thus more likely to return positive results - were among those diverted, which she said \"might explain\" why Sunday's figures were \"probably artificially low\".\n\nAllan Wilson, who is president of the Institute of Biomedical Science, based at Monklands hospital in North Lanarkshire, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme the problem was that no one understood how the Lighthouse laboratories operate.\n\nHe said: \"The issue we have with the Lighthouse lab is that there is a lack of transparency to what happens in that lab because it is not part of the NHS testing, it is delivered through the UK government and it is difficult to find out what the actual issues are until we actually hit problems like we just hit.\n\n\"They work as a network, so they move samples around the country if there are problems. That in itself increases turnaround time and delays results getting back. They did have an issue with staffing, certainly when staff returned to academic institutions, when universities started back, and we know they are actively recruiting.\n\n\"What we are calling for is more transparency. If the Lighthouse labs worked more in collaboration with the NHS labs we would be able to work between the two more easily and focus on those samples and results that are needed urgently.\"\n\nPeople across Scotland are currently banned from visiting other people's homes, and tougher restrictions on licensed premises were introduced earlier this month.\n\nTemporary measures in the central belt have led to the closure of pubs and restaurants in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Forth Valley and Ayrshire and Arran NHS board areas.\n\nThose living in these areas have been warned not to travel to other parts of Scotland or to areas in England where such restrictions are not in force.\n\nThese measures are due to expire on 26 October, to be replaced by a new \"strategic framework\" for suppressing the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon is drawing up plans for a \"three-tier framework\" of alert levels which would trigger different restrictions, either on a local or national basis.\n\nThis will be set out at the end of the week, with MSPs set to debate and vote on the plans when Holyrood returns from the half term recess.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this was an \"important step as we look ahead to winter\", which would be a \"very challenging period\".", "Theresa May has criticised the government's proposed changes to the planning system for being \"ill-conceived\" and \"mechanistic\".\n\nThe former prime minister said the use of a formula to assess housing need in England \"does not guarantee a single extra home being built\".\n\nThe Commons debated a motion from another Tory MP, asking ministers to think again about its reforms.\n\nThe government said the plan was still part of a consultation.\n\nIt needed to reform a system that was \"opaque, painfully slow and almost uniquely discouraging for all but the most expert navigators\", it added.\n\nThe motion, proposed by Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely, urged the government to delay the introduction of the new system - which has raised concerns among Tory backbenchers - until the Commons has a chance to fully debate and hold a meaningful vote on it.\n\nMPs backed the motion, which is non-binding on the government.\n\nDuring the debate, Mr Seely said it was time to \"stop the drift of jobs and opportunities to the South, to the shires and suburbs\".\n\nHe added that using an algorithm to plan housing supplies would \"hollow out our cities, urbanise our suburbs and suburbanise the countryside\".\n\nMr Seely gave the Commons some examples, saying that - over 15 years - the algorithm would mean 14,000 fewer homes being built in Manchester, but 10,000 more in east Cheshire.\n\nThe number for Nottingham would fall by 3,700, while the number for Nottinghamshire would rise by 25,000, he said.\n\nAnd in Southampton the number would fall by 2,500, compared with a 26,000 increase for Hampshire.\n\nMr Seely said the \"glaring exception\" among cities was London, where house building would have to rise by an \"astonishing\" amount.\n\nMrs May, who is MP for Maidenhead, said: \"This is a mechanistic approach and it's ill-conceived.\"\n\nThe planning system needed to \"ensure the right number of homes are built in the right places\", she added, arguing that the algorithm \"builds up planning permissions, but not houses\".\n\n\"The government does need to think again on this and it needs to understand the impact the proposals it's put forward is going to have,\" Mrs May said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson has defended his proposals for overhauling the planning system.\n\nFor Labour, shadow housing minister Mike Amesbury said councils, rather than central government, \"must be in the driving seat if we are to create decent, safe, affordable housing for all\".\n\nThe government's consultation on the algorithm closed last week, but its consultation on its wider proposals is open until 29 October.\n\nResponding, Housing Minister Chris Pincher said owning a home was a \"fundamental Conservative value\" and he wanted \"more people, especially young people, to realise that aspiration\".\n\nHe added that the proposals would encourage more community involvement and stronger environmental protections.\n\nMr Pincher said the current way of calculating housing need was \"inconsistent\" with the Conservative election manifesto promise to build 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s.\n\nThe figures \"being bandied about\" were \"entirely speculative\" until the government responded to the findings of its consultation, he told MPs.", "Stratton left the BBC in 2015 to work for ITV News\n\nFormer journalist Allegra Stratton will lead No 10's new daily televised press briefings, BBC sources understand.\n\nStratton - who has worked for both ITV and the BBC and is Chancellor Rishi Sunak's spokeswoman - will become the government's new press secretary.\n\nThe daily updates, similar to the format used by the White House in the United States, will start next month.\n\nBoris Johnson has said the briefings will allow the public more \"direct engagement\" with the government.\n\nThe change comes after a raft of televised press conferences from Downing Street during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCurrently, political journalists are able to question the prime minister's official spokesperson - who is a civil servant - off camera every day.\n\nThese briefings are on the record, meaning they can be quoted and attributed to the spokesperson, who is never named. Under the changes, the briefings will be on camera.\n\nStratton's role, however, is a political appointment by the Conservative Party, although as a special adviser her wages will be paid by the taxpayer.\n\nBoris Johnson and cabinet ministers fronted press conferences throughout the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe BBC's deputy political editor, Vicki Young, said the government wanted to introduce the briefings to \"try and get their message out there to viewers\".\n\nBut she said the idea was controversial, as it would not be updates from an elected official.\n\nAfter the plan was announced in July, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it could risk \"unbalancing the political discourse\" and was \"obviously a political move\".\n\nLabour announced that their leader would take questions from the media at monthly press conferences, with a spokesman saying Sir Keir \"doesn't duck the difficult questions or hide from the press\".\n\nBut Downing Street said ministers would make regular appearances at the briefings to be led by Stratton.\n\nStratton graduated from Cambridge university and began her journalistic career as a producer at the BBC.\n\nShe then became a political correspondent for the Guardian, before returning to the BBC as the political editor of Newsnight.\n\nShe left the BBC to become the national editor at ITV News, and co-presented Peston on Sunday.\n\nBut earlier this year, she quit journalism to become the director of strategic communications for Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nWhen the job was advertised on the Conservative Party LinkenIn page it said the salary would be \"based on experience\", but the Daily Telegraph suggested it was likely to be more than £100,000-a-year.\n\nStratton will be employed as a special adviser - a temporary class of civil servant allowed to give political advice to ministers.\n\nThis means she will be free to attack the opposition parties, as well as setting out the government's position.\n\nHer daily briefings will take place in a redeveloped 9 Downing Street, which in recent years has been used by the chief whip and the Brexit secretary.", "Eluned Morgan is minster for mental health, wellbeing and the Welsh language\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has given some of his health minister's responsibilities to Eluned Morgan in a Welsh Government shake-up.\n\nVaughan Gething will retain responsibility for Wales' coronavirus response, and the delivery and performance of NHS services.\n\nBut Ms Morgan will be put in charge of a range of health issues, including mental health, dementia and autism.\n\nMr Drakeford said the changes mean Mr Gething can focus on coronavirus.\n\nMs Morgan's previous role overseeing international relations will be transferred to the first minister, but she will retain responsibility for Welsh language policy.\n\nBoth sit in the Welsh Government cabinet.\n\nVaughan Gething will retain responsibility for the Covid-19 response\n\nMr Drakeford, himself a former health minister, said: \"The changes I am making to my cabinet team will mean [Mr Gething] can focus all his time and effort on coronavirus and ensuring our NHS is able to treat people with the virus as well as respond to the population's wider health needs.\"\n\nPaul Davies, Welsh Conservative Senedd leader, said he was delighted \"that the first minister has heeded my call in getting rid of the international relations minister position\".\n\n\"The Welsh Labour-led Government now needs to get on with actually delivering in areas it has responsibility for.\"\n\nMs Morgan will be responsible for mental health services, dementia, autism, substance misuse, veterans' health, patient experience and Wales' obesity strategy.\n\n\"Covid-19 has highlighted the impact of isolation on people's mental health, and we will stand by individuals who continue to suffer in these difficult times,\" the new minster for mental health, wellbeing and Welsh language said.\n\nThis is a big change to the health portfolio and moves significant responsibilities away from Health Minister Vaughan Gething.\n\nBut a Welsh Government source says this is \"absolutely not\" a demotion for him but a \"strengthening of the team\" to deal with the continuing public health emergency that is the Covid pandemic.\n\nI'm told this is about emphasising delivery in mental and physical health.\n\nIn subsuming the international relations brief into the first minister's portfolio it also has the side effect of neutralising criticism that the some of the government focus has been misdirected.", "A stolen calligraphy scroll said to be worth millions has been found in Hong Kong, after it was cut in half.\n\nThieves had stolen the scroll by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong from an art collector's home in a burglary last month.\n\nThey then sold it at a fraction of its value. It was apparently cut up as the 2.8m-long (9ft) scroll was deemed too long to display, said Hong Kong police.\n\nThe original owner says the artwork's value has been \"definitely affected\".\n\nThe scroll contains stanzas of poetry handwritten by the founder of the People's Republic of China. Its owner has claimed it is estimated to be worth around $300m (£230m), though it is not known how the valuation was obtained.\n\nThe scroll was stolen in a massive heist on 10 September, when three men broke into the home of Fu Chunxiao, a well-known collector of stamps and revolutionary art.\n\nThey also made off with antique stamps, copper coins and other pieces of calligraphy by Mao. The total haul was worth HK$5bn ($645m; £500m) according to Mr Fu, who was reportedly in mainland China when the burglary took place.\n\nThe thieves sold one of the pieces to another art collector for just HK$500 ($64; £50) to a purchaser who, according to The South China Morning Post, believed the artwork was a fake.\n\nThe buyer then saw a public appeal by police, and surrendered himself with both pieces of the scroll on 22 September.\n\nIt is unclear who exactly had cut the artwork. Senior superintendent Tony Ho of the Hong Kong police said: \"Someone thought the calligraphy was too long... and difficult to show and display. That's why it was cut in half.\"\n\n\"It was heartbreaking to see it be torn into two pieces,\" Mr Fu told the Post. \"It will definitely affect its value but the impact remains to be seen.\"\n\nIn 2019, a calligraphic autograph letter written by Mao Zedong was auctioned off by Sotheby's for £519,000.\n\nPolice later arrested the 49-year-old buyer on suspicion of handling stolen property, though he has now been released on bail.\n\nOne suspected burglar has also been arrested, but the other two burglars who broke into Mr Fu's home still remain at large.", "MPs from the Midlands and northern England are calling for more detail on possible plans to close restaurants and pubs in areas worst-hit by coronavirus.\n\nThey met ministers earlier, with some venting frustration about potential restrictions appearing in newspapers before being announced in Parliament.\n\nA tiered system of measures could be introduced next Wednesday, in an effort to stall rising infection rates.\n\nThe government said it was trying to create \"greater consistency on rules\".\n\nThere were 17,540 new cases of coronavirus recorded in the UK on Thursday, up from the 14,162 reported the day before, government data showed. A further 77 people died after testing positive for the virus within 28 days.\n\nMPs took part in a video call with health ministers Nadine Dorries and Edward Argar - and England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty - earlier on Thursday.\n\nThe chief medical officer presented evidence to the MPs that a \"significant proportion\" of exposure to coronavirus was happening in the hospitality sector - but nothing more was shown on the scope, severity, timing or precise location of any new restrictions.\n\nYet again, ministers are wrestling with grim trade-offs where no decision is pain-free.\n\nBut they're also wrestling with a communications challenge: what do you do when newspapers have been briefed that \"Restaurants and pubs in North forced to shut again\", as the Times front page headline reads today, but it hasn't yet been formally decided and announced?\n\nWell, a cabinet minister ends up doing a round of interviews where he or she can't answer any of the key questions directly: precisely which parts of the country will be affected by the new regulations, when, for how long, and how severe will they be?\n\nCue noisy grumbles from local leaders in those cities with sky-high infection rates, who don't know what is going to happen.\n\nYes, most of those leaders are Labour politicians not averse to complaining about a Conservative government, but ministers are left with an announcement that appears half-made: the prospect that various businesses may have to close or significantly scale back what they do, but without it being clear which ones, or where.\n\nProfound changes affecting millions of people hover as an imminent prospect. But ask a specific question, and the answer is we don't know.\n\nShadow health minister Alex Norris, an MP for Nottingham North - now the city with the highest case numbers in England - told BBC News: \"It was not the most convincing call to be part of.\"\n\n\"When pressed about Nottingham, the advice that came back was, 'We've not decided yet,' which is hard to understand when I have then talked to local journalists and they are getting better briefings than we are.\"\n\nHe said he understood new restrictions would be coming in next week, adding he believed they should come in immediately \"given we are top of the list now\".\n\nBen Bradley, Conservative MP for Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, who took part in the call, said: \"There are some really challenging circumstances.\n\n\"We talked about the North West and North East in particular, where we were talking about - in three weeks' time - having hospitalisation levels higher than in the original peak.\"\n\nHe said ministers had told the MPs to expect new measures to be announced on Monday and implemented on Wednesday.\n\nThe meeting came amid growing anger among politicians about the way the government has handled new restrictions in parts of the country with high infection rates.\n\nLabour's mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, told the BBC he had been \"having discussions with ministers this week. At no point did somebody say, 'We're closing all hospitality in the north of England on Monday.'\"\n\nFormer minister Jake Berry, the Conservative MP for Rossendale and Darwen, has accused the prime minister of enjoying his emergency powers \"a little bit too much\" and of being \"London-centric\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for Bishop Auckland, Dehenna Davidson, said in the Commons that the government was \"exactly right to take a localised approach\".\n\nBut she said the public in some areas of her constituency did not understand why they faced local restrictions when case numbers were low.\n\nA slide shown at the meeting lists hospitality as the most frequent setting for coronavirus exposure.\n\nLiverpool's Labour Metro Mayor, Steve Rotheram, said the \"North should not be a petri dish for experimentation by central government\".\n\nMPs have also expressed unease about the \"rule of six\" and the 10pm curfew for pubs and restaurants, calling for the scientific rationale behind the measure to be made public.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said his party will not be \"voting down\" the curfew next week, instead saying the rule \"needs to be reformed\".\n\nOthers on the left of the Labour Party, including former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, want a more \"severe\" lockdown. One told the BBC they wanted a \"zero Covid approach - hard, fast and backed up by comprehensive testing and financial support\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cllr David Mellen says a lack of coronavirus restrictions this weekend could mean a “last chance to party' in Nottingham.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick has not ruled out pubs being closed but said the response would be \"proportionate and localised\".\n\nHe told the BBC the precise measures for different areas would be announced \"in the coming days\".\n\nMr Jenrick added that the government was trying to give \"greater consistency on rules so they're easier to understand\" and was working on \"slightly broader canvases of regions or cities and counties to avoid differences in people's daily lives if they drive over the border\".\n\nThe government is expected to introduce a new \"three-tier\" approach to coronavirus restrictions in local areas of England in an effort to simplify the system and avoid public confusion, the BBC understands.\n\nBut details of how severe restrictions will be in each tier have yet to be confirmed.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were \"whispers in Whitehall of a 'firewall' approach\" to new restrictions expected next week.\n\nThis could mean extra limits to be turned on and off again to allow for Christmas, with the possibility of more being introduced in January and February to help the NHS cope.\n\nBut Laura Kuenssberg said the situation was \"still unclear with so many unknowns\" and final decisions have not been made.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have written a letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, calling for the furlough scheme to be extended before enforcing any shutdowns of industries, such as hospitality and retail.", "Alexanda Kotey (left) and El Shafee Elsheikh were captured by Syrian Kurdish forces\n\nTwo ex-British alleged Islamic State (IS) suspects have appeared in a US court charged over the killing of four American hostages.\n\nAlexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh are accused of belonging to an IS cell dubbed \"The Beatles\" involved in kidnappings in Iraq and Syria.\n\nThe pair appeared via video link from prison at a hearing in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.\n\nThe men, who had been in US custody in Iraq, previously denied the charges.\n\nA detention hearing and arraignment were scheduled for Friday but the lawyer appointed to represent the pair, who grew up in London, said he might ask for a delay to allow time to go over the charges with the defendants.\n\nUS Assistant Attorney General John Demers told a press conference the charges were \"the result of many years of hard work in pursuit of justice\" for the four Americans who died - James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.\n\nAddressing the families of the victims, he said: \"Although we cannot bring back your children, we will do all that we can do: obtain justice for them, for you, and for all Americans.\"\n\nHe added: \"These men will now be brought before a United States court to face justice for the depraved acts alleged against them in the indictment.\"\n\nThe charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.\n\nClockwise from top left: Aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley\n\nThe pair are alleged to have been members of an IS gang - nicknamed by hostages after the 1960s pop group due to their British accents - which was responsible for the death of hostages in Iraq and Syria in 2014.\n\nSome of the victims - who included American journalists and UK and US aid workers - were beheaded and their deaths filmed and broadcast on social media.\n\nJames Foley's mother, Diane Foley, said the charges were \"only a first step\" and that she was \"praying that justice will be served\".\n\nShe added that she hoped the trial might \"implicate others\" and lead to further arrests.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If you harm an American, you will face American justice\": US Assistant Attorney General John Demers' warning to terrorists\n\nKotey and Elsheikh, originally from west London, were previously stripped of their UK nationality.\n\nThe charges they face are:\n\nThe IS group's alleged ringleader, Mohammed Emwazi, known as \"Jihadi John\" died in a drone strike in 2016.\n\nReferring to his death, Mr Demers said he had \"faced a different kind of American resolve - the mighty reach of our military, which successfully targeted him in an air strike several years ago\".\n\nThe assistant attorney general was asked by reporters whether the death penalty was not being sought solely because the UK government had made it a requirement in return for its co-operation.\n\n\"The attorney general decided that we should provide the death penalty assurance in order to get the British evidence and see that justice could be done more expeditiously than if we had to continue to litigate this issue in the courts in the United Kingdom,\" Mr Demers said.\n\n\"The decision was to try to keep the option (of seeking the death penalty) open at first but ultimately that didn't work.\"\n\nLast month the UK sent evidence to the US following assurances the two men would not face the death penalty.\n\nMr Demers added: \"We decided that if we were going to do this case, we were going to tell the fullest story we could of what these defendants did and we were going to put on the strongest case possible. And with the British evidence I think we can do that very well.\"\n\nMs Foley said she was \"hugely grateful\" the death penalty was not being sought, as she wanted alleged IS members to have \"an opportunity to come to terms with what they've done\".\n\nFBI director Christopher Wray told the press conference: \"We mourn not only our American victims but also the British victims David Haines and Alan Henning, and victims of all nations who suffered unimaginable cruelty at the hands of Isis.\"\n\nMike Haines, whose aid worker brother David was killed by the IS cell in 2014, said he was relieved \"the fate of these two men is closer to being decided but this is just the beginning\".\n\n\"The pain we experienced as families was excruciating when we lost our loved ones and the last three years have been a long, horrible waiting game,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a big win for us knowing that the US courts would be taking this forward because we have been waiting years since they were first detained.\"\n\nBritish photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped with Mr Foley, and his fate is still unknown.\n\nIt has taken nearly eight years to reach this moment - from the day that James Foley and John Cantlie were taken hostage in Syria to the reading out of the indictment against two of the alleged perpetrators, both now in US custody.\n\nThe eight charges against them are so serious that each one carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.\n\nThe defendants have previously denied the charges linked to their alleged involvement in the murder of US and British hostages.\n\nBut both the US and British governments appear confident that there is a strong case for the prosecution.\n\nOver the course of the coming trial the court is likely to hear some harrowing testimony from those who survived IS captivity - men whose freedom was ransomed in exchange for millions of Euros while their fellow prisoners from the US and Britain suffered horrific deaths at the hands of their captors.\n\nIS once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq and imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people.\n\nThe liberation of that territory exposed the magnitude of the abuses inflicted by the jihadist group, including summary killings, torture, amputations, ethno-sectarian attacks, rape and sexual slavery imposed on women and girls. Hundreds of mass graves containing the remains of thousands of people have been discovered.\n\nUN investigators have concluded that IS militants committed acts that may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC asks Ismail Abedi why he's not co-operating with the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nThe elder brother of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber has refused to say why he is not co-operating with the public inquiry into the atrocity.\n\nThe inquiry has heard that Ismail Abedi has declined to answer questions in case he incriminates himself.\n\nThe BBC located the 27-year-old in Manchester, where he still lives, and approached him to ask why. He refused to engage and drove away.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and many more injured in the May 2017 attack.\n\nSalman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nEarlier this year, younger brother Hashem Abedi was jailed after being convicted of murdering all those who died.\n\nThe bombing after an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 people and injured hundreds more\n\nSalman and Hashem had spent months preparing the attack - buying bomb-making chemicals, transporting their purchases around Manchester, and renting a flat to make explosives.\n\nA public inquiry is investigating every aspect of the bombing.\n\nIsmail Abedi told Sky News in August that he wanted to \"apologise for the pain\" his brothers had caused and said he had \"no idea they had taken this path\".\n\nBut he was not questioned on any of the evidence from the trial. His refusal to co-operate with the inquiry emerged soon afterwards.\n\nLast month, Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said: \"Ismail Abedi, the brother of the killers, has been required by the inquiry legal team to answer a series of questions relating to what might in general terms be described as the issue of radicalisation.\n\n\"To date, he has declined to answer those questions on the basis that he maintains that his answers may tend to incriminate him.\"\n\nMr Greaney said that none of the Abedi family - the brothers' parents live in Libya - had provided a \"substantive response\", adding that it was \"most unhelpful\" and he hoped the family would \"reflect and understand that they have a moral obligation to provide the information we require\".\n\nInquests into the Westminster and London Bridge attacks of 2017 did hear evidence from family members of the attackers. The Arena inquiry is the equivalent process for the Manchester attack.\n\nThe Abedi parents moved to the UK after fleeing Col Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, with their children born in Britain and brought up in Manchester.\n\nAt the time of the attack the parents had moved back to Libya. The family had regularly travelled to the country following the 2011 revolution.\n\nHashem Abedi was arrested in Libya the day after the bombing\n\nIsmail had purchased one-way tickets to Libya for his two brothers in April 2017. Salman returned five days before the bombing, while Hashem stayed there and was only extradited to the UK over two years later.\n\nBut Ismail Abedi, who is married, has remained in Manchester. He was arrested the morning after the Arena bombing, but later released without charge.\n\nThe inquiry has heard that in 2015 he was stopped by police after arriving at Heathrow Airport and that his mobile phone had contained recruitment videos and literature produced by the Islamic State group.\n\nThe inquiry has also been told that his Facebook account had earlier been viewed by MI5 and seen to show, among other things, a picture of Ismail holding a machine gun with an IS logo imprinted on the image.\n\nThe inquiry is looking at a number of things, including the emergency response to the attack\n\nEvidence presented during the Hashem Abedi trial also raises questions for Ismail.\n\nIsmail's name was used to buy car insurance for Salman and Hashem, neither of whom had a driving licence, for a car they bought to transport materials around Manchester during the preparations.\n\nA bank card in the name of the brothers' mother - which received over £1,000 in benefits each month despite her being in Libya - was used by Salman and Hashem to buy relevant items during their attack preparations, but it was found in Ismail's possessions when he was arrested following the bombing.\n\nThe public inquiry was told that a Libyan number was texting both Salman and Ismail on the evening of the attack.\n\nSalman received texts a few minutes apart saying \"call\" and \"ASAP\".\n\nBetween the messages, the number wrote to Ismail saying: \"Allah's peace and blessings be upon you.\"\n\nMr Greaney, during the inquiry opening, said: \"This message and the coincidence of its timing with what was happening in Manchester may be innocent, but do serve to indicate that... the inquiry will need to explore whether, and if so to what extent, the Abedi family or members of it were a radicalising influence on Hashem Abedi and Salman Abedi.\"\n\nBut BBC research shows the Libyan number in question was Hashem Abedi's.\n\nEvidence at Hashem's trial linked him to the number. The evidence included a text from Ismail to a contact saying whose number it was.\n\nSalman called Hashem later that night - the last call he made before the bombing.\n\nPete Weatherby QC, representing seven bereaved families at the inquiry, told the BBC there had to be \"maximum transparency\" from all those called on to assist.\n\n\"If there is a lack of openness and transparency that is much for difficult for the public inquiry to achieve its ends, delivering truth and justice to the families and ultimately trying to prevent an outrage of this kind happening again,\" he added.", "A murderer who refuses to reveal the whereabouts of his wife's body will be freed from prison despite a last-ditch appeal to keep him behind bars.\n\nThe justice secretary had asked the Parole Board to reconsider its decision to release Russell Causley, who killed Carole Packman in Bournemouth in 1985.\n\nMrs Packman's family argued that he posed an ongoing risk to their safety.\n\nHowever, the Parole Board said Causley, who is 77, was in poor health and unlikely to be able to cause harm.\n\nCausley evaded justice for almost a decade after his wife went missing and was only exposed when he made a botched attempt to fake his own death as part of an elaborate insurance fraud.\n\nHe was twice jailed for Mrs Packman's murder - in 1996 and, after a quashed conviction, again in 2004.\n\nHis family said he had \"taunted\" them by repeatedly changing his account of what happened.\n\nThey joined calls to introduce a law which would prevent murderers from being freed who have not revealed the whereabouts of their victim's body.\n\nCausley, pictured in the 1980s, was jailed for fraud after a botched attempt to fake his own death\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland intervened when the Parole Board decided to release Causley and asked for the decision to be \"reconsidered\".\n\nUpholding its original ruling, the board said: \"It does not follow that because [Causley] has shown callousness to them by not disclosing the whereabouts of the body that he will cause them serious harm if released.\"\n\nMrs Packman's grandson, Neil Gillingham, said the Parole Board should \"hang their heads in shame\".\n\nHe said the decision was a \"slap in the face for justice\" and would \"undermine the faith\" victims have in the system.\n\n\"It is the measure of the man that he still tries to inflict as much psychological trauma as possible,\" Mr Gillingham added.\n\n\"So do I believe he poses a risk to my mother and I? Absolutely... let's just hope that Russell doesn't prove me right.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Parole Board said: \"A senior judge of the Parole Board has rejected the application for reconsideration and found that the decision of the original panel was a rational one, with ample evidence on which the panel could base its decision.\n\n\"In rejecting reconsideration the judicial member of the board member commented that the panel were entitled to consider that the prisoner's age (77) and poor health were likely to reduce the risk of causing serious harm.\"\n\nCausley is expected be released within the next few days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have won an apology from a US news agency after drones were allegedly used to take pictures of their son, Archie.\n\nThe couple's case at Los Angeles County Superior Court said the 14-month-old was photographed at their home in the city by an unnamed person during the coronanvirus lockdown.\n\nThey described the incident as an invasion of privacy.\n\nThe X17 agency will also reimburse some of the royal couple's legal fees.\n\nIt has agreed to hand over the photos, destroy any copies it holds and stop distributing the images.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan are now based in Santa Barbara, California, having stepped back as senior royals at the end of March.\n\nAccording to court documents, they were living at the home of a friend in Los Angeles when the photographs were taken of Archie and Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland.\n\nTheir lawyer Michael Kump said: \"Over the summer, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex took action against intrusive and illegal paparazzi photos taken of their family at a private residence...\n\n\"This is a successful outcome. All families have a right, protected by law, to feel safe and secure at home.\"\n\nAccording to the legal action filed in July, the royal couple were constantly being followed by paparazzi, who tracked them down following their move to the US, flying helicopters overhead and cutting holes in their security fences.\n\nCalifornia privacy laws make photographing or filming anyone in their homes by use of drone or telephoto lenses illegal.\n\nIn a statement, X17 said: \"We apologise to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their son for the distress we have caused.\n\n\"We were wrong to offer these photographs and commit to not doing so again.\"\n\nIn a separate legal action in London, against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online, Meghan is suing for breach of privacy and copyright infringement over the publication of a letter she wrote to her father. The publisher denies the claims.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAll pubs and restaurants across central Scotland are to be closed under new measures aimed at tackling a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe new rules will apply to licensed premises across the central belt, including Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nPubs and restaurants will be able to open in other parts of Scotland - but can only serve alcohol outdoors.\n\nThe new rules, which will be in force from 18:00 on Friday until 25 October, apply to about 3.4 million people.\n\nThey cover people living in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Forth Valley, Lothian and Ayrshire and Arran health board areas.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the restrictions were \"intended to be short, sharp action to arrest a worrying increase in infection\".\n\nShe warned that without taking action, the country risks \"returning to the peak level of infection by the end of the month\".\n\nBut she admitted that the new rules would be disruptive to many businesses and would be unwelcome to many people.\n\nThe Scottish Hospitality Group, which includes many of the the country's best known pubs and restaurants, accused the first minister of \"effectively signing a death sentence\" for many businesses.\n\nAnd the Federation of Small Businesses said the move would have a major knock on impact across other parts of the economy, including tourism.\n\nOpposition parties have called for more detail on a £40m support package for affected business that was announced by Ms Sturgeon, and have questioned the need for the blanket closure of pubs and restaurants.\n\nThe new rules for the five central belt areas are:\n\nThere will be no travel ban in any of the areas, but people in the central belt have been urged to avoid public transport unless it is \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nAnd they have also been advised not to travel outside of the health board area they live in if they do not need to.\n\nThroughout the pandemic Scotland has tended to adopt a slightly more cautious approach than England.\n\nIt has imposed more restrictions and lifted them more slowly in general. The latest move is in line with that trend.\n\nThere is little difference in overall infection rates. Scotland has seen 85 cases per 100,000 in the past week, compared to England's 109.\n\nThe measures imposed by the Scottish government are focussed on areas with the highest infection rates.\n\nBut those places are some way below the levels seen in England's hotspots.\n\nCities such as Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle have seen around 500 cases per 100,000 people over the past week - that is more than twice the level of infection in Glasgow for example.\n\nBut the differences between the two nations should not mask the growing concern there is in England about the infection rates, particularly in the north of country.\n\nSenior ministers and their advisers are today discussing whether extra steps are needed south of the border.\n\nThe problem is action to supress the virus has negative consequences too.\n\nThis much can be seen in the growing number of scientists and health experts who are signing the Great Barrington Declaration warning about the impact of Covid lockdown policies.\n\nIn other parts of the country, pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes will be able to open indoors until 18:00 - but only to serve food and non-alcoholic drinks.\n\nHowever, they will be able to serve alcohol in outdoor settings such as beer gardens until 22:00, with the current rules on no more than six people from two households remaining in place.\n\nAnd the existing rules will continue to apply to weddings that have already been booked, and funerals, in all parts of Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said regulations would be introduced to extend the mandatory use of face coverings in indoor communal settings such as staff canteens and workplace corridors.\n\nShops across Scotland will be asked to return to 2m physical distancing from this weekend, and to reintroduce measures such as one-way systems.\n\nIt comes as Scotland recorded more than 1,000 new confirmed cases of the virus in a single day for the first time - although the country is doing far more testing now than at the height of the pandemic earlier in the year.\n\nThe R number is currently believed to be higher in Scotland than in other UK nations, and the number of people dying or in hospital with the virus has increased over the past week.\n\nThe number of UK cases rose by 14,162 on Wednesday. This was a slight drop on Tuesday's figure, but the seven-day rolling average is still pointing upwards.\n\nSpeaking in the Scottish Parliament, Ms Sturgeon said the \"vast majority\" of pubs and restaurants had worked hard to ensure the safety of their staff and customers.\n\nBeer gardens outside of the central belt will be able to serve alcohol until 22:00\n\nBut she added: \"Indoor environments, where different households from different age groups can mix, inevitably present a risk of transmission.\n\n\"That risk can be increased in some hospitality premises if good ventilation is difficult, and if it is hard to control the movement of people.\n\n\"And the presence of alcohol can of course affect people's willingness to physically distance.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson criticised a lack of detail over the £40m support package that was announced by the first minister.\n\nMs Davidson said: \"These businesses deserve better. They need to know how much they can apply for, when they can apply for it and how long they will have to wait before support reaches them.\n\n\"Those answers could have been provided today, but Nicola Sturgeon failed to do that.\"\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the government should target premises which break the rules \"instead of shutting down every single business\".\n\nThe temporary shutdown of pubs and restaurants across central Scotland with a new 6pm curfew elsewhere are significant new restrictions.\n\nTogether with the existing Scotland-wide ban on visiting other households, these add up to the toughest combination of measures in place across any of the four UK nations.\n\nThe Scottish government has decided to take further action because it fears case numbers are rising so fast that without further action, spread would be back to March/April levels by the end of this month.\n\nThe hospitality industry is not convinced there is sufficient evidence to justify pubs and restaurants being so heavily targeted.\n\nThe new measures are temporary, partly because the Scottish government has limited scope to compensate businesses.\n\nIt hopes the UK government can be persuaded to offer additional support for hard hit sectors in the coming weeks and that all four nations can agree a new system for assessing and responding to the coronavirus threat on a more localised basis.\n\nAre you a pub or restaurant worker in central Scotland? Share your stories 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Supermarket Asda has launched a free NHS drive-through flu jab service for eligible people at 13 UK stores.\n\nAnyone entitled to free jabs - such as the elderly, frontline NHS staff, and pregnant women - can use the service.\n\nPeople regarded as non-vulnerable can get jabs for £8, which Asda claims is the cheapest on the market.\n\nThe drive-through jabs will be offered in Asda car parks, and come after reports people are put off visiting GPs and pharmacies due to Covid-19 worries.\n\nAsda says the initiative, which began on Thursday, is the first of its kind in the UK. But other retailers, including the Boots and Lloyds Pharmacy chemist chains, also offer jabs.\n\nThe supermarket's move comes amid news that flu jabs have been limited by pharmacists and health clinics due to high demand.\n\nHowever, NHS England says enough stocks are available. This year, up to 30 million people can be vaccinated in England, the government says.\n\nMaq Din, lead pharmacist at Asda Pharmacy, said: \"The sad truth is that there is an increased mortality risk if you catch Covid-19 when you already have the flu.\n\n\"We are putting a number of measures in place at our drive-through flu jab centres , so patients can be assured that it is safe to visit - and they won't even need to leave their car to get a jab.\n\nCustomers must pre-book, and will be given a time slot and a bay to park when turning up.\n\nAsda said its own research had shown that 28% of UK adults said they were currently putting off getting a flu jab over concerns about visiting GPs and pharmacies for fear of coming into contact with someone suffering from Covid-19.\n\nThe service is available at these Asda stores: Accrington; Bodmin; Eastbourne; Gosport; Hartlepool; Hyde; Nuneaton; Old Kent Road (London); Oldbury; Pilsworth; Sheffield; South Shields; Wakefield Durkar.", "Covid restrictions are to be further tightened in parts of England early next week, with the closure of pubs and restaurants a possibility in the worst-affected areas, the BBC has been told.\n\nThere could also be a ban on overnight stays away from home in these areas.\n\nA final decision on the time period or extent of potential closures has not yet been made.\n\nThe government is also likely to introduce a three-tier system for local lockdowns.\n\nUnder the system, different parts of the country would be placed in different categories - although ministers are still discussing the precise details of the toughest level of restrictions over the next couple of days.\n\nA formal announcement is not likely to come until Monday, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has challenged the government to publish the scientific evidence behind the 22:00 closing time for pubs and restaurants - and refused to say whether his party would vote in support of the measure in Parliament next week.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said there was \"evidence hospitality plays a role\" in spreading the virus.\n\nBut pressed on whether the government would publish this evidence, he told the BBC: \"It is commonsensical that the longer you stay in pubs and restaurants, the more likely you are to come into contact with other individuals.\n\n\"The more drinks that people have, the more likely that some people are to break the rules.\"\n\nHe added that it was right to \"take action decisively, rather than waiting for the most detailed epidemiological evidence to emerge\".\n\nOn the possibility of additional restrictions for some parts of England, Mr Jenrick said the government was \"currently considering what steps to take\" and the precise measures for different areas would be announced \"in the coming days\".\n\nHe did not rule out pubs being closed but said measures would be \"proportionate and localised\".\n\nHe added that the government was trying to give \"greater consistency on rules so they're easier to understand\" and was working on \"slightly broader canvases of regions or cities and counties to avoid differences in people's daily lives if they drive over the border\".\n\nPubs and restaurants across Central Scotland have already been told they will have to close\n\nIt comes as significant new measures are introduced in Scotland.\n\nFrom Friday, all pubs and restaurants across central Scotland, including Glasgow and Edinburgh, are to close, while in the rest of Scotland hospitality venues must shut at 18:00 BST and alcohol can only be served outdoors.\n\nIndustry leaders are warning the measures could be the final straw for many businesses.\n\nOn Wednesday the number of UK cases rose by 14,162, with a further 70 deaths reported.\n\nThe planned tightening of restrictions in parts of England follows rising infection rates across much of the country, with medical leaders warning the NHS is at risk of becoming overwhelmed.\n\nLiverpool, Manchester and Newcastle upon Tyne have the highest infection rates in the country.\n\nA government source told the BBC the situation in the north-west and north-east of England was \"very troubling\", with growing numbers of hospital admissions and more elderly people in intensive care.\n\nThese areas will be placed into the top tier of restrictions, with an announcement possibly as early as Monday, in a new system called the Local Covid Alert Level.\n\nBut there remains a debate within cabinet over how far the restrictions in the top tier should go, with some in No 10 arguing for measures like those in Scotland.\n\nThe plan is for schools to remain open in all circumstances.\n\nThe Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, reacted angrily to the reports, tweeting: \"No discussion. No consultation. Millions of lives affected by Whitehall diktat. It is proving impossible to deal with this government.\"\n\nIt's a complicated equation. The Department of Health is worried about the spread of the disease, as well as other patients losing out on other treatments because of the focus on Covid.\n\nNo 11 is fearful about the impact on the economy, which has already had a profound shock.\n\nAnd it's No 10's job to worry about all of it, then reach a conclusion.\n\nBut Boris Johnson also knows that his own MPs and the opposition parties are more and more sceptical as each day passes about what the government proposes.\n\nIt's clear that shutting pubs and restaurants is a possibility - the \"circuit breaker\" that we have talked about on here lots of times.\n\nBut there are many questions still to be settled.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nUnder the new system, all areas would be subject to the current England-wide restrictions, but there would be much more robust measures for the top tier - the one with the highest infection rates.\n\nThere are already tighter restrictions in parts of the north-east and north-west of England, Birmingham and Leicester, where the rate of infection has been rising.\n\nBut there are currently no extra restrictions for hospitality venues in these areas beyond those in force nationally, such as the 22:00 closing time for pubs and restaurants.\n\nThe Treasury is looking at providing financial support to the industry in the worst-hit areas, and a memo seen by the BBC shows plans for additional money for local authorities. They would get £1 per head of population if placed into tier two, and £2 per head for tier three.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said if venues were forced to close the industry would need a return to a full furlough scheme and additional financial support.\n\nShe said the £40m of support announced for hospitality venues by the Scottish government, when shared between 16,000 premises, equated to just over £2,000 each, which \"barely keeps the lights on, let alone saving jobs\".\n\nThe planned changes come as medical leaders warn that rising infection levels across the country could leave the NHS \"unable to cope\".\n\nThe Academy of Medical Colleges, which represents the UK and Ireland's 24 medical royal colleges, called on people to abide \"strictly\" to coronavirus measures to prevent NHS services from becoming overwhelmed.\n\nHelen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the academy, said: \"Given the recent dramatic spike in both the number of cases and hospital admissions it is clear that we could soon be back to where we were in April if we are not all extremely careful.\"\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast that while there were hotspots in the north-east and north-west of England, a lot of cities were now seeing \"serious problems\" and the virus was \"working further south\".", "Caroline Langton opted to move to Ramsgate rather than east London\n\nCaroline Langton was on the cusp of exchanging on a flat in East London earlier this year - and then came the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nInstead, she ended up buying a property in Ramsgate near the sea.\n\nShe's not alone - property website Rightmove says homebuyers are looking to escape crowded cities and big towns by moving to the country or the coast.\n\nCoronavirus has meant more people are working from home while lockdown made them realise they wanted more space.\n\nRightmove said that searches have doubled for homes in small towns and villages with populations less than 11,000.\n\nFor Ms Langton, the pandemic \"changed everything\".\n\nShe was renting a property in Margate as she and a friend were just about to exchange on a flat in Leyton, East London when the lockdown began in March.\n\nIt made her think again about moving to the capital.\n\n\"In Margate you've got that huge panoramic beach, and you get that sense of space, which you just don't get in London,\" she says.\n\n\"Living with a friend in a small property wasn't the best idea,\" she adds, especially as both potential flatmates have partners.\n\nInstead, Ms Langton decided to buy a property in Ramsgate. The economics added up. To get a small two-bedroom flat in Leyton would have cost twice as much as a bigger place in Ramsgate.\n\nBuying next to the sea also worked for her job as co-founder of an interior planting design company which can deal with clients remotely.\n\nAccording to Rightmove, seaside resorts have seen the biggest rise in sales, as people sought more space during lockdown.\n\n\"The desire to move to the country has turned into a trend from a short-term shift,\" said Rightmove's Tim Bannister.\n\n\"Back in May when the market reopened in England we wondered how long the desire to move to the country or to smaller towns and villages would last.\"\n\nHe said there are two main reasons for the trend: some buyers are more willing to have a country commute a few times a week, while others are preparing for social distancing to be here for some time and so are being drawn to places with more outdoor space.\n\nBut anyone buying now should expect prices to be lower next year, estate agents have warned.\n\nThe latest RICS UK Residential Survey has revealed expectations that prices will move into negative territory over the next 12 months.\n\n\"There is increasing concern that the combination of significant job losses over the coming months allied to the scaling back of policy initiatives in early 2021 will have an adverse impact on transaction levels,\" warned Simon Rubinsohn, chief economist at The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.\n\nHowever, despite warning of negative prices next year, RICS reported strong house sales in September.\n\nHalifax reported earlier in the week that house prices jumped by 7.3% in September - the strongest annual increase since June 2016.\n\nIt took the average UK house price to just below quarter of a million pounds, at £249,870, Halifax said.\n\nThese reports encapsulate the difference between vision and reality for many potential homebuyers.\n\nThe pandemic has led some people to reassess their domestic priorities, with space inside and out becoming more attractive for some than the buzz of a town or city.\n\nBut actually making that move may not be so easy. Demand may not be matched by countryside properties coming on the market - whether it be a two-bedroom terrace or a detached property in its own grounds.\n\nThen there is the question of how easy it is to sell an existing urban home, particularly during dark autumn and winter months.\n\nOn top of that, lenders are restricting mortgages for those without lots of equity, to reduce their own exposure to an economic downturn.\n\nAnd, as always, jobs and pay are key in giving people the confidence and financial security to move - and with heavy redundancies on the cards, that may slow activity in the housing sector.\n\nAccording to Rightmove, searches for properties in nine areas in England have doubled, and all have populations under 11,000.\n\nSearches for homes in Lightwater in Surrey have risen the most - up 130% in the past year.\n\nThe village has a population of less than 7,000 people, and house prices range from a studio flat on offer for £155,000 to a five-bed house with an asking price of more than £3.6m.\n\nOther small villages and market towns have proved popular with searches up 128% for Bruton in Somerset and up 111% for Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds.\n\nThe other locations where searches have doubled are:\n\nThe latter harbour town also tops the table for the biggest increase in the number of sales agreed, up by 179% in the past year.\n\nSt Ives in Cornwall posted a 170% rise in sales with Buckhurst Hill, Essex up 164% and Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire up 156%.", "Kennedy and Nixon debated with 4,828km (3,000 miles) between them in 1960 Image caption: Kennedy and Nixon debated with 4,828km (3,000 miles) between them in 1960\n\nAs we reported earlier, US presidential debate organisers have decided to change the format of the next TV clash between President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden, opting for a virtual rather than an in-person event.\n\nTrump has scoffed at the proposal, dismissing the idea of a virtual debate as “ridiculous”.\n\nHowever, the format was acceptable to two former presidents, Richard Nixon and John F Kennedy, when they were vying for the White House in 1960. There was no coronavirus then, of course.\n\nBut in their third debate of the campaign, Nixon and Kennedy went head-to-head, albeit via video link from different cities on the west and east coasts of the US.\n\n\"The two candidates will not be sharing the same platform,\" moderator Bill Shadel said when opening the debate. \"In New York, the Democratic presidential nominee Senator John F Kennedy. Separated by 3,000 miles, in a Los Angeles studio, the Republican presidential nominee Vice-President Richard M Nixon.\"\n\nAmerican TV network C-SPAN has a recording of the debate on its website .", "A UK bullock arriving in the port of Cartagena, which campaigners said was later loaded onto a vessel destined for Libya\n\nLivestock from the UK is being shipped to the Middle East and slaughtered in \"dreadful, terrifying\" ways, animal welfare charities claim.\n\nOver the summer, the charities tracked cattle on long journeys via Spanish fattening farms and ports.\n\nIn footage, shared with the BBC, a dead bullock at an abattoir in Lebanon in August is seen to have a UK ear-tag.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it was committed to improving animal welfare.\n\nUK livestock is protected by EU laws during transport. Britain does not export animals to third countries for slaughter or fattening where welfare standards are lower.\n\nBut undercover filming by Animals International and the German Animal Welfare Foundation (AWF) provided video evidence suggesting British livestock is being re-sold in Europe to the Middle East.\n\nOne UK bullock, believed to be from Northern Ireland, is recorded at the port of Cartagena in Spain in July before being loaded onto a vessel destined for Libya.\n\n\"In 30 years of working, nothing compares with the horrors of a slaughter house in North Africa or the Middle East\", said Peter Stevenson from Compassion in World Farming.\n\n\"Footage from the facility in Lebanon shows the same, awful methods we have seen before,\" he said.\n\n\"Animals are hacked at repeatedly until they die. Often they are winched up by a leg or their tendons are slashed to disable them.\"\n\nAnimals International said it was \"appalling\" to find British cattle being killed in Lebanon by \"poorly equipped, untrained workers, while fully conscious and terrified\".\n\nThe charity found livestock carriers took around a week to sail from Cartagena to Libya or Lebanon.\n\nA landmark veterinary report into the transport of livestock in 2016 concluded that animals suffered every day at sea in filthy, cramped conditions.\n\nA UK calf which charity investigators said was dying and had been moved outside of its pen at a fattening farm in Catalonia in June\n\nCalves in particular were found to die frequently of disease, thirst or heat-related illnesses.\n\nThe former Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers said: \"It is stomach-churning to think of cattle from the UK being subjected to such horrific treatment.\n\n\"This footage should be a wake-up call,\" she said.\n\n\"Now we have left the EU, the government needs to ban live exports for slaughter or fattening.\"\n\nThe UK currently exports some livestock to third countries for breeding. EU rules, which apply in the UK until at least January, limit the number of hours animals can travel without being rested and also the density of stock. They also require various vet checks at borders.\n\nUnweaned male calves are by-products of the dairy industry. The UK exported around 17,000 last year to Spain, the majority from Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, consignments have fallen this year and in September Scotland agreed to stop shipping calves through the port of Ramsgate in Kent.\n\nHaving reached Spain calves are typically fattened on farms before being slaughtered or re-exported.\n\nAt a facility in Catalonia in June, charity workers say they filmed a UK calf that had been moved outside of its pen and left to die.\n\nMaria Boada, an AWF vet, who gathered the footage, said: \"The calf was suffering from a respiratory illness, which is common after long, stressful journeys with little food or milk replacement.\n\n\"For many farmers, sick calves are seen as disposable due to their low value and ready availability.\"\n\nRecent Lords amendments to the Agriculture Bill to ban live exports have been defeated.\n\nA Defra spokesman said: \"Now that we have left the EU, we will be taking forward the manifesto commitment to end excessively long journeys for animals going to slaughter and fattening.\"\n\nThe National Farmers Union said the standards seen in the abattoir were \"appalling\" and fell far below what is required of British farmers.\n\nA spokesperson said it had developed its own proposals for a live export assurance scheme.\n\n\"We will be looking to work with the government to implement it so that we can maintain this important trade under the highest standards of animal welfare,\" he said.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "This year's Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to the US poet Louise Glück.\n\nGlück was recognised for \"her unmistakable poetic voice, that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal\" said the Swedish Academy, which oversees the award.\n\nThe Academy added she was \"surprised\" when she received their phone call.\n\nGlück, born 1943 in New York, lives in Massachusetts and is also professor of English at Yale University.\n\nThe Academy's permanent secretary Mats Malm said he had spoken to Glück just before making the announcement.\n\n\"The message came as a surprise, but a welcome one as far as I could tell,\" he said.\n\nIn 2016 she received the National Humanities Medal from former US President Barack Obama\n\nShe is the fourth woman to win the prize for literature since 2010, and only the 16th since the Nobel prizes were first awarded in 1901. The last American to win was Bob Dylan in 2016.\n\nGlück won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her collection The Wild Iris and the National Book Award in 2014. Her other honours include the 2001 Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Wallace Stevens Award, given in 2008, and a National Humanities Medal, awarded in 2015. She was also editor of the anthology The Best American Poetry 1993.\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 Matt Haig 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\nHer poetry focuses on the painful reality of being human, dealing with themes such as death, childhood, and family life.\n\nShe also takes inspiration from Greek mythology and its characters, such as Persephone and Eurydice, who are often the victims of betrayal.\n\nThe Academy said her 2006 collection Averno was a \"masterly collection, a visionary interpretation of the myth of Persephone's descent into Hell in the captivity of Hades, the god of death\".\n\nOlga Tokarczuk won for 2018 and Peter Handke was 2019's winner\n\nThe chair of the Nobel prize committee, Anders Olsson, also praised the poet's \"candid and uncompromising\" voice, which is \"full of humour and biting wit\".\n\nHer 12 collections of poetry are \"characterised by a striving for clarity\", he added, comparing her with Emily Dickinson with her \"severity and unwillingness to accept simple tenets of faith\".\n\nThe prize is given to the person who has \"produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction\".\n\nEven in their own country, few poets achieve true fame with the public in their own lifetime. But Louise Glück has been awarded almost every prize an American poet might hope for.\n\nAmong many other awards she took a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and spent a year as America's poet laureate in 2003/4 - though perhaps with a degree of reluctance at first.\n\nLouise Glück (it's pronounced Glick) has made clear she sees herself as a private person. When she was given the Poet Laureateship she told the Boston Globe newspaper: \"I have very little taste for public life.\" She added that she had thought she wasn't \"the sort of person they'd ever look at\".\n\nHer first volume of verse - Firstborn - came out in 1968. Many of her works since have dealt with human emotion, childhood and the nature of life - often family life.\n\nTo sample her work, head for the short lyric Nostos (a Greek term meaning Homecoming).\n\nThe first lines are characteristic, being about memory:\n\nThere was an apple tree in the yard —\n\nAnd the powerful last lines state one of her strongest beliefs:\n\nWe look at the world once, in childhood.\n\nHer collection Ararat was described in the New York Times a few years ago as \"the most brutal and sorrow-filled book of American poetry published in the last 25 years\". Sadness and grief are certainly a frequent part of what she writes - yet she's seldom a depressing writer.\n\nGlück's name was not widely touted this year as a possible Nobel laureate. Until now she has not been much read outside the US. At the age of 77, Glück can look forward to many new readers - and they can look forward to discovering a poet of insight and humanity.\n\nLast year's choice of Austrian novelist Peter Handke led to wide criticism.\n\nHandke was a known supporter of the Serbs during the 1990s Yugoslav war and spoke at the funeral of former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic, who was accused of genocide and other war crimes.\n\nLast year also saw Polish author Olga Tokarczuk belatedly announced as the winner of the 2018 literature prize which had been suspended for a year after a sexual assault scandal and financial misconduct allegations rocked the Academy.\n\nNormally, winners receive their Nobel from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December, but the pandemic means it has been replaced with a televised ceremony showing the laureates receiving their awards in their home countries.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One of the images that was rejected when Vicky Morgan tried to advertise on Facebook\n\nA beauty therapist who helps cancer patients has been banned from posting pictures of her work on Facebook ads.\n\nVicky Morgan, from Wadebridge in Cornwall, is trained to draw tattoos for women and men who have lost their breasts through a mastectomy.\n\nBut Facebook has censored her adverts, saying pictures of nipples, or areola, were \"sexual content and nudity\".\n\nMs Morgan said it was \"disappointing and frustrating when I'm reaching out to amazing breast cancer survivors\".\n\nOne of the ads to be rejected by Facebook\n\nAfter working as a beauty therapist for 18 years, she has diversified into tattoo treatment for cancer patients who have had their breasts removed.\n\nHer work would involve tattooing areola on a woman's reconstructed breasts if they have had surgery or, in the case of women without reconstructed breasts and men, on to flat skin.\n\nPictures of her new line of work on artificial reconstructed breasts have been uploaded on her Facebook page without any problems.\n\nBut when she tried to promote pictures of her work with paid-for ads, they were rejected.\n\nMs Morgan said: \"I understand the need for them to be strict when it comes to adverts which may cause offence but feel there should be provisions in place when it comes to posts made to help people by offering services that are in the paramedical field, like mine.\n\n\"This is for breast cancer survivors who may need my services to help them claim back their confidence and make them feel like themselves again post-mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery.\"\n\nVicky Morgan: \"There should be provisions in place when it comes to posts like mine\"\n\nA Facebook spokesperson said the site allowed images of post-mastectomy areola tattoos on a page or profile but not within advertising.\n\n\"We do not allow people to run ads which include adult content, including nudity or implied nudity, because ads are governed by a stricter set of policies,\" they said.\n\n\"We recognise the important work Vicky is doing and hope she continues to use the platform to promote this.\"", "Video caption: 'Mr Vice-President, I am speaking' - Harris and Pence clash at VP debate 'Mr Vice-President, I am speaking' - Harris and Pence clash at VP debate\n\nThis vice-presidential debate gave the Americans who chose to watch a look at US politics present and future.\n\nFor the current election, both candidates did their best to defend their running mate and land shots on the top of the opposing ticket.\n\nThe participants in this debate were also looking beyond November, however.\n\nPence - like most vice-presidents - has his eyes on a presidential bid of his own. To do that, he'll have to win over Trump's base while also casting a wider net to Republicans and right-leaning independents who may have become disaffected with Trumpian politics.\n\nHarris, who at this point last year was running for president herself, tried to prove that she can be a capable standard-bearer for the Democrats once Joe Biden exits the political stage. When given the chance, she spoke about her upbringing and background, taking the opportunity to introduce herself to a larger US audience.\n\nBoth Pence and Harris live to fight another day - and that day could come in just four years.\n\nRead more: Five takeaways from the VP debate", "Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has said that movie-going is facing a real threat of extinction.\n\nHer new superhero movie has been delayed three times during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe is among dozens of top Hollywood directors appealing to the US government to provide a financial lifeline to cinemas.\n\nMs Jenkins's warning comes as cinemas in the UK are also struggling with a recent spate of delayed film releases.\n\n\"If we shut this down, this will not be a reversible process,\" she said in an interview with Reuters news agency. \"We could lose movie theatre-going forever.\"\n\nCinemas across the world are struggling financially with tough Covid-19 social restrictions limiting customers, along with a lack of blockbuster movies to attract them.\n\nIn the US, the National Association of Theatre Owners said 69% of small and mid-sized cinema companies could be forced to file for bankruptcy or shut down permanently.\n\nAmerica is the world's biggest movie market in terms of box office revenues, with China catching up rapidly.\n\nMs Jenkins said widespread closures would lead Hollywood studios to stop investing in films for cinemas, and turn to online streaming instead.\n\n\"It could be the kind of thing that happened to the music industry,\" she added. \"Where you could crumble the entire industry by making it something that can't be profitable.\"\n\nSome of this year's major Hollywood films, including Walt Disney's Mulan, skipped cinemas and went straight to streaming.\n\nMs Jenkins said that there is no option for her sequel, Wonder Woman 1984, to go straight to streaming.\n\nThe superhero movie, starring Gal Gadot, is now scheduled for release on Christmas Day. That is a delay of six months from its original premiere date in June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. As ever more people sign up to streaming services, are fewer going to the movies?\n\nLast week it was announced that the release of the new James Bond film has been delayed again.\n\nThe premiere of No Time To Die had already been moved from April to November because of the pandemic. It is now scheduled for April 2021.\n\nBlockbuster remake Dune has also seen its release date delayed. The Warner Bros sci-fi epic was due for release in December but has been been pushed back to October 2021.\n\nWarner Bros has also delayed The Batman, now due in March 2022.\n\nIn the UK, Odeon is cutting the opening hours for some of its cinemas to weekends only because of delays to new film releases.\n\nThe chain, which operates 120 theatres, said it will affect a quarter of its cinemas, which will now open between Friday and Sunday.\n\nIt comes as Cineworld said it will temporarily close its UK and US venues, affecting 45,000 jobs.", "Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she has \"nothing whatsoever to hide\" over Holyrood's Alex Salmond inquiry.\n\nMSPs are looking into the government's botched handling of complaints against the former first minister.\n\nMs Sturgeon said in written evidence that she forgot about a meeting where she believes she was told about the complaints against her predecessor.\n\nTory group leader Ruth Davidson said Ms Sturgeon's \"sudden memory loss\" was \"beyond belief\".\n\nSpeaking during first minister's questions, she said Ms Sturgeon's explanation \"does not bear the lightest scrutiny\".\n\nShe claimed Ms Sturgeon had \"misled parliament\" over when she had first learned of the complaints against Mr Salmond.\n\nAnd she suggested that Ms Sturgeon had done so because she knew she had broken the ministerial code by not having the meeting with Geoff Aberdein - a former aide to Mr Salmond - minuted.\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that she understood why people \"raise an eyebrow\" at her initially forgetting about the meeting.\n\nBut she said it had been overshadowed in her memory by a later meeting with Mr Salmond.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruth Davidson said Nicola Sturgeon's version of how she remembers hearing allegations about Alex Salmond does not bear scrutiny\n\nShe said: \"There is something seared on my memory, it is the meeting that took place when Alex Salmond himself sat in my own home and gave me the details of the complaints that were made against him and gave me his response to aspects of those complaints.\n\n\"That is what is seared in my memory and I think most reasonable people would understand that - if it has somehow overwritten in my mind a more fleeting, opportunistic meeting, that's just how it is.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"pretty shocked and upset\" about the meeting with Mr Salmond, and said she was willing to testify about it to the Holyrood inquiry under oath.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I have nothing to hide in this, nothing whatsoever.\n\n\"All sorts of nonsense has been levelled at me on this. I have had two years or more of people making accusations about my conduct - it's not my conduct that sparked any of this.\n\n\"I have tried to act in the proper way. If I have made mistakes along the way, I will say that and people can make their judgement.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the meeting with Mr Salmond in April 2018 was \"seared\" on her memory\n\nThe first minister had previously told MSPs that the first she learned of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been at a meeting with him at her home in Glasgow on 2 April, 2018.\n\nShe had insisted she held this meeting in her capacity as SNP leader, not as first minister, meaning no official record had to be taken.\n\nHowever, in her written evidence to the committee, Ms Sturgeon confirmed she had met Mr Aberdein in her Holyrood office on 29 March.\n\nShe said Mr Aberdein had asked her to meet Mr Salmond, and that she believed the conversation \"did cover the suggestion that the matter might relate to allegations of a sexual nature\".\n\nBut she said she \"had forgotten this meeting had taken place\" because it took place \"in the midst of a busy day\".\n\nLeslie Evans insisted that the government was not out to \"get\" Mr Salmond\n\nThe exchanges at Holyrood took place shortly after the inquiry committee published correspondence from Mr Salmond's lawyers, who claimed the government was trying to have \"unlawful\" documents produced by the courts - including the report from the original investigation.\n\nThe former first minister successfully had the internal investigation declared unlawful after raising a judicial review action at the Court of Session, and won a £500,000 payout for legal costs from the government.\n\nLawyer David McKie wrote that it was \"extraordinary\" that the government intended to produce \"material that has been reduced as unlawful by court order\".\n\nHe said: \"The only possible explanation for seeking to take such a step appear to our client to be a desire unjustifiably to malign his reputation, rather than account for their own unlawful actions.\"\n\nPrevious inquiry witnesses such as Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans - Scotland's top civil servant - have insisted that the government is not out to \"get Alex Salmond\", saying that investigating the complaints against him was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nMs Sturgeon echoed this at Holyrood, saying: \"I understand why it may suit some to say this is some great conspiracy, but I'm not sure why anybody would see this as anything other than complaints being investigated and everybody trying to do the right thing in very difficult circumstances.\"", "Billionaires have seen their fortunes hit record highs during the pandemic, with top executives from technology and industry earning the most.\n\nThe world's richest saw their wealth climb 27.5% to $10.2trn (£7.9trn) from April to July this year, according to a report from Swiss bank UBS.\n\nThat was up from the previous peak of $8.9trn at the end of 2017 and largely due to rising global share prices.\n\nUBS said billionaires had done \"extremely well\" in the Covid crisis.\n\nIt also said the number of billionaires had hit a new high of 2,189, up from 2,158 in 2017.\n\nIt comes as a World Bank report on Wednesday showed extreme poverty is set to rise this year for the first time in more than two decades due to the pandemic.\n\nAmong the billionaires, the biggest winners this year have been industrialists, whose wealth rose a staggering 44% in the three months to July.\n\n\"Industrials benefited disproportionately as markets priced in a significant economic recovery [after lockdowns around the world],\" UBS said.\n\nTech billionaires have also had a good pandemic, seeing their wealth soar 41%. UBS said this was \"due to the corona-induced demand for their goods and services\" and social distancing accelerating \"digital businesses [and] compressing several years' evolution into a few months\".\n\nHealthcare billionaires also benefited as the crisis put drug makers and medical device companies in the spotlight.\n\nThe rise in fortunes reflects the generally strong performance of global stock markets since late March, despite most countries continuing to suffer sharp recessions.\n\nAmazon boss Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder Elon Musk - both multi-billionaires - saw their wealth hit new highs this summer thanks to growth in the price of their companies' stock.\n\nIn the last 11 years China's billionaires have increased their wealth by the biggest percentage, climbing 1,146% between 2009 and 2020, according to UBS.\n\nBy comparison, over the same period the wealth of British billionaires has risen by just 168%.\n\nBut the biggest accumulation of wealth remains in the US where American billionaires have $3.5trn, compared to China's $1.7trn.\n\nThe UK's wealthy have just $205bn, compared to Germany's $595bn and France's $443bn.\n\nUBS said many billionaires had donated some of their wealth to help with the fight against Covid-19.\n\n\"Our research has identified 209 billionaires who have publicly committed a total equivalent to $7.2bn from March to June 2020,\" the report said.\n\n\"They have reacted quickly, in a way that's akin to disaster relief, providing unrestricted grants to allow grantees to decide how best to use funds.\"\n\nBut it revealed that UK billionaires donated less than those from other countries.\n\nIn the US, 98 billionaires donated $4.5bn, in China 12 billionaires gave $679m, and in Australia just two billionaires donated $324m. But in the UK, nine billionaires donated just $298m.", "Teenagers who struggle with depression significantly underachieve at GCSE, according to new long-term study.\n\nThe King's College, London, team suggested pupils affected be allowed to stagger or postpone their exams.\n\nIt comes at a time when rates of children's mental health are expected to increase due to experiences during the Covid lockdown.\n\nData on rates of children's mental health referrals during the lockdown period is not yet available.\n\nBut many voluntary agencies working with young people say they have seen requests for support increase.\n\nAnd ministers are currently deciding how they can hold exams, including GCSEs, next year that are fair to those who have missed out on education during the lockdown and beyond.\n\nThe research, led by King's PhD student Alice Wickersham, tracked the educational results of about 1,500 children over seven years between 2007 and the end of 2013.\n\nAll had received a diagnosis of depression before the age of 18, with the most common age being 15.\n\nThe findings showed a worrying picture of children who did well at primary school, but whose attainment dipped in secondary as they progressed towards GCSEs.\n\nSome 83% reached the expected level of attainment at age six or seven, and over three-quarters met it at the end of primary school.\n\nBut by the time these children reached Year 11, only 45% achieved the then benchmark of five good GCSEs including English and maths.\n\nMs Wickersham, from the National Institute for Health Research at the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, said previous studies had found depression in childhood is linked to lower school performance.\n\nShe said: \"What we've observed is that a group of children and adolescents who developed depression at secondary school had performed quite well when they were in primary school.\n\n\"It is only when they sat their GCSEs that they tended to show a drop in their school performance, which also happened to be around the time that many of them were diagnosed.\"\n\nShe added that while this would not be the case for all teenagers with depression, it does mean many find themselves at a disadvantage for \"this pivotal educational milestone\".\n\n\"It highlights the need to pay close attention to teenagers who are showing early signs of depression,\" she said.\n\n\"For example, by offering them extra educational support in the lead up to their GCSEs, and working with them to develop a plan for completing their compulsory education.\"\n\nThe study suggests allowing such candidates to stagger their exams or even delay them, if necessary.\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Testing has always been an important part of education, but it should never be at the expense of a young person's wellbeing.\n\n\"The government has invested significantly in mental health charities and in support for teachers and young people, including a new £8 million training programme run by experts to tackle the impact of coronavirus on pupils, parents and staff.\n\n\"We trust schools to make sure that pupils get the help and support they need, when they need it, working with parents to do this.\"\n\nBut Julie McCulloch, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, said funding pressures had reduced the amount of money available for pastoral and mental health support in schools.\n\nShe added: \"There have also been significant problems in accessing local mental health services for young people who are in need of specialist treatment.\n\n\"It is very likely that the Covid crisis will have led to more young people experiencing mental health issues.\n\n\"Schools are doing their very best to support these pupils but the pressures on the system are hardly the best starting point.\n\n\"We recognise that the government is endeavouring to improve mental health support for young people, but we remain concerned that schools just do not have the funding they need for this and many other tasks.\"\n\nCampaigns director at Young Minds Tom Madders said: \"We know many children and young people have struggled with their mental health as a result of the pandemic, and ensuring that effective support is available in the coming months is crucial.\n\n\"If the government wants children to catch up academically after months away from school, it should provide ring-fenced funding for schools to support student mental health.\"", "David Lammy said the Met's investigation into the tweet was dropped because \"Twitter refused to assist\"\n\nAn MP has asked Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey to \"explain himself\" after a police inquiry into a \"racist death threat\" was halted when the social media giant did not co-operate.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they had been unable to get details from Twitter of the account which sent the tweet to Tottenham MP David Lammy.\n\nMr Lammy tweeted Mr Dorsey asking why Twitter was \"shielding vile racists\".\n\nTwitter said it was now co-operating with the police inquiry.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday the Met said a \"thorough investigation\" had been carried out into the tweet.\n\nA spokesman said: \"All lines of inquiry were explored as far as possible, however, due to the owner of the suspected social media account living outside the UK and the fact we were unable to obtain the subscription details of the individual from Twitter, we were unable to continue the investigation.\"\n\nMr Lammy reacted to the Met's announcement by tweeting direct to Mr Dorsey.\n\nHe tweeted: \"Please explain why you are shielding vile racists who make death threats on your platform? #BlackLivesMatter.\n\n\"You should not be able to push race hate and send death threats with impunity online.\n\n\"Shame on Twitter for failing to act with Met Police to identify who sent this threat.\n\n\"#BlackLivesMatter has to be more than a slogan to drive traffic and ad revenue on your website.\"\n\nA Twitter spokesperson later said it was co-operating with police \"having now received and processed the correct information\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The inquiry focused on Huawei's telecoms kit rather than its consumer handset business\n\nThere is \"clear evidence of collusion\" between Huawei and the \"Chinese Communist Party apparatus\", a parliamentary inquiry has concluded.\n\nAnd the MPs say the government may need to bring forward a deadline set for the Chinese firm's 5G kit to be removed from the UK's mobile networks.\n\nHuawei has responded by saying \"this report lacks credibility as it is built on opinion rather than fact\".\n\nBut the latest accusation poses a further challenge to its business.\n\nAlthough the company's options in the UK are now limited, it is still trying to sell its 5G telecoms infrastructure to other parts of Europe and beyond, having invested heavily in the technology.\n\n\"We're sure people will see through these accusations of collusion and remember instead what Huawei has delivered for Britain over the past 20 years,\" a spokesman for the company said.\n\nThe House of Commons defence committee based its findings on the testimony of academics, cyber-security experts and telecom industry insiders, among others. These included some long-term critics of the company.\n\nHauwei's executives did not testify, although they did appear before a separate parliament committee in July.\n\nThe report cites a venture capitalist who claimed the Chinese government \"had financed the growth of Huawei with some $75bn [£57bn] over the past three years\", which he said had allowed it to sell its hardware at a \"ridiculously low price point\".\n\nAnd it highlights a claim made by a researcher who specialises in corporate irregularities within China, who alleged that Huawei had \"engaged in a variety of intelligence, security, and intellectual property activities\" despite its repeated denials.\n\n\"It is clear that Huawei is strongly linked to the Chinese state and the Chinese Communist Party, despite its statements to the contrary,\" the committee concludes.\n\n\"This is evidenced by its ownership model and the subsidies it has received.\"\n\nThe report warns that the West should not \"succumb to ill-informed anti-China hysteria\", but suggests some policy changes may be necessary.\n\nAt present, the government has said mobile networks must not buy new Huawei 5G equipment after the end of this year, and then must remove any they have installed by 2027.\n\nBut the committee says ministers should consider bringing the latter deadline forward to 2025 if relations with China deteriorate or pressure from the US and other allies makes it necessary.\n\nThe MPs acknowledge being told by BT and Vodafone that such a move could cause signal blackouts in parts of the country. But they say operators could be compensated to minimise delays.\n\nThey also say Beijing had exerted pressure through \"covert and overt threats\" to keep Huawei in the UK's 5G network.\n\nThese are said to have included a suggestion it might block Chinese investment in the UK's nuclear industry.\n\nThe committee says that if further threats follow, the government should \"carefully consider China's future presence in critical sectors of the economy\".\n\nAnd it recommends the forthcoming National Security and Investment Bill gives ministers the power to ban investments they deem risky.\n\nMore work is needed to work with allies to ensure there are other suppliers of telecoms equipment, the report adds.\n\nAnd it calls on the government to avoid any further delay in introducing a telecoms bill to end what it describes as the current situation of \"commercial concerns trumping national security\".\n\nThe MPs reject claims that Huawei's continued presence in the UK affects the country's ability to share sensitive information with partners.\n\nLast year, one US congressman suggested the US and UK might have to resort to using paper instead of electronic-based communications.\n\nBut the committee says it is \"content\" that Huawei is sufficiently distanced from sensitive defence and national security sites, and in any case it would not be able to decipher encrypted data sent via its equipment.\n\nIt does, however, urge GCHQ to continue its work with the firm at the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC), where the firm's equipment is checked for flaws.\n\nHuawei funds the work done there by government experts and has indicated it is willing to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe MPs say the government should now consider assessing equipment from \"other vendors in a similar fashion\".\n\nThey also back proposals to form a D10 group of democracies to provide alternatives to Chinese technology.\n\nLittle detail has been provided about what this might actually look like, and the committee calls on the government to consult allies to set out exactly what it would entail.", "The use of mandatory face coverings in Northern Ireland is also to be extended\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland caught breaching coronavirus regulations will now face a minimum fine of £200 under plans agreed by the executive.\n\nThursday's meeting saw ministers sign off on proposals brought by Justice Minister Naomi Long.\n\nAt present, fixed penalty notices start at £60, but can rise to £960 for repeat offenders.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster also confirmed that the use of mandatory face coverings in NI is to be extended.\n\nFace coverings are already compulsory on public transport and for customers in shops, but will now become mandatory in the following settings:\n\nThe usual exemptions from wearing a face covering will still apply, the executive has said.\n\nMrs Foster told a press briefing at Stormont that there would be a \"new regime\" of penalties to strengthen existing measures to try and curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\n\"The consequences from today will be more serious,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm saying to everyone - how far and how hard the executive will have to go depends on your actions today, tomorrow, over the weekend and the week ahead.\"\n\nThe executive has also agreed to introduce three new offences: not closing a business as required, breaching closing times and not implementing social distancing.\n\nBreaches will incur a fixed penalty notice of £1,000, or up to £10,000 on conviction.\n\nThe justice minister told BBC News NI's The View that \"encouragement, engagement and explanation can work\".\n\n\"But we're also clear that enforcement matters,\" said Naomi Long.\n\n\"There will be those who defy the law, who refuse to take it seriously and enforcement has to follow.\n\n\"But that enforcement is going to be the last of the four options we have available to us.\"\n\nA further 923 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health on Thursday. In the last seven days, 4,674 people in Northern Ireland have tested positive.\n\nThe department also confirmed the death of another person who died following a positive test, bringing its death toll to 587.\n\nThere are 120 people with Covid-19 in hospital - 15 are in intensive care.\n\nDespite speculation, the executive has agreed not to impose new local restrictions in the Newry, Mourne and Down or Belfast council areas, where cases have been rising sharply in recent days.\n\nMrs Foster said the executive had been advised that \"the growth of infections has been blunted\" in those areas, while Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the executive was keeping that decision \"under review\".\n\nThe Department of Health used this slide at their briefing on Wednesday to show case rates across Northern Ireland\n\nShe added that the executive is \"united\" in its decision to ask for additional financial support from the British government to take further action to tackle the virus.\n\n\"It is clear the executive is fast approaching a point on making significant difficult decisions that will help us arrest the rise in infections,\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said ministers would not take any decisions lightly, and that they would try to maintain the \"balanced approach\" regarding saving people's lives and their livelihoods.\n\nShe and Mrs Foster have asked for \"an urgent conversation\" with Mr Johnson due to cases rising \"at an alarming rate\".\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\nEarlier, Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin and Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed concerns about the situation in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe two leaders spoke by phone on Thursday morning.\n\nMr Martin said that he told Mr Johnson that the situation in Northern Ireland was \"very, very worrying in terms of the growing numbers\" of positive cases.\n\nThe taoiseach added that the Northern Ireland Executive \"needed support\" and he asked Mr Johnson to \"give consideration in terms of financial support to underpin any efforts or any restrictions that they themselves might decide to bring in\".\n\nAccording to an Irish government spokesperson, Mr Johnson also raised concerns about the impact of \"restrictions on the economy\".\n\nThe two leaders agreed to monitor the situation and remain in touch.\n\nOn Wednesday, Northern Ireland Chief Scientific Adviser Prof Ian Young said of the coronavirus clusters identified, more than half of them had been linked to the hospitality sector.\n\nStormont ministers have not ruled out bringing in a circuit breaker over the half-term holidays, if localised restrictions do not help to halt the rise in infections.\n\nA circuit breaker is a lockdown for a short period of time, possibly two weeks, to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nIt would likely see all pubs and restaurants in Northern Ireland forced to close for the two weeks.\n\nBut Economy Minister Diane Dodds said it would only be viable with additional financial support from Westminster.\n\nDrinks only bars only reopened on 23 September after nearly six months of closure\n\nIt is thought there could be further announcements next week from the Treasury about providing support to the hospitality industry in the worst hit areas of England, where pub closures are being explored.\n\nThat could automatically lead to some extra funding for Northern Ireland through what is known as a Barnett consequential.\n\nMeanwhile, figures obtained by BBC News NI show there are almost 1,200 health care staff off work as a result of coronavirus in Northern Ireland - either self-isolating or directly affected by the virus.\n\nThe highest figure was recorded in the Western Trust area, which runs Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, where 386 staff are isolating.\n\nIn Belfast, the figure is at least 384, while there is a further 193 staff affected at the Southern Trust, 117 in the South Eastern Trust and 116 at the Northern Trust.\n\nAt the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), 68 people are off work.\n\nThe interim chief executive of the South Eastern Health Trust, Seamus McGoran, said now is \"a critical time\" for the NHS and the public.\n\n\"It feels rather like March, when we were not really in the foothills of the surge, but one third to half way up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"Unless we make dramatic changes to our behaviours within the community, we're going to be exactly where we were in about two to three weeks' time.\"", "The streets of São Paulo, where most Brazilian deaths have been recorded, remain busy with shoppers\n\nConfirmed cases of coronavirus in Brazil have passed five million, with deaths in the country approaching 150,000, officials say.\n\nBrazil's health ministry reported 31,553 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the total infections to 5,000,694.\n\nThe country is the third worst hit for infections, after the US and India.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of downplaying the risks of the virus throughout the pandemic, ignoring expert advice on restrictive measures.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has rejected criticism of his handling of the pandemic, but his decision to oppose lockdowns and focus on the economy has been hugely divisive.\n\nOn Tuesday, Brazil recorded 734 new fatalities, bringing the death toll to 148,228, the ministry said.\n\nBrazil has the highest number of deaths in Latin America.\n\nThe state of São Paulo has been the worst hit, with around 36,000 deaths, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with about 19,000.\n\nIt is another milestone but the picture is not as grim here as it was a few weeks ago. The numbers of cases and deaths have been falling, although we are still talking around 5,000 fatalities a week - down from around 7,000 at the peak.\n\nThe absolute numbers are still far worse than in Europe, but life here feels like it is returning to normal - shops, restaurants and some schools are starting to re-open.\n\nDespite initial criticism over President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the crisis - his downplaying of the virus from the very start - his approval ratings have actually risen, thanks to generous government handouts to around 60 million informal workers.\n\nThe question is whether that support will continue as the government starts to reduce the payments while unemployment soars.\n\nIn August, Brazil's Vice-President Hamilton Mourão defended the government's handling of the pandemic, instead blaming a lack of discipline among Brazilians for the failure to limit the spread of Covid-19 through social distancing measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brazil's vice-president says the authorities have struggled to enforce social distancing measures", "Everyone living in Nottinghamshire has been asked to avoid mixing with other households indoors after a \"dramatic\" rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe government has not introduced tougher measures but local authorities have urged residents to start taking precautions now.\n\nNottingham currently has the fourth-highest infection rate in England, and the wider county has also seen a rise.\n\nLocal authorities expect a government decision by the end of the week.\n\nOn Tuesday, Nottingham City Council asked residents not to mix indoors with people from other households apart from within their bubble.\n\nThis includes in the home and at leisure and hospitality venues.\n\nOn Wednesday, Nottinghamshire County Council made the same request.\n\nIt added it expects the government to impose new restrictions on every part of the county.\n\nThe rate of infection for the city currently stands at 496.8 per 100,000 after cases increased from 314 in the week up to 27 September to 1,654.\n\nThe rate of infection for the county is 106 per 100,000 but varies from 53 to 150 across the districts, the county council said.\n\nFigures released on Wednesday show four districts out of seven - Broxtowe, Gedling, Rushcliffe and Newark and Sherwood - have rates above the England average.\n\nNottinghamshire's director of public health, Jonathan Gribbin, said: \"Covid-19 does not recognise geographical boundaries.\n\n\"The rapid and sustained increase in the numbers of positive cases is a serious cause for concern and the very dramatic rates in the city are a clear sign that action is needed now across the whole of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.\n\n\"We must now ask every resident to do their bit and not mix indoors with people from other households.\"\n\nNottinghamshire's care homes are also being advised to restrict visits to \"exceptional circumstances only\".\n\nThe University of Nottingham has confirmed 425 of its students have tested positive for the virus\n\nThe rise in cases coincides with the return of students to the city.\n\nNottingham City Council leader David Mellen said this has \"undoubtedly had a significant bearing on the increase in cases\".\n\nBut he added there has been a \"substantial rise in cases and infections across all parts of the city and in all age groups\".\n\nHis counterpart at Nottinghamshire County Council, Kay Cutts, added: \"No one group is responsible for the spread.\n\n\"If we want to see a return to normal life; to see our families again, to see our businesses flourish again, we must act now.\"\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.", "Prisons in England and Wales are now safer than before coronavirus because of rules brought in to reduce mixing by inmates, a union has claimed.\n\nThe Prison Officers' Association (POA) said staff and prisoners were getting on better and gang violence was down.\n\nIt argued that separated living groups, put in place to restrict infection, were a \"blessing in disguise\" and should become permanent.\n\nBut HM Prison Service said allowing inmates \"association\" was \"important\".\n\nIt promised to \"consider what lessons we can learn from the pandemic\".\n\nPrisons in England and Wales went into full lockdown in March, with visitors banned.\n\nSince then restrictions have eased, but many inmates are being housed - and allowed to socialise - in groups of around 15 to 20 to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Normally they would be able to mix in much larger numbers when not in their cells.\n\nUnder the new regime, officers are generally assigned to work with specific smaller groups, rather than dealing with entire wings.\n\nAnd prisoners are reportedly being locked up for longer - sometimes for more than 23 hours a day - as access to communal areas, such as exercise yards, showers and dining halls, becomes more time-limited.\n\nThe Prisons Reform Trust, which campaigns to improve jail conditions, has raised concerns that violence and self-harm will increase if restrictions continue.\n\nLast month it was reported that the coronavirus-prevention regime at HMP Erlestoke, Wiltshire, had made it \"less safe\". Inspectors found \"troubling conditions\", with inmates saying they were \"frustrated\" by a lack of activity.\n\nBut POA national chairman Mark Fairhurst told the BBC that prisons across England and Wales had, according to his union's members, become \"less violent and more safe\", adding: \"We've also been able to forge better staff-prisoner relations.\"\n\nMr Fairhurst said: \"If you let out 200 prisoners at one time, an entire wing, you are putting people at risk from another 199 people - from threats, attacks and bullying.\n\n\"It's much easier to deal with these problems if there are only 15 to 20 people at a time. Gang violence, in particular, is cut down.\"\n\nMr Fairhurst said it was important, where prisoners were being locked up for longer each day, to organise \"purposeful, constructive activities\", such as education and workshops.\n\n\"The government should listen to the experts in prisons - the staff - who say the situation is now safer and more stable,\" he said.\n\n\"It's been a blessing in disguise. It's given us an opportunity to reassess our regimes. We can't go back to the chaos of the system before coronavirus.\"\n\nRecorded violence among the inmate population has increased sharply in recent years.\n\nAccording to the Ministry of Justice, there were 267 prisoner-on-prisoner assaults per 1,000 prisoners in England and Wales in 2019-20 - up from 130 in 2012-13.\n\nThe figure for assaults on staff was 118 per 1,000 prisoners - up from 35 in 2012-13.\n\nOver the same period, the number of recorded incidents of self-harm per 1,000 prisoners almost trebled - from 266 to 777.\n\nThe published figures go up to March this year, when the lockdown began.\n\nPeter Dawson, director of the Prisons Reform Trust, said there would \"undoubtedly be lessons to learn\" from the pandemic and this would mean \"listening carefully to the people who live in prison as well as the people who work there\".\n\n\"But safety, security and rehabilitation all depend on building good relationships,\" he added, \"and that can't be done through a cell door\".\n\nAn HM Prison Service spokesperson said: \"We have taken unprecedented action to keep those who live and work in our prisons safe and will continue to do so.\n\n\"We will absolutely consider what lessons we can learn from the pandemic, but association will always form an important part of prison life.\"", "The number of hospital patients being treated for confirmed Covid is now at June levels\n\nThe number of patients in hospital beds in Wales with confirmed Covid-19 are at the highest since June.\n\nThere are now 473 patients being treated for suspected or confirmed coronavirus in hospital, including 46 who are recovering.\n\nNHS data shows 28 of those individuals need intensive care on ventilators - down by six over the week.\n\nA third of the Covid patients are in hospitals in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board region.\n\nThere are 260 patients being treated in Welsh hospitals with confirmed Covid, which is the highest number since 18 June.\n\nMerthyr still has the highest rate of infection in Wales, at more than 220 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nRCT has the second highest rate at 177 cases per 100,000.\n\nIn total, there are 157 patients from the region in hospital for Covid-19 related treatment.\n\nThe latest report on Covid patients comes as health officials in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg board confirmed 26 patients have now died in three hospitals, during outbreaks of the infection on wards.\n\nThere have been 129 cases alone at Llantrisant's Royal Glamorgan Hospital, with 24 deaths.\n\nTwo patients have also died at the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr and the Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital.\n\nThere have been 24 Covid deaths at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in the outbreak on its wards\n\nMedical director Nick Lyons said the health board was closely monitoring the cases in conjunction with Public Health Wales.\n\n\"The safety of our patients and staff remains our first priority and immediate measures to contain the spread of the virus have been put in place.\n\n\"We are taking the outbreaks extremely seriously and the stringent and robust mitigating actions which have been taken across our sites are being closely observed.\n\nAcross Wales, there are now an average of 78 patients every day being hospitalised due to coronavirus, up from 73 in the previous week.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Liverpool is one of many cities where there are extra restrictions\n\nIn many areas under local lockdown, cases and hospital admissions have continued to soar. Does that mean restrictions don't work?\n\nConsider the national lockdown in the spring. While it feels like it was one single policy, it was in fact a package of different measures. Schools, universities and offices shut. Pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops closed. No-one could mix with people from outside their household. People were advised not to use public transport and to limit the number of times they visited essential shops.\n\nTogether these had a dramatic impact on cases, and the number of coronavirus patients in hospital plummeted from 20,000 to about 800.\n\nHow much each part of that lockdown contributed is hard to say.\n\nThe rules were relaxed but then, at the end of June, Leicester became the first place to go into a local lockdown. Other cities, and whole regions, have followed. But so far, Leicester's lockdown is the only one to have come close to the strictness of the national policy. Shops and pubs were stopped from opening. Households were barred from mixing indoors. And new cases of the virus dropped by 60% during July. People in hospital beds with coronavirus fell from 88 to 18.\n\nSince Leicester, local lockdowns have multiplied. More than 15 million people - very roughly, a quarter of the UK population - have come under new curbs, in some form.\n\nAnd it's become harder to see whether they are working or not.\n\nAfter the first changes, cases continued to rise, throughout August. Then, after pub and restaurant closures, case rates dropped sharply. It is, however, too soon to say for sure that the stricter measures led directly to the decline.\n\nIn the rest of Greater Manchester, gatherings with other households were banned but shops, pubs and restaurants remained open. Cases have mostly kept climbing throughout these local restrictions.\n\nHowever, the latest week's data will be welcome news - suggesting the sharp increases might be levelling off. The rise in cases in many areas under local lockdown appears to be slowing, in line with the national picture.\n\nThis may be a sign that the England-wide \"rule of six\" is working.\n\nA large national study, published last week, confirmed the growth in cases was slowing across England, although overall levels remained high. But restrictions on households meeting - which have been seen at a local level - don't always lead to a slowing case rate. And this change in impact highlights the many factors involved which make it difficult to isolate the precise effect of local lockdowns.\n\nPeople don't necessarily change their behaviour exactly in line with rule changes.\n\nWhen concerns about cases rising begin to be reported, some people alter their behaviour before any law change. Other people, even when the rules come into place, don't obey them.\n\nSo it may be a question of timing: are people more ready to restrict their movements now than they were in August?\n\nTo complicate the figures further, other things have been going on at the same time as local lockdowns were being introduced, including summer holiday season and schools reopening.\n\nIn Leicester, cases fell when restrictions were introduced. When they were progressively eased in August and September, cases started to rise. But this rise coincided with more people travelling abroad. And with children going back to school.\n\nIn Greater Manchester, cases also rose over those months despite the area being in lockdown - albeit a looser version than Leicester's had been.\n\nUnpicking these different factors is a big challenge.\n\nLooking at \"positivity rates\" - the proportion of all tests that are positive, adjusting for different levels of testing - shows there have been increases in cases across England, with particularly sharp spikes in the North West and North East between the end of August and the end of September. Restrictions in those regions were only introduced between the middle of September and the beginning of October, making it too soon to see the impact of these rules.\n\nBut in Blackburn, which has been in lockdown long enough for an effect to be seen, there was also a rise in cases - though this has come back down in recent weeks.\n\nRecent increases in hospitalisations from coronavirus have highlighted the extent of the challenge facing the north of England. Though without up-to-date localised data, it is difficult to judge whether the impact on a local level - such as those in Blackburn - have helped prevent serious cases.\n\nThere's no doubt the national lockdown had a considerable impact on cases.\n\nFundamentally, the virus needs people to be in close contact and mixing between circles to spread through the population. How tight the restrictions are makes a difference - look at the experience of Leicester, compared with Oldham or Blackburn.\n\nBut so do the crucial issues of timing and compliance. A lockdown only works if people stick to it.\n\nThe data also indicates that any impact lockdowns do have is far from permanent - relax the restrictions and allow more contact, and the virus will quickly start to spread again.\n\nUnless and until a viable vaccine becomes available, government will be faced with the same choice: shut down large chunks of society or allow the virus to tear through communities, with little idea of the true toll that either will exact.", "Bars and restaurants are to be shut in another four French cities where Covid-19 is spreading\n\nThe French government has imposed tighter coronavirus restrictions in four more cities with high infection rates, as a number of European countries see a surge in cases.\n\nThe cities of Lyon, Lille, Grenoble and Saint-Etienne will become zones of maximum alert from Saturday.\n\nBars and restaurants will have to close, as they did in Paris earlier this week and Marseille last month.\n\nThe measures were announced as France saw a near-record 18,129 new cases.\n\n\"The situation has deteriorated in several metropolises in recent days,\" French Health Minister Olivier Veran said at a news conference on Thursday. \"Every day, more and more people are infected.\"\n\nFrance's maximum-alert level comes into force when the infection rate in a locality exceeds 250 infections per 100,000 people and at least 30% of intensive care beds are reserved for Covid-19 patients.\n\nHospitals in the Paris region moved into emergency mode on Thursday, as coronavirus patients took up almost half of intensive-care beds.\n\nFrance's coronavirus situation mirrors that of other European countries, including the Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine and the Czech Republic, which all reported record increases in daily cases on Thursday.\n\nEven Germany, a relative success story of the pandemic in Europe, has started to see what its health minister has called a worrying rise in cases.\n\nA large proportion of the rise in coronavirus cases globally is being driven by outbreaks in Europe, the Americas and South-East Asia.\n\nOn Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases, with the total rising by 338,779 in 24 hours.\n\nGermany saw its highest daily rise in infections since April, with confirmed cases rising by almost a third to more than 4,000.\n\nIt has now recorded a total of 310,144 cases with a death toll of 9,578, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The UK in contrast has registered 544,275 cases and 42,515 deaths. On Thursday 17,540 new cases were recorded in the UK.\n\nAt a news conference, RKI President Lothar Wieler said Germans must be wary of what he called the \"prevention paradox\" - the feeling that measures were no longer needed because case numbers were relatively low.\n\n\"The current situation worries me a lot. We don't know how the situation in Germany will develop in the coming weeks. It's possible we'll see more than 10,000 new cases a day, it's possible the virus will spread out of control,\" he said.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn praised the German people for their \"prudent actions\" in integrating the rules into their day-to-day lives, but added: \"We must not gamble away this achievement.\"\n\nHe pointed the finger at large groups of socialising young people, who \"think they are invincible\", for failing to follow the rules on social distancing and hygiene and welcomed the curfews on evening entertainment introduced by Berlin and Frankfurt.\n\nAs the autumn school holidays get under way in Germany, rules for domestic travel have also been tightened and include a ban on overnight stays in hotels or holiday apartments for anyone coming from \"risk zones\" where infection rates top 50 per 100,000 inhabitants.\n\nGermans have also been urged to avoid travelling abroad during the holiday period.\n\nThere are already bans on large gatherings in areas with high infection rates, testing at airports for people arriving from high-risk countries and fines for anyone failing to wear face coverings in shops or on public transport.", "Andy Charles, pictured with his son Ben, suffered months of delays after a fraudulent claim\n\nSelf-employed environmental consultant Andy Charles has no idea how fraudsters were able to claim thousands of pounds from a government scheme in his name.\n\nBut his case is just the tip of the iceberg, the BBC's Money Box has found.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) says up to £258m in grants for the self-employed could have been fraudulent or paid in error.\n\nMr Charles, from Exeter, only found out about the fraudulent claim when he put in a genuine one.\n\n\"My initial reaction was just complete shock really,\" he told the BBC. \"The application process is quite long and includes a lot of personal details, so to come to the end and be told this payment had already been applied for was quite shocking... the mind boggles really.\"\n\nDespite two fraudulent claims being made in his name, Andy was eventually able to get two grants from the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) paid out, which has helped him get through the tough economic times caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHowever, he still has concerns about how his personal details were used by criminals to make the fraudulent claims.\n\n\"I'm still, in the background of my mind, a little bit worried about what else people can get into. So can they just get into my personal tax details, [or] is there anything else I'm not aware of?\" he said.\n\n\"So some real big questions about how the online system works and how HMRC are dealing with this type of stuff at their end.\"\n\nIn documents seen by Radio 4's Money Box programme, HMRC says it estimates that 1-2% of all cases are bogus.\n\nWith £12.9bn allocated in 4.7 million grants, that would mean £258m could have been paid out in error or fraud.\n\nHMRC says the system was designed to prevent large-scale fraud and is confident it has done so.\n\nHMRC says it is confident it has already prevented large amounts of fraud\n\nSEISS is significantly smaller than its counterpart, the Job Retention Scheme, which placed millions of people on furlough.\n\nIt has faced criticism for excluding too many self-employed workers, but with the first grant alone worth up to £7,500, for many the scheme has been a lifeline.\n\nBut accidental overpayments or fraudulent claims made by criminals using someone else's name are thought to be two examples of how incorrect payments may have been made.\n\nHMRC does say the figure is an estimate and should be treated with caution: \"We built controls into the application process, including limiting eligibility for the scheme to those who already had a tax footprint with HMRC, to stop fraudulent claims and we're confident that we've prevented large amounts of fraud.\n\n\"Our post-payment compliance checks to recover money paid out are set to begin, with the focus on those who claimed despite having no active business.\"\n\nAndrew Chamberlain from the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed, says the misallocation of government funds is always a serious matter.\n\n\"Here it's particularly concerning because this is grant money that could be helping the more than a million struggling self-employed people who are excluded from government support,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It's important to put this in context, however. When compared to the Bounce Back Loan Scheme, where £26bn has been lost from fraud or default, or the Job Retention Scheme, which has lost £3.5bn through default or error, these numbers are comparatively low.\"\n\nHe added that it was \"clear\" the government needed to address fraudulent SEISS claims.\n\n\"Doing so, and plugging the leaks particularly in the BBLS and JRS schemes, would allow it to divert much-needed support to the UK's forgotten freelancers and self-employed.\"\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening again here.", "However you look at the blizzard of statistics about the Coronavirus, the disease is still spreading - despite town after town being placed under extra limits.\n\nEven before Nicola Sturgeon's moves on Wednesday to try to break the spread in Scotland, ministers in SW1 were looking at the next steps they would need to take to stop the acceleration of the virus.\n\nAs we've reported, the government is likely to introduce a tiered approach to put different parts of the country with different spreads of the diseases into different categories.\n\nBut the exact nature of the strictest form of restrictions are yet to be set in stone.\n\nIt's a complicated equation. The Department of Health is worried about the spread of the disease, as well as other patients losing out on other treatments because of the focus on Covid.\n\nNo 11 is fearful about the impact on the economy, which has already had a profound shock.\n\nAnd it's No 10's job to worry about all of it, then reach a conclusion.\n\nBut Boris Johnson also knows that his own MPs and the opposition parties are more and more sceptical as each day passes about what the government proposes.\n\nIt's clear that shutting pubs and restaurants is a possibility - the \"circuit breaker\" that we have talked about on here lots of times.\n\nBut there are many questions still to be settled.\n\nWould that happen everywhere? Or just in the most affected parts of the country?\n\nWould closures be total or for a certain period of time only?\n\nWould they be temporary? Or put in place until an indeterminate time?\n\nA lot is unknown, but the discussions are serious. The Treasury is already looking at financial support for the different options, including not just closing pubs in the most affected areas, but potentially well beyond.\n\nThere is a lot yet to settle, and the next formal announcement is likely (as things stand) not to come until Monday.\n\nBut more action is clearly on the way.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDominic Calvert-Lewin marked his England debut with a goal as Gareth Southgate's side eased to victory in the friendly against Wales at Wembley.\n\nEverton's in-form striker rose to head his 10th goal of the season after 26 minutes from Jack Grealish, delivering an impressive all-round display until he was substituted just before the hour.\n\nThe outstanding Grealish was at the heart of England's best work, drawing the foul that led to England's second goal eight minutes after the break. Kieran Trippier delivered a perfect free-kick that was turned in by an ecstatic Conor Coady for his first international goal.\n\nEngland were now in control against a Wales side defending an eight-match unbeaten run and Danny Ings, making his first start, showed superb athleticism to add a third in the 63rd minutre with a perfectly-executed overhead kick after Tyrone Mings had headed down a Kalvin Phillips corner.\n• None Best action and reaction from England v Wales\n\nCalvert-Lewin was the Premier League's striker in form with nine goals for Everton - so it was no surprise this was an England debut bursting with confidence.\n\nThe 23-year-old has matured rapidly and all that development was on show as he delivered further illustration that he has what it takes to become the complete striker.\n\nCalvert-Lewin's attitude and workrate have never been in question but his goals output has. Now, with Everton top of the Premier League under manager Carlo Ancelotti, he cannot stop scoring.\n\nHere, he was the beneficiary of brilliant work by Grealish, whose cross from the right was the sort any striker dreams of, Calvert-Lewin soaring to power in the header.\n\nHe was taken off just before the hour but his power in the air, close control, hold-up play and strong running made this an impressive bow.\n\nEngland's other contender for the man-of-the-match award was Grealish, who had waited so long for his international debut and finally got on for 14 minutes in the dismal goalless draw against Denmark in Copenhagen in early September.\n\nHere, given his first start, Aston Villa's captain ran the show from midfield, drifting into dangerous positions, creating danger and constantly drawing fouls in dangerous positions.\n\nGrealish gave a top-class performance and his contribution, along with that of debutant Calvert-Lewin, will have delighted Southgate.\n\nThe added bonus came with all three goalscorers getting off the mark with their first goals for England.\n\nWales were missing their two big stars, the injured Gareth Bale and the unavailable Aaron Ramsey - who will now join up with the squad. Ramsey missed this game under coronavirus protocols, with Juventus having put their squad in a bubble last Saturday after two non-playing staff tested positive.\n\nThose absences showed as they had a fair amount of possession in the first half but created little - it might have been different had those two been present.\n\nGiggs will have been casting his eyes towards the Uefa Nations League games against the Republic of Ireland and Bulgaria - so one of his biggest concerns would have been the injury that forced off key striker Kieffer Moore in the first half.\n\nHe will have been worried too by Wales' vulnerability to crosses and set-piece deliveries, which brought England's three goals.\n\nWales have more important tests ahead and while this was an experimental night for Giggs, it was still a disappointing outcome.\n\nSix on the bounce against Wales for England - key stats\n• None England have won six consecutive matches against Wales for the first time since a run of seven between March 1908 and March 1914.\n• None Wales suffered their worst defeat against England since May 1973, also a 3-0 defeat.\n• None Three players all scored their first England goals in this game (Calvert-Lewin, Coady and Ings), the first time that's happened since June 1963 against Switzerland (Tony Kay, Johnny Byrne and Jimmy Melia).\n• None Dominic Calvert-Lewin became the 188th player to score on his England debut and the first Everton player to do so since Fred Pickering in 1964.\n• None Conor Coady ended a run of 111 games for club and country with a goal, scoring his first goal since April 2018 for Wolves against Bolton in a Championship match. It was the first time he'd had two shots in a match since March 2017 for Wolves against Reading.\n• None England gave four players (Saka, Calvert-Lewin, Barnes, James) their England debuts, the second game running four players have earned their debuts. It's the first time since April/May 1933 that England have given four or more debuts in consecutive internationals.\n• None There were just 54 caps between the players in the England starting XI before kick-off, the fewest for an international since 1976, when the XI for a game against Wales had just 47 caps between them.\n• None The starting XI featured players from 10 different clubs (Burnley, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal, Liverpool, Wolves, Everton, Spurs, Leeds, Southampton and Aston Villa), the most for a match since May 1997 against South Africa.\n• None Kieran Trippier captained England for the first time, becoming the first outfield player since David Beckham in June 2008 against Trinidad & Tobago to captain England while playing for a non-English club (Atletico Madrid).\n• None Attempt saved. James Ward-Prowse (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Danny Ings.\n• None Attempt saved. Danny Ings (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Ainsley Maitland-Niles. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The UK has agreed to settle a lawsuit over how it selected an IT contract for coronavirus testing at its Lighthouse labs.\n\nThe BBC understands that the settlement will cost the government up to £2m.\n\nBritish company Diagnostics AI claimed it lost out to a European rival UgenTec despite spotting some positive coronavirus cases its rival missed.\n\nIt sued the government over the decision, claiming the selection process was \"unfair and unlawful\".\n\nLighthouse labs are a UK-wide network of specialist coronavirus laboratories managed by the government and run by private firms. When the labs were set up, companies pitched to analyse the test results.\n\nThe dispute was due to be played out in court. It would have meant a public examination of the accuracy and speed of the testing system, at a time when it has come under serious criticism.\n\nBut the government has decided to settle the case and will pay Diagnostics AI compensation and most of its legal fees.\n\nHowever, despite agreeing to the payout, the government has refuted the claims made by Diagnostics AI, saying they are \"inaccurate\".\n\n\"The tests are reliable and effective, the laboratories that undertake them have been reviewed and assessed by experts and the percentage of false negatives or positives is tiny,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\n\"This was a commercial dispute over a software contract where a number of factors were considered before it was awarded, which is still subject to final agreement over costs.\"\n\nAs the contract was worth more than £1m, the BBC understands the settlement including legal costs could amount to around £2m.\n\nSwabs are taken from people at testing sites or home tests and treated with a chemical process that produces a graph. The software is used to determine whether the graphs show the sample was positive or negative for coronavirus.\n\nSoftware is used to analyse swabs to determine whether a sample is positive or negative for coronavirus\n\nDiagnostics AI claimed UgenTec's analysis of a trial run of 2,000 samples was flawed. In some cases, it claimed UgenTec found negative coronavirus results, when the results were actually positive or inconclusive.\n\n\"The system that they ultimately went with and decided to pay for missed around 50 out of 800 positive [results], so that's around one in 15, or so, one in 16 - to be precise - positives,\" Diagnostics AI's chief executive Aron Cohen told the BBC.\n\n\"Obviously when that translates to hundreds of thousands of samples a day, that's potentially thousands of missed positives going out every day. So that was really worrying for us.\"\n\nUgenTec in return claimed that no patients were affected at all as it was a trial run.\n\n\"We provide crucial covid interpretation services to the Lighthouse Labs to help them manage the vast amounts of data they generate. These claims are inaccurate and misleading,\" UgenTec's chief executive Steven Verhoeven told the BBC.\n\n\"None of these samples refer to actual results given to patients or the public and to imply any public health impact is wrong. Live tests were not being supported by our software at the time which was in the process of being implemented. As illustrated by independent tests, we have every confidence in our software and the services we provide.\"\n\nTwo non-profit companies owned and funded by the government were also sued by Diagnostics AI - namely UK Biocentre and Medicines Delivery Catapult (MDC), which ran the process to decide which company to use.\n\nCourt papers show that between 31 March and 14 April, Diagnostics AI repeatedly requested information about exactly what services were required and how their bid would be evaluated.\n\nDiagnostics AI say it never received the information it asked for. This is refuted by UK Biocentre, which says both providers were given the same information.\n\nLocal authorities are permitted to purchase services without engaging in a competitive process if there is a significant risk to life\n\nWhen the two bids were being considered in early April, the UK was facing what Boris Johnson had called a \"moment of national emergency\".\n\nIn such urgent circumstances, the law does make provision for the government to buy services without a competitive process, if certain conditions are met.\n\nHowever, it is understood that both Diagnostics AI and Ugentec had been recommended to UK Biocentre, and so a decision was made to evaluate both offers.\n\nDiagnostics AI says this process was unfair and flawed, but UK Biocentre insists it was fair to both bidders.\n\nA spokesperson for UK Biocentre said: \"The allegations are groundless; this was a commercial dispute. The software in question is being used widely in the Lighthouse Laboratories, in some NHS laboratories and abroad.\n\n\"External quality assurance has confirmed that the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing in the Lighthouse Laboratories, of which the automated diagnostic software forms part, is performing well.\"\n\nA spokesperson for MDC also provided the BBC with a statement: \"The full results of evaluation identified UgenTec as a safe and quality provider, able to deliver in high volumes, and with a comprehensive support system in place. It has performed superbly over the past six months, analysing over eight million test results for the nation. The litigation was purely a commercial dispute.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that investigations were carried out into the claims made by Diagnostics AI, but concluded that concerns over the safety of UgenTec's software were unsubstantiated.\n\nHowever Mr Cohen disagrees: \"The government is paying out a lot of money. And they're paying this out, you know, to avoid it at least in part, to avoid having to have these issues aired in court, and to have discussions over the accuracy of the testing.\"", "Nottingham has the highest Covid-19 infection rate in the UK, according to the latest data.\n\nPublic Health England figures show that 689.1 per 100,000 people tested positive for the virus in the city over the past week.\n\nDocuments leaked earlier today indicate that new social distancing rules for Nottinghamshire are due to be announced on Monday.\n\nLocal politicians have criticised the delay in imposing restrictions.\n\nNottingham City Council leader David Mellen said the government's lack of action on new measures in Nottingham \"makes absolutely no sense\" and that \"strict interventions are needed urgently\".\n\nThe Labour politician said: \"The delay leaves this weekend open to potential abuse of the existing rules, which could result in yet more Covid cases in our city.\"\n\nHe called on the government to \"act urgently and decisively or, better still, give us the powers to let us get on with taking action ourselves\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Mellen says a lack of coronavirus restrictions this weekend could mean a “last chance to party\" in Nottingham\n\nIn the week up to 5 October, Nottingham recorded 2,294 cases, up from 407 the previous week.\n\nEarlier, the county council said the rate of infection for Nottinghamshire was 106 per 100,000, much lower than the rate in Nottingham.\n\nAlthough the government has yet to introduce formal measures, local authorities have asked people in the county to avoid mixing indoors with other households indoors following the \"dramatic\" rise in cases.\n\nNottingham's director of public health Alison Challenger said: \"Everyone needs to stick rigidly to their social bubbles and not mix with other households.\n\n\"There is no need to wait for additional government restrictions.\"\n\nGedling MP Tom Randall said he would \"wholly support calls\" for people to follow stricter guidelines, while Nottingham South MP Lilian Greenwood has called the delay in introducing measures \"reckless and indefensible\".\n\nMs Greenwood added: \"It's outrageous that [MPs] only found out about this decision from the media.\"\n\nOn Thursday evening, the government released a statement urging residents to follow \"the advice of the local authority\", as well as practising social distancing, wearing face coverings, and getting tested if they exhibited symptoms.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"The local authority has our full backing and support.\"\n\nBut Nottingham North MP Alex Norris, who was briefed about the government's strategy during a call with health minister Edward Argar, said he was sceptical about the government's strategy.\n\nHe said: \"When pressed about Nottingham, the advice that came back was, 'We've not decided yet', which is very hard to understand.\n\n\"They won't support us because they won't bring in the restriction we're appealing for them to bring in.\n\n\"We're trying to get ahead of those restrictions by suggesting them to people ourselves, but of course we don't have the legal backing to enforce those.\"\n\nBen Bradley, MP for Mansfield - which has a lower infection rate of 62.2 - called on the government to reconsider blanket restrictions for the whole of the county.\n\nThe Conservative politician added: \"It would be really frustrating to have restrictions imposed when, locally, we might not need them.\"\n\nAccording to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, leaked documents show Nottinghamshire is expected to go into level two of a new \"three-tier\" system next week.\n\nThey indicate people will still be able to go on holiday outside the county, but only with people from their own household or support bubble.\n\nHouseholds would still be able to meet indoors if they are in a support bubble.\n\nJo Cox-Brown, founder of Night Time Economy, which works with businesses and local authorities to create safer nights out in English cities, said further restrictions could have a devastating effect on jobs.\n\n\"[Businesses] are terrified. The night-time economy is worth 14,000 jobs in Nottingham alone,\" she said.\n\n\"They were closed for three months, they have been trading for two months but at 50-75% of normal occupancy levels, so financially these venues are on their knees.\"\n\nAcross England, bars and restaurants could be forced to close as the government prepares to tighten restrictions for the worst-affected areas.\n\nIt follows the announcement that similar outlets across central Scotland are to be closed for 16 days.\n\nLocal restrictions have yet to be imposed in the city\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick has refused to say whether pubs and restaurants in the north and in Nottingham will be forced to close.\n\nHe said: \"We are currently considering what steps we should take, obviously taking the advice of our scientific and medical advisers, and a decision will be made shortly.\"\n\nAsked if there will be an announcement linked to the hospitality industry, he said: \"We are considering the evidence. In some parts of the country, the number of cases are rising very fast and we are taking that very seriously.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Rome has already made masks mandatory in busy outdoor areas\n\nItaly has made it mandatory to wear face masks in outdoor spaces across the country in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nItalians must also wear masks indoors everywhere except in private homes.\n\nAlthough Covid-19 cases are much lower in Italy than in many other European countries, there has been a steady rise in infections.\n\nMeanwhile, Germany reported a spike in its infection rate to more than 4,000 daily cases.\n\nAlthough this figure is lower than in many European countries, it is Germany's highest number of cases in 24 hours since April. Testing has increased, however, so more cases are being recorded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nGermany has seen fewer than 10,000 coronavirus-related deaths so far, out of a population of 83 million. But new restrictions are being introduced, including a ban on people from high-risk regions staying in hotels in the rest of the country.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said tougher measures were needed to avoid returning to an economically devastating lockdown in Italy.\n\n\"From now on, masks and protective gear have to be brought with us when we leave our house and worn. We have to wear them all the time unless we are in a situation of continuous isolation,\" he said.\n\nMasks must also be worn in shops, offices, on public transport, and in bars and restaurants when not seated at a table.\n\nThe measures have already been put in place in some parts of Italy that have seen an increase in infections, such as Rome, but the latest announcement makes them nationwide.\n\nItalians were subject to some of the strictest lockdown measures in the world when the country became the first in Europe to be overwhelmed by the coronavirus earlier in the year.\n\nAlthough it has managed to keep the virus in check more successfully than many other European countries in recent months, cases in the last 24 hours have surged past the 3,000 mark for the first time since 24 April, registering 3,678 new infections, data from the health ministry shows.\n\nItaly also took action on Wednesday to stem the number of cases coming in from Europe, announcing compulsory testing for anyone travelling from the UK, Netherlands, Belgium and the Czech Republic.", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nScotland are one game away from their first major finals since 1998 after a nerve-shredding win on penalties against Israel at Hampden.\n\nKenny McLean scored the pivotal spot-kick in the depleted Scots' first ever shootout, with only a victory in Serbia on 12 November now separating Steve Clarke's men from Euro 2020.\n\nIt was a turgid affair at an empty national stadium between two below-par teams, but five perfect penalties from the hosts have a nation daring to dream of reaching a long-awaited tournament.\n\nScotland, without a clutch of players after call-offs due to Covid-19 protocols and injury, are now on a six-game unbeaten run.\n\nSerbia lie in wait in the play-off finals after they defeated Norway 2-1 in extra time in Oslo.\n• None What could still ruin Scotland's dream?\n\nHoping for the best, fearing the worst. The mantra of every Scotland fan following the match across the land. Was it now, or would it continue to be never?\n\nAs the Tartan Army dared to whisper of the former, the preamble silenced much of the chatter.\n\nStuart Armstrong, Kieran Tierney, Ryan Christie, Scott McKenna, Liam Palmer, James Forrest and Oliver Burke all ruled out - the first three amid Covid controversy.\n\nWhat followed in the fledgling moments of this encounter would have offered modest reassurance. While seeing plenty of the ball, Scotland struggled to serve the front two of Oli McBurnie and Lyndon Dykes.\n\nInstead, the hosts' best efforts came from set-pieces. Andy Robertson arced a free-kick wide in a half chance before Scott McTominay missed a jaw-dropping chance, steering a header the wrong side of the post from six yards when left all alone.\n\nThe noise of the Manchester United man - playing again in a back three - chastising himself for the miss walking off at the break the only thing cutting through the Hampden silence.\n\nScotland captain Robertson was four years old the last time the country graced a major tournament, and the pressure seemed to suffocate him and his team-mates.\n\nWhile the back three looked steady, there was little intensity going forward, minimal width and nothing for Ofir Marciano to do in the Israel goal.\n\nInstead, the team ranked 93rd in the world were the ones to get the only shot of the 90 minutes on target, Eran Zahavi's zinger from distance being dealt with by David Marshall.\n\nThe game limped over the line into extra time - Scotland's first added half hour since 1961 - with what was likely to have been a unified sigh of resignation across the country.\n\nSubstitute Ryan Fraser brought intent and conviction to the side, the Newcastle winger sparking flickers of intent, but again Marciano's gloves remained immaculate. Twenty two years of hurt down, 15 minutes to play.\n\nThe agonising torture of Scotland's first penalty shootout seemed inevitable, but Israel offered one huge heart-in-mouth moment.\n\nCeltic's Hatem Elhamed's cross was missed by Liam Cooper. Lurking behind was Shon Weissman, but the Real Valladolid striker's outstretched leg missed it too. The cracks in the fingers contracted tighter.\n\nThen the nerves were shredded further. A last-gasp Robertson corner found the head of Cooper. His connection was true, but the ball crashed off an upright and out of play to signal penalties.\n\nScotland were now into uncharted waters. Nothing up until this point suggested how plain sailing it would be.\n\nJohn McGinn, Callum McGregor, McTominay, Lawrence Shankland and McLean all scored, with Marshall saving Zehavi's opening spot kick. It trigger delirium on the pitch, at homes everywhere, and no doubt on streets outside of pubs that closed - or were supposed to, at least - halfway through extra time.\n\nIt's safe to come out from the back of the sofa, but best keep the spot warm for next month.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nNot as much what did we learn, but what were we reminded of? Watching Scotland should come with a health warning.\n\nThis is a national team that for so many years has threatened to be consumed by the beast of a two-decade burden of regret, angst and humiliation. While Israel didn't threaten for the most part, the group of players in dark blue struggled to find their rhythm.\n\nBut, it wouldn't be Scotland unless it was done the hard way. While Clarke will say Slovakia and Czech Republic in the Nations League in coming days will get due respect, the focus internally will surely be on preparing for Serbia. With an influx of players returning, you just never know...\n• None This was Scotland's first goalless draw in 55 matches, since November 2013 against United States.\n• None Scotland have gone six games without defeat in all competitions (W4 D2) for the first time since being unbeaten in seven matches under Gordon Strachan in October 2017.\n• None Only one of the game's 29 shots was on target - Eran Zahavi's attempt for Israel in the 72nd minute.\n• None It was the first time Scotland have not had a shot on target at home since the game against Belgium in September 2013.\n\nScotland's focus now falls to Sunday's visit of Slovakia to Hampden in the Nations League, then the arrival of the Czechs on Wednesday. Honestly...\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(5), Israel 0(3). Kenny McLean (Scotland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(4), Israel 0(3). Mohammad Abu Fani (Israel) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(4), Israel 0(2). Lawrence Shankland (Scotland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(3), Israel 0(2). Shon Weissman (Israel) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(3), Israel 0(1). Scott McTominay (Scotland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(2), Israel 0(1). Nir Bitton (Israel) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(2), Israel 0. Callum McGregor (Scotland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Eran Zahavi (Israel) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(1), Israel 0. John McGinn (Scotland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Liam Cooper (Scotland) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andrew Robertson (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by John McGinn.\n• None Offside, Israel. Nir Bitton tries a through ball, but Shon Weissman is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Exploring how it defines the way we feel\n• None What We're Not Taught In Schools", "The container had \"become a tomb\" the Old Bailey heard\n\nA lorry container became a \"tomb\" as 39 desperate men, women and children suffocated inside, a court has heard.\n\nTemperatures in the unit reached an \"unbearable\" 38.5C as the Vietnamese nationals were sealed inside for at least 12 hours, jurors were told.\n\nTheir bodies were found when the container was eventually opened in Purfleet, Essex, on 23 October, 2019.\n\nLorry driver Eamonn Harrison and Gheorghe Nica are on trial at the Old Bailey accused of manslaughter.\n\nThe pair are also accused of being part of a people-smuggling conspiracy with another lorry driver, Christopher Kennedy, and Valentin Calota.\n\nOpening their Old Bailey trial, Bill Emlyn Jones told jurors it was a \"sad and unavoidable truth\" that some people were prepared to go to great lengths to come to the UK \"for a better life\", adding the cost was some £10,000 per person.\n\nHe told jurors: \"Obviously, any time you fill an airtight container with a large number of people, where they will be left for hours and hours, with no means of escape and no means of communication with the outside world - well, it is fraught with danger.\"\n\nMr Emlyn Jones said the victims - aged between 15 and 44 - were \"husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters\".\n\nVictim Pham Thi Ngoc Oanh, 28 from Nghe An, wrote a text message that was never sent\n\nHe told how Mr Harrison drove them to Zeebrugge in Belgium, where the container was loaded on to a cargo ship bound for the UK.\n\nAnother lorry driver, Maurice Robinson, then collected the trailer from Purfleet in Essex when it arrived just after midnight on 23 October, the court heard.\n\nThe prosecutor said that by then it had been some 12 hours at least since \"any meaningful amount of fresh air had been let into the sealed container\".\n\nRobinson had been sent a message from his boss to \"give them air quickly, but don't let them out\", the court heard.\n\n\"What he found must haunt him still,\" Mr Emlyn Jones said. \"For the 39 men and women inside, that lorry had become their tomb.\"\n\nThe refrigerator had not been turned on during the journey, meaning the temperature inside the trailer rose to 38.5C, he added.\n\nWhen Mr Kennedy learned of the deaths, he told a friend there \"must have been too many and run out of air\", the court heard.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nMr Emlyn Jones said: \"What it must have been like inside that lorry does not bear thinking about. In fact, we do have some direct evidence of what the victims were going through, recovered from some of their mobile phones.\"\n\nOne victim - 28-year-old Pham Thi Ngoc Oanh - had written a text message that was never sent, saying: \"Maybe going to die in the container, can't breathe any more dear.\"\n\n\"They had no signal inside the container, so could not call for help or alert the outside world to their plight. But naturally, in desperation, they tried,\" Mr Emlyn Jones said.\n\nNica, 43, of Basildon, Essex, and Mr Harrison, 23, of Mayobridge, Co Down, Northern Ireland, deny 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nNica has admitted conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration between 1 May 2018 and 24 October 2019.\n\nMr Harrison, Mr Calota, 37, of Birmingham, and Mr Kennedy, 24, of Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, deny the conspiracy charge.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vice-President Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Kamala Harris were under the microscope in Wednesday's vice-presidential debate.\n\nPresident Donald Trump is currently ill with Covid 19, a virus that's claimed over 200,000 American lives, bringing renewed attention to the vice-presidential role.\n\nMany voters were frustrated by last week's chaotic presidential debate, and were pleased with tonight's calmer exchange between Pence and Harris.\n\nHere's what members of the voter panel thought about the vice-presidential debate.\n\nShloka Ananthanarayanan, 33, is a progressive voter from New York City who works for an international bank. She is backing Joe Biden but more enthusiastically supporting Kamala Harris as the second on the ticket.\n\nWhat moment stood out to you?\n\nI wouldn't necessarily say there was one moment that stood out, but what stood out was the tone and the fact that no one was yelling at each other during this debate. The last question felt particularly impactful - it ended on such a note of civility. We can agree to disagree, but at the end of the day we are all just Americans.\n\nWho do you think 'won' the debate?\n\nThe winner is based completely on where you were coming at to begin with. Ultimately I don't think there was one person who came out as dominating the debate over the other, but they both got the chance to make their case and now it's up to the voters to decide.\n\nIs there something that you wanted to see that didn't?\n\nThe question [on election integrity] was very interesting. [The moderator] kept pushing them and the question did not get answered. I don't think Kamala Harris had a plan for what would happen if Trump refused to leave the White House and Pence just said we're going to win, so it was a non-starter. That is a significant concern for a lot of people because there is a continuing rhetoric [from Trump] of 'we won't leave' [the White House] or 'even if we lose, it's because it's rigged'.\n\nJim Sullivan is a fiscal conservative who \"holds his nose\" to vote Trump but finds the leftward tilt of the Democrats too \"radical and jolting\". He considers Mike Pence more conservative than him, but a decent man who would make a good president.\n\nWhat moment stood out to you?\n\nIt was a lot more civil and flowed much better than the last debate. In the very beginning, Pence's defence of the Trump administration's efforts on coronavirus stood out to me. With regard to what Vice-President Pence said to Kamala Harris later about packing the court, I feel like that was an important question and did not feel like that was answered.\n\nWho do you think 'won' the debate?\n\nThis was such an amazing leap forward and it is to the benefit of the country, re-instilling some confidence that we aren't completely broken, can have a functioning government and can have a civil conversation hashed out in a respectful way. Both candidates did really well, but I'm going to go with Pence. He had a very good way of addressing things and the way he presents things will resonate across the country. I think it may have made some people think again if they were going in another direction.\n\nIs there something that you wanted to see that didn't?\n\nPence asked about packing the court and Democrats have talked about adding DC and Puerto Rico as states, and abolishing the electoral college. I would have liked to hear what Harris' thoughts were on those things. Healthcare also is still an important issue and they did not dive into that enough. With Pence, I would have liked to hear more what the plans were for the economy going forward.\n\nWhy did this debate matter to you?\n\nI am a Republican who is going to support the president, but there's been times in this season I've felt a little undecided. Vice-President Pence gave me a certain sense of assurance about my decision, reaffirming that it's a good choice. Given the age of the two candidates, the vice-presidential pick this time around is pretty significant. Last week was just distressing, so this was a real breath of fresh air. I don't agree with Kamala Harris on a lot of things, but they both handled themselves well and I liked the format.\n\nAkayla Sellers is a Democratic college student at the University of Charleston studying public health and pre-med. She is enthusiastically behind the Biden/Harris ticket and excited to see Harris bring the issues of black America to the table.\n\nWhat moment stood out to you?\n\nAt the very end, the eighth grader posed a great question because the image typically shown in the American media is of a polarised country. At the end of the day, whether Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, we need a presidency that exercises compassion, empathy and love. We need leaders that respect individual human life and strive for the best in humanity.\n\nWho do you think 'won' the debate?\n\nPence has a strategic way of saying a lot while oddly saying nothing. Harris' direct, eloquent and stern way of answering questions provided knowledge and information, and that's what I think is a successful debate - actually talking about policies, answering the questions wholeheartedly and [tackling] her controversial past. I feel like she won as a whole because she has a more intersectional approach that's going to help everyone.\n\nIs there something that you wanted to see that didn't?\n\nI didn't see a lot of things that [young people] are passionate about. They could have discussed a lot more in depth about healthcare, education and the racial uproar. You see a lot of people crowding the streets, they are the younger generation and they didn't discuss that in depth.\n\nWhy did this debate matter to you?\n\nIt brought back a sense of tranquillity after the circus last week made a lot of us feel that, if the Trump administration were to have another term, it would be chaotic. So it matters because I wanted to hear, in an eloquent way, what Pence's stances were on certain issues, as well as Kamala's, so that I can have knowledge, be aware and not be fearful, so I can spread that information on to others.\n\nGordon Kou is a Christian engineering graduate student at the University of Utah, where Wednesday's debate is being held. He is still undecided in who to vote for and is considering voting third party, as he did in 2016.\n\nWhat moment stood out to you?\n\nThe fly on Mike Pence's head was pretty memorable, but the last question [about why the country is so polarised] was probably the brightest part of the debate. It reminded me of one of the debates in 2016, where the moderator asked Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to compliment each other.\n\nWho do you think 'won' the debate?\n\nBoth presidential candidates chose very well in their VP picks. They did a better job of defending their candidates than the actual candidates did. Overall, the winner was America because we somewhat saved face after the debacle last week.\n\nIs there something that you wanted to see that didn't?\n\nI definitely wanted to hear more about what would happen if Trump doesn't accept the results of the election. I also wanted to hear more about things proposed by Democrats such as packing the Supreme Court and getting rid of the filibuster. Trump talks about mass voter fraud and Democrats talk about election hacking - I wanted to hear more about election security because that is central to who we are as Americans.\n\nWhy did this debate matter to you?\n\nIt's better when America hears what the actual policy stances are and we actually have something to base our votes on rather than sheer political partisanship. The debate actually makes it harder for me to decide who to vote for. I am a conservative person turned off by Trump and his conduct, but Vice-President Pence made a very good argument for a Trump presidency because he does speak to a lot of things conservatives care about.\n\nSam Cabral, Silvia Martelli and Marianna Brady contributed to this reporting.\n\nWhat questions do you have for our voters?\n\nVoters across the country will go to the polls in four weeks. What questions do you have for our voter panel? What questions can BBC journalists help answer about the US election?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why this black drive-in cinema has become a big hit\n\nThe Academy has updated its Oscars rules to allow films shown at drive-in cinemas to qualify for best picture and general entry categories.\n\nThe new rules also state that a theatrical run of seven days would meet the eligibility criteria.\n\nIt follows their decision in April to allow films without traditional cinematic releases, as long as they are uploaded to the Academy Screening Room.\n\nNext year's event has been delayed until 25 April 2021, due to Covid-19.\n\nThe closing date for films up for consideration to be submitted is now 28 February.\n\n\"With the gradual re-opening of theatres, an addendum was added to clarify the two methods for qualification in the best picture and general entry categories moving forward through the end of this exceptional awards year \" the organisers said in a statement on Variety.\n\nRebel Wilson and James Corden joked about Cats' visual effects at last year's Oscars\n\nOutdoor drive-in cinemas have long been a tradition in the US and have proved popular during the pandemic.\n\nThey have been trialled across the UK too, as many actual cinemas battle to stay open.\n\nLast year's winners: Best supporting actress Laura Dern with best actress Renee Zellweger\n\nThis week Cineworld decided to shut its doors until spring, following the news that the upcoming James Bond movie has been pushed back again.\n\nOdeon soon followed suit, announcing that some of its screens would open at weekends only, for now. But Showcase Cinemas, which started reopening its cinemas in July, said it is \"committed to keeping them open\".\n\nIn July, a major drive-in music and comedy tour was cancelled, however, due to fresh fears around local outbreaks of the virus and its ongoing financial implications.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "New measures to tackle coronavirus are to be announced \"in the coming days\", a minister says, after the BBC was told pubs and restaurants could be closed in the worst-affected areas of England.\n\nThere could also be a ban on overnight stays away from home in the locations - which include the North and Midlands.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said the government was \"currently considering what steps to take\".\n\nA three-tier system for local lockdowns is also likely to be announced.\n\nUnder the system, different parts of the country would be placed in different categories - although ministers are still discussing the precise details of the toughest level of restrictions over the next couple of days.\n\nA final decision on the time period or extent of potential closures has not yet been made and a formal announcement is not likely to come until Monday, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said.\n\nIt comes as North of England and Midlands MPs have been briefed by health ministers and chief medical officer Chris Whitty about the latest coronavirus data.\n\nThe number of people in the UK to have tested positive for coronavirus rose by 17,540 - an increase of 3,378 on Wednesday's figures - with a further 77 deaths reported.\n\nSome politicians in the North of England and the Midlands have shared their frustration about the plans appearing in newspapers before being announced in Parliament.\n\nThe Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, told the BBC: \"If it's urgent, give us the detail, give us the evidence behind the proposals. Let's discuss it and let's agree it quickly.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour has challenged the government to publish the scientific evidence behind the 22:00 BST closing time for pubs and restaurants in England.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer said his party would not be \"voting down\" the measure in the Commons next Tuesday but the policy \"needs to be reformed\".\n\nDowning Street said that early data suggested a \"significant proportion\" of coronavirus exposure was seen in the hospitality sector, especially in younger age groups.\n\nBut pressed on whether the government would publish evidence on the issue, Mr Jenrick told the BBC: \"It is commonsensical that the longer you stay in pubs and restaurants, the more likely you are to come into contact with other individuals.\n\n\"The more drinks that people have, the more likely that some people are to break the rules.\"\n\nHe added that it was right to \"take action decisively, rather than waiting for the most detailed epidemiological evidence to emerge\".\n\nOn the possibility of additional restrictions for some parts of England, Mr Jenrick did not rule out pubs being closed but said the response would be \"proportionate and localised\".\n\nHe added the government was trying to give \"greater consistency on rules so they're easier to understand\" and was working on \"slightly broader canvases of regions or cities and counties to avoid differences in people's daily lives if they drive over the border\".\n\nIt's a complicated equation. The Department of Health is worried about the spread of the disease, as well as other patients losing out on other treatments because of the focus on Covid.\n\nNo 11 is fearful about the impact on the economy, which has already had a profound shock.\n\nAnd it's No 10's job to worry about all of it, then reach a conclusion.\n\nBut Boris Johnson also knows that his own MPs and the opposition parties are more and more sceptical as each day passes about what the government proposes.\n\nIt's clear that shutting pubs and restaurants is a possibility - the \"circuit breaker\" that we have talked about lots of times.\n\nBut there are many questions still to be settled.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nThe planned tightening of restrictions in parts of England follows rising infection rates across much of the country, with the Academy of Medical Colleges warning the NHS is at risk of becoming overwhelmed.\n\nNottingham, Knowsley, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle upon Tyne have the highest infection rates in England, according to the latest Public Health England data.\n\nFrom Friday, all pubs and restaurants across central Scotland, including Glasgow and Edinburgh, are to close, while in the rest of Scotland hospitality venues must shut at 18:00 BST and alcohol can only be served outdoors.\n\nBut industry leaders are warning the measures could be the final straw for many businesses.\n\nHealth minister Nadine Dorries tweeted that further measures were needed in England because hospital admissions could be at \"a critical stage\" in about 10 days' time.\n\nA government source told the BBC the situation in the North West and North East of England was \"very troubling\", with growing numbers of hospital admissions and more elderly people in intensive care.\n\nThese areas will be placed into the top tier of restrictions - with an announcement possibly on Monday - in a new system called the Local Covid Alert Level.\n\nThere remains a debate within cabinet over how far the restrictions in the top tier should go, with some in No 10 arguing for measures like those in Scotland.\n\nThe plan is for schools to remain open in all circumstances.\n\nUnder the new system, all areas would be subject to the current England-wide restrictions, but there would be much more robust measures for the top tier.\n\nThere are already tighter restrictions in parts of the North East and North West of England, Birmingham and Leicester - including on households mixing.\n\nThe Treasury is looking at providing financial support to the hospitality industry in the worst-hit areas, and a memo seen by the BBC shows plans for additional money for local authorities. They would get £1 per head of population if placed into tier two, and £2 per head for tier three.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said if venues were forced to close the industry would need a return to a full furlough scheme and additional financial support.", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the stop was shared widely on Twitter after being posted by former Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie, who questioned why the vehicle had been targeted\n\nFive police officers are facing an investigation over the stop and search of British athlete Bianca Williams and her partner in west London.\n\nMs Williams and Ricardo dos Santos, whose baby son was in the car, believe they were racially profiled when they were stopped in Maida Vale, on 4 July.\n\nThe Met referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) after footage was widely shared.\n\nSal Naseem said a \"threshold for a misconduct investigation\" had been met.\n\nThe IOPC's regional director added: \"Decisions on any further action will only be made once our investigation is complete.\"\n\nThe Met had said officers were patrolling the area in which Ms Williams was stopped because of an increase in youth violence.\n\nCommonwealth Games gold medallist Ms Williams, 26, accused the Met of racially profiling her partner, who was driving a black Mercedes.\n\nThree days after the incident, the Met apologised to Ms Williams.\n\nBianca Williams won European and Commonwealth gold in the 4x100m relay in 2018\n\nThe force also referred itself to the IOPC, despite two reviews by the force's directorate of professional standards concluding there had been no misconduct.\n\nThe five officers will now be investigated for potential breaches of police standards of professional behaviour relating to use of force; duties and responsibilities; and authority, respect and courtesy, the IOPC said in a statement.\n\nThe IOPC said its independent investigation would focus on seven points including why Mr Dos Santos's car was followed and stopped and whether the force used against Mr Dos Santos and Ms Williams was lawful, necessary, reasonable and proportionate.\n\nIt is also being questioned why a Merlin report, a Met-run database that stores information on children who have become known to the police for any reason, was created for Ms Williams's son.\n\nMr Dos Santos and Ms Williams say police handcuffed them while their son was in the car\n\nInvestigators will also look at whether Ms Williams and Mr Dos Santos \"were treated less favourably because of their race\" as well as the accuracy of the accounts provided by the officers and the \"appropriateness of the communications\" issued by the Met.\n\nThe IOPC statement said it would look at whether there were grounds for Mr Dos Santos to be kept in handcuffs after he had been searched.\n\nIt added: \"In relation to Ms Williams the potential breaches, which will all be thoroughly investigated, include taking hold of her without first having sought her co-operation with the search; handcuffing her initially and continuing to handcuff her after she had been searched; her continued detention and whether there were grounds to do so.\"\n• None Police 'willing to learn' after athlete stopped\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Local councils in England will receive £30m to fund measures including Covid marshals, to ensure the public and businesses follow coronavirus rules.\n\nA further £30m in government funding will be split between police forces in England and Wales to aid enforcement.\n\nMarshals will not have powers to enforce the law but will advise people on how to follow the rules, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said.\n\nThe Local Government Association warned authorities are at \"tipping point\".\n\nThe government said the funding would help step up enforcement of coronavirus rules in a bid to tackle the rise of infections.\n\nMr Jenrick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Covid marshals could knock on doors, as they had done in places such as Leicester, but would not be able to enter properties.\n\nHe said: \"They won't have the power to enforce the law so if there are particularly egregious examples they would need to escalate that to the police and I think that is the right thing to do. We are not expecting local council officers to get involved in that.\"\n\nSome of the funding will go towards environmental health officers who do have enforcement powers to ensure businesses obey the restrictions, Mr Jenrick said.\n\nHe said he expected the funding to be \"used sensitively to help to educate, inform and engage members of the public\".\n\nNesil Caliskan, from the Local Government Association (LGA), welcomed the funding, but said in many areas regulatory services are already \"at tipping point\".\n\nHe said with councils leading local work to tackle Covid-19 the government needed to ensure they had the funding to maintain \"vital trading standards and environmental health services over the next six months and beyond\".\n\nThe additional funding for police forces comes after calls from Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), for more support for \"specific Covid patrolling activity\".\n\nNPCC figures showed that after a 28% drop in crime at the height of lockdown, in the four weeks to 30 August levels were at 3% below those in the same period last year.\n\nMr Hewitt said: \"This additional funding will go some way to covering the cost of this at a time when crime and demand on policing is almost back to the levels seen before the pandemic.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the government had been clear with infections rising \"we will not allow a small minority of people to reverse our hard-won progress\" and said the funding would strengthen the police's role in enforcing the law.\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers must keep their discretion about how best to use resources with forces already \"overstretched\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the funding was not enough for forces and councils already under pressure even before the pandemic.\n\n\"They have come under huge strain, not least as they went into this crisis weakened by a decade of cuts that saw officer numbers fall and council funding slashed,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office has also launched a scheme to allow police forces to recover losses due to the pandemic from income generating work, such as policing sporting events.\n\nThey will be able to recoup 75p in every £1 of budgeted income after absorbing 5% of the losses.", "Two weeks in, the NHS Covid-19 app for England and Wales seems to have got off to a good start, with more than 16 million downloads so far - but a range of employers are actively discouraging their staff from using it.\n\nEarlier this week, both the pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline and a Hull-based fuel supplier told staff the app should be switched off at work - both said it was unnecessary in their \"Covid-secure\" workplaces.\n\nAnd now, there are numerous reports teachers are being told they should not use the app in school.\n\nI have received a message from a teacher in north-west England who wants to remain anonymous.\n\nThis person downloaded the app on the day it was released and then, last Monday, tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nAs the test had been booked through the app, it then triggered alerts telling three colleagues at the school to go into isolation.\n\nBut then, according to the teacher, the secondary school's business manager told the three people involved to ignore the messages and delete the app if they felt they had not been within 2m (6ft) for at least 15 minutes.\n\nOne of the teachers ignored that advice, went into isolation and had a test.\n\nBut when that proved negative, they returned to work - which is contrary to the government advice to complete your period of isolation even if you have a negative test.\n\nMy anonymous contact told me: \"Too many schools want to keep staff in, even if it means breaking the law.\n\n\"I am in a school with about 75-80% black African heritage intake, so our demographic is at very high risk.\"\n\nWe have also heard of a school in Eastbourne, in Sussex, telling teachers not to use the app \"in school time\".\n\nOne head teacher told his colleagues there was a danger a staff member could receive an alert relating to their external activities, which would then trigger more alerts affecting the school.\n\nEast Sussex County Council said it had not issued any guidance on the matter, but suggested the school might have based its policy on an interpretation of a national guidance document.\n\nThe prime minister visited a secondary school in his constituency last week\n\nAnd more cases keep coming in.\n\nA teacher in the Midlands messaged me to say it had been suggested he and his colleagues \"delete the app and ignore messages so [as] not to interfere [or] risk A-level resits\".\n\nOne teacher, however, had a different story.\n\n\"Our headmaster has advised staff and pupils over 16 to use the app,\" he said.\n\n\"This is what persuaded me to use it.\n\n\"Our head has been amazing.\n\n\"I feel looked after, like he cares about the staff as well as the kids.\"\n\nA Department of Health official said: \"We want as many people to download and use the app as possible.\n\n\"It is important to use the NHS Covid-19 app at all times unless in specific scenarios which are set out in our guidance.\"\n\nThat guidance says contact tracing should be turned off at work when:\n\nBut while some teachers may be locking their phones away some of the time, these exemptions do not appear to justify a blanket ban on using the app in schools – or indeed at GlaxoSmithKline's labs and factories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How to install the NHS Covid-19 app\n\nPart of the issue seems to be a lack of understanding of how the app works.\n\nIt is only if a member of staff tests positive and the app determines they have had close contact with another app user for a significant period that alerts will be sent telling those people to isolate.\n\nSo employers need to ask themselves if a member of staff tests positive, why would you not want colleagues at risk of spreading the infection alerted as swiftly as possible?", "Three times as many people have died from Covid-19 than from flu and pneumonia in England and Wales this year, according to official figures.\n\nBetween January and August 2020, there were 48,168 deaths due to Covid-19 compared to 13,600 from pneumonia. Only 394 were due to flu.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics analysis looked at the underlying cause of death.\n\nDeaths from flu have been particularly low this year.\n\nThe highest number of deaths from flu and pneumonia occurred in January, during winter, when there is usually lots of flu around.\n\nBut deaths due to Covid-19 were higher between March and June - after the epidemic started and lockdown began.\n\n\"The mortality rate for Covid-19 is also significantly higher than influenza and pneumonia rates for both 2020 and the five-year average,\" said Sarah Caul, from the ONS.\n\nThe figures show that Covid-19 is a bigger risk to people than flu, partly because there is a vaccine that protects those at risk against the flu strain circulating every year. The coronavirus is a brand new infection and there is, as yet, no vaccine.\n\nProf Rowland Kao, from the University of Edinburgh, said the much larger number of deaths from Covid \"may be due to either increased numbers of infections or increased mortality amongst those infected, or both\".\n\nSome of those who died this year from Covid-19 may have died from flu in a normal year, thereby reducing the flu death figures.\n\nLow numbers of Covid, flu and pneumonia deaths in July and August reflect low levels of all three diseases during the summer months. The latest data from Public Health England shows flu is still at very low levels. Colds are the most common respiratory virus in circulation just now.\n\nFlu and pneumonia are often lumped together because many cases of pneumonia are actually caused by flu.\n\nLike Covid-19, deaths from flu and pneumonia are linked to respiratory infections. The people at risk of all three conditions are similar too.\n\nBetween January and August, people dying from Covid-19 made up 12% of all deaths for that period - which was 389,835 in total.\n\nIn the same period, pneumonia was responsible for 3.5% and flu 0.1% of all deaths.\n\nCovid-19 was the underlying cause of death in 95% of cases when flu and pneumonia were also mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nWhile men were more likely to die of Covid-19, women were likely to die from pneumonia. This was true in both England and Wales.", "The rare raptor, seen only a handful of times in the UK, was spotted at Moulton West Fen earlier\n\nAn enormous bone-eating vulture, rarely seen in the UK, has been spotted in the skies over Lincolnshire.\n\nThe bearded vulture, or lammergeier, is normally found in Alpine regions, and has a wing span of 2.5m (8.2ft).\n\nThe rare raptor was captured on film by Mark Hawkes at Moulton West Fen earlier after news of its arrival circulated on social media.\n\nIt was recently spotted in Norfolk, having spent the summer roosting in the Peak District.\n\nMr Hawkes, who lives in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, said he drove to the area after reading the news on the \"birder grapevine\".\n\nHe was lucky enough to see the it flying around with crows, and later \"sitting tight in a field\", he said.\n\nMr Hawkes added that about 200 other enthusiasts had also made the trip.\n\nAnother birder, Will Bowell, said it was an amazing sight to see, adding he was looking forward to seeing where it went from here.\n\nThe bird was first captured on film earlier this year in the Peak District.\n\nTeenager Indy Kiemel Greene photographed the bird in the Peak District in July\n\nAt the time, Tim Birch, from Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, said the bird - dubbed \"Vigo\" - was about two years old and had flown over to the UK from the Alps, where the endangered species is being reintroduced.\n\nPreviously, the only other reported sighting of a bearded vulture in the UK was in 2016, around Dartmoor and Monmouthshire.\n\nBut despite its enormous size, the bird is not dangerous to people or farm animals, and feeds on scavenged bones, Mr Birch added.\n\nBearded vultures are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List - meaning they are a \"near threatened\" species.\n\nThey get their name from a distinctive tuft of feathers under their lower beak.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PureGym said the post \"was removed as soon as it was brought to our attention\"\n\nFitness centre operator PureGym has apologised \"unreservedly\" for an \"unacceptable\" Facebook post from one of its gyms about slavery.\n\nThe Luton and Dunstable gym said \"slavery was hard and so is this\" regarding a workout designed to \"celebrate black history month\".\n\nIn a statement PureGym said the post was \"wholly unacceptable\" and \"was not approved or endorsed by the company\".\n\nPureGym added it was removed \"as soon as it was brought to our attention\".\n\nThe company is the UK's largest gym chain by membership.\n\nThe workout, entitled \"12 Years of Slave\" after the Oscar-winning movie with a similar title, included 12 different moves such as burpees, push ups and box jumps.\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 PureGym 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\nMany users responded angrily to the gym's Facebook post with one saying PureGym had an \"offensively tone-deaf marketing team\" while another said it was \"wrong, insensitive and horrendous on all levels\".\n\nPureGym said: \"Each of our 271 gyms has its own social media channels which are run locally.\n\n\"We take this matter extremely seriously and are urgently investigating how and why this post was made.\"\n\nThe 2013 film 12 Years A Slave, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, was based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup - a black musician sold into slavery in the US in 1841.\n\nThe Labour MP for Luton North, Sarah Owen, said on Twitter the \"offensive advert shows exactly why we need Black History Month and why the Black Lives Matter movement is so important\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, seen hugging other attendees\n\nUS President Donald Trump's tweet on Friday confirming that he and his wife had tested positive for coronavirus shocked the world.\n\nWith Mr Trump now in hospital, there are growing questions about how the pair were exposed to the virus.\n\nA crowded Rose Garden event is coming under intense focus - the ceremony on 26 September where Mr Trump formally announced his nomination of the conservative Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. The World Health Organization says it commonly takes around five to six days for symptoms to start after contracting the virus.\n\nFootage from the scene showed few attendees wearing masks. The seating was not set two metres (six feet) apart, while some bumped fists, shook hands or even hugged one another in greeting.\n\nEight people who attended are now confirmed to have the virus - although it is unclear exactly where and when they caught it. Aside from the president and the First Lady:\n\nMr and Mrs Trump tested positive after the president's communications director, Hope Hicks, contracted the virus. She did not attend the Rose Garden event.\n\nGuidelines published by the Centers for Disease Control recommend six feet of distance between people outside your home, and covering your nose and mouth when others are around you.\n\nDozens of lawmakers, family members and staff from the White House were at the event. Those who have tested positive were seated in the first few rows of the crowd.\n\nThose who have tested positive were sat in the first few rows of the packed event\n\nGatherings of more than 50 people at an event are banned under Washington DC coronavirus regulations, although federal property like the White House is exempt.\n\nThe Washington Post reports that authorities have left contact tracing efforts to the Trump administration. An official from Mayor Muriel Bowser's office told the paper that if all eight people were infected at the event, it would be one of the highest community spread incidents Washington DC has experienced.\n\nCity council member Brooke Pinto told the Washington Post it was \"disappointing that the White House has flaunted not wearing masks and gathering large crowds\".\n\n\"That is not only dangerous messaging for the country, but it is directly threatening to our efforts to decrease our spread across the district,\" she said.\n\nSome of the event last Saturday also took place inside.\n\nSome of the event took place inside the White House\n\nThe president stood next to Amy Coney Barrett as she delivered her speech. Ms Barrett tested negative on Friday, according to a White House spokesperson.\n\nVice-President Mike Pence and his wife Karen also tested negative. Mr Pence sat across the aisle from Mrs Trump at the ceremony.\n\nAttorney General William Barr sat in the same row as the vice-president. A Department of Justice spokesperson announced on Friday that Mr Barr had tested negative.\n\nJohns Hopkins University coronavirus trackers say that 7.3 million people in the US have contracted the virus, the highest figure in the world.\n\nThe country also has the highest death toll, with more than 209,000 people killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump's seven days before his Covid-positive test", "Further restrictions could be introduced \"in the near future\" to stop the spread of Covid-19 in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe first minister was due to meet advisers and ministers on Monday and Tuesday to discuss fresh measures.\n\nShe said it was \"vital that we do everything we can\" to slow the virus and that \"not acting costs lives\".\n\nSome advisers have backed the idea of a \"circuit breaker\" lockdown as a \"short, sharp shock\" to the spread of Covid-19.\n\nNational Clinical Director Jason Leitch told BBC Scotland that two weeks of heightened restrictions could push the course of the pandemic back by 28 days and \"buy time\" ahead of winter.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon stressed that the term circuit breaker could mean \"a number of things\", and said she would give the public and parliament \"as much notice as possible\" about any changes.\n\nA further 697 cases of coronavirus were reported in Scotland on Monday, with 12.8% of people newly tested returning a positive result.\n\nThere has been a sharp increase in the number of people in hospital being treated for the virus over recent weeks, with 218 currently in hospital and 22 in intensive care.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this meant ministers had to take \"very difficult decisions\" about imposing fresh restrictions.\n\nThe government has consistently warned that fresh measures might need to be introduced ahead of the winter, when the NHS is under greater pressure.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Scotland's Seven Days programme, Mr Leitch said a circuit-breaker - a short period of tightened restrictions - was about \"buying yourself more time\" and reducing the \"R number\" or reproduction rate of the virus.\n\nThis measure tracks the average number of people an individual who has Covid-19 would be expected to infect, and which the government believes currently could be as high as 1.7.\n\nMr Leitch said a circuit breaker would not be a full lockdown like the one introduced across the country in March.\n\nHe said there might be \"some choices in there about schools or about further education - but fundamentally a short, sharp shock to the R number.\n\n\"You get the R number down, you get the numbers down to a reasonable level and then you can begin to reintroduce some of the things that you've closed.\n\n\"So the idea is that a two-week, roughly, circuit-breaker, would buy you 28 days. You don't know that for sure, because it's not an exact science, but it would buy you about a month in the pandemic.\"\n\nAs cases rise, it doesn't take much to go from dealing with small outbreaks successfully to the virus spreading out of control. It becomes much harder to spot where outbreaks start, stretching the Test and Protect system.\n\nThis is why some favour the idea of a \"circuit breaker\". Introducing a lot of restrictions all at once - perhaps for a couple of weeks - means you can successfully drive infection rates down and you regain control.\n\nBut most experts will say that a circuit breaker only buys you time and may have to be done several times to have an impact. It goes without saying, the stricter the conditions, the bigger the difference in denting that R number, the rate of transmission.\n\nIt would make sense to do it when the schools are off and when there is still some economic support through the furlough scheme, but the October break comes at different times in Scotland - and also earlier than the rest of the UK. The first minister has also said she would prefer a four nations approach to major changes in restrictions.\n\nThis is the dilemma for the government now. Officials have to decide just how far to go and if, or when, to push the button.\n\nAt her daily coronavirus update, Ms Sturgeon said she was \"hopeful\" that the recent curbs introduced in September - including a ban on people visiting each other in their homes - would \"help us stem the increase of the virus\".\n\nHowever, she said: \"There may well be a need for some further restrictions in the near future.\"\n\nThe first minister is to meet advisers to study the latest clinical advice later on Monday afternoon, and will then hold discussions with her cabinet on Tuesday.\n\nShe could potentially announce any changes at Holyrood as soon as Tuesday afternoon.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"If we do decide more restrictions are necessary, I want to assure you that we will give the public and the parliament as much notice as possible.\n\n\"If we decide extra restrictions are necessary, it is because we deem it vital to get the virus under control and avoid unnecessary loss of life.\"\n\nAt Monday's briefing, Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said that \"applying measures in a short, sharp way\" could bring down the growth rate of the pandemic while also reducing the number of cases in circulation.\n\nMs Sturgeon said such a move would be about \"buying some time that gets you through winter\". She said it was important to suppress the virus \"while we're waiting on other things to happen\" - such as the development of a vaccine.\n\nThe first minister also said \"four nation\" talks with the UK government and other devolved administrations were due to be held on Monday afternoon.\n\nDuring the briefing, Ms Sturgeon also announced a relaxation to the rules on the number of adults who can attend parent and baby groups.\n\nUp to 10 adults will now be able to gather at the same time when their babies are under a year old, although the existing limit of five parents remains when the children are over 12 months.", "Jeni Larmour from County Armagh was named as one of the students who died\n\nThree university students and a man have died in suspected drugs-related incidents in the north-east of England.\n\nTwo 18-year-old women and a 21-year-old man died in Newcastle, and another man, who was also 18, died in Washington, Northumbria Police said.\n\nOne of those who died has been been named as Newcastle University student Jeni Larmour, 18, from County Armagh.\n\nPolice said ketamine and MDMA were \"suspected to have been a factor in the deaths of the students.\"\n\nA large-scale investigation has been launched and officers have been searching student accommodation with sniffer dogs.\n\nTen people have been arrested and released on bail as inquiries continue.\n\nEmergency services were called to student accommodation on Newcastle's Richardson Road twice over the weekend\n\nMs Larmour had been \"a model pupil\" and deputy head girl at The Royal School Armagh, the school said in a statement.\n\n\"Her outstanding qualities as a pupil were recognised in her final year when she was appointed deputy head girl, a role she carried out to a very high standard,\" it said.\n\nNewcastle University said its students had been in the city for less than 48 hours when they died.\n\nVice-chancellor Chris Day has written to all students warning them about the two tragedies.\n\n\"We are all heartbroken and our thoughts and condolences are with their families, friends and loved ones at this most difficult of times.\n\n\"We know that many of you will be affected by this distressing news.\n\n\"Whatever difficulties you have gone through, we have ample support both at the university and in the city,\" he said\n\n\"Whatever those problems are, please do not turn to excessive alcohol or drugs to solve them because you have seen the potential consequences.\"\n\nThe university's students' union urged students, and all young people in the area, to \"look out for each other\".\n\nOne of those who died was a student at Northumbria University\n\nMs Larmour was pronounced dead at a building on Richardson Road shortly after 06:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nLater on Saturday, at about 16:00, emergency services were called to a man on the Coach Road Estate in Washington who had suffered a cardiac arrest after reportedly taking MDMA, police said.\n\nOn Sunday, at about 08:15, police were called to Newcastle's Melbourne Street when a 21-year-old Northumbria University student became ill. It is believed he had taken MDMA. He died in hospital.\n\nThen just after 13:00 on Sunday, another 18-year old female student was found dead at the same student building where Ms Larmour had died the previous day. Police said it was \"believed ketamine had been present at the address\".\n\nCh Insp Steve Wykes said it was \"too early\" to say whether a \"bad batch of drugs\" was involved.\n\nHe added: \"What we must remember is illegal drugs are never safe and so that message is incredibly important.\n\n\"But we are conducting significant inquiries to try and understand what the substances involved do contain.\"\n\nProfessor Fiona Measham, chair in criminology at Liverpool University and co-founder of the harm-reduction charity The Loop, said she believed lockdown restrictions were of \"concern\".\n\n\"Particularly because nightclubs are closed and the pubs are closing early,\" she told BBC Radio Newcastle.\n\n\"I think the reason it's a concern about nightclubs in particular is that nightclubs often have paramedics, they have harm-reduction services and they have security staff that help keep people safe.\n\n\"So if you close the nightclubs, you lose that safety net.\"\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 technical glitch that meant nearly 16,000 cases of coronavirus went unreported has delayed efforts to trace contacts of people who tested positive.\n\nPublic Health England said 15,841 cases between 25 September and 2 October were left out of the UK daily case figures.\n\nThey were then added in to reach Saturday's figure of 12,872 new cases and Sunday's 22,961 figure.\n\nPHE said all those who tested positive had been informed. But it means others in close contact with them were not.\n\nThe issue has been resolved, PHE said, with outstanding cases passed on to tracers by 01:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe technical issue also means that the daily case totals reported on the government's coronavirus dashboard over the past week have been lower than the true number.\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym said daily figures for the end of the week were \"actually nearer 11,000\", rather than the about 7,000 reported.\n\nLabour has described the glitch as \"shambolic\".\n\nThe BBC has been told by senior public health officials in the north-west of England that a significant proportion of the unreported cases are from the area.\n\nCities such as Liverpool and Manchester already have among the highest infection rates in the country, at about 10 times the national average.\n\nBBC analysis found the number of cases reported for the week to 1 October increased by 92.6% in the north west after taking in the missing tests - with similar rises reflected across England.\n\nThe increase is mostly down to the missing tests, but the figures also included some results which came back after 2 October.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I can't give you those figures but all those people are being contacted\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the cases data had been \"truncated\" and \"lost\", but added all people who had tested positive had been contacted and the tracers were \"now working through all the contacts\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of the government's vaccine taskforce, Kate Bingham, has told the Financial Times that less than half of the UK population could be vaccinated against coronavirus.\n\n\"There is going to be no vaccination of people under 18,\" she said. \"It's an adult-only vaccine for people over 50, focusing on health workers, care home workers and the vulnerable.\"\n\nMr Johnson has warned it could be \"bumpy through to Christmas\" and beyond as the UK deals with coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday, the PM said there was \"hope\" of beating Covid, and called on the public to \"act fearlessly but with common sense\".\n\nIn an interview with the Sun, Rishi Sunak has defended his Eat Out to Help Out scheme, saying he had \"no regrets\", after suggestions it may have helped fuel the second wave of coronavirus cases.\n\nAt a time when the testing system has come under intense scrutiny after reports of delays and a system struggling to keep up with demand, the latest revelation could not have come at a more awkward moment for the government at Westminster.\n\nBecause the nearly 16,000 extra positive test results had been not entered into the test and trace system, their recent contacts were not immediately followed up.\n\nExperts advise that ideally contacts should be tracked down within 48 hours.\n\nOfficials say the technical problem - thought to be IT related - has been resolved, with all the new cases added into totals reported over the weekend.\n\nBut all this will hardly improve public confidence in the testing system in England.\n\nAnd it muddies the waters for policy makers and officials trying to track the spread of the virus at what the prime minister has called a \"critical moment\".\n\nOn Sunday, the government's coronavirus dashboard said that, as of 09:00 BST, there had been a further 22,961 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 502,978.\n\nAnother 33 people were reported to have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Sunday.\n\nPublic Health England's interim chief executive Michael Brodie said a \"technical issue\" was identified overnight on Friday, 2 October in the process that transfers Covid-19 positive lab results into reporting dashboards. He said the majority of the unreported cases had occurred in the \"most recent days\".\n\nIt was caused by some data files reporting positive test results exceeding the maximum file size.\n\nMr Brodie said they worked with NHS Test and Trace to \"quickly resolve the issue and transferred all outstanding cases immediately into the NHS Test and Trace contact tracing system\".\n\n\"We fully understand the concern this may cause and further robust measures have been put in place as a result,\" he said.\n\nTest and Trace and Public Health England joint medical adviser Susan Hopkins said a thorough risk assessment had been undertaken \"to ensure outstanding cases were prioritised for contact tracing effectively\".\n\nPHE said NHS Test and Trace have made sure there are enough contact tracers working, and are working with local teams to ensure they also have sufficient resources to be urgently able to contact all cases.\n\nThe number of call attempts is being increased from 10 to 15 over 96 hours.\n\nThere have been clear problems with the government's Test and Trace data, but they do not change our view of the UK's trajectory.\n\nCases surged at the beginning of September, they may still be climbing, but not as quickly as anticipated just a few weeks ago.\n\nThis perspective comes from three key sets of data - the Office for National Statistics, the React study by Imperial College London and the Covid symptom tracker app.\n\nNone are blighted by either the current issues with the Test and Trace data or by people struggling to access a test.\n\nThe real fallout of the weekend's statistical chaos is not the numbers, but the people who should have been contact-traced, told to quarantine and instead may have been unwittingly passing on the virus.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"This is shambolic and people across the country will be understandably alarmed.\"\n\nHe called for Health Secretary Matt Hancock to explain \"what on earth has happened\" and what he plans to do to fix test and trace.\n\nMr Hancock is due to update MPs about coronavirus on Monday afternoon.\n\nBridget Phillipson, shadow chief secretary to the treasury, told BBC Breakfast she wanted to know whether it had had \"any impact on government decision making around local restrictions\".\n\nPHE data shows Manchester now has the highest rate of infection in England, at 495.6 cases per 100,000 people in the week to 1 October, from 223.2 the week before. Liverpool has the second highest rate, up to 456.4 from 287.1 per 100,000. Knowsley in Merseyside, Newcastle, Nottingham, Leeds and Sheffield have also seen sharp rises.\n\nNews of the glitch in the daily count first emerged late on Saturday, when the UK announced more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time since mass testing began.\n• None 1,980cases per day, on average, were missed in that time\n\nThe government said the technical issue meant some cases during the week were not recorded at the time, so were included in Saturday's data.\n\nThe daily total rose from 4,044 on Monday to a then-high of 7,143 on Tuesday. However, over the next four days the daily total remained stable at a time when continued increases might have been expected.\n\nThen came the big leap in numbers - a far bigger day-on-day increase than at any time in the entire pandemic - which was announced on Saturday, five hours later than usual, and was accompanied by the government explanation.\n\nHave you recently tested positive? Have you been contacted by test and trace? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A hack on Grindr allowed anyone with the email address linked to a valid account to reset the user's password and take over their profile.\n\nSecurity experts revealed the vulnerability online - and reported it the LGBT dating app.\n\nIt enabled full access to an individual's account, including images, messages and HIV status.\n\nGrindr said: \"Thankfully, we believe we addressed the issue before it was exploited by any malicious parties.\"\n\nThe flaw was discovered by French security researcher Wassime Bouimadaghene and documented by security experts Troy Hunt and Scott Helme.\n\nHackers could find a reset-password link within the website's code\n\nGrindr chief operating officer Rick Marini told news website TechCrunch: \"We are grateful to the researcher who identified a vulnerability.\n\n\"The reported issue has been fixed.\"\n\nGrindr was working to improve reporting procedure and incentives for security researchers to flag these issues, Mr Marini added.\n\nIn 2018, the app was criticised for sharing data, including HIV status, with two external companies.\n\nIt said the information had been shared to help test and improve the app.", "Lord Reed has spoken to the BBC about the lack of people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds among the Supreme Court's 12 justices\n\nThe new Supreme Court president says he hopes a justice from an ethnic minority background will be appointed before his retirement in six years' time.\n\nLord Reed said the lack of diversity among the 12 Supreme Court justices was a situation \"which cannot be allowed to become shameful if it persists\".\n\nOnly 4% of senior judges appointed to the High Court or above are from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nLord Reed has taken over as president of the Supreme Court from Lady Hale.\n\nIn his first media interview since taking on the role, and when asked when there might be a justice from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background appointed to the court, Lord Reed told the BBC: \"I hope that will be before I retire which is in six years' time.\"\n\nLast month black barrister Alexandra Wilson was mistaken for a defendant three times in the same morning at a magistrates' court.\n\n\"I thought that was appalling,\" Lord Reed said.\n\n\"Alexandra Wilson is a very gifted young lawyer, an Oxford graduate who has won umpteen scholarships, and for her to be treated like that was extremely disappointing to say the least,\" he said.\n\nMs Wilson received an apology from Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service for \"the totally unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nAsked about a judge of South Asian heritage who was mistaken on numerous occasions for the court clerk, he said: \"That is down to ignorance and unconscious bias which has to be addressed by the courts service.\"\n\nAlexandra Wilson, who specialises in family and criminal law, said she did not expect to \"constantly justify my existence at work\"\n\nDiversity has remained a stubbornly difficult issue for the judiciary which has often been described as \"stale, male and pale\".\n\nCurrently just 4% of senior judges appointed to the High Court or above are from a black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\nThe figure rises to 8% of lower court judges and 12% of tribunal judges, a 2% increase compared with 2014 in both cases.\n\nThe representation of women is better, but still unequal.\n\nCurrently 32% of court judges and 47% of tribunal judges are women.\n\nThe proportion has increased in recent years, but remains lower in senior court appointments with women making up just 26% of High Court and more senior judges.\n\nUntil Lady Hale's departure there were three female Supreme Court justices.\n\nOften called the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court is a big beast.\n\nIt is the final court of appeal for all UK civil cases and criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as hearing appeals on points of law of great public and constitutional importance.\n\nUnlike its more powerful US counterpart, it cannot strike down legislation, but it can judicially review the actions of ministers and other public bodies and decide if they are lawful.\n\nThat gives it huge power, seen to the full last year when the court unanimously declared \"unlawful\" the advice Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave the Queen to suspend Parliament in the lead up to the Brexit deadline.\n\nLord Reed succeeded Lady Hale as President of the Supreme Court\n\nIt showed that independent judges can halt the might of government in its tracks if ministers have acted unlawfully and that no-one is above the law. That led some to accuse the court of judicial activism.\n\n\"What we are doing isn't activism. It's giving effect to the law,\" Lord Reed said.\n\n\"The fact that some of the topics can be politically sensitive is something which we cannot allow to deter us from applying the law which Parliament has enacted. That's what we're here for.\"\n\nThe government has set up a panel to examine judicial review.\n\nIt will consider whether certain executive decisions should be decided on by judges, and which grounds and remedies should be available in bringing claims against the government.\n\nLord Reed was not impressed with a Home Office video, tweeted in August, which described \"activist\" lawyers who represent migrants arguing they have a right to remain in the UK.\n\nThe animated video said current regulations were open to abuse allowing \"activist lawyers\" to delay and disrupt returns.\n\n\"I think that was unfortunate and I understand that the government has acknowledged that.\n\n\"There is no question of people being activist simply because they are doing their job,\" he said - underscoring that the lawyer's job is to see clients get the treatment they are entitled to by law.\n\nThe government took down the video, but some saw its posting as as a deliberate attempt to pick a fight with lawyers, in order to deflect attention from the fact that migrants claiming asylum are sometimes unlawfully removed from the UK in breach of international human rights laws.\n\nLord Reed acknowledged there was a risk in applying the label \"activist\" to lawyers and then withdrawing it because it can lodge in the public's mind.\n\n\"It's important that people are careful in the language that they use,\" he said.\n\nLord Reed wants to maintain the standing of the Supreme Court as \"one of the very top courts in the world whose judgements are cited and followed by other courts around the world\".\n\nHowever, at a time when the government has placed the constitutional role of judges under intense scrutiny, he is keen to strengthen the relationship between the court and Parliament.\n\n\"Some of the reaction to the judgements that we gave relating to actions government was taking in the course of the Brexit negotiations revealed a lack of understanding of what our role was or how we operate - and perhaps a degree of suspicion of what our motives might be,\" he acknowledged.\n\nSo, he is exploring with the Speaker's office how to enable members of Parliament to question and discuss with the justices how they decide cases.\n\nUnderstandably, Lord Reed would not be drawn on the Internal Market Bill which enables the government to break its international treaty obligations under the EU Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nIt is, after all, still before Parliament.\n\nBut in the next six years the Supreme Court is likely to remain locked into what is perhaps the constitutional clash of our times, between a powerful government that wants to get its way on policy decisions, and independent judges whose role is to scrutinise the lawfulness of those decisions.", "Boris Johnson is being urged to end a lockdown block on residential school visits or risk destroying the \"great British tradition\" of outdoor education.\n\nSchools have reopened, as have hotels, but official guidance still advises against overnight educational trips.\n\nOutdoor learning \"faces an existential threat\", providers have told the Prime Minister in a letter.\n\nThe rules are under review, governments in England, Wales and Scotland say.\n\nBut according to the letter from UK Outdoors, which represents 15,000 people and organisations, the continuing freeze on residential school trips could cost almost 6,000 jobs before January.\n\nThe letter adds: \"We cannot warn the government in strong enough terms that any decision to prevent residential trips for the rest of the academic year, without support, will permanently close the whole sector.\"\n\nKris Shipway and Kristina Timms are the only two staff members at PGL Marchants Hill, who have not been furloughed\n\nPGL, perhaps the best known company in the business, has announced 670 job losses, a quarter of its workforce.\n\nIts Marchants Hill centre in Surrey would normally be buzzing with the excitement of more than 750 school children and their teachers - but last Friday, as on every day since the start of the lockdown, it was eerily silent.\n\nMost of the 160 staff have been furloughed, leaving managers Kris Shipway and Kristina Timms to keep the site ticking over, ready to reopen.\n\n\"The sadness, that's the biggest thing,\" says Kris.\n\n\"It's about the experiences we're able to give to children... and not to be able to do that has been really hard.\"\n\nIt's a similar story at Rhos y Gwaliau, in Snowdonia, North Wales.\n\n\"We've been completely empty for six months now. We've had no children at the site and we've really missed having them here,\" says instructor Eve Shrimpton.\n\nRhos y Gwaliau has been welcoming children to the mountains from schools in and around Reading, for 40 years.\n\n\"It's something the children look forward to from the beginning of their school careers,\" says Eve, and for some, \"it might be the only opportunity they have in their lifetime to do something like this\".\n\nExploring a mine: Smaller centres like Rhos y Gwaliau can offer more specialised experiences\n\nThe guidelines allow schools to run daytrips - but Rhos y Gwaliau is just too remote for this to work, says Eve's boss Sara Jones.\n\nEven for bigger operations like PGL, day trips cannot compensate for the loss of their core business.\n\n\"Without overnight accommodation, the sector is effectively shut,\" says PGL chief executive Anthony Jones.\n\n\"For us, about 97% of our business relies on overnight accommodation.\"\n\nAbout two million visits have already been lost, says Penrith-based Andy Robinson, chief executive of the Institute of Outdoor Learning and one of the signatories of the letter.\n\nMany have been cancelled completely, with others postponed, but without a reopening date, the new dates might not hold.\n\nAnd the loss is not just of the activities, whether rock climbing, wild camping or the opportunity to ride a zip-wire, it is the chance to be outside for hours in the middle of a wood and to stay away from home without your parents, perhaps for the first time - experiences that help build the soft-skills and resilience so prized by employers.\n\n\"It's not having that building of self confidence at key moments, for example the transition from primary to secondary,\" says Mr Robinson.\n\nOr perhaps \"losing a moment that can spark a lifetime interest in a particular outdoor pursuit\".\n\nHealth and safety is essential to a sector which specialises in taking young people into challenging environments, so all members have signed up to extensive Covid-safe policies and procedures to keep school groups in their separate \"bubbles\".\n\nThese \"make it quite clear that bubbles will not come in contact with other bubbles\", says Anthony Jones.\n\n\"We will put in place segregation, one way systems, staggered meal times separate activities, separated accommodation.\"\n\nHe hopes these measures will convince both parents and policy makers that outdoor education trips are safe.\n\nThe sector feels unfairly penalised, he says: \"We've answered every question that has been put to us.\"\n\nIn Snowdonia, Sara Jones wants government to engage fully with the sector's plans for Covid-safe operating and to set a date for reopening.\n\nShe fears that once furlough ends this month, and without a firm reopening date, she will be unable to keep her highly skilled staff who are often qualified teachers as well as mountain activity specialists.\n\n\"We also ask that while outdoor education centres face this enforced closure that we are appropriately and adequately funded in a targeted way to ensure that we survive this crisis and are here for generations of children in the future,\" she says.\n\nMany staff are qualified specialist instructors as well as teachers, says Sara Jones\n\nAnthony Jones says the sector is ideally placed to help children and young people recover from the lockdown. .\n\n\"We've got these amazing assets, we've got amazing staff that are desperate to show what they can do and how they can help.\"\n\nIn a statement, England's Department for Education said: \"Since the start of term, schools have been able to run non-residential trips.\n\n\"We keep our guidance on both residential and non-residential trips under review, in line with Public Health England advice.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it was also keeping the issue \"under review\", with non-overnight visits allowed, subject to thorough risk assessments.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was not possible to set out an exact date for a review of the guidance, as this would depend on the trajectory of virus transmission in Scotland between now and the new year.", "Two teenagers armed with knives were trying to rob a grocery store in Chapter Street, Westminster, police said\n\nA police officer has been stabbed as she tried to detain two armed robbers.\n\nTwo officers were in Chapter Street, Pimlico, at 15.42 BST on Sunday when they spotted armed suspects attempting to rob a shop.\n\nThe shopkeeper managed to push the two teenagers out of the Westminster store. Officers then tried to detain the pair.\n\nDespite being stabbed in the abdomen, the officer chased the suspects along Vauxhall Bridge Road, a spokesperson for the Met Police said.\n\nThe suspects, both believed to be 15 years old, were detained a short time later with the assistance of firearms officers.\n\nThe injured officer was taken to hospital, and she was discharged on Sunday evening.\n\nCh Insp Simon Brooker said: \"For this officer to be stabbed on duty is unacceptable but, fortunately, she does not appear to be seriously injured.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"Every day our courageous police officers put themselves in harm's way to keep Londoners safe.\n\n\"Attacks on our police are utterly unacceptable and perpetrators will feel the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump has made a short trip to wave to the crowds of people lining the streets outside the hospital where he is being treated for coronavirus.\n\nOn Twitter, the president said he would \"pay a little surprise to some of the patriots we have out on the street\".\n\nMr Trump, who wore a face mask, waved and clapped to his supporters.\n\nBBC's Jon Sopel was reporting live from the scene at the time.", "The debate will take place in Salt Lake City in Utah on Wednesday Image caption: The debate will take place in Salt Lake City in Utah on Wednesday\n\nOn Wednesday night, Republican Vice-President Mike Pence will face Democratic Senator Kamala Harris for the only vice-presidential debate ahead of November's election.\n\nThis election cycle has seen increased scrutiny on Pence and Harris, as they support the campaign of two presidential candidates in their 70s.\n\nWith President Trump now receiving treatment for Covid-19, and more members of the White House announcing positive virus tests, there’s a new emphasis on precautions from event organisers.\n\nFor one, the vice-presidential candidates will stand more than 3m (9.8ft) apart (podiums at the first Trump-Biden debate last week were 2m apart). They will be separated by plexiglass, CNN reports.\n\nCovid testing is already under way for reporters and others planning on attending the debate in Salt Lake City, Utah.\n\nWhether everyone will be required to wear a mask this time remains to be seen.\n\nNow, we want to know: What questions do you have about the vice-presidential debate? You tell us here and we’ll get to work finding the answers.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Chris Williams-Ellis remains in an induced coma with life-changing injuries\n\nThe family of a man seriously ill in hospital with severe burns has demanded to know why it took an hour and a half for an ambulance to arrive.\n\nChris Williams-Ellis, 40, suffered 45% burns to his body following the blaze at his home near Corwen, Denbighshire.\n\nHis family said it took \"several\" 999 calls for an ambulance to arrive before he was air-lifted to hospital.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service Trust has apologised for the \"unacceptable delay\" and is investigating.\n\nMr Williams-Ellis was in a mechanic pit working on a car in the garage of his home at Bryn Saith Marchog when the car caught fire above him.\n\nTrapped under the vehicle, his partner Catherine Stewart helped pull him free before dialling 999. She suffered minor injuries and smoke inhalation during the rescue.\n\nThe blaze on 8 September destroyed the couple's garage and three cars\n\n\"I asked for an ambulance and told them 'he's on fire, he can't breathe' and that we needed a fire engine,\" said Ms Stewart.\n\n\"They called me back two minutes later and told me to put him under water for his burns.\n\n\"The fire engine arrived after 25 minutes but when I asked where the ambulance was they had not been told there was a casualty and they didn't have the training to deal with burns victims.\n\n\"Chris was lying there, very white and shaking. It was so stressful. I kept phoning 999 asking where the ambulance was. The firemen were ringing as well.\n\n\"It was only because one of the fireman happened to have the contact number for the Welsh Air Ambulance service and the helicopter arrived at the same time as the ambulance.\"\n\nMr Williams-Ellis had been in the mechanic pit when the fire broke out above him\n\nTwo hours after the initial 999 call, Mr Williams-Ellis was taken to Whiston Hospital, in Merseyside, where he underwent skin grafts.\n\nHowever, he developed pneumonia and was transferred to Wythenshawe Hospital, Greater Manchester, and placed on an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine to take over his heart and lung functions.\n\n\"I was told there was a 50-50 survival rate for people with that significant amount of burns to be on that machine,\" said Ms Stewart.\n\nHe is now in an induced coma and his family are unsure how his life-changing injuries will affect him.\n\nCatherine Stewart said Mr Williams-Ellis was \"such a fighter\"\n\nHis mother Philomene Williams-Ellis wants members of the Wales Ambulance Service NHS Trust (WAST) to be held accountable.\n\n\"I want justice for my son. To me he was left like a charred piece of meat and he deserves better,\" she said.\n\n\"It was three hours from when the accident happened to him having treatment in hospital.\n\n\"The Welsh Ambulance Service left my son burning, cold, dehydrated and in agony for hours.\n\n\"My son is only alive because a member of the fire crew rang the Wales Air Ambulance.\n\n\"I have no faith in the ambulance service and I want the board to be held responsible so this never happens to any other family again.\"\n\nPhilomene Ellis-Williams said she wants the WAST board to \"stand down\"\n\nWAST said it was looking into the \"distressing\" events.\n\nChief executive Jason Killens said: \"Given the very serious nature of what happened, an investigation to determine the exact sequence of events and the cause of the unacceptable delay - for which we are very sorry - is being prioritised and concluded as swiftly as possible.\n\n\"We are an organisation committed to learning and improvement, and have offered to meet the Williams-Ellis family to take them through our findings and any lessons identified in full.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The warning says areas which are usually drier could face peak rainfall levels over the weekend\n\nHomes and businesses are likely to face flooding and some communities could be \"cut off\" as heavy rain is expected to hit Wales.\n\nThe Met Office issued an amber rain warning across most of Wales from midday on Saturday to 12:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nIt said fast-flowing or deep flood-water could cause \"danger to life\".\n\nMany places will see 1-2in (25-50mm) of rainfall, with totals of 2.5-3.5in (70-90mm) expected on higher ground.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than 4.5in (120mm) is expected in some of the most exposed high ground of Snowdonia.\n\nThe warning, which also covers large areas of south-west England and parts of the West Midlands, comes after a day of downpours on Friday, as Storm Alex moved in from France.\n\nThe amber warning also now covers parts of Anglesey and Pembrokeshire\n\nThere are several flood warnings in place, according to Natural Resources Wales.\n\nThe Met Office warned that delays and cancellations to train and bus services were likely and conditions would make driving difficult.\n\n\"The unusual wind direction associated with the rainfall will mean that the peak rainfall totals are likely to occur in some areas that are usually well sheltered and drier during unsettled spells of weather,\" its forecast warned.\n\nRoad police in Powys tweeted they had been dealing with a crash on the A40 Brecon bypass which has now been cleared.\n\nHowever they added: \"With the heavy rainfall we are experiencing today please drive to the road conditions.\"\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 Powys Roads Policing 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\nTwo temporary water pumps have been set up in a Rhondda Cynon Taf village already hit four times by flooding this year.\n\nThe pumps are to provide \"added protection and reassurance\" for residents of Pentre.\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 RCT Council 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.", "Supporters of the president spent hours outside the hospital where he is being treated, and they were rewarded when he drove past on Sunday evening. Before that, they told the BBC's Lebo Diseko why it was important to be there.\n\n\"Donald Trump FOREVER!\" shout his supporters gathered outside Walter Reed military hospital where the US president is being treated.\n\nAs passing cars and trucks hoot support, there are cheers and whoops from the the crowd of MAGA-hat wearers and Trump-Pence 2020 flag-wavers.\n\nThe crowd and the hooting seem to grow every hour - as the world's media stand across the road.\n\nA convoy of cars and trucks honking their horns and waving US flags streams past us.\n\n\"This feels like a soccer parade after a win!\" my colleague remarked.\n\nIt's just a couple of hours since Donald Trump's medical team gave an update on his health, and said that they hope he will be back at the White House on Monday. The crowd and their convoys have grown steadily since.\n\n\"We're cheering for his good health,\" says an African-American supporter called Barbara. \"We want him back as soon as possible, so we're here to tell him that we love him, we're praying for him and we need him in America.\"\n\n\"In America and the WORLD!\" her friend Wanji chips in.\n\nBarbara and Wanji show their love for Trump\n\nShe says the president's critics are persecuting him because he stands up for Christians. \"He has been taking all the stress of America and the world.\"\n\nHis sickness just shows the country is sick, she adds, and like him it is recovering.\n\nNo-one has done as much for African Americans as Donald Trump, they say. That's echoed by a Latino gentleman standing next to them.\n\nWaving two flags - a blue one, which is his and a pink one belonging to his wife, Maurio says: \"I'm very much for such a good president - he's done a lot of stuff for the Spanish people.\"\n\nA little further down the line are a couple who say they flew in from Arizona - a journey of about 2,400 miles, which took them more than four hours. \"We support our president 100%\" says Danny Carroll, who adds they would have travelled even further if they needed to.\n\n\"That's our president - we're all in it together, red, yellow , black and white - we're all precious in his sight.\"\n\nHis wife Jeanie says she doesn't always like the way the president expresses himself but she appreciates his results. She says the couple drive across the country a lot and six years ago, the country was dying economically but now he's brought it back. They plan to stay until he's back at the White House - then make the long journey home.\n\nMauro and Jeanie travelled all the way from Arizona\n\nOf course, the president is no ordinary patient, and when he does go home he will be monitored by his medical team 24/7. But there are still questions left unanswered after Sunday's briefing from his medical team.\n\nThey admitted he his oxygen levels had dipped twice in the last few days - Friday and Saturday - but pressed for details on the second round of oxygen Dr Sean Conley said he would have to check with the nurses.\n\nAnd when it came to possible damage to the president's lungs. Dr Conley said there were some \"expected findings\" but didn't expand on that.\n\nThis comes a day after mixed messages from the medical team and his chief of staff on Saturday.\n\nHe admitted the was trying to present an \"upbeat attitude\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction and in doing so, you know, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn't necessarily true.\"\n\nThe fact that last sentence was considered necessary shows an awareness that for at least some Americans, there is a trust gap when it comes to the president's medical team.\n\nBut that's certainly not the view of the crowd gathered here.\n\nFamilies with children joined senior citizens in the festival of well wishers.\n\nThe president knows they're there and rewarded them with an unexpected appearance. His supporters know he appreciates them and they appreciate him.", "The chancellor has vowed to \"always balance the books\", despite increased spending in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIn a speech to party members, Rishi Sunak said the Conservatives had a \"sacred duty\" to \"leave the public finances strong\".\n\nHe vowed the use the \"overwhelming might of the British state\" to help people find new work.\n\nBut he said debt and spending needed controlling \"over the medium term\".\n\nIn an online speech during the Conservatives' annual party conference, he said: \"I won't stop trying to find ways to support people and businesses.\"\n\nHowever, he added the party could not argue there was \"no limit on what we can spend\", nor that \"we can simply borrow our way out of any hole\".\n\nMr Sunak cited the furlough scheme and its successor, the jobs support scheme, as examples of government action to support employment during the crisis.\n\nHe said though that, although the government would \"keep striving to be creative\" on employment support, he would also have to be \"pragmatic\".\n\nHe told members that \"no chancellor\" would be able to save every job or business, adding changes to the economy due to Covid-19 \"can't be ignored\".\n\nOfficial figures published in September show government borrowed £35.9bn in the previous month, its highest amount for August since records began in 1993.\n\nBorrowing between April and August totalled £173.7bn, as ministers spent billions on coronavirus-related schemes to support the economy.\n\nGovernment borrowing is at stratospheric levels because of the pandemic.\n\nIt is not clear precisely what the chancellor means, promising to get it under control in the \"medium term\".\n\nNor was there even a whisper of how that could be done.\n\nTreasury sources suggested it's unlikely to happen by the time of the next election, likely to be in 2024.\n\nBut while the chancellor's first few months in the job have been characterised by enormous crisis-level spending, that is a characteristic that he is keen to shrug off.\n\nIn an interview after his speech, the chancellor said government debt - which passed £2 trillion for the first time in history in August - was vulnerable to increases in borrowing costs.\n\n\"Now that we have so much debt, it doesn't take a lot for suddenly 'yikes' - we have to come up with X billion pounds a year to pay for higher interest,\" he said.\n\nMr Sunak - who has been touted as a potential future Tory leader - also said he did not want to become PM, and described his \"close personal friendship\" with Boris Johnson.\n\nAsked if he eventually wants to replace Mr Johnson, he replied: \"No. Definitely not seeing what the prime minister has to deal with, this is a job hard enough for me to do.\"\n\nBBC economics editor Faisal Islam said: \"The chancellor knows that just days after his Winter Economic Plan, with unemployment set to go above 5%, and social restrictions intensifying, not loosening, there is now further backroom pressure to increase the generosity of his worker subsidy schemes.\n\n\"This is a continuation of the pattern we have seen in the past few weeks since the cancellation of the Budget. There'll be more support for the economy, but with the really tough decisions - for example, on tax, - put off.\n\nMinisters have pledged additional support to help people find new work.\n\nIn response to his speech, shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said Mr Sunak had \"nothing to say\" to millions of people whose jobs were at risk.\n\nShe told reporters more \"targeted support\" was required for sectors of the economy that have been hardest hit by restrictions during the pandemic.\n\n\"Sadly there was nothing from the chancellor today to suggest that he grasped the magnitude of the jobs crisis we're facing,\" she added.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn, director-general of business lobby group the CBI, said the best way to balance the books was by \"protecting our economy's ability to recover\".\n\nAdding that the costs of the pandemic had fallen \"deeply and unevenly,\" she said it was vital to protect at-risk sectors such as aviation, manufacturing, and hospitality.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the virtual Conservative Party conference: \"This Conservative government will always balance the books.\"\n\nIf it does, that would be an unusual achievement.\n\nBalancing the books usually means that a government has repaid more than it has borrowed in a year - ie it's in surplus.\n\nThe government can still have debt overall, but the debt hasn't risen during the year.\n\nThe last time that a government balanced the books was under the Labour government in 2000-01, and for the two years before that.\n\nThe most recent Conservative government to achieve that was under Margaret Thatcher in 1988-89 and 1989-90.\n\nAnother measure that recent governments have liked to talk about is whether the economy is growing faster than the debt. If it is, the government can say that debt is falling as a proportion of GDP (which is the value of everything produced by the economy in a year).\n\nThat happened in both 2017-18 and 2018-19.\n• None Coaching and advice for jobseekers in £238m scheme\n• None What jobs are available post-lockdown?", "London Ambulance Service sent five ambulances to the school\n\nThirteen children at a north London school were taken to hospital when they fell ill after eating what they believed were \"sweets\".\n\nThe pupils from La Sainte Union Catholic School, Highgate, were taken by ambulance to hospital for treatment just after midday.\n\nPolice said the sweets were believed to contain tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), an active ingredient of cannabis.\n\nInvestigations are under way to establish the quantity in each sweet.\n\nNo-one is believed to be seriously unwell and the children's parents have been informed.\n\nNo arrests have been made but inquiries have begun to establish what happened.\n\nThe school, which is a girls' Roman Catholic secondary, has not been evacuated.\n\nA spokesman for the school said: \"The students became ill after eating what they believed were sweets.\n\n\"The contents of what the students ate and how they came into possession of them is being investigated by the police.\n\n\"We have made parents aware of this incident.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have backed the latest stage of a bill to allow undercover agents to commit crimes on operations.\n\nThe government says the legislation will give a \"sound legal footing\" for those who work to \"protect the public\".\n\nBut backbenchers are divided over the implications for human rights and civil liberties, and many have concerns over if the right safeguards are in place.\n\nFormer Tory minister David Davis has warned the bill could \"impinge on innocent people\".\n\nDuring a debate on the bill, shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said Labour would not oppose it at this stage.\n\nBut he said the party would \"seek to improve [it] on the vital issue of safeguards, so the public can have confidence in the process and our law enforcement bodies can carry out that vital work of keeping us all safe\".\n\nHowever, a number of Labour MPs broke party orders to abstain on the vote including former leader Jeremy Corbyn and former shadow chancellor John McDonnell who voted against the bill.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, another Labour MP Apsana Begum said: \"There is a grave, serious and very real danger [the bill] could end up providing informers and agents with a license to kill.\"\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani said the legislation would explicitly authorise MI5, the police, the National Crime Agency and other agencies that use informants or undercover agents to commit a specific crime as part of an operation.\n\nThe law will require MI5 officers and others to show the crime is \"necessary and proportionate\", but security officials will not say which crimes they will consider authorising, as it could lead to terrorists and other serious criminals working out who is undercover.\n\nHowever, the legislation stresses agencies must not breach the Human Rights Act, which requires the government to protect life.\n\nA senior judge will report on how the power is used and there will be no role for the Crown Prosecution Service in reviewing the crimes.\n\nOpening the debate earlier on Monday, Home Office minister James Brokenshire said the bill would \"help keep our country safe\".\n\nHe said it would \"ensure operational agencies and public authorities have access to tools to keep us safe from terrorists, safe from serious organised crime groups and safe from those who wish to cause harm to our country and citizens\".\n\nAnd he also pointed to comments by the new director general of MI5, Ken McCallum, that claimed such operations had thwarted 27 terror attacks in the country since March 2017.\n\nBut a number of MPs from across the House raised concerns around safeguards to ensure agents would not be able to commit crimes such as murder or torture.\n\nTory MP Steve Baker said: \"For those of us who like the red meat of law and order, it has forced us to look inside the abattoir and we don't like what we see.\n\n\"I can't imagine ministers will be authorising killing or torture, but [that should be] on the face of the bill so the public can have confidence.\"\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee, also said the safeguards were \"very vague and very broad\", calling for them to be \"strengthened to get this legislation right\".\n\nThe bill will return to the Commons for its next stages on 15 October.", "White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany says she has tested positive for Covid-19. What do we know about the former Trump campaign spokeswoman?\n\nAfter taking the job in April, she immediately made the White House press secretary job more visible by holding regular briefings.\n\nHer predecessor, Stephanie Grisham, did not conduct a single press briefing during her nine-month tenure.\n\nBefore she took the role, Ms McEnany, 31, was a seasoned defender of the president.\n\nShe made frequent television appearances to promote his policies, some of which made headlines for the Harvard Law School graduate.\n\nAs the nation grappled with Covid-19, she came under fire for her early statements on the virus, including suggesting opposition Democrats were \"rooting\" for the pandemic to \"take this President down\".\n\nIn a February appearance on a Fox Business show, she said: \"We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here, we will not see terrorism come here, and isn't that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama?\"\n\nMs McEnany also previously worked as a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee and in 2018 published a book on the movement behind Mr Trump's 2016 election win.\n\nShe has been criticised for her past support of the \"birther\" conspiracy theory questioning former President Barack Obama's birthplace.\n\nAfter her appointment, former President Bill Clinton's press secretary Joe Lockhart shared a 2012 tweet from McEnany where she said Mr Obama's brother was in \"that hut in Kenya\".\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 Joe Lockhart 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 is unclear whether Ms McEnany will continue to defend the president from behind the press secretary podium, or if she will opt for Ms Grisham's approach of communicating through tweets and interviews.\n\nIn the days after Trump's diagnosis, many staffers who work at the White House began to wear a mask consistently - a departure from how it had been before the president was infected.\n\nKayleigh McEnany was not one of them.\n\nShe spoke with me and others on the day of Trump's Covid-19 announcement outside of the West Wing, and she chose not to wear a mask in that moment. She was following the example of Larry Kudlow, the director of Trump's National Economic Council, who had spoken with us earlier in the day, also without a mask.\n\nIn this way, they were conveying the president's upbeat assessment of the virus and how it was nearly under control.\n\nBoth McEnany and Kudlow stood two metres from us, following guidelines on social distancing. Yet it was striking to see them go about their daily lives in a way that seemed largely unaffected by the virus. The fact that she has tested positive is a reminder of just how dangerous - and contagious - the virus is.\n\nIt is also a reminder that conveying the president's message through words and actions - whether about the virus or other matters - is a risky undertaking\n\nMs McEnany works alongside Alyssa Farah, the White House's director of strategic communications and Ben Williamson, senior communications adviser.\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, who filled the press secretary post before Ms Grisham, has described Ms McEnany and Ms Farah as \"smart and capable women who have been loyal fighters\" for Mr Trump.\n\n\"Their promotions are another example of the president empowering strong women to senior roles in his administration,\" she said.", "The difference in rules for Oldham and Manchester has drawn criticism\n\nNorthern England faces a \"winter of dangerous discontent\" unless the test and trace system improves, the mayor of Greater Manchester has warned.\n\nAndy Burnham said the system was the \"first line of defence against the virus\" and the government were \"over-relying\" on restrictions.\n\nExtra rules are now in force for a growing number of areas in the North.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, Boris Johnson said it was \"too early to say\" if the restrictions were working.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"The advice that we're getting is that, in these areas where we have got stringent local lockdowns, we need to wait and see whether the R [infection rate] starts to come down because some of these things have been intensified […] just in the last few days.\"\n\nMr Burnham said: \"If there are to be local restrictions, they must come with local control of test and trace, a local furlough scheme, and support for our councils and businesses.\n\n\"Put it under local control because the government are using call centres to try and contact people, but we will put boots on the ground and I am absolutely certain that that approach will be more successful.\"\n\nHe also urged the government to consult more with local authorities and clarify rules for neighbouring areas, which he said were \"inconsistent\".\n\nIn Greater Manchester, funerals are limited to 30 people, except Oldham, where they are restricted to 20 people since further rules were enforced in August to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, the rate of cases has recently risen to 336 per 100,000 people in Manchester, while dropping to 177 per 100,000 in Oldham.\n\nBoris Johnson was speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show\n\nThe prime minister said he \"understands people's frustrations\", adding: \"No one has come up with any better proposals that I am aware of.\"\n\nMr Burnham also voiced concern the North West would be \"levelled down by not just the virus but by the government's failure to support us\".\n\n\"It was frankly unforgiveable that businesses in Bolton were closed down without the people working given support with their wages. That is going to cause massive damage if that approach continues.\n\n\"This could be a winter of dangerous discontent here in the north of England and I think the prime minister needs to wake up to that.\n\n\"I think there's a very real and present danger that Covid-19 is going to widen the north-south divide because we are heading into a winter where the north of England is under restrictions unlike the south.\"\n\n\"It's got be a change moment where the government says if we put you under restrictions, this is the guaranteed support you get in return. We haven't got that at the moment.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Supporters of Donald Trump have gathered with placards and flowers outside the Walter Reed National Military Hospital near Washington where the president is being treated for coronavirus, and across the United States.\n\nMr Trump's positive Covid-19 diagnosis was made public early on Friday, and that evening he was transported to the hospital for treatment.\n\nHis medical team said late on Saturday that he had made \"substantial progress since diagnosis\" but was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nThe diagnosis has upended the 3 November presidential election campaign.\n\nSupporters outside Walter Reed send their best wishes to the president.\n\nCounter-protesters were also in attendance outside the military hospital.\n\nAround the country rallies were held on Saturday where people wished the president a speedy recovery. In California, they held a pro-Trump car caravan....\n\nElsewhere in the country, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, they took to their boats...\n\nPeople also gathered in the New York City borough of Staten Island. The pro-Trump rally had been organised prior to the president's diagnosis.", "Singapore's Changi Airport has warned of a \"daunting period\" ahead as the impact from the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of abating.\n\nThe Asian transit hub has been voted world's best airport for the eighth consecutive year.\n\nChangi has suspended operations in two terminals as flights have dropped to the lowest levels in its history.\n\nIt has also suspended the construction of a fifth terminal for at least two years.\n\n\"The battle with Covid-19 has only just begun,\" Changi Airport Group said in its annual report. \"The future does appear daunting with the situation showing no signs of abatement.\"\n\nThe company's yearly results cover the period up until the end of March 2020. This misses out on the much of the severe downturn in passengers since the pandemic took hold in January. Singapore barred the entry and transit of short-term visitors on 23 March.\n\nBut the impact from those months still had a big impact, wiping out earlier gains built up over much of 2019. Profits plunged 36% to S$435m ($319m, £246m).\n\nFor 2020 Changi was voted the world's best airport for an eighth consecutive year, according to rankings by UK-based analysts Skytrax.\n\nLast year, Changi Airport opened Jewel, a shopping and entertainment complex covering 1.5m square feet (14ha). It includes stores and attractions including a rainforest, hedge maze and the world's highest indoor waterfall.\n\nThis new complex has helped cushion the blow from the downturn in visitors, boosting revenue 2.6% to S$3.1bn.\n\n\"Jewel is a new icon for Singapore and has redefined what it means to be an airport,\" Changi Airport Group added.\n\nBut the group still paints a grim picture of the international travel hub and says the recovery is \"highly dependent on how countries around the world manage border controls, the relaxation of air travel requirements and the development of viable medical treatments for the virus.\"\n\nLast week, US airlines began laying off thousands of workers after efforts to negotiate a new economic relief plan in Congress stalled.\n\nAnd this month the aviation trade body, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), downgraded its 2020 traffic forecasts, after \"a dismal end to the summer travel season\".\n\nThe IATA estimates that it will be at least 2024 before air traffic reaches pre-pandemic levels.", "The star read from her new poetry book at the event in Los Angeles\n\nLana Del Rey has upset some of her fans due to her choice of face mask at a recent book signing in California.\n\nThe star appeared at a branch of Barnes and Noble in Los Angeles, where she read passages from her new poetry book Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass.\n\nAt the event, Del Rey wore a glittery, mesh face mask that she'd previously used in a cover shoot for Interview magazine.\n\nIt would appear that the mask provided no barrier to the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Lana Del Rey's team for a comment.\n\n\"Lana, please wear a real mask. I'm begging you be safe,\" wrote a concerned fan, under an Instagram photo of the star at the book signing.\n\n\"I love Lana but this is incredibly irresponsible,\" said another. \"Girl, we're in the middle of a pandemic,\" added a third.\n\nDel Rey's sister, Caroline \"Chuck\" Grant, who livestreamed the poetry reading on Instagram, said the singer had \"tested negative\" and was remaining six feet away from her fans.\n\nHowever, pictures posted on the pop culture Twitter account @Popcrave showed the star posing next to fans after the reading. At least one was not following California's social distancing guidelines.\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 Pop Crave 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\"Please tell me that there's some sort of see through/sheer, woven (or clear plastic?) liner under the mesh?\" responded one fan.\n\nIt is possible that there was a transparent, protective layer to the mask. Some stores offer see-through coverings that enable the hard of hearing to lip-read; while other ranges cater to fashion-conscious consumers.\n\nThe star has yet to address the criticism but, on Sunday, posted a video on Instagram in which she read a poem while wearing a camouflage mask, which she removed at the end of the clip.\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 lanadelrey 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\nFace coverings reduce the spread of coronavirus droplets from coughs, sneezes and speaking.\n\nThey should mainly be worn to protect other people from coronavirus, rather than yourself.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "More home working is likely to be a permanent fixture for a majority of businesses, according to a study.\n\nA survey of just under 1,000 firms by the Institute of Directors (IoD) shows that 74% plan on maintaining the increase in home working.\n\nMore than half planned on reducing their long-term use of workplaces.\n\nA smaller survey of bosses whose firms had already cut workplace use suggested 44% of them thought working from home was proving \"more effective\".\n\n\"Remote working has been one of the most tangible impacts of coronavirus on the economy. For many, it could be here to stay,\" said Roger Barker, director of policy at the IoD.\n\n\"Working from home doesn't work for everyone, and directors must be alive to the downsides. Managing teams remotely can prove far from straightforward, and directors must make sure they are going out of their way to support employees' mental wellbeing.\"\n\nCompanies are not likely to switch fully to home working, he continued.\n\n\"The benefits of the office haven't gone away. For many companies, bringing teams together in person proves more productive and enjoyable. Shared workspace often provides employees the opportunity for informal development and networking that is so crucial, particularly early on in a career.\"\n\nThe UK's oldest business lobby group said 958 company directors were surveyed between 11 and 30 September, mostly from smaller businesses.\n\nThe study follows a BBC survey in August which suggested that 50 of the biggest UK employers had no plans to return all staff to the office full-time in the near future.\n\nThe BBC questionnaire found that 24 firms did not have any plans in place to return workers to the office.\n\nHowever, 20 have opened their offices for staff unable to work from home.\n\nNine in 10 workers who have worked from home during lockdown would like to continue in some form, researchers found in an academic study.\n\nA report published in August by academics at Cardiff and Southampton universities suggests the majority of people working from home are as productive, if not more.\n\nThousands of people were surveyed three times between April and June.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nDonald Trump remains in hospital with Covid-19, but on Sunday night, the president, wearing a mask, surprised what he called the \"patriots\" outside the medical centre with a drive-past. The move was strongly criticised by his political rivals and by one doctor at the hospital, who called it \"insanity\". Questions remain about the severity of Mr Trump's illness - the White House originally said he was experiencing \"mild symptoms\", but he's been given oxygen twice and and has received the steroid dexamethasone, normally reserved for serious cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPublic Health England has admitted nearly 16,000 cases of coronavirus diagnosed last week weren't entered into the test and trace system because of a technical glitch. Although the people who tested positive were informed, there was a delay in tracing their contacts. Labour is calling for the health secretary to give a full explanation to MPs. BBC health editor Hugh Pym said the admission couldn't have come at a more awkward moment, given the criticism the system was already facing.\n\nThose out of work for three months or more because of the pandemic will be offered coaching and advice on moving into \"growing sectors\" under a new government scheme - sectors like these. Labour, though, said \"piecemeal\" programmes were \"too little too late\". Where jobs are being created there's a good chance they'll involve home working - and according to businesses, the shift in working practices brought about by the pandemic is here to stay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It's going to continue to be bumpy through to Christmas\"\n\nParis will shut all bars and cafes completely from Tuesday as the French government raises the capital's coronavirus alert to maximum. They'll remain closed for at least two weeks. France has been struggling to contain a rising rate of infection which started to grow exponentially in late August. The city of Marseille closed bars, restaurants and gyms last week, despite protestations from local officials.\n\nParis restaurants will be allowed to stay open if they introduce strict anti-viral measures\n\nWhat does touch mean to you, and has coronavirus changed that? BBC Radio 4's Claudia Hammond looks at the results of a new global study about the importance of touch and speaks to people about its role in their lives, especially in these trying times. Elsewhere, much focus recently has been on students and how freshers, in particular, are managing right now. Anoushka Mutanda Dougherty, a second year at Manchester University, tells us it's been tough for many but she's still seeing a lot of optimism.\n\nCovid restrictions have made meeting up for a cuddle difficult for John Marriott and his first grandson, Ollie\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest via our live page.\n\nPlus, with a patchwork of different lockdown rules now in place across the UK, look up the situation in your area with our postcode tool.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\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.", "Transport for London (TfL), the capital's transport authority, has not renewed the licence of Indian taxi app Ola over public safety concerns.\n\nThe cab company has been operating in London since February.\n\nTfL said the firm reported a number of failings including more than 1,000 trips made by unlicensed drivers.\n\nOla said it will appeal the decision and has 21 days to do so. It can operate in the meantime, according to the appeal rules.\n\nThe transport authority said Ola did not report the failings as soon as it knew about them.\n\n\"Through our investigations we discovered that flaws in Ola's operating model have led to the use of unlicensed drivers and vehicles in more than 1,000 passenger trips, which may have put passenger safety at risk,\" Helen Chapman, TfL's director of licensing, regulation and charging, said.\n\n\"If they do appeal, Ola can continue to operate and drivers can continue to undertake bookings on behalf of Ola. We will closely scrutinise the company to ensure passengers safety is not compromised.\"\n\nThe ride-hailing company began operating in Cardiff in 2018 and has since spread to other UK locations.\n\n\"We have been working with TfL during the review period and have sought to provide assurances and address the issues raised in an open and transparent manner,\" Marc Rozendal, Ola's UK Managing Director, said in a statement.\n\n\"Ola will take the opportunity to appeal this decision and in doing so, our riders and drivers can rest assured that we will continue to operate as normal, providing safe and reliable mobility for London.\"\n\nLast week, major rival Uber secured its right to continue operating in London after a judge upheld its appeal against TfL.\n\nThe ride-hailing giant has been granted a new licence to work in the capital, nearly a year after TfL rejected its application, also over safety concerns because of unlicensed drivers.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard that 24 Uber drivers shared their accounts with 20 others which led to 14,788 unauthorised rides.", "Leonie Williams and six-month-old Marley who has grown to 17lb\n\nLike a lot of new mums, Leonie Williams wanted to breastfeed her baby as the advice she had was \"breast is best\".\n\nBut like many newborn babies, little Marley found it tough and Leonie \"struggled\" to get professional support as the Covid-19 crisis gripped the UK.\n\nA new study has suggested 30% of breastfeeding mums gave up before they wanted to during lockdown because of a \"lack of face-to-face support\".\n\nThe Welsh Government urged women with concerns to talk to maternity staff.\n\nSwansea University researchers said some health visitors were redeployed to help the NHS in its fight against coronavirus in March while house visits were stopped as the UK went under lockdown and \"vital\" breastfeeding support groups shut.\n\nApart from phone advice with her health visitor and video calls to a family with young children, Leonie felt \"isolated\".\n\n\"Add the fact you're exhausted having a newborn, you're in pain through trying to breastfeed, it's our first baby so it's a big adjustment and your hormones are all over the place - it was really tough,\" said the 29-year-old.\n\n\"Then on top of that, you're dealing with a global pandemic.\"\n\nLittle Marley was born just a few days before the UK went under total lockdown\n\nDespite Leonie's best efforts, she \"couldn't continue breastfeeding\" as it was \"too much\" so she switched to feeding Marley formula full-time after about two weeks.\n\nBefore coronavirus, the UK has some of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world - now the lack of support during the pandemic is \"worrying\" experts who say some new mums \"have been let down\".\n\nA worldwide study published in the Lancet in 2016 showed 81% of UK mothers had tried breastfeeding at some point, but only 34% were breastfeeding at six months and 0.5% at 12 months.\n\nIt was below other European countries, and the US, where 79% started, 49% were still going after six months and 27% after a year.\n\nThe latest research, led by Swansea University's Professor of Child Public Health, Amy Brown, said some parents had been left \"isolated\" as \"what little in-person support available disappeared\".\n\nMothers living in high-rise flats, with no private garden or green space nearby, or who didn't have high-speed wifi \"struggled the most\", the study suggested.\n\n\"The whole of maternity services has been completely let down across the board,\" Prof Brown said.\n\n\"There are groups of women whose experiences were destroyed because they couldn't get any help.\n\n\"Health visitors didn't come because of lockdown, maternity staff were redeployed to help the Covid fight and new mums didn't know where else to find support.\"\n\nEmma Elias said she couldn't have continued breastfeeding Dahlia without support\n\nShe added: \"It's like it doesn't matter. Maternity service help isn't just a nice-to-have; it is a major support for parents that shouldn't have been taken away.\"\n\nAlmost one in three of the 1,200 new mums spoken to said lockdown had a \"very negative impact on them\" and they felt \"abandoned and overwhelmed at the intensity of being alone with their baby\".\n\nLeonie can sympathise as, after Marley was born a healthy 7lb 11oz in Bridgend on 10 March, the world \"seemed to just shut down and you felt like you were on your own\".\n\n\"It was a bit manic,\" she recalled. \"The health visitor phoned after two weeks - and I still haven't seen one face to face - and I wanted to continue breastfeeding but I gave up as it was too much.\"\n\nLeonie Williams' first baby Marley started having formula milk regularly after about two weeks\n\n\"It was disappointing but I couldn't,\" she said.\n\n\"I feel guilty as they say breast is best and I tried my best but I was exhausted, in agony and had no support.\"\n\nAlmost two months had passed and the UK was deep into lockdown when Emma Elias gave birth to her second daughter, weighing 7lbs 13.5oz, in Bridgend on 3 May - but Dahlia had \"difficulties with latching\".\n\nJames, Emma, Elodie and Dahlia would only leave the house in lockdown to visit breastfeeding appointments\n\nEmma's experience, however, was slightly different as her health visitor referred the 34-year-old biomedical scientist to the area's breastfeeding coordinator.\n\n\"They were wonderful. It was the only time we'd leave the house to go to that appointment once a week - and they were completely invaluable, I don't think we could've continued without them.\"\n\nEmma Elias has praised breastfeeding support services for helping her through \"difficulties\"\n\nThe new study showed that 40% of new mums surveyed did have a positive experience of breastfeeding in lockdown as their \"new baby took to breastfeeding well, they had supportive partners and weren't inundated with visitors\".\n\nEmma added: \"They are trying their best but there's no replacement for face-to-face support.\"\n\nProf Amy Brown has written six infant feeding and parent books\n\nProf Brown now wants health boards and governments to make \"significant improvements\" and ensure the mothers who struggled are \"supported appropriately\", as the number of coronavirus cases increases again across the UK.\n\n\"Governments and health boards need to come up with a way to work out how groups can meet safely as it seems daft to me that it's easier to meet in a pub than get breastfeeding support,\" she said.\n\n\"Health visitors also need to be allowed into homes with the correct protection.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Welsh Government said all new mothers had \"continued to receive support to help establish breastfeeding\".\n\n\"Once at home, midwives and health visitors will work with women to assess their needs and provide tailored support and targeted visits accordingly,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Anyone with any concerns or who requires breastfeeding support should contact their midwife or health visitor directly.\"\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. President Trump's seven days before his Covid-positive test\n\nPresident Donald Trump's coronavirus diagnosis came after a busy week running his administration and campaigning for November's election.\n\nThe president announced that he and his wife and his wife, Melania has tested positive for Covid-19, in a tweet sent on Friday at around 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT).\n\nThis followed a positive test for his close aide, Hope Hicks, who reportedly started feeling symptoms on Wednesday.\n\nSince the president's diagnosis, several people close to him have tested positive too, including his press secretary.\n\nSo far the majority of publicly released results have been negative. However, test accuracy can vary depending on when a sample is taken during the course of the illness. One taken very soon after exposure may not give an accurate result.\n\nThe White House says it has begun contact-tracing. Here's a look at some of the people we know Mr Trump has crossed paths with during the last week - starting with an event that is being investigated as a possible \"super-spreader\":\n\nPresident Trump announced his Supreme Court pick, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, in front of a crowd of about 200 people on the White House lawn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, seen hugging other attendees\n\nJudge Coney Barrett said on Friday that she had tested negative. Sources told US media she had the virus earlier this year.\n\nAlong with Mr Trump and his wife, at least seven other people who attended the Rose Garden event say they have tested positive - although it's not known where they caught the virus.\n\nThey are: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany; former White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway; Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who are both on the judiciary committee; the president of the University of Notre Dame, John Jenkins; and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who said he checked himself into a hospital on Saturday as a precaution.\n\nThe White House Correspondents' Association said an unnamed reporter at the event had also tested positive with symptoms.\n\nDuring the evening, President Trump held a rally at Harrisburg International Airport in Middletown, Pennsylvania.\n\nSince the afternoon's ceremony, Judge Coney Barrett has held meetings with various senators - including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell - ahead of her much-anticipated confirmation hearing, due to take place on 12 October.\n\nThe president played golf at his club in Potomac Falls, Virginia, in the morning and led a White House reception for the families of military veterans during the evening.\n\nOn Monday, President Trump held a news briefing in the White House Rose Garden - giving an update on his administration's coronavirus testing strategy.\n\nIt was attended by Vice-President Mike Pence, Health Secretary Alex Azar, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and the chief executive of Abbott Laboratories, Robert Ford, among others.\n\nLater, Trump viewed a model of a new pickup truck - being built at a factory in Ohio - on the White House lawn. Representatives from the company, Lordstown Motors, attended, as well as two members of Congress.\n\nThe White House regularly tests officials who come in contact with the president. However, US media has noted that mask-wearing and social distancing around him is less common - suggesting that people may be too reliant on the testing system, which is not foolproof.\n\nThe president faced his election rival, Joe Biden, at their first face-to-face debate in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday evening.\n\nPresident Trump flew there on his presidential plane, Air Force One, alongside his wife, adult children and multiple aides. Many were seen not wearing masks when boarding or disembarking.\n\nAlso on the plane were: White House Chief of staff Mark Meadows; campaign strategist Jason Miller; policy adviser Stephen Miller; Robert C O'Brien, the national security adviser who tested positive for the virus in July; and Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan.\n\nAfter landing, the president's campaign manager, Bill Stepien, was spotted getting into a staff van with Ms Hicks, the New York Times reports. Late on Friday, it was announced that Mr Stepien had tested positive for Covid-19 and was experiencing mild flu-like symptoms.\n\nThe debate was held at Cleveland Clinic's Health Education Campus, a shared facility with Case Western Reserve University.\n\nThe organisers, the Commission on Presidential Debates, brought in numerous Covid-era safety precautions. There were no handshakes between the two candidates and everyone attending - including the 80 or so audience members - was tested before the event and asked to wear masks throughout.\n\nIn the run-up, Mr Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka, posted a picture of herself backstage in a mask, alongside her sister Tiffany, sister-in-law Lara and stepmother Melania.\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 ivankatrump 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\nHowever, during the event itself, Ivanka Trump and other family members, including siblings Don Jr and Eric, were pictured mask-less. Moderator Chris Wallace has since told Fox News that they were offered masks by event staff but they refused them.\n\nObservers said those on Mr Biden's side of the room kept their masks on.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Biden kept a distance during the debate, at podiums on opposite sides of the stage.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Biden loudly spoke over each other throughout the contentious debate\n\nWhen the candidates were greeted by the wives on stage afterwards, Jill Biden wore a mask and Melania Trump didn't.\n\nAt a separate campaign event in Pennsylvania, Vice-President Mike Pence said he had been in the Oval Office with President Trump earlier that day. It is thought to be their last in-person meeting.\n\nPresident Trump and much of his entourage flew back to Washington DC on Tuesday night.\n\nThe day after the debate, President Trump was straight back into campaign business, flying to Minnesota. Ms Hicks was among those accompanying him.\n\nAt a press conference on Saturday, the president's physician Dr Sean Conley said Mr Trump had been diagnosed 72 hours previously, which would place his diagnosis on Wednesday. But the White House later clarified that he was diagnosed on Thursday.\n\nHe attended a closed-door fundraiser at a private home in Minneapolis, and later held a rally at an airport in Duluth, in front of a crowd of thousands. Few wore masks but there was distance between them and the president.\n\nMinnesota Congressman Kurt Daudt tweeted a picture of himself close to Mr Trump, with neither wearing masks.\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 Kurt Daudt 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\nOn Wednesday evening, Mr Trump and various aides returned to Washington DC on Air Force One again.\n\nMeanwhile Ms Hicks, who was feeling unwell, was isolated in a separate cabin, according to US media. She reportedly disembarked from the back of the plane, instead of the front alongside the other passengers.\n\nThe following day, Ms Hicks tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nPresident Trump flew to his Bedminster golf resort in New Jersey for a private fundraiser. Several aides who were in proximity to Ms Hicks scrapped their plans to accompany the president, according to the Associated Press.\n\nKayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, is thought to have been in close contact with Ms Hicks. Ms McEnany held a briefing for reporters at the White House on Thursday, without mentioning her colleague's test and without wearing a mask. She has since said she did not know about the diagnosis.\n\nThat night, in pre-taped remarks to the annual Al Smith dinner in New York City - held virtually this year - Mr Trump said that \"the end of the pandemic is in sight\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The end of the pandemic is in sight,\" President Trump told a dinner on Thursday\n\nHe later announced in an interview on Fox News that he and the first lady were being tested for the virus.\n\nIt is not known how many supporters he came into contact with in recent days, he but told Fox presenter Sean Hannity that people were always wanting to get close to him. \"They want to hug you, and they want to kiss you,\" he said.\n\nPresident Trump announced that he and Mrs Trump had tested positive, adding that they will begin the \"quarantine and recovery process immediately\".\n\nJust before 11:00, his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, told reporters the president has \"mild symptoms\" but remains in \"good spirits\".\n\nMrs Trump tweeted to say she also had mild symptoms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The president has \"mild symptoms\" but will \"remain on the job\", says White House chief of staff Mark Meadows\n\nThat day, several other people announce that they've tested positive: Kellyanne Conway, former White House counsellor; Bill Stepien, Mr Trump's campaign manager; Mike Lee, Utah senator; Thom Tillis, a senator for North Carolina; Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee; Rev John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame University; and Senator Ron Johnson, head of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.\n\nMeanwhile Joe Biden, the Democrats' presidential candidate, tests negative, as does: Jill Biden, his wife; Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence; Kamala Harris, the Democrats' vice-presidential candidate; Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court nominee; Mike Pompeo, secretary of state; Steve Mnuchin, treasury secretary; Alex Azar, secretary of health and human services; William Barr, attorney general; Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr, the president's daughter and son; and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law.\n\nFormer New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Nicholas Luna, a White House presidential aide, both test positive.\n\nMr Trump waved to well-wishers from behind the glass of a sealed car after tweeting that he would pay a \"surprise visit\" to \"patriots\" outside the hospital.\n\nInside the car, at least two people could be seen wearing protective gear in the front seats, with Mr Trump sat in the back.\n\nThere were concerns that the president who wore a mask, may have endangered others inside the car. But White House spokesperson Judd Deere said the trip had been \"cleared by the medical team as safe\".\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany announces on Twitter that she has tested positive.", "Experts say the diamond sold for a 'bargain' price\n\nA rare 102-carat white diamond has sold at auction for $15.7m (£12.1m) in what experts say is a \"bargain\".\n\nThe gemstone went to an unnamed telephone bidder. The auction was held online by Sotheby's in Hong Kong due to the pandemic.\n\nThe diamond was taken from a 271-carat stone which was discovered at a Canadian mine in 2018.\n\nOnly seven other diamonds larger than 100 carats and of the same quality have gone under the hammer.\n\nThe stone did not have a reserve price - a minimum price that the seller is willing to accept for an item.\n\nIt is the first time in history that a diamond has sold at auction this way.\n\nSotheby's described the diamond as \"flawless\" and said it was \"difficult to overstate its rarity and beauty\".\n\nTobias Kormind, managing director of online jeweller 77 Diamonds, said the buyer had \"bagged a bargain\".\n\nHe said that by not having a reserve price, the seller had made a \"brave decision that has come back to bite them\".\n\nIn 2017, a necklace featuring a 163-carat diamond fetched $33.7m at a Christie's event in Geneva. The diamond, taken from a 404-carat stone in Angola, is said to be the largest diamond ever presented at auction. The buyer's identity was not revealed.\n\nThe same year, a rare pink diamond weighing just under 19 carats fetched 50.3m Swiss francs (£42.3m) at auction, a record price per carat.\n\nThe price of around $2.6m per carat marked a world record for a pink diamond, according to the Europe head of auction house Christie's.\n\nCanada - among the world's major diamond producers - is no stranger to big gems, even though large-scale mining for the stones only began there in the 1990s.\n\nTwo years ago, the Dominion Diamond Mines company announced the discovery of a 552-carat yellow gemstone, a North American record, at its site in the Northwest Territories, 135 miles (215km) south of the Arctic Circle.\n\nThe previous record-holding diamond was found at the same mine in 2015.\n\nThat stone - the Foxfire, a two-billion-year-old 187.7-carat diamond - was displayed around the world, including for a few weeks at Kensington Palace in London.\n\nCanadian diamonds, often found in the remote northern reaches of the country, have a reputation for being conflict-free and more sustainably sourced than stones from some other nations.\n\nThat reputation is promoted and protected by the industry and local governments, though environmental campaigners argue the mines are damaging to the fragile northern ecosystem.", "The health secretary has said a technical glitch that saw nearly 16,000 Covid-19 cases go unreported in England \"should never have happened\".\n\nThe error meant that although those who tested positive were told about their results, their close contacts were not traced.\n\nBy Monday afternoon, around half of those who tested positive had yet to be asked about their close contacts.\n\nLabour said the missing results were \"putting lives at risk\".\n\nExperts advise that ideally contacts should be tracked down within 48 hours.\n\nThe technical error was caused by some Microsoft Excel data files exceeding the maximum size after they were sent from NHS Test and Trace to Public Health England.\n\nIt meant 15,841 cases between 25 September and 2 October were left out of the UK daily case figures.\n\nPHE said the error itself, discovered overnight on Friday, has been fixed, and outstanding cases had been passed on to tracers by 01:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nBut Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs the incident as a whole had not yet been resolved - with only 51% of those whose positive results were caught up in the glitch now reached by contact tracers.\n\nHe said it had \"not substantially changed\" the government's assessment of the epidemic, however, and had \"not impacted the basis on which decisions about local action were taken\".\n\nHe also said outbreak control in care homes, schools and hospitals had not been directly affected, as they do not rely on the data in question.\n\n\"This incident should never have happened. But the team have acted swiftly to minimise its impact,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC has confirmed the missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software. Furthermore, PHE was to blame, rather than a third-party contractor.\n\nThe issue was caused by the way the agency brought together logs produced by the commercial firms paid to carry out swab tests for the virus.\n\nThey filed their results in the form of text-based lists, without issue.\n\nPHE had set up an automatic process to pull this data together into Excel templates so that it could then be uploaded to a central system and made available to the NHS Test and Trace team as well as other government computer dashboards.\n\nThe problem is that the PHE developers picked an old file format to do this - known as XLS.\n\nAs a consequence, each template could handle only about 65,000 rows of data rather than the one million-plus rows that Excel is actually capable of.\n\nAnd since each test result created several rows of data, in practice it meant that each template was limited to about 1,400 cases. When that total was reached, further cases were simply left off.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the missing results were \"putting lives at risk\".\n\nHe said the unreported cases meant as many as 48,000 contacts had not been traced and therefore not been isolating, with \"thousands blissfully unaware they've been exposed to Covid, potentially spreading this deadly virus\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock tells MPs the late reporting of test results was a “serious issue that is being investigated fully”.\n\nPaul Wells said the NHS Covid-19 app allowed him to \"carry on as normal\" even after his husband had uploaded a positive test result and been told to self-isolate.\n\n\"It's very frustrating to hear that processes or systems are not working correctly, especially with something that is high risk,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The knock-on effect is damaging to not only myself and my husband, but the ripple effect it has to family and friends and our neighbours.\"\n\nOn Monday afternoon, the government's coronavirus dashboard announced a further 12,594 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 515,571.\n\nAnother 19 people were reported to have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe earlier technical error meant the daily case totals reported on the government's coronavirus dashboard over the past week have been lower than the true number.\n\nDaily figures for the end of the week were about 10,000 rather than the roughly 7,000 that had been reported.\n\nBBC analysis found the number of cases reported for the week to 1 October increased by 92.6% in the North West after taking in the missing tests - with similar rises reflected across England.\n\nThe increase, of 8,348 cases, is mostly down to the missing tests, but the figures also included some results which came back after 2 October.\n\nYou can look at the case numbers two ways: we normally count them on the date they're reported, which today would be 12,594.\n\nBut today's news has shown how reporting lags can skew those trends.\n\nIf you arrange the figures by the date the tests were taken, you can get a clearer picture.\n\nIn that analysis, we reached an average of 10,000 new cases a day towards the end of last week.\n\nThat's about double what it was a fortnight ago.\n\nIt's hard to say for sure what's happened since then, since it takes a few days for tests to be reported and for these figures to settle down.\n\nBut that pattern is consistent with other data: the number of people going into hospital, or official surveys and symptom trackers.\n\nThey all paint a picture of an epidemic that's growing - not doubling every week, but growing.\n\nThere's hope in some parts of the data that the pace of growth may be slowing slightly, but there's no evidence that it's shrinking.\n\nMr Hancock suggested that the error did not impact the introduction of local restrictions last week.\n\nHowever, Liverpool Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram said the measures brought in there were \"predicated on\" figures that were \"underestimated by a considerable sum\".\n\n\"We understand that there needed to be further restrictions because of those increases in transmission rates, but we've not received any of the scientific evidence that backs that up,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It seems that the restrictions were predicated on a false promise that the figures that we were provided with were the basis for the announcement.\"\n\nPHE data shows Liverpool has the second highest rate of infection in England, at 456.4 cases per 100,000 people in the week to 1 October, from 287.1 the week before. Knowsley in Merseyside, Newcastle, Nottingham, Leeds and Sheffield have also seen sharp rises.\n\nManchester has the highest rate of infection, at 495.6 cases per 100,000 people, from 223.2 the week before.\n\nThe BBC's Danny Savage said the head of public health in Manchester estimates the infection rate among the city's student population is as high as 3,000 cases per 100,000.\n\n\"We'll have to watch closely at what those figures are like in student populations across the country in areas with a high number of infection,\" he said.\n\nPHE said NHS Test and Trace has made sure there are enough contact tracers working, and is working with local teams to ensure they also have sufficient resources to be urgently able to contact all cases.\n\nThe number of call attempts is being increased from 10 to 15 over 96 hours.\n• None 1,980cases per day, on average, were missed in that time\n\nHave you recently tested positive? Have you been contacted by test and trace? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "President Trump's treatment for Covid-19 has spawned baseless rumours and conspiracy theories - about body doubles, oxygen tanks and more.\n\nMany appear to be politically motivated and conflicting information from the White House over the weekend hasn't helped.\n\nOfficials gave varying answers on when the president had been given oxygen. Unanswered questions remain over when Mr Trump last tested negative for the virus.\n\nThis left the internet to fill in the gaps with unfounded speculation. Here are some of the most viral rumours - and what we know about them.\n\nRepublican supporters - in some cases tweeting from verified accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers - have spread a baseless rumour that the president was somehow deliberately infected with Covid-19 at some point during last week's debate.\n\nThis goes well against the tide of early evidence showing that several top officials who have been infected, all attended a White House event announcing Mr Trump's supreme court nominee, held several days before the debate.\n\nMeanwhile, the suggestion that Mr Trump tested positive earlier than was originally suggested has led to rumours that he's more ill than doctors have let on - and even that his most recent public appearances were staged with a body double.\n\nTweets to this effect from accounts mostly supporting the Democratic Party accumulated thousands of retweets.\n\n\"Body double\" conspiracy theories are fairly common - in 2016, similar allegations were hurled at the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.\n\nA video which claims to show bikers praying for President Donald Trump outside the Walter Reed Medical Center in suburban Washington isn't from this weekend, and wasn't even filmed in the United States.\n\nThe clip, shared more than 25,000 times on Twitter and viewed over 1.3 million times, was uploaded onto video-sharing platform TikTok on Friday.\n\nHowever, detective work by fact-checking website Lead Stories, verified by the BBC, reveals that the video was actually shot in South Africa and shows bikers protesting against farm murders.\n\nThe original clip was uploaded to TikTok on 29 August, and comparison with Google Street View shows it was shot outside the Union Building in Pretoria.\n\nAnother rumour being spread suggested that the president was wearing a secret oxygen tank when he was seen leaving the White House on Friday.\n\nA number of accounts supporting the Democrats circled close-up images of Trump claiming they could see he was hooked up to some kind of device - and using it as evidence that the White House was downplaying how ill the President really is.\n\nPresident Donald Trump waves to supporters as he briefly rides in front of Walter Reed Medical Center\n\nLike the baseless claim that Joe Biden was wearing an ear piece to help him during last week's debate - which was used by Trump's campaign in a series of Facebook adverts - this particular rumour appears to have been started by people getting overly excited by folds and creases.\n\nBut even if he wasn't toting a hidden tank, we do now know that the president was given supplemental oxygen at several points over the weekend.\n\nRumours that the President is pretending to be ill for votes continue to spread online, pushed by some high-profile opponents of Mr Trump.\n\nAnd at the extreme fringes, some QAnon supporters have gathered outside the hospital. They are pushing the baseless conspiracy that Trump is \"pretending\" to have Covid-19 in a bid to trick the \"deep state\" and have powerful people arrested.\n\nHow can you spot disinformation on your social media feed when there are conflicting messages coming from the top and various political agendas online?\n\n1) Think about bias. Why was a post shared? Remember, this is happening during a hotly contested election.\n\n2) How does it make you feel? Big news events can lead to worry, confusion, panic and anger - especially when those we would expect to inform us are not doing so. Pause before sharing.\n\n3) Interrogate the source. Where has a post come from? If something is unconfirmed or there's no evidence to support it, it's often better not to share potential misinformation.\n\nCoins commemorating \"Donald Trump defeating Covid\" on sale from an online outlet called the White House Gift Shop have no connection with the US President.\n\nMuch-shared but false posts on social media suggest that President Trump is selling the $100 (£77) coins to make money on the back of his diagnosis.\n\nIn fact, the White House Gift Shop has nothing to do with the President nor the Trump family. The website came to our attention in May when it sold coins \"commemorating\" the Covid-19 outbreak, and a BBC Reality Check investigation found it was not an official product.\n\nThe store was set up in 1946 by President Harry S Truman in the basement of the White House, but it was subsequently transferred to a private company which now holds the \"White House Gift Shop\" trademark.\n\nWith reporting by Upasana Bhat, Alistair Coleman, Christopher Giles, and Olga Robinson.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Jones arranged to meet his victim using his wife's mobile phone\n\nA man accused of shooting his wife's lover after luring him to a remote farm has been convicted of his murder.\n\nAndrew Jones, 53, of Bronwydd Road, Carmarthen, used his wife Rhiannon's secret mobile phone to meet Michael O'Leary, his trial heard.\n\nJones took a rifle to confront Mr O'Leary, 55, of Nantgaredig, but denied planning to murder him.\n\nSwansea Crown Court had heard Jones claim the gun went off accidentally and he tried to cover up the killing.\n\nJones was found guilty by a majority verdict on Monday.\n\nMichael O'Leary had been having an affair with Rhiannon Jones\n\nJones lured Mr O'Leary to Cincoed Farm, in Cwmffrwd, which he owned, by texting him from his wife Rhiannon's phone, asking for a \"cwtch\" or cuddle.\n\nAfter Mr O'Leary arrived, Jones shot him with a .22 Colt rifle.\n\nJones took Mr O'Leary's car to a river and tried to make it look as if he killed himself, then disposed of his body on his farm, the trial was told.\n\nUpon leaving the car, Jones sent a text from Mr O'Leary's phone to the victim's wife and children, which said \"I am so sorry x\".\n\nJones (right) killed Mr O'Leary after discovering he was having an affair with his wife\n\nA piece of intestine belonging to Mr O'Leary was later found at Jones' property.\n\nCCTV footage showed a fire near a quarry face at the farm on 29 January, two days after father-of-three Mr O'Leary had been reported missing.\n\nPathologists told the court it was possible that discolouration on the piece of tissue suggested it had been exposed to heat.\n\nMr O'Leary's body has never been found.\n\nA forklift with blood on its blades was found in a shed on Mr Jones' farm\n\nA forklift with Mr O'Leary's blood was also found at Jones' farm.\n\nJones had used it to move his body before burning it, the trial previously heard.\n\nThe two men had known each other for about 20 years.\n\nJurors were told Mr O'Leary started having an affair with Jones' wife - who went to the same gym as him - sometime in 2019.\n\nThe judge, Mrs Justice Nerys Jefford, said the \"the only sentence that I can pass is one of life imprisonment\".\n\nA date for sentencing has not yet been set.\n\nCCTV footage showed Mr Jones carrying items at his home on the day he is accused of murdering Mr O'Leary\n\nSpeaking after the trial, Det Ch Insp Paul Jones, from Dyfed-Powys Police, said the case had been a challenging one for officers.\n\nHe said: \"It took a huge amount of resilience to get through the mental and physical challenges, through the initial search for Mr O'Leary and then as they sifted through material to find each tiny piece of evidence.\n\n\"There was pressure to prove what had happened to Mr O'Leary, to get answers quickly and charge the person responsible so they could be tried.\n\n\"Without a body this can be very difficult, you have to build significant evidence to support your theory they had been murdered.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cineworld is set to temporarily close its UK cinemas in the coming weeks.\n\nAs first reported in the Sunday Times, the firm is writing to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden to say the industry is now \"unviable\".\n\nThe firm says it has been hit by delays in the release of big-budget films, putting 5,500 jobs at risk.\n\nThe premiere of James Bond film No Time To Die has been postponed twice and is now due for release in April 2021.\n\nIt is hoped that the Cineworld cinemas will be able to reopen next year, with staff being asked to accept redundancy in the hope of rejoining the company when theatres open again.\n\nThe head of the UK Cinema Association said he feared the Cineworld closure was \"indicative of challenges faced by the entire UK cinema industry at the moment\".\n\nPhil Clapp said: \"Although cinemas opened in July and have been able to deliver a safe and enjoyable experience, without major new titles then we understand we aren't able to get as many people out of the home as we'd like.\"\n\nThe Bectu union says the delay in releasing the new Bond film has hit cinemas\n\nHe said no-one would be \"untouched by the current challenges\".\n\nPhilippa Childs of entertainment and broadcasting union Bectu said: \"The delay in the release of the Bond film along with the other delayed releases has plunged cinema into crisis.\n\n\"Studios will have to think carefully when considering release dates about the impact that will have for the long-term future of the big screen.\"\n\nWhen approached by the BBC, major UK chains Vue and Odeon refused to comment on how many cinemas they might be keeping open.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it was supporting cinemas through a VAT cut on tickets and concessions, business rates holiday and bounce-back loans.\n\n\"We urge the British public to support their local cinema and save jobs by visiting and enjoying a film in accordance with the [Covid-19] guidance.\"\n\nCineworld's sites in the US, where it operates 546 theatres, could also be forced to close.\n\nCineworld said in a statement: \"We can confirm we are considering the temporary closure of our UK and US cinemas, but a final decision has not yet been reached.\n\n\"Once a decision has been made we will update all staff and customers as soon as we can.\"\n\nIn September the firm reported a $1.6bn (£1.3bn) loss for the six months to June as its cinemas had to close because of coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nAnd it warned at the time that it might need to raise more money in the event of further restrictions - or film delays - due to Covid-19.\n\nCineworld is the world's second largest cinema operator, and the largest in the UK with 120 sites. It also owns the Picturehouse chain of smaller venues.\n\nIts other theatres globally include the Regal, Cinema City, and Yes Planet brands.\n\nAccording to the UK Cinema Association, operators should \"organise seating to ensure two-metre distancing can be maintained; where two metres is not viable, one metre with risk mitigation is acceptable. Mitigations should be considered and those introduced set out in the risk assessment\".\n\nBut in Scotland they must \"organise seating to ensure two-metre distancing can be maintained\".\n\nIt also says cinemas should introduce one-way flow through auditoriums, and provide floor markings and signage to remind customers to \"follow social distancing wherever possible.\"\n\nThe film industry had hoped the release of No Time To Die would spark a movie-going revival in the UK, with so many cinemas having been mothballed for months following the Covid-19 lockdown in March.\n\nBut on Friday the movie's release was further delayed until 2 April 2021 \"in order to be seen by a worldwide theatrical audience\".\n\nRob Arthur, an industry analyst at cinema strategists The Big Picture, said \"the current market is broken\".\n\n\"It has been a very challenging year both for Cineworld, and the world's largest cinema group AMC,\" he added.\n\n\"Film release schedules are being changed on a daily, never mind weekly, basis. It has been a catastrophic, devastating, year for operators.\"\n\nHe said the decision by Cineworld to put their UK operation \"into hibernation\" until next year made sense.\n\n\"You can't keep meeting the fixed operating costs of electricity, gas, air conditioning, staff, social distancing measures, and so forth when audience numbers are only a small percentage of what they were before,\" he said.\n\n\"Meanwhile, customer confidence in visiting cinemas has to be restored and I don't see that at the moment,\" Mr Arthur added.\n\n\"The crowds you used to see in London for example going from work directly to the cinema are not there.\"\n\nHe also said Cineworld's cash reserves were running low and that both they and AMC had a high percentage of financial liabilities compared with their assets.\n\nHe added: \"Landlords to date have acted reasonably and the deferral of rent has helped the cinema industry, but that comes to an end as does furlough payments so the operators will have to seek remedies to restructure their businesses.\"\n\nAs lockdown restrictions around the world were gradually lifted in mid-to-late summer Cineworld had been able to reopen 561 out of 778 sites worldwide.\n\nBut lockdown closures meant its group revenues sank to $712.4m in the first six months of the year, compared with $2.15bn a year earlier.\n\nThe group loss this year also marked a huge fall from the pre-tax profits of $139.7m seen in the first six months of 2019.\n\nHowever, when it released those financial figures, Cineworld said recent trading had been \"encouraging considering the circumstances\", with solid demand for Christopher Nolan's spy film Tenet which was released in September.\n\nIn June, Cineworld pulled out of a $2.1bn deal to buy the Canadian cinema chain Cineplex, a move which could lead to a legal battle.\n\nIt is not just Cineworld which has struggled this year, with independent London cinema Peckhamplex closing its doors on 25 September due to falling visitor numbers and delayed releases.\n\nIt had hoped to reopen in November, around the time the next James Bond film was due to be released.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "There could be a \"tsunami\" of cancelled operations this winter as the NHS copes with rising numbers of coronavirus patients, leading surgeons are warning.\n\nMembers of the Royal College of Surgeons of England say they doubt the NHS can meet targets to restore surgery back to near pre-pandemic levels.\n\nPlanned procedures such as hip replacements were paused to free up beds during lockdown in the spring.\n\nAnd hospitals have since been dealing with a backlog.\n\nIn July, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens told trusts hospitals should by September 2020 be performing at least 80% of their September 2019 rates of:\n\nAnd by October, this proportion should rise to 90%.\n\nBut data suggests more than two million people have been waiting longer than 18 weeks for routine operations, with 83,000 waiting more than a year - up from 2,000 before the pandemic.\n\nMore than 140,000 operations such as knee and hip replacements were performed in July 2020, up from 41,000 in April.\n\nBut that is less than half the level seen in July 2019.\n\nThe Royal College of Surgeons of England surveyed nearly 1,000 members in September and found:\n\nPresident of the college Prof Neil Mortensen said: \"This is a national crisis requiring a truly national effort across all hospitals - private and NHS alike.\n\n\"As the virus becomes more prevalent again, there is a real risk of a tsunami of cancelled operations unless surgical beds are funded and protected.\n\n\"That means building up theatre capacity and designating beds exclusively for those who need an operation.\"\n\nAn NHS spokesman said the survey underestimated the amount of surgery now happening in the NHS, adding that goals for the end of August were met.\n\n\"The NHS has flexed its hospital capacity and community services as needed throughout the pandemic, treating over 110,000 severely ill people for Covid-19, and doubling the number of non-urgent operations since April. More people are set to benefit from the deal struck with independent hospitals also to make use of their bed capacity.\n\n\"Covid inpatient numbers are rising and much depends on keeping the virus under control through continued public action on hands-face-space, Test and Trace service, and rapid action to control local outbreaks,\" he said.\n\nHave you had an operation cancelled? How long have you been waiting? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Top row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nFour risk assessments carried out prior to Manchester Arena attack \"failed to adequately assess\" the terror threat at the venue, an inquiry has heard.\n\nSecurity expert Colonel Richard Latham said the risk of a suicide bombing at a venue like the Manchester Arena should have been \"crystal clear\".\n\nThe terror threat level at the time of the 2017 bombing was classed as severe.\n\nThe public inquiry, scheduled to last into next spring, is looking at events before, during and after the attack.\n\nTwenty two people were killed and many more injured when Salman Abedi detonated an explosive as fans left the Ariana Grande concert.\n\nThe inquiry, which is taking place at Manchester Magistrates' Court, heard how Mr Latham along with Dr David BaMaung have jointly analysed more than 1,000 documents relating to the Manchester Arena attack.\n\nThis has accumulated in three reports, which review the adequacy and effectiveness of security at the arena, what lessons ought to be learned and what changes need to be made.\n\nSalman Abedi was caught on CCTV in the City Room just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nThe operators of the arena, SMG, had responsibility for safety and security in the City Room, where the bombing happened on the evening of 22 May 2017.\n\nBut as the City Room was classed as \"public space,\" this meant arena security staff could interact with people but did not have the power to eject an individual and would need to escalate any suspicions to the police, the inquiry heard.\n\nAt the time of the explosion, there was not a single police officer in the City Room.\n\nThe inquiry was told if SMG wanted specific policing resources for the arena then they could have paid the police for this service.\n\nThe public inquiry follows a trial in which a jury found Hashem Abedi guilty of helping his older sibling to plan the atrocity.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bodies of Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi and Vian Mangrio, 14, were found on Thursday\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a mother and her daughter whose bodies were discovered inside a fire-damaged house.\n\nDr Saman Mir Sacharvi and Vian Mangrio, 14, were found dead at their home in Reedley, Lancashire on Thursday.\n\nThe men, from Burnley, aged 51 and 56, were both held on suspicion of two counts of murder, two of rape and one of arson with intent to endanger life.\n\nThe 56-year-old was released without charge. The other remains in custody.\n\nDr Sacharvi was described as a \"well-loved and well-liked colleague\"\n\nLancashire Police has urged anyone with information to contact them and said there were \"a number of lines of inquiry\".\n\nDet Supt Jon Holmes, head of major crime, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Dr Sacharvi and Miss Mangrio's family and friends at this awful time and we send them our deepest condolences.\n\n\"We have a team of detectives dedicated to the investigation and we will leave no stone unturned.\"\n\nDr Sacharvi, 49, was described as a \"well-loved and well-liked colleague\" in a tribute issued by Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nShe had worked in the trust's specialist perinatal community mental health team since February and most recently at its Daisyfield site in Blackburn.\n\nPerinatal lead consultant Gill Strachan said: \"She was approachable, diligent and had formed good working relationships with the team.\n\n\"She was empathic and well-liked by the women and families that she worked with.\n\n\"During lockdown when Covid-19 restrictions were in place, she went out of her way to support the care of women, personally delivering prescriptions to women isolating at home.\n\n\"The team are shocked and saddened, and she will be greatly missed.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been left outside the family home\n\nAlyson Littlewood, the head teacher of Marsden Heights Community College where Vian was a student, said: \"We are heartbroken by the tragic deaths of Vian and her mother and our whole school is mourning the loss of two much-loved members of our community.\"\n\nShe said Vian was an \"outstanding student\" who had a \"wonderful mix of academic ability coupled with an enthusiasm for everything else that school can offer\".\n\n\"She was very popular and was extremely supportive of her friends, was generous to all and had a smile that could fill a room.\n\n\"We were all very fortunate to have her in our lives and we will miss her on a daily basis.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been left outside the family home by well-wishers.\n\nOne card read: \"RIP Gorgeous. Thank you for everything you have done for me and made me a better person.\n\n\"You'll always be in my heart. I miss you so much. May you and your mom rest in peace. Love from Sky xxx\"\n\nAnother unsigned message said: \"May some good love come out of this horrendous crime. May people learn tolerance.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with you both. Stupid, stupid. So sad, bad, wrong.\"\n\nDr Sacharvi died \"as a result of pressure to the neck\" and had been assaulted, police said.\n\nVian was found badly burnt inside the house but the cause of her death has yet to be determined, the force added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@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. Priti Patel: \"We will address the moral, legal, and practical problems with the asylum system\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has pledged to fix the \"fundamentally broken\" asylum system in the UK to make it \"firm and fair\".\n\nSpeaking at the Conservative Party conference, she promised to introduce legislation next year for the \"biggest overhaul\" of the system in \"decades\".\n\nAnd she said those against her plans were \"defending the indefensible\".\n\nIt comes after it emerged this week that the UK considered sending asylum seekers to an island in the Atlantic.\n\nMs Patel said changes \"would take time\" and she would \"accelerate the UK's operational response\" to the issue in the meantime.\n\nThe chief executive of charity Refugee Action, Stephen Hale, said it was a \"positive step\" for the home secretary to \"realise what we've been trying to tell her - the asylum system is not fair or effective\".\n\nBut he urged her to push for \"quicker decisions and better support\" for those seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds accused the Conservatives of being \"the political party that broke\" the asylum system, having been in power for 10 years.\n\nHe added: \"Recent experience suggests they have not learned any lessons at all, with unconscionable, absurd proposals about floating walls and creating waves in the English Channel to push back boats and sending people thousands of miles away to process claims.\n\n\"The truth is the Tories are devoid of compassion and competence.\"\n\nMs Patel pledged to introduce a new asylum system that welcomed people through \"safe and legal routes\" and stopped those arriving illegally \"making endless legal claims to remain\".\n\nThe system will include expediting the removal of those \"who have no claim for protection\", she said.\n\nShe added: \"After decades of inaction by successive governments, we will address the moral, legal, practical problems with this broken system. Because what exists now is neither firm nor fair.\n\n\"I will take every necessary step to fix this broken system amounting to the biggest overhaul of our asylum system in decades.\"\n\nThe promised overhaul follows record numbers of people making the journey across the English Channel to the UK in September, which Ms Patel has vowed to stop.\n\nAccording to Refugee Action, 35,566 asylum applications were made in the UK in 2019 - down from a peak of 84,000 in 2002.\n\nAt the same time, delays in processing UK asylum applications have increased significantly.\n\nFour out of five applicants in the last three months of 2019 waited six months or more for their cases to be processed.\n\nMs Patel said the UK would make more \"immediate returns\" of people who arrived illegally \"and break our rules, every single week\".\n\nIt emerged this week the government considered building an asylum processing centre at Ascension Island - a remote UK territory in the Atlantic Ocean\n\nRefugee Action's Stephen Hale said to make the system fair her \"immediate priority\" should be to \"honour her words and commit long-term to creating safe and legal routes for refugees to reach the UK\" - including restarting settlement schemes that were paused during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nPre-empting criticism of her proposals, Ms Patel said she expected some would \"lecture us on their grand theories about human rights\".\n\nBut, she added: \"Those defending the broken system - the traffickers, the do-gooders, the lefty lawyers, the Labour Party - they are defending the indefensible\".\n\nIt comes after it emerged this week that the government had considered building an asylum processing centre on a remote UK territory in the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nMs Patel asked officials to look at asylum policies which had been successful in other countries, the BBC was told.\n\nLabour said the \"ludicrous idea\" was \"inhumane, completely impractical and wildly expensive\".\n\nDuring her speech, the home secretary said the government would \"explore all practical measures and options to deter illegal migration\".\n\nShe added: \"A reformed system will prosecute the criminals and protect the vulnerable. That is what a firm and fair system should look like.\"\n\nAndy Hewett, head of advocacy at the Refugee Council, said he agreed with Ms Patel that the current system was \"broken\" and \"leaves vulnerable people languishing for months on end, fearful for their future and unable to start rebuilding their lives\".\n\nBut he said it was wrong to say it was illegal for people to arrive in the UK via small boats for the purpose of seeking asylum - which is covered in the UN Refugee Convention - although they would like to see fewer people attempting the dangerous journey.\n\n\"To this end, we're calling on the home secretary to restart the resettlement programme without delay, dismantle the inhumane family reunion rules that prevent parents from being reunited with their children in the UK, and introduce humanitarian visas so that refugees can travel safely to the UK,\" added Mr Hewett.", "The final possible legal challenge to Led Zeppelin's ownership of Stairway To Heaven has been defeated.\n\nThe band were sued for copyright in 2014 over claims they had stolen the song's opening riff from Taurus, by a US band called Spirit.\n\nLed Zeppelin won the case in 2016, but it was revived on appeal in 2018.\n\nA court of appeals upheld the original verdict earlier this year. Now, the US Supreme Court has declined to hear the case, definitively ending it.\n\nStairway To Heaven regularly appears on lists of the greatest rock songs ever written, and the case has been one of the music industry's most closely-watched disputes.\n\nMillions of dollars were potentially at stake, with the song estimated to have earned $3.4m (£2.6m) in the five-year period that was at issue during the trial.\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 Led Zeppelin 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 copyright dispute was originally lodged by journalist Michael Skidmore in 2014 on behalf of the estate of Randy Wolfe, the late frontman of Spirit.\n\nLawyers for Wolfe's estate argued that Led Zeppelin became familiar with Spirit's song after singer Robert Plant saw them play at a club in Birmingham in 1970, a year before Stairway to Heaven was released.\n\nIn the original trial, Spirit's bassist Mark Andes testified that he met Plant at the show and played snooker with him afterwards.\n\nPlant insisted he had no memory of the night, partially attributing his lack of memory to a bad car crash on his way home. Both he and his wife suffered head injuries in the accident, he told the court, after the windscreen of his Jaguar was left \"buried\" in his face.\n\nGuitarist Jimmy Page testified he had been unaware of Spirit's song until people started posting online comparisons in the early 2010s. \"I knew I had never heard that before,\" he said. \"It was totally alien to me.\"\n\nThe jury rejected Page and Plant's argument that they would not have been familiar with Taurus, saying they had \"access\" to it.\n\nHowever, they found evidence from musicologists more convincing. Experts who testified said the descending musical pattern shared by both songs had been a common musical device for centuries. One example cited was Chim Chim Cher-ee, from the 1964 Disney musical Mary Poppins.\n\nThe jury, which concluded the two songs were \"not intrinsically similar\", were not allowed to listen to Taurus during the trial. This and other alleged errors led to an appeal.\n\nBut in March, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld the original verdict, saying the errors did not warrant a new 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\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Civilians are being forced to flee the city of Stepanakert as clashes continue over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.\n\nThe enclave is officially part of Azerbaijan but run by ethnic Armenians.\n\nMore than 200 people are now known to have been killed, including civilians, since the fighting between troops from Armenia and Azerbaijan began a week ago.", "The announcement was made at a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden\n\nThree scientists who discovered the virus Hepatitis C have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.\n\nThe winners are British scientist Michael Houghton and US researchers Harvey Alter and Charles Rice.\n\nThe Nobel Prize committee said their discoveries ultimately \"saved millions of lives\".\n\nThe virus is a common cause of liver cancer and a major reason why people need a liver transplant.\n\nIn the 1960s, there was huge concern that people receiving donated blood were getting chronic hepatitis (liver inflammation) from an unknown, mysterious disease.\n\nThe Nobel Prize committee said a blood transfusion at the time was like \"Russian roulette\".\n\nHighly sensitive blood tests mean such cases have now been eliminated in many parts of the world, and effective anti-viral drugs have also been developed.\n\n\"For the first time in history, the disease can now be cured, raising hopes of eradicating Hepatitis C virus from the world,\" the prize committee said.\n\nHowever, there are 70 million people currently living with the virus, which still kills around 400,000 a year.\n\nThe viruses Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B had been discovered by the mid-1960s.\n\nBut Prof Harvey Alter, while studying transfusion patients at the US National Institutes of Health in 1972, showed there was another, mystery, infection at work.\n\nPatients were still getting sick after receiving donated blood.\n\nHe showed that giving blood from infected patients to chimpanzees led to them developing the disease.\n\nThe mysterious illness became known as \"non-A, non-B\" hepatitis and the hunt was now on.\n\nProf Michael Houghton, while at the pharmaceutical firm Chiron, managed to isolated the genetic sequence of the virus in 1989. This showed it was a type of flavivirus and it was named Hepatitis C.\n\nAnd Prof Charles Rice, while at Washington University in St. Louis, applied the finishing touches in 1997. He injected a genetically engineered Hepatitis C virus into the liver of chimpanzees and showed this could lead to hepatitis.\n\nProf Houghton, now at the University of Alberta in Canada, told the BBC: \"We had limited tools available to us then, so it was rather like searching for a needle in a haystack.\n\n\"The amount of virus present in the liver and the blood was very low, and the sensitivity of our techniques was not high enough, so we were sailing very close to the wind all the time.\n\n\"We tried a lot of methods, probably 30 or 40 different methodological approaches over seven years, and eventually one worked.\"\n\nCommenting on the announcement, Dr Claire Bayntun, a clinical consultant in global public health and vice-president of Royal Society of Medicine, said the discovery was an \"extraordinary achievement\".\n\nShe said: \"[In] unlocking the door to the development of effective treatment and screening of blood transfusions, and protecting populations in many regions of the world, millions of lives have been saved.\"", "New UK car registrations fell 4.4% in September from a year earlier, according to the motor industry.\n\nThat made it the worst September this century in what is normally the industry's second most important month.\n\nThere were just 328,041 new registrations in the month, said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).\n\nThe car sector has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, which closed factories and showrooms.\n\nSeptember is normally second to March as the industry's most important sales month, because licence plate changes typically prompt a spike in demand.\n\nBut the SMMT said last month saw the lowest volume in new cars since the current licence plate system began in 1999.\n\nThese figures are unlikely to generate much optimism in an industry which, in the SMMT's own words, has just gone through one of the bleakest periods in its history.\n\nThere had been hope that pent-up demand from buyers unable to head out during lockdown would produce a spike in sales later in the year. It hasn't happened. It seems as though the economic uncertainty caused by Covid is making buyers wary of buying or leasing big-ticket items - such as cars.\n\nThere is some good news for the industry, though. Sales of electric cars are rising fast, even as the market for diesels continues to collapse.\n\nCarmakers have ploughed huge sums into developing electric vehicles, effectively forced to do so by policymakers intent on cutting pollution and phasing out traditional cars.\n\nRight now, they are expensive to build and not very profitable. But if enough people buy them, then economies of scale will kick in and carmakers can hope to recoup some of their investment.\n\n\"During a torrid year, the automotive industry has demonstrated incredible resilience, but this is not a recovery,\" said SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes.\n\n\"Unless the pandemic is controlled and economy-wide consumer and business confidence rebuilt, the short-term future looks very challenging indeed.\"\n\nThe SMMT said the relaxation of Covid lockdown restrictions from June had seen consumers return to showrooms and factories restart production lines, after one of the bleakest periods in the sector's history.\n\nBut it added that the market faced \"continued pressure\", including Brexit uncertainty and the threat of tariffs. while the shift towards zero emission-capable vehicles required huge investment.\n\n\"Additionally, consumer and business confidence is threatened by the forthcoming end of the government's furlough scheme, an expected rise in unemployment and continuing restrictions on society as a result of the pandemic,\" the SMMT said.\n\nThe SMMT added: \"With little realistic prospect of recovering the 615,000 registrations lost so far in 2020, the sector now expects an overall 30.6% market decline by the end of the year, equivalent to some £21.2bn in lost sales.\"\n\nHowever, not all carmakers had a bad month.\n\nHistoric UK car marque MG, now Chinese-owned, said it had notched up 3,668 sales in September 2020 - 169% up on the same month in 2019.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nAbraham, Chilwell and Sancho have not joined the squad at St George's Park Tammy Abraham, Ben Chilwell and Jadon Sancho could miss England's game with Wales on Thursday after being told to stay away from St George's Park. It is understood they were among more than six people at Abraham's surprise 23rd birthday party on Saturday - breaking coronavirus rules in England. They could now miss the game at Wembley because of Uefa's testing protocols. To have any chance of playing they need to complete a coronavirus test 48 hours before Thursday's 20:00 BST kick-off. However, having already been told by the Football Association (FA) to delay their arrival at England's training camp, completing a test in time appears unlikely. The FA says the delay is a precaution while it assesses if there is any risk to the wider group. Police will not be taking any action against the trio. \"As a matter of course we are not investigating Covid-related issues retrospectively,\" said a Metropolitan Police spokesperson. Chelsea forward Abraham, Chelsea left-back Chilwell, 23, and Borussia Dortmund winger Sancho, 20, have all apologised for the breach. Abraham said he was unaware the party was planned but \"deeply regrets\" it and has apologised for \"the naivety shown\". In a post on Instagram, Sancho wrote: \"I would like to apologise for breaking the government guidelines and although I was unaware upon arriving of the numbers attending, I take full responsibility for my actions. \"I will make sure moving forward that I learn from this.\" The party, which was first reported by the Sun, happened hours after Abraham played in Chelsea's 4-0 win over Crystal Palace on Saturday. Police have the power to break up groups larger than six and those who ignore officers could be fined £100 - doubling with each offence to a maximum of £3,200. It is understood those at the party were close friends and family who had their temperatures checked on arrival. \"On Saturday evening I arrived home to find a small surprise gathering had been organised for me with family and close friends to celebrate my birthday,\" Abraham said. \"Although I was totally unaware this was planned, I would like to wholeheartedly apologise for the naivety shown by all for the organisation and attending of this gathering. \"I recognise that I have a responsibility both in my professional and personal life to honour and respect the guidelines and deeply regret that this took place. \"All I can do now is learn from it, apologise to everyone and ensure it never happens again.\" On Monday, Chilwell also posted on social media, saying: \"I would like to apologise for my lack of judgement over the weekend. \"I have a responsibility to respect the guidelines. I will ensure I learn from this and will not put myself in this position in future.\" The rest of England manager Gareth Southgate's squad have arrived at St George's Park to prepare for three games in a week at Wembley. After the friendly against Wales, England host Nations League fixtures against Belgium and Denmark on 11 and 14 October respectively. Last month, Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden and Manchester United forward Mason Greenwood were dropped from an England squad after an \"unacceptable\" breach of Covid-19 quarantine guidelines in Iceland. Southgate was already planning to talk to his squad this week about \"what it means to wear the shirt\", following the incident involving Foden and Greenwood. Southgate plans to give his players \"some reminders on how we work\". \"That's not a case of reading the riot act,\" he said last week. \"That's a case of asking the players what sort of team they want to be involved in and be a part of.\" Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling has been ruled out because of injury, with Chelsea full-back Reece James promoted to the senior squad from England Under-21s. Wales will be without Juventus midfielder Aaron Ramsey because the Serie A side have put their squad into a bubble after two non-playing staff members tested positive for Covid-19. *not currently with squad\n• None Me, My Brother and Our Balls:\n• None New series of the quirky comedy is streaming now", "The badly thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software was the reason nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported in England.\n\nAnd it appears that Public Health England (PHE) was to blame, rather than a third-party contractor.\n\nThe issue was caused by the way the agency brought together logs produced by commercial firms paid to analyse swab tests of the public, to discover who has the virus.\n\nThey filed their results in the form of text-based lists - known as CSV files - without issue.\n\nPHE had set up an automatic process to pull this data together into Excel templates so that it could then be uploaded to a central system and made available to the NHS Test and Trace team, as well as other government computer dashboards.\n• None 1,980cases per day, on average, were missed in that time\n\nThe problem is that PHE's own developers picked an old file format to do this - known as XLS.\n\nAs a consequence, each template could handle only about 65,000 rows of data rather than the one million-plus rows that Excel is actually capable of.\n\nAnd since each test result created several rows of data, in practice it meant that each template was limited to about 1,400 cases.\n\nWhen that total was reached, further cases were simply left off.\n\nFor a bit of context, Excel's XLS file format dates back to 1987. It was superseded by XLSX in 2007. Had this been used, it would have handled 16 times the number of cases.\n\nAt the very least, that would have prevented the error from happening until testing levels were significantly higher than they are today,\n\nBut one expert suggested that even a high-school computing student would know that better alternatives exist.\n\n\"Excel was always meant for people mucking around with a bunch of data for their small company to see what it looked like,\" commented Prof Jon Crowcroft from the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"And then when you need to do something more serious, you build something bespoke that works - there's dozens of other things you could do.\n\n\"But you wouldn't use XLS. Nobody would start with that.\"\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock suggested that the problem had emerged as a result of PHE using a \"legacy system\" and a decision had been taken two months ago to replace it.\n\nMr Hancock acknowledged the flaw without going into the specifics of why an old Excel file format had been used\n\nPresumably, however, this specific problem had not been spotted. Otherwise PHE would have realised that the flaw would come into effect before the upgrade was complete.\n\nMr Hancock was challenged to put other relevant data-process diagrams into the public domain, so other hidden failings in the government's digital apparatus could be found.\n\nBut while the minister said he would see what was possible, he added: \"The challenge of a maximum file size error is that it wouldn't necessarily appear on those sorts of flowcharts.\"\n\nPHE is confident that test results were not missed until last week, because of the flaw.\n\nAnd in its defence, the agency would note that it caught most of the cases within a day or two of the records slipping through its net.\n\nThe glitch did not prevent patients getting their results, but delayed contact tracers from seeing the details\n\nBut Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said lives had still been put at risk because the contact-tracing process had been delayed.\n\n\"Thousands of people [were] blissfully unaware they've been exposed to Covid, potentially spreading this deadly virus at a time when hospital admissions are increasing,\" he told the House of Commons.\n\n\"This isn't just a shambles. It's so much worse.\"\n\nTo handle the problem, PHE is now breaking down the test result data into smaller batches to create a larger number of Excel templates. That should ensure none hit their cap.\n\nBut insiders acknowledge that the current clunky system needs to be replaced by something more advanced that excludes Excel, as soon as possible.\n• None Test error 'should never have happened' - Hancock", "Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have a lot in common - distinctive hairstyles, larger-than-life personalities and a habit of creating controversy.\n\nAnd now they share the unwanted experience of being leaders taken to hospital with coronavirus.\n\nThe US president is currently being treated for the disease, six months after UK Prime Minister Mr Johnson fell victim to the same virus.\n\nBut how do their experiences compare - and what, if anything, can the US learn from the UK's experience?\n\nOn 27 March, the UK Prime Minister announced he had tested positive for Covid. It was not hugely unexpected given the virus had ripped its way through the top levels of UK government - infecting ministers and senior advisers.\n\nIn a Twitter video Mr Johnson said he had experienced \"mild symptoms\" but insisted he was - \"thanks to the wizardry of modern technology\" - still leading the government's response despite self-isolating.\n\nOne week later he announced that a persistent temperature meant he would have to continue self-isolating.\n\nBoris Johnson looked noticeably unwell when he appeared outside Downing Street a few days before going into hospital\n\nTwo days later, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said his boss had \"very much got his hand on the tiller\". But that evening Mr Johnson was admitted to hospital - although Downing Street stressed this was \"a precautionary step\".\n\nTwenty-four hours later the shocking news came that his condition had \"worsened\" and the prime minister had been moved to the intensive care unit.\n\nThere are parallels between Mr Johnson's experience and Mr Trump's. Like the prime minister, Mr Trump has been keen to emphasise that he is still at work, posting pictures of himself at a desk with documents.\n\nBoth their visits to hospital were described as precautionary - Mr Trump's team said it had been motivated by an \"abundance of caution\".\n\nAnd both leaders - being male, over 50 and overweight - are in an at-risk category.\n\nHowever, there are also differences. Updates on Mr Johnson's condition came solely from the Downing Street spokesperson, rather than the hospital or his doctor, whereas in the US, the president's doctors have held press conferences.\n\nIn some ways this caused confusion - particularly when Dr Sean Conley's account conflicted with briefings from White House staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Sean Conley said he was trying to \"reflect the upbeat attitude\" of his team by not revealing the president received oxygen\n\nBut unlike in the UK, US journalists were able to question the medical team - and perhaps as a result Americans got a broader picture of their leader's health.\n\nIt speaks to a wider difference between the two countries. In America, a whole medical unit based in the White House is devoted to the care of the president and candidates to the presidency are now expected to release medical records\n\nNo such set-up exists in Downing Street and if you Google medical records plus Jeremy Corbyn (the former leader of the opposition) you are more likely to get hits for stories about the National Health Service, than any personal information.\n\nTwo blonde leaders get Covid and end up in hospital.\n\nBut that's where the similarities end.\n\nThere are vast constitutional and cultural differences between British and American politics.\n\nThe cultural first: men in white coats in front of a microphone. We've seen that in Washington.\n\nUpdates from the doctors, in front of the cameras. Updates with detail too: the drugs the president's on, the days he's getting them.\n\nThere is no way medics at St Thomas's Hospital in London were ever going to offer a running, public commentary on the prime minister's health, let alone the content of their syringes.\n\nOh, and an American president has a medical team and facilities on hand at the White House.\n\nIn contrast, Boris Johnson was holed up on his own, upstairs in Downing Street, his tea left at the door of his flat.\n\nAnd now the constitutional: in short, America has one, the UK doesn't.\n\nSo while the question of who takes over isn't easily answered in the UK, there's a long established plan in the US.\n\nOnce the prime minister was admitted into intensive care, his Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, was asked to deputise \"where necessary\".\n\nIn the US, the 25th Amendment sets out the conditions for a vice-president assuming power from his boss, but in the UK, with its unwritten constitution and enthusiasm for precedents over codified rules, there is no formal power that allows for such a transfer of responsibility.\n\nWe knew very little about the exact extent of Mr Raab's authority - and opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested Mr Raab, was \"reluctant\" to take decisions, leaving the government in a kind of limbo while the Prime Minister recuperated.\n\nConstitutional expert Dr Catherine Haddon of the Institute for Government said at the time: \"The lack of a plan for who can take over when the prime minister is incapacitated looks extraordinary to many in the country and abroad.\"\n\nDominic Raab deputised for the prime minister as he was moved to intensive care.\n\nSince his admission to hospital, there has been speculation about how Mr Trump's poll ratings will be affected - particularly with the presidential election one month away.\n\nLooking at the UK example - not much is the answer.\n\nBBC political analyst Peter Barnes says Boris Johnson's personal approval ratings went up - hitting 50% and above - when government introduced measures to tackle coronavirus.\n\nThe high ratings continued throughout the period that the prime minister was ill, and into May, before starting to fall back.\n\nMr Johnson came out of hospital on 12 April and returned to work after a two-week break.\n\nYet six months on, there has been some speculation over whether the Prime Minister is fully recovered. However, when asked if he was suffering from long Covid, Mr Johnson insisted he was \"as fit as several butchers' dogs\".\n\nHis spell in hospital has prompted at least one change in his behaviour. The prime minister has acknowledged he was \"too fat\" when he caught the virus and has hired a personal trainer to get him fit.\n\nSo in a few months' time, Americans may get used to seeing pictures of Mr Trump running laps round the Rose Garden.", "Sir Ian Botham has taken his seat in the House of Lords.\n\nThe Brexit-backing former England cricketer wore the traditional scarlet and ermine-trimmed robe for the brief formal introduction ceremony.\n\nBaron Botham, of Ravensworth in the county of North Yorkshire was nominated for a life peerage in the 2020 Political Honours and will sit as a cross bencher.\n\nThe proceedings were delayed due to a technical problem, prompting groans from peers when Lord Speaker Lord Fowler told them: \"I think rain has stopped play just for the moment.\"", "Offshore wind farms will generate enough electricity to power every home in the UK within a decade, Boris Johnson has pledged.\n\nSpeaking to the Conservative party conference, the PM announced £160m to upgrade ports and factories for building turbines to help the country \"build back greener\".\n\nThe plan aims to create 2,000 jobs in construction and support 60,000 more.\n\nHe said the UK would become \"the world leader in clean wind energy\".\n\n\"Your kettle, your washing machine, your cooker, your heating, your plug-in electric vehicle - the whole lot of them will get their juice cleanly and without guilt from the breezes that blow around these islands,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson's speech comes after he made a pledge at a UN biodiversity summit in New York to protect 30% of UK land for nature as a \"boost for biodiversity\".\n\nThe scheme will see the money invested into manufacturing in Teesside and Humber in northern England, as well as sites in Scotland and Wales.\n\nMr Johnson said the government was raising its target for offshore wind power capacity by 2030 from 30 gigawatts to 40 gigawatts.\n\nThe commitments are the first stage of a 10-point plan for a \"green industrial revolution\" from the government, with No 10 promising the rest of the details later this year to \"accelerate our progress towards net zero emissions by 2050\".\n\nThe net zero target means greenhouse gas emissions would be dramatically slashed and any remaining emissions offset, neutralising environmental impacts and slowing climate change.\n\nMr Johnson's speech comes amid a \"fractious\" mood on the Conservative backbenches about his handling of the Covid-19 crisis, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says.\n\nShe said the occasion could provide the prime minister with an opportunity to sell his vision of the country post-pandemic to party members.\n\nBut she added this year's speech - to be delivered virtually without a live audience - would not allow him to plug into the energy of a crowd as he normally would.\n\nThe Beatrice offshore wind farm in Scotland generates enough power for more than 450,000 properties\n\nMr Johnson told the conference he believes that in 10 years' time, \"offshore wind will be powering every home in the country\".\n\n\"Far out in the deepest waters we will harvest the gusts, and by upgrading infrastructure in places like Teesside and Humber and Scotland and Wales, we will increase an offshore wind capacity that is already the biggest in the world.\"\n\nThe PM also repeated his pledge for the UK to become the \"Saudi Arabia of wind power\", adding: \"As Saudi Arabia is to oil, the UK is to wind - a place of almost limitless resource, but in the case of wind without the carbon emissions and without the damage to the environment.\"\n\nThe PM's enthusiastic windy rhetoric has been welcomed by the renewables industry - but there's nothing new about the 40GW figure.\n\nIt was previously announced in the Conservative Party manifesto.\n\nWhat's important today is the promise of cash to improve ports to support the offshore industry in Scotland and the north of England.\n\nIt won't just create jobs to replace some of those being lost in the shrinking oil sector.\n\nIt could also support the onset of floating offshore wind power, which would allow wind farms anchored in deep water far west of Scotland, where the conditions are challenging but the winds are strong and consistent.\n\nThe advances in wind power are momentous, but shouldn't be exaggerated.\n\nThe PM is promising enough power all UK homes - but remember, homes only account for a third of electricity demand. The rest goes to offices and factories.\n\nAnd there's a long way to go before the economy is decarbonised.\n\nThe industry is now waiting for the government's long-delayed energy white paper.\n\nThat will set the course for onshore wind, solar, and the two latest objects of prime ministerial desire - hydrogen produced by surplus off-peak wind energy; and carbon capture, where emissions are caught and pumped into underground rocks.\n\nMinisters will also have to decide how they can fund the new nuclear stations that Mr Johnson says will be part of the UK energy mix.\n\nThe prime minister has previously said the UK should embrace a range of new technologies to achieve its goal of net zero emissions by 2050.\n\nLast month, Mr Johnson said he wanted the UK to take the lead in carbon capture and storage technology, in which greenhouse gas emissions are captured from sources such as power stations and then stored underground.\n\nHe also said the UK government was thinking of bringing forward the date for phasing out new petrol and diesel cars from 2035 to 2030.\n\nGreenpeace UK executive director John Sauven said: \"The prime minister's recognition that last year's Tory manifesto commitment on offshore wind can generate jobs whilst cutting energy bills and carbon is a great lightbulb moment.\n\n\"If carried through it would help cement the UK's global leadership in this key technology.\n\n\"But delivering 40 gigawatts of power on to the grid by 2030 requires action in this Parliament.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Craig Meikle: \"I feel angry when I wake up in the morning, angry when I go to bed at night and angry every hour in between.\"\n\nThe owners of soft play and indoor sports facilities have warned they face financial ruin.\n\nWhile such businesses opened in England in mid-August they remain closed in Scotland.\n\nMany soft play centres, theatres and nightclubs had hoped to open on Monday but some fear they now never will.\n\nLast week First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that the date of their reopening had been postponed until at least 15 October.\n\nShe said it would not be sensible to ease restrictions while infection rates were rising.\n\nThe sectors had previously been given indicative reopening dates of 14 September and 5 October.\n\nCraig Meikle, who owns Saltire soft play and football centre in Dalkeith, has run out of patience.\n\n\"I feel angry when I wake up in the morning, angry when I go to bed at night and angry every hour in between,\" he said.\n\n\"My wife and I have spent six years building this business up to be a sustainable business.\n\n\"We're not going to get rich from this but our staff would have said they were in a stable secure job.\"\n\nSaltire Soft Play in Dalkeith is close to financial disaster\n\nHe says the business is six to eight weeks away from collapse.\n\nIn six months of closure, he says £166,000 has left his business bank account with just £49,000 in furlough payments coming in.\n\nHis business took a £100,000 loan to survive which is almost gone.\n\nMr Meikle says he is now at the mercy of his creditors but thanks to an understanding landlord, he is still hopeful for his business.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"So when you hear the chancellor talking about support packages for viable businesses it drives me absolutely nuts.\n\n\"When I think we have got a viable business that offers an important service to the community and it's not a business that either the Scottish government or the UK government are seeing fit to support financially, rage is probably the best feeling I could explain.\"\n\nSaltire has had no financial help outside the job retention scheme and the business did not qualify for any grants.\n\nMr Meikle has seen other businesses receive awards of up to £25,000 which have been allowed to reopen and earn money.\n\nHis frustration is in getting no financial help and still being unable to earn.\n\nMike Ferguson runs Forfar Indoor Sports. He says his phone never stops ringing asking if they are open. And he has had to watch his customers go elsewhere to venues that can open.\n\nHe said: \"We are praying that on the 15th we get going. Heading towards something and not getting there is demoralising.\n\n\"The furlough scheme has been excellent for staff but we now have to think seriously about letting staff go.\n\n\"We can't carry on paying even a share of staff wages and the new rules don't assist.\"\n\nMr Ferguson says he is now trying to plan for reopening without a date.\n\nCancellation of the 15 September deadline hit hard with training completed, deep cleans paid for and food wasted.\n\nHe said: \"If they are not coming to us they are going somewhere else. That's the most frustrating point of all of this.\"\n\nFrosty's Fun centre in Forfar has not seen customers since Lockdown began on 23 March\n\nA spokeswoman for the Scottish government said it understood the severe impact of the pandemic, but that Scotland was at a \"critical point\" as the virus continues to rise.\n\nShe said: \"Our absolute focus has been to help businesses survive and retain as much employment as possible - using the limited powers available to us and we have repeatedly urged the UK government to transfer to us the financial powers needed to fully respond to the pandemic.\n\n\"Throughout this unprecedented economic crisis we have listened to businesses and business organisations and acted quickly to offer support which now exceeds £2.3bn.\n\n\"Our support for businesses includes almost £900m of non-domestic rates relief for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses including soft play centres; the small business grant fund and the retail, hospitality and leisure grant fund worth over £1bn; the culture organisations and venues recovery fund which includes nightclubs.\n\n\"We also created hardship and resilience funds unique to Scotland, with a value of £185m targeted at support for SMEs and the self-employed.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea and England striker Tammy Abraham has apologised \"for the naivety shown\" after a breach of coronavirus guidelines.\n\nIt is understood a group of more than six people, including England team-mates Ben Chilwell and Jadon Sancho, attended a surprise party for Abraham's 23rd birthday at his home on Saturday.\n\nGatherings of more than six people are banned in England.\n\nAbraham said he was unaware the party was planned but \"deeply regrets\" it.\n\nThe party, which was first reported by the Sun, happened hours after Abraham played in Chelsea's 4-0 win over Crystal Palace on Saturday and before he was due to join up with the England squad this week.\n\nPolice have the power to break up groups larger than six and those who ignore officers could be fined £100 - doubling with each offence to a maximum of £3,200.\n\nIt is understood those at the party were close friends and family who had their temperatures checked on arrival.\n\n\"On Saturday evening I arrived home to find a small surprise gathering had been organised for me with family and close friends to celebrate my birthday,\" Abraham said.\n\n\"Although I was totally unaware this was planned, I would like to wholeheartedly apologise for the naivety shown by all for the organisation and attending of this gathering.\n\n\"I recognise that I have a responsibility both in my professional and personal life to honour and respect the guidelines and deeply regret that this took place.\n\n\"All I can do now is learn from it, apologise to everyone and ensure it never happens again.\"\n\nLast month, Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden and Manchester United forward Mason Greenwood were dropped from an England camp after an \"unacceptable\" breach of Covid-19 quarantine guidelines in Iceland.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate was already planning to talk to his squad this week about \"what it means to wear the shirt\", following the incident involving Foden and Greenwood.\n\nSouthgate plans to give his players \"some reminders on how we work\".\n\n\"That's not a case of reading the riot act,\" he said last week. \"That's a case of asking the players what sort of team they want to be involved in and be a part of.\"\n\nEngland play a friendly against Wales on 8 October, plus Nations League fixtures against Belgium and Denmark on 11 and 14 October respectively. All three games will be played at Wembley.\n• None Me, My Brother and Our Balls:\n• None New series of the quirky comedy is streaming now", "The age at which most people start to receive the state pension has now officially hit 66 after steady rises in the qualifying age in recent years.\n\nMen and women born between 6 October, 1954, and 5 April, 1960, will start receiving their pension on their 66th birthday.\n\nFor those born after that, there will be a phased increase in state pension age to 67, and eventually 68.\n\nIt comes as the chancellor vowed the \"triple lock\" pledge is safe.\n\nUnder this pledge, the state pension increases each year in line with the highest of average earnings, prices (as measured by inflation) or 2.5%.\n\nCoronavirus and the furlough scheme is set to distort the calculations for average wages and could mean one bumper year of pension increases. This has led MPs and economists to discuss how this could be smoothed out.\n\nBut, when asked by LBC radio whether the triple lock was safe, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"Yes, our manifesto commitments are there and that is very much the legislative position.\n\n\"We care very much about pensioners and making sure they have security and that's indeed our policy.\"\n\nThe full state pension for new recipients is worth £175.20 a week.\n\nTo receive the full amount, various criteria including 35 qualifying years of national insurance must be satisfied.\n\nThe age at which people receive the state pension has been increasing as people live longer, and the government has plans for the increase to 68 to be brought forward.\n\nHowever, the increases have been controversial, particularly for women who have seen the most significant rise.\n\nCampaigners took their fight to court\n\nCampaigners claim women born in the 1950s have been treated unfairly by rapid changes and the way they were communicated to those affected.\n\nSome of those involved in the campaign recently lost a legal challenge, claiming the move was unlawful discrimination.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has led many people to reconsider retirement plans, especially those who feel they are more at risk from the outbreak.\n\nFormer pensions minister Ros Altmann argued that the crisis meant there was a \"strong case\" for people to be given early access to their state pension, even if it were at a reduced rate.\n\nShe also pointed out the large differences in life expectancy in different areas of the UK.\n\nMillions of people who will rely on their state pension in retirement need to know two things: how much will they receive, and when.\n\nThe future for both is not entirely clear.\n\nFirstly, the age at which the state pension begins has been rising, and will continue to do so. MPs will decide on how quickly this happens, fully aware of the strength of feeling from the WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaign over how this has been handled in the past.\n\nSecondly, there is always plenty of debate over the future of the triple lock - the pledge to ensure the state pension rises by a minimum of 2.5% each year.\n\nAnd if young workers think this has nothing to do with them, they should think again. How long we work before we receive state financial support in retirement is a vital issue for long-term financial planning.\n\nYounger workers have also been urged by pension providers to consider their retirement options, with a strong likelihood of state pension age rising further as time passes.\n\n\"As people live longer, it's clear many will also have to work for longer,\" said Pete Glancy, head of policy at Scottish Widows.\n\n\"The increase to the state pension age provides a timely reminder to everyone to check your pension pots and ask yourself whether the savings you've built up are enough for the kind of life you want in retirement.\"\n\nTom Selby, senior analyst at AJ Bell, said: \"As average life expectancy continues to increase, the state pension age will inevitably follow suit.\n\n\"This means younger savers probably need to plan assuming they might not reach their state pension age until 70 or even beyond. Anyone who aspires to more than the bare minimum in retirement needs to take responsibility as early as possible to build their own retirement pot.\"", "The executive is actively considering \"additional planned interventions\" to deal with the spread of Covid-19, the health minister has said.\n\nRobin Swann said he did not \"want a return to a long-term or indefinite lockdown\".\n\nMeanwhile public health experts in the Republic of Ireland have recommended the highest level of restrictions be applied to the entire country.\n\nIt is expected politicians will meet the chief medical officer on Monday.\n\nA further 462 cases of Covid-19 were announced by the Department of Health on Sunday.\n\nOne person has died in the past 24 hours after testing positive.\n\nThere are 65 people in hospital after testing positive for the virus, of whom nine are in intensive care.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 364 new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Sunday, with no new deaths reported.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said \"any notion of a circuit breaker only works if it's across the Island of Ireland\".\n\nThe executive's Chief Scientific Advisor, Prof Ian Young, said \"other levers are likely to be needed\" in addition to NI-wide restrictions on household gatherings.\n\nIn a statement issued on Sunday evening, he said the hospitality sector was the \"second most important\" for interventions \"to reduce adult contacts\".\n\nHe said contacts in this sector \"tend to be closer and longer\" than in many other settings, while alcohol consumption \"will also be a factor in failure to comply with social distancing\".\n\nProf Young added there had been a \"number of identified clusters associated with the hospitality sector\", however, minister will have to weigh up measures \"while also seeking to mitigate adverse consequences for society and the economy\".\n\nEarlier, Stormont Finance Minister Conor Murphy told BBC's Sunday Politics that \"all options\" would be discussed when the executive meet on Monday.\n\nFinance Minister Conor Murphy said \"all options\" would be considered by the executive\n\nMeanwhile, a 46-year-old woman has been charged with breaching coronavirus regulations in Strabane.\n\nThe woman is the first person in Northern Ireland to be charged under the new legislation.\n\nShe is due appear at Londonderry Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMr Murphy said he was \"concerned\" about the rising cases, adding \"as are all of the executive\".\n\n\"The primary focus of the executive is to protect life and whatever steps have to be taken we will take them,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to take a balanced view and one which we are sure the population will come along with us.\"\n\nRobin Swann said NI's hospitals were \"already under growing pressure and this will intensify in the coming weeks given the extent of the new cases\".\n\n\"Concrete action has been taken by the executive on a number of fronts and I will not hesitate to recommend further restrictions,\" he continued.\n\n\"Saving lives and protecting our health service must come first.\"\n\nThe health minister also urged people not to \"look for loopholes or grey areas in the regulations\".\n\nNew restrictions for the Derry City and Strabane Council area were announced by the Stormont executive on Thursday in an effort to stem spiralling infection numbers.\n\nThey include hospitality businesses being limited to takeaway, delivery and outdoor dining, and a call to avoid unnecessary travel.\n\nSpeaking about the rise in cases across NI, Dr Gerry Waldron of the Public Health Agency said a circuit-breaker lockdown was \"almost inevitable\".\n\nA circuit breaker is a short, sharp period of tightened restrictions for everyone to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\n\"It's not a place we expected to be at this time of the year, at the beginning of October, we thought, if anything, we might be seeing that maybe middle of October,\" he told Radio Ulster's Sunday with Steven Rainey show.\n\n\"We are absolutely insisting that people follow the advice of maintaining a social distance from other individuals, as far as possible, of two metres.\n\n\"We'll just have to brace ourselves and see how things pan out over the next few days and the next week.\"\n\nHe stressed the need to stick to the basics - keep a social distance, wear a face mask and keep washing your hands.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It's going to continue to be bumpy through to Christmas\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, Boris Johnson urged people to behave \"fearlessly but with common sense\" in their approach to the coronavirus.\n\nThe prime minister warned of a \"bumpy ride\" until Christmas and beyond, saying the winter could be \"very tough\" for everyone.\n\nHe added there had to be a balance between saving lives and protecting the economy.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal", "Jobseekers will be offered coaching and advice on moving into \"growing sectors\" as part of a £238m employment programme, the government has said.\n\nJob Entry Targeted Support is aimed at helping those out of work because of Covid-19 for three months.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said it would give people \"the helping hand they need\".\n\nBut Labour said the scheme \"offers very little new support\" and it was \"too little too late\".\n\nLast month, official figures showed that the UK unemployment rate had risen to its highest level for two years, with young people particularly hard hit.\n\nThe Job Entry Targeted Support (JETS) scheme will \"boost the prospects of more than a quarter of a million people across Britain\", Ms Coffey said.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions says it is recruiting an additional 13,500 \"work coaches\" to help deliver the new scheme.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Coffey said JETS is aimed more at helping \"adults beyond the age of 25\" learn how their skills \"can be used in different parts of the economy\" - and she cited construction and care as examples of growing sectors.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the scheme would \"provide fresh opportunities to those that have sadly lost their jobs, to ensure that nobody is left without hope\".\n\n\"Our unprecedented support has protected millions of livelihoods and businesses since the start of the pandemic, but I've always been clear that we can't save every job,\" he said.\n\n\"I've spoken about the damaging effects of being out of work, but through JETS we will provide fresh opportunities to those that have sadly lost their jobs, to ensure that nobody is left without hope.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It's going to continue to be bumpy through to Christmas\"\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said: \"By the government's own admission at least four million people could lose their jobs during the crisis. All it can muster in response are piecemeal schemes and meaningless slogans.\n\n\"This new scheme offers very little new support and relies on already overstretched work coaches on the ground, while many of the new work coaches promised have yet to materialise.\n\n\"It's too little too late again from a government that simply can't get a grip on this jobs crisis.\"\n\nMr Sunak is due to address the Conservative Party Conference later, saying the government has been faced with \"difficult trade-offs and decisions\" during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe will say that while he cannot protect every job, \"the pain of knowing it only grows with each passing day\".\n\nMr Sunak will say his \"single priority\" as chancellor is \"to create support and extend opportunity to as many people as I can\".\n\n\"We will not let talent wither, or waste, we will help all who want it, find new opportunity and develop new skills,\" he is expected to say.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun ahead of his speech, Mr Sunak also defended his Eat Out to Help Out scheme after suggestions it may have helped fuel the second wave of coronavirus cases.\n\nThe chancellor said the scheme had helped prop-up two million jobs and that he had no regrets about paying for it.\n\nMr Sunak also strongly pushed back on the idea of further lockdowns, which he said would be detrimental not just to the economy but to society as well.\n\n\"Lockdowns obviously have a very strong economic impact, but they have an impact on many other things,\" he said.\n\nOn the 22:00 curfew on pubs and restaurants, Mr Sunak said ministers were implementing such rules \"to try and nip this in the bud\", but he acknowledged it was \"frustrating\".\n\n\"Everyone is very frustrated and exhausted and tired about all of this,\" he told the paper.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said her party had urged Mr Sunak to introduce a wage support scheme that incentivised employers to keep more staff on, but \"he ignored these calls and now nearly a million jobs are at risk when the furlough scheme ends in a few weeks' time\".\n\n\"When he speaks at Conservative Party Conference, Rishi Sunak must promise to get a grip of the jobs crisis before it's too late,\" she said.\n\n\"If he doesn't, Britain risks an unemployment crisis greater than we have seen in decades - and Rishi Sunak's name will be all over it.\"\n\nIt comes as the furlough scheme ends this month, to be replaced by the government's new wage subsidy programme, the Job Support Scheme, on 1 November.\n\nUnder the Job Support Scheme, if bosses bring back workers part time, the government will help top up their wages with employers to at least three-quarters of their full-time pay.\n\nNearly three million workers - or 12% of the UK's workforce - are currently on partial or full furlough leave, according to official figures.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDancing doctors donned their tutus to treat a ballet-mad young patient to a performance of Swan Lake.\n\nFive-year-old Izzy Fletcher from Worcester, who is being treated for cancer for a second time, was delighted by their dancing.\n\nDr Baylon Kamalarajan and Emma Maunder dressed in bright-coloured tutus to dance while Izzy gave instructions.\n\nThe Royal Ballet replied to the video, tweeting: \"Get well soon Izzy! We hope to see you dancing again soon.\"\n\nIzzy is being treated by paediatricians at the Worcester Royal Hospital.\n\nIzzy has acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. She first started treatment in 2017 and completed her treatment in May 2019.\n\nHowever, she relapsed earlier this year and now requires further treatment and chemotherapy.\n\nHer mother, Vicky Fletcher, said: \"She's been through a really tough time the last few months, and it's something [the doctors] wanted to do for a while, but she's been so poorly, so it was a nice special treat for her.\"\n\nIzzy spent some time in intensive care because of an infection but is \"a lot better now\" and back in school.\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 Royal Ballet 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 The Royal Ballet\n\nIzzy is about to start another month of treatment, her mum said, adding: \"She's doing ever so well, but [there is] still a long road to come.\n\n\"We just want to thank [the hospital] so much and it does make such a difference to families to have that source of fun things to do, when there is a lot less fun things going on.\"\n\nHospital staff picked up on Izzy's love of ballet while she was in for treatment and spent time reading ballet stories.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the US Supreme Court came as little surprise.\n\nThe long-term academic, appeals court judge and mother of seven was the hot favourite for the Supreme Court seat.\n\nDonald Trump - who as sitting president gets to select nominees - reportedly once said he was \"saving her\" for this moment: when elderly Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and a vacancy on the nine-member court arose.\n\nIt took the president just over a week to fast-track the 48-year-old conservative intellectual into the wings, and after a four-day confirmation hearing in the Senate, she was confirmed just over a week before the presidential election by 52 votes to 48.\n\nIn prepared remarks released ahead of the hearings, Judge Barrett thanked Mr Trump for \"entrusting me with this profound responsibility\", which she called the \"honour of a lifetime\".\n\nMr Trump has succeeded in tipping the court make-up even further to the right, just ahead of the presidential election, when he could lose power.\n\nJudge Barrett's record on gun rights and immigration cases imply she would be as reliable a vote on the right of the court, as Ginsburg was on the left, according to Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University.\n\n\"Ginsburg maintained one of the most consistent liberal voting records in the history of the court. Barrett has the same consistency and commitment,\" he adds. \"She is not a work-in-progress like some nominees. She is the ultimate 'deliverable' for conservative votes.\"\n\nAnd her vote, alongside a conservative majority, could make the difference for decades ahead, especially on divisive issues such as abortion rights and the Affordable Care Act (the Obama-era health insurance provider).\n\nJudge Barrett's legal opinions and remarks on abortion and gay marriage have made her popular with the religious right, but earned vehement opposition from liberals.\n\nBut as a devout Catholic, she has repeatedly insisted her faith does not compromise her work.\n\nJudge Barrett lives in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband, Jesse, a former federal prosecutor who is now with a private firm. The couple have seven children, including two adopted from Haiti. She is the oldest of seven children herself.\n\nBarrett with her family at an event to announce Trump's nominee\n\nKnown for her sharp intellect, she studied at the University of Notre Dame's Law School, graduating first in her class, and was a clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, who, in her words, was the \"staunchest conservative\" on the Supreme Court at the time.\n\nLike her mentor Justice Scalia, she is an originalist, which is a belief that judges should attempt to interpret the words of the Constitution as the authors intended when they were written.\n\nMany liberals oppose that strict approach, saying there must be scope for moving with the times.\n\nJudge Barrett has spent much of her career as a professor at her alma mater, Notre Dame, where she was voted professor of the year multiple times. One of her students, Deion Kathawa, who took a class with her earlier this year, told the BBC she was popular because she involved everyone in discussions. He found her \"collegial, civil, fair-minded, intellectually sharp, and devoted to the rule of law secured by our Constitution\".\n\nAnother student told the WBEZ new site: \"I feel somewhat conflicted because … she's a great professor. She never brought up politics in her classroom... But I do not agree with her ideologies at all. I don't think she would be good for this country and the Supreme Court.\"\n\nJudge Barrett was selected by President Trump to serve as a federal appeals court judge in 2017, sitting on the Seventh Circuit, based in Chicago. She regularly commutes to the court from her home - more than an hour and half away. The South Bend Tribune once carried an interview from a friend saying she was an early riser, getting up between 04:00 and 05:00. \"It's true,\" says Paolo Carozza, a professor at Notre Dame. \"I see her at the gym shortly after then.\"\n\nJudge Barrett has continued to teach at Notre Dame Law School\n\nProf Carozza has watched Judge Barrett go from student to teacher to leading judge, and speaks about her effusively. \"It's a small, tight-knit community, so I know her socially too. She is ordinary, warm, kind.\"\n\nA religious man himself, he thinks it is reasonable to question a candidate about whether their beliefs would interfere with their work. \"But she has answered those questions forcefully... I fear she is now being reduced to an ideological caricature, and that pains me, knowing what a rich and thoughtful person she is.\"\n\nA Hall of Fame picture of Amy Coney Barrett (right) hangs in Rhodes College, Tennessee, where she got her undergraduate degree\n\nJudge Barrett has defended herself on multiple occasions against charges that her religious faith might influence her in court. \"I would stress that my personal church affiliation or my religious belief would not bear in the discharge of my duties as a judge,\" she once said.\n\nHowever, her links to a particularly conservative Christian faith group, People of Praise, have been much discussed in the US press. LGBT groups have flagged the group's network of schools, which have guidelines stating a belief that sexual relations should only happen between heterosexual married couples.\n\nLGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign has voiced strong opposition to Judge Barrett's confirmation, declaring her an \"absolute threat to LGBTQ rights\".\n\nThe Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research organisation, declined comment on Judge Barrett specifically, but said appointing any new conservative Supreme Court justice would \"be devastating for sexual and reproductive health and rights\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 2016 vs 2020: What Republicans said about choosing a Supreme Court justice in an election year", "Some farmers say many UK workers could not cope with the hard labour\n\nFarmers are warning they will still need thousands of foreign workers for the UK harvest next year despite a campaign to attract domestic workers.\n\nNational Farmers Union (NFU) figures, given exclusively to the BBC, reveal only 11% of seasonal workers in the 2020 season were UK residents.\n\nThat is despite a high profile Pick for Britain campaign during the summer.\n\nThe NFU now wants government assurances about labour for next year after the Brexit transition period ends.\n\nThe Horticulture Seasonal Worker Survey covered 244 growers, recruiting more than 30,000 people - equating to nearly half the workforce. The NFU said the worker response was promising, but was not enough to sustain the industry long term.\n\nVegetable farmer Martin Haines employs 150 seasonal workers in the Cotswolds, picking pumpkins, beans and broccoli.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Generation Harvest: What it's like for the new fruit and veg picking Brits\n\nThis year, facing the twin challenges of Brexit and Covid-19, he tried to find more local workers. However he only managed to recruit five British pickers - and they left before the end of the season to prepare for going to university.\n\n\"We're quite happy to have British workers,\" Mr Haines said. \"We will invest in their training to be able to do the job, but they just don't come and apply for the jobs. A lot of the work we do is on bonus - it's above minimum wage, so I'm not sure what we could do to attract more people.\"\n\nCampaigns like the government-backed Pick For Britain saw a huge initial interest. But John Hardman, from Hops Labour Solutions, one of the biggest recruiters, said of around 30,000 applications they had from Britons, only 4% took up jobs and around 1% stayed past the initial six weeks.\n\nMr Hardman said many domestic workers had an unrealistic 'Darling Buds of May' view of working on the land. \"It's hard physical labour. There is very little appetite in the domestic labour market for seasonal agricultural work because of the nature of the work.\n\n\"To be honest, EU citizens and those keen to work here are far more productive than the domestic labour force.\"\n\nDefra says it is working closely with the Home Office to ensure there is a long term strategy for the farming workforce\n\nMr Hardman added that, at this time of year, HOPS would normally be starting the process of finding overseas workers for next summer, but it is now halting recruitment until it knows more about the government's plans.\n\n\"It's like selling off an empty shelf. We are suspending recruiting people from Romania and Bulgaria for 2021 purely based on uncertainty,\" Mr Hardman said.\n\nNFU vice president Tom Bradshaw said: \"We are at a critical time in recruitment for many growers. As freedom of movement ends on December 31, those growers of iconic British daffodils, asparagus, and soft fruits still don't know where they will recruit experienced workers from.\"\n\nThe Seasonal Workers Pilot, which allows recruitment of a limited number of temporary migrants for specific seasonal roles in the horticultural sector, was extended from 2,500 to 10,000. But the industry wants assurances over whether it will run next year.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the Department Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), said: \"Seasonal workers are essential to bring in the harvest every year, which is why we are continuing to work hard to ensure our farmers and growers have the support and workforce they need.\n\n\"Now the UK has left the EU, Defra is working closely with the Home Office to ensure that there is a long term strategy for the food and farming workforce as part of future immigration policy.\"", "The US Supreme Court is often the last say on major cases that impact public life. So what kind of justice might President Trump's nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett be?\n\nFrom abortion to gun rights, here's a look at what she's said about major issues in the past.\n\nSpeaking in 2016 at Jacksonville University's Public Policy Institute, she told students judges should not be appointed based on policy preferences. \"We should be putting people on the court who want to apply the Constitution.\"\n\nIn her opening statement on 12 October, she tied herself once more to the late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who she worked for as a clerk.\n\n\"His judicial philosophy was straightforward: A judge must apply the law as written, not as the judge wishes it were. Sometimes that approach meant reaching results that he did not like.\n\n\"But as he put it in one of his best known opinions, that is what it means to say we have a government of laws, not of men.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amy Coney Barrett: \"I will meet the challenge with both humility and courage\"\n\nShe added that \"courts have a vital responsibility to enforce the rule of law\" but they are not meant to \"solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life\".\n\n\"The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the people.\"\n\nFor many, Judge Barrett's views on abortion (and the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade ruling that protected the procedure nationally) are at the centre of their support or condemnation of her nomination.\n\nShe has not ruled specifically on abortion before, but she has reviewed two abortion restrictions cases while on the appeals court.\n\nJudge Barrett voted in favour of a law that would have mandated doctors to inform the parents of a minor seeking an abortion, with no exceptions. She also called for a state law that sought to ban abortions related to sex, race, disability or life-threatening health conditions to be reheard.\n\nShe was also one of five appeals judges who argued that an Indiana state law requiring burial or cremation for foetal remains may have been constitutional.\n\nShe wrote in a 2013 Texas Law Review article that the \"public response to controversial cases like Roe reflects public rejection of the proposition that [precedent] can declare a permanent victor in a divisive constitutional struggle rather than desire that the precedent remain forever unchanging\".\n\n\"Court watchers embrace the possibility of overruling, even if they may want it to be the exception rather than the rule.\"\n\nAnti-abortion supporters in Washington DC during the confirmation hearing\n\nTalking about abortion in 2016 at Jacksonville University, Judge Barrett said she did not think \"abortion or the right to abortion would change\".\n\n\"I think some of the restrictions would change,\" she said. \"The question is how much freedom the court is willing to let states have in regulating abortion.\"\n\nJudge Barrett's abortion views aside, perhaps the more important is the question of how she views precedent - and what that might mean for Roe v Wade and other established rulings.\n\n\"Does the Court act lawlessly - or at least questionably - when it overrules precedent?\" she wrote in a 2013 Texas Law Review article.\n\n\"I tend to agree with those who say that a justice's duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus more legitimate for her to enforce her best understanding of the Constitution rather than a precedent she thinks is clearly in conflict with it.\"\n\nA devout Catholic, Judge Barrett has been asked about her faith as it relates to her work during past confirmation hearings.\n\nShe has been asked in particular about a 1998 article she co-wrote with a professor about Catholic judges.\n\nShe wrote that Catholic judges are \"obliged by oath, professional commitment and the demands of citizenship to enforce the death penalty\", while also being obliged \"to adhere to their church's teaching on moral matters\".\n\nDuring her 2017 confirmation hearing for the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Judge Barrett said she still \"vehemently\" believes that if there is a conflict between a judge's \"personal conviction and that judge's duty under rule of law, that it is never ever permissible for that judge to follow their personal convictions in the decision of a case rather than what the law requires\".\n\nIn the same hearing, she said she is a \"faithful Catholic\", but stressed her affiliation \"would not bear in the discharge of my duties as a judge\".\n\n\"I would decide cases according to rule of law, beginning to end, and in the rare circumstance that might ever arise - I can't imagine one sitting here now - where I felt that I had some conscientious objection to the law, I would recuse,\" the judge said.\n\n\"I would never impose my own personal convictions upon the law.\"\n\nAnother major issue for voters is how a Justice Coney Barrett might rule on the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law that brought insurance coverage to millions.\n\nThe Supreme Court is to rule on the legality of that law in November.\n\nProtesters who support Obamacare stand outside the Supreme Court during the hearing\n\nIn a 2017 law review essay, Judge Barrett criticised Chief Justice John Roberts's 2012 opinion on the act's individual mandate (which imposed a penalty for anyone who did not sign up for insurance).\n\nShe wrote: \"Chief Justice Roberts pushed the Affordable Care Act beyond its plausible meaning to save the statute.\n\n\"He construed the penalty imposed on those without health insurance as a tax, which permitted him to sustain the statute as a valid exercise of the taxing power; had he treated the payment as the statute did - as a penalty - he would have had to invalidate the statute as lying beyond Congress's commerce power.\"\n\nThere's just one ruling on the right to bear arms we can reference from Judge Barrett's record, but it is a controversial one.\n\nGun rights supporters have praised her 37-page dissent in the case of a man who pleaded guilty to mail fraud, served his time and then challenged state laws that barred him as a felon from owning a gun again.\n\nSaying \"history is consistent with common sense\", she argued that the government can only prohibit individuals shown to be dangerous from possessing guns.\n\n\"Founding-era legislatures did not strip felons of the right to bear arms simply because of their status as felons,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Nor have the parties introduced any evidence that founding-era legislatures imposed virtue-based restrictions on the right; such restrictions applied to civic rights like voting and jury service, not to individual rights like the right to possess a gun.\"\n\nSpeaking about her dissent to students at Hillsdale College last year, Judge Barrett said while it \"sounds kind of radical to say felons can have firearms\", she found no \"blanket authority\" to take guns away from Americans without showing the individual was a danger.\n\nDuring her Senate confirmation hearings, Judge Barrett said she and her family own a gun.\n\nThe killing of black American George Floyd sparked mass demonstrations across the US and the world in 2020.\n\nSenator Dick Durbin asked Judge Barrett during the confirmation hearings whether she had seen the video of his death, in which he repeatedly told white police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on his neck that he could not breathe.\n\n\"As I have two black children that was very, very personal for my family,\" she said, adding that she and her 17-year-old daughter \"wept together in my room\" after the video became public.\n\nAs a result, she said it was an \"entirely uncontroversial and obvious statement [that] racism persists in our country\".\n\nHowever, as with other controversial issues she was asked about during the hearings, she refused to express her views on how she would rule on cases surrounding the issue.\n\n\"Those things are policy questions. Hotly contested policy questions,\" she said. While she was happy to talk about her personal experience, giving her view on how to tackle the issue of racism \"is kind of beyond what I'm capable of doing as a judge\".\n• None What's at stake in US Supreme Court fight", "Europe's biggest bank, HSBC, has said it could start charging for \"basic banking services\" in some countries after it reported a 35% fall in quarterly profits.\n\nIt said it was considering charging for products such as current accounts, which are free to UK customers.\n\nThe bank said it was losing money on a \"large number\" of such accounts.\n\nA spokesman later told the BBC it was committed to continuing to provide free \"basic bank accounts\" in the UK .\n\nBut they added: \"We always keep under review the pricing for our standard current accounts and associated services.\"\n\nVery few banks charge for standard bank accounts, but experts say this could change if the UK falls into negative interest rates due to the pandemic.\n\nThat would see the Bank of England take interest rates below zero to help boost consumer spending and revive the economy.\n\nHSBC reported a 35% fall in pre-tax profit during the third quarter of the year to $3.1bn (£2.3bn), while revenues fell 11%.\n\nAlong with other banks, it has seen earnings hit amid an environment of rock bottom interest rates, and so is now considering other ways of boosting revenues.\n\nThe lender also said it would accelerate its restructuring plan, cutting costs further than previously suggested.\n\nBut HSBC, which is in the midst of cutting 35,000 jobs, did not say whether more jobs would now go. It said it would provide details on the plan with its full-year results next February.\n\nDespite the tough environment, HSBC chief executive Noel Quinn said there were some bright spots.\n\n\"These were promising results against a backdrop of the continuing impacts of Covid-19 on the global economy,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm pleased with the significantly lower credit losses in the quarter, and we are moving at pace to adapt our business model to a protracted low interest rate environment.\"\n\nHSBC had set aside between $8bn and $13bn for bad loans as it expects more people and businesses to default on their repayments because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHowever, it now says its expenses are likely to be at the lower end of that range.\n\nIn September, HSBC's share price fell to its lowest level since 1995 amid allegations that the bank had allowed fraudsters to transfer millions of dollars around the world, even after learning of the scam.\n\nThe bank has also faced recent criticism from the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for supporting China's controversial security legislation in Hong Kong.\n\nEven before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, HSBC was restructuring with a plan to cut $4.5bn (£3.6bn) of costs by 2022.\n\nAt its peak, the bank employed more than 300,000 people, but since the global financial crisis, the bank has trimmed its operations significantly.", "Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood was one of Bloomsbury's best selling titles\n\nPeople have \"rediscovered the pleasure of reading\" in lockdown, publisher Bloomsbury has said, after reporting its best half-year profits since 2008.\n\nThe firm, best known for publishing the Harry Potter books, said profits jumped 60% to £4m from February to August.\n\nOnline book sales and e-book revenues were both \"significantly higher\".\n\nIt said bestsellers during the period included \"Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race\" and \"Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood\".\n\nOther popular consumer books during the period included \"White Rage\", \"Humankind\" and \"Such A Fun Age\".\n\nNigel Newton, founder and chief executive of Bloomsbury, said the firm initially feared lockdown would batter the business after it shut all its shops in March.\n\nBut he told the BBC: \"As we cycled through the month there became a real uptake in reading, perhaps people tired of watching streamed movies which they binged on to begin with and turned to books.\"\n\nHe said people's book choices had reflected the mood of the people throughout the past six months: \"In June we published 'Humankind' by Rutger Bregman, people wanted hope and a positive view of humanity, which he gave, and in June itself the biggest social issue of our time, with 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race'.\n\n\"[That was] unpinned all the while by the desire to make good food, so the Dishoom cookbook and others really sold terrifically well.\"\n\nDuring the period total sales across the group rose by 10% to £78.3m.\n\nRose Cole outside Daunt Books in London's Marylebone: \"Customers are enjoying browsing more than ever.\"\n\nBloomsbury also said its digital resources division had seen a 47% rise in sales as academic institutions had switched to digital products to support remote learning.\n\nPhilip Jones, editor of the industry publication the Bookseller, said the last six months had thrown up some interesting trends in book buying behaviour.\n\n\"Initially when the stores closed at the start of lockdown in March, online sales were largely brand names, things that were easily searchable, celebrity authors or high-profile TV series. 'Normal People' for example went back to the top of the bestseller lists after being dramatised on TV, but when the shops reopened in June we saw the charts go back to normal.\"\n\nHe told the BBC the renewed enthusiasm for books during the pandemic had continued, and bookshops were unseasonably busy.\n\n\"We are seeing an early Christmas for bookshops. November's book sales are happening in October. Normally the bookshop market gets up to £40m per week in November, but it has already happened.\"\n\nIn Marylebone in central London, Rose Cole, general manager of independent bookseller Daunt Books, said shops such as hers were a long way from normal as visitors continue to stay out of major cities: \"We are acutely feeling the effects of people staying away from central London and there's obviously a lot to deter customers from shopping on high streets in the way in which they used to.\n\n\"But what we are seeing is that those customers coming in are enjoying the experience of browsing and discovering books more than ever.\"", "Covid tests with results within an hour are being piloted in universities - which could help students in England get home for Christmas.\n\nMore than a million students will have to travel from their term-time accommodation in December.\n\nThis has raised concerns about spreading coronavirus as students move across the country between areas with different levels of infection.\n\nIn Scotland universities could switch to more online teaching in January.\n\nUniversities have called for a testing system with a rapid turnaround of results.\n\nBut there have been questions about the feasibility of how quickly this could be scaled up - and how to avoid what the SAGE scientific advisory group calls the \"significant risk\" of students causing outbreaks by moving for Christmas and New Year.\n\nDe Montfort and Durham universities are now running pilot projects for rapid Covid testing, including identifying those who might be infectious but have no symptoms.\n\nIn England, about 1.2 million students are expected to move in December from a university to a home address in another region, where there might be different levels of infection and restrictions.\n\nThis includes 200,000 students travelling away from universities in London, 235,000 from the south east, 120,000 leaving the north west, 123,000 out of Yorkshire and Humber and 120,000 from the West Midlands.\n\nIn Scotland, 150,000 students will be travelling home.\n\nStudents in Scotland have protested about how they are being treated in the pandemic\n\nA decision, involving all four devolved governments and education ministries in the UK, is awaited on the logistics of getting students home for Christmas, in a way that will not cause Covid outbreaks.\n\nSo far this term there have been virus cases in 118 universities across the UK, according to tracking by the Unicovid website, with tens of thousands of students having to self-isolate.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has proposed an early end to teaching in person, creating a two-week buffer in which to get students home for the holidays.\n\nIn Scotland, Education Secretary John Swinney has suggested a staggered end of term and has not ruled out students being kept in universities over the break, if \"we have a situation where the virus has not been controlled\".\n\nUniversities, who would face the challenge of keeping students in Christmas isolation, have called for a faster system of mass testing.\n\nUniversities want tests with a rapid turnaround of results\n\n\"Enhanced testing capacity - including faster turnaround of results and effective contact tracing - will help to contain outbreaks at universities and limit transmission to the wider community,\" says a Universities UK spokesman.\n\nThe 'lateral flow tests' now being piloted are intended to find out whether someone has \"high enough levels of Covid-19 in their body to make them infectious to others\", says a statement from Durham University.\n\nUsing a nose and throat swab, the tests would be self-administered and would not need a laboratory to process the results.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care says the aim of the pilots would be to \"turn around rapid results within an hour at the location of the test\".\n\nAnd the DHSC says the pilots at Durham and De Montfort will see how such tests could be used \"at scale\".\n\nDurham says the pilot project, beginning this week for staff and students in two of its colleges, will be able to deliver results within 20 to 30 minutes.\n\nOnce students have been safely removed from university in December there will then be questions about how they can be brought back in January, without triggering another wave of campus outbreaks.\n\nThe Scottish government says there could be more online teaching at the start of next term and in areas of \"high prevalence\" of infection in-person teaching might be reserved for those taking subjects which needed hands-on training.\n\nThe UCU lecturers' union has threatened legal action against the continuing use of in-person teaching, while the SAGE advisory group has called for as much teaching as possible to be online.\n\nThe DHSC says the testing pilots are \"building the foundations for a mass testing programme\" which could also help reduce the number of school pupils having to be sent home in Covid outbreaks.", "The Irish News reported the review focuses on the work of a consultant urologist at Craigavon Area Hospital\n\nA number of patients are being recalled after a review was started into the work of a consultant urologist in the Southern Health Trust.\n\nThe trust said \"clinical concerns\" were raised and the consultant \"no longer works in the health service\".\n\nIt said \"a small number\" of patients are affected.\n\nThe Irish News reported that an investigation began in the summer and focuses on care at Craigavon Area Hospital.\n\nThe newspaper also said the consultant retired in June. However, the trust told BBC News NI it had no further comment to make on the matter.\n\nThe trust said the patients were being contacted \"so that their care can be reviewed\".\n\n\"The Department of Health is being kept updated on the progress of the review and the potential impact on patients,\" a statement added.\n\n\"If anyone is concerned and would like information please phone us on 0800 4148520 between 10am and 3pm.\"\n\nThe Department of Health confirmed it is \"being kept apprised\" on the review and said Health Minister Robin Swann \"plans to make a statement to the assembly very shortly\".", "Brehmer was dismissed by Dorset Police after admitting manslaughter\n\nA police officer who strangled his long-term lover after she exposed their affair to his wife has been cleared of murder.\n\nTimothy Brehmer, a constable with Dorset Police, killed nurse Claire Parry, 41, in a pub car park on 9 May.\n\nThe two had been having a secret relationship for more than 10 years, a trial at Salisbury Crown Court heard.\n\nBrehmer, 41, of Hordle, Hampshire, had previously admitted manslaughter and said Mrs Parry's death was an accident.\n\nHe will be sentenced at the same court on Wednesday.\n\nThe trial heard mum-of-two Mrs Parry, who was married to another Dorset Police officer, had become angry after discovering Brehmer had had an affair with another woman while she was involved with him.\n\nThe defendant told jurors he agreed to meet her outside the Horns Inn in West Parley, Dorset, after she messaged him \"relentlessly\".\n\nMrs Parry took his phone to look through his social media messages before sending a text to his wife revealing the affair, the court heard.\n\nClaire Parry died in hospital after being strangled, a court has heard\n\nBrehmer said he strangled her by accident during a \"kerfuffle\" in his car.\n\nHe said when Mrs Parry refused to leave his car he tried to pull her out before he \"bundled\" into the vehicle in an attempt to push her.\n\nThe defendant said his arm \"must have slipped up in all the melee\" and that he left the car without realising Mrs Parry was \"poorly\".\n\nMrs Parry, from Bournemouth, died in hospital the following day from a brain injury caused by compression of the neck.\n\nJurors were shown the car in which Mrs Parry suffered fatal injuries\n\nBrehmer told his trial the affair with Mrs Parry had been \"a little bubble of niceness\" but he had rarely seen her during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHe said Mrs Parry's husband called him in March after becoming suspicious the two were having an affair and she had sent him messages so they could keep their stories straight.\n\nHowever, in the days before her death Mrs Parry started to believe that both her marriage and her relationship with Brehmer were coming to an end, the court heard.\n\nShe had carried out research into Brehmer using an alias on Facebook and became convinced he had conducted affairs with at least two other women.\n\nMrs Parry made contact with a police officer called Kate Rhodes, who told her she had an affair with Brehmer in late 2011, and this made her see him \"in a very different light\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Rhodes, a detective constable, told the court Brehmer used \"grooming\" techniques to exert \"coercive and controlling behaviour\" over women.\n\nShe had been mentored by Brehmer when she joined Dorset Police and was in a brief relationship with him which ended when she found out he was married.\n\nShe explained to the court how she was contacted on Facebook Messenger by Mrs Parry, who used the name Louisa Morgan, in the days before her death.\n\nMs Rhodes said they discussed \"womaniser\" Brehmer, whom she described as \"Mr Smooth\", and how he had conducted affairs while married.\n\nTimothy Brehmer admitted killing his lover Claire Parry but told the court it was an accident\n\nMrs Parry's husband, Andrew, told the court Brehmer was the \"worst kind of thief\" and described the pain of telling their children that their mother was dead.\n\n\"It was like a physical weight crushing down on my chest,\" he said.\n\nAfter the hearing, Det Ch Insp Richard Dixey said: \"Our thoughts remain with the family of Mrs Parry and I would like to pay tribute to the dignified way in which they have conducted themselves throughout the investigation.\"\n\nFollowing Brehmer's guilty plea to manslaughter on 8 July, Dorset Police commenced misconduct proceedings and, on 16 September, Chief Constable James Vaughan ruled the officer would be dismissed with immediate effect and would be placed on the national barred list.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former PM Tony Blair said no concerns were raised about Greville Janner's nomination for peerage\n\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair has defended granting a peerage to a Labour politician accused of child sex abuse.\n\nGreville Janner, Leicester West MP for 27 years, was given the peerage in 1997 after he was initially investigated.\n\nHe was not prosecuted until 2015, shortly before he died.\n\nMr Blair told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) he was aware of the allegations but it was not \"a bar\" as Lord Janner had denied them and there had not been any charges.\n\n\"In 1997 I would have known of allegations (against Lord Janner), the police inquiry, Lord Janner's denial and the fact that no charges were brought,\" a statement from Mr Blair said.\n\n\"It was public knowledge. I would have expected such allegations to be considered as part of the process.\n\n\"In view of his denial and the fact that there were no charges, I do not consider those allegations to be a bar.\"\n\nThe Prime Minister had nominated Lord Janner in his capacity as leader of the Labour party.\n\nHe said as part of the procedure, the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee (PHSC) was required to advise him on the suitability of all nominees and whether they were considered \"fit and proper persons\" to recommend to the Queen for peerage.\n\nHe said he would expect the PHSC would consider any allegations made against a nominee.\n\nLord Janner, who was a Leicester MP for 27 years, died in 2015\n\nThe investigation also heard that Lord Janner had been recommended for a knighthood in 1992, but that was turned down - although the reasons for this were not known.\n\nOn Monday, the inquiry heard that Ratcliffe Road children's home in Leicester burned all its records when a paedophile ex-employee was arrested.\n\nFormer senior policeman Mick Creedon, who ran the investigation, said he was \"haunted\" knowing runaways were sent to the home, described as a \"hell-hole\" and sexually abused.\n\nHe also described being \"disappointed\" when refused permission to arrest MP Greville Janner.\n\nThe home was \"immediately closed down\" when they arrested a prime suspect, and a senior worker at the home \"immediately burned all the files\".\n\nMr Creedon said several people he spoke to for the investigation had killed themselves, and three former residents eventually said they were also abused by Lord Janner.\n\nMick Creedon told the inquiry the Ratcliffe Road children's home was a \"hell-hole\"\n\nMr Creedon told the inquiry he was refused permission to arrest the politician in the 1990s and instead of arresting the MP he was invited to Leicestershire Police's headquarters to be interviewed.\n\nHowever, his home was not searched and he answered \"no comment\" to questions, so the case was dropped.\n\nThe inquiry's asking whether a prominent politician received preferential treatment, but these hearings have shone new light on an old children's home scandal in Leicestershire.\n\nThat's because allegations against Lord Janner first emerged during a huge investigation into abuse by care workers in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nWe've heard that Lord Janner was seen as a distraction. Under-resourced detectives were told to focus on the job in hand.\n\nBy the time he was charged, years later, he was too ill to stand trial.\n\nMr Creedon denied going too easy on Lord Janner and said one account that questions were sent in advance \"categorically didn't happen\".\n\n\"I still think there was a justifiable case for his arrest,\" he 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.", "Police are investigating a road collision involving Sir Keir Starmer, which saw a cyclist taken to hospital.\n\nThe Labour leader is understood to have been driving in the Kentish Town area of north London when the incident happened around midday on Sunday.\n\nA spokesman for Sir Keir said he stayed at the scene until an ambulance arrived and reported the incident at a police station later that day.\n\nThe Met Police said the driver was not arrested nor interviewed under caution.\n\nThey added that the male cyclist suffered a minor injury to his arm and was taken to hospital by ambulance \"as a precaution\".\n\nSir Keir, a former director of public prosecutions, is not believed to have been injured.\n\nA spokesman for the Labour leader said: \"Keir was involved in a minor road traffic accident on Sunday.\n\n\"He spoke to a British Transport Police officer who attended the scene and swapped details with the officer and the other individual involved.\"\n\n\"Since the incident, Keir has also been in touch with the other individual involved,\" he added.\n\nThe Met Police said it was alerted by the London Ambulance Service at about 12:20 GMT to a report of a collision between a cyclist and a car in Grafton Road.\n\n\"The driver of the car had stopped at the scene and exchanged details with the cyclist but had left before officers arrived,\" the force said in a statement.\n\nOfficers from the Roads and Transport Policing Command were investigating the collision, the statement added.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nWorld 100m champion Christian Coleman has been banned for two years after missing three drugs tests.\n\nThe 24-year-old American, who is suspended from 14 May 2020, will miss the postponed Tokyo Olympics next year.\n\nColeman won 100m gold at the World Championships in Doha in 2019.\n\nRepresentative Emanuel Hudson confirmed the indoor 60m world record holder will appeal against the Athletics Integrity Unit's (AIU) ruling to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).\n\nHudson described the decision as \"unfortunate\", adding: \"Mr Coleman has nothing further to say until such time as the matter can be heard in the court of jurisdiction.\"\n\nTwo-time world champion Coleman, who also won 4x100m relay gold in Doha, has 30 days to file an appeal.\n\nHe was provisionally suspended in June after missing a third test in December 2019.\n\nThree whereabouts failures in a 12-month period can result in a ban of up to two years.\n\nColeman did not contest his first missed test on 16 January 2019 but disputed his filing failure on 26 April 2019 and whereabouts failure on 9 December.\n\nThe investigation into his rule violations said there was no suggestion he had ever taken a banned substance.\n\nHowever, Coleman's attitude towards his anti-doping obligations was described as \"entirely careless, perhaps even reckless\" by the AIU.\n\nAccording to the AIU's out-of-competition testing guidelines, athletes are accountable for missed tests if they are not at their specified location for the one-hour period they have stated. The tester must wait for the full 60 minutes before leaving.\n\nColeman said he was Christmas shopping \"five minutes away\" from home, and that the tester made no effort to contact him during his third whereabouts failure.\n\nHe also said on social media that he would be \"willing to take a drug test every single day for the rest of my career\" to prove his innocence.\n\nDoping control officers said they waited outside for a full hour, ringing and knocking every 10 minutes.\n\nThe AIU said shopping receipts belonging to Coleman suggested he was \"obviously\" not at his home for the entirety of the one-hour period.\n\nColeman said he returned home before the one-hour period ended at 8:15pm because he \"recalled watching the kick-off of the Monday night football game\".\n\nHowever, the AIU said receipts showed Coleman purchased items at 7:53pm and 8:22pm and that it was \"simply impossible\" for him to have returned home in between, while the officers took a photo of his residence at 8:21pm to show it was empty before leaving.\n\nThe US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) initially charged Coleman with missing three drugs tests in 12 months, before his world 100m victory in September 2019.\n\nIt withdrew the case after it was proved there had been a filing irregularity regarding the date of the first missed test.", "A former paratrooper has attempted to break two world records after jumping from an aircraft into the sea.\n\nJohn Bream, 34, nicknamed \"the Flying Fish\", dropped about 130ft (40m) from a helicopter off Hayling Island on the Hampshire coast.\n\nSupport divers said he was briefly unconscious when he hit the water and was taken to hospital as a precaution.", "The first Borat film, released in 2006, was banned in Kazakhstan\n\nKazakhstan's tourism board has adopted the Borat catchphrase \"very nice\" in its new advertising campaign.\n\nThe phrase is used by the film character Borat, a fictional journalist from Kazakhstan.\n\nThe first Borat film caused outrage in the country, and authorities threatened to sue creator Sacha Baron Cohen.\n\nBut the country's tourism board has now embraced Borat as a perfect marketing tool - particularly as a second Borat film has just been released.\n\nIt has released a number of short advertisements that highlight the country's scenery and culture. The people in the video then use Borat's catchphrase \"very nice\".\n\n\"Kazakhstan's nature is very nice. Its food is very nice. And its people, despite Borat's jokes to the contrary, are some of the nicest in the world,\" Kairat Sadvakassov, deputy chairman of Kazakh Tourism, said in a statement.\n\nThe tourism board were persuaded to use the catchphrase by American Dennis Keen and his friend Yermek Utemissov. They pitched the idea and produced the advertisements, according to the New York Times.\n\nThe response from social media users has been positive with many saying the advertisements capitalise on the film and send a positive message.\n\nOne said: \"Well done. Great way to take the publicity created by a comedian and turn it to a positive message.\"\n\nThe second film itself has had a mixed reception. The Kazakh American Association has slammed the film for promoting \"racism, cultural appropriation and xenophobia\".\n\nIn a letter sent to Amazon, which has distribution rights to the film, the group asked: \"Why is our small nation fair game for public ridicule?\"\n\nIn Kazakhstan, more than 100,000 people signed an online petition demanding a cancellation of the film after a trailer was released.\n\n\"They completely desecrate and humiliate Kazakhstan and the dignity of the Kazakh nation,\" the petition said.\n\nOthers on social media branded the film as a \"stupid American comedy\".\n\nWhen the first Borat film was released in 2006, authorities banned the film and release of it on DVD and people were blocked from visiting its website.\n\nOfficials felt the movie portrayed Kazakhstan as a racist, sexist and primitive country.\n\nIn the film Borat bragged about incest and rape. He also joked that the former Soviet nation had the cleanest prostitutes in the world.\n\nThe film also caused outrage in Romania where an entire village said they were \"humiliated\" by the film.\n\nThe village was used as the backdrop for Borat's house. Residents said they were told the film was going to be a documentary, but instead were portrayed as backward people and criminals.\n\nYears later, however, the Kazakhstan government thanked Sacha Baron Cohen for boosting tourism in the country.\n\nIn 2012, the foreign minister at the time, Yerzhan Kazykhanov, said he was \"grateful\" to Borat for \"helping attract tourists\" to the country, adding that 10 times more people were applying for visas to go there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emma Jones reports from Kazakhstan on the country's new wave of films", "Emma Dobson, 23, says it is \"soul destroying\" that she hasn't got beyond a first interview yet.\n\nShe has cerebral palsy and has been job-hunting since completing her Masters degree at Aston University this summer. But despite making about 40 applications since July, she has had little success.\n\n\"Because I live by myself and like lots of people, I haven't done much socialising recently... I'm desperate to find something,\" Emma tells the BBC.\n\nShe and many other disabled people are facing a \"jobs crisis\" amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Leonard Cheshire disability charity.\n\nIt says about 7 in 10 disabled people have seen a hit to their income, been furloughed or feared redundancy due to Covid-19.\n\nThe charity also said some employers were discouraged from hiring disabled people, fearing they would not be able to provide the right support during the crisis.\n\nEmma, who has been applying for jobs in everything from academia to retail, urges employers to do whatever they can to support disabled candidates - in the application process and at work.\n\n\"Covid has shown us that a lot of the things that disabled employees have been asking for, such as flexible hours, remote working, hosting meetings online - are all very doable,\" she says.\n\n\"Lots of bosses managed to bring in these new measures at the drop of a hat - so there's no excuse for not fixing any roadblocks to hiring a disabled person, or maintaining those new ways of working, as we've been asking for them for years.\"\n\nThe Leonard Cheshire charity surveyed 1,170 working age disabled people and 500 employers. It found two in five hiring managers saw \"being able to support\" disabled people properly during the coronavirus pandemic as a barrier.\n\nMeanwhile, a fifth of employers said they were less likely to hire a disabled candidate overall.\n\nOf the 7.7 million disabled people of working age in the UK, 53.6% are currently in work, in comparison with 81.7% of those who are not disabled, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nMore than half (57%) of disabled 18-24 year olds surveyed by the charity said they felt that the pandemic had affected their ability to work. The majority also felt that it had hit their future earnings potential.\n\nLeonard Cheshire described its findings as \"stark\".\n\n\"But we should see them not as gloomy forecasts for policymakers but as motivators for immediate, wide-ranging action,\" said its head of policy, Gemma Hope.\n\nThe charity is calling on the government to extend the furlough scheme for working people who are shielding, and to make statutory sick pay available from the first day of employment.\n\nIn September, charity Scope also said that disabled people had been \"hardest-hit\" by the pandemic.\n\nIn an open letter, addressed to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it pointed to \"a looming recession and disabled people at the sharp end of poverty\".\n\nScope called for the government to prioritise the publication of the National Disability Strategy, ensuring \"it provides a clear plan to mitigate existing inequalities the pandemic has further magnified\".\n\nThe government committed to publishing the strategy - which aims to improve disabled people's access to opportunities - in the last Queen's Speech.\n\n\"We understand this has been a very challenging time for many disabled people and we remain committed to supporting their safe return to work,\" a government spokesperson said.\n\n\"We are working to support and protect disabled people with one of the most comprehensive economic responses in the world.\n\n\"In addition, we have boosted welfare support by £9.3bn to help those who need it most.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Six Traveller families have won a High Court appeal against a decision which would stop them living on land they own in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.\n\nCharlotte Smith and her five neighbours were told by the local council to move off the land because they didn't have planning permission to live there.\n\nThe families initially appealed to the Planning Inspectorate - which sided with the local authority.\n\nBut that decision was quashed by the High Court earlier this month.\n\nThe families' fight is not over and they still don't have planning permission to live on the land but say they feel they \"can relax a little bit now\".\n\n\"My first initial reaction at the result was I did have a little tear,\" mum-of-four Charlotte tells me. \"Even though we've still got a fight, it feels like a weight has been lifted.\"\n\nCharlotte and the five other families have lived on the land for more than two-and-a-half years now\n\nThe families say they bought the land to give them \"a place to call home\" after previously living on the roadside.\n\nBut Newark and Sherwood District Council says the site isn't suitable to live on because it's at risk of flooding.\n\nLocal authorities in England are expected to have a five-year plan which sets out how they will deliver enough sites in the area for their Gypsy and Traveller communities.\n\nNewark and Sherwood council doesn't have one.\n\nThe families' lawyers argued the Planning Inspectorate's decision was flawed because it failed to treat the lack of a plan as \"a significant material consideration\".\n\nThe High Court agreed and quashed the original ruling at a hearing on 16 October.\n\nCharlotte's daughter wrote a letter to the PM asking to stay on the land\n\nCharlotte says the weeks leading up to the High Court hearing have been \"emotional\" for all of the families - as they didn't know which way the decision would go.\n\nShe tells me how her daughter surprised her with a letter to read in the car as she travelled down to London for the hearing.\n\nAddressed to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it read: \"I am a 10-year-old girl in year five and I am a traveller. Can we live at Old Winthorpe Road Stable Yard? The council won't let us live there and I live in Newark.\"\n\nShe says her kids were \"jumping for joy\" when she returned home to tell them they'd won their appeal.\n\n\"I did tell my daughter it was because of her letter,\" Charlotte laughs. \"Obviously she doesn't know the legal side of things and I just thought it would build her spirits.\n\n\"Everyone is just ecstatic. I can't put into words how it actually makes me feel.\"\n\nCharlotte says the children who live on the land have \"their freedom but in a safe environment\"\n\nSince I wrote about the families' fight back in September I've had quite a few emails about it - and there's been a mix of opinions.\n\n\"I admire their desire to give the children the stability they now have to enable them to receive full-time education without losing their cultural identity,\" one reader said.\n\n\"We would all love to buy a field and build a home for our family on it, but for those of us that actually abide by the law, it's not an option,\" another wrote.\n\n\"Are they really integrating into the community? They sound just like our local site here in Kent,\" one email read.\n\n\"Reality is they do what they like, don't care about anybody else, steal what they like and generally are horrible people.\"\n\nI ask Charlotte how she feels about this.\n\nCharlotte says the six families \"want to be part of the local community\"\n\n\"Just because you've had a bad experience with a couple of families that live locally, that doesn't mean everybody's the same,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm happy to welcome anybody down and make them a cup of tea. You'll find we're actually lovely people, we're working class people, we pay our taxes, we're not sponging off the government.\n\n\"We didn't break into a local park or anything like that, we bought our land. Yes we put in our planning application retrospectively but we're trying our best, otherwise we'd still be on the roadside now. We want to be part of the community.\"\n\nThe land is separated from the village of Winthorpe by the A1 road and Charlotte says the families have the backing of the Winthorpe Estate Residents' Group - which has been posting messages of support on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Winthorpe Estate Residents Group. 🍃💚🍃 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 Planning Inspectorate now has 28 days from the High Court ruling to appeal against the decision. If it doesn't, the families' original appeal will need to be reheard by the inspectorate again.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The quality and accuracy of our decisions is very important to the Planning Inspectorate. We have been informed of the judgement and are awaiting a copy of the court order before deciding whether to seek leave to appeal.\"\n\nNewark and Sherwood District Council has found it needs to deliver 77 sites for the Gypsy and Traveller community by 2024 - and 118 sites by 2033.\n\nIt says maintaining a deliverable five-year supply of Gypsy and Traveller sites is \"challenging for many local authorities across England\".\n\n\"The council is working proactively to allocate land for future development, so these needs can be met,\" it added.\n\nIt says local landowners are being asked to put their land forward for consideration as potential sites and it will continue to consider individual planning applications from all sections of the community.\n\nCherry Wilson is a proud northerner who lives in Stockport, Greater Manchester, where she grew up.\n\nShe studied journalism in Sheffield and was the first in her family to go to university. Her passion is telling the stories of the people and communities behind the headlines, exploring issues that matter to them. She has a great love for cups of tea, jerk chicken, chips and gravy and Coronation Street.", "Danielle (right) and her sister\n\n\"I find it hard to remember ever having a cooked meal at home,\" says Danielle, who relied on free school meals as a child.\n\n\"I would eat spaghetti hoops cold out of the tin.\n\n\"We would have sliced white bread because it was 13p from [discount supermarket] Kwik Save, then put margarine on it and put it under the grill.\n\n\"Me and my sister thought we were going to open a café.\"\n\nDanielle, 39, is now a successful senior manager for a charity, living in London, but growing up she lived with food insecurity.\n\nShe has told the BBC how, as a child, she often had to resort to shoplifting or \"bin-diving\" for essential food at weekends or during the school holidays - once, when she was as young as 10.\n\n\"Food poverty in Britain isn't really spoken about because of shame,\" she says.\n\n\"When the holidays hit, hunger doesn't go.\"\n\nDanielle is calling on the government to \"support young people\" as the row about the decision not to extend free school meals for children in England into the half-term holiday continues.\n\nThe government extended free school meals to eligible children during the Easter holidays earlier this year and, after a campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford, did the same for the summer holiday.\n\nMinisters say that providing help through councils is the best way to reach those that need it.\n\n\"I was brought up in a household where we didn't have food at home,\" Danielle recalls.\n\nHer mother was ill, and couldn't work. A single-parent household, Danielle says she and her two siblings were often left to \"fend for themselves\", in addition to caring for their mum.\n\n\"Some days it was hard for her to get out of bed. She really put in a lot of effort but she couldn't cope. I don't hold it against her because she tried,\" Danielle stresses.\n\nThey would usually receive child benefits payments on a Monday. \"So we would often take a day off school and have lots of food then,\" says Danielle, \"but nothing afterwards.\"\n\nPackets of jelly were common because they cost 20p and \"would go quite far\", or instant custard - \"things to fill you up\".\n\nAt the weekend, meals would frequently consist of dry cereal and dry bread.\n\n\"I remember going to bed with hunger pains and coming home to an empty fridge,\" she says.\n\n\"You learn to shut off the signals from your brain that tell you you're hungry.\"\n\nThis habit stayed with her into adult life. \"I don't realise I'm hungry, and then it gets to 4pm and I realise I've been dissociating and suddenly have to eat.\n\n\"As a young adult I didn't know how to cook, so would just eat for survival. Something to take away the hunger.\"\n\nDanielle could sometimes eat at friends' houses or at Sunday school as a child, but her main source of hot meals was school.\n\nShe explains that because her mum was on benefits, that qualified her and her siblings for free school meals - which were limited to certain children.\n\n\"I have really strong memories of them,\" she says.\n\n\"Apple crumble and custard [her favourite pudding to this day], baked potatoes, roast dinners.\n\n\"I also have fond memories of sitting at the table with all of my friends.\"\n\nBut beyond that, she was forced to find other ways of sourcing food, when they had run out of essentials and she was \"starving\".\n\nThis included \"bin-diving\" for surplus food behind supermarkets, paying 10p for scraps from the local fish and chip shops, and shoplifting.\n\n\"It wasn't frequent, but when we were desperate,\" she says.\n\nDanielle was caught shoplifting a jar of Marmite aged 10 - carefully selected from the shelves because it could \"last weeks\" by only spreading a small bit on each piece of bread.\n\nAnd, while on the earlier occasion she was only told not to return to the shop, at 14-years-old she had her fingerprints taken, was placed in a police cell and later cautioned over shoplifting.\n\n\"I think that was for stealing jelly.\"\n\nDanielle says the incident came up on her record when she was applying for a job in later life, leaving her devastated.\n\n\"I feel like I'm quite a moral person. For it to tarnish your career when all you are trying to do is eat,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm not proud of it and I would never do it now, but it was survival.\"\n\nAs soon as Danielle was old enough to get various part-time jobs, she stopped shoplifting, and went on to get three \"A\" grade A-Levels and a First-class degree at university.\n\nBut she says that she could have gone \"either way\".\n\n\"I did have a supportive education system and that enabled me to not continue down the wrong path,\" she says.\n\n\"Because of the support that we have in the UK it allows people to go from poverty into middle class and be able to earn a living.\n\n\"Unless we support young people, give them opportunities, like food and education, then that wouldn't be able to happen.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marcus Rashford and his mother Melanie helped out at FareShare Greater Manchester\n\nResponding to the row over free school meals, Danielle argues that those who are making the decisions are doing so from \"a place of privilege\" without an understanding of \"what it's like to be a child and to be hungry\".\n\nShe also stresses that there are \"all sorts\" of family dynamics that can lead to financial difficulty, including debt, mental health issues, and addiction.\n\n\"It can happen to anyone,\" she says.\n\nAs Danielle hit her 30s, she developed a new relationship with food - teaching herself to cook from scratch and eventually batch cooking for the week.\n\n\"One of my friends set up a supper club and said I was their inspiration,\" she said.\n\n\"I just thought it's funny going from no food, to all my friends saying I was such an amazing cook.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bream leapt from a helicopter into the sea without a parachute\n\nA former paratrooper attempted a new world record for jumping from an aircraft into water without a parachute from a higher altitude than first thought.\n\nJohn Bream, 34, nicknamed \"the Flying Fish\", dropped from a helicopter off Hampshire coast on Monday.\n\nInstruments showed he jumped from 140ft (42m) - 9ft higher than planned.\n\nDespite being briefly unconscious when he hit the water, he said he was now \"all good\".\n\nHe was taken to hospital as a precaution after being hauled from the water by support divers.\n\nJohn Bream leapt from a helicopter into the sea off the Hampshire coast\n\nMr Bream had been in training for two years in order to set new records for the highest jump from an aircraft into water and the highest jump into British waters.\n\nSpeaking from his home in Havant he said: \"It's all good - I've just got a bit of a sore backside\".\n\nDescribing the moment when he leapt from the helicopter hovering off Hayling Island, he said: \"It's a bit out-of-body - you've got the adrenalin flowing and then you are flying.\n\n\"It was very quick, but in your mind it's a long time.\n\n\"Half way down I was hit by a gust of wind so I didn't get the best entry. But I didn't go horizontal which would have been fatal.\"\n\nThe former member of the Parachute Regiment fell for about four seconds before hitting the Solent at about 80mph (130km/h).\n\nJohn Bream was picked up by his support boat after the jump\n\nThe stunt was carried out to raise awareness of veterans' mental health issues and has currently raised more than £5,000 for the All Call Signs and the Support Our Paras charities.\n\n\"The whole aim is to help prevent veterans suicide. I did what I set out to which was to put a smile on people's faces,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he would be attempting \"many, many more daredevil stunts\" in the future.\n\nA spokesperson for Guinness World Records said it would verify any record when it received evidence of Mr Bream's attempt.\n\n\"Due to the nature of this activity, we only accept applications from experienced stunt people or rely on research to verify the record retrospectively,\" she said.\n\nJohn Bream, from Havant, Hampshire, is nicknamed the Flying Fish\n• None Ex-paratrooper to tackle jump with no parachute\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police officers Sean Quinn, Allan McCloy and Paul Hamilton were killed when their car was blown up near Lurgan in 1982\n\nThe families of three policemen murdered in an IRA attack 38 years ago have said they have \"renewed hope\" those involved will be identified.\n\nA new investigation is looking to trace witnesses and use advances in technology to provide breakthroughs not available at the time.\n\nSean Quinn, Allan McCloy and Paul Hamilton were in a car blown up at Kinnego Embankment near Lurgan in 1982.\n\nTheir families said progress in the investigation was \"encouraging\".\n\nThe investigation is being run by John Boutcher, the retired chief constable of Bedfordshire police, who is heading up a number of outside investigations into killings from the Troubles.\n\n\"The legacy of what happened is an acute and permanent sense of loss and pain,\" the policemen's relatives said in a joint statement.\n\n\"In a single moment of barbaric carnage, faceless cowards changed our lives forever.\"\n\nPart of Mr Boutcher's investigation will involve MI5 and Army intelligence who had bugged a hay shed the IRA used to store the explosives.\n\nHowever, the listening device failed, enabling the IRA to mount the attack.\n\nTwo people suspected of involvement at the time were shot dead two weeks later by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in so-called shoot-to-kill incidents.\n\nMr Boutcher's inquiry, known as Operation Turma, will not look into the aftermath, only the deaths of the three RUC officers.\n\nHe said: \"Six children have lived their lives without knowing their fathers.\n\n\"They deserve the truth. They have been told hardly anything.\"\n\nInvestigators have released this image of motorbike helmets found discarded after the bomb attack\n\nHe said there have been new scientific tests done on material recovered from the time \"which has given a much better understanding of the people responsible\".\n\nThe investigation is hoping to trace people who witnessed the getaway of those who set off the bomb, a 1,000lb landmine device detonated by a remote control.\n\nThey abandoned a motorbike on Francis Street in Lurgan and images of the helmets they discarded have been released to help jog the memories of witnesses.\n\nMr Boutcher said there was \"understandable fear\" about coming forward in 1982, but circumstances have changed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Plaid Cymru said the Welsh Government had \"made a mess of the messaging\" over the essential items issue\n\nTesco was \"simply wrong\" to tell a woman she could not buy period products during lockdown, Health Minister Vaughan Gething has said.\n\nThe supermarket apologised after saying it could not sell sanitary towels and tampons from a store in Cardiff.\n\nThe Welsh Government has banned the sale of non-essential items in supermarkets during a 17-day lockdown.\n\nOpposition parties have called that \"absolute madness\" and said better communication was needed with shops.\n\nThe Welsh Government said revised guidance will be published on Tuesday.\n\nMr Gething told the Welsh Government briefing that supermarkets would now be able to use their \"discretion\".\n\nTesco had blocked off the aisle after a \"break-in\" at the store in St Mellons, Cardiff\n\nThey have been told to close parts of their stores that sell items such as clothes, bedding and toys during Wales' firebreak lockdown.\n\nUnder Welsh Government guidance, shops which have been allowed to remain open are not allowed to sell goods classed as \"non-essential\" during the 17 days, which would normally be sold by businesses that have been made to close.\n\nThis includes homeware, electrical goods, telephones, clothes, toys and games, and garden products.\n\nThe policy has been criticised in a petition signed by more than 60,000 people.\n\nHomeware and bedding has been taped off in Tesco in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nOne customer wrote on Twitter she was \"raging and in tears\" after not being able to buy period products at Tesco's St Mellons store in Cardiff, after the aisle was blocked off.\n\nIn a tweet that was later deleted, Tesco responded to the complaint by saying it had been told not to sell the items during the lockdown.\n\n\"This is wrong - period products are essential,\" the Welsh Government tweeted in response.\n\nThe supermarket later issued a statement saying the area had been closed off following a break-in at the store, which the police were investigating.\n\nSouth Wales Police confirmed it was investigating a burglary which happened between 02:30 GMT and 04:30 on Monday when an estimated \"£20,000 worth of beauty products were stolen\".\n\nTesco said the reply to the customer, which had implied sanitary towels were non-essential, \"was sent by mistake\".\n\nIn Tesco's Penarth store, carbon Monoxide and smoke alarms were covered in sheeting\n\nIn Tesco in Penarth shelves containing smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors were covered in plastic sheeting, with the store putting up a sign saying they were \"non essential\".\n\nBut under the Welsh Government guidelines shops can sell products you can normally buy from food and drink stores, newsagents, pharmacies and DIY and hardware stores - as they remain open.\n\nOn Monday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said meetings would be held with the supermarkets to make clear they could use \"some discretion\" to sell non-essentials to those in \"genuine need\".\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh Government's coronavirus briefing he said he was \"very sorry\" a woman had been incorrectly told she could not buy sanitary products.\n\nMr Gething said shoppers and retailers should use \"common sense\" and there would be a \"very small number\" of cases where there would be a genuine need to buy a non-essential item in a supermarket.\n\n\"For the great majority of us though of course, we will be able to manage for the next two weeks - with the hardship, with the interruption that causes, yes - but to avoid the much greater hardship and much greater interruption to people's lives and their ability to still see family and friends in the future,\" he said.\n\nBooks have been covered in cellophane\n\nThe Welsh Government has come under pressure to abandon the measure and a petition against the ban is now the largest ever submitted to the Senedd.\n\nSecretary of State for Wales Simon Hart has urged Mr Drakeford to \"scrap the policy\" while Welsh Conservative leader Paul Davies called for Members of the Senedd to be recalled \"virtually\" to debate the matter.\n\n\"This is absolute madness by the Welsh Government, preventing people from buying the products which they want to buy,\" he said.\n\nPlaid Cymru's leader Adam Price called on ministers to admit they had sent out confused messaging about a policy, and the public health message had got \"lost\".\n\n\"If they'd had the conversations with the retail sector earlier, so we heard from the minister that they had a meeting on Thursday, I would suggest that was too late,\" he said.\n\n\"That has eroded public trust over the weekend and obviously that is concerning because it's the public support, the public health message is ultimately the one thing that keeps us all safe.\"\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 RT Davies 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\nTim Batcup, who has had to close his Swansea book shop during the lockdown, said the Welsh Government had made the \"right call\".\n\nBut he said that while some supermarkets had stopped selling books, others were still selling them, and the messaging was a \"bit mixed\".\n\n\"I don't really understand the fuss... I don't know why people can't go a couple of weeks without a pair or pants or a candle,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"I think it's a sincere attempt at levelling up, how effective it will be I don't know. It might drive people towards the online giants, but they all seem to clean up anyway.\"\n\nThe toy aisle at Tesco on Western Avenue in Cardiff has been blocked off\n\nNicky Small, who has had to close her craft shop in Llandudno, said she believed wool and other craft items were essential as the hobbies were helping many through the pandemic.\n\n\"I think there's a balance, what is one person's non-essential could be another person's essential,\" she said.\n\n\"The difficulty is anybody trying to dictate what essential is, because that will depend on who you are, what you are needing to get, if you have been waiting for payday.\"\n\nHead of the Welsh Retail Consortium, Sara Jones, said the rules were confusing, and banning people from buying certain items set a dangerous precedent.\n\n\"I think this policy is the wrong way to go about it, because rather than levelling the playing field, it's just creating winners and losers, it's pushing people online,\" she said.\n\nShe said allowing an element of discretion would go against the purpose of the policy, as people would have to approach staff for items and spend more time in store.\n\n\"It's distorting competition, which I think is setting a bit of a dangerous precedent,\" she said.", "Pubs and restaurants in many areas of Scotland will be able to serve alcohol indoors again from next week, the first minister has announced.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the move would allow licensed premises in level two of the country's new five-tier system to serve alcohol with a meal until 20:00.\n\nIn level three areas - likely to be much of the central belt - they can reopen until 18:00 but cannot serve alcohol.\n\nThe new rules will start on Monday.\n\nThe level that each of the 32 council areas in Scotland will fall under is expected to be confirmed on Thursday.\n\nThe new system will add two levels to the three-tier system currently in use in England, adding a \"level zero\" at the bottom - where life can return almost to normal - and strict measures similar to a full lockdown in level four.\n\nIt is expected that most of the central belt - which is currently under tighter restrictions than the rest of the country - will be placed in level three.\n\nThe exceptions could be North and South Lanarkshire, which could go into the highest level four category due to concerns about high numbers of cases and hospital admissions there.\n\nIn level four all pubs and restaurants would be closed, along with non-essential stores, visitor attractions, gyms, libraries and hairdressers.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said there had been \"encouraging signs\" in Lanarkshire, and that it would only be placed in the top tier \"if absolutely necessary\".\n\nShe also voiced concerns about the spread of the virus in Dundee, which could be moved into level three.\n\nMuch of the rest of the country is likely to go into level two - although rural areas including the Highlands, Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and Moray could be moved down to level one.\n\nWhile level one could allow up to six people from two households to meet in homes again, Ms Sturgeon said this would not happen immediately as an \"extra precaution\" while the country transitions to the new system.\n\nPeople will still be banned from meeting in other homes in levels two, three and four.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the new system would avoid the need for a \"one size fits all\" approach, and would allow areas with lower transmission of the virus to live under fewer restrictions than those with more cases.\n\nThe first minister said the government would be \"deliberately cautious\" when choosing levels, saying: \"The situation is fragile and could go in the wrong direction, so we must take care.\"\n\nThe rules for hospitality businesses look set to be relaxed in all but level four areas, after changes to the strategy were agreed following consultations over the weekend.\n\nThey will be allowed to serve alcohol indoors in level two areas, as long as it accompanies a main meal.\n\nIndoor areas will have to close at 20:00, but alcohol can continue to be served outdoors until 22:30.\n\nMeanwhile in level three areas, premises will be allowed to open until 18:00 as long as no alcohol is sold.\n\nPeople will have to sit at a table to eat or drink in all areas at all levels, and takeaways will still be allowed.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she hoped the changes would be welcome, adding that an advisory group has been set up to study whether venues should be allowed to reintroduce background music.\n\nBars and restaurants across Scotland's central belt had to close on 9 October as part of a \"short, sharp action to arrest a worrying increase in infections\", while tight restrictions were placed on those in the rest of the country.\n\nA further 1,327 cases of coronavirus were registered in Scotland on Tuesday, alongside 25 deaths of people who had tested positive in the previous 28 days.\n\nThe number of people in hospital rose to 1,100, which Ms Sturgeon said was now just 400 short of the peak during the first wave of the virus in April.\n\nHowever the first minister said it was thought that the current restrictions were \"having an effect\" and were \"slowing\" the increase in new cases.\n\nShe said: \"If we dig in now and get Covid under more control, we perhaps open the door not to 100% normality by Christmas, but hopefully to more than we have now.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon announced the changes at the beginning of a Holyrood debate, ahead of MSPs discussing whether to back the general principles of the new system.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, MSPs agreed to back the Scottish government's strategic framework for tackling the virus.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson welcomed many of the measures, but called for a business advisory council to be involved in making decisions and shaping restrictions to \"help keep Scottish jobs safe\".\n\nLabour leader Richard Leonard said the framework did not have his party's \"unquestioning support\", calling for \"persuasive evidence\" to be published and for MSPs to be given more opportunities to scrutinise the government's strategy.\n\nThis led Ms Sturgeon to reply that she had \"probably answered more questions than any leader of any government anywhere in the world\".\n\nScottish Green MSP Alison Johnstone said \"we cannot continue to lurch from one lockdown to another until an effective vaccine becomes available\", saying the goal must be to eliminate the virus rather than suppress it.\n\nAnd Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said the government had \"missed the opportunity\" to prepare for the second wave with greater testing and tracing systems while the virus was at a lower level over the summer.\n\nBut Health Secretary Jeane Freeman hit back by saying that \"it is entirely wrong to say that we were complacent or foolish in what we said and did over the summer months\".", "Kyle Lawler worked at Showsec events for £4.24 per hour\n\nA security guard had a \"bad feeling\" about suicide bomber Salman Abedi but did not approach him for fear of being branded a racist, an inquiry has heard.\n\nKyle Lawler, who was 18 at the time of the Manchester Arena attack, was standing 10 or 15ft away from Abedi.\n\nHe later told police he was conflicted because he thought something was wrong but could not put his finger on it.\n\nAbout five minutes later, at 22:31 BST on 22 May 2017, Abedi detonated a bomb packed with 3,000 nuts and bolts.\n\nAbedi, 22, dressed all in black and carrying a large rucksack, had been reported to security by a member of the public at 22:15.\n\nAround eight minutes before the bombing, Showsec steward Mohammed Ali Agha alerted Mr Lawler to the report and both began observing Abedi.\n\nIn his statement prepared for the inquiry, Mr Lawler said: \"I just had a bad feeling about him but did not have anything to justify that.\"\n\nThe witness added that Abedi was \"fidgety and sweating\".\n\nTop row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nMr Lawler said he attempted to use his radio to alert the security control room but claimed he could not get through due to radio traffic.\n\nHe then left the arena and took up his position outside the City Room and made no further attempt to raise the alarm.\n\nMr Lawler agreed he simply \"gave up\" trying to use the radio and just got on with his job.\n\nIn his prepared statement to the inquiry, the Showsec security guard also said: \"I felt unsure about what to do.\n\n\"It's very difficult to define a terrorist. For all I knew he might well be an innocent Asian male.\n\n\"I did not want people to think I am stereotyping him because of his race.\n\n\"I was scared of being wrong and being branded a racist if I got it wrong and would have got into trouble. It made me hesitant.\n\n\"I wanted to get it right and not mess it up by over-reacting or judging someone by their race.\"\n\nMr Lawler agreed that on five separate occasions after the bombing, he made statements, verbally or in writing, where he \"deliberately shortened\" the time between him leaving the City Room to the bomb going off, \"so no one would say, why didn't you do something?\" the inquiry was told.\n\nHe added he \"had a guilty feeling, I had a lot of blame on myself\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "EE will have to stop selling smartphones locked to its network\n\nThe UK's mobile networks are to be forbidden from selling phones locked to their services from December 2021.\n\nRegulator Ofcom said unlocking handsets could often be a complicated process, and this was discouraging owners from switching providers at the end of their contracts.\n\nThe networks have previously suggested that locking devices helps deter theft and fraud.\n\nBut the watchdog noted some companies had already abandoned the practice.\n\nAmong those companies affected are:\n\nO2, Sky, Three and Virgin already only sell unlocked handsets.\n\n\"[It] will save people time, money and effort - and help them unlock better deals,\" said Ofcom's connectivity director Selina Chadha.\n\nVodafone has already responded: \"We stand ready to implement these changes when they come into force.\"\n\nEE added: \"We'll work with Ofcom to comply with its guidelines.\"\n\nIt typically costs about £10 to get a smartphone unlocked to let it work on any network.\n\nHowever, according to a study by Ofcom, about half of all those who try to do so experience difficulties.\n\nThese can include facing a long wait to receive the code needed to trigger the process, as well as then finding that the code does not work.\n\nOfcom suggests 35% of those who do not switch are put off from doing so by their phone being locked\n\nThe regulator added that some owners do not realise their devices are locked in the first place, causing them to suffer a loss of service when they try to switch.\n\nThe ban means the UK remains compliant with wider European rules, but Ofcom noted that it was already looking into the problem before the EU introduced the regulations in 2018.\n\nThe UK government has said it will adhere to the European Electronic Communications Code, despite planning to complete the Brexit transition period this year.\n\nThe locked handsets ban is one of several new measures that telecoms providers will have to follow.\n\nIn addition, the regulator plans to make it easier to switch broadband providers by December 2022.\n\nThe regulator has still to finalise changes to broadband-switching rules\n\nAt present, if customers switch from one provider reliant on BT's Openreach network to another - for instance from Sky to TalkTalk - all they need to do is contact the new supplier, which makes all the arrangements.\n\nBut if they want to move to another broadband network - for example from BT to Virgin Media or CityFibre - they have to manage it themselves.\n\nOfcom had asked the industry to come up with a process to end this discrepancy.\n\nBut after it failed to do so, officials are now working on their own solution, although they say they will consult the public and the companies involved first.", "Foxx once said that he wished for Deondra to 'live her life with no boundaries, like she’s living it now. There’s nothing she can’t do'.\n\nHollywood actor Jamie Foxx said \"my heart is shattered into a million pieces\" following the death of his younger sister at the age of 36.\n\nFoxx said Deondra Dixon, who had Down's syndrome and was an ambassador for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, \"is in heaven now dancing with her wings on\".\n\nThe Oscar-winning star, 52, shared an emotional tribute to his sister on Instagram.\n\nFoxx, 52, posted: \"Deondra... I love you with every ounce of me.\"\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 iamjamiefoxx 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\nAlongside pictures of the pair together, the Ray and Django Unchained star wrote: \"My heart is shattered into a million pieces... my beautiful loving sister Deondra has transitioned... I say transitioned because she will always be alive. Anyone who knew my sis knew that she was a bright light.\n\n\"I can't tell you how many times we have had parties at the house where she has got on the dance floor and stolen the show.\"\n\nHe added: \"Deondra you have left a hole in my heart... but I will fill it with all of the memories that you gave me. I love you with every ounce of me... our family is shattered but we will put the pieces back together with your love... and y'all please keep my family in your prayers.\"\n\nThe Global Down Syndrome Foundation said Dixon died on 19 October.\n\nFoxx and Dixon attended the Be Beautiful Be Yourself fashion show last year\n\nA tribute published on the Foundation's website read: \"Deondra was brought into this world in a loving family who treated her like any other family member. They gave her the gifts of complete acceptance, confidence, and knowledge. They empowered her to graduate with a regular diploma from high school and to take life by storm, which, if you knew Deondra, she absolutely did.\n\n\"We have lost our talented, intelligent, feisty, beautiful, kind, loving, caring, pure and giving heart, DeOndra Dixon. Our Down syndrome community has lost a beacon of hope, a true leader, and role model whose aim was to always help others. She was a bright light in this world of ours.\"\n\nDixon's profile on the foundation's website reads: \"I feel I was born to dance. I want to be a professional dancer. My brother has given me a chance to do some special things. I danced in his video Blame It. I've danced on stage at some of his concerts all over the country. And guess what? I've danced at the Grammys!\n\n\"I know my family loves me. They never set limits and always make me feel I can touch the sky.\"\n\nDixon was very involved in the foundation's Be Beautiful Be Yourself fashion shows which raise money for the foundation and walked the catwalk with the likes of Eva Longoria - who has a sister with Down's syndrome - and Queen Latifah.\n\nMessages of support have been posted since Foxx broke the news, including some from the celebrity world.\n\nFoxx's Just Mercy co-star Michael B Jordan wrote: \"Here for you brother! No words can ease what you're going through but the Jordans are here for you and your family!\"\n\nOscar winner Viola Davis also offered condolences: \"So so sorry Jamie. I know how much you loved your sis. She was so blessed to have you. Rest well Deondra!\"\n\nWriter, director and actress Lena Waithe said: \"I'm so sorry for your loss. Sending you so much love right now.\"\n\nAnd Jurassic World actor Chris Pratt commented: \"So sorry for you loss Jamie. Prayers up for your sweet sister.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Anglesey was one of the few places in north Wales to avoid local lockdown, but has been impacted by the current firebreak lockdown Image caption: Anglesey was one of the few places in north Wales to avoid local lockdown, but has been impacted by the current firebreak lockdown\n\nThe tourism industry in Wales needs urgent clarity on rules after the national Covid firebreak lockdown ends, say industry insiders.\n\nEmotions in the sector are turning from \"anxiety to anger\" in some parts of the country.\n\nJim Jones, managing director of North Wales Tourism, called the decision to introduce the national firebreak \"draconian\".\n\nHe said the economic impact was being felt across the whole of the hospitality sector in the region, including the supply chain behind the tourism industry.\n\n\"We're already hearing of redundancies, or job losses, and questions of whether businesses will open,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"It's the uncertainty going forward - and the anxiety, which is now turning to anger.\n\n\"It's the lack of information, the lack of engagement that we are having at this moment in time with Welsh Government and business.\n\n\"We are the last to find out, yet we're the ones dealing with the brunt of it all.\"\n\nThe tourism industry in Wales was worth an estimated £6.3bn in spending by visitors in 2018, according to government figures.\n\n\"Tourism is extremely important to our economy and we know this is an incredibly challenging time for businesses,\" a Welsh Government official said and stressed engagement with the industry was ongoing.", "Most non-essential operations in Leeds are being postponed after the number of hospitalised Covid-19 patients rose to a higher level than at the first wave's peak.\n\nLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said it had 263 Covid patients on Tuesday, with 22 in intensive care units (ICU).\n\nThe trust runs Leeds General Infirmary and St James' Hospital and expects ICU numbers to go up in the next 48 hours.\n\nIt said \"only essential operations are going ahead in most cases\".\n\nHospital staff have been told the rapid rise of admissions means that it is \"looking even more likely\" that Leeds will be moved into tier three of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe trust, which has about 1,800 beds, said there were 148 Covid patients in its hospital on Tuesday last week, a rise of 115, or 78%, in a week.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are standing down some planned operations due to current pressures which means that some patients will have their treatments postponed.\"\n\nIn an internal statement obtained by The Independent, the trust's deputy chief medical officer David Berridge said: \"This also means that it is looking even more likely that Leeds will move into tier three, following discussions across the city and with the government.\n\nThe trust statement continued: \"Not only is the number of Covid cases increasing but so is the rate of increase.\n\n\"Local modelling based on prevalence data indicates that it may continue to rise for the next two weeks.\"\n\nLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said the majority of admissions over the weekend were older people with respiratory conditions.\n\nWest Yorkshire is yet to have any tier three restrictions imposed, unlike the surrounding counties of South Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester.\n\nTalking to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman believed tier three restrictions in nearby Kirklees were \"inevitable\", and could be imposed on the borough \"quite soon\".\n\nBut a statement by Kirklees Council's Outbreak Control Board, including Labour and Conservative MPs and cross-party councillors, said entering stricter measures would have a \"devastating effect\".\n\nIt said: \"The closure of our pubs and bars will have a devastating impact on our economy and people's livelihoods, and we have not seen the evidence that this will directly impact on infection rates.\n\n\"We instead need to continue the work we are doing at a local level, on the ground, in our communities. We are already seeing positive results from this work, with Kirklees now having the lowest rates in West Yorkshire.\n\n\"We're urging the government to give us more resources to build on this.\"\n\nOn Monday, a trust running three hospitals in South Yorkshire and north Nottinghamshire said the number of patients it had admitted with Covid-19 had doubled in a week.\n\nRotherham Hospital also reported a jump in cases to beyond the spring peak.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nottingham has consistently recorded one of the highest infection rates in England\n\nNottingham and parts of the surrounding county will move into the top tier of Covid restrictions, it has been confirmed.\n\nPeople living in the city, along with Rushcliffe, Gedling and Broxtowe, face the toughest restrictions.\n\nThe measures come into force at one minute past midnight on Thursday and will expire after 28 days.\n\nIt comes after the city consistently recorded one of the highest infection rates in the country.\n\nAbout eight million people in England will be living in the tier three - \"very high\" alert level by the end of the week.\n\nThis means pubs that do not serve substantial meals have to close, and there are further restrictions on households mixing.\n\nThe affected parts of Nottinghamshire join Liverpool City Region, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, South Yorkshire and Warrington in the highest tier.\n\nDetails of the lockdown will be formally announced on Tuesday, but in a joint statement local councils said the measures \"have been agreed to achieve a sustained reduction in infection rates\" and to \"protect our vulnerable residents, the NHS and social care services\".\n\nResidents and businesses who are affected will receive \"a package of support similar to those secured in other parts of the country\".\n\nThough it did have the highest figures in the UK earlier this month, Nottingham's seven-day rate of infection has dropped again, according to the latest data.\n\nThe city had the 24th highest rate of infection per 100,000 people in England, at 443.7, in the week up to the 23 October, down from 677.4 the previous week.\n\nIt is still the highest in the county, but the surrounding boroughs are all seeing an increase, with Broxtowe's infection rate having risen from 310.4 to 342.9, Gedling's up from 373.2 to 418.2 and Rushcliffe rising from 359.1 to 393.5.\n\nDavid Mellen, leader of Nottingham City Council, appealed to residents to \"work together\" and stick to \"very difficult\" restrictions.\n\nThough the seven-day infection rate for the city has dropped steadily after being the highest in the UK earlier this month, he said there were still concerns over rising rates among older age groups and hospital occupancy levels.\n\n\"We've got a growing number of people, way over 200 people, in our hospitals with Covid, and an increasing number in [intensive care units], so we are concerned about those numbers,\" he told BBC Radio Nottingham.\n\n\"Obviously we had many people die in Nottingham [and] Nottinghamshire earlier in the year and we don't want to add to that number with many more deaths as a result of this.\"\n\nMr Mellen also said the level of financial support from the government - which is to cover additional track and trace costs, enforcement and extra support to affected businesses - is \"not enough\".\n\nHe said he did not feel Nottingham had been \"fully funded by the government, and we do believe that if we do a really good job on track and trace, which is absolutely necessary, it will cost us more than what is being offered\".\n\n\"We tried to argue for more money, but the kind of formula that's been applied in four other [local] authority areas wasn't going to be changed for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.\"\n\nJason Weston from Ye Olde Salutation Inn said it was \"looking very, very dark\" for the pub\n\nNottingham South MP Lilian Greenwood criticised the government for what she said was \"woeful\" communication over the move into the toughest restrictions.\n\n\"It's more than a week since Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock said they were talking to [Nottinghamshire] about going into tier three, yet talks didn't even begin until Thursday and MPs weren't even briefed until Friday,\" she tweeted.\n\nJason Weston, who runs Ye Olde Salutation Inn in the centre of Nottingham, said he will not have to close because the pub serves meals, but with capacity already down to 20% of what it was in summer because of the 22:00 curfew he said it was \"almost irrelevant\" whether they were allowed to open or not.\n\n\"I'm very worried,\" he said.\n\n\"We're watching the bank balance go down week by week - it's looking very, very dark.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Mayor Joe Anderson said he appreciates the huge impact Covid has had on families\n\nLiverpool's city mayor has said he would support more robust Covid-19 restrictions if it meant halting the spread of the virus.\n\nJoe Anderson, whose brother Bill was one of 61 people to die with the virus in the city in one week, said he would \"back tougher measures if necessary\".\n\nHe wants to monitor the impact of tier three over the next two weeks before considering a possible tier four.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast his brother died of a virus that \"takes no prisoners\".\n\nThe Labour mayor said the virus has had \"an enormous impact\" on families and businesses in Liverpool.\n\n\"It has taken untold damage on people's wellbeing and a huge toll on families where people have died. If anything was required to bring it down faster I would do that,\" Mr Anderson said.\n\n\"However, I want to make sure that we are giving tier three a chance to see if the measures have an impact.\"\n\nHe said he would review the results in 14 to 16 days' time.\n\nThe mayor's brother Bill (right) died within eight hours of admission to hospital\n\nMr Anderson said the death of his \"larger-than-life\" brother who \"inspired\" him was a \"great blow\".\n\n\"Bill was taken so suddenly we never got chance to say goodbye,\" he said.\n\n\"Six weeks prior to that we lost our brother [Henry] to cancer - a traumatic time to say the least.\n\n\"My eldest son was also going through cancer treatment during the pandemic.\n\n\"We weren't even able to give him a hug or be with him.\"\n\nMr Anderson was embroiled in negotiations over restrictions to combat infection rates when Bill was admitted to hospital. Within eight hours he had died.\n\n\"It's a disease that takes no prisoners,\" the mayor said, \"It is heartless in the way it deals with people.\"\n\nLiverpool has the third highest number of infections in England\n\nHis experience has left him \"acutely aware of the pain that people are going through\" and \"frustrated and annoyed\" with people who dismiss the virus as fake or ignore government guidelines.\n\nHe added: \"This virus isn't going to go away until we get a vaccine.\"\n\nUnlike neighbouring Greater Manchester, Mr Anderson did not enter protracted negotiations over an aid package for tier three.\n\nHe said without student cases Manchester's infection rates are lower \"but when you take our student figures out - the rest stayed stubbornly high\".\n\n\"We had to take action because people were dying, getting infected and our hospitals were being overwhelmed.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aaron Rees says he has been stopped and searched by police a number of times after finishing work late\n\nA leading academic has asked Welsh law makers to hold an inquiry into black and ethnic minority (BAME) individuals in the criminal justice system.\n\nDr Robert Jones has warned a disproportionate number of BAME communities continue to be criminalised.\n\nThe expert said he has uncovered \"a wide range of problems that require urgent attention\".\n\nThe Senedd's equalities committee will consider his letter next week.\n\nThe field of criminal justice is not a devolved issue in Wales, which Dr Jones said was one of the reasons the issue has yet to receive detailed scrutiny.\n\n\"As it currently stands, there is no clear or authoritative understanding of how different communities across Wales experience and interact with the criminal justice system,\" said Dr Jones, who has been carrying out research at Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre, in its School of Law and Politics.\n\n\"It is also unknown what steps could and should be taken by the Welsh Government to promote fairness and tackle discrimination within the Welsh criminal justice system.\"\n\nHe added that his findings, as part of the Justice and Jurisdiction project, \"underscore just how important an inquiry into racial disproportionality within the criminal justice in Wales is at this time\".\n\nRocio Cifuentes, from the Ethnic Minorities and Youth Support Team Wales (EYST), said she believed the Welsh Government can and should be doing more.\n\n\"There's an absolute danger that we will absolve ourselves of responsibility,\" said the body's chief executive.\n\n\"In Wales we can and should invest much more heavily in youth support services, in young people's education, in mentoring support schemes.\n\n\"If this pandemic has shown us anything, it's that we can and should try to tackle longstanding and entrenched inequalities in a much more robust and urgent way.\"\n\nAaron Rees and Tyrone Cristo say they feel they have been stopped due to their colour\n\nAaron Rees says he has been stopped three or four times by the police, often when finishing a late shift from work.\n\n\"The first time I was stopped I was 16, in London, but now I'm used to it,\" said the 20-year-old.\n\n\"That's just life. There's no point in me getting angry over the situation [when white friends aren't stopped] - you've just got to ignore it and be the better man.\"\n\nTyrone Cristo, 19, said: \"I've been stopped quite a few times as well, and I personally think it's because of my colour.\n\n\"I'm more used to it now, but I'm still not happy about that.\"\n\nHe said while some use social media to respond negatively to high rates of stop and search, he takes a different stance.\n\n\"It influences me to be a good person, because I don't want that to happen to me.\"\n\nBoth young men have been taking part in a project run by Cardiff City FC Foundation, where free football sessions are provided in a bid to steer young people away from criminal and anti-social behaviour.\n\nAli Abdi, from Race Council Cymru, spoke to them and others as part of Black History Month events.\n\n\"We need to start to make things fairer for our young people. The data shows they're unfairly treated and the racial disparity appears to be higher - we can't let this continue, we need to do something about this now,\" said Mr Abdi.\n\n\"There are young people we engage with who might get into trouble with their friend.\n\n\"But because they're black they might get a harsher sentence, or are treated differently. That can't be fair. It has a long-term impact on the young person and their relationship with the criminal justice system and the police.\"\n\nResponding, a Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Keeping young black or ethnic minority people from entering the criminal justice system is a clear priority, and we are working hard in our devolved areas of influence within crime and justice.\n\n\"Our Race Equality Action Plan will be guided by the experience of Bame communities in Wales, and we are developing a new educational curriculum which emphasises BAME culture and identity.\n\n\"We are funding a number of projects to promote positive engagement for young people at risk of offending, including the Youth Justice Blueprint, and Children and Communities Grant, which are helping to address the needs of some of the most vulnerable children in our communities.\"\n\nThe Black Lives Matter campaigns have highlighted concerns over the justice system\n\nThe findings of Cardiff University mirror the comprehensive Lammy Review published in 2017, which highlighted the disproportionate number of BAME individuals in the criminal justice system across both Wales and England.\n\nEarlier this year, the UK government published a progress report on the review, which made it clear that systemic disproportionality will take time to change.\n\nIt also acknowledged that work was needed to understand why these disparities are far more widespread than just criminal justice alone.\n\nOn the policing front, forces in Wales have various initiatives to improve trust in BAME communities.\n\nIn some, special advisory panels invite in members from a wide range of communities to scrutinise their work - suggesting improvement when necessary.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're just trying to have basic human rights, at the end of the day,\" says Tyler\n\nAt the age of 15, Tyler tried to take his own life after he was teased and abused for being transgender.\n\nThe student from east London, now aged 19, said bullies would follow him home and throw things at him after he began identifying as male in 2015.\n\n\"I experienced a lot of hate, a lot of fear. There was a couple of times where I was followed home and a couple of times where I could feel things being thrown at me,\" he said.\n\n\"I did not have any desire to be alive at all and I was hospitalised after a number of suicide attempts.\"\n\nTyler, 19, from east London, came out as trans in 2015 after struggling with his gender identity for some time\n\nTyler's abuse came amid a surge in transphobic hate crimes in London.\n\nIn 2011, 59 transphobic attacks were reported to the Met Police. By 2015 the number of annual reports increased to 151, and by the end of 2019, 283 attacks had been recorded in a year.\n\nThe numbers included physical and verbal attacks as well as incitement to hatred.\n\nSpecialist officers from the Met Police hate crime unit said they believed the figures reflected fewer hate crimes than were actually taking place.\n\n\"The numbers are not reflective of the amount of actual transgender hate crime that there is,\" she said.\n\n\"I can understand why people may be reticent to come forward, but not maybe because of the personal experience they've had with the police but maybe because of something they've seen on television or they've heard.\n\n\"We're trying to do our best so that when people do come forward, they get to speak to someone that really does understand their issues.\"\n\nTyler's mother, Johanna, who watched her child struggle with transphobic abuse, urged similar victims to come forward.\n\n\"As a parent, I've seen first-hand how common transphobic abuse is,\" she said.\n\n\"My son experienced such frequent abuse and threats, I'd say on a daily basis for more than two years - people in the street, people on buses, kids at his school and then college, even people he'd known when he was younger tracking him down on social media - calling him names and threatening him.\n\n\"It massively impacted his mental health. I think the police now take this much more seriously and its important to report this as soon as it happens.\"\n\nLeni Morris, CEO of the LGBT+ anti-hate charity Galop said most transgender people experienced at least one form of hate crime every year.\n\n\"Trans people are suffering very high levels of physical and sexual violence,\" she said.\n\n\"We also have cases where people are blackmailed about their identity. We know of examples where people have searched for personal information about people and threatened to, or actually published private information about people online.\n\n\"There is a practice such as deadnaming and misgendering. Treating trans people as if they're diseased. It's a really wide spectrum of the kinds of things trans people are experiencing right now.'\"\n\nThe Met said it was appointing 250 advisers specialising in LGBT+ hate crime who would be trained to recognise the issues faced by London's transgender community.\n\nMost transgender people experience at least one form of hate crime every year, according to charity Galop\n\nAfter several years on hormone blockers and testosterone, Tyler now has his Gender Recognition Certificate, which means he has satisfied government criteria to have his true gender legally recognised.\n\nHe will soon have an operation to remove his breast tissue and later a hysterectomy.\n\nAfter dropping out of school before his GCSEs, he has been studying at college to try and catch up on the education he missed out on.\n\n\"I'm just not going to not live my life. I'm not going to not live authentically for other people,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we live among everyone else, we breathe the same air as you, we're not a different part of the human race, we're just like everyone else.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, the BBC Action Line website has details of organisations which can provide support and advice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joe Biden is due to appear in Atlanta, Georgia for his second campaign stop of the day in the state, but earlier, he drew on the memory of former US President Franklin D Roosevelt as he campaigned in Warm Springs.\n\nFDR, the Democrat who led the US during the Great Depression and through World War Two, retreated to the town to seek treatment for polio.\n\nBiden spoke of the significance of the small town (population 400). \"This place represented a way forward,\" he said. \"A way of restoration, of resilience, of healing\".\n\nIt \"is a reminder that though broken, each of us can be healed… That as a people and a country, we can overcome a devastating virus. That we can heal a suffering world. That, yes, we can restore our soul and save our country.”\n\nBiden also quoted a speech FDR drafted before his death.\n\n“To live together and work together. That’s how I see America. That’s how I see the presidency, and that’s how I see the future,” he said.\n\nGeorgia has not backed a Democrat in a presidential election since 1992. But polls suggest a close race this year and Biden says he has a \"fighting chance\".", "Extra restrictions on socialising have come into force in Warrington\n\nWarrington is the latest area to move into the top tier of Covid-19 measures as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nTier three restrictions came into force at midnight in the Cheshire town - two days earlier than originally planned.\n\nCouncil leader Russ Bowden said it was the right decision to move Warrington into the \"very high\" Covid alert level.\n\n\"This is a public health imperative. What we need to do is protect the lives of our residents,\" he said.\n\n\"And - obviously alongside that - [it is about] protecting businesses and jobs here in the town\".\n\nHe added that one of the main concerns was the \"way the cases have propagated into the older working age population and particularly those people above 60\".\n\nWarrington, which is home to about 210,000 people, joins the Liverpool City Region, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire in tier three.\n\nNottingham and parts of Nottinghamshire will move into the top tier from Thursday.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said the decision to move Warrington into tier three was agreed with local leaders as \"it's time to take action\" due to rising infection rates.\n\n\"Please remember - now is the time for us all to work together to get this virus under control,\" he said.\n\nWarrington is the latest area to move into the most stringent measures\n\nMr Bowden told Radio 4's Today programme that cases remained \"stubbornly high\" and he was worried about \"Covid fatigue\" with people unable to see a way out of the tougher restrictions.\n\nHe said: \"There are no clear rules about what the success criteria are with the tiers and how you move between the different tiered layers.\"\n\nMr Bowden added: \"The vast majority of people have applied themselves to the rules and we are asking people again to step up and take responsibility for their actions to protect their loved ones. \"\n\nPlaced between Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region, Warrington currently has an infection rate similar to areas on the lower end of tier three, but it is rising.\n\nThe latest government figures to the 23 October suggest 399 people for every 100,000 had Covid, not far off double the rate seen a month ago and the 36th highest rate of England's 315 local authorities.\n\nGeographically, its infection rate is closer to areas like St Helens to the north-west (437 per 100,000) and Trafford to the east (428 per 100,000) rather than other parts of Cheshire, where the rate is around 200 per 100,000.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic Warrington has seen 189 deaths due to coronavirus, with 14 of those in the week to the 23 October. As it stands, only 19 other authorities saw more deaths over the same period.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed the tier three measures for Warrington will be reviewed in 28 days' time.\n\n\"The restrictions we have agreed together will only be in place for as long as they are absolutely necessary,\" he said.\n\nAs part of the tier three move, the council has received a £5.9m support package from the government, incorporating £1.68m for public health and £4.2m for business and employment support.\n\nThe Lower Angel pub in Warrington town centre will be forced to close under the tightened measures.\n\nLandlord Andrew Wharfe, who has worked there for 13 years, said he has never seen it so quiet.\n\nLandlord Andrew Wharfe said the pub had been quiet in recent weeks\n\n\"We're not big enough to serve food so we have to shut,\" he said, adding it had been an upsetting time.\n\nMr Wharfe said he had been planning to step down from the job next year - a decision he made before the pandemic - but this was now uncertain.\n\n\"This has put a nail in the coffin - we have had enough,\" he said.\n\nPauline Mellor, 56, who lives in Warrington, said: \"My first grandchild was born in July and it is killing me not being able to see him.\"\n\nShe said she knew the rules but believed \"they won't work\".\n\nPauline Mellor said \"it is killing\" her not being able to see her three-month-old grandchild\n\n\"I work in a supermarket, and so many customers, even with a mask, come up close to you.\n\n\"I know we can meet outdoors in tier three but it is too cold - especially for a three-month-old baby,\" she added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Abdulfatah Hamdallah had been living in makeshift camps in Calais for two months\n\nA Sudanese man who died while trying to reach the UK in a small boat has been named as Abdulfatah Hamdallah.\n\nFrench authorities said the 28-year-old attempted to cross the English Channel in a dinghy, using shovels as oars.\n\nHis body was found on Sangatte beach, near Calais, on Wednesday, three hours after a rescue operation ended.\n\nInvestigators have been told by a friend that he had earlier sought asylum in France, but said they did not know the outcome of the application.\n\nAdam Ali, who lived with Mr Hamdallah in Nantes, said he had applied for asylum in France in 2018 and only recently learnt that it been \"rejected by the court\".\n\nAfter learning of the rejection, Mr Hamdallah would speak everyday about how he \"wants to go to the UK, any way [he can]\", Mr Ali said.\n\nHe had been living in a makeshift camp in Calais for two months, prosecutor Philippe Sabatier said.\n\nA search and rescue operation began at about 02:00 BST on Wednesday after a Sudanese teenager with hypothermia was found on the beach.\n\nHe told authorities that his friend was missing and could not swim.\n\n\"It would seem from the statements made by [the survivor] that he applied for asylum in France,\" Mr Sabatier said, adding that he did not know if the request had been granted.\n\nMr Sabatier said the pair had fallen into the water after their inflatable dinghy had been punctured by one of the shovels.\n\n\"In terms of a personal initiative taken by these two migrants, no connection could be established with any immigration network,\" Mr Sabatier said.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel was criticised on Wednesday after saying the death was a \"brutal reminder of the abhorrent criminal gangs and people smugglers who exploit vulnerable people\".\n\nLabour MP Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow home secretary, said the government's response to the rise in crossings had been \"lacking in compassion and competence\".\n\nDan O'Mahoney, a former Royal Marine appointed early this month to the new role of \"clandestine Channel threat commander\", met French authorities in Paris and Calais on Thursday.\n\nHe held \"positive discussions about enhancing operations with increased surveillance, aerial support, further intelligence sharing and patrols in northern France\", he said.\n\n\"This week's incident, where a Sudanese migrant lost his life attempting to cross the Channel, served as a tragic reminder of the vital importance of the work the UK and France are engaged in to make this route completely unviable,\" he added.\n\nOn Friday, five men in a boat were picked up by Border Force amid high winds in the Channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teigen and husband John Legend had been documenting her pregnancy on social media\n\nAmerican model Chrissy Teigen has described the pain of losing her baby earlier this month.\n\nAt the time Teigen shared photos on Instagram of herself crying in hospital after learning that the baby boy she had been carrying was stillborn.\n\nThe photos - taken by her husband, singer John Legend - were praised by many, but also criticised by some.\n\nIn a blog post Teigen addressed her critics: \"I cannot express how little I care that you hate the photos.\"\n\nTeigen, a model, TV personality and cookbook author, has two children with singer Legend. In mid-August they were revealed they were expecting a third.\n\nIn her Instagram post at the time, Teigen revealed that they had named the baby Jack.\n\nIn the Medium post, she writes that she asked her mum and husband to take photos of the moment, \"no matter how uncomfortable it was\".\n\n\"I explained to a very hesitant John that I needed them, and that I did NOT want to have to ever ask,\" she says.\n\n\"He hated it. I could tell. It didn't make sense to him at the time. But I knew I needed to know of this moment forever, the same way I needed to remember us kissing at the end of the aisle, the same way I needed to remember our tears of joy after [children] Luna and Miles. And I absolutely knew I needed to share this story.\"\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 chrissyteigen 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\nShe also directly addresses criticism she received at the time for sharing photos of the moment on Instagram.\n\n\"I cannot express how little I care that you hate the photos,\" she writes. \"How little I care that it's something you wouldn't have done. I lived it, I chose to do it, and more than anything, these photos aren't for anyone but the people who have lived this or are curious enough to wonder what something like this is like.\n\n\"These photos are only for the people who need them,\" she adds. \"The thoughts of others do not matter to me.\"\n\nTeigen, who is also a TV presenter, had been documenting her pregnancy on social media.\n\nShe was taken to hospital on 27 September with excessive bleeding, but had reassured fans she and the baby were healthy.\n\nIn the later Instagram post, however, she revealed that \"we were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed\".\n\nTeigen then thanked her followers for their \"positive energy, thoughts and prayers\" and expressed gratitude for the \"amazing\" life she enjoyed with her family.\n\n\"But every day can't be full of sunshine,\" she continued. \"On this darkest of days, we will grieve, we will cry our eyes out. But we will hug and love each other harder and get through it.\"\n\nLegend, 41, is a multiple Grammy-winning artist whose 2013 track All of Me - a song he dedicated to his wife - spent 92 weeks in the UK singles chart.\n\nHis parallel careers in film, music and TV work have seen him become an EGOT - one of only 16 people who've won a competitive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.", "Brian Clamp says he's had a traumatic few days\n\nWe are standing in full PPE, in one of the two hospital intensive care units which are solely for Covid patients. This is a bright, modern ward - sunlight pouring in.\n\nAt one end there is a large black plastic barrier taped across an opening. On the other side, none of the patients has Covid-19. The makeshift divider is a reminder that all this is still relatively new. It is the first winter where the NHS's response to the usual heavy demands will have to be adjusted for coronavirus.\n\nOn the Covid unit, something else is immediately apparent: the sound of conversation.\n\nWhen I first reported from a Covid intensive care unit in April, I was left haunted by what I'd seen. All but one patient had been on a ventilator, in a medically induced coma. It was eerily quiet, just the rhythmical sound of machines pumping air into lungs.\n\nThe medical teams were at a loss to know how best to treat a savage condition which was ravaging victims' lungs and other organs. Lives hung in the balance, often for weeks on end. In early April, two out of three ventilated patients did not survive.\n\nToday, in this intensive care unit (ICU) at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, only one of the five patients is on a ventilator. The others are sitting up, engaging with the nurses, reading or watching TV.\n\n\"The Jedi is my nickname,\" says Brian Clamp. The 62-year-old is a steward at a social club, where he works behind the bar.\n\nHe had been getting better but was readmitted to intensive care when his breathing worsened. It is still a little laboured, despite the nasal oxygen supply, but his sense of humour and laughter are intact. Brian admits the experience has been \"absolutely terrifying\", but adds, with a smile, \"they will get us better, I know that\".\n\nHe is determined to get home to watch his granddaughter, Millie, play football.\n\nI’m lucky to have got it in the second wave - the doctors know so much more\n\nAt least half the patients here are on clinical trials. Brian has received convalescent plasma, packed with antibodies against coronavirus, donated by someone who recovered from the infection. It's not clear whether blood plasma works against Covid-19, but trials are ongoing. I donated plasma earlier this year and there's still an urgent need for more adults to do so.\n\nFurther down the ward is Edmund Derrick, who is relieved to have his sense of taste back. He is savouring an egg sandwich.\n\n\"I had this foul, acrid, burnt taste in my mouth for days, which invaded absolutely everything,\" he says. His other symptoms included violent uncontrollable shuddering and sudden temperature swings.\n\nThe 71-year-old retired local government worker is, like everyone here, keen to get home to his family. His wife contracted coronavirus at the same time as him but didn't fall seriously ill. Men are still twice as likely as women to end up in intensive care with Covid-19.\n\n\"I think I'm lucky to have got it in the second wave,\" he says, \"now the doctors know so much more.\"\n\nThere's no doubt more patients are surviving Covid-19, although it's too early to give precise figures. Ventilators are used more sparingly and there is greater reliance on other, non-invasive means of giving oxygen.\n\nAbout 1,000 Covid patients a day are being admitted to hospitals across the UK, roughly a third of the numbers at the peak. Covid-related deaths are running at about a fifth of the level in early April.\n\n\"Now, we know the beast that is Covid pneumonia,\" says Dr Lewis Gray, a consultant in intensive care. \"We know how it develops, how it's treated, how people can and do recover.\"\n• None 173Covid patients in Newcastle NHS Trust, at peak of first wave, with...\n• None 71Covid patients, when BBC visited in October, with...\n\nPatients are given dexamethasone, a cheap steroid which is proven to cut the risk of dying by up to a third. They also receive remdesivir, an antiviral drug which has been fully approved in the US, although its effectiveness is still under review.\n\nPatients are also given increased doses of anti-coagulant medication, to prevent blood clots, which can be a serious complication of Covid. And they are often nursed on their front, prone, as this helps with breathing.\n\nBut the impact of Covid is felt in the hospital way beyond the ICU. The more Covid there is, the greater the impact on other non-emergency care - hip replacements, eye operations, myriad other conditions.\n\nIn March, there was concern that hospitals would be overwhelmed, so all non-urgent surgery was cancelled. This time, the aim is to ensure that non-Covid patients don't lose out. But every bed allocated to Covid care requires specialist nurses. Already, the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) has had to close four of its 50 operating theatres to reallocate the nurses to intensive care.\n\nDame Jackie Daniel, chief executive of Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust and a former nurse, says the situation in the hospital is finely balanced.\n\nIf you are a frail, elderly person, isolated and fearful, we are pushing them into deeper anxiety\n\n\"At the moment we're managing, but are not complacent, because it's going to be tough.\"\n\nLike other trusts, waiting times for non-life threatening surgery, from hips to hernias, have increased. The Newcastle trust has maintained cancer services, but elsewhere there is a backlog of \"tens of thousands of patients\", says Dame Jackie.\n\n\"Cataracts are a good example - a relatively simple procedure, but if you are a frail, elderly person, isolating, fearful, we are pushing those patients into deeper anxiety.\"\n\nKathleen Lawson, from Durham, had been due a thyroid operation in March. Only now has the 67-year-old had the surgery.\n\n\"I feel fortunate it's happened. I'm absolutely elated,\" she says.\n\nOn another ward I spoke to several patients who were recovering from a serious Covid infection.\n\nEpifania Garcia, a 66-year-old care worker, and her husband, are on separate wards. Epi is positive they will both get better but worries about her two grown-up daughters, both nurses.\n\n\"I feel emotional because I cannot see them. I have never left them this long,\" she says.\n\nA few beds along lies Mohammed Siddique, a former mill worker, bus and taxi driver. Aged 87, he suffers confusion, so his daughter Shamim - who's had Covid - is allowed to stay with him. She sits by his bedside, stroking his hands.\n\n\"He was very close to dying. It was very scary,\" says Shamim, who lives in the next street to him, with her family. Her husband spent two weeks in hospital, including time in ICU. Covid has swept through the extended family.\n\nAlbert Brown, 67, still has a slight tan from his holiday in Turkey. He says he thinks got infected on his return, while on a local night out. At home one night, two weeks later, he collapsed on his hands and knees gasping for breath.\n\n\"I was very afraid,\" he says.\n\nWhile at the RVI, he has witnessed several younger people being admitted with Covid complications.\n\n\"It can attack anybody, it doesn't pick and choose, but it's certainly not a joke. We need to take it seriously.\n\nI'm the BBC's medical editor. Since 2004 I have reported on a huge range of topics from cancer, genetics, malaria, and HIV, to the many significant advances in medical science which have improved people's health. I've also followed pandemic threats such as bird flu as well as Sars and Mers. Now I'm focusing on Covid-19 and its immense global impact.", "Hospitals in Liège are transferring patients elsewhere and cancelling non-urgent surgeries as coronavirus admissions surge\n\nDoctors in the Belgian city of Liège have been asked to keep working even if they have coronavirus amid a surge in cases and hospital admissions.\n\nAbout a quarter of medical staff there are reportedly off sick with Covid-19.\n\nNow 10 hospitals have requested that staff who have tested positive but do not have symptoms keep working.\n\nThe head of the Belgian Association of Medical Unions told the BBC they had no choice if they were to prevent the hospital system collapsing within days.\n\nDr Philippe Devos acknowledged that there was an obvious risk of transferring the virus to patients.\n\nOne in three people tested are coming back positive with the virus in the eastern Belgian city. Hospitals are transferring patients elsewhere and cancelling non-urgent surgeries, days after Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke warned the country was close to a \"tsunami\" of infections where authorities \"no longer control what is happening\".\n\nThe decision comes as governments across Europe try to tackle fresh waves of coronavirus infections.\n\nAt a news conference on Monday, World Health Organization (WHO) officials suggested travel restrictions, stay at home orders or even national lockdowns may be needed across the continent to tackle the fresh outbreaks.\n\n\"Right now we are well behind this virus in Europe, so getting ahead of it is going to take some serious acceleration in what we do,\" warned WHO emergencies head Dr Mike Ryan.\n\nItaly - hit hard by the virus in March - has closed gyms, theatres and swimming pools in a bid to bring down case numbers. The country reported more than 21,200 new infections on Sunday.\n\nThe Italian government has warned that the rise in cases was putting a huge strain on health services, but Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said that a full lockdown would be catastrophic for the economy.\n\nRestaurants, bars and cafes must stop table service at 18:00 and offer only take-away until midnight. Contact sports are prohibited but shops and most businesses will remain open.\n\nThe new restrictions, which are in force until 24 November, will also see 75% of classes at Italy's high schools and universities conducted online instead of in a classroom.\n\nRegional governments had asked for all classes to be conducted via distance learning, Italian media reported, but the move was opposed by Education Minister Lucia Azzolina.\n\nBars and cafes across Italy must end table service by 18:00\n\nThe government is also urging people not to travel outside their home towns or cities unless absolutely necessary and to avoid using public transport if possible.\n\n\"We think that we will suffer a bit this month but by gritting our teeth with these restrictions, we'll be able to breathe again in December,\" Mr Conte told a news conference on Sunday.\n\nThe latest restrictions have triggered demonstrations in cities including Naples, Turin and Rome.\n\nGyms and pools have also closed in the Belgian capital Brussels, and shops must shut at 20:00. Masks are now compulsory in public spaces. These rules will remain in force until 19 November.\n\nIn the UK, people aged 16 to 25 are more than twice as likely as older workers to have lost their job during the pandemic, BBC Panorama has found. Research seen by the programme also suggests the education gap between privileged and disadvantaged young people has widened further.\n\nIn France, health experts have warned that the number of new Covid-19 cases per day could be about 100,000 - twice the official figure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProf Jean-Francois Delfraissy, the head of France's scientific council which advises the government on the pandemic, said the estimated figure included undiagnosed and asymptomatic cases.\n\nHe told RTL radio he was surprised by the \"brutality\" of the second wave which he expected to be much worse than the first, adding: \"Many of our fellow citizens have not yet realised what awaits us.\"\n\nFrance has already imposed night-time curfews on major cities, including Paris. The country has recorded more than 1.1 million cases in total and 34,780 deaths.\n\nThe Czech Republic has also introduced a night-time curfew, which came into effect on Tuesday at midnight for a week. Nobody will be allowed to leave the house between 21:00 and 04:59 each night except to travel to and from work, for medical reasons or a few other exceptions. All shops will be shut on Sundays and will close at 20:00 on other days.\n\nAnd Spain has declared a national state of emergency and imposed a night-time curfew amid a new spike in Covid-19 infections.\n\nPrime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the curfew, which came into force on Sunday night, would be in place between the hours of 23:00 and 06:00.\n\nUnder the measures, local authorities can also ban travel between regions. Spain has seen more than one million cases and 34,750 deaths.\n\nRussia has registered a record 17,347 new daily coronavirus cases, officials said on Monday. Total reported cases have surpassed 1.5 million - but the mayor of the worst-hit city, Moscow, said that while \"there is still growth... it is slower\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Lee reports from the epicentre of Europe's second wave, which is in Belgium\n• None How the Czech Covid response went wrong", "More than 50 Tory MPs have written to the prime minister calling for a \"clear road map\" out of lockdown restrictions in northern England, warning the region risks being \"left behind\".\n\nThe letter from the Northern Research Group said the pandemic threatened Boris Johnson's pledge to \"level-up\".\n\nThey also called for an economic recovery plan for the region, arguing it had been hardest hit by the virus.\n\nNo 10 said it was \"committed to levelling up across the country\".\n\nAnd speaking to BBC Newsbeat, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said that he shared the MPs' \"frustrations at restrictions\" adding that the government wanted to invest in northern areas.\n\nAll the areas under the strictest restrictions of the government's three-tier system for England are in the North or the Midlands.\n\nThis will mean about eight million people in England will be living under the toughest restrictions, which are reviewed after 28 days, by the end of the week.\n\nIn areas under tier three rules, pubs and bars not serving substantial meals must close and households are not allowed to mix indoors or outdoors in hospitality venues or private gardens.\n\nRuss Bowden, Labour leader of Warrington Council, said he could not see a way out of the top tier of restrictions for his area, adding that he did not know what measurements the government were using for putting places in tier three in the first place.\n\nHe also told Radio 4's Today programme: \"There are no clear rules about what the success criteria are with the tiers and how you move between the different tiered layers.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has previously raised the issue in the House of Commons, saying that the top tier was a \"gateway\" to potentially months and months of \"agony\" from which there was no exit.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said that the \"simplest and most effective way\" for areas to get out of tier three was to get the R number - the rate at which the virus is spreading - \"down to one or below\".\n\nThe Department of Health also said other data taken into account included which age groups were being affected and the pressures facing the NHS in those areas.\n\nSome 40 Conservative MPs representing areas in the north of England, North Wales and the Scottish borders, have publicly signed the letter, including former cabinet ministers David Davis, David Mundell and Esther McVey, while a further 14 have had their names redacted.\n\nThe newly-formed Northern Research Group of Tory backbenchers is led by former Northern Powerhouse minister Jake Berry.\n\nIn their letter, the group called for the prime minister to set out \"a clear road map down the tiering system and out of lockdown\", warning restrictions were \"disproportionately\" affecting people in the north of the country.\n\n\"The virus has exposed in sharp relief the deep structural and systemic disadvantage faced by our communities and it threatens to continue to increase the disparity between the North and South still further,\" they said.\n\nMr Berry who represents Rossendale and Darwen said \"We are asking people to give up huge civil liberties, businesses to close, people to live on two thirds of their normal wages.\n\n\"I don't think it is unreasonable to say the other side of that coin should be 'show us the way out'.\"\n\nHe also denied that he and other northern MPs were staging a \"revolt\" against the government, saying they were asking the prime minister to \"reaffirm\" his commitment to \"stimulate the North\".\n\nDecember's general election saw the Conservatives demolish the \"red wall\" - winning seats in the north of England from Labour it hadn't held in a generation.\n\nThe government pledged to repay that support before the pandemic hit, throwing normal politics up in the air.\n\nBoris Johnson has continued to talk about that agenda - but the signatories of this letter are worried that Covid will see some of the pledges made fall down the political priority list.\n\nIn particular, they share concerns with many Labour leaders in the North that there isn't a clear road map out of restrictions.\n\nIt's been a bruising few weeks for the government's relationship with the North, with very public rows over support for local economies.\n\nThese MPs support the government - and say their intervention is designed to influence its plans. But it also shows fears for the north of England are shared across the political spectrum\n\nThe group welcomed the financial support already in place for businesses, such as the furlough scheme and extra funding for local authorities under the tightest coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBut they added: \"We do however share concerns that the cost of Covid could be paid for by the downgrading of the levelling-up agenda, and northern constituencies like ours will be left behind.\"\n\nMr Johnson won a majority of 80 seats in December's election, with many traditionally Labour constituencies in the so-called \"Red Wall\" turning Conservative blue.\n\nA key part of his campaign was a pledge to \"level-up\" and reduce regional inequality across the country.\n\nMr Sunak said he understood the MPs' concerns but added: \"I also share their passion and their ambition for the North\" and promised that the government \"remained committed\" to investing in these areas.\n\nShadow Treasury minister Bridget Phillipson said the government had been \"treating local communities with contempt\".\n\nShe added that the decision not to extend free school meals over the half-term holiday \"is the clearest sign yet that the Conservatives have the wrong priorities and are not on the side of British families\".", "US stock markets suffered their sharpest drop in weeks as concerns about the economic impact of surging coronavirus cases sent shares tumbling.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 2.3%, after dropping more than 3% earlier in the day. The S&P 500 fell 1.8% and the Nasdaq 1.6%.\n\nStocks in Europe, where a rise in virus cases has prompted new restrictions, also declined.\n\nShares in travel and energy firms took some of the heaviest losses.\n\nIn the United States, cruise lines Royal Caribbean Group, Carnival and Norwegian all dropped more than 8%, while in the UK, British Airways owner IAG closed 7.6% lower.\n\nTravel firms have been some of the most sensitive to warnings about the virus, which experts worry will intensify as winter approaches.\n\nOn Monday, Michael Ryan, an emergencies expert for the World Health Organization, said that Europe would need \"much more comprehensive\" measures to get the virus under control.\n\n\"Right now we're well behind this virus in Europe, so getting ahead of it is going to take some serious acceleration in what we do,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, France's CAC 40 ended 1.9% lower, while Germany's Dax index dropped 3.7%. In the UK, the FTSE 100 fell nearly 1.2%.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has vowed to avoid widespread restrictions on activity, similar to the lockdown restrictions seen this spring, saying such limits are not worth the economic cost.\n\nBut such decisions are typically handled by local leaders in America, some of whom, such as the mayors of El Paso, Texas and Newark, New Jersey, tightened rules on Monday.\n\nOver the last week, the number of new virus cases reported daily in the US has repeatedly passed 80,000, sending the seven day average to a new high of nearly 69,000 - roughly double what it was in September.\n\nThe number of hospitalisations has jumped 40% in the past month and death rates are also rising, though more slowly.\n\nOn a per capita basis, the number of new cases in the US over the past seven days remains lower than some other countries, including the UK, Spain and France, which have announced new restrictions recently.\n\nBut analysts say the economy is unlikely to mend until concerns about Covid-19 are resolved.\n\nAmid those strains, investors are also worried about the impasse in Washington over the need to fund additional coronavirus economic relief.\n\nOn Monday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who has been trying to broker a deal for the White House, said the two sides remained far apart. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, who leads Democrats in the House of Representatives made similar comments.\n• None Covid map: Where are cases the highest?", "Levels of protective antibodies in people wane \"quite rapidly\" after coronavirus infection, say researchers.\n\nAntibodies are a key part of our immune defences and stop the virus from getting inside the body's cells.\n\nThe Imperial College London team found the number of people testing positive for antibodies has fallen by 26% between June and September.\n\nThey say immunity appears to be fading and there is a risk of catching the virus multiple times.\n\nThe news comes as figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the number of Covid-19 deaths in the UK rose by 60% in the week of 16 October.\n\nThe ONS figures suggest there have now been more than 60,000 deaths involving Covid-19 in the UK.\n\nMore than 350,000 people in England have taken an antibody test as part of the REACT-2 study so far.\n\nIn the first round of testing, at the end of June and the beginning of July, about 60 in 1,000 people had detectable antibodies.\n\nBut in the latest set of tests, in September, only 44 per 1,000 people were positive.\n\nIt suggests the number of people with antibodies fell by more than a quarter between summer and autumn.\n\n\"Immunity is waning quite rapidly, we're only three months after our first [round of tests] and we're already showing a 26% decline in antibodies,\" said Prof Helen Ward, one of the researchers.\n\nThe fall was greater in those over 65, compared with younger age groups, and in those without symptoms compared with those with full-blown Covid-19.\n\nThe number of healthcare workers with antibodies remained relatively high, which the researchers suggest may be due to regular exposure to the virus.\n\nY-shaped antibodies stick to the surface of viruses to stop them infecting the body's cells\n\nAntibodies stick to the surface of the coronavirus to stop it invading our body's cells and attacking the rest of the immune system.\n\nExactly what the antibody drop means for immunity is still uncertain. There are other parts of the immune system, such as T-cells, which may also play a role, directly killing infected host cells and calling to other immune cells to help out.\n\nHowever, the researchers warn antibodies tend to be highly predictive of who is protected.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay said: \"We can see the antibodies and we can see them declining and we know antibodies on their own are quite protective.\n\n\"On the balance of evidence, I would say it would look as if immunity declines away at the same rate as antibodies decline away, and that this is an indication of waning immunity.\"\n\nThere are four other seasonal human coronaviruses, which we catch multiple times in our lives. They cause common cold symptoms and we can be reinfected every six to 12 months.\n\nMany people have mild or asymptomatic coronavirus infections.\n\nTwo out of every three people who tested positive for coronavirus in a study published today by the Office for National Statistics experienced none of the main symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nSeparate figures from the ONS today showed that Covid-19 deaths in the UK increased from just under 500 to just over 750 in the week to 16 October, pushing the total number of deaths 6% over the level expected for this time of year.\n\nThe ONS figures suggest that more than 60,000 deaths in the UK have involved coronavirus so far this year.\n\nBy 16 October, more than 59,000 of these deaths had happened and, since then, a further 1,200 people have died within 28 days of a positive test for coronavirus. Ninety per cent of these deaths happened before the end of June.\n\nThere have been very few confirmed cases of people getting Covid twice. However, the researchers warn this may be due to immunity only just starting to fade since the peak infection rates of March and April.\n\nThe hope is the second infection will be milder than the first, even if immunity does decline, as the body should have an \"immune memory\" of the first encounter and know how to fight back.\n\nThe researchers say their findings do not scupper hopes of a vaccine, which may prove more effective than a real infection.\n\nOne of the researchers, Prof Graham Cooke, said: \"The big picture is after the first wave, the great majority of the country didn't have evidence of protective immunity.\n\n\"The need for a vaccine is still very large, the data doesn't change that.\"\n\nProfessor Paul Elliott, director of the REACT-2 study, said it would be wrong to draw firm conclusions from the study about the impact of a vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"The vaccine response may behave differently to the response to natural infection.\"\n\nBut he said it was possible that some people might need follow-up booster doses of any vaccine that became available to top up fading immunity over time.\n\nCommenting on the findings, Prof Jonathan Ball from the University of Nottingham said: \"This study confirms suspicions that antibody responses - especially in vulnerable elderly populations - decrease over time.\"\n\nHowever, he said it was still important to get a better overall view of \"what protective immunity looks like\".\n\nProf Eleanor Riley, from the University of Edinburgh, said it would be \"premature\" to assume immunity did not last, but \"the data do lend weight to the concern that antibodies induced by natural infection may be short-lived, as is the case for other seasonal coronaviruses.\"", "Two adults and two children have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of northern France.\n\nA large search and rescue operation began earlier after the vessel was seen in difficulty near Dunkirk.\n\nTwo children - aged five and eight - and a man and a woman, believed to be from Iran, have died. Fifteen others have been taken to hospital.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with the victims' loved ones.\n\nHe said: \"We have offered the French authorities every support as they investigate this terrible incident, and will do all we can to crack down on the ruthless criminal gangs who prey on vulnerable people by facilitating these dangerous journeys.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dan O'Mahoney said the incident strengthened their resolve to bring those responsible to justice\n\nThe stricken vessel was spotted about 2km off the French coast by a passing sailboat at about 09:30 local time, which alerted French authorities.\n\nFour French vessels, one Belgian helicopter and a French fishing boat took part in the rescue and a search operation for people in the water.\n\nConditions in the English Channel have been rough throughout the day, with a gale warning issued overnight by the Met Office.\n\nAn investigation has been opened by the public prosecutor in Dunkirk to try to identify the cause of the sinking.\n\nThere has been a regular drum-beat of complaints from the UK that France is not doing enough to prevent migrants putting to sea in the first place, or accept them back on French soil once they do.\n\nBut local MPs around Calais say that Britain - not France - is the magnet for migrants along this coast, and that no amount of policing will stop them.\n\nOne French MP accused the British government earlier this year of lacking \"even an ounce of humanity\" by not allowing people to claim asylum from outside the UK.\n\nThe Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has promised to make the Channel \"unviable\" for migrant boats. People smugglers in Calais and Dunkirk are reportedly warning their clients of an upcoming crackdown.\n\nMigrants have been found this year trying to cross the Channel without the people-smuggling networks, on makeshift rafts, or simply by trying to swim across.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper, chair of the home affairs select committee, said the deaths were \"truly awful\", and that criminals were profiting from \"other people's desperation\".\n\nThe committee is looking at the rise in Channel crossings and \"the work that is urgently needed to prevent more lives being lost\", she said.\n\nDover MP Natalie Elphicke said it was \"terrible that tragedy has struck in the Channel again\", adding: \"People traffickers have no regard for life, no matter how old or young.\"\n\nThe UK government has vowed to make the crossings \"unviable\" and called for boats to be stopped at sea and returned to France.\n\nThe UN Refugee Agency said in August it was \"troubled\" by the plans to intercept and return boats, adding that the numbers making the crossing \"remain low and manageable\".\n\nCharity Care4Calais said the \"loss of life should be a wake-up call for those in power in France and the UK\".\n\nIt said creating a new system which would allow asylum-seekers to apply for refuge in the UK from outside its borders would \"put an end to terrifying, dangerous sea crossings and stop tragedy striking again\".\n\nSave The Children added: \"Today's tragic news must be a wake-up call for both London and Paris to come up with a joint plan that ensures the safety of vulnerable children and families.\n\n\"The English Channel must not become a graveyard for children.\"\n\nSurvivors have been taken to hospitals in Calais and Dunkirk\n\nMore than 7,400 migrants have reached the UK in small boats this year, up from 1,825 in 2019.\n\nAt least two other people are thought to have died while attempting the crossing this year, with one body found on a beach near Calais on 18 October.\n\nAbdulfatah Hamdallah, from Sudan, died while trying to row to the UK in August.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Woolworths closed its doors for good in 2008, owing £385m\n\nA tweet announcing the relaunch of UK High Street retailer Woolworths has gone viral, despite being fake.\n\nThe Twitter account @UKWoolworths, which has now been deleted, misspelled the shop's name.\n\nAnd it linked to a website that was not active and had, BBC News has learned, been registered only hours earlier.\n\nMetro, which appears to have been the first mainstream media outlet to report the fake news, has now corrected its story.\n\nVery, the company that owns the local rights to the Woolworths brand, confirmed it was a hoax.\n\n\"We own the Woolworths trademark in the UK,\" a spokesman told BBC News.\n\n\"The Twitter account UKWoolworths is not connected to the Very group.\"\n\nThe original tweet read: \"Here to save 2020.\n\n\"Woolworths is coming back to your High Street, as a physical store.\n\n\"A couple of legal things to get sorted but we're full steam ahead at Woolworths HQ.\n\n\"We want to get this right, so we need your help.\n\n\"What do you want at your UK #YourWoolworths?\"\n\nMetro appears to have been the first mainstream media outlet to report the fake news\n\nRay Walsh, scam expert at virtual private network (VPN) company ProPrivacy, said: \"It's not unsurprising that huge numbers of people around the UK have fallen for fake news surrounding the reopening of Woolworths.\n\n\"The brand was a much-loved part of UK shopping history.\n\n\"And many have fond memories of the retailer.\n\n\"But the Twitter account spreading the hoax was full of typos and spelling mistakes.\n\n\"This alone should have been enough to make it obvious that something extremely fishy was going on.\n\n\"The important take away from all of this is how social engineering and nostalgia can be used to trick people.\n\n\"And it serves as an important reminder of why people need to think carefully when using the internet to avoid falling for scams and phishing attacks.\"\n\nThe Twitter account @UKWoolworths, which now has more than 4,000 followers, misspelled the shop's name\n\nWoolworths closed its doors for good in 2008, owing £385m.\n\nThe shops, famous for their Pic'n'Mix sweets, also sold kitchen and garden equipment and toys.\n\nOne of the UK's oldest chains it had 815 stores, many of which were taken over by shops such as Wilko and Poundland.\n\nThe Woolworths name remains in use in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as an unrelated retail brand.\n\nThis was the fake news story 2020 needed - and it might seem less important than harmful coronavirus conspiracy theories or political disinformation, which have spread on wildfire on social media in recent months.\n\nBut it does teach us some important lessons about how and why disinformation spreads on social media.\n\nWe tend to share posts that we want to be true or that confirm our biases - who isn't missing Woolworth's pic'n'mix, especially during a pandemic?\n\nThat partly explains why the tweet from the fake Woolworth's account - which kept spelling the name of the chain wrong - went so viral.\n\nBut it also highlights the need for verification - and the role of the media in amplifying disinformation.\n\nA quick ring around would have confirmed that Woolworth's is not re-opening - but that did not stop a number of news outlets covering this fake Twitter account.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: 'We don't want to see children going hungry'\n\nBoris Johnson has defended his refusal to extend free school meals for children in England over the half-term holiday, saying he was \"very proud\" of the government's support so far.\n\n\"I totally understand the issue of holiday hunger,\" he said. \"The debate is, how do you deal with it.\"\n\nHe said the government will \"do everything in our power to make sure that no kid, no child goes hungry\".\n\nPressure has risen on the PM, including from his own MPs, to rethink the issue.\n\nMr Johnson also said he had not spoken to Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford - who has been leading a high-profile campaign to extend free school meals into the holidays - since the summer.\n\nThe UK government extended free school meals to eligible children during the Easter holidays earlier this year and, after Rashford's campaigning, did the same for the summer holiday.\n\nBut it has refused to do so again. A petition created by the England striker calling for provision to continue in the holidays had gained more than 900,000 signatures by Monday evening.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have already introduced food voucher schemes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marcus Rashford and his mother Melanie helped out at FareShare Greater Manchester\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a hospital in Reading to launch a review of hospital food, Mr Johnson said \"I totally salute and understand\" where Rashford was coming from.\n\nBut he said the government was supporting families with a Universal Credit increase of £20 a week, introduced in April.\n\nThe government also said it gave £63m to councils - first announced in June - to help people who are struggling to afford food and essentials.\n\nHowever, the Local Government Association said this funding was intended to be spent before the end of September and had been \"outstripped\" by demand.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We are very proud of the support we have given, I have said repeatedly throughout this crisis that the government will support families and businesses, jobs and livelihoods, across the country.\n\n\"We're going to continue to do that.\n\n\"We don't want to see children going hungry this winter, this Christmas, certainly not as a result of any inattention by this government - and you are not going to see that.\"\n\nDowning Street doesn't want to do a U-turn; at least not in too obvious a fashion.\n\nSo it isn't stumping up the cash to extend holiday food vouchers in England.\n\nBut listen carefully to Boris Johnson and it's clear that he might stump up cash in other ways, for pretty much the same purpose.\n\nSo, for example, could councils be given further funds to help struggling families?\n\nThen ministers can try and argue that they're simply carrying on with an existing policy that they believe is more effective.\n\nThe PM was at pains today to show that he both recognises and cares about this issue.\n\nBut some Tories fear that, because of cack-handed communications, Downing Street lost the PR battle on compassion days ago.\n\nOne mother, Nicola Palmer from Leicestershire, said the meal vouchers had been an \"absolute lifeline\" for her family during the Easter and summer holidays.\n\nShe receives Universal Credit but said that, after paying bills, she and her partner and their two children \"would be lucky\" to have £40 a month to live on.\n\n\"Me and my partner have been disabled. I've been disabled since 2017 with multiple sclerosis. My partner has been disabled for a lot longer than that with Crohn's disease and a few other health issues,\" she said.\n\nMs Palmer said the vouchers helped her and her partner feed their two children when they were struggling with money\n\nShe said one day last week - which was their half-term - she and her partner had no dinner at all, to make sure the children could eat.\n\n\"Yes, we are in receipt of Universal Credit, however due to our low income and having to pay for bills as well as trying to put a meal on the table, the very slight increase on this has not made any difference for us whatsoever.\"\n\nLucy Houghton, 36, from Norfolk, also relies on free school meal vouchers and said there are times she will not eat so her children can.\n\n\"It's going to be tough this week,\" she said.\n\n\"It's all very well businesses offering free food, but I'm in a rural location and would need fuel to get there. And it's humiliating. I hate asking for help from anybody and I know I'm not alone in that.\"\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said the government had been \"incredibly generous\" during the pandemic, with support such as wage subsidies, increases to benefits and business rates relief.\n\nHe added: \"If there is still need or if this Covid crisis continues to kick in and more lockdowns happen, of course the government will look at other alternatives, or other solutions. We're not going to sit there in a static environment.\"\n\nLabour said Mr Johnson's \"warm words\" would \"do nothing\" for the children at risk of going hungry this week.\n\n\"Labour will not not give up on the children and families let down by this government, and we will hold the prime minister to his word, forcing another vote in Parliament if necessary,\" said shadow education secretary Kate Green.\n\nRashford's campaign has led to businesses including fish and chip shops, pubs, restaurants and cafes promising to dish out free food to eligible children over half-term, which began on Monday in many areas.\n\nAnd Manchester United says it will distribute 5,000 meals - cooked at the Old Trafford kitchen facilities - to children eligible for free school meals across Greater Manchester.\n\nSome charities have set up websites and maps allowing parents to search for places nearby providing free meals.\n\nDavid Pickard, head of community operations at Midland Mencap, said he expected \"hundreds\" of families to access free lunches from its community centre in Birmingham this week.\n\nMother-of-three Aisha, who spoke to a reporter as she collected food donations from a community centre in Birmingham, said: \"I am usually really good with my budget. Their father, who I'm divorced from, usually pays for their uniforms but he got ill and he couldn't work, so I bought them this time.\n\n\"But the £200 I used came from money I use to pay my bills, because the school said if I brought in the receipts I could get some help from them.\n\n\"I did that - but it's been seven or eight weeks now, and I haven't heard anything back from the school, so I'm struggling.\"\n\nSome councils - including several Tory-run local authorities - have promised to supply meal vouchers or food parcels for children facing hardship.\n\nCafe staff in Liverpool prepare sandwich bags for children, as businesses offer to help\n\nLast week, Conservative MPs voted against Labour's attempt to extend free school meals by 322 votes to 261, with five Tory MPs rebelling and voting for Labour's motion.\n\nStuart Anderson, Tory MP for Wolverhampton South West, said he had received threats and his office had been vandalised after he opposed the plan to offer free school meals in the holidays.\n\nChildren of all ages living in households on income-related benefits may be eligible for free school meals.\n\nIn England, about 1.4 million children qualified for free school meals in January 2020 - about 17.3% of state-educated pupils.\n\nAnalysis by the Food Foundation estimates a further 900,000 children in England may have sought free school meals since the start of the pandemic.", "Plastic surgeons fear there will be a big increase in injuries from DIY firework displays this November.\n\nPublic events have been cancelled due to Covid, meaning many people may decide to host their own Diwali and bonfire night displays at home.\n\nMedics who do reconstructive surgery and deal with hand and burn injuries say firework-related injuries have become an all-too-familiar sight.\n\nThey are urging people to think twice before buying fireworks.\n\nA survey of 1,200 British adults conducted on behalf of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), found 37% were considering putting on a display at home.\n\nMost injuries are caused by incorrect firework use, poor handling of fireworks, and use of petrol or other accelerants to light bonfires.\n\nAlong with burns, eye and hand injuries are especially common.\n\nAnd alcohol consumption and fireworks can be a lethal combination, say medics.\n\nThey say the potential risk is too high and unnecessary at this time when the NHS is already under pressure dealing with a backlog of work due to Covid.\n\nMark Henley, consultant plastic surgeon and president of BAPRAS, said: \"Every November, plastic surgeons across the UK witness serious injuries caused by fireworks, with many patients requiring multiple rounds of complex reconstructive surgery.\n\n\"With the NHS stretched to capacity due to Covid-19 and a huge backlog for surgical procedures, we simply cannot afford for an increase in preventable injuries, and urge people to think twice before purchasing fireworks for personal use.\"\n\nLondon Fire Brigade has also called on people to \"think twice\" about holding a firework display or building a garden bonfire.\n\nThe brigade's assistant commissioner for fire safety, Paul Jennings, said: \"Think about your neighbours, particularly older people or those who are self-isolating, pets and of course those of us in the emergency services.\n\n\"Despite our warning, if you do choose to have your own display, never drink alcohol and set off fireworks, keep fireworks in a closed metal box and only ever buy ones which carry the CE mark.\"\n\n\"Bonfires should be clear of buildings, sheds, fences and hedges. Bonfires in your back garden can especially be dangerous.\n\n\"This time of year is usually one of the busiest for firefighters and control officers, and we also need to support our NHS colleagues, so please help us by keeping yourself safe.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baby clothes have been listed as essential and can now be sold in supermarkets\n\nBaby clothes have been listed as essential items that should go on sale in supermarkets during Wales' lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government has also said customers should be able to ask for non-essential items in exceptional circumstances.\n\nBut ministers say the principle of restricting non-essential goods will stay until lockdown ends on 9 November.\n\nPlaid said it showed building public trust was vital while the Conservatives called the rules \"absolute madness\".\n\nThe new guidance, issued after meetings with businesses and trade unions, follows a backlash after supermarkets closed off sections of their shops selling clothes and other items.\n\nEarlier, business groups had appealed for customers to be \"trusted to make their own decisions\" on what was essential to them.\n\nIn a statement, the Welsh Government said it had \"positive discussions\" and that it had \"clarified that a sensible system should be introduced whereby customers can ask to buy non-essential items by exception under the regulations\".\n\nProducts deemed non-essential are being covered up in stores\n\n\"We are hopeful this provides a workable solution for retailers and customers,\" it said.\n\n\"However, we cannot move away from the central principle that retailers must restrict the sale of non-essential goods for the duration of the firebreak.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with the sector and would stress that these restrictions are in place to stop the spread of coronavirus and save lives.\n\n\"We are asking the public to continue to support the effort by restricting unnecessary journeys and shopping .\"\n\nHome electrical items such as irons are not being sold in supermarkets\n\nMinisters issued a list that \"we consider that the regulations allow\" to be sold in supermarkets:\n\nInitially, the Welsh Government said supermarkets and department stores should close off sections of their stores, including clothing aisles.\n\nOfficials say there will be further discussions with supermarkets over coming days on how to implement the changes.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, retailers made their own proposals to \"resolve confusion\" over sales of non-essential items during Wales' lockdown.\n\nStores said such items could remain on shelves and not be cordoned off, with signs instead advising customers to put off non-essential purchases.\n\n\"The final liability ought to rest with the customer,\" retailers said.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the fallout should remind the Welsh Government of the importance of \"building public trust\".\n\nThe Welsh Conservative leader Paul Davies has called for the Senedd to be recalled to discuss the rules.", "Baroness Lawrence says \"decades of structural injustice\" have increased Covid rates among BAME communities\n\nCovid-19 has \"thrived\" among black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) communities because of structural race discrimination, a Labour report says.\n\nIts author, Baroness Lawrence, said these groups were \"over-exposed\" and faced \"barriers\" to healthcare.\n\nBAME people had also been scapegoated for Covid's spread, she added.\n\nBut a government adviser said last week that \"structural racism\" was not in itself a \"reasonable explanation\" for rates differing between ethnic groups.\n\nDr Raghib Ali also suggested that focusing on other factors like people's jobs and housing conditions would help more people.\n\nAnd Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch said higher transmission rates among BAME groups appeared to be down to \"a range of socio-economic and geographical factors\", including exposure at work, population density and household composition, as well as pre-existing health conditions.\n\nGovernment analysis published in August found people of Bangladeshi ethnicity had about twice as high a risk of death from Covid-19 as white British people.\n\nPeople of Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, other Asian, black Caribbean and other black ethnicity had between a 10% and 50% higher risk of death when compared with white British people.\n\nIn her report, Baroness Lawrence - whose 18-year-old son Stephen was murdered in a racially motivated attack in 1993 - wrote: \"Black, Asian and minority ethnic people have been over-exposed, under-protected, stigmatised and overlooked during this pandemic - and this has been generations in the making.\n\n\"The impact of Covid is not random, but foreseeable and inevitable, the consequence of decades of structural injustice, inequality and discrimination that blights our society.\"\n\nThe report said BAME workers were more likely than white people to work in \"frontline\" jobs and come into contact with coronavirus.\n\nWhen accessing healthcare, there was a \"lack of cultural and language-appropriate communication\", with patients \"not being taken seriously when presenting with symptoms\", it added.\n\nBAME people were also \"under-represented across the senior leadership of the NHS\".\n\nBaroness Lawrence, whose report was commissioned by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in April, said BAME groups had \"also been subject to disgraceful racism as some have sought to blame different communities for the spread of the virus\".\n\nShe asked ministers to outline a plan to tackle a rise in hate crime, with party leaders \"issuing a joint statement condemning attempts to pit communities against one another\".\n\n\"Covid-19 has thrived on inequalities that have long scarred British society,\" Baroness Lawrence, a Labour peer since 2013, said.\n\nA Public Health England report published in June said factors such as racism and health inequality may have contributed to an increased risk of BAME communities catching and dying from Covid-19.\n\nDr Ali said last week that considerations such as occupation, living in crowded housing and having a pre-existing condition explained part of the difference.\n\nHowever, Ms Badenoch said the risks \"remained unexplained for some groups\" and promised to report back to MPs at the end of the next quarter with the latest evidence.\n\nA government spokesperson said that \"many of the factors identified in the [Labour] report affect non-ethnic groups as well\".\n\nIt was important to \"identify the root causes of the disparities we're seeing and not assume they are evidence of discrimination or unfair treatment in public services like the NHS\", they also said.", "Mohammed Agha told the inquiry he had worked at more than 30 concerts at the arena\n\nSuicide bomber Salman Abedi was smiling as he walked to his death and murdered 22 bystanders by detonating his home-made bomb, a public inquiry has heard.\n\nAbedi, 22, was on his mobile phone as he made his \"final walk\" after waiting for crowds to emerge at the end of a concert at Manchester Arena in 2017.\n\nSeconds later he detonated his device packed with 3,000 nuts and bolts.\n\nShowsec security guard Mohammed Agha told the inquiry he was not initially suspicious of Abedi.\n\nMr Agha had seen Abedi outside the Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017, dressed in black and carrying a big, bulky rucksack, three times earlier that night, but he did not think him suspicious until minutes before the bombing when he agreed it \"crossed his mind\" Abedi might be a suicide bomber.\n\nHe denied he \"fobbed off\" a member of the public, Christopher Wild, who came to him to report his suspicions about Abedi at about 22:15 BST.\n\nFifteen minutes later Abedi left his position at the back of the City Room, a CCTV \"blind spot\", to detonate his device.\n\nPaul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry said: \"How did the man seem to be at that stage as he made that final walk?\"\n\nMr Agha replied: \"He was on the phone, mobile phone, he was smiling.\"\n\nMr Agha said he had passed on Mr Wild's comments about Abedi to a colleague, Kyle Lawler, at 22:25, some eight minutes after Mr Wild had first raised his concerns.\n\nTop row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nMr Agha, aged 19 at the time and being paid the minimum wage of £7.90 an hour, said that night his job was to stand by a fire exit.\n\nHe had no radio and said if he left his post, except for an emergency, he might lose his job.\n\nFamilies of some of the victims wiped away tears and others shook their heads as the witness continued his evidence.\n\nMr Agha said he tried but failed to attract the attention of his boss, standing 30 metres away across the room, by raising his hand.\n\nWhen Mr Lawler passed by him, he spoke to the fellow Showsec steward, who had a radio, in order to report what Mr Wild had said to his superiors in the control room.\n\nAs he and Mr Lawler looked at Abedi, he described the bomber as, \"kind of looking nervous, or kind of looking fidgety. He was playing with his hands\".\n\nMr Greaney asked the witness if he thought one possibility was that the suspicious man with the backpack might be a suicide bomber.\n\nMr Agha replied: \"Not, not like, I did think about it, but it was not fully in my head.\"\n\nMr Greaney continued: \"Do you agree, it did cross your mind that this man might be a bomber?\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson spoke to BBC Breakfast's Louise Minchin about his eldest brother's death from coronavirus.\n\nThe politician's brother Bill died in mid-October in hospital.\n\nLiverpool is in tier three of the new lockdown system.", "More children are missing out on their education, as the rate of attendance falls across England's schools.\n\nThe percentage of pupils attending primary and secondary schools fell to 86% last week down from 89% the previous week, government data shows.\n\nThe Northern Powerhouse, a group working to redress North-South economic imbalance, says pupils in the North face the most disruption over Covid-19.\n\nThe government said some pupils were self-isolating \"as we would expect\".\n\nThe Department for Education said 55% of secondaries and 20% of primaries in England reported having one or more pupils self-isolating due to potential contact with a case of coronavirus in the school.\n\nThis is up from 46% and 16% respectively on the previous week.\n\nOverall attendance at primary school fell from 92% in the week ending 15 October to 90% in the week ending 22 October.\n\nBut the drop on the previous week's attendance was most significant in secondary schools, falling from 87% to 83%.\n\nIf you are a parent tell us how your child has experienced school disruption:\n\nHowever, \"the vast majority of these schools remain open to most pupils\", the DfE said.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the school leaders' union ASCL, said the figures painted a \"grim picture of the increasingly challenging picture facing schools\".\n\nAs attendance rates fall, there are growing concerns that pupils in the north of England are missing more school than their peers in other parts of the country.\n\nAnalysis from the North West Association of the Directors of Children's Services, seen exclusively by the BBC, reveals the pressures.\n\nIn mid-October Bury, Knowsley, Liverpool and Manchester all had more than 40% of schools with confirmed cases - some of these were among teachers.\n\nAccording to the report, which is based on a snapshot of 16 October, there were 710 teachers with a positive test for coronavirus in the North West - this was 35% of the total of confirmed cases among teachers across England on that day.\n\nThe Northern Powerhouse wants next year's exams ditched in favour of coursework, saying pupils in the north of England had been particularly badly affected by disruption to their schooling.\n\nBut the government says exams are \"the fairest way\" of judging performance and ministers have said exams will go ahead in summer 2021, with a three-week delay.\n\nAbout eight million pupils in England were sent home in March\n\nIt pointed out that some areas in the North had attendance rates for secondary school as low as 61%, whereas others in the South were close to the usual national figure of 95%.\n\nIt added: \"We appreciate the government's desire to try and keep things as normal as possible, but this is now unrealistic in many northern communities.\n\n\"We urge the government to commit to continuous assessment as it is a fairer alternative to the proposed examination plan.\"\n\nThe government is consulting on contingency measures to manage any disruption to GCSEs, A-levels and BTecs in 2021, and has said it will produce plans before Christmas.\n\nA DfE spokesperson said: \"Exams are the fairest way of judging a student's performance, which is why they will go ahead next year, underpinned by contingency measures developed in partnership with the sector.\n\n\"Over the coming weeks we will jointly identify any risks to exams and the measures needed to address potential disruption, with fairness for students continuing to be our priority.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that schools had plans in place to deliver remote education for self-isolating pupils and the government was providing an initial additional allocation of 150,000 devices for eligible children.\n\nThe CEO of Ormiston Academy Trust, Nick Hudson, urged the government to publish data on attendance broken down by local authority, amid concern that pupils in the worst-affected areas might be falling further behind.\n\n\"To be fair to young people the data needs to be transparent, then we can ensure that we put as much equity into the system, especially those sitting exams,\" he said.\n\n\"If we experience the same levels of staff absence as we have in the first half-term between now and the end of term, it would be very difficult to ensure consistent education for all of our pupils in all of our schools - that would mean looking at the possibility of rotas.\"", "Niyad Farah was punched to the ground and dragged into a doorway during the attack\n\nPolice investigating a serious racist attack after apologising for failures in an earlier inquiry have been passed mobile phone video of the incident.\n\nBBC Newsnight understands the footage shows two attackers, one of whom makes what seem to be monkey chants directed at three women in London.\n\nThe women said officers in the initial investigation made racist assumptions about them, hampering the inquiry.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police denies this, but said it is reviewing its work.\n\nLast week Newsnight revealed serious failings in the police investigation into the attack on the three women, all of Somali descent, on 22 December last year.\n\nPolice closed the case in April, saying they had no CCTV evidence or leads.\n\nBut Newsnight found that officers failed to obtain CCTV from nearby shops or take witness statements, even from the victims, for nearly two weeks after the attack.\n\nBy the time the police tried to recover security camera footage from shops in Kilburn Lane in early January, it had been recycled - and overwritten by new material.\n\nThe Met reopened the case last week and apologised to the women. A source close to the investigation said the Met now has 21 lines of enquiry into the unsolved hate crime.\n\nThe former chief constable of Surrey Police, Bob Quick, told the programme the Met's response had been \"woeful\".\n\nNiyad Farah, 38, was kicked unconscious in the attack and taken to St Mary's hospital, Paddington for treatment. It was categorised as racially motivated GBH with intent - a very serious hate crime.\n\nMs Farah told Newsnight that one officer asked her if she had been \"buying anything\" from the attackers. She believes he was implying they were buying drugs and knew the men.\n\nShe said she thought the officer believed \"it was almost impossible for a racist attack to happen in that area\".\n\nThe Met denies racist assumptions were made and says it accepted from a very early stage this was a vicious attack by strangers. But in response to Newsnight's investigation it apologised for failing the women.\n\nIn a statement, the Met admitted the incident \"should have been escalated and prioritised at an earlier stage\" adding \"there was a delay in the necessary follow-up enquiries being made just after the incident, and this hindered the subsequent investigation\".\n\n\"This shouldn't have happened, and we are sorry for letting the victims in this case down. This was an appalling attack which should have been investigated with greater urgency,\" the force said.\n\nThe Met has also referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nIt confirmed it has received new information relating to the attack.", "Supermarket staff say they are targets for customers venting their frustration over the rules\n\nFirebreak shopping rules are causing \"uncertainty, fear and anxiety\", according to supermarket workers.\n\nFilco director Matthew Hunt said he has had no information from the government and \"found out on Facebook\".\n\nAnd one supermarket worker said staff are facing \"abuse and intimidation\".\n\nThe Welsh Government will publish revised guidance later over its ban on the sale of non-essential items in supermarkets during the 17-day lockdown.\n\nMr Hunt told Radio Wales Breakfast: \"We never had any communication from any of the governmental bodies before this was introduced.\n\n\"As yet, we've still yet to have anything concrete that we can work with.\"\n\nHe added he was worried about the pressure staff members may feel about deciding what is essential.\n\n\"This is only a two-week period, by the time you try and unravel the confusion that is out there, we'll be out the end of this one,\" he said.\n\nA supermarket worker called Jane told Radio Wales she felt anxious going into work.\n\n\"You don't know what you're going to face,\" she said.\n\n\"It is causing a lot of frustration with customers. A couple have behaved really awfully - we had one gentleman come in with no mask, filming the store, shouting abuse, telling us we were all robots for the government.\n\n\"We get general frustration from other customers who wanted to buy something for the home and can't. A lot of people tend to mutter, trying to provoke a reaction.\"\n\nShe added she had been \"personally intimidated by a customer who's really got in my face and invaded my personal space\" and some customers had been removed from the store.\n\n\"It certainly isn't right that shop workers should have to put up with that kind of behaviour.\n\n\"We've been going to work all the way through the pandemic to keep the country fed and abuse shouldn't be part of our job at all.\"\n\nThe toy aisle at Tesco on Western Avenue in Cardiff has been blocked off\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething told Monday's coronavirus press briefing that supermarkets should use their discretion over the sale of non-essential items.\n\nJane, from Mold in Flintshire, said her store had needed to use flexibility when a customer was in crisis at the weekend.\n\n\"They needed baby clothing - they'd fled from a bad situation and they weren't able to bring everything that they needed for their baby, so we allowed them to purchase what they needed,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no way you could have said no to that person.\"\n\nBut she added the decision should not be made by supermarket staff.\n\n\"It shouldn't be down to the responsibility of the shop worker to enforce the new arrangements.\n\n\"It should be up to the public to follow the rules...we need a clear message of what we should say to them.\"", "There are now 366 cases linked to outbreaks at the three general hospitals and two community hospitals\n\nAnother 12 deaths have been linked to hospital infections in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board area, bringing the total so far to 69.\n\nThe deaths have happened at its three general hospitals in Llantrisant, Merthyr Tydfil and Bridgend.\n\nIt comes as official figures report another 47 deaths in Wales involving Covid-19 registered in the latest week.\n\nThis is the highest weekly figure since mid-May reported by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nIt is 10 more deaths than reported the week before.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said there were now 366 cases linked to outbreaks at the three general hospitals and two community hospitals in Rhondda and Maesteg.\n\nDeaths included in the outbreaks are patients whose deaths are associated with the virus, not necessarily directly due to Covid-19.\n\nThere have now been 47 deaths at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, 11 at the Prince Charles Hospital and 11 at the Princess of Wales Hospital.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has the ninth highest total death rate per 100,000 people involving Covid-19 across England or Wales, with a total of 353 deaths registered so far in the pandemic.\n\nAnalysis by the BBC shows the area now also has one of the fastest-rising case rates in the UK for Covid-19 infections, based on positive results.\n\nHealth board medical director Nick Lyons said: \"Infection rates continue to rise at a concerning rate in our communities.\n\n\"It is up to all of us as individuals to take seriously our responsibilities and to adhere to the restrictions of the 17-day lockdown period. By doing this, you will be helping us to get this virus under control and protect everyone, including the most vulnerable, in our communities.\"\n\nConservative health spokesman in the Senedd, Andrew RT Davies, who repeated his call for an inquiry into hospital-acquired infections, called for a \"serious focus\" on the issue.\n\n\"Deaths linked to hospital-acquired Covid infections is turning into a real scandal in the second wave and my deepest sympathies go to the families of those who've tragically died,\" he said.\n\nThe separate ONS figures, covering the week ending 16 October, reveal 15 deaths happened in hospitals in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg area, 10 in Aneurin Bevan, five each in Betsi Cadwaladr and Cardiff and Vale and three in Swansea Bay.\n\nThere is a time lag in the ONS figures being published, compared to the daily Public Health Wales bulletin, to allow for deaths to be registered.\n\nBut the ONS also gives deaths in care homes, hospices and people's own homes, as well as hospitals.\n\nTen of the hospital deaths involved patients from Rhondda Cynon Taf. Across England and Wales, Liverpool saw the most deaths in hospital for this week with 29.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, are above the five-year average in Wales.\n\nComparing with the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths rose to 688 in the latest week, which was 58 deaths higher than the five-year average.", "It is views such as this on a route to the top of Snowdon that attracts hundreds of thousands of people to visit north Wales\n\nThe tourism industry in Wales needs urgent clarity on rules after the national Covid firebreak lockdown ends, say some of its leaders.\n\nEmotions in the sector are turning from \"anxiety to anger\" in some parts of the country, warned one industry insider.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has said there would be guidance at least a week in advance on what comes next.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it met a tourism taskforce \"on a weekly basis\" to work with the industry.\n\nBut Jim Jones, the managing director of North Wales Tourism, said the 1,000 members he represents needed to know \"a month ago\".\n\nHe said most of north Wales had already been put under hyper-local lockdown, and extending the measures to the national firebreak was \"draconian\".\n\n\"The first minister talks about the short, sharp shock - we're talking about the long, sharp shock to our economy,\" Mr Jones said.\n\n\"The current lockdown is really unfair for business.\n\n\"I've always said right from day one 'yes, absolutely we should be protecting lives' - but at the same time we should be protecting people's livelihoods.\"\n\nAutumn in the Conwy Valley may be cooler - but its colours are usually a visitor magnet\n\nHe said the economic impact was being felt across the whole of the hospitality sector in the region, including the supply chain behind the tourism industry.\n\n\"We're already hearing of redundancies, or job losses, and questions of whether businesses will open,\" Mr Jones continued.\n\n\"It's the uncertainty going forward - and the anxiety which is now turning to anger.\n\n\"It's the lack of information, the lack of engagement that we are having at this moment in time with Welsh Government and business.\n\n\"We are the last to find out, yet we're the ones dealing with the brunt of it all.\"\n\nDemonstrators gathered on Llandudno's prom on Sunday over Covid restrictions\n\nConcerns about the lockdown measures led to a protest over the weekend in Llandudno, one of the main holiday destinations on the north Wales coast.\n\nNorth Wales Tourism said the sector was worth more than £3bn alone to the region every year.\n\nAcross Wales, the industry was worth an estimated £6.3bn in spending by visitors in 2018, according to Welsh Government figures.\n\nIt also employed more than 132,000 people - nearly one-in-10 of the Welsh workforce.\n\nAnglesey glamour-camping entrepreneur Victoria Roberts said she had already bitten the bullet and called it a year for her glamping sites.\n\n\"I know it's October, but we keep getting calls about bookings - there's still a market out there,\" she said.\n\nBut with the firebreak in place, she said she and others in similar businesses across the island were resigned to staying shut until next year.\n\nShe also runs another holiday accommodation business but said she did not know where she stands after the firebreak ends on 9 November.\n\n\"Can I take bookings? Will the travel restrictions still be in place? What about the rule-of-six - will that still be in place?\" she asked.\n\nAnglesey was one of the few places in north Wales to avoid local lockdown - but it is now part of the Wales firebreak lockdown\n\nAs co-chairman of the island's own tourism association, she said other businesses were in the same situation.\n\n\"People just need to know - clear direction and back it up with reasons why,\" she added.\n\n\"We need to know by the end of the week. We need to know what the plan is and how it will pan out - and what the next step will be.\n\n\"Will we be potentially looking at other firebreakers in the new year?\"\n\nMr Gething told Monday's coronavirus briefing that discussions would continue with stakeholders across industries such as tourism and retail over the course of the week.\n\n\"There are conversations taking place today, tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday and beyond, and we'll then expect the Cabinet to come together and agree a set of rules,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to be in a position to give people at least a week or so to understand the new rules that are going to be in place.\"\n\nA Welsh Government official added that \"engagement with the industry has been vital during the course of the pandemic\" and, in addition to weekly meetings, a news bulletin in Wales was sent to 61,000 tourism businesses.\n\n\"Tourism is extremely important to our economy and we know this is an incredibly challenging time for businesses,\" they added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twenty seven people are waiting to be admitted to Antrim Area Hospital\n\nAntrim Area Hospital has warned it is \"operating beyond capacity\" with 27 sick patients awaiting admission.\n\nPatients have been asked by the Northern Health Trust not to attend the hospital's emergency department unless they require urgent medical care.\n\nThe trust said they were clearly \"in the midst of the second Covid surge\" with many very ill in-patients.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) and Southern Health Trust also said they were \"extremely busy\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland reported a higher daily number of Covid hospital inpatients, at 342, than the previous 8 April peak, when the number hit 322.\n\nThe NIAS asked for patience on Monday evening.\n\n\"We will prioritise calls to provide the quickest response to the most seriously ill or injured,\" it said.\n\nIn a social media post, the Southern Health Trust said: \"Please only attend if you need emergency treatment, non urgent cases will have a long wait time.\"\n\nAltnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry has reached a point where its critical care surge plan has been triggered.\n\nIn a statement, the Western Trust confirmed: \"As numbers increase, we increase capacity as per our critical care surge plan up to 18 beds.\"\n\nMeanwhile, there has been a outbreak of Covid cases in a ward at the Ulster Hospital.\n\nTwo patients and seven staff members in its coronary care ward have tested positive for Covid-19 at the hospital in Dundonald, the South Eastern Trust confirmed.\n\nNine other patients in ward 16 are self isolating and the ward has been closed to further admissions and visitors.\n\nThe South Eastern Trust said staff members who have tested positive for the virus are self-isolating at home.\n\nIt added that additional measures are in place to limit further spread.\n\n\"We would like to reassure all patients and members of the public attending the Ulster Hospital that it is safe to do so,\" the South Eastern Trust said, in a statement.\n\n\"Relatives of patients in ward 16 should contact the ward directly if they have any queries.\"\n\nThe Department of Health in Northern Ireland reported five further Covid-19 related deaths on Monday, bringing its total to 658.\n\nThere were 727 further positive cases, with the total number of cases now 34,832.\n\nThree further deaths were recorded in the Republic of Ireland on Monday, with 939 newly confirmed cases of the virus.", "Doctors say Covid-19 is now rampant in the refugee camps of Idlib, north-west Syria.\n\nThe number of positive coronavirus cases rose tenfold in this region last month.\n\nAid agencies say that due to a lack of testing, the real figure is expected to be much higher.\n\nThe BBC's Darren Conway gained rare access to the camps.", "Many parents involved in family court hearings are having to participate by phone and some say they cannot follow what is happening, according to a survey. These hearings sometimes determine the future of their children, whether they are taken into care, which parent they live with. Since lockdown eased the Family Court has been holding remote or hybrid hearings, where only a handful of people are in court and the others join by phone or video link.\n\nThis summer, Elizabeth, not her real name, took part in a family court hearing by phone. For years her ex-partner had argued their two sons should live with him - but their permanent home had always been with her. This time, to her shock, the judge decided the two boys should move.\n\n\"I wasn't able to speak to my barrister during the hearing,\" she said. \"My phone line was used up listening to the court.\"\n\nShe believes it would have been different if she had been able to appear in person, to stand in court before the judge.\n\n\"A million per cent. A lot of communication is more than just hearing someone over the telephone - it's visual, body language.\"\n\nWe can't see the evidence in family courts and no judgment has been published in Elizabeth's case - so we don't know why the judge made that decision, or whether appearing in person would have made a difference,\n\nBut her account worries Sir Andrew MacFarlane, the most senior judge in the Family Court.\n\n\"A major part of being a family judge is to empathise with the human beings at the centre of the case,\" he says. \"And it's very difficult to do that even across a video link, very hard over a phone.\"\n\nSince lockdown, the family courts have ensured social distancing by having few people in court and allowing others to join by virtual link. A survey published by the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory suggests most professionals, including lawyers and judges, believe the system is working relatively smoothly.\n\nHowever, most of the parents who took part raised concerns. Most said they had had to participate via phone, like Elizabeth, and some said they couldn't follow what was going on in the hearing.\n\nMore than 1,100 professionals were contacted - 132 family members.\n\nLisa Harker, director of the observatory, said parents reported being unable to fully participate in hearings, sometimes the technology broke down and at other times people had no support. She was worried about those who joined from home, and were left alone to absorb the court's decision - which could be to take away their child forever.\n\nProf Andy Bilson, who interviewed many of the parents, said one mother had to phone in to a hearing about her child from a psychiatric hospital. \"The situation of doing hearings by telephone is not just,\" he said.\n\nSir Andrew believes the situation has been improving recently, and that for the most significant hearings parents are now able to appear before a judge. However he is concerned by some of the accounts logged by the observatory report, and says he will be working with the judiciary to find solutions.\n\nMeanwhile the workload of the family courts has been growing. Cafcass, the court service, reported record numbers of child cases in England for September. In that month, there were 5,761 new cases (12.6% or 644 cases more cases than September 2019).\n\nMost of these (4,262) were so-called private law, where parents cannot agree over their children, like Elizabeth's dispute with her ex-partner.\n\nI asked Sir Andrew if he knew why these numbers were rising. He explained it was partly because of a backlog in the system, partly because existing child arrangements for visits and residence had broken down, but also because of a rise in the number of domestic abuse cases.\n\n\"Sadly the number of domestic abuse cases has gone up, and there will be a necessary correlation in applications to protect children in those sad cases.\"\n\nElizabeth is trying to appeal against the judge's decision, but for now has no money to pay lawyers. She believes the process has been deeply unfair. Over the summer, just before her hearing, there was a much publicised libel case, which saw actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard give evidence to the High Court after Depp took legal action against the Sun newspaper.\n\n\"Johnny Depp can go to a court hearing in person, with Amber Heard, and be socially distanced, because they're celebrities and have money. In the family courts we're treated with contempt, deprived of our rights.\"", "Households in Newcastle-under-Lyme and elsewhere in Staffordshire would not be able to mix indoors\n\nStaffordshire will move to tier two restrictions in a bid to stem the rise of Covid infections, the council says.\n\nUp to Saturday, the seven-day infection rate was 239 per 100,000, said the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).\n\nDudley is also to enter tier two measures - or the high tier - by the end of the week.\n\nCouncil leader Patrick Harley said to expect the tier to come into force in the early hours on Thursday.\n\nIn Staffordshire, new measures could be in place this weekend but a date is still to be confirmed, the county council stated.\n\nThe government is to make a formal decision on Wednesday.\n\nTier two (high) restrictions came into force in Stoke-on-Trent on Saturday.\n\nThe county council had lobbied the government to remain in tier one last week, but the soaring infection rate across all areas appeared to have prompted a rethink, LDRS said.\n\nLatest Public Health England figures show there have been 10,768 cases since the start of the pandemic in the county.\n\nWith some of the highest infection rates in the West Midlands, the surprise is not so much that Staffordshire is entering tier two, more that it had not done so already.\n\nMuch like Dudley, which is also expected to enter tier two this week, local politicians had been hoping to remain in tier one, but the reality of rates in excess of 200 cases per 100,000 across the piece meant that was not going to be possible.\n\nTiers, however, are not simply decided by infection rates and the pressure on the Royal Stoke University Hospital will have influenced decision making.\n\nThe trust, which is a trauma centre, serves a large community not just in Staffordshire, but across the wider region.\n\nSouth Staffordshire had the highest rate in the county as of Saturday, with 349 per 100,000, while Cannock Chase and Newcastle borough had the second and third highest - 290 and 263 respectively.\n\nCounty council leader Alan White said: \"This year, Staffordshire has showed what it does best... but now we need to redouble our efforts to avoid any further restrictions and protect our county.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@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. Alistair Wilson murder: ‘My only memory of my dad was when he was shot’\n\nThe son of bank worker Alistair Wilson, who was shot dead on the doorstep of his home in 2004, has appealed for help in catching his father's killer.\n\nAndrew Wilson was aged just four at the time of the murder in Nairn in the Highlands.\n\nHe said the only memory he has left of his father is seeing him lying on the ground moments after being shot.\n\nIt is the first time Mr Wilson has spoken publicly about the murder and how it has devastated his family.\n\nHe said: \"I still cannot believe how someone could shoot my dad dead on our doorstep while my brother and I were upstairs.\n\n\"Photographs are all I have and no family should suffer the way we have all these years.\n\n\"I am appealing on behalf of my family to anyone who may have any information, no matter how big or small, to please come forward. Someone out there could have the missing piece of information.\"\n\nAlistair Wilson, 30, was shot at his home at about 19:00 on 28 November 2004. He later died in hospital.\n\nMr Wilson's wife Veronica had answered the door to his killer - a stocky man wearing a baseball cap - who asked for Alistair Wilson.\n\nMr Wilson spoke to the man and was handed an empty blue envelope with the word Paul written on it.\n\nHe was then shot with a German-made handgun.\n\nA massive police inquiry was launched at the time, but no-one has been apprehended and detectives continue to investigate the case.\n\nA young Andrew Wilson with his father Alistair, mother Veronica and younger brother\n\nAndrew, now 20, recalled the moment he saw his father lying on the doorstep.\n\nHe said: \"Someone came to our family home on a Sunday evening while my dad was reading my brother and me bedtime stories after our bath.\n\n\"The next thing I know I am looking at my dad lying in our doorway covered in blood.\"\n\nMr Wilson's family, along with detectives, are using the approaching 16th anniversary to make a renewed appeal for information in the hope of finally bringing someone to justice.\n\nAndrew says all he has left of his father are photographs\n\nAndrew Wilson and his brother at his father's graveside\n\nAndrew Wilson added: \"I was four years old when this happened and my dad was only 30.\n\n\"There would be no more bedtime stories, no more playing football or helping him in the garden.\n\n\"My dad and I missed out on so many things together, showing me how to tie a tie, driving lessons and taking me for my first pint.\n\n\"I am now a 20-year-old with little answers regarding my dad's death. For the last 16 years I have been left wondering why I didn't have a dad like all my friends.\n\n\"Nothing can bring my dad back, but knowing who did this and why could give us the closure we need. Any information could be crucial to our case.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alistair Wilson's widow: 'A who and a why would let us move on'\n\nDet Insp Gary Winter, of the Major Investigation Team, has outlined the specific areas being focused on in the latest appeal.\n\nHe said: \"The murderer was described in 2004 as a man aged 30-40 years old, stocky build and approximately 5ft 4in to 5ft 7in tall.\n\n\"Alistair's killer would now be approaching his 50s or 60s and has enjoyed a life denied to his victim and his family.\n\n\"The handgun used was a Haenel Suhl pocket pistol from the 1930s, which has distinctive H and S letters superimposed on the grip.\n\n\"We believe this weapon is likely to have been taken to the UK after World War Two as some form of souvenir, however the ammunition used in the murder is from the 1980s or 90s.\n\n\"Do you know of anyone who had a similar pocket pistol? Do you know of anyone who mentioned having firearm souvenirs from the World War Two or from any family who were World War Two veterans?\"\n\nThis is a murder which people, not just in the Highlands but across the world, are determined will be solved.\n\nAll murders are shocking but this was so beyond the imagination that it has had people bewildered and frustrated for 16 years, including the police.\n\nThree years ago I interviewed Veronica Wilson, Alistair Wilson's husband. It was the first time she had been interviewed for a dozen years and it formed the spine of The Doorstep Murder podcast series.\n\nShe revealed then that her older son, aged just four at the time, saw her father's body on the doorstep.\n\nIt was hoped then that her pleas for new information would help find the killer. It generated many calls to both the BBC and Police Scotland but the murder remained unsolved.\n\nThe fact that Alistair Wilson had been reading his young sons a bedtime story moments before he was shot so brutally has generated enormous sympathy and anger that his two boys have grown up without their father.\n\nSo to hear from Andrew Wilson will reunite people with the details of the murder and, it's hoped, persuade someone with information to step forward after all these years.\n\nListen to The Doorstep Murder podcast on BBC Sounds.\n\nThe doorstep murder shocked the residents of Nairn\n\nPolice believe the murder weapon may have been brought to the UK after World War Two\n\nDet Insp Winter also highlighted the envelope given to Mr Wilson before the shooting - and the possibility that the murder was a case of mistaken identity.\n\nHe said: \"The blue envelope handed to Alistair by the killer had the name Paul on it, which may or may not be relevant. Does this mean anything to you in the context of this investigation?\n\n\"Lastly, do you know any other person by the name Alistair Wilson, who may have been the intended target of violence or retribution to any extent?\"\n\nMr Winter said the force remained committed to ensuring the person responsible for the murder was brought to justice.\n\nHe added: \"Someone out there knows what happened to Alistair and I hope this appeal serves as a vital reminder that it is never too late to come forward with information. Do not assume that the police already know the information you possess.\"\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact the police on 101 or e-mail a dedicated inbox at SCDHOLMESAberdeen@scotland.pnn.police.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales remain unbeaten in the Nations League after they were held to a lifeless goalless draw away against the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe main talking point of an uninspiring first half was a rejected penalty appeal for Wales after Ethan Ampadu was bundled over by Republic goalkeeper Darren Randolph.\n\nIt was not until the 55th minute that either team produced a genuine chance, with the Republic's Shane Long wastefully heading over from close range.\n\nJames McClean was sent off for the hosts after two yellow cards in quick succession towards the end of the game and, although Wales searched hopefully for a late winning goal, neither side really deserved to win an eminently forgettable encounter.\n\nHaving won both their first two matches of this Nations League campaign, Wales remain top of Group B4 with a trip to Bulgaria to come on Wednesday.\n\nBut they will be without striker Kieffer Moore in Sofia - who had been a doubt for this game with a bruised toe - after the Cardiff City target man picked up a yellow card to trigger a suspension.\n\nAlthough the Republic are still searching for a first victory, it was in some ways a commendable effort considering that Stephen Kenny's men had to contend with the withdrawal of five players on the morning of the game and now go to Finland on Wednesday.\n• None Best action and reaction from Republic of Ireland v Wales\n\nWith two wins from their opening two fixtures against Finland and Bulgaria, Wales had travelled to Dublin with confidence for their fifth meeting with the Republic in three years.\n\nThursday's 3-0 friendly loss to England mattered little as manager Ryan Giggs had rested the likes of Harry Wilson and Daniel James with this game in mind, while Juventus midfielder Aaron Ramsey returned to the starting line-up as captain as one of four changes from the match at Wembley.\n\nAfter a subdued start at an empty Aviva Stadium, the visitors were the first to produce a shot on target as Wilson's curling effort from the edge of the penalty area was palmed away by Randolph.\n\nThe Irish goalkeeper was fortunate not to concede a penalty five minutes later, dropping a cross and then clattering Ampadu who had beaten him to the ball.\n\nReferee Anastasios Sidiropoulos ignored Wales' protestations, and he did the same when they appealed for handball after a Ramsey shot hit Shane Duffy and Cyrus Christie.\n\nThere was a whiff of desperation about the latter penalty appeal as Wales grew frustrated with their inability to play with any attacking fluency against a robust and well organised Irish team.\n\nAs the second half wore on, with his side lacking invention and purpose, Giggs turned to his bench and brought on David Brooks, Dylan Levitt and Neco Williams, who had scored an injury-time winner as a substitute against Bulgaria last month.\n\nOn this occasion, however, there would be no fairytale intervention from any of Wales' replacements.\n\nThis was another blunt display and a reminder of how Giggs' side can be found wanting in attack. Of all the teams to qualify for Euro 2020, none scored fewer in qualifying than his side.\n\nAnd while this was a mediocre performance, Wales are still in control of their Nations League group with Wednesday's game in Bulgaria - and home matches against the Republic and Finland in November - yet to come.\n\nThings could have been worse for the Republic, whose preparations were severely disrupted on the morning of the game when five of their players were ruled out after one of them tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nAaron Connolly and Adam Idah had already pulled out because of a Covid-19 issue - withdrawn shortly before kick-off of Thursday's Euro 2020 play-off semi-final loss to Slovakia - while David McGoldrick and James McCarthy were also unavailable because of injuries.\n\nAll this was particularly unhelpful as Irish morale was low after the shootout loss to Slovakia and a poor start to their Nations League campaign, which had seen them snatch a draw in Bulgaria before losing at home to Finland.\n\nConsidering the upheaval they had endured beforehand, Kenny and his side might have been content with such an uneventful start to the game.\n\nRobbie Brady was the only player to threaten in the first half with a whipped effort which whistled just wide, and it was not until the 55th minute that either side produced a proper scoring opportunity.\n\nRepublic left-back Enda Stevens created it, clipping a beautiful cross for Long who headed over with Wales keeper Wayne Hennessey stranded.\n\nIf the Irish thought they might be able to pinch a late winning goal, those hopes were dashed when McClean lost his cool by getting booked for tripping Connor Roberts and then, only a few minutes later, picking up a second yellow card for a wild lunge on Ampadu.\n\nMcClean protested his innocence but it was a lost cause, the draw leaving the Republic on two points from three games and now probably concentrating on simply keeping their place in the second tier of the Nations League.\n• None Shane Duffy (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Substitution, Republic of Ireland. Josh Cullen replaces Jayson Molumby because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. David Brooks (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Connor Roberts.\n• None Second yellow card to James McClean (Republic of Ireland) for a bad foul.\n• None James McClean (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt saved. Jeff Hendrick (Republic of Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Sean Maguire.\n• None Jeff Hendrick (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None James McClean (Republic of Ireland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, seen hugging other attendees\n\nUS President Donald Trump's tweet on Friday confirming that he and his wife had tested positive for coronavirus shocked the world.\n\nWith Mr Trump now in hospital, there are growing questions about how the pair were exposed to the virus.\n\nA crowded Rose Garden event is coming under intense focus - the ceremony on 26 September where Mr Trump formally announced his nomination of the conservative Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. The World Health Organization says it commonly takes around five to six days for symptoms to start after contracting the virus.\n\nFootage from the scene showed few attendees wearing masks. The seating was not set two metres (six feet) apart, while some bumped fists, shook hands or even hugged one another in greeting.\n\nEight people who attended are now confirmed to have the virus - although it is unclear exactly where and when they caught it. Aside from the president and the First Lady:\n\nMr and Mrs Trump tested positive after the president's communications director, Hope Hicks, contracted the virus. She did not attend the Rose Garden event.\n\nGuidelines published by the Centers for Disease Control recommend six feet of distance between people outside your home, and covering your nose and mouth when others are around you.\n\nDozens of lawmakers, family members and staff from the White House were at the event. Those who have tested positive were seated in the first few rows of the crowd.\n\nThose who have tested positive were sat in the first few rows of the packed event\n\nGatherings of more than 50 people at an event are banned under Washington DC coronavirus regulations, although federal property like the White House is exempt.\n\nThe Washington Post reports that authorities have left contact tracing efforts to the Trump administration. An official from Mayor Muriel Bowser's office told the paper that if all eight people were infected at the event, it would be one of the highest community spread incidents Washington DC has experienced.\n\nCity council member Brooke Pinto told the Washington Post it was \"disappointing that the White House has flaunted not wearing masks and gathering large crowds\".\n\n\"That is not only dangerous messaging for the country, but it is directly threatening to our efforts to decrease our spread across the district,\" she said.\n\nSome of the event last Saturday also took place inside.\n\nSome of the event took place inside the White House\n\nThe president stood next to Amy Coney Barrett as she delivered her speech. Ms Barrett tested negative on Friday, according to a White House spokesperson.\n\nVice-President Mike Pence and his wife Karen also tested negative. Mr Pence sat across the aisle from Mrs Trump at the ceremony.\n\nAttorney General William Barr sat in the same row as the vice-president. A Department of Justice spokesperson announced on Friday that Mr Barr had tested negative.\n\nJohns Hopkins University coronavirus trackers say that 7.3 million people in the US have contracted the virus, the highest figure in the world.\n\nThe country also has the highest death toll, with more than 209,000 people killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump's seven days before his Covid-positive test", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dilys Price said she felt free when she was jumping out of planes all over the world\n\nA woman who became the world's oldest female skydiver has died, aged 88.\n\nFormer teacher Dilys Price, from Cardiff, was scared of heights when she did her first jump in her fifties.\n\nBut she went on to complete hundreds of parachute jumps all over the world, and set the Guinness World Record for the oldest female solo parachute jump.\n\nShe also founded the Touch Trust charity championing art and creative movement programmes for disabled people.\n\nIts chief executive Bev Garside said she was always struck by Ms Price's \"intelligence, her energy and her warmth\".\n\n\"Always with a twinkle in her eye, she grabbed life with both hands until the end,\" she said.\n\n\"She has had a positive impact on the lives of so many and leaves the world a better place.\"\n\nIn 2018 Ms Price told BBC Wales: \"Skydiving is my passion, there you have the ultimate beauty of the sky... you just feel so free.\"\n\nAfter taking up the sport when she was 54, she went on to complete over 1,139 solo jumps all over the world.\n\nShe was no ordinary skydiver - with a background in drama and dance, she specialised in air acrobatics and freestyling.\n\nDilys Price setting her Guinness World Record for the oldest female solo parachute jump\n\nThe University of Wales Trinity Saint David, where she was an honorary fellow, said she was a \"remarkable, amazing and inspiring\" woman.\n\nMark James Parry tweeted: \"Very very sad that my Aunt ⁦@DilysPriceOBE⁩ has passed away. She touched many with her incredible personality and truly lived life to the full. An inspiration to all. Truly grateful that I got to call her my Aunt. We will miss you.\"\n\nLearning Disability Wales said she \"transformed the lives of thousands of people with profound multiple disabilities and people with autism\".\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 Cardiff Metropolitan University This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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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\nAged 80, the former Cardiff College of Education lecturer set the Guinness World Record for the oldest solo parachute jump (female).\n\nAt 86 she sold her parachute, but went on to do a tandem skydive with former Wales rugby star Gareth Thomas.\n\nShe was awarded an OBE for services to people with special needs in 2003, and was honoured for her work at the Pride of Britain awards in 2017.\n\nIn 2018, she was included on a list of the 100 women who have influenced Welsh life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dilys Price said she was \"amazed\" to be included on a list of the most influential Welsh women\n\nBack in 2018, Ms Price, who went on to model for Helmut Lang, said she wanted to inspire older people to keep active.\n\nShe said: \"We only get one shot at life\".", "Protests have convulsed Belarus every weekend since the disputed presidential election in August\n\nBelarusian riot police have used water cannon and stun grenades to break up the latest mass protests against President Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nProtests have swept the eastern European country since Mr Lukashenko claimed victory in an August election widely viewed as rigged.\n\nDozens of protesters were detained during the latest rallies on Sunday.\n\nIn the capital Minsk, police blasted protesters with coloured water to mark them out for arrest.\n\nCritics of Mr Lukashenko said Sunday saw police use some of the most brutal tactics against protesters since the immediate aftermath of August's disputed presidential election.\n\nMany opposition activists have been beaten up by police and thousands have been arrested during months of unrest. They are demanding the release of all political prisoners and a free and fair re-run of the election.\n\nThe EU, the UK and the US have refused to recognise Mr Lukashenko's new term. Mr Lukashenko denies fixing the poll and has received support from Russia, his country's closest ally.\n\nSvetlana Tikhanovskaya emerged as the main opposition leader after standing against Mr Lukashenko in August's election, arguing she would have won had it not been rigged.\n\nMs Tikhanovskaya was forced to go into exile in Lithuania after receiving threats following the disputed vote. She has repeatedly appealed to the international community to put pressure on Mr Lukashenko so that a democratic transition can be launched by negotiation.\n\nOpposition protesters clashed with masked riot police in Minsk at the latest rally on Sunday\n\nOpposition hopes of a peaceful resolution were raised on Saturday after Mr Lukashenko held an unexpected meeting with political opponents in the jail where they are currently detained.\n\nState media reported that the president called the meeting to discuss constitutional reform with his imprisoned opponents.\n\nIn now-familiar scenes, thousands of pro-opposition protesters gathered in Minsk and other major cities for the ninth successive Sunday of demonstrations against Mr Lukashenko.\n\nWearing coats and carrying umbrellas on a rainy afternoon, protesters called for the resignation of 66-year-old Mr Lukashenko, Belarus's leader since 1994.\n\nFootage shows the security forces, dressed in black and armed with batons, rounding up peaceful protestors congregating in Minsk city centre and taking them to waiting vehicles.\n\nSeveral thousand people were reported to have attended Sunday's march in Minsk\n\nPolice used stun grenades and water cannon against demonstrators in Minsk, a spokeswoman for Belarus's interior ministry told AFP news agency.\n\nThey sprayed plain and coloured water at demonstrators, covering them in what appeared to be orange dye.\n\nSome defiant protesters remained unmoved, using their umbrellas to shield themselves from the blast.\n\nA local news website described police using tear gas on crowds and said police were herding people into courtyards.\n\nIn videos posted online, police can be seen beating protesters with batons and snatching their white-and-red flags - a symbol of nationalist opposition to Mr Lukashenko.\n\nSome protesters fought back and pelted police with bottles and other objects.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mass arrests as crowds chant 'go away' to Belarus president\n\nThe Viasna rights group, which monitors detentions at political protests, said at least 140 people had been detained in Minsk and other cities.\n\nJournalists covering the demonstrations were among those detained, including those from Russia's Tass agency and the state Belarusian news agency BELTA.\n\nSunday's demonstrations in Belarus's capital Minsk now follow a familiar course.\n\nTens of thousands of people march through the streets demanding President Lukashenko step down. Then, he responds by sending his security forces to arrest as many of them as possible.\n\nWhat makes this weekend different, however, is that on Saturday President Lukashenko held a long meeting with a group of political prisoners in jail.\n\nIt's the first indication - after more than two months of protests - that he just might be willing to negotiate with the opposition.\n\nThe president's press office said participants had agreed to keep the four-and-a-half-hour conversation \"secret\".\n\nHowever, a photo posted by the press service shows Mr Lukashenko sitting at a table with 11 political figures, all of whom look pale and unsmiling.\n\nAmong them is Viktor Babaryko, a banker who was initially seen as Mr Lukashenko's strongest rival in the election, but was barred from running and jailed in July.\n\nLiliya Vlasova, a lawyer and member of the opposition's Coordination Council, is also in the photo, as is Vitali Shkliarov, a Belarusian-American strategist who worked on US Senator Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign.\n\nPress Office of the President of Belarus A photo of the meeting was shared by Mr Lukashenko's office\n\nA short video clip shared by the press service also shows Mr Lukashenko saying to the group: \"I am trying to convince not only your supporters but the whole of society that we need to look at things more broadly.\"\n\nApparently referring to the ongoing protests, he added: \"You can't rewrite the constitution on the streets.\"\n\nOpposition figures suggested meeting was a sign of Mr Lukashenko's weakness, perhaps signalling a newfound eagerness to compromise with the protest movement.\n\nBut in a social media post, Ms Tikhanovskaya said \"you can't have dialogue in a prison cell\".", "More migrants successfully crossed the Channel in the first three weeks of September than in the whole of 2019\n\nA plan to use nets to stop dinghies carrying migrants across the English Channel is being considered by the government, it has been reported.\n\nDan O'Mahoney, who leads the Home Office's efforts to tackle illegal crossings to the UK, outlined the strategy to the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nHe told the newspaper that British vessels could use the tactic before then returning migrants to France.\n\nRecord numbers of migrants are continuing to make the crossing.\n\nIn the first three weeks of September, at least 1,892 migrants successfully crossed the Channel - more than in the whole of 2019.\n\nMr O'Mahoney's strategy has so far been delayed because France is not willing to accept migrants back who have been subject to the tactic, he told the paper.\n\nA former member of the Royal Marines, Mr O'Mahoney said: \"We definitely are very, very close to being able to operationalise a safe return tactic where we make an intervention safely on a migrant vessel, take migrants on board our vessel and then take them back to France.\n\n\"The problem with that currently is that the French won't accept them back.\"\n\nThe Home Office wants to reduce the number of asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East\n\nAsked whether the method was similar to Royal Navy trials, in which nets were used to snag up propellers and bring boats to a standstill, Mr O'Mahoney said: \"It's that type of thing, yes. So safely disabling the engine and then taking the migrants on board our vessel.\"\n\nHe said this was just one of a number of methods his team has considered deploying over the next few months, but he did not go into further details.\n\nMr O'Mahoney, appointed by Home Secretary Priti Patel in August, said he was working with people \"everywhere across government to come up with new tactics\" to tackle illegal migration across the Channel.\n\nThe numbers of migrants attempting the perilous journey across the Channel has been exacerbated by a sharp drop in air and rail travel during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn September, a Home Office official said people smugglers had cut the cost of crossing the Channel by overloading dinghies with migrants.\n\nThe rate charged by criminals to reach the UK from France has fallen by about a third as demand has soared.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said in August the government's handling of the crisis was \"lacking in competence and compassion\" after a £340m RAF Poseidon P8 aircraft had been used to help Border Force patrol boats to spot migrants.\n\nA week later, the body of a young male migrant from Sudan was found on a French beach after he attempted to make the crossing in a small boat.", "In all its glory: Mars pictured by Damian Peach on 30 September\n\nGet out there and look up!\n\nMars is at its biggest and brightest right now as the Red Planet lines up with Earth on the same side of the Sun.\n\nEvery 26 months, the pair take up this arrangement, moving close together, before then diverging again on their separate orbits around our star.\n\nTuesday night sees the actual moment of what astronomers call \"opposition\".\n\nAll three bodies will be in a straight line at 23:20 GMT (00:20 BST).\n\n\"But you don't have to wait until the middle of the night; even now, at nine or 10 o'clock in the evening, you'll easily see it over in the southeast,\" says astrophotographer, Damian Peach. \"You can't miss it, it's the brightest star-like object in that part of the sky,\" he told BBC News.\n\nEven though this coming week witnesses the moment of opposition, it was Tuesday of last week that Mars and Earth actually made their closest approach in this 26-month cycle.\n\nA separation of 62,069,570km, or 38,568,243 miles. That's the narrowest gap now until 2035.\n\nAt the last opposition, in 2018, Earth and Mars were just 58 million km apart, but what makes this occasion a little more special for astrophotographers in the Northern Hemisphere is the Red Planet's elevation in the sky. It's higher, and that means telescopes don't have to look through quite so much of the Earth's turbulent atmosphere, which distorts images.\n\nExperienced practitioners like Damian use a technique called \"lucky imaging\" to get the perfect shot. They take multiple frames and then use software to stitch together the sharpest view.\n\nDamian's picture at the top of this page shows up clearly the \"Martian dichotomy\" - the sharp contrast between the smooth lowland plains of the Northern Hemisphere and the more rugged terrain in the Southern Hemisphere. Evident too is Mars' carbon dioxide ice cap at the southern pole.\n\nThe image was captured using a 14-inch Celestron telescope.\n\n\"That's quite a serious bit of equipment; it's not something you get on a whim,\" says Damian. \"But even a telescope half that size will show up all the major features on Mars quite easily. And if you've got a good pair of binoculars, you'll certainly be able to make out that it's actually a planet and not a star.\"\n\nArtwork: The UAE's Hope probe will study Mars' atmosphere from next year\n\nIt's around opposition that space probes are launched from Earth to Mars. Obviously - the distance that needs to be travelled is shorter, and the time and energy required to make the journey is less.\n\nThree missions are currently in transit, all of which were sent on their way in July: The United Arab Emirates' Hope orbiter; China's Tianwen orbiter and rover; and the Americans' Perseverance rover.\n\nEurope and Russia had hoped to despatch their ExoMars \"Rosalind Franklin\" rover, too, but they missed the launch window and will now have to wait until late 2022. That's the penalty you pay when the planets align only every 26 months.\n\nHope, Tianwen and Perseverance are all on course to arrive at Mars in February.\n\nIn 2003, Mars made its closest approach to Earth around opposition in nearly 60,000 years - a separation of just 56 million km.\n\nThe distance between the two at opposition can be over 100 million km, as happened in 2012.\n\nThe variation is a consequence of the elliptical shape of the orbits of both Mars and Earth.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The collision happened early on Sunday morning, east of Bangkok\n\nA bus has collided with a train in Thailand, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens more, officials say.\n\nThe crash happened on Sunday morning, 50km (31 miles) east of Bangkok.\n\nThai police said passengers inside the bus were on their way to a temple to mark the end of Buddhist Lent.\n\nImages from the scene show the bus upturned on its side, heavily damaged and objects scattered along the train tracks.\n\nRescue workers say they need a crane to be able to lift the bus.\n\nThere were 60 passengers travelling in the bus at the time of the crash, province governor Maitree Tritilanond said.\n\nThai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha gave his condolences and called for a thorough investigation.\n\nTraffic collisions are common in Thailand, with poor safety standards and busy roads thought to be key factors. A 2018 report from the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thailand had the second-highest traffic fatality rate in the world.\n\nIn March 2018, at least 18 people died and dozens wounded when a bus in north eastern Thailand swerved off the road and smashed into a tree.\n\nAt least three people were killed in 2016 when a train collided with a double-decker bus carrying tourists at an unguarded railway crossing west of Bangkok.", "Workers at companies told to close as part of virus restrictions will get two-thirds of their wages\n\nThe Labour Party and business groups have voiced concern at the \"ripple effect\" of Covid shutdowns that are expected to be announced on Monday.\n\nOn Friday, the chancellor said staff at UK companies told to close would get 67% of their wages from the government under the expanded Job Support Scheme.\n\nBut no specific help was announced for workers who may be indirectly affected - for example, those in supply chains.\n\nThe Treasury denied firms that are not fully closed would not receive help.\n\nLabour claims close to one million workers will be at risk, including 500,000 people in the wedding industry, 369,000 in the sports industry, and 142,000 event caterers.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"There are massive holes in the new safety net.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said: \"We do not recognise these figures,\" adding that Labour had \"incorrectly\" listed some sectors as not benefitting from the scheme.\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"Companies that are open can use the other element of the Job Support Scheme which is aimed at those able to open but at lower levels of demand.\n\n\"And of course they can also access the other help we have made available, including billions of pounds of grants, loans and tax cuts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Job Support Scheme was announced by Mr Sunak on 24 September and will replace the \"furlough\" scheme from 1 November for six months.\n\nIt \"tops up\" the wages of employees who can't work their normal hours.\n\nThe expanded scheme, announced on Friday and available to firms ordered to shut down, will provide two-thirds of wages to employees unable to work.\n\nOn Monday, Boris Johnson is expected to announce a tiered system of measures for England in an effort to stall rising infection rates.\n\nUnder the new system, different parts of the country would be placed in one of three categories.\n\nThe worst-affected areas - which may include much of northern England - could see its pubs and restaurants closed.\n\nShadow Business Secretary Ed Miliband claimed the government had been \"forced into a climbdown\" over supporting shut-down businesses.\n\nBut he said businesses including weddings, theatres, cinemas, events, and many suppliers would be left out \"on a technicality\" because they have been \"forced to shut in all but name\", he said.\n\nMr Miliband added: \"Ministers must urgently rethink their damaging sink or swim approach which consigns whole sectors of our economy to the scrapheap.\"\n\nRoger Barker, Director of Policy at the Institute of Directors said the new measures set out by the chancellor on Friday were a \"useful step\" towards supporting businesses affected by the lockdown.\n\nBut he said their impact would be limited because they \"don't account for the ripple effects of restrictions across the economy\".\n\nHe added: \"It is becoming increasingly clear that the chancellor's previous strategy of phasing out business support and allowing supposedly 'unviable' companies to fail was premature in the face of a resurgent virus.\n\n\"Friday's measures should be seen as the start of renewed efforts to sustain the survival of companies and jobs if long-term damage to the economy is to be prevented.\"\n\nAdam Marshall, Director General of the British Chamber of Commerce, also said the new support did not go far enough to protect firms in supply chains and town and city centres and urged: \"Their cash flow concerns and worries about future demand must be heeded.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick: \"Ministers do not get involved in making decisions for their own constituencies\"\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick has dismissed Labour's call for an investigation into the award of a £25m regeneration grant to his constituency.\n\nHe told BBC One's Andrew Marr show the decision to give the money to Newark, Nottinghamshire, had been taken by fellow minister Jake Berry.\n\nMr Jenrick said he had himself decided to grant funds to a town in Mr Berry's constituency under the same scheme.\n\nHe called this \"perfectly normal\" and accused Labour of \"distraction\".\n\nBut Labour described the allocation of the money \"murky\" and urged Mr Jenrick to submit himself to a \"full\" investigation.\n\nThe £25m was awarded to Newark under the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government's £3.6bn Towns Fund, set up last year to help places that had \"not always benefitted from economic growth in the same way as more prosperous areas\".\n\nNewark and Sherwood District Council submitted its town investment plan - including better transport, training and digital connectivity - in July.\n\nMr Jenrick, Conservative MP for Newark since 2014, supported the bid.\n\nFor Labour, shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Reynolds told Sky News's Ridge on Sunday: \"The whole question has always been quite a murky one as to how this money was allocated.\n\n\"The secretary of state has questions to answer and an investigation is the right way forwards.\"\n\nBut Mr Jenrick said the government had a \"robust\" system in place for choosing which places would benefit from the Towns Fund and that the rules had been created before he became communities secretary.\n\nHe added that Mr Berry, who oversees local growth in England as a minister within Mr Jenrick's department, had made the decision following advice from civil servants.\n\nDarwen, a town in Mr Berry's Rossendale and Darwen constituency, was also allocated money from the Towns Fund.\n\nThe decision, Mr Jenrick said, had been \"made by myself\".\n\nHe added: \"This is perfectly normal. Ministers don't get involved in making decisions for their own constituency.\n\n\"But neither should their constituencies be victims of the fact that their MP is a minister.\"\n\nMr Jenrick also said: \"The Labour Party front bench need to get beyond the M25 and see what's happening in our constituencies.\"\n\nEarlier, he told Sky News that Labour's accusations were \"completely baseless\".\n\nBut, following the interviews, shadow communities secretary Steve Reed insisted that, if \"Robert Jenrick has nothing to hide, he should submit himself to a full investigation\".\n\nIn August, Mr Jenrick said he regretted sitting next to property developer Richard Desmond at a Conservative Party fundraising event last year.\n\nMr Desmond donated £12,000 to the Conservatives in January, 12 days after the minister overruled government planning inspectors to approve a development at the former Westferry print works in east London.\n\nLabour said this had raised suggestions of \"cash for favours\".\n\nBut Mr Jenrick has always insisted he had no knowledge of the donation and was motivated by a desire to see more homes built.", "Last updated on .From the section Republic of Ireland\n\nA further five Republic of Ireland players missed Sunday's Nations League draw with Wales after one of them tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe Football Association of Ireland said that an unnamed player tested positive on Friday after having tested negative last Monday.\n\nFour other squad members identified as close contacts of the player were also stood down for Sunday's match.\n\nAaron Connolly and Adam Idah were already out because of a Covid issue.\n\nThey were set to feature in Thursday's Euro 2020 play-off game in Slovakia but were ruled out shortly before kick-off after being deemed to have been in close contact with a member of the Republic's backroom team who tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nManager Stephen Kenny made an appeal to the Irish medical authorities about the duo's exclusion from the match - which the Republic lost on penalties after a 0-0 draw - but it was unsuccessful.\n\nThe Republic's team announced some 80 minutes before Sunday's 14:00 BST kick-off showed four changes from Thursday's starting line-up as they were able to name only seven substitutes including goalkeepers Mark Travers and Caoimhin Kelleher.\n\nWhile injured pair David McGoldrick and James McCarthy were ruled out, the squad showed no sign of centre-back John Egan, forward Callum Robinson and midfielders Alan Browne and Callum O'Dowda, who all featured in Slovakia.\n\nKevin Long replaced Egan in defence with Jayson Molumby taking over from McCarthy in midfield.\n\nShane Long and Robbie Brady came into the starting line-up in place of McGoldrick and Robinson.\n\nIn a further twist, the FAI statement said the staff member who tested positive in Bratislava on Wednesday may have received a \"false positive\" result.\n\nThe FAI said two tests carried out on the individual on Saturday \"confirmed no trace of Covid-19\", adding that it would now \"discuss the issue with Uefa\".\n\n\"In light of these developments, the FAI wishes to make it clear that it complied with all Uefa and HSE [Irish Health Service Executive] Covid-19 guidelines concerning the availability of players and the well-being of staff around the Slovakia v Republic of Ireland fixture in Bratislava on Thursday night.\"\n\nSunday's news further depleted a squad which went into the three games minus injured captain Seamus Coleman and which is now shorn of Sheffield United striker David McGoldrick who picked up a thigh injury in Thursday's heartbreaking play-off defeat.\n\nThe Republic face Finland away in the Nations League on Wednesday evening.\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "The cause of the mid-air collision over Loches, Indre-et-Loire is under investigation\n\nTwo small planes have collided in mid-air before crashing in western central France, killing five people, local officials say.\n\nThe collision between two light aircraft happened south-east of the city of Tours at about 16:30 local time (15:30 BST) on Saturday.\n\nEmergency crew, including about 50 firefighters, were called to the scene. They cordoned off the crash sites.\n\nNo-one else was harmed when the planes came down.\n\nThe smaller aircraft, a microlight carrying two people, landed on a fence around a house in the town of Loches, situated about 46km (29 miles) south-east of Tours.\n\nPolice have cordoned off the crash sites\n\nA witness told AFP news agency it burst into flames after landing on the house's electricity meter.\n\nThe larger plane, a Diamond DA40, landed more than a 100m (328ft) away in an uninhabited area. It had three tourists on board.\n\n\"All five people involved died,\" local government official Nadia Seghier told AFP.\n\n\"Air emergency staff from Lyon were brought in at first to track down the plane, which was quickly found.\"\n\nThere were no immediate details about the identities of the victims or the cause of the collision.\n\nLocal police have launched an investigation into the incident.\n\nThe crash sites have been blockaded and residents have been told to stay in their homes, a witness said.\n\nThe mayor called the collision an \"unbelievable accident\"\n\nWitness Genevieve Allouard-Liebert, who lives in the area, said she had heard a \"big crash\" when the planes came down. She said she and her husband saw a man fall from the larger plane as it skimmed nearby rooftops.\n\nMid-air collisions between small aircraft are considered to be rare. One fatal incident in France happened over Quiberon Bay off the coast of Brittany in 1998, when a Beechcraft 1900D collided in mid-air with a light aircraft, killing 15 people.\n\n\"There's never any air traffic around Loches, it's an unlikely and unbelievable accident,\" the town's mayor Marc Angenault said.", "Pubs in the central belt closed on Friday and are not due to reopen until 25 October at the earliest\n\nScotland's hospitality minister has said there is \"no guarantee\" that pubs and restaurants across the central belt will reopen in two weeks' time.\n\nThe Scottish government ordered their closure on Friday night as part of new Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nFergus Ewing said he was \"acutely aware\" of the \"very serious, adverse impacts\" on the hospitality sector.\n\nBut he said the restrictions were \"absolutely necessary\" and could continue past 25 October.\n\nMr Ewing told BBC Scotland's Sunday Politics programme: \"Were they not in place, the worry is that we may have had to go to something even more stringent.\n\n\"The first minister had made it clear that she really wishes to avoid a further lockdown - as does, I believe, the leadership in the other parts of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"That is absolutely the case. But there can be no guarantees.\"\n\nThe new restrictions involve licensed premises in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, Lanarkshire, Forth Valley and Ayrshire and Arran being closed until 25 October - although they can still serve takeaways.\n\nHospitality venues in the rest of Scotland are allowed to open, but are only permitted to serve non-alcoholic drinks and food indoors between 06:00 and 18:00.\n\nLicensed premises in these areas are still able to serve alcohol in outdoor areas, such as beer gardens, up to the 22:00 curfew introduced in September.\n\nFergus Ewing accepted the restrictions were having very serious impacts on the hospitality industry\n\nReacting to criticism that the hospitality sector had been treated unfairly, Fergus Ewing said the Scottish government was following the best scientific advice.\n\nHe said there were \"no absolute certainties\" when it comes to establishing how a person caught coronavirus.\n\nBut he said illegal house parties or hospitality settings \"where alcohol is imbibed and inhibitions lax\" appeared to be the places where the risks were greatest.", "São Paulo is the worst-hit city in Brazil\n\nThe number of people to have died from Covid-19 in Brazil has passed 150,000, the country's health ministry says.\n\nBrazil has the second-highest coronavirus death toll in the world, after the US, and the third-highest number of cases after the US and India.\n\nThe country also passed five million total infections earlier this week.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of downplaying the risks of the virus throughout the pandemic, ignoring expert advice on restrictive measures.\n\nBrazil has by far the highest number of deaths in South America, and the state of São Paulo has been the worst hit.\n\nAccording to figures from the health ministry, 150,198 people in Brazil have died of Covid since the first fatality was recorded in March, and 5,082,637 people have tested positive for the virus.\n\nIn Colombia, the next worst-hit country in the region, 27,495 people have died and there have been 894,300 confirmed cases.\n\nHowever the daily number of new cases in Brazil has been slowly falling since it plateaued in the summer, when there were about 1,000 new deaths per day for two months.\n\nMr Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic - his decision to oppose lockdown measures and prioritise the economy - has been extremely divisive.\n\nHe has also been criticised for minimising the threat of Covid-19, including by calling it a \"little flu\".\n\nHowever, the president has repeatedly rejected this criticism, even when he himself became ill with the virus in July.\n\nIn August, Brazil's Vice-President Hamilton Mourão also defended the government's approach, and instead blamed a lack of discipline among Brazilians for the failure to limit the spread of the virus through social distancing measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brazil's vice-president said in August that the authorities struggled to enforce social distancing measures", "Margaret Ferrier travelled back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nAn MP who used public transport while knowing she was infected with coronavirus has called it a \"blip\".\n\nMargaret Ferrier argued that the virus \"makes you act out of character\" in an interview with the Sun on Sunday.\n\nShe faced calls to quit after travelling from Glasgow to London with Covid-19 symptoms last month, then returning home after testing positive.\n\nThe SNP suspended Ms Ferrier and the Metropolitan Police is investigating the incident.\n\nScotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said she \"couldn't be clearer\" and Ms Ferrier should resign.\n\nThe MP, 60, told the paper that she \"panicked\" and insisted she followed the rules.\n\n\"A lot of people say Covid makes you do things out of character. You're not thinking straight,\" she said.\n\nShe said she took a test on Saturday, 26 September because she had a \"tickly throat\" - but had no symptoms on the Sunday or Monday, when she travelled to London for a debate.\n\nOn receiving her test result on the Monday night in London, she said she began \"panicking\" and \"wanting home\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Constituents said they were unconvinced by the MP's explanation\n\n\"I don't have a flat in London. You're thinking, 'Am I going to get worse in a week's time or a few days' time',\" she said, adding that she was worried she would have to self-isolate in a hotel for two weeks.\n\n\"I felt there was no alternative and that's why I took the train. That's the decision I took at the time.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said no party leader has the power to force an MP to resign from parliament.\n\nBut she said Ms Ferrier's \"lapse of judgement\" was \"so significant and so unacceptable\" that she should step down.\n\nSpeaking on Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, Ms Sturgeon said: \"We suspended her from the party and we now have a due process to go through. I can't unilaterally decide to expel somebody.\n\n\"But I couldn't be clearer - she should step down.\n\n\"I've read her comments in the media today but I still hope she will do the right thing.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that someone in her position flagrantly disregarded the rules like that.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said Ms Ferrier's comments showed she had \"learned nothing\".\n\nHe added: \"She is refusing to face up to her reckless, selfish and dangerous behaviour. Her intention to cling on until the next election is treating her constituents with contempt.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said Ms Ferrier \"has again shown a stunning lack of self-awareness\".\n\nHe said: \"Margaret Ferrier's excuses are mortifying and shameless. She clearly values her own salary more than doing the right thing.\"\n\nMs Ferrier is also believed to have attended Mass at a church in Glasgow after showing Covid symptoms.\n\nAt the beginning of the month, she apologised and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, described her actions as \"reckless, dangerous and completely indefensible\" and said she should resign as an MP.\n\nBut Ms Ferrier told the Sun on Sunday she wants to continue representing her constituents in Rutherglen and Hamilton West.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Ms Ferrier said: \"It may be a serious error of judgment. I'm not denying that. People may be saying, 'You should have known better, you're a public figure'.\n\n\"But at the end of the day it still hurts. You then think is all that hard work and dedication just wiped away?\"\n\nShe also described regulations and guidelines issued during the pandemic as \"muddled\".", "At least 40 people armed with metal bars and fireworks have attacked a police station to the south of Paris, according to officials.\n\nThe assailants, who caused damage to cars and broke windows, also tried unsuccessfully to storm the building, police said.\n\nThe police station is in an area known for drug trafficking, and the local mayor said the attack could be in retaliation for a recent scooter accident allegedly caused by police.", "File photo of São Paulo police force, which has launched a search for Macedo\n\nOne of Brazil's biggest crime bosses has gone on the run after being briefly freed from prison the previous day.\n\nAndré Oliveira Macedo, also known as André do Rap, was released from a high security prison on Saturday - but this decision was revoked just hours later.\n\nHe has been missing since.\n\nMacedo is a senior member of the São Paulo-based First Command of the Capital (PCC) gang, which holds power in jails across Brazil and Paraguay and smuggles tonnes of cocaine into Europe.\n\nHis release was the result of a controversial order by Judge Marco Aurélio Mello, one of 11 justices on Brazil's Supreme Court.\n\nJudge Mello granted Macedo's release from the São Paulo prison on the grounds that the amount of time he had spent in detention awaiting trial had exceeded the legal maximum. He was arrested in September 2019, and had been detained since.\n\nAfter his release, Macedo was ordered to go into house arrest.\n\nThe order to release him was controversial. São Paulo state governor João Doria called it \"an unacceptable condescension to criminals\".\n\nWithin a few hours, High Court president Luiz Fux had suspended the decision and ordered Macedo to be re-arrested and returned to prison immediately.\n\nHowever, by this time he was already gone - with some local reports suggesting he fled the country.\n\nInvestigators in São Paulo have not provided details on the search.", "The UK has reached a \"tipping point\" in its coronavirus epidemic similar to that last seen in March, one of the country's top scientists has warned.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said the seasons were \"against us\" and the country was running into a \"headwind\".\n\nMore deaths would follow a rise in cases over coming weeks, he said, and urged people to limit social contact.\n\nOn Monday, Boris Johnson is expected to announce tougher restrictions.\n\nIn a statement to MPs, the prime minister is expected to set out plans for a three-tier local lockdown system which would see every region in England placed in one of three tiers, depending on the severity of cases.\n\nAcross the UK, the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus onto - is now estimated between 1.2 and 1.5. Anything above 1.0 means cases are increasing.\n\nOn Saturday, 15,166 people in the UK were reported to have tested positive for coronavirus - up 1,302 on Friday's figure, according to the government's dashboard. There were a further 81 deaths - a decrease of six on Friday.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics estimates 224,000 people in homes in England had the virus, up to 1 October - roughly double the figure reported by the ONS for each of the preceding two weeks.\n\nIn his statement published on Sunday, Prof Van-Tam said that while the epidemic \"re-started\" again among younger people over the past few weeks, there is \"clear evidence of a gradual spread into older age groups\" in the worst-hit areas.\n\n\"Sadly, just as night follows day, increases in deaths will now follow on in the next few weeks,\" Prof Van-Tam said.\n\nHe warned that the UK was in a different position than during the first wave because \"we are now are going into the colder, darker winter months\".\n\n\"We are in the middle of a severe pandemic and the seasons are against us. Basically, we are running into a headwind,\" he said.\n\nBut he also said the UK has \"much improved testing capabilities\" and \"better treatments\" available, meaning that \"we know where it is and how to tackle it\".\n\nHe stressed the importance of following public health guidance and minimising contact with others, adding: \"I know this is very hard, but it is an unfortunate scientific fact that the virus thrives on humans making social contact with one another.\"\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive. How many cases and deaths in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out are where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. Source: ONS, NRS and NISRA – England, Wales and Northern Ireland updated weekly. Scottish local authority data updated monthly. are people who have tested positive for coronavirus. The \"average area\" means the middle ranking council or local government district when ranked by cases per 100,000 people. Public health bodies may occasionally revise their case numbers. Source: UK public health bodies - updated weekdays.\n\nIt comes as the Labour Party and business groups voiced concern at the \"ripple effect\" of Covid shutdowns that are expected to be announced on Monday.\n\nLabour claims that close to one million workers will be at risk because the chancellor's plan to pay staff at UK companies that are told to close 67% of their wages does not extend to those who may be indirectly affected, such as those in supply chains.\n\nThe Treasury denied firms that are not fully closed would not receive help.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We do not recognise these figures,\" adding that Labour had \"incorrectly\" listed some sectors as not benefitting from the scheme.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will set out the new rules for hotspots in the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nEvery region of England is expected to be placed in one of three tiers, with the Liverpool City Region thought to be in the category with the strictest rules.\n\nPlans are not yet finalised, BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said, but that is likely to mean pubs will close, restaurants could face restrictions, people may even be told not to travel in and out of the area. Schools and universities would remain open.\n\nPubs and restaurants across the central belt of Scotland have closed for the last time in at least two weeks\n\nMore talks are expected on Sunday between the government and leaders in parts of England that are expecting new restrictions.\n\nCouncil leaders and mayors have expressed their anger at what they see as inadequate help for those who will no longer be able to work.\n\nMany regions are demanding more local control over contact tracing, while others have raised the possibility of legal action if they do not get the support they demand.\n\nThe government says it is committed to involving local leaders in decision-making.\n\nDiscussions with Downing Street on Friday were described on Merseyside as \"frosty,\" but \"cordial and giving on both sides\".\n\nLeaders in Greater Manchester do not yet have another meeting with the government arranged, Chris Mason added - but one is expected before the prime minister's statement on Monday.\n\nIn Nottingham, Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds and elsewhere, leaders and residents await the announcement of the template for the next phase of the pandemic.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? What have restrictions meant for you?? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBelgium's Kevin de Bruyne believes England should be leading candidates at next year's European Championship and the 2022 World Cup.\n\nThe Manchester City midfielder will be part of the Belgium side against England in the Nations League at Wembley on Sunday (17:00 BST kick-off).\n\nBoth teams reached the World Cup semi-finals in Russia two years ago.\n\n\"They should be very excited,\" the 29-year-old said of England. \"It's a very young team with a lot of potential.\"\n• None Who made your England XI for Belgium?\n\nEngland have not won a major trophy since the 1966 World Cup but De Bruyne, who was voted last season's Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year, said: \"They should aim to win the next Euros and World Cup. I think they have that potential.\n\n\"There are always a lot of teams who want to win it, but I think the team they have - the players who play in top clubs - they should do that.\"\n\nBelgium manager Roberto Martinez agreed that England counterpart Gareth Southgate has an impressive squad at his disposal.\n\n\"His players are as good as anyone individually in world football and it is just a matter of time that they will get that trophy or major result in a major tournament,\" said former Swansea, Wigan and Everton boss Martinez.\n\nEngland, ranked fourth in the world, warmed up for Sunday's match with a 3-0 victory against Wales at Wembley on Thursday, with goals from Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Conor Coady and Danny Ings, while Jack Grealish impressed on his first senior start.\n\nBelgium, top of the Fifa rankings, beat England twice at the 2018 World Cup, but they will be without key forwards Dries Mertens and Eden Hazard on Sunday.\n\nDe Bruyne has revealed he is open to a new contract with Manchester City but says no discussions have taken place.\n\nHe joined City from Wolfsburg for £55m in August 2015 and has two and a half years to run on his existing deal.\n\nThere has been recent speculation in the media over a new two-year contract at Etihad Stadium.\n\nDe Bruyne has won two Premier League titles, four League Cups and the FA Cup during his spell with City.\n\n\"I have not spoken once to the club so I don't know why people are saying I have already agreed to something,\" he said.\n\n\"I always told everybody I am really happy at the club and I feel comfortable, so if the people at the club want to talk to me I am open to that and we will see what happens.\n\n\"But at the moment nothing has happened.\"\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "Another member of staff at Glasgow's Barlinnie prison has tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nTwo inmates and five staff at the jail have already been confirmed as having Covid-19.\n\nOn Saturday the Scottish Prison Service said more than 250 inmates were put into lockdown, with 12 staff from the jail's A hall also isolating.\n\nAll visits to A hall have been suspended until at least the end of October.\n\nAn SPS spokesman said the rest of the prison was not affected by the outbreak or visiting ban.\n\nHe added that contact tracing was being carried out for staff members.\n\nEarlier this year, the Scottish government approved new early release regulations to help the prison system cope with Covid cases.\n\nThe move, designed to free up more cells for single-use occupancy, could allow up to 450 inmates to get out of prison early.\n\nBut only those sentenced to 18 months or less and with 90 days or less left to serve are potentially eligible. Some serious offences are excluded.\n• None Up to 450 prisoners to be released early", "Mr Beynon says no one in public life should have to put up with personal attacks\n\nA councillor who welcomed asylum seekers has been called a paedophile by online abusers and told his partner will be raped.\n\nProtests have been held outside a military training camp in Penally, Pembrokeshire where asylum seekers are being housed.\n\nJoshua Beynon, 23, who is gay, has reported 30-40 people to the police after homophobic comments and abuse online in response to his support.\n\n\"It's quite scary at times,\" he said.\n\nPembrokeshire council has condemned online abuse directed at councillors, individuals and charities who have supported asylum seekers at the controversial camp.\n\nMr Beynon, who was elected in 2017 and is one of the youngest councillors in Wales, said most of the abuse had come after he criticised racism online.\n\n\"People think they can say things online, that they would never ever dream of saying to your face,\" said Mr Beynon.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The asylum seekers said they loved the UK and the people who saved their lives, but the accommodation was \"not suitable\"\n\nThe Pembroke Dock councillor said he had received homophobic comments in the past on social media, but it intensified when he campaigned to get County Hall in Haverfordwest lit up in support of the Black Lives Matters movement.\n\nBut Mr Beynon, a Labour councillor, said the abuse had been far worse since he posted online supporting the refugees and challenged \"horrendous racism\".\n\nProtests have been held over the Home Office's decision to house up to 250 people at the army training centre, which has been described as a target for \"hard-right extremist\" protestors.\n\nProtests and counter-protests have been held over the camp near Tenby\n\nAfter posting a picture on Facebook of him with other community members hanging welcome messages on the gates of the camp, Mr Beynon received homophobic abuse.\n\n\"They've called me a nonce, a faggot, there's been loads and loads of stuff like that,\" he said, adding he had also been called a \"gremlin\", \"snowflake\", \"muppet\" and \"Judas\".\n\n\"There are some which are out of this world, someone said I was funded by the big media, some saying I was a paedophile, I don't know where this stuff comes from,\" he added.\n\nIn one post, a woman wrote: \"How much is he paying them people too do that, plus he's got more faces than the town clock and he's a nonce...should not be a cllr he's a Paedophile and most people now that makes me sick.\"\n\nIn another comment, one person said: \"Wait till they rape his children and his wife\", to which someone responded \"or his husband\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the camp had become a target for extremists\n\n\"There's been stuff that's been quite intimidating,\" said Mr Beynon, who said some of the messages had been from people who lived hundreds of miles away.\n\n\"I've had to ask the council's monitoring officer if I can have my address removed from my register of interests on the council website on a temporary basis. Just to make sure that nothing happens to me or anyone I live with.\"\n\nSome locals have protested against the camp, saying while they welcome asylum seekers, the facility is not suitable to house people fleeing persecution.\n\n\"I understand people do have genuine concerns who live in the local area, but I strongly object to these really racist remarks that they automatically assume that they are murderers, or rapists or thieves, there is no proof of that, it's just stirring up hatred online,\" Mr Beynon said.\n\n\"If you call it out, then you get personal attacks about you.\"\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 Joshua Beynon 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 Beynon said he had reported 30 to 40 people for comments to the police and had sought advice from lawyers.\n\n\"These actions are criminal, and I think people need to realise that they can't sit behind a keyboard, and say what they want, and get away with it,\" he said, adding many people had defended him on social media.\n\n\"I'm more than happy to debate with people, and have people say they disagree with me, but you don't have to say because \"you're gay\",\" he added.\n\nMr Beynon's post welcoming refugees had over 1,000 comments, with some including homophobic comments\n\nMr Beynon said that he feared trolling, racism and homophobia, would put others off standing from election, and prevent diverse candidates from entering politics.\n\nThe most recent survey of county councillors in Wales, carried out after the 2017 elections but with a low response rate, suggested 98% were white, 72% over the age of 50, 67% were male, and 93% were heterosexual.\n\nUnder changes, aimed at increasing diversity in Welsh politics ahead of the 2022 council elections, the Welsh Government said it was looking at measures to \"ensure councillors and their families are safe when undertaking their duties\".\n\nPembrokeshire council leader David Simpson added: \"Pembrokeshire has a proud history of tolerance and respect.\n\n\"Racism and homophobia has no place in society and we cannot condone this unacceptable behaviour.\"\n\nThe Welsh Local Government Association said it was supporting Mr Beynon, adding that councillors were \"ordinary everyday people trying to make a difference in their communities\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"Whilst debate is welcomed, they should not have to tolerate any sort of abuse or vitriol for doing their duties.\n\n\"We want to attract diverse people from all backgrounds to stand in local elections.\n\n\"Nobody should feel discouraged from wanting to represent their communities by the intimidatory actions of a few. This behaviour will not be tolerated and action will be taken wherever necessary.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Liverpool is one of many cities where there are extra restrictions\n\nIn many areas under local lockdown, cases and hospital admissions have continued to soar. Does that mean restrictions don't work?\n\nConsider the national lockdown in the spring. While it feels like it was one single policy, it was in fact a package of different measures. Schools, universities and offices shut. Pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops closed. No-one could mix with people from outside their household. People were advised not to use public transport and to limit the number of times they visited essential shops.\n\nTogether these had a dramatic impact on cases, and the number of coronavirus patients in hospital plummeted from 20,000 to about 800.\n\nHow much each part of that lockdown contributed is hard to say.\n\nThe rules were relaxed but then, at the end of June, Leicester became the first place to go into a local lockdown. Other cities, and whole regions, have followed. But so far, Leicester's lockdown is the only one to have come close to the strictness of the national policy. Shops and pubs were stopped from opening. Households were barred from mixing indoors. And new cases of the virus dropped by 60% during July. People in hospital beds with coronavirus fell from 88 to 18.\n\nSince Leicester, local lockdowns have multiplied. More than 15 million people - very roughly, a quarter of the UK population - have come under new curbs, in some form.\n\nAnd it's become harder to see whether they are working or not.\n\nAfter the first changes, cases continued to rise, throughout August. Then, after pub and restaurant closures, case rates dropped sharply. It is, however, too soon to say for sure that the stricter measures led directly to the decline.\n\nIn the rest of Greater Manchester, gatherings with other households were banned but shops, pubs and restaurants remained open. Cases have mostly kept climbing throughout these local restrictions.\n\nHowever, the latest week's data will be welcome news - suggesting the sharp increases might be levelling off. The rise in cases in many areas under local lockdown appears to be slowing, in line with the national picture.\n\nThis may be a sign that the England-wide \"rule of six\" is working.\n\nA large national study, published last week, confirmed the growth in cases was slowing across England, although overall levels remained high. But restrictions on households meeting - which have been seen at a local level - don't always lead to a slowing case rate. And this change in impact highlights the many factors involved which make it difficult to isolate the precise effect of local lockdowns.\n\nPeople don't necessarily change their behaviour exactly in line with rule changes.\n\nWhen concerns about cases rising begin to be reported, some people alter their behaviour before any law change. Other people, even when the rules come into place, don't obey them.\n\nSo it may be a question of timing: are people more ready to restrict their movements now than they were in August?\n\nTo complicate the figures further, other things have been going on at the same time as local lockdowns were being introduced, including summer holiday season and schools reopening.\n\nIn Leicester, cases fell when restrictions were introduced. When they were progressively eased in August and September, cases started to rise. But this rise coincided with more people travelling abroad. And with children going back to school.\n\nIn Greater Manchester, cases also rose over those months despite the area being in lockdown - albeit a looser version than Leicester's had been.\n\nUnpicking these different factors is a big challenge.\n\nLooking at \"positivity rates\" - the proportion of all tests that are positive, adjusting for different levels of testing - shows there have been increases in cases across England, with particularly sharp spikes in the North West and North East between the end of August and the end of September. Restrictions in those regions were only introduced between the middle of September and the beginning of October, making it too soon to see the impact of these rules.\n\nBut in Blackburn, which has been in lockdown long enough for an effect to be seen, there was also a rise in cases - though this has come back down in recent weeks.\n\nRecent increases in hospitalisations from coronavirus have highlighted the extent of the challenge facing the north of England. Though without up-to-date localised data, it is difficult to judge whether the impact on a local level - such as those in Blackburn - have helped prevent serious cases.\n\nThere's no doubt the national lockdown had a considerable impact on cases.\n\nFundamentally, the virus needs people to be in close contact and mixing between circles to spread through the population. How tight the restrictions are makes a difference - look at the experience of Leicester, compared with Oldham or Blackburn.\n\nBut so do the crucial issues of timing and compliance. A lockdown only works if people stick to it.\n\nThe data also indicates that any impact lockdowns do have is far from permanent - relax the restrictions and allow more contact, and the virus will quickly start to spread again.\n\nUnless and until a viable vaccine becomes available, government will be faced with the same choice: shut down large chunks of society or allow the virus to tear through communities, with little idea of the true toll that either will exact.", "The UK economy may have grown by as much as 17% in the three months to the end of September, says the EY Item Club, but slower growth may follow.\n\nShoppers splurged during the period as coronavirus lockdown restrictions were lifted, it said.\n\nIt is a rosier vision than the one offered by Item Club economists in the summer, but they warned that growth for the rest of 2020 would be far slower.\n\nGrowth for the final three months will be 1% or less, they predicted.\n\n\"The UK economy has done well to recover faster than expected so far,\" said Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club.\n\n\"Consumer spending has bounced back strongly, while housing sector activity has also seen a pick-up, in part thanks to the stamp duty holiday.\"\n\nThe economy probably grew 16-17% in the third quarter of the year compared with the second quarter, it said. It had been expecting growth of 12%.\n\nWhile government help such as the furlough programme has provided \"much-needed support\", growth will now begin to fade, said Mr Archer.\n\nThe end of the furlough scheme, under which workers had part of their salary paid by the government, will mean higher unemployment and sluggish growth, said the forecasters, who use a similar economic model to the Treasury.\n\nThat said, the UK economy is now predicted to regain its pre-pandemic size in the second half of 2023. Back in July, the EY Item Club did not expect that to happen until late 2024.\n\nOfficial figures from the Office for National Statistics showed last week that The UK economy continued its recovery in August, growing by 2.1% in the month, as the Eat Out to Help Out scheme boosted restaurants.\n\nIt was, however, smaller than economists had estimated and helped drag down the estimated pace of recovery for the year.\n\nAs with any economic forecast, there are factors which could speed up or slow down the recovery, the economists said.\n\nA vaccine is likely to help the economy, but there are more likely threats to growth than there are surprise boosts.\n\nFactors that could weigh down growth include a drop in consumer spending, more lockdown measures, slow Brexit negotiations between the UK and the EU and a spike in unemployment.\n\n\"The latest forecast also notes that, even if further virus outbreaks are contained and major restrictions on economic activity are avoided, consumers and businesses could remain cautious in their behaviour for an extended period,\" the report said.\n\nThe Club's estimates assume a simple free trade agreement with the EU by the end of the year.\n\nWithout an agreement, growth of 4.8% is forecast in 2021, down from 6%, while growth in 2022 would be cut to 2.6% from 2.9%.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland came from behind to overcome the world's top-ranked team Belgium and record an important Nations League victory at Wembley.\n\nBelgium took a lead their early superiority deserved when Romelu Lukaku sent England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford the wrong way after the striker had been brought down by Eric Dier's poor challenge.\n\nEngland were on the back foot for most of the first half but were handed a lifeline back into the game six minutes before half-time when captain Jordan Henderson went down very easily in a tussle with Thomas Meunier, Marcus Rashford scoring from the spot.\n\nGareth Southgate's side enjoyed much more possession after the break but needed a large slice of luck to take the lead after 64 minutes, Mason Mount's effort deflecting off Toby Alderweireld and looping over keeper Simon Mignolet to inflict Belgium's first loss since November 2018.\n• None 'A statement win - but let's not kid anyone'\n• None Best action and reaction from England v Belgium\n\nEngland were very much second best until they got a rather soft penalty when Henderson tumbled under a challenge from Meunier - but the way they gathered themselves after the break to subdue this talented Belgium side deserves great credit.\n\nSouthgate's side were very conservative in that opening spell, rather like his team selection, but the manager will say the end result justified the means, although this was a game where both sides were also missing key individuals.\n\nEngland held firm at the back and were resolute, limiting Belgium to one clear opening after the break when Yannick Carrasco flicked Kevin de Bruyne's brilliant pass inches wide of the far post.\n\nGoalkeeper Pickford, who retained Southgate's faith despite poor form for Everton, was not placed under huge pressure but mostly did what he had to do competently, with one first-half save from De Bruyne's low shot and a couple of decent pieces of handling.\n\nThe bigger picture, apart from putting England top of Group A2, is that this is a victory that will give Southgate real satisfaction as it is the sort of game against elite opposition where his side have been found wanting in the past, not least when they lost twice to Belgium at the 2018 World Cup, in the group stage and the third-place play-off.\n\nLukaku has regained his reputation as one of Europe's finest strikers since leaving Manchester United for Inter Milan in August 2019.\n\nHis spell at Old Trafford was regarded as a relative failure despite a highly respectable record of 42 goals in 96 games.\n\nLukaku may have been the victim of the turmoil under Jose Mourinho and then the switch to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at United, but there was no doubt he looked out of sorts for long periods.\n\nHere at Wembley, particularly in the first half, he showed the threat he possesses when at the top of his game, bullying Dier and Harry Maguire and also showing quality on the ball.\n\nLukaku drew the unwise challenge from Dier to score his 53rd goal for his country from the spot, emphasising his importance to Roberto Martinez's side as they look to build on their ranking as the world's number one side.\n\nMartinez, admittedly without the injured Eden Hazard, Thibaut Courtois and Dries Mertens, will be disappointed by how his side lost momentum after England equalised - but Lukaku showed once more what a fine striker he is at his best.\n\n'We had to suffer' - what they said\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate: \"It was a top-level game. We had a lot of young players there for whom that was a really great experience. You have to suffer to win these big games and the players did that.\"\n\nMatch-winner Mason Mount: \"It's a special achievement to score my first goal at Wembley. I found myself in a bit of space and had only one thing on my mind. It took a really big deflection but it doesn't matter how they go in. I'll take it.\"\n\nCaptain Jordan Henderson: \"We want to compete with the very best teams, and Belgium are certainly that. We competed very well and that's what we want to do, keep competing and growing and you never know where that may take us.\"\n• None England have won 20 of their past 21 competitive home games (L1), scoring 67 goals while conceding only 10.\n• None Belgium have lost for only the fourth time in 47 games under Martinez (P47 W36 D7), and for the first time since November 2018 versus Switzerland.\n• None England have beaten Belgium in a competitive fixture for just the second time (D2 L2), with the only previous such win coming at the 1990 World Cup.\n• None England's first attempt of the game was a 31st-minute header by Dominic Calvert-Lewin - it's the longest they've had to wait for their first attempt at home since November 2011 v Spain (32nd minute).\n• None Rashford became the fourth Man Utd player to score in four consecutive competitive appearances for England, after Bobby Charlton, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney (x2).\n• None Lukaku's opener was the first goal England have conceded in exactly a year; the last player to score against England was Zdenek Ondrasek for the Czech Republic on 11 October 2019.\n\nBoth sides continue in Nations League action on Wednesday evening. England host Denmark at Wembley while Belgium travel to Iceland (both games 19:45 BST).\n• None Offside, Belgium. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Yari Verschaeren is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Declan Rice following a fast break.\n• None Offside, Belgium. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Jéremy Doku is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kieran Trippier with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld.\n• None Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jason Denayer following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant has seen 25 deaths and 135 cases relating to coronavirus\n\nWales is \"close to a tipping point\" with the number of coronavirus cases rising rapidly across parts of the country, the first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said the number of patients with suspected or confirmed Covid in hospital had gone up \"steadily over the last couple of weeks\".\n\n\"We're heading back to the sorts of demands on the health service that we saw earlier in the year,\" he said.\n\nPeople in 17 areas of Wales now face local lockdown rules due to the virus.\n\nA total of 1,669 people in Wales have died with Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to figures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday.\n\nIt also said 30,121 people have tested positive for the virus, with 467 new cases reported on Sunday.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam has said the seasons were \"against us\" and the country was running into a \"headwind\" due to mounting cases.\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, \"while I don't think we are in the identical position as they face across our border in England... I don't think there's a great deal of comfort to be drawn\".\n\nHe said the increase in cases was seen mostly in community settings, not from transmission from people mixing in the hospitality sector.\n\n\"Unless we are able to turn back the tide of coronavirus in the community, we will see our health service come under very significant strain,\" he said.\n\nAll but essential travel in or out of an area is banned under local lockdown restrictions in Wales\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce tougher restrictions for England.\n\nIn a statement to MPs, he is expected to set out plans for a three-tier local lockdown system which would see every region in England placed in one of three tiers, depending on the severity of cases.\n\nHe has already rejected a call by Mr Drakeford to ban people travelling from Covid hotspots in England to Wales.\n\nPeople in Wales cannot leave lockdown areas without a good reason, such as going to work.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"If it were to be the case that on Monday we hear that high circulation areas in England are to have a similar regime as the one we have in Wales, that will be a huge relief for us in Wales, but I think it is the right thing to do across the United Kingdom as a whole.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth called for an \"unambiguous plan, communicated clearly, implemented effectively and enforced strictly\" to curb the spread of the virus.\n\n\"The government has to provide the data that proves it's able to target its efforts properly, balancing clampdowns on clusters with the well-being of people and business,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWorld Rugby's decision to prevent transgender women from competing at the highest levels of the women's game has provoked a mixed reaction.\n\nThe move has been criticised by LGBT charity Stonewall, while some women's rights and gay rights campaigners have welcomed the decision.\n\nNew guidelines published on Friday \"do not recommend\" transgender women play contact rugby \"on safety grounds\".\n\nNational unions can be flexible in their application of the guidelines at community level.\n\nStonewall says it is \"deeply disappointed\" with the decision, but Fair Play for Women - which \"works to protect the rights of women and girls in the UK\" - thanked World Rugby \"for not trading away women's safety\".\n\n\"The proposals were based on hypothetical data modelling that has little relevance to the questions of fairness and safety in rugby that the policy review sought to address,\" said Stonewall chief executive Nancy Kelley.\n\n\"Important policies like this should be based on robust, relevant evidence and work closely with trans people playing in the sport.\"\n\nHowever, Bev Jackson, co-founder of the LGB Alliance, said the organisation \"applauds World Rugby for conducting a thorough, evidence-based study and making a decision on that basis to protect safety in women's rugby. We are very pleased that they resisted political pressure and kept to scientific facts. Many lesbians play this sport and they are enormously relieved.\"\n\nShe added that \"judging by the reactions we have received, a great many LGB people and indeed many trans people think this was the right decision\".\n\nDr Nicola Williams, director of Fair Play For Women, said: \"World Rugby have taken a transparent and evidence-based approach and we welcome their decision to prioritise safety and fairness for elite female players.\n\n\"We now look to Rugby's national governing bodies to follow their lead and guarantee the same protections for the thousands of women and girls who play at club level.\"\n\nTransgender men remain permitted to play men's contact rugby union, but the sport's governing body says a review of its existing guidelines had concluded that \"safety and fairness cannot presently be assured for women competing against trans women in contact rugby\".\n\nWorld Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont said: \"We recognise that the science continues to evolve and we are committed to regularly reviewing these guidelines, always seeking to be inclusive.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport in August, Grace McKenzie, a trans woman who plays for Golden Gate Women's rugby club in San Francisco, said she was worried \"that other sporting federations will look at World Rugby and begin to second-guess the existing science that supports trans women's inclusion in sport, and begin to make policies based out of a place of fear instead of a place of logic and reason\".\n\n\"I want to be able to participate fully with my team and in the sport that I love. I think that there is still a path forward to allow us to do that,\" she said.\n\nFormer Great Britain swimmer Sharron Davies, who has been vocal on the issue of trans women in elite sport, also welcomed World Rugby's decision.\n\nThe 57-year-old, a silver medallist at the 1980 Olympics, posted on social media: \"If we, as a fair society, want equal opportunities for females to medals, team places, safe sport and scholarships, with all the associations, rewards and careers, sport must be based on biological sex.\"\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "Radical proposals for the reform of English football could have a \"damaging impact\" on the game, says the Premier League.\n\nUnder the proposals, led by Liverpool and Manchester United, the English top flight would be cut to 18 teams.\n\nThe plans would see the Premier League hand over the £250m bailout required by the Football League to stave off a financial disaster among its 72 clubs.\n\nThe Premier League would also hand over 25% of its annual income to the EFL.\n• None EFL chief Parry: 'Reforms will benefit game as a whole'\n\nThe proposals, dubbed Project Big Picture, would see:\n• None The Premier League cut from 20 to 18 clubs, with the Championship, League One and League Two each retaining 24 teams.\n• None The bottom two teams in the Premier League relegated automatically with the 16th-placed team joining the Championship play-offs.\n• None A £250m rescue fund made immediately available to the EFL\n• None £100m paid to the FA to make up for lost revenue.\n• None Nine clubs given 'special voting rights' on certain issues, based on their extended runs in the Premier League.\n\nBut the plans have been criticised by the Premier League, the government and supporters' groups.\n\n\"English football is the world's most watched, and has a vibrant, dynamic and competitive league structure that drives interest around the globe,\" a Premier League statement said.\n\n\"To maintain this position, it is important that we all work together. Both the Premier League and the FA support a wide-ranging discussion on the future of the game, including its competition structures, calendar and overall financing particularly in light of the effects of Covid-19.\n\n\"Football has many stakeholders, therefore this work should be carried out through the proper channels enabling all clubs and stakeholders the opportunity to contribute.\"\n\nUnder the proposals, the EFL Cup in its present form would be abolished and the Community Shield scrapped.\n\nIn addition, the top flight's 14-club majority voting system would change.\n\nThe Premier League statement added: \"In the Premier League's view, a number of the individual proposals in the plan published today could have a damaging impact on the whole game and we are disappointed to see that Rick Parry, chair of the EFL, has given his on-the-record support.\n\n\"The Premier League has been working in good faith with its clubs and the EFL to seek a resolution to the requirement for Covid-19 rescue funding. This work will continue.\"\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport condemned what it called a \"backroom deal\".\n\n\"We are surprised and disappointed that at a time of crisis when we have urged the top tiers of professional football to come together and finalise a deal to help lower league clubs, there appear to be backroom deals being cooked up that would create a closed shop at the very top of the game,\" a DCMS spokesperson said.\n\n\"Sustainability, integrity and fair competition are absolutely paramount and anything that may undermine them is deeply troubling. Fans must be front of all our minds, and this shows why our fan led review of football governance will be so critical.\"\n\nThis is a hugely divisive and potentially seismic proposal, threatening the biggest shake-up of the English game in a generation.\n\nAngered by the way the story broke without their blessing, the Premier League has already given it short shrift, viewing this as a regrettable power-grab. In fact one well-placed Premier League source has described it as a \"takeover attempt, rather than a rescue package\".\n\nMany will see this as an anti-competitive plot to concentrate power in the hands of the biggest clubs, opening the door to them controlling broadcast contracts, financial rules and even takeovers bids in a way top-flight bosses have always been desperate to avoid - a step towards a European Super League, and a means of freeing up space in the calendar to play more lucrative pre-season friendlies.\n\nFor years the bigger clubs have wanted more money and more sway. This is the most dramatic manifestation of that to date. But will it get off the ground? There will be huge doubts given 14 clubs would need to approve a plan that would mean fewer Premier League places. But the involvement of the two biggest clubs in the country means this surprising development has to be taken seriously.\n\nAt a time when the EFL is facing an unprecedented financial crisis however, it is easy to see why they would support a plan that would hand them the £250m they need to cover the loss of match-day revenue this season. And many in football will welcome the idea of a more redistributive financial model, with 25% of Premier League income shared at a time when the gulf between the divisions has been identified as a major problem.\n\nIndeed, if the threat of this plan helps break the impasse between the Premier League and the government over a rescue package for the EFL, and a more redistributive financial 'reset', perhaps it can emerge as a positive development.\n\nThe English Football League confirmed it had been in talks over 'Project Big Picture' and that its chairman Rick Parry was in favour of the plans, first reported in the Daily Telegraph.\n\n\"The need for a complete rethinking regarding the funding of English professional football predates the Covid-19 crisis,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Discussion and planning around 'Project Big Picture' has been ongoing for quite some time, unrelated to the current pandemic but now has an urgency that simply cannot be denied.\n\n\"The revenues flowing from the investment and work of our top clubs has been largely limited to the top division creating a sort of lottery, while Championship clubs struggle to behave prudently and Leagues One and Two are financially stretched despite enormous revenues English football generates.\n\n\"This plan devised by our top clubs and the English Football League puts an end to all of that.\"\n\nParry says, in 2018-19, Championship clubs received £146m in EFL distributions and Premier League solidarity payments, compared with £1.56bn received by the bottom 14 Premier League clubs.\n\nHe added parachute payments made to eight recently relegated clubs totalled £246m and represented one-third of the total Championship turnover.\n\nParry said it created \"a major distortion that impacts the league annually\".\n\n\"The gap between the Premier League and the English Football League has become a chasm which has become unbridgeable for clubs transitioning between the EFL and Premier League,\" he said.\n\nIt is understood Liverpool's owners, the Fenway Sports Group, came forward with the initial plan, which has been worked on by United co-chairman Joel Glazer. It is anticipated it will receive the backing of Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur - the other members of England's 'big six'.\n\nThe idea is to address longstanding EFL concerns about the huge gap in funding between its divisions and the Premier League by handing over 25% of the annual income, although the current parachute payment system would be scrapped.\n\nThere would be a £250m up-front payment to address the existing crisis created by the coronavirus pandemic, seen by some as a bid to garner support for the proposals.\n\nIn addition, the Football Association would receive what is being described as a £100m \"gift\".\n\nThe Football Supporters' Association said it noted \"with grave concern\" the proposals, adding they had \"far-reaching consequences for the whole of domestic football\".\n\n\"Once again it appears that big decisions in football are apparently being stitched up behind our backs by billionaire club owners who continue to treat football as their personal fiefdom,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Football is far more than a business to be carved up; it is part of our communities and our heritage, and football fans are its lifeblood. As football's most important stakeholders, it is crucial that fans are consulted and involved in the game's decision-making.\n\n\"We have welcomed the government's commitment to a 'fan-led review of the governance of football'; we would argue that today's revelations have made that process even more relevant and urgent.\"\n\nThe organisation said it remained \"open-minded to any suggestions for the improvement of the governance and organisation of the game\".\n\nIt added: \"We would however emphasise that in our discussions so far, very few of our members have ever expressed the view that what football really needs is a greater concentration of power in the hands of the big six billionaire-owned clubs.\"\n\nNo date has been set for the proposed new-style league to be in operation but sources have suggested 2022-23 is not out of the question.\n\nIn order to get down from 20 to 18, it is anticipated four clubs would be relegated directly, with two promoted from the Championship. In addition, there would be play-offs involving the team to finish 16th in the Premier League and those in third, fourth and fifth in the second tier.\n\nIt is also planned that, as well as the 'big six', ever-present league member Everton, West Ham United and Southampton - ninth and 11th respectively in the list of clubs who have featured in the most Premier League seasons - would be granted special status.\n\nIf six of those nine clubs vote in favour of a proposal, it would be enough to get it passed.\n\nThere is no mention of Aston Villa and Newcastle United, both of whom have featured in more Premier League campaigns than Manchester City.\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRafael Nadal produced one of his finest French Open displays to stun Novak Djokovic and equal Roger Federer's record of 20 Grand Slam men's titles.\n\nSpanish second seed Nadal outclassed world number one Djokovic in a 6-0 6-2 7-5 win, which clinched a record-extending 13th title at Roland Garros.\n\nQuestions had been asked about 34-year-old Nadal's level, but he responded with an almost flawless performance.\n\nTop seed Djokovic, 33, lost a completed match for the first time in 2020.\n• None Which way will the 'GOAT race' turn?\n• None Why is Nadal so good on clay?\n\nThe Serb was overwhelmed by Nadal's rapid start and produced a despondent display as a result.\n\nDefeat also meant Djokovic, who was bidding for an 18th Grand Slam title, lost ground on Nadal and Federer in their ongoing battle to finish with the most major wins.\n\nNadal sealed victory after two hours 41 minutes with a kicking ace out wide on his first match point, leaving the Spaniard laughing as he fell to his knees on the court where he has enjoyed unparalleled success.\n\n\"A win here means everything for me,\" said Nadal, who also became the first player to win 100 singles matches at Roland Garros.\n\n\"Honestly, I don't think about the 20th and equalling Roger, for me it is just a Roland Garros victory.\n\n\"I have spent most of the most important moments in my career here.\n\n\"Just to play here is a true inspiration and the love story I have with this city and this court is unforgettable.\"\n\nNadal shows exactly why he is the 'King of Clay'\n\nFew things in the sporting world over the past 15 years have been almost as certain as Nadal winning the French Open men's singles title.\n\nThis year, like with so many things across the world because of the coronavirus pandemic, there was more uncertainty.\n\nNadal himself put some doubt on his chances going into a tournament which looked and felt like no other French Open.\n\nPlayed in cooler weather than usual - with the tournament in October rather than June - and without his usual preparation on the clay courts, Nadal said it represented the toughest test he had ever faced at Roland Garros.\n\nBut he came through these new challenges to win in arguably the finest fashion yet.\n\nNot only did Nadal win the tournament without dropping a set for a fourth time, it was the manner of his one-sided victory against Djokovic which made it so impressive.\n\nNadal raised his game to a scarcely believable level from the start, defending ferociously and attacking with equally great effect.\n\nEverything he hit at Djokovic landed with pace and precision, leading to just six unforced errors in the opening two sets.\n\nDjokovic looked up to the sky in amazement when Nadal eventually started making a few more mistakes in a more competitive third set - but by then it was too late for even him to turn the match around.\n\n\"Today you showed why you are King of the Clay, I experienced it with my own skin,\" Djokovic said.\n\n13 - no other player has won as many Grand Slam singles titles at one place\n\n15 - the number of years since his first Grand Slam title, only Serena Williams' wins have spanned a longer period\n\n100 - Nadal is the first player to reach a century of singles wins at Roland Garros\n\nSubdued Djokovic not allowed to play his best\n\nWhile Nadal had the superior history at Roland Garros, Djokovic had the superior form over the course of a fragmented year.\n\nDjokovic had won 37 of his 38 previous matches this year, with his only defeat coming as a result of being defaulted in the infamous US Open fourth-round match against Pablo Carreno Busta last month.\n\nUnlike Nadal, Djokovic had dropped sets in his previous six matches - albeit only three - but looked to be operating at a higher level as he swatted aside tougher opponents than Nadal.\n\nTherefore, many would have considered Djokovic as the slight favourite going into the final.\n\nDjokovic had played with clarity of thought and perfect execution through much of the tournament but looked befuddled and subdued as he was unable to cope with Nadal's ferocious start.\n\nWhile Djokovic had come back from two sets down to win on four previous occasions, none of those were against Nadal. Even more crucially, none of them were against Nadal at Roland Garros.\n\nBetter serving and more aggressive returning by the Serb, who was playing fewer of the drop shots that Nadal had read with speed of mind and fleet of foot earlier, made the third set more like the contest the world had expected.\n\nFrailties were still loitering, however, and appeared again when he produced a double fault to hand over the crucial break in the 11th game which enabled Nadal to serve out victory.\n\n\"I am not so pleased with the way I played but I was definitely outplayed by a better player on the court,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"I didn't know whether he [Nadal] had that sort of level of tennis in him at the age of 34. It is 15 years since he first won this thing. Here he is in his 30s playing utterly devastating tennis.\n\n\"Novak Djokovic was made to lose. I don't think two players could have stopped Rafael Nadal today.\n\n\"It is an absolutely massive moment in the sport that he has drawn level with Roger Federer.\"\n\n\"Nadal has done it again. At 34 he is still the one to beat when it comes to Roland Garros.\n\n\"He played a dream match. The level of tennis that Rafa brought today was out of this world.\n\n\"On today's form, Rafa looks physically in such good condition.\n\n\"Djokovic being a year or two younger, he has years and years ahead of him and is able to do that across a number of surfaces as well.\n\n\"It is going to be fascinating [how the race to win the most Grand Slam titles goes]. It is interesting to hear Rafa play down the importance of the record to him.\"\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "Liverpool is expected to be placed under the most severe set of restrictions in a new, three-tier system\n\nAnother national coronavirus lockdown is a possibility and we have to do what we can to avoid that at all costs, a leading UK scientist has said.\n\nProf Peter Horby said the UK was at a \"precarious point\" as Covid cases and hospital admissions continue to rise.\n\nHis comments echo those of England's deputy chief medical officer, who said more deaths would follow and urged people to limit social contact.\n\nMinisters say their local approach to restrictions is the right way forward.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to announce tougher local restrictions on Monday.\n\nIn a statement to MPs, Boris Johnson will outline plans for a three-tier system, where each region in England is placed into a tier based on the severity of cases in the area.\n\nHe has spent Sunday afternoon updating cabinet ministers on the next steps.\n\nThe plans have already sparked opposition, with Labour MPs in Greater Manchester telling Mr Johnson they would not support being placed under the harshest level of restrictions.\n\nAcross the UK, the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - is now estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.5. Anything above 1.0 means cases are increasing.\n\nOn Sunday, 12,872 people in the UK were reported to have tested positive for coronavirus - some 2,294 fewer than on Saturday - according to the latest figures on the government's dashboard. There were a further 65 deaths - down from 81 on Saturday.\n\nProf Horby, chair of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) and a government adviser, said the \"critical mission\" now was to protect the NHS to avoid non-essential hospital services being cancelled, as many were when the UK went into its first nationwide lockdown in March.\n\n\"We really need to provide care to everybody - those with Covid and those without,\" he said. \"The way to do that is to keep the numbers down.\"\n\nHe warned that some hospitals in the north of England were already coming under pressure and it might not be long before intensive care beds fill up.\n\n\"I am afraid we are going to have to make some very difficult choices and act very quickly,\" he added.\n\nProf Horby said a surge in cases in the North was partly because people were coming into contact with more people than in other parts of the country.\n\nHe also told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that in the months before the increase in cases, numbers had not dropped to as low a level in the North as in other parts of England.\n\nProf Horby said the country must accept more stringent measures to drive down transmission of the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Videos on social media showed Saturday night street scenes in some cities, including an impromptu game of cricket\n\nIn an earlier statement, England's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said the UK has reached a \"tipping point\" in its epidemic, similar to that last seen in March.\n\nThe seasons were \"against us\" and the country was running into a \"headwind\" ahead of the winter months, he warned.\n\nIt is expected that parts of the north of England and the Midlands will be placed under tougher measures as part of the prime minister's announcement.\n\nLiverpool, where there are currently 600 cases per 100,000 people, is expected to be placed under the most severe set of restrictions, with all the city's pubs forced to close.\n\nPubs and restaurants across the central belt of Scotland closed their doors for at least two weeks on Friday, to try to tackle a rise in cases.\n\nThere is growing concern about the pressure on hospitals. But just how busy are they?\n\nThere are more than 600 new admissions for Covid each day in the UK with close to 4,000 patients in hospital. That means about 3% of beds are occupied by Covid patients overall.\n\nAt the peak, the numbers topped 20,000.\n\nThat may not seem too worrying, but the national picture masks the real pinch being felt in particular areas.\n\nHospitals in north-west England are caring for more than a quarter of those patients, including 132 in intensive care. On current trajectories they could hit the numbers seen during the spring peak within three weeks.\n\nBut what none of this tells us is what free capacity the NHS actually has, because neither the government nor the NHS is publishing this on a regular basis.\n\nThere were 30,000 beds free in the middle of summer - three times more than is normally the case, due to the slowdown in non-Covid care.\n\nMore detail about the current situation would allow us to properly judge the comments being made by ministers and their advisers.\n\nPolitical leaders in the north of England fear harsher measures in their regions could damage local economies and leave some people struggling to survive.\n\nThey say Chancellor Rishi Sunak's announcement - to pay two-thirds of workers' wages for UK firms forced to close by law by coronavirus restrictions - is \"insufficient\".\n\nDavid Greenhalgh, Conservative leader of Bolton Council, said: \"The North feels like they are being treated differently.\n\n\"We know our rates are high, we are not underestimating that, but we cannot throw our local economy to the wall. I urge government to respect that.\"\n\nFive Labour MPs in Greater Manchester have written to the prime minister, arguing pre-emptively against being placed in tier three, which will have the harshest restrictions.\n\nThey said in their constituencies, the virus was spreading among students and in private homes, and less so in the hospitality sector.\n\nClosing all restaurants and pubs would therefore not have a \"sizeable effect\" on transmission rates yet would devastate businesses and livelihoods, they added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Nandy: \"It's very clear that we do need further restrictions\"\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy, who is MP for Wigan, agreed further restrictions were needed in many areas, but accused the government of treating people with contempt.\n\n\"I haven't felt anger like this since I was growing up in the 1980s. People feel that they haven't just been abandoned, they now feel that the government is actively working against us.\"\n\nShe said Labour would try to force a House of Commons vote on Mr Sunak's plans \"so there is an opportunity to put forward an alternative support package\".\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick said the chancellor's proposals provided a \"fair safety net\" for people, but he accepted there were \"hard choices\" to be made.\n\n\"We can't do everything, there is a limit to what the state can do here but we are trying to support these communities,\" he added.\n\nResponding to a question about anger in the North, Mr Jenrick told Andrew Marr the new measures would apply to the whole of the UK - and ministers would never bring in a change \"that penalises one part of the country over another\".\n\nThe huge variation in case numbers across the country meant a localised approach was right, he said, adding: \"None of us want to see a return to blanket national measures.\"\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? What have restrictions meant for you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine for tuberculosis, pictured at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1931.\n\nScientists in the UK have begun testing the BCG vaccine, developed in 1921, to see if it can save lives from Covid.\n\nThe vaccine was designed to stop tuberculosis, but there is some evidence it can protect against other infections as well.\n\nAround 1,000 people will take part in the trial at the University of Exeter.\n\nBut while millions of people in the UK will have had the BCG jab as a child, it is thought they would need to be vaccinated again to benefit.\n\nVaccines are designed to train the immune system in a highly targeted way that leaves lasting protection against one particular infection.\n\nBut this process also causes wide-spread changes in the immune system. This seems to heighten the response to other infections and scientists hope it may even give our bodies an advantage against coronavirus.\n\n\"This could be of major importance globally,\" Prof John Campbell, of the University of Exeter Medical School, told the BBC.\n\n\"Whilst we don't think it [the protection] will be specific to Covid, it has the potential to buy several years of time for the Covid vaccines to come through and perhaps other treatments to be developed.\"\n\nThe UK trial is part of the international Brace-study, which is also taking place in Australia, the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil, recruiting 10,000 people in total.\n\nIt will focus on health and care workers, as they are more likely to be exposed to coronavirus, so researchers will know more quickly if the vaccine is effective.\n\nSam Hilton, a GP from Exeter, is taking part in the trials since, as a doctor, he is at higher risk of catching Covid.\n\n\"There's quite a good theory BCG might make you less likely to get unwell when you get Covid,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"So I see it as a potential for me to get protected a bit, which means I'm more likely to come to work this winter.\"\n\nDr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, is one of the authors of a Lancet article saying the BCG vaccine has the potential to \"bridge the gap before a disease-specific vaccine is developed\".\n\n\"This would be an important tool in the response to Covid-19 and future pandemics,\" the article states.\n\nHowever, the BCG vaccine will not be a long-term solution.\n\nAny enhanced resilience to Covid is expected to wane meaning people who were immunised with BCG in childhood would no longer have protection. BCG has not been routinely used in the UK since 2005 because levels of tuberculosis are so low.\n\nAdditionally, the vaccine will not train the immune system to produce the antibodies and specialist white blood cells that recognise and fight off the coronavirus.\n\nThe big goal remains a vaccine that specifically targets the coronavirus. Ten such vaccines are in the final stages of clinical research, including the one developed at the University of Oxford.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard, from the Oxford Vaccine Group, told the BBC: \"The way that most vaccines work is to make a very specific immune response against the germ you are trying to prevent.\n\n\"But in order to make a good immune response, there is also a rather non-specific 'souping-up' of the immune response and that changes the way the immune system is able to respond in the future.\n\n\"The problem we have today is I can't tell you what you could do with other vaccines to try to improve your ability to respond to coronavirus because we have no evidence at all.\"", "Crowds gathered in Liverpool on Monday to watch filming for a new Batman film in the city\n\nBoris Johnson is due to announce a new \"three-tier\" Covid system for England.\n\nThe PM will address Parliament at 15:30 BST, setting out different rules for regions classified as being on \"medium\", \"high\" or \"very high\" alert.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region - home to 1.5 million - is expected to face the tightest restrictions with pubs and gyms closed, and further rules on households mixing indoors.\n\nNewcastle council's leader has said the North East could avoid tighter rules.\n\nMr Johnson will address MPs before holding a Downing Street news conference. Other areas awaiting news of further restrictions include Greater Manchester, Nottingham and Leeds.\n\nLiverpool recorded 600 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending 6 October. The average for England was 74.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region includes the local authority districts of Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral, as well as Liverpool.\n\nLocal MPs were told during a call with Health Secretary Matt Hancock all bars, pubs, gyms and betting shops will be closed while restaurants will remain open for the moment.\n\nLegal restrictions will also be placed on indoor household mixing and there will be guidance on travel restrictions.\n\nThe new curbs are to be reviewed after a month.\n\nMr Johnson chaired a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee \"to determine the final interventions\" on Wednesday morning.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said experts told Cobra even tier three restrictions would be unlikely to bring the UK's R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus - below 1.\n\nThe PM will announce changes in Parliament, before speaking at a Downing Street news conference at 19:00.\n\nHe is expected to be joined at No 10 by Chancellor Rishi Sunak and England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Videos on social media showed Saturday night street scenes in some cities, including an impromptu game of cricket\n\nDuring a data briefing earlier, NHS England medical director Stephen Powis said more people were now in hospital with Covid than before restrictions were introduced in March.\n\nHe confirmed Nightingale hospitals in Manchester, Sunderland and Harrogate were being prepared to take patients.\n\nProf Jonathan Van-Tam, deputy chief medical officer for England, said infection rates had never dropped as low in the northern England as in the South but warned \"things are heating up\" across the country.\n\nTougher measures were introduced in Scotland on Friday, including the closure of pubs and restaurants across the central belt, while the Welsh government has said the next few days could determine if \"national measures\" are implemented.\n\nUnder the new system for England, tier three is expected to involve the tightest restrictions.\n\nWe know the broad outline of what the government is going to announce today.\n\nMinisters have been working on a tier system for local restrictions in England for weeks - and today they'll confirm how it will work and the basic principles.\n\nThe Liverpool region is set to be the first put into the \"very high\" top tier - which will mean significant restrictions on hospitality within days.\n\nBut there are still details of a support package being worked out.\n\nThe metro mayor in Liverpool Steve Rotheram is adamant there needs to be more support for workers and businesses that will be told to close.\n\nHe doesn't think the chancellor's current plans go far enough - and I'm told conversations on economic support are likely to continue into this afternoon.\n\nThere have been questions about definitions - when is a pub a pub, which could be told to close, rather than restaurant which might not?\n\nIt's worth highlighting that if other areas are added to the highest tier in the next few weeks, restrictions may look different.\n\nSources say there is room for flexibility based on local factors.\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said he wanted \"some surety from national government that if we hit some milestones we can come out of tier three very quickly\".\n\nHe said the government had been clear the Liverpool City Region would be placed in the highest category, with \"no ifs, no buts\", and he added it had already been agreed there would be more local control over the tracing of close contacts and enforcement of restrictions.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the government was \"not panicking\" but taking \"reasonable and proportionate measures\", adding that \"we know there are challenges around hospitality\".\n\nCalum Semple, professor of outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool and advisor to the government, said: \"Most of the outbreaks are happening within and between households and then after that, it's in the retail and hospitality sector.\n\n\"So, the major issue here is to focus on the cities and areas with the largest outbreaks and sadly my home city of Liverpool is being hammered at the moment. These restrictions are necessary.\"\n\nThe problem with introducing the sort of restrictions that are being suggested to control the spread of the virus is that no-one is really sure whether they will really work.\n\nFirstly, while the government's advisers can track patterns in where infected individuals have been prior to being diagnosed, they cannot prove that they were actually infected in those places.\n\nSecondly, there will be unintended consequences.\n\nClose pubs and you may make the situation worse by driving people to mix more in private homes which are less \"Covid-secure\".\n\nIt is a point that has been made in recent days by Manchester City Council leader Sir Richard Leese as well as others as ministers weigh up their options.\n\nThen there is the economic, social and emotional toll of closing down parts of a community.\n\nThese are decisions that will divide opinion and, what is more, it will be nigh on impossible to judge exactly what impact they will have had on the virus.\n\nOldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon said Greater Manchester would be placed in tier two - \"with household restrictions on meeting indoors in any setting, but not outdoors\" - and pubs that serve food staying open.\n\nIt came after Sacha Lord, Greater Manchester's night-time economy adviser, started legal proceedings to challenge any restrictions on hospitality and entertainment venues in the North of England.\n\nPeople in 17 parts of Wales now face local lockdown rules - and cannot leave these areas without a good reason, such as going to work.\n\nWales' health minister Vaughan Gething said he was disappointed that the prime minister was not issuing guidance on whether people should travel out of highly infected areas.\n\nMinisters and health officials in Northern Ireland spent Sunday discussing what to do about the rapidly increasing rates of the virus. One MP said he believed lockdowns would be examined by the Northern Ireland Executive on Monday.\n\nOn Sunday, 12,872 people in the UK were reported to have tested positive for coronavirus - some 2,294 fewer than on Saturday.\n\nThere were a further 65 deaths - down from 81 on Saturday.\n\nHow could the new restrictions affect you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she has not spoken with Alex Salmond since 2018\n\nNicola Sturgeon says Alex Salmond may be angry with her because she refused to \"collude\" to make sexual misconduct allegations against him \"go away\".\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, the first minister also read out messages between the two after claims they had been withheld from an inquiry.\n\nA source close to former first minister Mr Salmond denied he was angry.\n\nThey said he was however \"astonished at the ever shifting sands\" of Ms Sturgeon's story.\n\nMr Salmond's lawyer has previously suggested the Scottish government may be trying to \"malign his reputation\".\n\nIt comes after the Scottish government had to pay Mr Salmond more than £500,000 in legal costs after accepting that its own investigation into allegations of misconduct against him was unlawful.\n\nMr Salmond was acquitted of sexual assault charges after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh in March.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has previously said that she has not spoken with her former friend and mentor since July 2018.\n\nShe has faced accusations that she has been less than forthcoming with the Holyrood inquiry set up to investigate her government's botched handling of the harassment allegations.\n\nThe Scottish government was forced to pay Alex Salmond more than £500,00 in legal costs\n\nIn an interview with Sophy Ridge On Sunday, Ms Sturgeon said: \"I think the reason perhaps he [Mr Salmond] is angry with me - and he clearly is angry with me - is that I didn't cover it up, I didn't collude with him to make these allegations go away and perhaps that is at the root of why he is as annoyed as he appears to be.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said much of the criticism she has taken over the issue was the \"age-old\" situation where \"a man is accused of misconduct against women and often it's a woman that ends up sitting answering for them\".\n\nIn response, Mr Salmond said: ''I have made no public comment since I was acquitted of all charges in the High Court in March and have made it clear that the first time I will comment is in front of the parliamentary committee.\n\n\"This committee was established to inquire into the conduct of the first minister, her special advisers and civil servants after her government's behaviour was found to be 'unlawful', 'unfair' and 'tainted by apparent bias' and at enormous cost to the public purse.\"\n\nThe committee's chair, SNP MSP Linda Fabiani, has said the inquiry had been \"completely frustrated\" by the lack of evidence being handed over.\n\nShe said the committee was still awaiting responses from the government, Mr Salmond and SNP chief executive Peter Murrell.\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly rejected claims that she has withheld information from the inquiry.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has insisted she had \"nothing to hide\" over the Alex Salmond inquiry\n\nShe insisted that \"every day I've tried to do the right thing and not cover it up\".\n\nHowever, a source close to Mr Salmond said: \"Alex Salmond is not \"angry\" with the first minister; just astonished at the ever shifting sands of her story.\n\n\"Her claims of an attempted 'collusion' are not only untrue but unsupported by the written evidence and directly contradicted by her own previous parliamentary statements.\"\n\nThe source added: \"The first minister claims to be entirely focussed on a health pandemic where people are still dying but is lashing out on television about matters which should properly be dealt with in front of the parliamentary committee established for that very purpose.\"\n\nThe first minister has faced accusations that she withheld some WhatsApp exchanges with Mr Salmond, but insisted they were \"not a big revelation\".\n\nShe acknowledged that the messages did make \"an oblique reference\" to claims of inappropriate conduct by Mr Salmond - despite saying she released all relevant evidence to the Holyrood investigation.\n\nChallenged about the claims on the Sophy Ridge programme, Ms Sturgeon offered to read out the messages.\n\nShe said she was \"setting up a conversation\" to discuss an inquiry by Sky News in 2017 about Mr Salmond allegedly behaving inappropriately.\n\nMr Salmond has hosted a weekly show on Kremlin-backed broadcaster Russia Today since November 2017\n\nMs Sturgeon said the messages were sent during the week of 5 November 2017, and Mr Salmond had not previously told her he was to start hosting a show on Kremlin-backed broadcaster Russia Today.\n\nAsked about the undisclosed messages, Ms Sturgeon said: \"Around about the time I spoke to [Mr Salmond] about the Sky News query, I sent him a message on 5 November saying, 'Hi, when you free to speak this morning?'. He replies saying '10am'.\n\n\"That's when I asked him, 'What is this Sky thing?'\n\n\"I go back to him later that day to say, 'Any developments?'\n\n\"The next day, I say, 'You free for a word?'\n\n\"So I was setting up a conversation that I have told the parliamentary inquiry about, it's hardly a big revelation.\n\n\"Later that week, incidentally, I messaged him to say, 'No wonder you didn't want to tell me'. That's just after I find out that he's agreed to host a regular show on Russia Today, and it reflects my incredulity at that decision.\n\n\"I think his response to me then makes an oblique reference to the Sky News query, so that may be what he's talking about.\"\n\nPressed as to why Mr Salmond could want these messages to be released to the parliamentary inquiry, Ms Sturgeon suggested the former first minister might want people to believe the allegations were \"all a big conspiracy\" to deflect from his conduct.", "A student isolating in Nottingham was given bread, jam and an apple for breakfast\n\nUniversities are facing anger from students over conditions some have faced while self-isolating in campus accommodation.\n\nStudents have criticised the cost and quality of food provided to them by universities while in isolation.\n\nUndergraduates say food parcels have often been filled with \"junk\", meaning they have had to request fresh fruit and vegetables from parents.\n\nInstitutions said they were working hard to provide students with supplies.\n\nPeople told to self-isolate because of coronavirus must stay at home for at least 10 days under rules punishable by fines.\n\nUniversities UK has issued guidance on best practice for supporting students who are required to self-isolate.\n\nFirst-year economics and politics student Tess Bailie, 18, began a social media campaign after hearing of especially poor conditions for those isolating on her campus.\n\nOut-of-date food and a lack of catering for religious and dietary requirements are among the complaints at the University of Edinburgh's Pollock Halls, dubbed the \"UK's most expensive prison\".\n\n\"Students are saying the only thing saving them was the fact that half of them have Covid and they can't taste it anyway,\" Ms Bailie said, referring to a common Covid-19 symptom.\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 pollockprisoner 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 University of Edinburgh admitted there had been a \"few occasions when students' needs have not been met\". But it said these were addressed quickly with work taking place to improve its systems.\n\nIn a statement, the university said: \"Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our students continues to be our absolute priority.\n\n\"We have teams of staff working 24 hours a day to provide those who are self-isolating in our catered and self-catered residences with three meals a day - including ready-to-heat meals - in line with their dietary requirements and preferences. Essential items are also being delivered on request.\"\n\nAt the University of York, students are given the option of a £70 meal deal providing a sandwich, crisps, chocolate bar and water for every day they are in self-isolation.\n\nWhile the university said the food was freshly made, Claire Baseley, a registered nutritionist, said a daily sandwich would be unlikely to provide adequate nutrition for those self-isolating.\n\n\"It is important that people do get a variety of vitamins and minerals to support their immune system,\" she said.\n\nFor three meals a day, including breakfast, lunch and a hot evening meal, students are charged £170 for the isolation period.\n\nA first-year psychology student at the University of Birmingham said she and her flatmates must now spend their weekly catering allowance on boxes of food that have included Pot Noodles and frozen ready meals.\n\nThey received an initial box free of charge as soon as they reported their self-isolation, but future supplies are uncertain and will come at a cost of £28 per person for six days.\n\nStudents in Birmingham received one free box full of essentials but must now pay £28 each for similar supplies\n\nShe said: \"We don't know if that is enough food to last for our period of isolation in terms of fresh food and vegetables which are lacking. It's a lot of just like frozen stuff in there.\n\n\"We don't know what will be in the next box but because of the [first box] people from my flat have contacted home and asked for them to send things like vegetables.\"\n\nWhile online teaching has been working well, there are shortages of things such as toilet paper and a £30 charge for washing 7kg of clothes has gone down badly with many students, she added.\n\nThe University of Birmingham said its initial food boxes were designed to last two to three days and include ready meals cooked by in-house chefs, which are designed to be nutritious. It said responses to surveys of students were \"very positive\" and that the laundry service is offered at a discount by a local dry cleaning company.\n\nSome universities are not charging for providing food and toiletries however, as this bundle of provisions from Lancashire's Edge Hill University shows:\n\nPart of the weekly provisions for a group of six to eight students\n\nVice Chancellor John Cater said anyone isolating was being given free food whether they were in catered halls or not.\n\nAt the University of Nottingham, one history student said the university should have been more prepared for possible cases - and students having to isolate - after it took a week for issues with food supplies to be resolved.\n\nThe teenager is in catered halls with breakfast and dinner usually provided and £25 for lunches each week - but she has been self-isolating after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nMeals have been provided - but she said some days, lunches weren't brought. And one day, her breakfast was crisps, a chocolate bar, an apple and a juice box - while the person in a neighbouring room had bread, butter and jam.\n\n\"It was really bad,\" she said. \"They kept missing days. I tried calling as well, but no-one answered.\"\n\nThings have improved in recent days, she added.\n\nA spokesperson for the University of Nottingham said it apologised to a small number of students in halls who had experienced issues with their catering and was working on a new process.\n\nThey said: \"Our staff have been working hard to support our students who are self-isolating, along with their households, in accordance with public health guidelines.\n\n\"We recognise how difficult this will be for all our students who are affected, many of whom are away from home for the first time, and we thank them for their co-operation in following the rules, doing the right thing, and helping to contain the virus.\"\n\nOne 18-year-old who recently started Durham University and told not to come into contact with anyone else said food boxes there were filled with \"junk food and a lot of dry food\".\n\n\"I've been going to bed with stomach pains because I'm hungry. It's making my throat hurt and making me dehydrated,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nDurham pro-vice-chancellor Jeremy Cook said he apologised to those students who felt they had not been given sufficient, or healthy, food. \"But we have acted fast, listened to our students and recognised their concerns.\"\n\nMore than 1,000 people have signed a petition accusing Lancaster University of \"profiting\" from self-isolating students with food deliveries, while the University of East Anglia cut the cost of its food supplies after a backlash.\n\nHillary Gyebi-Ababio, vice-president of higher education at the National Union of Students, said students were being seen as \"pounds not people\" and universities need to remember their \"duty of care\" towards them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Burnham: \"This package is insufficient to protect our communities\"\n\nPeople will not be surrendered to hardship, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has said, as the government prepares to bring in new restrictions in England to slow the spread of Covid.\n\nLabour mayor Mr Burnham said the chancellor's pledge to pay two-thirds of workers' wages if restrictions force UK firms to close was \"insufficient\".\n\nThe government is planning to bring in a three-tier local lockdown system.\n\nIt could mean tougher rules in parts of northern England and the Midlands.\n\nLiverpool, where there are currently 600 cases per 100,000 people, is expected to be placed under the most severe set of restrictions, with all the city's pubs forced to close.\n\nOn Saturday, 15,166 people in the UK were reported to have tested positive for coronavirus - an increase of 1,302 on Friday's figure - according to the government's dashboard.\n\nThere were a further 81 deaths - a decrease of six on Friday.\n\nIn a joint press conference with other mayors from northern England, Mr Burnham said negotiations about the lockdown in the North of England were ongoing but he was told by a \"senior figure in Number 10\" that the proposed financial help was \"non-negotiable\".\n\n\"I'm angry actually about being told the effect on people's lives is non-negotiable,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the chancellor's plans would hit the lowest paid - those on minimum or living wages. \"These people can't choose to pay two-thirds of their rent or two-thirds of their bills,\" he said.\n\n\"To accept the chancellor's package would be to surrender our residents to hardship and our businesses to failure or collapse - and we are not prepared to do that,\" he added.\n\nReferring to the chancellor's previous furlough scheme, Steve Rotheram, the Labour mayor of Liverpool City Region, said: \"If 80% was right in March, it's right now. You can't do lockdown for the North on the cheap.\"\n\nHe said if the new restrictions were as severe as during the national lockdown in March, a similar sort of package was needed.\n\nMr Burnham said he wanted the minimum package to be 80% of workers' wages, in line with the initial national furlough scheme.\n\nMr Burnham and Mr Rotheram, together with mayors from Sheffield and North of Tyne, have written to all MPs in northern England asking them to call for a separate vote in Parliament on the chancellor's latest package - and to reject it.\n\nThose who have long argued that mayors provide the best model for the leadership of a city often point to what they see as their principal advantage: a widely known figurehead locally, who can stand up for you nationally.\n\nToday, we have seen that in action.\n\nParty politics plays something of a role here: all four of the mayors making their case today represent the Labour Party, all four have sharpening critiques of the Conservative government at Westminster.\n\nBut, at the same time, about 30 Tory MPs from northern England have got together.\n\nThey are the intriguingly named Northern Research Group of Conservative MPs.\n\nIf that name sounds a little bit familiar, maybe you're remembering the European Research Group of Conservative MPs, who proved to be a never ending political migraine for former Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nBut they pointedly observe: \"We don't form a government unless we win the North.\"\n\nMinisters counter that financial support for the North of England and elsewhere is unprecedented and wide ranging.\n\nThe big question now is what happens on Monday when the prime minister addresses the Commons: what do the restrictions look like, what support will be offered, and to whom?\n\nMr Burnham said he would not rule out a legal challenge and did not accept hospitality workers were \"somehow second-class citizens\".\n\n\"This goes to the heart of everything we care about - the north of England is staring the most dangerous winter for years right in the face.\n\nThe chancellor's announcement that the government would pay two-thirds of employees' wages for six months from next month if their firm is forced to shut by law because of coronavirus restrictions came on Friday afternoon.\n\nIn response to the criticism from some mayors of the scheme, a government spokesman said: \"Ministers are continuing to work closely with local leaders on how we can combat coronavirus together.\n\n\"We will keep all financial support under review to support businesses who need it most and protect jobs over the coming weeks and months.\"\n\nUnder the new restrictions, expected to be detailed by the prime minister in a statement to MPs on Monday, pubs and restaurants could be closed in areas where some of the highest numbers of cases are occurring and a ban on overnight stays is also being considered.\n\nA senior adviser to Boris Johnson has written to MPs representing constituencies in the North of England to confirm that some areas were \"very likely\" to be placed under \"further restrictions\".\n\nIn the letter seen by the BBC, Sir Edward Lister said ministers would hold discussions with local authorities in the region during the weekend.\n\nIt has been suggested that the most severe measures - imposed for areas in tier three - would be agreed with local leaders in advance. However, on Saturday, northern mayors said there had been conversations with Downing Street but little consultation.\n\nThe details of each tier, including the level of infection at which an area would qualify for it and the nature of the restrictions, are being debated this weekend.\n\nIt comes as the British Medical Association (BMA), a doctor's trade union, has called on the government to bring in clearer and stronger measures to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nIt is recommending actions including modifying the current \"rule of six\" so only two households can meet and for the wearing of face masks to be made mandatory in all offices and workplaces.\n\nHow are the restrictions affecting you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lewis Hamilton equalled the all-time record for career Formula 1 victories by winning the Eifel Grand Prix.\n\nThe Mercedes driver's win was the 91st of his career and he will surely break Michael Schumacher's record soon.\n\nHamilton extended his championship lead over team-mate Valtteri Bottas to 69 points after the Finn retired.\n\nBehind Max Verstappen's Red Bull in second, Daniel Ricciardo scored Renault's first podium since returning to F1 as a constructor in 2016.\n• None Great of his time Hamilton is 'not done yet'\n\nThe race had been poised for a close fight between Hamilton and Bottas before the second Mercedes hit trouble at the Nurburgring in Germany.\n\nHamilton, second on the grid, made a better start than Bottas and dived for the inside at the first corner, pushing him wide, but Bottas held his ground and recovered the lead on the inside of the second corner.\n\nThat gave Bottas control of the race, but Hamilton pressured him hard and in the end the leader buckled.\n\nBottas handed the advantage back to Hamilton on lap 13, locking a wheel into Turn One and running wide, allowing Hamilton to close in and pass for the lead around the outside of Turn Two.\n\nThree laps later, the race fell further into Hamilton's lap when a virtual safety car allowed him and Verstappen to pit for fresh tyres and retain their positions ahead of Bottas, and two laps after that Bottas retired with a suspected failure of the MGU-H, part of the hybrid system.\n\nAlthough Verstappen stole the point for fastest lap from Hamilton on the last lap of the race, Hamilton's lead is close to three clear race victories with only six races remaining. A seventh world title - which would equal another Schumacher record - is beckoning.\n\nSchumacher's son Mick presented Hamilton with one of his father's old helmets, from his last F1 season with Mercedes in 2012, to recognise the achievement.\n\n\"I don't know what to say,\" Hamilton said. \"When you grow up watching someone and you idolise them, really, for the quality of the driver they are and what they are continually able to do as a driver and with his team week on week.\n\n\"Seeing his dominance for so long and I don't think anyone - especially me - thought he would get close to this record.\n\n\"It's an incredible honour but I could not have done it without this incredible team. A big thank you and huge respect to Michael.\"\n\nRicciardo's podium was made possible by Bottas' retirement, as the top two had almost lapped the field before a late safety car was called to recover Lando Norris' McLaren, which had stopped with an engine failure.\n\nBut the Australian's result was well deserved. Renault have been making steady progress and Ricciardo, who has been outstanding this season, held off Racing Point's Sergio Perez in a battle over the closing laps.\n\nA bet with team principal Cyril Abiteboul means the Frenchman has to have a tattoo in a design of Ricciardo's choosing. Abiteboul can choose size and placement. Ricciardo said he did not know what the design would be, but probably \"something with a German flavour\".\n\nNorris had been fighting with Perez for fourth on divergent strategies for a while, but the early development of his ultimately terminal engine problem cost him time and he was running fifth before he stopped.\n\nNorris' McLaren team-mate Carlos Sainz took fifth instead, ahead of Alpha Tauri's Pierre Gasly, who was able to pass Ferrari's Charles Leclerc for sixth place as a result of Ferrari's decision not to stop for fresh tyres at the late safety car.\n\nNico Hulkenberg took an impressive eighth for Racing Point after starting last, following his late substitution for the ill Lance Stroll on Saturday morning.\n\nAnd there were the first points of the season for Haas' Romain Grosjean and Alfa Romeo's Antonio Giovinazzi in ninth and 10th places.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nSix races to go and they start with a new track for F1, Portimao on Portugal's Algarve on 25 October. It is a well-regarded track and the drivers are all looking forward to the challenge. And the weather should be a good deal warmer than the wintry conditions at the Nurburgring this weekend.\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "Twitter has experienced a major outage, with users across the world affected.\n\nThe social media giant said the issue was caused by an \"inadvertent change\" it made to its internal systems.\n\nPeople in countries including the US and UK were unable to use the platform for more than an hour, with many receiving error messages.\n\nThe service was later largely restored, and the California-based company said the site should soon be working for all of its users.\n\nAccording to DownDetector.com, reports of problems with Twitter began to spike at about 21:30 GMT on Thursday.\n\nIt said users from around the world - including Japan, Australia, Argentina and France - had reported being unable to use the platform.\n\nIn the US, there were tens of thousands of reports of problems.\n\nUsers were sent error messages including \"something went wrong\" and \"Tweet failed: There's something wrong. Please try again later.\"\n\nTwitter said there was no evidence of a security breach or hack.\n\nInternet monitoring group NetBlocks confirmed the incident was \"not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering\".\n\nIn July, hackers accessed Twitter's internal systems to hijack accounts owned by some of the platform's most prominent users.\n\nThe breach saw the accounts of Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West and Bill Gates among other celebrities used to tweet a Bitcoin scam.", "A Merseyside gym that stayed open despite strict new coronavirus restrictions has been fined £1,000.\n\nPolice attended Body Tech Fitness in Moreton, Wirral, twice on Wednesday as new Tier 3 measures came into force.\n\nThe rules for the Liverpool City Region mean gyms, betting shops and many pubs cannot open.\n\nOwner Nick Whitcombe had repeatedly taken to social media to say the gym would continue to stay open as it is \"vital to physical and mental health\".\n\nHe said: \"We are not staying open for financial gain but more for our members mental and physical well-being.\n\n\"Gyms should be supported in fighting against Covid obesity, mental health and many other conditions and diseases.\"\n\nMerseyside Police said officers acted after a report from a member of the public concerned the gym was breaking the rules.\n\nOfficers ordered the gym to close on Wednesday morning but issued the fine after finding it still open when they returned later that day.\n\nBody Tech Fitness in Moreton, Wirral, is among the gyms opposed to the closure order\n\nCh Supt Claire Richards said she understood people were \"frustrated\" but appealed to the public and businesses \"to adhere to the guidance\"\n\nShe said enforcement would be used \"where there are clear breaches of legislation\".\n\n\"While this lockdown does present huge challenges, the focus of us all should now be on preventing the spread of the virus and getting us back to normality as safely and as quickly as possible.\n\n\"The new restrictions have been brought in to try to achieve that.\"\n\nSome medical experts say gyms could encourage the virus to spread, as they are humid and confined spaces with shared equipment.\n\nBut several gym operators have opposed that view, claiming the fitness benefits to the public are of greater value.\n\nThe UK's largest gym chain, Pure Gym, has said it is considering legal action over the decision to close gyms and fitness centres in Liverpool.\n\nA petition calling for the Government to prevent gyms closing as a measure to stop the spread of Covid-19 has been signed by more than 131,000 people.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The officer was checking on the welfare of a man on Portswood Road when he was attacked\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder a policeman who was stabbed multiple times.\n\nThe 43-year-old officer was responding over concern for a man living in Portswood Road, Southampton, at about 12:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nHampshire police said the officer suffered \"serious, but not life-threatening, injuries\" and had to stay in hospital overnight.\n\nThe arrested man, a 51-year-old from Southampton, remains in custody.\n\nThe officer was called to Portswood Road in Southampton at about 12:00 BST on Thursday\n\nPeter Crawford, who lives in the road, said it appeared the policeman had an injured arm.\n\nHe said: \"I saw all these police cars... and there was a guy at the front of one - I didn't realise he was a policeman at the time - I saw him bandaging his arm up.\n\n\"And I saw a guy come out with the police with handcuffs on behind his back.\"\n\nZoe Wakefield, who chairs Hampshire Police Federation, said the injured policeman was with a colleague when he was attacked and has since been released from hospital.\n\nShe said: \"The officers acted very bravely and I think the situation could have been a lot worse.\"\n\nA force spokesman said detectives were working to establish the exact circumstances of the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Dave Brown said officers were conducting inquiries, including house-to-house visits, and examining CCTV footage.\n\n\"At the same time, we are providing support to the officer's family and his colleagues following this incident,\" he said.\n\nThe force did not believe there was any wider risk to the public, Det Ch Insp Brown added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHarry Maguire's miserable start to the season continued with a red card as England had two men sent off for the first time in their Nations League defeat by Denmark.\n\nManchester United's captain suffered a 31-minute nightmare, shown a yellow card for a reckless early challenge on Yussuf Poulsen and then dismissed by Spanish referee Jesus Gil Manzano after he brought down Kasper Dolberg trying to retrieve his own poor touch.\n\nEngland's night got worse four minutes later when Christian Eriksen scored his 34th goal for Denmark on his 100th appearance after Kyle Walker was harshly adjudged to have fouled Thomas Delaney.\n\nChelsea defender Reece James was shown a red card after the final whistle for confronting referee Manzano.\n\nIn a low-key affair, England had their moments and it took a magnificent save from Kasper Schmeichel to claw away Mason Mount's close-range header as Denmark closed out the win.\n\nEngland are now third in their group, with only the winners progressing to the Nations League finals in 2021.\n• None Maguire has my full support, says Southgate\n• None Does Maguire need a break for club and country?\n• None Who would you pick in England's best XI?\n• None Misery for Maguire and England at Wembley - listen to Football Daily podcast\n• None All the reaction from England v Denmark here\n\nMaguire endured what must have been one of the most miserable nights of his career before he was sent off after only 31 minutes.\n\nIt was bad from the opening moments when he needlessly left his foot in on Poulsen, and the rest of his performance was distracted and chaotic.\n\nMaguire was ill-at-ease with England's three-man defensive system, often out of position, even pulling up holding the top of his hamstring at one point before his fate was sealed by a shocking first touch which he tried to retrieve with a lunge that injured Dolberg.\n\nHe looks like a player suffering mentally as well as physically following his recent arrest in Greece and it would be no surprise if he was also taken out of the line of fire at club level given his recent poor form.\n\nHe made an error that led to Tottenham's first goal in United's 6-1 home defeat before the international break and his display earned him a rating of just 1.85 out of 10 by BBC Sport readers - which was still higher than he carded for this defeat.\n\nEngland never seriously troubled Denmark apart from a couple of late scares, Harry Kane looking out of sorts and the failure of manager Gareth Southgate to introduce the creativity of Jack Grealish ahead of Jordan Henderson - which is no slight on the Liverpool captain - a mystery.\n\nThere was also more uncertainty involving goalkeeper Jordan Pickford and Walker that led to a somewhat dubious penalty award - summing up what was a very unsatisfactory and disjointed night for England and Southgate.\n\nChelsea's James was arguably England's best player on his full debut - only to ruin all that good work after the final whistle when he got verbally involved with referee Manzano and was shown a red card.\n\nIt was a moment of frustration for the 20-year-old but also inexcusable ill-discipline, which has been a trend in England's recent games given Walker's sending-off in Iceland last month and the two dismissals here.\n\nThis was a bad night for England but James was one of those who could have held his head high, until he unwisely showed dissent to the officials.\n\nJames had been solid in defence and a real threat in attack, on a night when England were struggling with reduced numbers and were being held at bay by a resilient Danish rearguard.\n\nSadly for James, a fine performance will now be remembered for the wrong reasons.\n\n'Very proud of the performance'\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate talking to Sky Sports: \"I was very proud of the performance. I thought we were excellent with 11 men and causing them all sorts of problems down our right-hand side. The sending off alters everything and the penalty - it's a foul on Kyle Walker and I don't see the foul at all. The less said the better.\n\n\"We showed resilience and showed a great example of how to play with 10 pragmatically, and when to press. Their keeper made an amazing save to keep it at 1-0. I couldn't be prouder of the boys in the last 10 days, they are learning and improving. We've had any number of changes to our preparation and showed resilience.\"\n\nThree defeats in 50 - the stats\n• None This was only England's third home defeat in their past 50 competitive internationals on home soil.\n• None Denmark have lost just two of their past 40 international matches, keeping clean sheets in nine of their past 11 games.\n• None Christian Eriksen has been directly involved in 32 goals in his past 35 appearances for his national side (24 goals, eight assists).\n• None This was Marcus Rashford's 40th England cap, making him only the third player to reach that tally before the age of 23, after Michael Owen in 2002 and Wayne Rooney in 2007.\n• None Attempt blocked. Conor Coady (England) header from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt missed. Dominic Calvert-Lewin (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Reece James with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Reece James (England) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the scene now make it big outside of London?", "Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker has recalled the night that she was shot and killed by police in her home.\n\nSpeaking to CBS This Morning, Mr Walker said he is \"a million per cent sure\" officers did not identify themselves before entering.\n\nMs Taylor, a 26-year-old black hospital worker, was shot six times when police forced their way into her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, on 13 March.\n\nNone of the three officers have been charged directly over the killing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police dispersed guests at the wedding reception in west London\n\nPolice have broken up a wedding reception where more than 100 guests congregated in breach of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe event at the Tudor Rose in Southall, west London, on Tuesday evening was described as a \"flagrant and arrogant violation of the law\".\n\nThe venue's owner has been reported and could face a fine of up to £10,000.\n\nUnder current guidance, the number of guests allowed at weddings is limited to 15 people.\n\nBody-worn camera footage of the reception, released by the Metropolitan Police, showed guests being led from the venue.\n\nArea Commander, Ch Supt Peter Gardner, said: \"This was a dangerous and foolish breach of the regulations, which have been designed specifically to keep people safe from transmitting a deadly virus.\n\n\"Restrictions on large gatherings, such as weddings, have been in place for months and quite frankly there can be no excuse for this flagrant and arrogant violation of the law.\n\n\"There was clearly no attempt by the venue owner to enforce the regulations or keep their patrons safe. It is for this reason we have reported them for a £10,000 fine.\"\n\nLondon is among a number of places in England which will face Tier 2 lockdown restrictions beginning on Saturday, including a ban on households mixing indoors.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A US photographer has said she was \"devastated\" when one of her photos was used for a UK government-backed advert suggesting a dancer should retrain.\n\nThe ad was criticised for encouraging \"Fatima\" to give up on dancing and \"reskill\" in cyber security.\n\nThe dancer is actually called Desire'e and the photo was taken by Krys Alex.\n\n\"I was shocked,\" the Atlanta-based photographer said in a YouTube video. Artists \"should not be encouraged to stop doing what we love\", she added.\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 FLIdP 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 ad was pulled after Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden disowned it, describing it as \"crass\". A 10 Downing Street spokesperson agreed that it was \"not appropriate\".\n\nThe first Alex knew of her photo's use was when the advert began to be criticised on social media.\n\n\"I woke up Monday morning to a bunch of emails and tags, and I really felt devastated,\" she said. \"I immediately thought of Desire'e and how her face was just plastered all over social media and the internet, different news articles, and memes were created, and she had no clue. All of that really hurt me.\n\n\"Some people questioned if I knew and if I approved the use of my work. If I'd have know that this was going to be used in the way it was, I would have never agreed to it.\"\n\nDesire'e Kelley is \"a young, talented and beautiful aspiring dancer from Atlanta\", she added.\n\n\"We're exploring all our options and we're talking and consulting with different professionals to figure out the best way to protect our rights in this situation.\"\n\nThe photo was available on stock image site Unsplash, whose licence says pictures can normally be downloaded for free for commercial and non-commercial purposes.\n\nThe campaign, which also features images of people from other walks of life, was created for CyberFirst, which is described as \"a government outreach and education programme run by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ\".\n\nThe original photo also included Tasha Williams, owner of the Vibez in Motion Dance Studio in Atlanta, Georgia. She was cropped out for the ad.\n\nWriting on Instagram, Williams described the advert as an \"unforgivable act\".\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 vibezinmotion 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\nShe said: \"I can remember growing up hearing, 'Dance is art, it's not a career just a hobby, make sure to get a real job and dance on the side.' The UK campaign took me right back to that place mentally, which was a bit scary.\n\n\"Being about 11 or 12 and feeling like I had to be someone I wasn't and suppress my creative energy to satisfy what 'others' saw as productive lives.\"\n\nMr Dowden again distanced himself from the advert when he was asked about it by MPs on the House of Commons culture select committee on Wednesday.\n\n\"I was at the Royal Ballet just on Friday and it was wonderful to see artists perform again. I know the huge value they bring to this country,\" he said.\n\nHe cited grants awarded this week from the Culture Recovery Fund to institutions including the Royal Academy of Dance and Birmingham Royal Ballet. \"We know those are jobs that should be preserved,\" he said.", "A scientist who processed coronavirus swab samples at one of the UK's largest labs has alleged working practices were \"chaotic and dangerous\".\n\nHe highlighted overcrowded biosecure workspaces, poor safety protocols and a lack of suitable PPE.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive has uncovered safety breaches at the lighthouse lab in Milton Keynes.\n\nThe UK Biocentre, which runs the lab, said strict safety measures were in place and improvements were being made.\n\nThe joint investigation by the BBC and the Independent has learnt that an experienced virologist who worked at the lab said he was \"traumatised\" and \"freaked out\" by seeing inexperienced colleagues unaware of the hazards they were dealing with.\n\nDr Julian Harris started working in laboratories dealing with highly infectious diseases in the 1980s.\n\nBut within one week of working at the Milton Keynes facility - which processes up to 30,000 tests a day - in early July, he was so troubled by what he saw he contacted the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nThe \"lighthouse labs\" are run by independent organisations and are part of the government's plan for increasing testing capacity for coronavirus.\n\nDr Harris said coronavirus swabs had to be processed in \"containment level 2\" labs, with tight safety procedures to protect staff.\n\nBut he said fellow workers had limited laboratory experience and were not given proper safety induction.\n\n\"I found they've got no experience with this sort of facility or handling bio-hazardous, and then they're just launched into this facility,\" Dr Harris said.\n\nHe saw two people using biosecurity cabinets - enclosed, ventilated workspaces where scientists open the tubes containing the contaminated swabs - which were only calibrated to have protective airflow for one person.\n\n\"Once you disrupt that [airflow], you might as well be working on an open bench. It just disrupts the whole reason for a cabinet to protect the operator. And it is really disturbing,\" Dr Harris said.\n\nHe called the working practices \"chaotic and dangerous\".\n\nThe UK Biocentre said that the second scientist was witnessing and supporting the person working in the cabinet, and that new staff had three days of mandatory training.\n\nIt also said the lab workers it recruited had previous lab experience.\n\nDr Harris alleged part of the problem was that recruiters found it tough to bring in experienced staff, because of the drive to push up capacity in time for the winter.\n\nHe said the lab set out to recruit young people from the local area to work long shifts, often of 12 hours.\n\nThe lighthouse labs were set up as are part of the government's plan for increasing testing capacity\n\n\"They just want people to do the gruelling labour of handling these biohazardous things,\" he claimed.\n\nDr Harris took his concerns to the laboratory management in early August.\n\nA senior manager told him that the professionally-experienced staff were going back to their institutes - and that the lab was in \"a transitional period\" and new staff had less experience.\n\nThe manager admitted that the training in place did not look \"robust enough\" for these new recruits.\n\nDr Harris said he also raised concerns about mobile phones being used in the labs and then taken to the canteen, and a lack of safety signage and first aid kits.\n\nThe HSE visited the Milton Keynes lab and found five material breaches of health and safety legislation.\n\nThe BBC understands they included inadequate health and safety training for staff, and employees working too closely together.\n\nBut the Milton Keynes lab said no improvement notice had been issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nAnother former worker at the Milton Keynes lab, who did not want to be identified, said: \"I immediately began to question some of the most basic practices that were being employed in the labs.\n\n\"It was like we were set up to work on a war footing with massive enthusiasm for the task, but they just ignored many of the things we could implement from existing industry and lab practice to make things more efficient and safer for the work team.\"\n\nThe worker, who is also a PhD student, was asked to wear cheap disposable lab coats and plastic gloves attached with parcel tape.\n\n\"If you were in a hospital biomedical sciences lab, you would not be allowed to wear those lab coats to do those things,\" the student said.\n\nThe UK Biocentre, which runs the lab - one of seven mega-labs in the UK - said that cloth and disposable lab coats were available to staff, and tape was an additional safety measure because they insist on staff wearing two pairs of gloves.\n\nThe laboratory added in a statement: \"We are already addressing observations that have been made to us as we continue to expand our testing capacity to tackle the coronavirus.\n\n\"Given the scale of our 24/7 operation - 400 staff, 40,000 tests a day - we have strict safety measures in place to protect staff who are operating in a confined laboratory space.\n\n\"We take the health and safety of all our staff very seriously and actively encourage the scientists and other colleagues to suggest improvements and raise any concerns.\"\n\nA spokesperson from the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"Rigorous quality control and safety procedures are in place across the laboratory network, and we expect the highest standards to be met.\n\n\"We regularly review and inspect our partner laboratories to ensure strict protocols are adhered to. We investigate any concerns raised and will take action if proper procedures are not followed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"Things will get worse before they get better\"\n\nMillions of people in London, Essex, York and other areas face tougher Tier 2 Covid measures from Saturday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nUnder this \"high\" alert level, there is a ban on households mixing indoors, including in pubs and restaurants.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is resisting the region moving to Tier 3, ahead of a final decision on this.\n\nMore than half of England's population will now be living under high or very high-alert restrictions.\n\nThe areas to go into high alert restrictions this weekend are: London, Essex (apart from Southend and Thurrock), York, North East Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Erewash in Derbyshire, Elmbridge in Surrey, and Barrow in Furness, Cumbria.\n\nAs unitary authorities, Southend and Thurrock councils are not included in the move and will remain in Tier 1, Essex County Council has said.\n\nThe health secretary said \"things will get worse before they get better\".\n\n\"Now, I know that these measures are not easy but I also know that they are vital,\" Mr Hancock told MPs.\n\n\"Responding to this unprecedented pandemic requires difficult choices, some of the most difficult choices any government has to make in peacetime.\"\n\nOn Thursday, a further 18,980 cases and 138 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported in the UK.\n\nThe new three-tier system sees every area of England classed as being on medium, high or very high alert - also known as Tiers 1 to 3, respectively.\n\nIt came into effect on Wednesday, and the Liverpool City Region remains the only area currently in the highest tier.\n\nMeanwhile, the government announced that travellers returning to the UK from Italy, Vatican City and San Marino must self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDiscussions are continuing over whether Greater Manchester will be moved into the highest tier of restrictions, with a financial support package yet to be finalised.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference on Thursday, Mr Burnham said the region's leaders were \"unanimously opposed\" to the introduction of Tier 3 measures, calling the government's plans \"flawed and unfair\".\n\nHe said: \"They are asking us to gamble our residents' jobs, homes and businesses and a large chunk of our economy on a strategy that their own experts tell them might not work.\"\n\nRepeating his calls for a financial support package for parts of the North West, he added: \"Greater Manchester, the Liverpool City Region and Lancashire are being set up as the canaries in the coalmine for an experimental regional lockdown strategy as an attempt to prevent the expense of what is truly needed.\n\n\"The very least they should be offering the people of Greater Manchester who will be affected by these closures is a full and fair 80% furlough for all affected workers, 80% income support for people who are self-employed and a proper compensation scheme for businesses.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Burnham says his region is one of those \"being set up as the canaries in the coal mine\"\n\nTier 3 involves pub closures and a ban on household mixing indoors, in private gardens and in most outdoor hospitality venues and ticketed events.\n\nMr Hancock confirmed in the Commons that no decision had been made on moving more regions to Tier 3, but added \"we need to make rapid progress\".\n\nMeanwhile, the NHS Test and Trace system in England recorded its worst week for reaching community contacts since the middle of June.\n\nData showed some 62% of non-household contacts of people who tested positive in the community were reached through the system in the week ending 7 October.\n\nThis is the lowest success rate since 24 June, down from 67% last week.\n\nAsked about the latest data, the PM's spokesman said tests were being provided on an \"unprecedented scale\" and No 10 was still working to raise capacity to 500,000 tests a day by the end of the month.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has defended his call for a nationwide \"circuit-breaker\" - a short limited lockdown - to stem rising infection rates, saying \"no region will be immune\" from Covid-19.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said the alternative was \"weeks and months of prolonged agony\" in a tiered system.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told MPs in the Commons that a full national lockdown \"stretching for weeks and weeks\" would \"be disastrous for society\", but that a lockdown of between two and three weeks could help \"take back control of the virus\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's World at One, Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS providers, said he also favoured this move to ensure the NHS is not overwhelmed by Covid-19 cases.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour mayor Sadiq Khan told London's City Hall there was \"simply no other option\" than introducing the new restrictions.\n\nHe said he will continue to press the government for more financial support, but added that \"we've got a difficult winter ahead\".\n\nConcerns have been raised about the impact the restrictions will have on businesses, particularly in the hospitality sector.\n\nLondon has 3,640 pubs and 7,556 restaurants, according to real estate adviser Altus Group, but they will not be eligible for government support available to premises which have been ordered to close.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sadiq Khan says there is \"simply no other option\" as London moves to Tier 2 restrictions\n\nThe British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), the trade association for Britain's brewing and pub sector, said Tier 2 restrictions without a \"proper package of support\" would \"decimate\" pubs.\n\nEmma McClarkin, BBPA chief executive, said pubs were already struggling due to the current restrictions, with the new measures leaving \"most pubs fighting for their very survival\".\n\nNickie Aiken, Tory MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, urged the government to set out an \"exit plan\" for ensuring London is placed back into Tier 1.\n\nShe said she remained \"deeply concerned about the impact further lockdown will have on the capital's hospitality, leisure and retail businesses\".\n\nRobert Halfon, Conservative MP for Harlow in Essex, said he welcomed Tier 2 measures for the county but would call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to prevent businesses suffering financially.\n\nLiverpool is considering a two-week half-term break for schools as part of its \"battle with Covid-19\".\n\nUnder the plan, backed by a teaching union, pupils would be taught remotely at home for the second week of the break.", "The House of Commons is to stop serving alcohol on its premises, after tougher Covid restrictions were announced across the UK.\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said the ban would begin on Saturday, and apply to all catering outlets, whether food is served or not.\n\nHe said he had ordered the move as some MPs represent constituencies where pubs have now been closed.\n\nThe drinks ban, he added, would last for the \"foreseeable future\".\n\nA House of Commons spokeswoman said six out of its 10 catering outlets that are currently open serve alcohol, and would be affected by the ban.\n\nA ban on serving alcohol at all Commons premises after 22:00 BST is already in place, while most of its bars remain shut.\n\nThe curfew was announced in September, even though Parliament's \"workplace canteens\" are legally exempt from England's 22:00 closing time.\n\nThe Speaker's announcement came after tougher Tier 2 restrictions were announced for London, to begin on Saturday.\n\nUnder this \"high\" alert level, pubs and restaurants will remain open but households will be banned from mixing socially there, or anywhere indoors.\n\nHowever, in the Liverpool City Region - the only area in England under the \"very high\" Tier 3 restrictions - pubs not serving meals will be closed.\n\nPubs and restaurants have been closed across central Scotland, and will remain so until 25 October at the earliest.\n\nSir Lindsay said he had ordered the parliamentary authorities to bring the Commons \"into line with the national picture\".\n\n\"MPs represent different constituencies in different tiers - with the very highest level ordering the closure of pubs,\" he added.\n\nHe said that the House of Commons Commission - in charge of administration - would meet on Monday to consider \"other measures\" to protect MPs and staff from Covid-19.\n• None London, Essex, York and other areas move to Tier 2", "A high pressure device called a diamond anvil cell was used to compress and alter the properties of hydrogen-rich materials\n\nScientists have found the first material that displays a much sought-after property at room temperature.\n\nIt is superconducting, which means electrical current flows through it with perfect efficiency - with no energy wasted as heat.\n\nAt the moment, a lot of the energy we produce is lost as heat because of electrical resistance.\n\nSo room temperature \"superconducting\" materials could revolutionise the electrical grid.\n\nUntil this point, achieving superconductivity has required cooling materials to very low temperatures. When the property was discovered in 1911, it was found only at close to the temperature known as absolute zero (-273.15C).\n\nSince then, physicists have found materials that superconduct at higher - but still very cold - temperatures.\n\nThe team behind this latest discovery says it's a major advance in a search that has already gone on for a century.\n\n\"Because of the limits of low temperature, materials with such extraordinary properties have not quite transformed the world in the way that many might have imagined,\" said Dr Ranga Dias, from the University of Rochester, in New York State.\n\n\"However, our discovery will break down these barriers and open the door to many potential applications.\"\n\nDr Dias added that room temperature superconductors \"can definitely change the world as we know it\".\n\nIn the US, electrical grids lose more than 5% of their energy through the process of transmission. So tackling this loss could potentially save billions of dollars and have an effect on the climate.\n\nThe scientists observed the superconducting behaviour in a carbonaceous sulphur hydride compound at a temperature of 15C.\n\nHowever, the property only appeared at extremely high pressures of 267 billion pascals - about a million times higher than typical tyre pressure. This obviously limits its practical usefulness.\n\nSo Dr Dias says the next goal will be to find ways to create room temperature superconductors at lower pressures, so they will be economical to produce in greater volume.\n\nThese materials could have many other applications. These include a new way to propel levitated trains - like the Maglev trains that \"float\" above the track in Japan and Shanghai, China. Magnetic levitation is a feature of some superconducting materials.\n\nAnother application would be faster, more efficient electronics.\n\n\"With this kind of technology, you can take society into a superconducting society where you'll never need things like batteries again,\" said co-author Ashkan Salamat of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.\n\nThe results are published in the prestigious journal Nature.\n\nScientists were able to observe superconducting behaviour at room temperature in the lab", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "A 12-year-old boy made the discovery of his lifetime when he found a dinosaur skeleton dating back 69 million years.\n\nThe amateur palaeontologist was out hiking with his father in a fossil-rich part of Alberta, Canada this July, when he saw bones protruding from a rock.\n\nOn Thursday, the skeleton's excavation was completed.\n\nThe boy, Nathan Hrushkin, says when he first laid eyes on the bones, he was \"literally speechless\".\n\n\"I wasn't even excited, even though I know I should have [been],\" he tells the BBC.\n\n\"I was in so much shock that I had actually found a dinosaur discovery.\"\n\nNathan, who has been interested in dinosaurs since he was six, often goes hiking in the Nature Conservancy of Canada's protected site in the Albertan Badlands with his father.\n\n\"I've always just been so fascinated with how their bones go from bones like ours, to solid rock.\"\n\nA year ago, they had found small fragments of fossils, and his father guessed that they were falling down from the rock above.\n\nSo this summer Nathan decided to inspect. The fossilised bones were poking out of the side of a hill.\n\n\"Dad, you got to get up here!\" he called to his father.\n\nHis father knew Nathan had found something by the tone of his voice.\n\n\"They looked like bones made of stone - you could not mistake them for anything else,\" his father, Dion Hrushkin, said.\n\n\"It looked like the end of a femur - it had that classic bone look to it - sticking straight out of the ground.\"\n\nNathan knows that the fossils are protected by law, so when they got home, he and his father logged in to the website for the Royal Tyrrell Museum, which is located in Alberta and devoted to the study of prehistoric life. The museum advised them to send photos of their discovery and its GPS coordinates, which they duly did.\n\nThe Badlands are home to many fossils, and a dinosaur - named the Albertosaurus - was discovered by Joseph Tyrell in the late 1800s. But the part of the conservation site where they were walking was not known for fossil discoveries, so the museum sent a team of experts to excavate.\n\nSo far they have found between 30 and 50 bones in the canyon's wall, all belonging to one young Hadrosaur, estimated to be aged about three or four.\n\n\"I was probably like most kids, the Tyrannosaurus Rex was probably my favourite kind [of dinosaur],\" Nathan says.\n\n\"But after my discovery, it's most definitely the Hadrosaur.\"\n\nThe dinosaur is scientifically significant, the museum claims, because the fossil is about 69 million years old, and records from that time period are rare.\n\n\"This young Hadrosaur is a very important discovery because it comes from a time interval for which we know very little about what kind of dinosaurs or animals lived in Alberta. Nathan and Dion's find will help us fill this big gap in our knowledge of dinosaur evolution,\" the museum's palaeo-ecology curator, François Therrien, said in a statement.\n\nNathan says he's enjoyed learning more about dating dinosaur bones, and that the whole process has been \"surreal\".\n\n\"It's going to be great to see them, after months of work, finally take something out of the ground,\" he says.", "Alisha Rehman married her husband in a small ceremony earlier this year\n\nA bride whose dream wedding plans were derailed by Covid-19 has said she is being denied her £16,000 deposit.\n\nAlisha Rehman, 25, from Birmingham, was due to get married at Excellency Midlands' venue in Telford in July in a 500-person ceremony.\n\nOfficial rules say couples affected by government restrictions have a right to refunds, but getting money back has proved difficult.\n\nExcellency Midlands said the whole sector had been left \"on hold\".\n\nMrs Rehman cancelled her booking when restrictions were brought in and got married in a small ceremony in her mother-in-law's garden.\n\nShe said the pandemic meant it was not certain when a large-scale event could be held.\n\nExcellency Midlands hit the headlines last month when police found 120 guests at a post-wedding party at its venue.\n\nIt was fined £10,000 and banned from hosting weddings during government measures.\n\nCurrently only 15 people can attend weddings in England, but Excellency Midlands was fined after it hosted a party for 120 people last month\n\nCouples up and down the country have faced similar decisions to Mrs Rehman - whether or not to cancel. Official figures suggest 73,600 weddings and civil partnership ceremonies have been affected by restrictions.\n\n\"My wedding was initially booked for July, then because of the pandemic, clearly nothing can go ahead,\" she said. \"We've given them £16,000 and they are not giving us a penny back.\"\n\nMrs Rehman said the package included \"the food, photography, the car, the whole thing\".\n\nAccording to the Competitions and Markets Authority, refunds should be given for weddings that could not take place as planned due to coronavirus.\n\nMrs Rehman and her husband drove to Telford to meet the venue owners to discuss the refund, but she said nobody turned up. They scheduled another meeting and \"still nothing\".\n\n\"It's taken my whole life to save that and they're not even giving us a penny,\" Mrs Rehman said. \"It stresses me out... it's just a joke.\"\n\nShe said the firm had instead offered a new date in March 2021. Despite approaches from her solicitor, she said the venue had failed to respond.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News on Thursday, Excellency Midlands said the wedding industry had been badly affected by the pandemic and the whole hospitality sector was \"on hold\".\n\nIt blamed the government for a lack of \"any directions, help or guidance as to how we are looking to open in the near future\" which meant it was \"impossible\" to provide any clear information to clients.\n\n\"We completely understand the difficulty couples, hoping to get married, are in, and want to let them know that we will be supporting them fully, once the industry is back,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"As soon as the government provides a pathway to opening the industry back, we will be contacting all of our loyal customers and making sure they receive the urgent attention we know they deserve.\"\n\nThe BBC understands the CMA cannot comment on individual cases.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Five hundred teaching staff and 8,000 pupils are currently self-isolating\n\nLiverpool is considering a two-week half-term break for schools as part of its \"battle with Covid-19\", its mayor has said.\n\nThe city has the third highest number of infections in England.\n\nUnder the plan, backed by a teaching union, pupils would be taught remotely at home for the second week.\n\nMayor Joe Anderson said teachers were under \"huge pressure\" as almost 500 teaching staff and 8,000 pupils are currently self-isolating.\n\nThe Local Democracy Reporting Service reports that almost 900 positive cases have been reported among staff and students in Liverpool schools since September and current attendance rate is 77%.\n\nA Liverpool City Council spokesperson said there would be \"no announcement that schools are closing\".\n\nThe city has 660 cases per 100,000 per population in the week up to 11 October. This is behind Nottingham, which has 892, and Knowsley with 688, according to Public Health England data.\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said teachers were under \"huge pressure\"\n\nLiverpool City Region has been put in the top tier of the government's new system of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nHowever, Mr Anderson has claimed in a tweet that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's \"deadly dithering has caused untold grief\" and called on the government for a \"circuit breaker\" lockdown to help prevent the virus spreading.\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 Joe Anderson 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 Labour mayor said the \"virus was out of control\" in the city, with \"30 deaths\" in the past seven days.\n\n\"We need to take serious action, we're in a real battle with Covid-19,\" he said.\n\n\"I know it can cause disruption to parents but at the same time our teaching staff are under huge pressure.\n\n\"We have got hundreds of people in the teaching profession who are isolating at the moment as well as pupils.\"\n\nMr Anderson said it was a \"very anxious\" time in Liverpool and the \"virus had run out of control\" with hospitals under huge strain, too.\n\nHe added he would consult with other council leaders across the city region over the proposal for an additional week's school holiday at half-term.\n\nLiverpool has the third highest number of infections in England\n\nLiverpool's Liberal Democrats are also backing the move.\n\nCouncillor Liz Makinson, the Lib Dems education spokesperson, said the infection rates in schools since September were \"frightening\".\n\n\"There is only one school in the city that has not had any positive cases of Covid-19. Three hundred and eighty five teachers have tested positive and 21,619 pupils have had to isolate,\" she said.\n\nDamian McNulty, from the NASUWT teachers' union, said the second week was needed as a \"circuit breaker\" as teaching staff and pupils had been \"very stressed\".\n\nThe \"crisis\" of the test and trace system had seen schools conducting their own tracing when children were ill and sent home \"on a daily basis\", he said.\n\nThe city council said in a statement it would not be making any announcements about schools closing.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the DfE (Department for Education) and the Schools Commissioner on the challenges the city faces,\" a council spokesperson added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK faces a \"period of destitution\" in which families \"can't put shoes on\" children, the government's former homelessness adviser has warned.\n\nThe government has promised to pay two-thirds of wages from 1 November for workers at firms forced to close under tougher Covid restrictions.\n\nBut Dame Louise Casey said this reduced level of support would not \"cut it\".\n\nShe told the BBC many \"normal people, trying to get on in normal lives\" risked falling into poverty.\n\nThe Treasury said its \"priority\" was to protect jobs and incomes and it had made \"our welfare system more generous\".\n\nThe furlough scheme - under which the government and firms are together paying up to 80% of people's wages, to a maximum of £2,500 a month - ends on 31 October.\n\nUnder its replacement, the job support scheme, those in \"viable jobs\" able to work at least one-third of their hours will get 77% of their pay, with the government contribution capped at £697.92 per month.\n\nEmployees at UK firms ordered to close completely will get 67% of wages of their usual salary paid - up to a maximum of £2,100 a month.\n\nDame Louise told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg this was \"not going to be good enough\".\n\nShe said: \"It's like you're saying to people, 'You can only afford two-thirds of your rent, you can only afford two-thirds of the food that you need to put on the table.'\n\n\"There's this sense from Downing Street and from Westminster that people will make do. Well, they weren't coping before Covid.\"\n\nIn England, so far only Liverpool has been placed in the highest Tier 3 restrictions, under which pubs and bars not serving meals will be closed.\n\nBut other areas, particularly in northern England, could soon follow if Covid infection rates continue to rise sharply.\n\nPubs and restaurants across central Scotland have also been closed until 25 October.\n\n\"We are looking at a period of destitution,\" said Dame Louise.\n\n\"I can't impress upon you enough that I think we are heading into an unprecedented period. We're already in it and it's going to get worse. And it needs a more cross-government cross-society response.\"\n\n\"Do we want to go back to the days where people can't put shoes on the children's feet?\" she added.\n\n\"Are we actually asking people in places like Liverpool to go out and prostitute themselves, so that they could put food on the table?\"\n\nDame Louise also questioned Chancellor Rishi Sunak for saying that those on the lowest wages could also claim Universal Credit to \"compensate for a good chunk\" of lost earnings.\n\nShe said it was \"unprecedented for a Conservative chancellor to say 'well, don't worry, go on to Universal Credit'\".\n\n\"That's not necessarily what you'd expect from a Conservative chancellor, who should be about jobs and about keeping people in employment.\"\n\nThe standard monthly Universal Credit allowance for a couple in which at least one partner is aged 25 or above is £594.04.\n\nThe extra amount for a first child is a maximum of £281.25, while it is £235.83 for other children.\n\nThe government has added £20 a week to Universal Credit payments, but this is due to end in April.\n\nDame Louise called the plight of many working people \"unprecedented\", adding: \"I have never worked in a situation where I'm so concerned about what's going to happen.\"\n\n\"We need an unprecedented spending review that is generous and kind and [it] needs to make sure that we don't have hungry children,\" she said.\n\nLouise Casey has a reputation for getting things done.\n\nThat's why successive governments, including this one, have brought her into the fold - not to make them feel good, but to tell the truth about what needs to happen to achieve their aims.\n\nThat's why her warning today could be hard for the government to ignore.\n\nSince the pandemic struck, the Treasury has racked up generationally massive bills to support businesses and families through the crisis.\n\nBut as we enter the grim challenge of the second wave, that support, while still huge, is dwindling.\n\nFor Dame Louise, that risks pulling out vital support for families at the very moment when it is needed most.\n\nHer verdict is haunting. With millions more people facing tighter restrictions, her fear is that could mean real destitution for countless families.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"Our priority since the start of this outbreak has been to protect as many jobs and incomes as possible - and that will continue as we go through the difficult months ahead.\n\n\"The expanded job support scheme is one element of our unprecedented package of support and its generosity is in line with similar schemes provided by European counterparts.\"\n\nThe government has \"invested more than £9bn in making our welfare system more generous\", with increases both in Universal Credit and local housing allowance, the spokesman said.\n\n\"This has made the system more responsive to people's needs, with the lowest-paid in society seeing an increase in the support they receive.\"\n\nBut Labour said the chancellor had \"abandoned workers and families in parts of the country under local restrictions\" and \"must think again\".\n\nShadow chief secretary to the Treasury Bridget Phillipson added: \"People shouldn't have to worry about meeting their rent, paying the bills or putting food on the table because the government has lost control of virus.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed Dame Louise to head up the review into homelessness, saying he was \"absolutely determined to end rough sleeping once and for all\".\n\nBut when the pandemic hit, Dame Louise instead became the head of the government's homeless Covid taskforce, organising emergency housing for almost 15,000 rough sleepers during lockdown.\n\nShe stepped back from the role in August.", "Thousands of families have been displaced by the fighting\n\nFears are growing for civilians caught up in fighting between government forces and the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.\n\nThere have been several days of clashes as Afghan forces, supported by US air strikes, try to defend Helmand's strategically important capital, Lashkar Gah, from a Taliban assault.\n\nIt is estimated that about 35,000 people have so far fled their homes.\n\nAmnesty International called on both sides to give civilians \"safe passage\".\n\nThe group said the fighting had taken out power in Lashkar Gah and shut down telecommunication networks, and that all exit routes from the city had been blocked.\n\n\"The situation for civilians in Lashkar Gah is grave and could deteriorate rapidly in the coming days. Tens of thousands of people are trapped in the middle of a bloody battle that shows no sign of abating,\" Omar Waraich, head of South Asia at Amnesty International, said in a statement.\n\nThe United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan earlier called on both sides to \"take all feasible measures to protect civilians\", including \"safe paths for those wishing to leave\".\n\nAid agencies are reporting that many civilians are now sleeping on the streets without shelter.\n\nOne family told the BBC earlier this week that they left their home in Lashkar Gah with only the clothes they were wearing. Others said they feared they might die from hunger, while staff at local hospitals said they had admitted dozens of casualties.\n\nPregnant women are among those to have been injured in the fighting in Helmand.\n\nOne 18-year-old woman told Reuters news agency that she lost her baby when she was shot in the stomach while caught in the cross-fire in Gereshk district this week.\n\n\"I hadn't even chosen a name for him,\" she said. \"My innocent child, gone forever.\"\n\nThe battle over Lashkar Gah marks the first big Taliban offensive since historic peace talks between the two sides began last month.\n\nCorrespondents say Taliban actions on the battlefield are again raising questions about their commitment to the negotiating table.\n\nTwo Afghan military helicopters transporting wounded soldiers collided on Wednesday, killing nine people on board. Afghanistan's defence ministry said the collision was due to \"technical issues\".", "The star said he was \"floored\" by the extent of his victory\n\nPost Malone was the big winner at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards, taking home nine prizes including top artist.\n\nEight of his trophies were delivered in a cart by host Kelly Clarkson, who pushed them towards him \"Covid-style\".\n\n\"I can't touch you, so I had to wheel it out,\" joked the singer.\n\nThe three-hour ceremony, which was originally scheduled for April, was held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. While many artists performed in person, there was no live audience.\n\nDue to the delay, the show mostly celebrated hits from last year, with Lil Nas X taking home four prizes for his hit single Old Town Road.\n\nMany of the winners and performers used the televised ceremony to urge fans to vote in the US presidential election.\n\nAccepting the top song sales artist prize, Lizzo delivered an impassioned speech while wearing a dress emblazoned with the word \"vote\".\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 Billboard Music Awards 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\"I've been thinking a lot about suppression, and the voices that refuse to be suppressed,\" she said. \"Let me tell y'all something. When people try to suppress something, it's normally because that thing holds power. They're afraid of your power.\n\n\"There's power in who you are. There's power in your voice. So whether it's through music, protest or your right to vote, use your power, use your voice, and refuse to be suppressed.\"\n\nBillie Eilish, who picked up three awards, including top female artist and top new artist, was more succinct, saying simply: \"Please vote, please wear a mask, please wash your hands and be safe.\"\n\nBillie Eilish wore a mask as she accepted her three awards, including top female artist\n\nHowever, broadcaster NBC censored Demi Lovato's performance of Commander-In-Chief - a new song that takes aim at President Trump. Although she was permitted to play the song in full, a video screen displaying the message \"Vote\" was edited out of the TV show.\n\nAccording to TMZ, the network felt the message would be seen as a call to vote against the president, rather than a neutral call to action.\n\nDespite that, the network tweeted a photo of Lovato's performance in which the \"Vote\" backdrop dominated the image. Lovato retweeted the picture without comment.\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 NBC Entertainment 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\nJohn Legend gave one of the night's most moving performances, dedicating the song Never Break to his wife Chrissy Teigen, just weeks after the couple lost their unborn baby.\n\nSeveral other performers used their stage time to send messages of hope - with Alicia Keys playing the empowering ballad Loves Looks Better and country star Luke Combs delivering a heartfelt performance of Better Together.\n\n\"I know everybody out there has been through so much this year,\" Combs said, accepting the prize for top country artist.\n\n\"I want to thank the crew that is working on this show tonight, because they have gone through some insane stuff to make this happen for you guys. I hope everybody's staying safe at home.\"\n\nElsewhere, BTS performed a slower live band arrangement of their hit single Dynamite from South Korea, before picking up the fan-voted top social artist prize.\n\nDoja Cat gave off vibes of Chicago's Roxie Hart as she performed a medley of hits - wearing a throwback dress and wig, while combining Bob Fosse choreography with the TikTok dance craze that propelled her single Say So into the charts.\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 k⁷ 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\nBritish winners included Harry Styles, who received the Billboard Chart Achievement award; Ellie Goulding, whose single Close To Me was named best electronic song; and Sir Elton John, who won best rock tour.\n\nKanye West's spiritually-charged ninth album Jesus Is King saw him named top gospel artist, while Khalid won five awards, including best R&B album.\n\nRun The Jewels rapper Killer Mike was honoured with the first ever Billboard Change Maker award, recognising his work in championing community activism and civil rights.\n\nHe used his speech to highlight the importance of the arts in promoting social change.\n\n\"Kids out there that sing and dance, what you do is worthy,\" he said. \"You are artists, and your goal should be to express the very reality around you in the very most beautiful or ugliest of ways that you see fit.\n\n\"You matter more than you know,\" he continued. \"The kids plotting, planning, strategising, on the ground mobilising, you are needed more than ever. I'm a culmination of all these things.\"\n\nAlicia Keys gave a powerful performance of Love Looks Better\n\nSia performed Courage To Change in an electric pink gown, topped off with a giant yellow bow\n\nCountry singer Garth Brooks took home the icon award, while Clarkson paid tribute to rock legend Eddie Van Halen, who died of cancer last week.\n\n\"Just a few days ago, a true giant was taken from us,\" said the singer. \"He was a legendary guitarist, an amazing musician and an incredible songwriter. He will never be forgotten.\"\n\nR&B legends En Vogue closed the show with a rousing performance of their anti-racism anthem Free Your Mind.\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 Billboard Music Awards 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\nMalone's domination of the award categories came after a year in which he scored two multi-platinum singles in the US, Sunflower and Circles; while his third album, Hollywood's Bleeding sold three million copies.\n\nThe singer-songwriter and rapper, 25, said he was \"blown away, just by the love that everybody's shown to me\".\n\n\"We just try our best every day... to reach out to people who might not have anybody to turn to and show everybody that they're not alone, and music can bring everybody together,\" he added.\n\n\"It's absolutely incredible and I just want to say, thank you so very much, ladies and gentlemen. I'm blown away. I'm floored.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Two wards in Altnagelvin's north wing are now being used to treat Covid-19 patients\n\nHospital admissions of patients with coronavirus in NI's Covid-19 hotspot are \"doubling every three to four days\", the Western Trust has said.\n\nThirty-one patients are now being treated for coronavirus at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry - five people are in intensive care.\n\nTwo additional wards at Altnagelvin have been opened to treat coronavirus patients.\n\nA third ward has been identified for further admissions, the trust said.\n\nThere have been 3,161 confirmed cases in the Derry and Strabane council area since March - 1,463 of them were diagnosed in the past seven days.\n\nThree people have reported to have died in Derry and Strabane since Friday after testing positive for coronavirus, according to daily figures from the Department of Health.\n\nLast week, the Derry and Strabane council area was placed under tighter restrictions to help curb the growing number of cases.\n\nBut the infection rate in Derry and Strabane is continuing to rise.\n\nDirector of acute services, Geraldine McKay, said the rate of infection was \"increasing at pace\".\n\n\"We have revised the Altnagelvin surge plan to indicate that,\" she said.\n\n\"There are two wards in the north wing that are now Covid wards, we also have a further third ward identified in the south building.\"\n\nA total of 1,463 cases of coroanvirus have been diagnosed in Derry and Strabane over the past seven days.\n\nShe said both the trust's acute hospitals - Altnagelvin and the South West Acute Hospital in County Fermanagh - are \"right in the middle of the surge at this time\".\n\n\"Altnagelvin is at red, the South West at amber,\" she added.\n\nThe Western Trust has previously warned that it is facing increased staff pressures, as rising levels of Covid-19 in the community mean more and more staff are being asked to self-isolate.\n\nOn Monday the trust confirmed a total of 460 staff, across all disciplines, are not able to work at present - 345 at Altnagelvin and 115 at the South West hospital.\n\nNot all staff are absent because of Covid-19, the trust said, but it has had \"a major impact on those numbers\".\n\nElective orthopaedic inpatient services have been suspended and restrictions on visiting at the trust are now also in place as part of its surge plan.\n\n\"Unfortunately we have seen a growing number of incidents where our own staff have been faced with verbal abuse and aggression regarding some of the restrictions around visiting,\" Brian McFettridge, assistant director in critical care at Altnagelvin Hospital said.\n\nHe added: \"We would ask the public to be patient with us and to be kind\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Special safety measures were put in place to protect the Queen\n\nThe Queen has carried out her first public engagement outside of a royal residence in seven months.\n\nThe monarch, 94, was joined by the Duke of Cambridge for the visit to Porton Down, near Salisbury, to meet scientists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL).\n\nThey also met staff involved in the rapid response to the Novichok poisoning attack in Salisbury in 2018.\n\nSpecial safety measures were put in place to protect the Queen.\n\nShe arrived separately to her grandson William and all those due to come into close contact with the pair were tested for coronavirus ahead of the visit and came back negative. Small groups of people taking part in the event were arranged two metres apart.\n\nNeither the monarch nor William wore a face covering when they arrived and they walked two metres apart.\n\nKensington Palace declined to comment as to whether the duke was required to have a test in order to be able to accompany his grandmother.\n\nThe Queen was last seen outside a royal residence on 9 March, when she joined the Royal Family at Westminster Abbey for a Commonwealth Day service\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: \"Specific advice has been sought from the medical household and relevant parties, and all necessary precautions taken, working closely with DSTL.\"\n\nBut the pressure group Republic said the Queen should have been \"setting an example\" by wearing a face mask.\n\nFace coverings are required by law in certain indoor settings, such as on public transport, in shops and places of worship.\n\nThe government recommends wearing a face covering in indoor places where social distancing may be difficult and where the public come into contact with those they do not normally meet.\n\nRoyal commentator Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine, said the Queen and William would inevitably be criticised, but medical advice would have been carefully followed.\n\nUntil now, the Queen has been in royal residences with a household of reduced staff, nicknamed HMS Bubble.\n\nShe knighted Captain Sir Tom Moore in the grounds of Windsor Castle in July and had also watched a socially-distanced Trooping the Colour there for her birthday the previous month.\n\nThe Queen travelled to Balmoral for her private summer break and also spent a few weeks in Sandringham before returning to Windsor on 6 October.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Cambridge watch a demonstration of a forensic explosives investigation featuring an explosives detection dog named Max\n\nBefore the Porton Down visit, she had last been seen outside a royal residence on 9 March, when she joined the Royal Family at Westminster Abbey for a Commonwealth Day service.\n\nThe monarch and William were shown weaponry used in counter-intelligence during their visit to DSTL and met counter-terrorism staff.\n\nAs part of the visit, they then spoke to those involved in identifying the nerve agent used in the Novichok incident, and those who worked on the decontamination clean-up operation.\n\nThe Queen unveils a plaque to officially open the new Energetics Analysis Centre at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\n\nRussian intelligence has been accused of being behind the attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.\n\nMonths after the attack, Dawn Sturgess and her partner Charlie Rowley fell ill in nearby Amesbury. Ms Sturgess later died after coming into contact with a perfume bottle believed to be linked to the case.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There would need to be 50,000 homes transformed a year until 2050, experts say\n\nThousands of old homes should be \"retro-fitted\" with energy-saving improvements to create jobs as part of the economic recovery from coronavirus, housing bodies have urged.\n\nBetter insulation and the latest energy-efficient technology could cut bills and help tackle climate change.\n\nThe Federation of Master Builders wants Wales to push ahead with a programme.\n\nThe Welsh Government said housing had an important role in the \"green recovery\" after Covid-19.\n\nThese new solar-powered timber homes in Pembrokeshire demonstrate the technology in new developments\n\nIfan Glyn, director of FMB Cymru, said Wales had the oldest housing stock in Europe but investing in an energy efficiency upgrade programme would \"turbocharge\" the building industry.\n\n\"Retrofitting ticks all the boxes: it creates good quality jobs and boosts economic growth whilst also helping to tackle fuel poverty and climate change,\" he added.\n\nOver the next 10 years, a national retrofit programme should focus on council houses, social housing and privately-owned homes in fuel poverty, a Welsh Government advisory group on the decarbonisation of homes has suggested.\n\nThat is 300,000 (21%) of Wales' 1.4 million homes.\n\nTo focus on costs alone is to miss the bigger picture which is the benefits such as reduced fuel bills, reduced green house gases, increased employment\n\nAn independent review on decarbonising homes in Wales, published last year, found that 12% of homes are in fuel poverty.\n\nChristopher Jofeh, chair of the advisory group, said: \"It's a huge challenge, because we've got almost 1.4 million homes so that would mean 50,000 homes being done each year.\n\n\"Costs will be high and there will be lots of people who can't afford it so we would need public money to do that. I have no doubt that if the Welsh Government announced a 10-year programme that the industry would respond.\"\n\nHe added: \"To focus on costs alone is to miss the bigger picture, which is the benefits such as reduced fuel bills, reduced green house gases, increased employment, improvements in health for people living in cold, damp homes and enormous tax revenues for the Treasury to pay for public services improvements.\n\n\"Yes, it's expensive but it's necessary and it would deliver enormous benefits.\"\n• None 32% of Welsh homes were built before 1919\n• None £0.5bn to £1bn retrofit spending suggested per year for the next 10 years\n\nIn 2019, the Welsh minister for environment, energy and rural affairs declared the ambition \"to bring forward a target for Wales to achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050\".\n\nSome local authorities have already started work to introduce the latest carbon neutral technology to their existing housing stock.\n\nA row of bungalows in the Swansea valley have recently undergone a retrofit by the council\n\nA row of council-owned bungalows at Craig-cefn-parc near Clydach in the Swansea valley which used oil, LPG and electric heaters, have now been retro-fitted with insulated wall rendering.\n\nThey also have a system which circulates filtered air through ceiling vents and a Tesla battery which stores electricity generated by solar panels.\n\nCommunity Housing Cymru said the pandemic had \"shone a light\" on the importance of a good home for everyone's wellbeing, and housing must now be \"at the heart of Welsh Government's plans for the economic recovery in Wales\".\n\nIt said it could create 50,000 new jobs, £1.8bn fuel savings for tenants and deliver more than £23.2bn of economic activity over the next 20 years.\n\n\"Poor quality housing costs the Welsh NHS more than £95m each year, and investment in housing associations is key to deliver the high quality, affordable homes Wales needs to tackle this,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We are committed to a green recovery from the pandemic which creates a fairer Wales - housing has an important role to play in achieving this.\"\n\nIt said its Innovative Housing Programme funded the development of new models of social housing models and it would be announcing details of an extensive new programme to retrofit existing homes with energy efficiency measures.\n\n\"Later this year, we will also be consulting on a new plan to tackle fuel poverty, which will include continued investment in the Warm Homes Programme and exploring new ways to help reduce fuel poverty and improve home energy efficiency,\" a spokesman added.", "At the age of 49, Sarah Fisher feels her life is on a knife-edge.\n\nShe had a heart attack during lockdown and has subsequently been diagnosed with heart failure.\n\nIn July, she was told she needed to have an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) fitted, which can shock the heart back into rhythm when it detects a potential cardiac arrest.\n\nBut 12 weeks on, she is still waiting. \"I could have a cardiac arrest at any point,\" Sarah says.\n\n\"It is awful not knowing what is going to happen.\n\n\"I am on the urgent list - but the infection rates are rising and the clinics are closing.\n\n\"I don't know when I will get it.\n\n\"There are so many people in my position - we don't have Covid but our lives are at risk too.\n\n\"We are the forgotten victims of this pandemic.\"\n\nBritish Heart Foundation analysis of Office for National Statistics data for England and Wales found almost 800 extra deaths from heart disease among under-65s from March to July - 15% more than would be expected.\n\nThe rate of death was highest during the full lockdown - but, worryingly, the trend continued afterwards.\n\nThe charity blames delays in people seeking care, as well as reduced access to routine tests and treatments.\n\nAnd NHS England figures show a sharp rise in the numbers waiting over six weeks for a whole range of key tests, including echocardiograms for hearts.\n\nBHF associate medical director Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan says the consequences of the pandemic have been \"tragic\".\n\n\"Covid has put people with heart and circulatory conditions at greater risk than ever,\" she says.\n\nAnd it is essential people seek help if they are worried about their health.\n\n\"Don't delay because you think hospitals are too busy,\" Babu-Narayan says.\n\n\"The NHS still has systems in place to safely treat you.\"\n\nHeart disease is not the only condition affected. Similar warnings have been made by patient groups for other conditions.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support says a drop in referrals for urgent cancer check-ups, people starting treatment and the numbers being screened is threatening to have a \"traumatic\" impact on people's lives now and in the future.\n\nIt is unclear how many lives have been lost for non-Covid reasons.\n\nThere were a total of 13,000 non-Covid excess deaths in England and Wales during the first eight weeks of the pandemic.\n\nSince then, overall death rates have returned to close to normal.\n\nBut many more people than would be expected are still dying at home.\n\nAn extra 28,000 deaths in private homes have been recorded since the pandemic started, which is higher than the excess death toll in care homes.\n\nAnd a third of them were in July, August and September, when Covid death rates were very low.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics is investigating the cause.\n\nThe numbers dying in hospital have been lower than expected in recent months, so it may just be people are choosing to die at home.\n\nBut the Nuffield Trust says it could also be a sign people are going without vital treatment.\n\nThe numbers attending accident-and-emergency units dropped by 50% in April and have still not recovered to normal levels.\n• None What do global death patterns reveal about the UK?", "Morrisons, Waitrose and John Lewis have said they won't be using glitter in own-brand Christmas products this year.\n\nThe tiny pieces of plastic can wash into the environment, harm wildlife, and get into the food chain.\n\nThe move is part of a wider push by retailers to try to reduce festive plastics pollution.\n\nBoots said it would be cutting out single-use plastic packaging from Christmas gifts, taking 2,000 tonnes of plastic from its ranges.\n\nAsda announced in September that it would launch its first sustainable Christmas range, and Tesco uses only edible glitter.\n\nSainsbury's said that this year \"customers will find no glitter on our Christmas cards, wrapping paper or gift bags.\" It has also removed glitter used on a range of crackers, decorations, and flowers.\n\nBetween four and 12 million tonnes of plastic waste makes its way into oceans every year, mainly through rivers, according to estimates.\n\nThat plastic then breaks down into smaller, toxic pieces, which can be ingested by creatures, harming and potentially killing them, if it fills their stomachs.\n\nMorrisons will ditch glitter on own brand Christmas products\n\nMorrisons said on Wednesday that it would completely remove glitter from all of its own brand Christmas ranges including cards, crackers, wrapping paper, present bags, flowers, plants and wreaths.\n\nIt will also include only paper, metal or wooden toys in its Christmas crackers, which will be completely plastic-free, it said.\n\nGlitter is an \"ecological hazard\" which \"takes hundreds of years to degrade\" once it gets into rivers and oceans, Morrisons said.\n\nMorrisons said its decision would remove 50 tonnes of plastic from its shelves during the festive period.\n\nChristine Bryce, Morrisons home director, said: \"Every time a cracker is pulled, or a card is opened, plastics have been used... but just the once.\n\n\"So, we've taken glitter and plastic out of our festive range this year - so that our customers can enjoy their festivities without worrying about the environmental impact.\"\n\nWaitrose and John Lewis will also remove glitter from all single-use products this Christmas.\n\n\"All own-brand cards, crackers, wrapping paper, gift bags are now 100% glitter-free,\" it said in a statement.\n\nWaitrose has been phasing out glitter over the past few years, and has a target to make its own brand packaging widely recycled, reusable or home compostable by 2023.\n\nBoots said searches for ecologically friendly products on its website had grown by almost a third in a year.\n\nIt said that it would completely ditch single-use plastic packaging this year, and that gift packaging \"is intended to be recycled or reused.\"\n\nRetailers \"are right to ditch unnecessary plastic this Christmas\" said campaign group Friends of the Earth.\n\n\"People can still enjoy the festive season without the glitter and pointless packaging that add to the waves of plastic pollution that pour into our environment every year and threaten our wildlife,\" said Friends of the Earth campaigner Tony Bosworth.\n\nBut he said \"we must go much further to end the scourge of plastic pollution\" and called for the UK government to set targets for firms to phase out the use of unnecessary plastic.", "Boris Johnson has been at pains to use every chance recently to say how much restricting our lives bothers him.\n\nBranding himself a \"freedom-loving Tory\", time and again his reluctance for further clamp downs is clear.\n\nBut can he, should he, hold out? It's clear in black and white now that the scientific advisers he used to boast of following think it is maybe even past the time to act.\n\nMinutes from Sage (the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) and the very public view from England's Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, that the national measures aren't adequate made that plain.\n\nAnd the BBC understands that health officials have been considering putting Greater Manchester and Lancashire into the highest level of restrictions, although a decision won't come on Tuesday.\n\nThe Labour leader's call for a \"circuit-breaker\" has added to the volume of demand for extra caution - marking the end of the phase of what he used to describe as constructive opposition.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has been inching away from the broad frontbench consensus on how to handle coronavirus for weeks.\n\nTo the frustration of some on his own side, rather than scream down the government's plans, he has developed an attack on the government's ability to handle the situation and to act quickly enough.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has become increasingly critical of Boris Johnson's performance\n\nBut his call for a circuit-breaker means he believes the government has simply got its wrong.\n\nPolling suggests too that there is public desire for tougher actions to prevent a terrible second wave. Some senior figures in government agree.\n\nYet the balance of desire in the Conservative Party has shifted, with more pleading for finding ways to live with the virus, rather than lock down again. The point has been made time and again on the back benches.\n\nNow a junior member of the government, Chris Green, has resigned in protest at the restrictions in his Bolton constituency, attacking the government's strategy completely. (If you have been paying VERY close attention to politics you might remember it's not the first time Mr Green has quit, and the last time round, Simon Hart, who is now Welsh secretary, was less than flattering about whether it mattered very much.)\n\nBut many ministers are cautious about anything that goes beyond the regional tiered approach that was announced only on Monday.\n\nAnd the Treasury in particular is reluctant to budge - fearing the economic savagery of even a short, sharp national period of more restrictions.\n\nAs we've discussed before, none of this is easy. There is no precedent for how to handle the situation. Nor is there a parallel universe where the government or MPs can judge what would have happened if they hadn't taken the actions they've done already.\n\nBut as cases continue to rise, one Whitehall insider told me that people are preparing for what looks logical on paper - a short period of more intense restrictions everywhere in England.\n\nIt's not what No 10 wants to have to do, but to use Whitehall cliché, the discussions are \"live\" - in other words, it may well happen.\n\nThe prime minister may boast about his love of liberty, but he'll be reluctant too to leave himself open to a repeat of the allegations he faced at the start of the pandemic - that government action to protect people's health was too little, and too late.", "The regional facility at Belfast City Hospital's tower block was temporarily stood down in May\n\nNorthern Ireland's Nightingale hospital has been re-established due to Covid-19 pressures, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe Nightingale, at Belfast City Hospital's tower block, was stood down in May as cases began to decrease.\n\nMr Swann said there were now \"rapidly escalating pressures\" across all of NI's health trusts.\n\n\"It is not something I wanted to do - it was a decision I tried to hold off on for as long as possible,\" he said.\n\n\"The virus is rapidly and exponentially and urgent action was needed.\"\n\nNightingale hospitals are non-permanent facilities that were set up across the UK during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Belfast Trust announced it was to use an intensive care unit in the Nightingale facility for its Covid patients, in a move which only affected the Belfast Trust area.\n\nMr Swann's announcement on Wednesday will see the facility reopen for Covid-19 admission from across Northern Ireland.\n\nThe decision comes as health chiefs warned that some services were beginning to suffer due to Covid-related pressures.\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced more restrictions would be placed on the hospitality industry and schools.\n\nMr Swann acknowledged the public had \"many questions, doubts and fears\" about the new restrictions.\n\n\"My heart goes out to all those businesses who will now come under even more pressure and to all those people whose lives and plans have been thrown up into the air,\" he said.\n\nThe deaths of another four people who tested positive for Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 602.\n\nThe department also reported another record high in the number of newly-diagnosed cases, with 1,217 people testing positive.\n\nNI's chief scientific adviser said the increase in cases of Covid-19 cases in NI was not due to increased testing but instead \"reflect a genuine increase in community transmission\".\n\nNI's chief scientific adviser said the average number of daily cases recorded was currently 950\n\nProf Ian Young, who was alongside Mr Swann at the Stormont briefing, said testing had increased by 25% while cases had more than doubled.\n\n\"The average number of positive tests continues to rise and has now reached over 12% in the last seven days,\" he said.\n\n\"To put this into context, the World Health Organization suggests that anything over 5% reflects an epidemic which is out of control.\"\n\nProf Young said there had been a \"sustained and dramatic rise in the average number of cases\" being recorded in NI each day - he said the average was currently 950 cases per day.\n\nHe added the new restrictions \"don't represent a lockdown\" but were designed to reduce mixing between people to allow a chance to reduce the R-number down to less than one.\n\nR is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to, on average.\n\n\"Ideally between 0.7 and 0.9 - that's the goal and we all have a role in achieving that,\" Prof Young said.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief medical officer told the briefing new restrictions coming into force across NI could \"achieve the reset we need so badly\".\n\nDr Michael McBride said it would take two to three weeks before the effects of the measures became clear.\n\n\"It's time to wise up,\" he said.\n\n\"The new measures will only work if each one of us recommits to strictly following the health advice.\"", "Binky Felstead has spoken out about her miscarriage\n\nMade in Chelsea star Binky Felstead says she wants to \"break the stigma\" around miscarriage and open up conversations about baby loss.\n\nLots of the influencer's followers and friends got in touch with her after she posted on Instagram about losing her baby.\n\nThe 30-year-old told Newsbeat many of those people had never talked about their own miscarriages.\n\n\"It's heart-breaking, so I felt that I'd like to try and break the stigma.\"\n\nAbout one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, and it's most common in the first three months of pregnancy.\n\nAfter 24 weeks, it's known as stillbirth.\n\nBinky says her miscarriage happened when she was almost 12 weeks pregnant.\n\nShe had two early scans which showed \"a strong heartbeat\", but at the third scan she was told there wasn't a heartbeat at all.\n\n\"It's such important issue to raise because no-one really talks about it,\" she says.\n\n\"It's almost like it's a taboo subject.\"\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 binkyfelstead 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\nShe adds: \"It's obviously deeply personal, incredibly emotional and physically tiring.\n\n\"In all honesty the last thing you want to do is talk about it.\"\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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBinky told Newsbeat that she and partner Max Darnton made the decision to post about her miscarriage because her followers deserved to see her \"reality\".\n\n\"I've always shared my happy moments, from when I got pregnant with India, when I had India and my engagement last month.\n\n\"I don't think it's reality - or that it's fair - that I don't share my down time as well.\n\n\"The one piece of advice I feel that I can give is to make sure you allow yourself to physically and emotionally heal.\"\n\nSince Binky's post, the Miscarriage Association says it's been inundated with phone calls from women.\n\n\"It's really helpful when someone well-known like Binky talks publicly about her experience of miscarriage because it's not an easy thing to do,\" says Ruth Bender-Atik from the Miscarriage Association..\n\n\"For some reason it's still a taboo and it can be difficult to talk about.\n\n\"Sometimes you feel like you could have done better, lots of people feel like it's because they've done something wrong and that they could have done something.\n\n\"It's hard to talk about, but it really helps if we can get miscarriage talked about more.\"\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact for women who have had a miscarriage.\n\nCharities say it's complicated grief, with partners unable to always attend appointments and scans.\n\nThere have been some changes to official NHS guidance, but it's still an issue for many.\n\n\"Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, feelings of isolation have become more widespread than ever and many people have begun to talk more openly about grief,\" Dr Clea Harmer, chief executive of the stillbirth and neonatal death charity (SANDS) said.\n\n\"Many of those whose baby died during the pandemic will not have been able to spend time making memories or saying goodbye to their baby in the way they would have wanted to.\n\n\"Now more than ever, we can all come together to let those affected by pregnancy and baby loss know they are not alone and that we are all here to support them.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Ken McCallum took up his role in April\n\nBritain is facing a \"nasty mix\" of national security threats, from hostile state activity by Russia and China to fast-growing right-wing terrorism, the new director general of MI5 has said.\n\nKen McCallum said terrorism remains the biggest threat - with Northern Irish and Islamist extremism also a concern.\n\nThe Covid lockdown raised the risk of online contact between groups, and made covert surveillance harder, he added.\n\nMr McCallum was speaking at his first media briefing as head of the service.\n\nThe new man at the top of the UK's domestic intelligence agency since April is a slim, youthful Glaswegian mathematician by training. He likes hiking up mountains when his parenting and work allows.\n\nAfter 24 years at MI5, some of it seconded to industry, he is surprisingly comfortable in front of the camera and he is setting about making parts of his organisation more visible to the public.\n\n\"We need to be increasingly visible, opening up new partnerships,\" Mr McCallum said, adding: \"MI5's operational successes are mostly invisible.\"\n\nMr McCallum said empty streets in lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic have made covert surveillance far harder.\n\nFewer crowds give adversaries fewer opportunities to attack but make the job of MI5's watchers more conspicuous.\n\n\"We spend our days and nights planting microphones in attics - with warrants - and meeting covert informants,\" said Mr McCallum, \"so we are used to operating in secret with extreme care.\"\n\nWith MI5's key workers being tasked with safeguarding national security it has had to try to maintain staff levels inside its headquarters building at Thames House with social distancing.\n\nData analysts, scientists, researchers and medically-qualified staff have been seconded to help the NHS and with vaccine research.\n\nTheir work, said Mr McCallum, has included protecting vaccine research from theft and combating deliberate disinformation.\n\nOn the threat from jihadists, Mr McCallum said there are still tens of thousands of people committed to that ideology.\n\nThe challenge was to make the difficult judgements on the small numbers amongst them who are going to turn to violence.\n\nMore terrorists these days, he said, have opted for fast, simple plots, giving away fewer clues and less time to find them.\n\nAround 950 UK-linked extremists travelled to war zones in Syria, he said.\n\nOn average, most of those who have returned did so early on and tended to be less extreme.\n\nA significant number of those who remained have been killed, others are in third countries, some are interned in camps in Syria while yet more are still at large in north-west Syria.\n\nMr McCallum said jihadist plots form the bulk of UK investigations.\n\nThe new threat is from right-wing terrorism, where MI5 took over the lead from the police in April.\n\nOut of 27 terrorist plots disrupted in the last four years, eight have involved right-wing extremists.\n\nMany of the adherents around the world are very young, indicating the problem may be around for some time.\n\nMI5 regularly compares notes with its counterparts in the FBI, European agencies and the other nations in the Five Eyes grouping - US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand .\n\nBut so far there has not emerged a single, global, unifying ideology in the way the Islamic State group or al-Qaeda have had.\n\nRussian, Chinese and Iranian espionage and disruption is all growing in severity and complexity, said Mr McCallum.\n\nThe threats are to people, the economy, infrastructure, academic research and democracy.\n\nMI5 has an operational role in investigating certain individuals and disrupting their activities, and a protective role building up UK's resilience in the cyber and physical spheres.\n\nDealing with China requires a complicated balance, he said.\n\nHe said there is a need to work with China on issues like climate change, but at the same time to be robust in confronting its covert activity.\n\nNew legislation is expected to make a big difference in bringing the law up to date in criminalising what foreign espionage agents get up to inside Britain.\n\nMr McCallum used a meteorological analogy, saying Russia was like bad weather but China was a far greater challenge in the long-term and more like climate change.\n\nSince 2018 Mr McCallum has spent part of career focusing on new technology and Artificial Intelligence, or machine learning.\n\nHe said when a suspect is arrested there are multiple digital devices to be trawled through, often containing terabytes of data.\n\nWith police allowed to hold a suspect for 14 days it can become a race against time to find court-usable evidence such as photographs of guns or proscribed IS flags.\n\nAI helps pluck these out far faster than humans can. It can also help with translations of vast tracts of text.\n\nAnd then there is CCTV footage.\n\nWhen a covert camera is placed watching a door, for example, it might only be opened after hours of no activity. AI will save someone having to trawl through all those hours of nothing.\n\n\"AI has massive applicability for our business,\" Mr McCallum said.\n\nThe Manchester bombing of 2017 prompted public criticism that MI5 should have done more to stop it.\n\nThe bombing was followed by two in-depth reviews looking at both the facts of the case and how MI5 can improve in the future, and the bomber's brother Hashem Abedi was successfully prosecuted.\n\nThere have been sweeping changes but the hardest thing for anyone in MI5 is that \"we cannot stop every single attack\", Mr McCallum said.\n\nMr McCallum, who spent years running covert informants and later led investigative teams before the 2012 London Olympics, is well used to a disrupted home life.\n\nAnd yet, he said: \"When my phone rings late in the evening my stomach still lurches.\"", "Some people who stayed at the YHA Hostel have moved to more permanent accommodation\n\nWales' housing minister says she is \"absolutely determined\" homeless people will not have to go back on to the streets after the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCouncils are being asked to find permanent homes for hundreds of rough sleepers who moved into emergency accommodation during lockdown.\n\nRooms in hotels, student accommodation and hostels were bought up at the start of the pandemic to provide 800 places.\n\nBut Julie James said that was not \"OK for the longer term\".\n\nAnother £20m will now go towards building homes and converting empty properties.\n\nShe said it would ensure \"that everybody housed stays housed\".\n\n\"We are absolutely determined that no one will have to go back on to the streets,\" Ms James added.\n\nShe said she was worried about a small number of people who were deemed to have \"no recourse to public funds\" because of their unsettled immigration applications.\n\nSara John said she felt more secure at the YHA Hostel in Cardiff\n\nThey include asylum seekers who have been given temporary housing under the Welsh Government's health powers to protect them from Covid-19.\n\nMs James said there were \"tens\" of them in Wales and she urged the UK government to change its rules so they can continue to get help.\n\nThe Home Office said that was \"inaccurate.\"\n\nA spokesman said: \"Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute are provided with free, fully furnished accommodation, and we continue to provide accommodation and support to those whose claims have been rejected and are unable to return home.\n\n\"We will review this situation by the end of June.\"\n\nIn Cardiff, the council has taken over two hotels to temporarily house homeless people.\n\nOfficers say only a handful of people have remained out on the streets during the pandemic.\n\nSara John, 35, is staying at a YHA hostel with her partner after previously staying at other hostels and spending time on the streets.\n\nShe said coronavirus was \"scary because you don't know if you're going to have the virus or not\".\n\nThe YHA hostel in Cardiff has 89 beds for homeless people\n\n\"There are things you hear but, obviously, I've been out every day and I'm still here,\" she said.\n\nThe YHA hostel, which has 89 beds, makes her feel more secure \"because you can lock away and you've got staff here if you need them\".\n\nManager Gareth Edwards said some people had moved on to more permanent accommodation.\n\n\"We are dealing with 200 and something people at the moment so there's probably going to be a bottleneck of people trying to get into private rented accommodation or supported accommodation in some way,\" he said.\n\n\"I think that's going to be the challenge for us now is to try and identify what people's needs are and where is going to be the best place to place them.\"\n\nShelter Cymru director John Puzey said: \"We now have a unique opportunity before us to ensure that homeless people currently in temporary accommodation are supported into homes that they can begin to restart their lives from.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's housing spokeswoman, Delyth Jewell MS, said eradicating homelessness had always been \"a question of political will\".\n\nShe said: \"The fact that the Welsh Government has now made a commitment to eradicate homelessness for good is extremely welcome, although many lives could have been saved had they acted sooner.\"\n\nTory MS David Melding said councils should follow a Newport scheme where private landlords were guaranteed six months' rent if they took in homeless tenants.\n\n\"It does seem that the Newport scheme has worked very well, and may be a very constructive way forward that uses the resources of the private sector, which are so extensive in providing rental accommodation,\" he said.\n\nFunding announced by Ms James would help people into stable housing \"so they don't fall back and then end up in the streets again\", Mr Melding said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Both sides have been calling on the other to compromise on key issues\n\nOn the eve of their two-day summit in Brussels, the prime minister reminded EU leaders of his words back in early September.\n\nA trade deal had to have been agreed between the two sides by 15 October for it to be in force by the end of the year, he'd said.\n\nIf not, he added: \"I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on.\"\n\nIn other words - end negotiations and walk away.\n\nYet, Boris Johnson moved the goalpost himself on Wednesday evening.\n\nIn a call with the European Commission president and the European Council president he said he would wait for EU leaders to finish their summit discussions on Friday before deciding the UK's next steps.\n\n\"Boris Johnson swore before he'd die in a ditch. He's set deadlines again and again and they have come and gone,\" a seasoned EU figure told me.\n\nBut Brussels is far from sanguine about the prospect of failing to agree a UK deal.\n\nLeaders like the Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte have said the Covid-19 pandemic makes it all the more important to have an agreement. The economic fallout of no-deal come the end of the year would provoke additional political and economic headaches EU politicians would far prefer to avoid. They assume Boris Johnson feels the same way.\n\nYet EU leaders are not yet all on the same page when it comes to how much they should give up or give in to get a deal.\n\nBrussels keeps calling on the UK to make concessions but a successful outcome will require compromises on both sides.\n\nAnd that is the real significance of this week's summit.\n\nIt's not all about Brexit.\n\nEU leaders plan to discuss Covid-19, the environment and EU-Africa relations as well. But this is very likely the last time they'll be face to face before negotiations with the UK end. It's also the first time in a long time that EU leaders hold a detailed discussion on Brexit. For much of this year the Covid-19 pandemic has sucked the political oxygen across Europe.\n\nSo, how much is a deal worth to them?\n\nWill France's Emmanuel Macron relinquish his hard-line position about keeping current fishing quotas in UK waters? He'll have to, to get a UK deal.\n\nWill Germany's Angela Merkel give way on some demands on competition regulations (aka the level playing field) yet still grant the UK zero tariff, zero quota access to the single market?\n\nEU leaders must agree all this amongst themselves and it won't be straightforward. A trade agreement with the UK impacts the bloc's global reputation, EU businesses (especially those in countries with high trade volumes with the UK, like Germany and the Netherlands) and political fortunes.\n\nAngela Merkel is thinking of her legacy as she prepares to step down as chancellor next year. She wants to maintain close ties with the UK for geopolitical as well as economic reasons. She also keen to avoid any major internal EU disagreements over the deal.\n\nEmmanuel Macron meanwhile, is looking over his shoulder at his arch political rival, the Eurosceptic nationalist Marine Le Pen. He hopes to demonstrate in negotiations with the UK that leaving the EU is fraught with difficulty. He also wants to be seen fighting for French interests - hence the hard line on fish. And on competition regulations. Mr Macron and other EU leaders don't want to grant the UK advantageous access to their single market if the UK is then free to undercut European businesses by slashing regulations and/or boosting UK enterprises with government subsidies that Brussels doesn't allow its members.\n\nFishing is a major sticking point in negotiations between the UK and the EU\n\nSo how much will the EU curb its desire to keep the UK attached to its competition rules and standards in order to reach a deal? The UK says it's left the bloc, is now a sovereign nation and must be recognised by Brussels as such.\n\nEU diplomats suggest it would help them ease up on their level-playing-field demands if the UK signed up to a dispute mechanism with teeth - meaning if either side breached the terms of their trade deal, then swift and hefty legal action could be taken.\n\nOne diplomat close to the negotiations rather patronisingly described this potential EU compromise position by comparing the UK to a toddler that doesn't want to eat its vegetables. He said the EU was now looking for alternative arrangements to get the UK to sign up to a deal. He described it as mixing things up to hide the vegetables from the toddler.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo will the UK sign up to a vegetable mush? To an aggressive dispute mechanism and to high-level common principles on state aid, for example, as well as a strong national regulator?\n\nThere are indications it might, but working out the technical details is \"not to be underestimated\" as a UK source put it.\n\nBritish negotiators say they're frustrated that the EU has so far refused to start working on joint legal texts that can be sent backwards and forwards between the two sides as negotiations progress.\n\nThe most likely outcome from this week's EU summit as far as Brexit is concerned is that leaders will call for negotiations to step up in pace and intensity (if you think you've heard all this before, you are absolutely right).\n\nFrance's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says EU-UK talks between now and mid-November will be decisive.\n\nIf the prime minister signs up to them.", "Dougie said he would have died if he had not changed his ways\n\nFor more than 20 years, Dougie's life was a vicious cycle of drugs, crime and the death of people close to him. But for the past nine months he has been taking a medication that blocks his craving for heroin and helps him break the cycle.\n\nDrug misuse has claimed the lives of Dougie's brother, two uncles and more than a dozen friends.\n\nAnd two years ago he lost a leg due to health complications related to his addiction.\n\n\"If I hadn't stopped I would have died, simple,\" he says.\n\n\"I don't think my mum would survive losing another boy through drugs.\"\n\nThe 39-year-old Glaswegian has been in and out of prison since he was a teenager, stealing to fund his dependence on heroin and street Valium.\n\nBut since the start of the year he has been prescribed Buvidal, a new development in the treatment of addiction to opiates.\n\nThe Buvidal injection is given once a month\n\nDougie says it has been \"life changing\".\n\nHe was previously taking the opiate substitute methadone but it was not working for him.\n\n\"I tried this new drug and it managed to get me clean off methadone and clean off heroin,\" he says.\n\nMore than 100 people in Glasgow are now being prescribed the drug, which is injected once a month, meaning those using it no longer need to visit chemists to pick up methadone prescriptions every day.\n\nIt is hoped this will allow patients to focus on improving their lives and overall health rather than managing their dependence.\n\nScotland's drug deaths figures are the worst in Europe\n\nScotland, and especially cities such as Glasgow and Dundee, has the worst rate of drug misuse deaths in western Europe.\n\nIt is not known how many people died from overdoses in Scotland last year as the figures have been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHowever, the figures for 2018 showed almost 1,200 people dying from drug misuse, more than three people every day.\n\nExperts say they think the figures for last year could be even higher.\n\nIn response to the crisis, a pilot programme for Buvidal was launched with 14 patients in Glasgow last year.\n\nIt found that more than six months after the trial, all of them remained engaged in recovery.\n\nJennifer Kelly, a prescribing pharmacist for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's alcohol and drug recovery services, said feedback has been \"overwhelmingly positive\".\n\nShe said Buvidal blocks the opioid receptors in the brain which stops the patients having withdrawals and allows them to be comfortable.\n\nMs Kelly said it works best for patients committed to moving away from opioid use.\n\nIt allows patients to engage with the services they need such as occupational therapy, mental health and social services, she said.\n\n\"For our patients it's been a game-changer,\" she said.\n\n\"Their lives have improved in many ways, less drug use, better interaction with their families, with their children.\n\n\"It's not a case of they go on it and they are on it forever, which is sometimes an issue that people throw at methadone. We have managed to detox a number of patients from Buvidal.\"\n\nBuvidal is being prescribed to 100 people in Glasgow\n\nDougie says the drug has \"changed the way I'm ticking\".\n\n\"I've got a better relationship with my mum and dad whereas when I was doing drugs they wouldn't open the door,\" he said.\n\nHe said the first few weeks coming off methadone were hard because of the withdrawal effects.\n\n\"Now that I am free of methadone, the plan is to wean myself off Buvidal and then stay totally clean but that is easier said than done,\" he said.\n\n\"I wish it had been around 20-odd years ago, it would have saved so many lives.\"\n\nDougie said he wanted to convince his friends it is better than methadone.\n\n\"But a lot of my lads are scared,\" he says. \"How are you meant to change that mindset?\"\n\nAccording to Dougie one of the advantages over methadone is not having to go to the pharmacy every day and risk contact with other users or sellers.\n\nAnd for the future he says he wants to go back to college to learn the maths and English he missed in his youth.\n\n\"I don't want to start that lifestyle being a user everyday, chaotic,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't want that life any more. I have been there, it doesn't work.\"\n\nExperts are wary of words like \"miracle drug\" and warn that Buvidal is not suitable for everyone.\n\nBut it is already helping to fix some broken lives and they want that to continue.", "Disappointed Quality Street customers have taken to social media to complain that the selection is lacking a crucial ingredient.\n\n\"Where are the Chocolate Caramel Brownies?! My 8yr old son is devastated,\" wrote one.\n\nAnother customer complained they had been given extra Orange Cremes.\n\nThe company said that its manufacturing process was adversely affected during lockdown, resulting in a narrower range in some tins.\n\n\"In order to keep Quality Street production going during the Covid-19 lockdown period, we made some temporary changes to the way we operated, such as running fewer lines for a time,\" a spokesperson for Nestle said.\n\nWhile there was no change to the overall weight being sold, the range had been affected, she said.\n\n\"As a result, some consumers may find that they do not have all 12 varieties of Quality Street sweets in their mix.\"\n\nThe full range of chocolates was being produced and incorporated into more recent boxes, she added.\n\n\"We apologise for any disappointment caused but hope consumers understand why it was necessary to make these changes during such unprecedented conditions,\" the spokeswoman 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\nThe limited edition Chocolate Caramel Brownies were removed from production for four weeks earlier this year.\n\nWhen the lockdown was at its height, a number of factory workers were shielding or looking after children, which was why Nestle made the change.\n\nThe Quality Street chocolates that are normally in a tin include a mix of:\n\nOther manufacturers have also been affected by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIn June, Marmite-owner Unilever said production of its spread was hit by a shortage of brewer's yeast after pubs were closed in March during lockdown.\n\nBut in the main, food producers around the world have said they have too much stock as restaurants and others areas of hospitality close for business.", "Christian Cooper filmed Amy Cooper after she refused to stop her dog running through woodland\n\nA white woman who called police on a black man bird watching in New York's Central Park made a second call accusing him of attempted assault, prosecutors say.\n\nAmy Cooper appeared in court on Wednesday charged with falsely reporting an incident.\n\nA viral video showed Ms Cooper threatening Christian Cooper, no relation, with the police when he asked her to put her dog on a lead.\n\nThis happened on 25 May, Memorial Day.\n\nThis was also the day that unarmed black man George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, triggering weeks of national and global anti-racism protests.\n\nMs Cooper lost her job and dog after the incident, and publicly apologised.\n\nManhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr said in a statement on Wednesday: \"We will hold people who make false and racist 911 calls accountable.\"\n\nMs Cooper did not enter a plea when she appeared before the judge.\n\nThe charge of filing a false report is punishable by up to one year in jail.\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 Melody Cooper 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\nChristian Cooper, who is prominent in the New York bird watching community, filmed his encounter with Ms Cooper, 41, after he asked her to put her dog on a lead to keep it from scaring away birds.\n\nMr Cooper, 57, said he offered the dog treats, as a way to convince Ms Cooper to contain her dog.\n\nIn response, Ms Cooper called emergency services. She told them: \"I'm in the Ramble,\" - a wooded area in Central Park - \"there is a man, African American, he has a bicycle helmet and he is recording me and threatening me and my dog,\" as her tone rose in apparent distress.\n\n\"I am being threatened by a man in the Ramble, please send the cops immediately!\" she said.\n\nProsecutors said that, in the second, previously unreported call, Ms Cooper repeated her accusation and said he had \"tried to assault her\".\n\n\"Amy Cooper engaged in racist criminal conduct when she falsely accused a Black man of trying to assault her in a previously unreported second call with a 911 dispatcher,\" District Attorney Vance said.\n\n\"Fortunately, no one was injured or killed in the police response to Ms Cooper's hoax.\"\n\nShe admitted to the police who responded to her call that the male had made no physical contact with her.\n\nMr Cooper, in a statement to CNN on Wednesday, said his focus \"has been and continues to be on fixing policing and addressing systemic racism like we saw in that incident\".", "Marcus Rashford was awarded an MBE for his campaign to get free school meals extended through the summer holiday in England\n\nFree school meals will be provided for children during all school holidays in Wales until spring 2021, it has been announced.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams said £11m would pay for the scheme up to and including Easter 2021.\n\nEngland footballer Marcus Rashford, who successfully campaigned on the issue in England, welcomed the plan.\n\nThe Manchester United star said the plan would protect \"the most vulnerable children across the country\".\n\nMore than 75,000 pupils aged between five and 15 from lower-income homes are eligible for free school meals across Wales.\n\nIt is also open to younger children who attend nursery for full days and sixth form pupils.\n\nMs Williams said she hoped it would provide \"some reassurance in these times of uncertainty\".\n\nChildren will now get free school meals during every holiday until after Easter 2021\n\nRashford, 22, was recently awarded an MBE after campaigning for the UK government to allow about 1.3 million children to claim free school meal vouchers in England's summer holidays during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Having this framework in place for the foreseeable future will have a significantly positive impact on children who are struggling to engage in learning due to anxiety and fear, not to mention the noise of their rumbling stomachs,\" he said.\n\n\"No child in 2020 should be sat in a classroom worried about how they are going to access food during the holidays, and the impact that will have on their parents when matched with unemployment, ill health and, in some cases, personal loss.\"\n\nHe said there was still more work to be done to protect the next generation, but welcomed the \"swift response to this urgent need\".", "The Metropolitan Police has said it is taking no further action against an MP who travelled by train from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe force said Margaret Ferrier had not breached laws in England which require people to self-isolate because she was tested before they came into effect.\n\nThe case is now being examined by Police Scotland.\n\nMs Ferrier is sitting as an independent MP after being suspended by the SNP.\n\nShe has refused to quit as an MP, and said coronavirus made her act \"out of character\".\n\nThe MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West was tested for coronavirus on Saturday 26 September because she had a \"tickly throat\".\n\nWhile awaiting her results, she is believed to have gone to church on the Sunday before travelling to London by train on the Monday.\n\nShe spoke in the Commons later that day, before finding out a short time later that she had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier then decided to get a train back to Glasgow the following day, fearing she would have to self-isolate in a hotel room for two weeks or her condition could worsen.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said it had considered possible offences under the Health Protection Regulations 2020, which makes it an offence for people in England to come into contact with others when they should be self-isolating.\n\nThe force added: \"On detailed examination of this new legislation, and following legal advice, it was concluded that this regulation is applicable only after the 28 September.\n\n\"In this case the test occurred prior to the 29 September and therefore the regulation does not apply.\n\n\"As such, there will be no further action in relation to this investigation from the Metropolitan Police.\"\n\nIt added: \"We are in liaison with Police Scotland and have referred the matter to them for consideration.\"\n\nIn Scotland, self-isolation is guidance rather than a legal requirement.\n\nHowever, Police Scotland said it would now assess the circumstances of the case and consult with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service \"before taking a decision on next steps.\"\n\nMs Ferrier's actions have been widely condemned, with cross-party calls for her to resign as an MP.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader, said the MP's actions had been \"utterly indefensible\" and called for her to step down.\n\nAnd the speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, said he was \"very, very angry\" at Ms Ferrier's \"reckless\" behaviour.\n\nAlthough Ms Ferrier has been suspended by the SNP, the party is unable to force her to quit as an MP.\n\nHowever, the Scottish Conservatives have called on the SNP to expel Ms Ferrier from the party.\n\nMs Ferrier defended her actions in an interview with the Sun on Sunday at the weekend, saying she had panicked at the prospect of having to self-isolate in a London hotel after testing positive.\n\nThe MP added that she did not deny that she had made \"a serious error of judgment\", but said she wanted to continue representing her constituents and dismissed the incident as a \"blip\".", "Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry is suspending all visits until further notice due to a surge in coronavirus cases in the area\n\nAltnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry is suspending all visits until further notice due to a surge in coronavirus cases in the area.\n\nVisiting is suspended \"due to the continuing rise in Covid-19 cases in the area,\" the Western Trust said.\n\nThe trust said some visits, with restrictions, can still be permitted in certain circumstances.\n\nVisiting is permitted for patients in end of life care, dementia patients and those with learning disabilities.\n\nPregnant women can also be accompanied by a nominated partner, children with one accompanied carer and vulnerable or elderly patients with communication difficulties.\n\nThe trust said anyone with symptoms should not visit a patient, and children are not permitted to visit.\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 time and length of the visit for anyone visiting a patient in palliative or end-of-life care must be agreed in advance with the ward sister or charge nurse.\n\nVisiting is also only permitted for patients with dementia or a learning disability, who would benefit from having a loved one at their bedside, for a short period of time.\n\nVulnerable or elderly patients with communication difficulties may also be accompanied by one person for the duration of their time in the emergency department.\n\nThe Western Trust said that visitation at other sites such as Gransha, the South West Acute Hospital and Omagh will not be suspended\n\nIn a statement, the trust said visits at other sites, such as Gransha Hospital, the South West Acute Hospital and Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex remain subject to the same restrictions that are in place across all five trusts.\n\nThese are that one visitor is permitted once a week for one hour, with some exceptions.\n\nThose arrangements are \"being kept under review, dependent on prevalence of the virus in the community,\" the trust said.", "A number of NHS trusts stood down in-house coronavirus testing for staff in the summer, ahead of a surge in virus cases, a health leaders' body says.\n\nThis followed assurances from government about the capacity of the centralised system, it is understood.\n\nBut it left some staff, including in virus hotspots, unable to access testing when the national system came under strain earlier in the autumn.\n\nThe government has since said it has increased testing capacity.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is also extending regular testing to some NHS staff without symptoms.\n\nAt the start of the pandemic, \"a lot of trusts pulled together their own [makeshift] testing schemes because they really needed to test staff\", said Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, the body which represents health trust leaders in England.\n\nBut as a centralised national system developed, many trusts \"stood down\" their testing arrangements put in place in the first months of the pandemic, she said.\n\nThis was partly in response to the \"direction of travel from central government\".\n\nFor example, Blackburn with Darwen and East Lancashire clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) said their staff were currently relying on the public system.\n\nBetween April and July, their clinical staff were tested via the local hospital trust.\n\nBut this arrangement was \"stood down following increased swabbing capacity\" in the centralised pillar two system, according to a spokesperson representing areas including Blackburn, Burnley, Hyndburn, Ribble Valley, Rossendale and Pendle - all virus hotspots in recent weeks.\n\nSince then, some trusts have re-instated their in-house testing, but this time they won't be reimbursed for it.\n\nThough NHS staff in large hospitals can generally access tests through their workplaces, many others have had to rely on the public system - referred to as \"pillar two\" of the testing programme.\n\nPillar two testing goes through six centralised Lighthouse Labs, and it is this part of the programme that has struggled with capacity over the past month or so.\n\nPillar one, dealt with in NHS laboratories, is generally for hospital patients and staff.\n\nCommunity and mental health staff and those at smaller district hospitals are all particularly likely to be relying on pillar two, since they are less likely to be working on a site with its own lab facilities.\n\nAlthough larger hospitals have been able to test these types of staff working in their local area where they have enough lab capacity, patients and their own staff are given priority.\n\nFrom late August, through the autumn, the government was forced to restrict the public \"pillar two\" element of the testing regime in parts of the country, after rising demand meant labs couldn't keep up. This meant many people, including NHS staff, have struggled to get tests.\n\nNow, matters appear to have improved, but three-quarters of people who get tests are still waiting more than 24 hours for a result.\n\nAnd recent documents published by the government's scientific advisers stated said the NHS Test and Trace system was having only a \"marginal impact\" and this would \"likely decline further\", in part because of these delays.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC spoke to people trying to get tests at a centre in Oldham\n\nPublic health experts have argued summer was when the nation should have been building, not reducing, testing capacity.\n\nNHS Providers added things had improved considerably in recent days, though, through \"herculean\" efforts to ramp up testing.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said pillar two of the testing system was currently running at its maximum safe capacity of 85%, but testing in NHS labs was running at a lower capacity of 65% meaning there was room to increase numbers.\n\nBecause of this, NHS labs have begun to process some of the public tests to ease the strain on the system.\n\nA DHSC spokesperson said: \"Since the beginning of this pandemic we have prioritised testing for health and care workers to ensure all NHS staff have consistent access\".\n\n\"This is provided through pillar one testing in NHS settings where there is growing capacity within trusts to ensure staff can get tested. In addition to this, NHS staff with symptoms continue to be able to access testing via pillar two as a priority.\"", "There is growing concern about the potential for more collisions in space (Artwork image)\n\nTwo items of space junk expected to pass close to one another have avoided collision, said a company which uses radar to track objects in orbit.\n\nLeoLabs had said a defunct Russian satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket segment were likely to come within 25m of each other.\n\nIt said there were no signs of debris over Antarctica on Friday morning.\n\nOther experts thought Kosmos-2004 and the ChangZheng rocket stage would pass with a far greater separation.\n\nWith the objects having a combined mass of more than 2.5 tonnes and relative velocity of 14.66km/s (32,800mph), any collision would have been catastrophic and produced a shower of debris.\n\nAnd given the altitude of almost 1,000km, the resulting fragments would have stayed around for an extremely long time, posing a threat to operational satellites.\n\nLeoLabs, a Silicon Valley start-up, offers orbital mapping services using its own radar network.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by LeoLabs, Inc.\n\nDr Moriba Jah, an astrodynamicist at the University of Texas at Austin, worked out the miss distance to be about 70m.\n\nAnd the Aerospace Corporation, a highly respected consultancy, came to a similar conclusion.\n\nWith more and more satellites being launched, there is growing concern about the potential for collisions.\n\nThe big worry is the burgeoning population of redundant hardware in orbit - some 900,000 objects larger than 1cm by some counts - and all of it capable of doing immense damage to, or even destroying, an operational spacecraft in a high-velocity encounter.\n\nThis week, the European Space Agency released its annual State of the Space Environment report, which highlighted the ongoing problem of fragmentation events.\n\nThese include explosions in orbit caused by left-over energy - in fuel and batteries - aboard old spacecraft and rockets.\n\nOn average over the last two decades, 12 accidental fragmentations have occurred in space every year - \"and this trend is unfortunately increasing\", the agency said.\n\nAlso this week, at the online International Astronautical Congress, a group of experts listed what they regarded as the 50 most concerning derelict objects in orbit.\n\nA large proportion of them were old Russian, or Soviet-era, Zenit rocket stages.", "The US state of Colorado is battling the largest wildfire in its history.\n\nMore than 164,000 acres have burned since the Cameron Peak Fire ignited in August.\n\nNo deaths have been reported and the cause of the blaze is still being investigated.", "Mr Biden and Mrs Harris campaigned in Arizona together last Thursday\n\nDemocratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris will halt campaign travel until Monday after two members of her staff tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe California senator's communications director, Liz Allen, and a flight crew member received the results on Wednesday, a Biden official said.\n\nNeither aide had close contact with the candidates in the 48 hours prior to their positive tests, she added.\n\nMs Harris had been scheduled to fly to North Carolina on Thursday.\n\nBiden Campaign Manager Jen O'Malley Dillon said the senator had no close contact with either infected staff member in the two days before the positive test, and was therefore not required to quarantine.\n\n\"Regardless, out of an abundance of caution and in line with our campaign's commitment to the highest levels of precaution, we are cancelling Senator Harris's travel through Sunday,\" she said.\n\nAn airline company staff member who flew with presidential candidate Joe Biden on Monday and Tuesday also tested positive, Ms Dillon said in a statement.\n\nMr Biden was not in close contact with the individual, his team said, and doctors advised that he did not need to self-isolate.\n\nOn 8 October, Ms Harris and Mr Biden campaigned together in Arizona, where they held multiple appearances and interviews. The campaign says Ms Harris flew with both staff members on that trip, but they all wore masks throughout the flight and practiced social distancing.\n\nMs Harris and her husband both tested negative on Thursday, the campaign told reporters.\n\nThe Biden campaign has made emphasising health safety a visible part of its political strategy, in an effort to mark a point of contrast with President Trump. A number of Republicans and White House associates - and Mr Trump himself - have tested positive for coronavirus in recent weeks.\n\nMr Biden is scheduled to hold a town hall event on ABC News on Thursday night. President Trump is due to host a competing town hall on NBC at the same time.\n\nMs Harris had been due to visit North Carolina on the state's first day of early in person voting. She was scheduled to visit the cities of Charlotte and Asheville for what would have been her second trip to the crucial swing state in the past three weeks.\n\nMr Trump, who held an afternoon airport rally in the North Carolina city of Greenville, is holding his sixth visit to the state since the Republican convention in late August.\n\n\"Two of the people that travel with her, in the plane all the time. They have tested positive,\" Mr Trump said on Thursday. \"We extend our best wishes, which is more than they did for me,\" he told the audience.\n\nBoth Mr Biden and Ms Harris publicly wished the president and the first lady a quick recovery after the news of their positive Covid test was announced.\n\nThe president's visit was expected to draw thousands of people, local police say. Parking restrictions mean that attendees were required to take a Trump campaign shuttle bus from a nearby fairgrounds.\n\nLocal health officials had appealed to Trump supporters to wear masks and practice social distancing and hand washing at the rally.\n\nBut like at previous Trump rallies, pictures from Greenville showed many of his supporters eschewing masks and crowding close together.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Travellers returning to the UK from Italy, Vatican City and San Marino from 04:00 BST on Sunday must self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nThe transport secretary said those returning from the Greek island of Crete will now not need to quarantine.\n\nItaly, which is visited by large numbers of UK residents, was one of the last major countries in Europe on the safe list.\n\nIt had its highest daily count of Covid cases on Thursday, with 8,804.\n\nThe country has recorded a seven-day rate of 64 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nA rate of 20 cases per 100,000 is the threshold above which the government considers imposing quarantine conditions.\n\nLast week, no countries were added to the quarantine list, amid a spike in UK cases.\n\nChanges to the government's list of destinations from which arrivals do not need to enter quarantine have typically been announced every Thursday at 17:00 BST, and implemented the following Saturday at 04:00 BST.\n\nAnnouncing the news on Twitter, Grant Shapps said the implementation date would be moved to 04:00 BST on Sunday 18 October and applies UK wide.\n\nScotland has added mainland Greece and the Greek islands - including Crete, but excluding Mykonos - to its travel corridor list, having removed the country last month. Wales and Northern Ireland have also added Crete to their safe lists.\n\nPoland, Turkey and the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba were among the most recent places added to the quarantine list.\n\nIn Italy, it is mandatory to wear face coverings in indoor spaces, including shops, offices, public transport and in bars and restaurants when not seated at a table, though private homes are exempt.\n\nMasks must also be worn in busy outdoor spaces. The country recently announced compulsory testing for anyone arriving from the UK, Netherlands, Belgium and the Czech Republic.\n\nItalians were subject to some of the strictest lockdown measures in the world when the country became the first in Europe to be overwhelmed by the coronavirus earlier in the year.\n\nWhen the quarantine is applied to a destination, there is an immediate impact on bookings.\n\nOnly non-quarantine destinations are \"in demand\", according to one airline insider.\n\nThe flip side is also true.\n\nLast week, the UK government took the Greek island of Zakynthos off its quarantine list.\n\nTui scheduled a flight soon after and it sold out in days.\n\nThat said, passenger numbers overall are massively suppressed due to the resurgence of the virus and the tightening of travel restrictions.\n\nNo airline is expecting a surge in bookings for this half-term.\n\nThe government has promised that passengers will, by next month, be able to pay for privately-funded Covid tests to reduce the quarantine period by a week.\n\nMinisters are also considering allowing passengers to test before they travel into the UK and that might mean that some people arriving from at risk countries don't have to quarantine at all.\n\nWinters are always tough for airlines. This one looks incredibly bleak and the prospect of testing to reduce the impact of quarantine is only a small glimmer of light.\n\nPassengers arriving in the UK from at-risk countries could avoid having to quarantine under a number of options being considered by the government. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told a travel conference the plan could involve private Covid testing or a period of self-isolation before departure.\n\nThe other option being considered by the government is a system whereby passengers would only have to self-isolate for about a week, instead of two weeks, if they were tested after that period and tested negative.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said the government's travel corridors system has \"all but collapsed with most destinations now removed from the list\". He added that the travel sector was in \"dire need of urgent targeted support if it is to survive the winter months\" with \"serious reform\" needed from government.", "No more money to be put on the table, Burnham says he was told\n\nThe Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham concludes his comments by revealing that government ministers suggested there is \"no money left\" for the kind of financial package the local leaders say is necessary before their areas are put into the highest tier of coronavirus restrictions. Burnham, who spoke to health ministers earlier today, said he had been told \"there is no money to put on the table\". He added: \"To be honest with you, I don't believe that for one second. When I look today at some of the fees they are paying to consultants working on the failed test and trace scheme, when I look at the billions that is being thrown at a scheme that isn't working for Greater Manchester, money that has been found for other things this year. \"The argument I am making is... support people right now when they need it because by supporting people now you will save jobs and businesses that will be able to restart the minute we find a vaccine, the minute the recovery is on.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A few words on Brexit\" – EU leaders' views from the summit\n\nEU leaders have called for post-Brexit trade talks to continue beyond the end of the week - the deadline suggested by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nAt a two-day summit in Brussels beginning on Thursday, they called on the UK to \"make the necessary moves\" towards a deal.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said fresh \"intensive\" talks should aim to reach a deal around the end of October.\n\nBut his UK counterpart said he was \"disappointed\" by the EU's approach.\n\nLord David Frost tweeted the EU was expecting \"all future moves\" for a deal to come from the UK, which he called an \"unusual approach to conducting a negotiation\".\n\nHe added the prime minister would react to the EU's position as the summit wraps up on Friday.\n\nBoth sides are calling on each other to compromise on key issues, including fishing and limits on government subsidies to businesses.\n\nThey are seeking an agreement to govern their trading relationship once the UK's post-Brexit transition period ends in December.\n\nFollowing the talks on Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said \"in some places there was movement, in other places there is still a lot of work to do.\"\n\n\"We have asked Great Britain to continue to be willing to compromise towards an agreement. Of course, this also means that we have to make compromises,\" she told reporters.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel said the EU would decide whether talks should continue in the coming days, based on the UK's next move.\n\nMr Barnier said negotiations were \"not finished\", and the EU was ready to accelerate talks from Monday for the \"two or three weeks that remain before us\".\n\nEarlier, in a conclusions document issued during the summit, the EU said progress in key areas was currently \"not sufficient\" to reach a deal.\n\nIt asked Mr Barnier to \"continue negotiations in the coming weeks\".\n\nThe formal written conclusions of EU leaders' Brexit meeting seemed harsher than expected.\n\nThey insisted it was up to the UK to make \"the necessary moves\" for a deal to be reached.\n\nNo hint that the EU too was preparing to compromise - and words matter in these highly sensitive negotiations.\n\nThe UK's chief negotiator immediately took to Twitter to object.\n\nHe also noted that, while EU leaders had called for negotiations to continue, their document didn't describe them as \"intensive\" talks.\n\nMinutes after, the European Commission tweeted that its chief negotiator Michel Barnier had called for two weeks of intensive talk to start as of Monday.\n\nSo what do we learn from this confused war of words?\n\nNegotiations are drawing to a close, difficult political compromises loom for both sides, tempers are frayed, and time is tight.\n\nAll eyes are on Boris Johnson on Friday, when he has promised to announce the UK's next move.\n\nAs the summit got under way, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she would be self-isolating for the second time in a month after a member of her staff tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn a tweet, she added she had tested negative herself but would be leaving the summit \"as a precaution\".\n\nArriving at the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron said his country's fishermen would not \"in any situation\" be \"sacrificed to Brexit\".\n\n\"We didn't choose Brexit. Preserving access for our fishermen to British waters is an important point for us,\" he told reporters.\n\nMrs von der Leyen (R) left the summit early after exchanging views with EU leaders.\n\nThe Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin said a deal was still possible \"within the timeframe available to us\".\n\nHe told the BBC a no-deal outcome would represent a \"significant additional shock to our societies\" on top of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"That is a motivating factor in seeking to arrive at a comprehensive deal,\" he added.\n\nDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said: \"\"It would be crazy for the outside world if the UK and the EU will not be able to come to an agreement\".\n\nOver the summer, both the UK and EU seemed to agree the end of October was the final date to get a deal done - allowing enough time for it to be ratified before 31 December.\n\nBut come 7 September, Boris Johnson decided to shorten the deadline.\n\nHe said if a deal wasn't reached by 15 October, \"then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on\".\n\nThursday was that day - but Downing Street appears to have moved back from it as a hard deadline.\n\nFormal negotiations ended at the start of October, but Mr Johnson and Mrs von der Leyen pledged to \"intensify talks\" over the coming weeks.\n\nPressed on whether the UK would walk away on 15 October, the government's chief negotiator Lord Frost said it was his job to \"advise the prime minister\" on whether a deal was on the cards by then.\n\nBy remaining in the bloc's single market and customs union, the UK has continued to follow EU trading rules during its post-Brexit transition period.\n\nThis 11-month period is due to end in December, and the UK has ruled out seeking an extension.\n\nFormal talks began in March and continued throughout the pandemic, initially via video link before in-person discussions resumed over the summer.\n\nIf a deal is not done, the UK will trade with the EU according to the default rules set by the World Trade Organization.\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "Pubs and restaurants in Scotland's central belt are currently closed,but could reopen from 26 October\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned that Scotland will not return to normal when the current restrictions on pubs and restaurants expire later this month.\n\nLicensed premises across the central belt were temporarily closed last week, with tough restrictions placed on those elsewhere in the country.\n\nThe rules are due to expire on 26 October - but Ms Sturgeon said this would not signal a return to normality.\n\nThe ban on visiting other people's homes will also remain in place.\n\nAnd the Scottish government is to introduce a multi-tier system of alert levels similar to that now in force in England, which could potentially see venues in areas with coronavirus outbreaks remain closed.\n\nMs Sturgeon was giving a video statement to MSPs as she announced that a further 1,351 cases of Covid-19 and 13 deaths were registered in Scotland.\n\nShe said the country was in a \"precarious\" position and facing a \"critical moment\" in the battle to contain the virus, with \"tough decisions\" needed from government.\n\nAll existing restrictions and guidance are to remain in place for now, and the first minister warned that even the expiry of \"tough temporary restrictions\" on the hospitality trade would not signal a major change.\n\nShe said: \"It is important to stress that given the ongoing challenge of Covid, that will not herald a return to complete normality.\n\n\"The restrictions on household gatherings for example will remain in place until it is considered safe to ease them.\n\n\"And more generally we intend to replace the temporary restrictions with a more strategic approach to managing the pandemic\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland was in a \"precarious\" position\n\nThe government is drawing up a system similar to that newly in force in England, with \"different tiers of levels of interventions\".\n\nIt will include plans to \"strengthen and improve the effectiveness\" of existing measures, and improve compliance with rules particularly around self-isolation.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said she could not rule out \"having to go further in future\".\n\nThe Welsh government is introducing a system of travel restrictions to stop people moving from areas of the UK with higher rates of Covid-19 into areas with lower prevalence of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that \"needs to be considered\" in Scotland, and has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for \"urgent talks\".\n\nNew regulations have also been tabled tightening the rules around face coverings.\n\nThe new rules will make it mandatory for workers to wear them while moving around in offices or in staff canteens.\n\nHowever one rule has been eased, with an exemption introduced to allow couples to take part in marriage and civil partnership ceremonies without wearing masks.\n\nThe first minister has written to Boris Johnson urging him to adopt a \"four nations\" approach to travel restrictions\n\nMs Sturgeon's speech took place in an entirely virtual meeting, with Holyrood currently in recess, and connection issues meant Ruth Davidson's question was largely inaudible.\n\nThe Scottish Conservative group leader called on the government to introduce more testing in hospitals to stop the virus from spreading there.\n\nScottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie echoed this, and called for \"regular weekly testing on a much bigger scale\".\n\nThe first minister said hospital acquired infections were \"a concern\", and that opposition party leaders would be consulted as part of an ongoing review of the testing strategy.\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said measures had been introduced \"with no engagement of those affected\", which had resulted in \"ambiguity and confusion\".\n\nMs Sturgeon rejected his claims she had \"ignored scientific advice\", saying: \"I will make no apology, given the nature of the threat we are dealing with right now, of being prepared to take quick, firm and decisive action if we deem that is necessary to save lives.\"\n\nLib Dem leader Willie Rennie pressed the first minister on delays in the contact tracing system, saying it was \"alarming\" and \"dangerous\" that in the past week 567 people had waited more than two days to get a call from Test and Protect.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the system was \"working incredibly well\" but accepted that \"the turnaround time is not as quick as we want it to be\".", "Boris Johnson will decide on the \"next steps\" for post-Brexit trade talks after an EU summit later this week, Downing Street has said.\n\nNo 10 said the PM expressed \"disappointment\" at recent progress in a call with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday.\n\nMr Johnson has previously set Thursday's meeting of EU leaders as the deadline for a deal.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said the EU wanted a deal, \"but not at any price\".\n\nBoth sides are calling on the other to compromise on key issues, including fishing and limits on government subsidies to businesses.\n\nThey are locked in talks over striking an agreement to govern their trading relationship once the UK's post-Brexit transition period ends in December.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said Mr Johnson \"noted the desirability of a deal\" during his pre-summit call with Mrs von der Leyen.\n\nHowever, the PM also \"expressed his disappointment that more progress had not been made over the past two weeks,\" they added.\n\n\"The prime minister said that he looked forward to hearing the outcome of the European Council and would reflect before setting out the UK's next steps.\"\n\nEarlier, a No 10 spokesman said fishing rights remained the \"starkest\" point of difference ahead of Thursday's two-day EU leaders' summit.\n\nThe government's chief Brexit negotiator Lord David Frost was seen going into Downing Street on Thursday morning.\n\nBackbench Conservative Peter Bone told MPs Lord Frost was briefing the prime minister \"on whether to continue the negotiations or whether to call it a day and prepare for a no-trade deal Brexit\".\n\nSpeaking after her call with the prime minister, Mrs von der Leyen said: \"The EU is working on a deal, but not at any price.\"\n\nShe added that \"conditions must be right\" on fishing, post-Brexit competition rules and how a deal is enforced for the EU to sign an agreement.\n\nShe added: \"Still a lot of work ahead of us.\"\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel also joined the call with Mrs von der Leyen and the Mr Johnson on Wednesday evening.\n\nIn a letter to EU leaders ahead of Thursday's meeting, Mr Michel said reaching a deal before December was \"in the interests of both sides\".\n\nHe added that as well as fishing rights, \"key issues\" for a deal included post-Brexit rules on competition and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nEU leaders are not yet all on the same page when it comes to how much they should give up or give in to get a deal.\n\nBrussels keeps calling on the UK to make concessions but a successful outcome will require compromises on both sides.\n\nWill France's Emmanuel Macron relinquish his hard-line position about keeping current fishing quotas in UK waters? He'll have to, to get a UK deal.\n\nWill Germany's Angela Merkel give way on some demands on competition regulations (aka the level playing field) yet still grant the UK zero tariff, zero quota access to the single market?\n\nEU leaders must agree all this amongst themselves and it won't be straightforward.\n\nOver the summer, both the UK and EU seemed to agree the end of October was the final date to get a deal done - allowing enough time for it to be ratified before 31 December.\n\nBut come 7 September, Boris Johnson decided to shorten the deadline.\n\nHe said if a deal wasn't reached by 15 October, \"then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on\".\n\nThursday is that day - but Downing Street appears to have moved back from it as a hard deadline.\n\nFormal negotiations ended at the start of October, but Mr Johnson and Mrs von der Leyen pledged to \"intensify talks\" over the coming weeks.\n\nPressed on whether the UK would walk away on 15 October, the government's chief negotiator Lord Frost said it was his job to \"advise the prime minister\" on whether a deal was on the cards by then.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, France's foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian suggested EU leaders do not see this week as a hard deadline for a breakthrough.\n\n\"The date of 15 October, it's Prime Minister Boris Johnson who announced that, it is not the position of the European Council,\" he told French MPs.\n\nHe added that \"everything should be played out\" between October 15 and \"mid-November\".\n\nHe warned that the prospect of no deal was \"unfortunately very likely,\" but the EU was \"prepared for all eventualities\".\n\nBy remaining in the bloc's single market and customs union, the UK has continued to follow EU trading rules during its post-Brexit transition period.\n\nThis 11-month period is due to end in December, and the UK has ruled out seeking an extension.\n\nFormal talks began in March and continued throughout the pandemic, initially via video link before in-person discussions resumed over the summer.\n\nIf a deal is not done, the UK will trade with the EU according to the default rules set by the World Trade Organization.\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do people feel about the new restrictions in Preston?\n\nTalks are continuing between the government and local leaders over the expansion of the strictest coronavirus restrictions to more parts of England.\n\nLiverpool City Region is the only area in the top tier of restrictions, with pubs and bars not serving meals closed.\n\nBut Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has said he is meeting the PM's team later to discuss the issue.\n\nIt comes as it was announced London will move into the second highest tier of restrictions from Saturday.\n\nGreater Manchester and Lancashire could be placed under \"very high alert\" - the highest level of restrictions.\n\nMPs in Greater Manchester and London are taking part in ministerial calls on Thursday morning.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will update MPs on the latest measures in a Commons statement later.\n\nAsked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether the government would still take action to place areas into higher levels of restrictions if local leaders objected to the move, business minister Nadhim Zahawi said: \"It's important that we look at how we suppress this virus because the alternative is much worse.\"\n\nHe added: \"Let's wait and see what the health secretary says to Parliament.\"\n\nAlso on the programme, Eamonn O'Brien, leader of Bury Council in Greater Manchester, said officials were \"deeply sceptical\" that Tier 3 would work or that it offered enough financial support to businesses and people affected by the restrictions.\n\nHe said he had a \"strong impression\" that government will go ahead with the changes later.\n\nEarlier, Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson told BBC Breakfast he was \"categorically told\" by the government last weekend that Liverpool City Region would be placed under the highest tier restrictions.\n\n\"The fact is that the government will decide who goes into Tier 3 today,\" he said, adding that he expected to see more areas being placed under \"very high alert\" later.\n\nMr Anderson acknowledged that the \"virus is out of control and something has to be done\", but called for \"economic intervention to support people\".\n\nIn the week up to 11 October, local authority figures showed there were 660 cases per 100,000 people in Liverpool, 466 per 100,000 in Manchester, and up to 135 per 100,000 in London (in Richmond upon Thames).\n\nThe average area in England had 89.\n\nThe new three-tier system sees every area of England classed as being on medium, high or very high alert.\n\nMost of the country is on medium alert, which means areas are subject to the national restrictions currently in force, including the rule of six on indoor and outdoor gatherings and the 22:00 closing time for pubs, bars and restaurants.\n\nIn addition to these restrictions, in areas on high alert - including north-east England, much of the North West and parts of the Midlands, along with West and South Yorkshire - different households are not allowed to mix indoors.\n\nAreas on very high alert face extra curbs, with different households banned from mixing indoors or outdoors in hospitality venues or private gardens.\n\nPubs and bars will be closed unless they are serving substantial meals and there is also guidance against travelling in and out of the area.\n\nFurther restrictions may be agreed for particular regions in the top tier and in the Liverpool City Region gyms, leisure centres, betting shops and casinos have also been forced to close.\n\nIn a meeting on Wednesday, health officials from the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) suggested that Greater Manchester along with much of north-east and north-west England and parts of Yorkshire and the Midlands should be moved into the top tier.\n\nBut the recommendations of the JBC will not necessarily be enforced and discussions are likely to continue between local and national politicians and officials over the coming days.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nLabour's Mr Burnham said he had a briefing with the deputy chief medical officer for England, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, on Wednesday and was expecting a further meeting with the prime minister's team later.\n\nHe has argued against Greater Manchester being put into the top tier, saying that without increased financial support they would prefer a so-called \"circuit-breaker\" - a short, limited lockdown to help bring the virus under control.\n\nMr Burnham said he would consider a legal challenge if the government placed the area under very high alert, adding such a move would be \"by imposition, not consent\".\n\nIn contrast, Mr Khan said he would back London moving from tier one to two - but called for a package of financial support, including for businesses struggling under the restrictions, despite being allowed to remain open.\n\nA final decision to move Greater Manchester and Lancashire into the highest tier of restrictions is one for politicians - and has not yet been made.\n\nBut there is increasing concern about the spread of the virus in both areas - and a growing belief that tougher measures are likely.\n\nMr Burnham is demanding more support for local businesses, which would be hit hard by a further shutdown of large swathes of hospitality.\n\nLocal leaders in Lancashire want more support too - but believe new restrictions are all but inevitable.\n\nThere are still decisions to be made - but if agreed - the further restrictions could cover another four million people.\n\nAnd other parts of north-east and north-west England could follow after a recommendation by health officials on Wednesday. Again, that still has to be approved by politicians.\n\nBoris Johnson has defended his three-tier system as the \"right way forward\", saying it would \"avoid the misery of a national lockdown\" - but he did not rule out going further.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is continuing to call for a \"circuit-breaker\".\n\nMeanwhile, schools in Northern Ireland will close from Monday and pubs and restaurants face new restrictions from Friday.\n\nWales is preparing to ban people from parts of the UK that have high rates of coronavirus from travelling to the country from 18:00 BST on Friday.\n\nAnd in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has advised Scots against travelling to high risk areas of England, singling out Blackpool as being linked to \"a large and growing number\" of Covid-19 cases in her country.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19,724 coronavirus cases were recorded in the UK, while 137 more people have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister and Labour leader clashed over coronavirus policy\n\nA new three-tier system of regional Covid-19 restrictions in England \"is the right way forward\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM told the House of Commons the policy \"can bring down the virus\" but that he did not rule out going further.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer again called for a \"circuit-breaker\" - a short, limited lockdown in England to bring the virus under control.\n\nHe said such a move was supported by government science advisers.\n\nThe PM said he hoped the three-tier system would \"avoid the misery of a national lockdown\".\n\nHe added: \"I rule out nothing of course in combating the virus, but we are going to do it with the local, the regional approach that can drive down and will drive down the virus, if it is properly implemented.\"\n\nIt comes as Wales prepares to ban people from parts of the UK that have high rates of coronavirus from travelling to the country from 18:00 BST on Friday.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19,724 coronavirus cases were recorded in the UK, while 137 more people have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe new tier system has begun in England, with the Liverpool region the first to enter the highest alert level.\n\nThe BBC understands that a meeting of the Joint Biosecsurity Centre (JBC) has suggested that Greater Manchester alongside much of north-west and north-east England, large parts of Yorkshire and parts of the Midlands should also be moved into the highest tier.\n\nThe JBC recommendations will not necessarily be enforced and discussions are likely to continue between local and national politicians and officials over the coming days.\n\nGreater Manchester's mayor Andy Burnham had a meeting with deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, and said further talks are to take place on Thursday morning with the \"PM's team\".\n\nMost of the country is in the lowest tier - medium - but millions of people in the North and the Midlands are currently in the second highest tier and face extra curbs on households mixing.\n\nSchools, close-contact services and all retail outlets will remain open under basic measures, even in the highest alert areas.\n\nLocal politicians in Greater Manchester have argued against the region being put into the highest tier saying that without increased financial support they would prefer a circuit-breaker.\n\nMr Burnham said he would consider a legal challenge if the government placed the area in Tier 3 restrictions, adding such a move would be \"by imposition, not consent\".\n\nBut Bolton Council leader David Greenhalgh said he was not in support of a circuit-breaker at this time.\n\nSteve Rotheram, mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said he and Mr Burnham were also considering legal action against the new job support scheme.\n\nHe said it appeared \"discriminatory\" that No 10 had offered to pay 80% of workers' pay in March under the furlough scheme while the latest help is providing two-thirds of wages to employees of businesses made to close under the restrictions.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nThe approach of targeting different restrictions at different parts of England has exposed a rift between Westminster and some local politicians, who have called for more say over what's happening in their areas.\n\nUnder pressure to say why he has so far rejected the idea of a national \"circuit-break\" period, Boris Johnson was keen to stress that the current package of measures could bring down transmission IF there was co-operation at a local level and proper enforcement.\n\nMore involvement for local leaders means more responsibility for things going well - or badly.\n\nFor now, the PM seems determined to continue to try to tread this middle path - mindful also perhaps of the chunk of his own MPs concerned about even the current range of restrictions and the impact on the economy.\n\nThe risk is that he may have lost valuable time, if he does decide to change course.\n\nThe Labour leader's initial call for a circuit-breaker in England came on Tuesday.\n\nSir Keir said such a course of action would help buy time to \"save lives, fix testing, and save the NHS\".\n\nSchools would kept open as normal because it would be timed to coincide with the October half term. However, Sir Keir said \"all pubs, bars and restaurants would be closed\" and compensated.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, he said Mr Johnson had rejected the advice of government science advisers, who had suggested a circuit-breaker when they met on 21 September.\n\nSeparately, a scientific report has suggested a two-week circuit-breaker at the end of this month may halve coronavirus deaths between now and the end of the year. The researchers said the measure \"buys more time to put other controls in place\", but there is huge uncertainty over some of their predictions.\n\nBut, responding to Sir Keir's comments, the PM told MPs the three-tier system was an \"opportunity to keep things going, to keep our kids in schools, to keep our businesses going\" and the \"logical thing to do\".\n\n\"That, I think, is what the people of this country want to do. This is our opportunity to do that and suppress the virus where it is surging,\" he said.\n\nThe PM said the disease was now \"appearing much more strongly\" in some parts of the country than others so a different approach was needed to that taken earlier in the year.\n\nHe highlighted the fact there were 670 coronavirus cases per 100,000 residents in the Liverpool region, compared with 33 per 100,000 in Cornwall.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir said it is a \"small ask\" for the Prime Minister to pick up the phone and reach an agreement with the First Minister\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for Boris Johnson and Wales' first minister to reach agreement on travel restrictions.\n\nHe said Mark Drakeford, who plans a ban on travel from Covid hotspots to Wales, was \"trying to keep Wales safe\".\n\nSir Keir initially said he hoped \"it doesn't come\" to restrictions, but after he was asked several times for his position said he would support them if it controlled coronavirus.\n\nThe ban is set for Friday at 18:00 BST.\n\nMr Drakeford, the Welsh Labour leader, says he would bring it into force if the prime minister does not introduce his own restrictions.\n\nThe Welsh Labour leader has written twice in recent weeks to Mr Johnson asking for travel to be restricted in and out of areas with high levels of transmission in England.\n\n\"What Mark Drakeford is trying to do is to keep people in Wales safe,\" Sir Keir told BBC Wales.\n\n\"He is frustrated. He's been asking the prime minister to work with him on this.\n\n\"Mark's objective is to keep people safe and he's absolutely right about that.\n\n\"I think the ball is really in the prime minister's court to do something about it.\n\n\"Because I hope it doesn't come to this... travel restrictions. I don't think it needs to if the prime minister enters discussions with Mark in the right spirits.\"\n\nThe travel ban, with exceptions such as work, is due to come in on Friday evening\n\nSir Keir added: \"The prime minister just needs to be clear that people shouldn't travel from high infection rate areas into areas in Wales where there aren't those high infection rates.\"\n\nAfter he was asked several times for his position on what should be agreed between the two governments, Sir Keir said: \"There has to be a way of controlling the virus.\n\n\"And if that unfortunately means people can't travel in the way they did before then that's got to be put in place.\"\n\nAbout 2.3 million people in 17 areas of Wales are already subject to a bar on travel, with exceptions for school, work and other limited reasons.\n\nIt is expected the ban on people from Covid hotspots elsewhere in the UK will have similar exceptions.\n\nThe rules will be imposed on people from Tier 2 and 3 regions in England, the whole of Northern Ireland and the Scottish central belt.\n\nThe UK government's Welsh secretary has warned the first minister's travel restrictions plan risks \"stirring division and confusion\".\n\nSimon Hart questioned the enforceability of the measures and asked for further detail on how the restrictions will work, and what exemptions there might be.", "Footballer Marcus Rashford is pledging to continue his campaign to see free school meals given to children during all school holidays in England, after the government rejected the idea.\n\nThe Manchester United and England forward says his call - part of an effort to end child food poverty - is \"not going to go away anytime soon\".\n\nRashford prompted a government U-turn over free meals in the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 says it has \"taken action to make sure children don't go hungry\".\n\nHowever, Rashford responded in a tweet by saying it was \"not for food banks to feed millions of British children,\" adding: \"This is not going away anytime soon and neither am I...\"\n\nIt comes as a petition set up by the footballer urging the government to go further in tackling child hunger hit more than 140,000 signatures hours after it was launched.\n\nDuring the coronavirus lockdown the government was providing vouchers to families whose children qualify for free meals.\n\nIt had insisted this would not continue outside of term time but changed its mind after Rashford's campaign in the summer.\n\nRashford, 22, has told of his own impoverished childhood and formed a coalition of food campaigners.\n\nHis new petition calls for free school meals to be available for every child from a household on Universal Credit or equivalent.\n\nThis would mean the meals reach an additional 1.5 million children aged seven to 16, his campaign said.\n\nHe also wants holiday meals and activities to be expanded to an extra 1.1 million, and the value of healthy food vouchers for pregnant women to be increased to £4.25 per week (up from £3.10).\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 Marcus Rashford MBE 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 asked about the campaign on Thursday, a Downing Street spokesman indicated ministers would not provide free school meals to children in the Christmas break, saying: \"It's not for schools to regularly provide food to pupils during the school holidays.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"We took that decision to extend free school meals during the pandemic when schools were partially closed during lockdown. We're in a different position now with schools back open to all pupils.\n\n\"We believe the best way to support families outside of term time is through Universal Credit rather than government subsidising meals.\"\n\nEarlier, the government cited its extension of welfare support by £9.3bn, funding councils to provide emergency assistance to families with food, essentials and meals.\n\nSenior Tory MP Rob Halfon, chairman of the Education Select Committee, said on Twitter the government response was \"very disappointing... We need a long-term plan to combat child food hunger, especially given 32% of families have had a drop in income since March.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said: \"We are not in normal times. Normal solutions like Universal Credit may not be enough.\n\n\"Without doubt, the disruption to people's livelihoods as a result of Covid will mean that even more children are plunged into poverty.\"", "The bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nA group was seen jumping from the back of a lorry and into cars days before 39 people were found dead in a lorry container nearby, a jury heard.\n\nStewart Cox said he was on his way to work when he saw 10 to 20 people \"with rucksacks\" run from the lorry towards the four cars on 11 October 2019.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese people were found in a container on a nearby Essex industrial estate 12 days later.\n\nFour men are on trial at the Old Bailey in connection with the deaths.\n\nProsecutors have said the bodies of men, women and children, aged between 15 and 44, were found when the container was opened in Purfleet, Essex.\n\nTemperatures in the unit reached an \"unbearable\" 38.5C as the Vietnamese nationals were sealed inside for at least 12 hours, jurors were told.\n\nThe container had \"become a tomb\", the Old Bailey has heard\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Cox said he was trying to go to work at about 08:00 on Friday, 11 October 2019, but in the narrow lane in front of him was a lorry with a red-and-white cab, and four Mercedes cars which had just pulled up.\n\n\"I just see people getting out of the back of the lorry… with rucksacks… and just running towards the cars to get in the cars,\" he told the jury.\n\n\"After they disappeared the lorry, he was in a real hurry to get out.\n\n\"He pulled into the lorry park and then reversed. I tried to get a picture, but I just panicked. There was no number plate on it. It was covered over.\"\n\nThe jury has seen CCTV from the nearby Orsett Golf Course that morning showing a red-and-white lorry, two Mercedes cars, an Audi and another car driving down the lane \"in convoy,\" according to the prosecution.\n\nThe court heard Christopher Kennedy collected a lorry trailer from Purfleet Port on 11 October\n\nThe prosecution has said a picture from nearby Purfleet Port that morning shows Christopher Kennedy collecting a lorry trailer that had crossed the channel unaccompanied from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nProsecutors allege the trailer had been dropped off in Zeebrugge by Eamonn Harrison.\n\nThe prosecution say that 12 days later he also dropped off the trailer in which the 39 people died.\n\nMr Harrison, 23, of Mayobridge, Co Down, Northern Ireland, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, of Basildon, Essex, are on trial accused of manslaughter.\n\nThe pair are also accused of being part of a people-smuggling conspiracy with Mr Kennedy, 24, of Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, and Valentin Calota, 37, of Birmingham.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The William Harvey in Ashford is one of the hospitals run by the trust\n\nA \"toxic culture\" at a troubled NHS trust is risking patients' lives, say several current and former staff.\n\nManagers and medics have told BBC News that people are fearful of speaking up amid a bullying, blame culture at the East Kent Hospitals Trust.\n\nThe BBC has already revealed how a man with dementia was restrained by security on 19 separate occasions to allow treatment to be administered.\n\nThe trust says it takes all staff concerns and complaints seriously.\n\nThe East Kent Hospitals Trust is at the centre of an independent investigation into maternity failures and has been criticised by inspectors for failing to prevent patients catching coronavirus at one of its hospitals.\n\n\"It is so badly broken,\" said one manager, but the trust leadership is \"so, so arrogant that it will not listen\".\n\n\"If your face doesn't fit, they come after you,\" said another nurse. The trust has two main sites in east Kent; the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford and the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate.\n\n\"The bullying culture exists across the two sites but it's more overt at the William Harvey,\" said a manager.\n\nRecent concerns about the actions of senior leadership have included the management of Covid-19 at the William Harvey and the treatment of some staff following the poor care of the patient with dementia.\n\nSecurity guards were called to restrain a patient with dementia for treatment\n\nThe trust was the first in England to be criticised by the Care Quality Commission for the way it dealt with coronavirus, with high numbers of people contracting the virus in the Ashford hospital.\n\nThe trust did not have an infection control director until the CQC raised concerns, an example not just of poor management but also of its \"arrogance\", according to a former employee.\n\nSome staff were astonished when nurses and managers who were not involved in the care of the man who was repeatedly restrained were suspended, yet those directly responsible were initially allowed to continue treating patients.\n\n\"I wouldn't necessarily ask to be taken there in an ambulance,\" said a close observer of the trust.\n\n\"It's geographically on the edge, so it doesn't attract the biggest and best talent.\n\n\"It struggles. It doesn't have the turnover of staff that bring in new ideas.\"\n\nQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate is also run by the trust\n\nWhile the BBC has heard criticisms about several members of the executive team, the actions and management style of the trust's chief operating officer, Lee Martin, appear to have caused the most concerns.\n\nWhile people recognise him as hard-working, and praise his efforts at improving A&E performance and preparing the trust for a possible no-deal Brexit last year, he has variously been described as \"bullying\", \"vindictive\" and \"hysterical, prone to shouting and swearing\" in meetings.\n\nOne female manager said he'd been known to message staff on their phones during meetings that he's attending, telling them to stop talking, while his temper outbursts have occasionally left some colleagues in tears.\n\n\"He's not a leader, he's a dictator,\" said a manager. \"NHS England knows what he's like.\"\n\nMr Martin, who joined the trust in 2018, has previously worked in hospitals in both Australia and London.\n\nIn Canberra, a parliamentary inquiry into a scandal around the manipulation of waiting times, which Mr Martin was not involved in, nonetheless heard concerns about his leadership style.\n\nSeveral staff said he had \"demonstrated inappropriate managerial behaviours\", while the head of Canberra Hospital told Australian politicians that \"on a couple of occasions, issues [were] brought to my attention in relation to Mr Martin's management approach.\n\n\"I have spoken to Mr Martin and we are working with his executive coach in relation to matters that have been raised.\"\n\nOn returning to the UK in 2013, Lee Martin was appointed chief operating officer at the Whittington Hospital in north London.\n\nAgain, the BBC has been told, concerns were raised about his \"very assertive managerial style\", including some staff saying they felt bullied by him.\n\nHe left the Whittington to join the London Northwest Healthcare Trust in 2015 before moving to Kent.\n\nAll the allegations were put to Mr Martin.\n\nHe has chosen not to respond.\n\nMr Martin has chosen not to respond to the allegations\n\nIn a statement, the East Kent Hospitals Trust said: \"We take all staff concerns and complaints extremely seriously and are committed to listening and acting on feedback.\n\n\"There are several ways that staff can raise concerns or make complaints about the behaviour of colleagues and we would encourage any member of staff with a complaint or a concern to contact the chief executive, their line manager or one of our Freedom to Speak Up Guardians so the matter can be properly investigated.\"", "The number of empty privately-owned homes in Wales has risen 40% in nearly a decade, figures have shown.\n\nThe 27,000 empty properties have been described as a \"wasted resource\" as so many people need affordable homes.\n\nShelter Cymru said councils have not used powers to take over some homes to bring them back into use because they fear \"getting it wrong\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said £40m had been given to councils and it expected the number of empty properties to fall.", "Plans for when universities in England must stop in-person teaching to allow students to go home for Christmas will be set out \"shortly\", the Department for Education has said.\n\nIt comes after the Guardian reported that students will be told to remain on campus and teaching will be done online in the run-up to the end of term.\n\nThe government said the risk of spreading the virus must be minimised.\n\nBut the University and College Union described the measures as \"unworkable\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Education said: \"All students will be able to go home at Christmas if they so choose.\n\n\"However, if students are travelling home, we must ensure they do so in a way which minimises the risks of spreading the virus, and the date when universities must stop in-person teaching will be an important part of this.\n\n\"We will set out details on this shortly.\"\n\nThe department gave no details on whether the measures would be for all universities in England or just those in virus hotspots.\n\nMore than 50 universities are believed to have had coronavirus cases so far this term, with thousands of students forced to self-isolate.\n\nLast month, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said universities in England could move to online-only learning before term would usually end so that students in areas with outbreaks would have time to isolate and still be able to travel home at Christmas.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, the government's plan, which is said to be in its early stages, would see students told to stay on campus and all in-person teaching paused from 8 December until 22 December.\n\nResponding to the reports, general secretary of the University and College Union Jo Grady said: \"This is an unworkable and chaotic set of measures that will be impossible to deliver or oversee.\n\n\"Instead of this perverse obsession with Christmas, ministers and universities must focus on the here and now. We should be talking about getting people home now, not in two months' time.\"\n\nShe called for the plan to be scrapped and for \"all possible activities\" to be moved online.\n\nOn Monday it emerged that the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) had recommended that all university teaching should be carried out online \"unless absolutely essential\".\n\nMr Williamson has previously rejected calls to move all teaching online.\n\nSome universities, including Aberystwyth, temporarily suspended in-person teaching in response to outbreaks.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the executive has agreed to advise universities to run courses online.\n\nMinisters in Scotland and Wales have said it is a \"priority\" to allow students to return home for Christmas.", "A final decision has not yet been made on whether Greater Manchester will move into the highest level of Covid measures, local MPs have told the BBC.\n\nA financial package has not been finalised, with local leaders expressing concerns about the impact on the hospitality industry.\n\nTier 3 involves pub closures and a ban on household mixing indoors, in private gardens and in most outdoor venues.\n\nMeanwhile, other parts of England will move into Tier 2 from Saturday.\n\nUnder this \"high\" alert level, the regions will face restrictions on meeting indoors.\n\nIt means more than half of England's population will be living under Tier 2 or 3 restrictions.\n\nTalks between the government and officials in Greater Manchester and Lancashire were taking place on Thursday morning about moving to Tier 3 or the \"very high\" alert level.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said discussions with local leaders in other parts of the country \"in Greater Manchester, in Lancashire, and elsewhere\" were ongoing - including \"what financial support is needed\".\n\nBut he told MPs he wanted to see \"rapid progress\" on the issue, and said \"we have put in place unprecedented support [for] those affected\".\n\nHe added: \"Let us be under no illusions about the danger posed by this virus.\n\n\"Coronavirus is deadly and it is now spreading exponentially in the UK.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has been resisting following the Liverpool City Region into Tier 3 restrictions, which he has described as unfair and a threat to jobs and businesses.\n\nShadow foreign secretary and Labour MP for Wigan Lisa Nandy said \"despite repeated attempts to claim we're divided\" there was \"total unity\" from Conservative and Labour Greater Manchester MPs on a call with Downing Street officials on Thursday morning.\n\nShe tweeted: \"We will support evidence based interventions with adequate financial support. We will not support this chaos.\"\n\nOldham Council leader Sean Fielding described the meeting as a \"masterclass in how not to\" hold negotiations.\n\nHe said the government's \"opening line\" was that Tier 3 would be implemented with local leaders or imposed, with \"nothing... to bring us on side because 'there is no money'\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Andrew Gwynne, the MP for Denton and Reddish, tweeted that the briefing \"was utterly pointless\".\n\n\"While they claim 'no decision on Tier 3' we know it was being heavily briefed,\" he said.\n\n\"The strength of feeling was strong from Tory and Labour MPs alike. The minister needs to listen: we are a city united.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe new three-tier system sees every area of England classed as being on medium, high or very high alert - also known as Tiers 1 to 3, respectively.\n\nMedium alert means areas are subject to the national restrictions currently in force, including the rule of six on indoor and outdoor gatherings and the 22:00 closing time for pubs, bars and restaurants.\n\nIn addition to these restrictions, in areas on high alert - including north-east England, much of the North West and parts of the Midlands, along with West and South Yorkshire - different households are not allowed to mix indoors.\n\nAreas on very high alert face extra curbs, with different households banned from mixing indoors or outdoors in hospitality venues or private gardens.\n\nPeople from different households can still meet in certain outdoor public spaces, such as parks, beaches, the countryside, forests, public gardens, allotments, outdoor sports facilities and playgrounds.\n\nPubs and bars will be closed unless they are serving substantial meals and there is also guidance against travelling in and out of the area.\n\nFurther restrictions may be agreed for particular regions in the top tier and in the Liverpool City Region gyms, leisure centres, betting shops and casinos have also been forced to close.\n\nWorkers at firms told to shut because of coronavirus rules over the winter will receive at least two-thirds of their pay from the government, under the Job Support Scheme announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nThis means the scheme - which replaces furlough at the start of November for six months - will pay those people who can't go to work because pubs and restaurants have been closed under ''very high'' Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions.\n\nUntil then, workers are in line for up to 80% of their pay - 20% from their employer and 60% from the government - if their premises must close, or if there isn't enough for them to do.\n\nIn a meeting on Wednesday, health officials from the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) suggested that Greater Manchester along with much of north-east and north-west England and parts of Yorkshire and the Midlands should be moved into the top tier.\n\nMeanwhile, schools in Northern Ireland will close from Monday and pubs and restaurants face new restrictions from Friday.\n\nWales is preparing to ban people from parts of the UK that have high rates of coronavirus from travelling to the country from 18:00 BST on Friday.\n\nAnd in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has advised Scots against travelling to high risk areas of England, singling out Blackpool as being linked to \"a large and growing number\" of Covid-19 cases in her country.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19,724 coronavirus cases were recorded in the UK, while 137 more people have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus.\n\nHow will the new measures affect you? Do you have any questions about the restrictions? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rashford scored a winner for vulnerable children in the summer\n\nHungry children are sitting in class worrying about what their younger siblings will eat at home later, says campaigning footballer Marcus Rashford.\n\nRashford, who prompted a Westminster government U-turn on free meals over the summer holidays, says some cannot focus due to rumbling stomachs.\n\nStepping up his child poverty campaign, he is urging UK ministers to offer free meals to 1.5 million more children.\n\nNumber 10 said it was not for schools to provide food during holidays.\n\nThe Prime Minister's official spokesman told reporters the government had already \"taken action to make sure children don't go hungry\".\n\n\"We are in a different position now schools are open - it's not for schools to regularly provide food during the holidays.\n\n\"We think Universal Credit will provide what's needed,\" he added.\n\nWales has said it will offer poor pupils free meals over the holidays.\n\nNorthern Ireland, which has announced a time limited lockdown in which schools will close, has said it will cover pupils' meals during this period, but nothing further is promised for the coming Christmas holiday.\n\nEngland's government has not committed any further resources to free school meals since schools returned in September.\n\nRashford, who has told of his own impoverished childhood and formed a coalition of food campaigners under the name #endchildfoodpoverty, is now mounting a petition to Parliament.\n\nThe petition calls for free school meals to be available for every child from a household on Universal Credit or equivalent.\n\nThis would mean the meals reach an additional 1.5 million children aged seven to 16, his campaign said.\n\nHe also wants holiday meals and activities to be expanded to an extra 1.1 million, and the value of healthy food vouchers for pregnant women to be increased to increased to £4.25 per week (up from £3.10)\n\nRashford, who has just become an MBE for his work for vulnerable children, said many say that education is the most effective means of combating poverty.\n\nBut he added: \"Education is only effective when children can engage in learning.\n\n\"Right now, a generation who have already been penalised during this pandemic with lack of access to educational resources are now back in school struggling to concentrate due to worry and the sound of their rumbling stomachs.\n\n\"Whatever your feeling, opinion, or judgement, food poverty is never the child's fault.\n\nSaffron says children need support more now than ever\n\n\"Let's protect our young. Let's wrap arms around each other and stand together to say that this is unacceptable, that we are united in protecting our children.\"\n\nHe added that millions of British children were finding themselves in very vulnerable circumstances, and were \"beginning to question what it really means to be British\".\n\n\"I'm calling on you all today to help me prove to them that being British is something to be proud of,\" he said.\n\nRashford added: \"The school holidays used to be a highlight of the year for children. Today, it is met with anxiety from those as young as seven years old.\"\n\nSaffron, who is 15 and from Portsmouth, said: \"After the U-turn this summer, it felt like the government finally understood that children can't be left to go hungry during the holidays.\n\n\"But now we're back in the same position of having to ask for help. Covid-19 isn't going away, and even more families are struggling. Children need support during the holidays now more than ever.\"\n\nWhile 15-year-old Felix, who has eight siblings and lives in Norfolk, said: \"For a really big family like mine, the holidays mean much more pressure on our parents - with me and my siblings at home there needs to be more meals, extra childcare, higher bills.\n\n\"For families fallen on hard times and for parents have lost their jobs because of Covid, the pressure to provide during the holidays must be overwhelming.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Westminster government said it had taken substantial action to make sure children and their families did not go hungry.\n\nThis included extending free school meals support to those eligible when schools were closed, extending welfare support by £9.3bn, funding councils to provide emergency assistance to families with food, essentials and meals, it said.\n\n\"We know it has been a challenging time for families which is why we have increased the safety net available to them with income protection schemes, mortgage holidays and support for renters.\"", "Three-year-old Hadija is now an orphan. Her mum, dad and older sister were killed in a missile strike by Armenian forces on their house.\n\nArmenia and Azerbaijain are fighting a war for control of the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.\n\nBut civilians on both sides are also caught up in the conflict.", "Is President Trump right about US carbon emissions?\n\nIn the final presidential debate last night, Donald Trump said the US has had the \"best carbon emission numbers\" in the last 35 years. He went on to claim that countries such as China, Russia and India were \"filthy\". Last year, the US's carbon emissions per capita were at their lowest point in the past 35 years - if this is what Trump was referring to. The data shows that, in recent decades, total carbon emissions have been on a general downward trend, with some fluctuations. There's been a shift to both gas and renewable energy sources, and away from coal, largely because of cost. Trump would have burned more coal (which would have increased emissions), but it proved uneconomic to do so. As far as other countries are concerned, China has higher total CO2 emissions than the US, although emissions from the US are still much bigger than both India and Russia. And as far as emissions per capita go, the US is still ahead of China, Russia and India. Emissions from the US per capita in 2017 were over 16 tonnes while India's were the lowest – at fewer than two tonnes.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Mr Becker appeared at Southwark Crown Court where he denied all 28 charges against him\n\nEx-tennis champion Boris Becker has appeared in court accused of failing to hand over trophies from his playing days so they could be sold to pay debts.\n\nThe three-time Wimbledon winner was declared bankrupt in 2017 over money owed to a bank.\n\nHe is accused of not complying with obligations to disclose information.\n\nMr Becker denied all 28 charges against him at a Southwark Crown Court hearing in London on Thursday.\n\nThe 28-count indictment includes mention of his 1985 All England Club trophy, his 1989 silverware from the same tournament, and his Australian Open trophies from 1991 and 1996.\n\nBoris Becker was the youngest ever Wimbledon men's singles champion, aged 17\n\nThe 52-year-old German national is also accused of concealing more than £1m held in bank accounts, in addition to property in the UK and abroad.\n\nThe court heard that he failed to declare his property interest in an address in Chelsea, south-west London, with similar charges for two properties in his home town of Leimen.\n\nMr Becker is also accused of removing hundreds of thousands of pounds by transferring it to other accounts, including to former wife Barbara Becker, and estranged wife Sharlely \"Lilly\" Becker.\n\nIt is also alleged he hid his holding of shares in a firm called Breaking Data Corp.\n\nMr Becker appeared to record himself on his mobile phone at Southwark Crown Court\n\nMr Becker was released on bail ahead of his trial next September, which is set to last up to four weeks.\n\nProsecutor Rebecca Chalkley said the retired sportsman and television presenter may face further charges at a later date.\n\nDefence counsel Jonathan Caplan said: \"He (Mr Becker) is determined to face and contest these charges and restore his reputation in relation to the allegations made against him.\"\n\nThe former world number one and six-time Grand Slam champion collected 49 singles titles out of 77 finals during his 16 years as a professional tennis player.\n\nHe was picked to enter the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2003, and has been a commentator on the BBC and at tennis tournaments around the world.", "Australian police have arrested 44 men across the nation on suspicion of possessing and producing child abuse material.\n\nSixteen children had been \"removed from harm\" in the process, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said.\n\nThe arrests followed a year-long investigation into images and videos that were shared online.\n\nArrests of the suspects - all aged between 19 and 57 - were made in every Australian state.\n\nPolice laid a total of 350 charges, all related to possessing or producing child exploitation material.\n\nThe men had allegedly used a cloud storage platform to share the abuse. The AFP described some evidence as among \"the most abhorrent produced\".\n\nCommissioner Reece Kershaw said identifying and rescuing victims was a \"race against time\" in such cases.\n\n\"Pixel by pixel, our investigators painstakingly look for clues and never give up,\" he said.\n\nHundreds of police and other specialists worked on the operation across Australia's states and territories.\n\nThe arrests numbered 11 in Victoria, 11 in Queensland, nine in South Australia, eight in New South Wales, seven in Western Australia, five in Tasmania and one in the Australian Capital Territory.\n\nThe suspects worked in industries including construction, transport, law enforcement and hospitality.\n\n\"Children are not commodities and the AFP and its partner agencies work around-the-clock to identify and prosecute offenders,\" Mr Kershaw said.\n\nThe AFP said it had rescued 134 children from child exploitation this year, including 67 who were not in Australia.", "There have been confirmed Covid-19 cases in half of Northern Ireland's schools since the start of term.\n\nThat is according to new figures published by the Public Health Agency (PHA).\n\nThe PHA has been informed of 2,030 positive Covid cases in schools since teaching returned at the beginning of term.\n\nThere had been 608 Covid-19 so-called incidents in 519 schools up until 20 October, said the agency.\n• None 519Schools with at least one positive Covid case out of 1,035 total schools\n• None 237Schools with a cluster of two to five cases\n• None 69Schools with a cluster of more than five cases\n\nAn incident can be a single positive case, a cluster of two to five cases or more than five cases.\n\nA cluster is defined by the PHA as two or more laboratory-confirmed cases of Covid-19 among individuals in one setting, such as a school.\n\nThis is the first time the agency has reported the number of Covid cases specifically in schools.\n\nIn other Covid-19 developments on Friday:\n\nThe figures from the PHA detail the number of cases in schools from the start of term in late August up until Tuesday.\n\nA school can have more than one Covid \"incident\"- for instance, it could have two separate cases or clusters that are not linked to each other.\n\nOverall, 86% of post-primary schools had at least one case since the start of term, compared to around 40% of primary schools and 66% of special schools.\n\nAround three-quarters of schools (76%) in the Belfast City Council area have been affected by positive cases.\n\nThat local government district had the highest proportion of schools affected, just higher than the numbers recorded in Londonderry, Strabane and Omagh - the district with the second highest proportion.\n\nOf school cases notified to the PHA, just over two-thirds (68%) were pupils and one-third (32%) were staff.\n\nThe PHA does not report how many pupils or staff had to self-isolate as a result of coming into contact with positive cases in schools.\n\nHowever, separate figures released to the Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle in response to an assembly question showed that over one in 10 teaching and non-teaching staff were not working in school in the week from 6-13 October.\n\nJust over a third of those staff were absent from school as they were self-isolating for 14 days.\n\nHowever, staff who are self-isolating may still be working from home.\n\nSome schools have been forced to close for short periods and teach pupils online, due mainly to a number of staff self-isolating.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland began an extended two-week half term break on Monday 19 October.", "US retailer Gap could close all of its own UK stores, putting thousands of jobs at risk, as it mulls shifting its operations to franchise-only in Europe.\n\nShops in the UK, France, Ireland and Italy could shut next summer, along with its UK-based European distribution centre, the retailer said.\n\nGap would not disclose the number of UK stores it has, nor the size of its workforce.\n\nFalling sales in recent years have been exacerbated by coronavirus disruption.\n\nThe retailer reported a £740m loss in the three months to May.\n\nInstead of operating its own stores, Gap said it was looking at whether to move to a franchise model. The retailer had 129 Gap-branded stores in Europe at the end of July, and about 400 franchise stores.\n\n\"As we conduct the review, we will look at transferring elements of the business to interested third parties as part of a proposed partnership model expansion,\" said Mark Breitbard, head of Gap brand global.\n\nA Gap spokesperson added it was also looking at \"alternative ways to operate the European e-commerce business.\" The spokesperson declined to give a breakdown of the number of stores and employees Gap has by country.\n\nClothing retailers have been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. As well as temporary shop closures during lockdown, they have had to contend with lower footfall and an accelerated shift to online shopping which has been capitalised on by specialists such as Asos and Boohoo.\n\nMany retailers have struggled to survive amid the crisis, according to the Centre for Retail Research. These include:\n\nEven before the pandemic, Gap was fighting to revitalise itself after losing younger shoppers to cheaper fast fashion brands such as Zara, H&M and Forever 21 over a number of years.\n\nEarlier this year, Gap said it planned to close over 225 unprofitable Gap and Banana Republic stores globally as a part of a restructuring plan.", "UK tourists seeking winter sun have been given a boost, after Spain's Canary Islands and the Maldives were added to the government's safe travel list.\n\nIt means visitors will no longer need to quarantine for 14 days on their return, with the Greek island of Mykonos and Denmark also deemed safe.\n\nThe changes apply to anyone arriving in the UK after 04:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nBut Liechtenstein has been taken off the list, so arrivals must isolate.\n\nThe changes apply to citizens from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nThe Canary Islands are popular with winter holidaymakers, being one of the few parts of Europe warm enough for beach holidays at that time.\n\nHowever, the rest of Spain, including the Balearic Islands, remain subject to quarantine restrictions amid a surge in infections.\n\nBeyond having to fill in passenger locator forms, visitors to the Canaries and Mykonos currently face no restrictions to entry.\n\nBut all visitors to the Maldives are required to prove they have had a negative Covid test within 96 hours of arrival.\n\nAnd any UK citizen visiting Denmark must prove they have a \"worthy purpose\" for visiting, such as work or study, as Denmark deems Britain to be a high risk country.\n\nTourism is not considered a worthy purpose, although people with second homes in the country may visit.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the new additions to the safe list had seen a decrease in confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, it said \"a significant change in both the level and pace of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Liechtenstein\" had led to it being removed from the current list of \"travel corridors\".\n\nAfter so much doom and gloom, travel companies can suddenly see the sunshine. The Canaries are a key destination for UK airlines and tour operators.\n\nAnd it is not an exaggeration to say that the removal of the quarantine will help these companies make it through the winter.\n\nThe government has, in effect, dialled-up the tourism \"on switch\".\n\nHowever it will be a real test case for whether, in these uncertain Covid times, there is demand for travel.\n\nWith plenty of time for people to make winter bookings it's a timely moment.\n\nBritish Airways recently scheduled a direct flight to the Maldives, so maybe they knew something we didn't.\n\nTravel companies, which have seen demand slump due to the quarantine rules, welcomed the decision on the Canaries.\n\n\"The Canaries are a hugely important market for winter travel - representing over 50% of bookings for some tour operators - so this is very welcome news for the whole sector,\" said industry body Airlines UK.\n\nAndrew Flintham, managing director of TUI, said the holiday operator had not been able to take people on a holiday to the Canaries for 89 days.\n\n\"We're therefore delighted that UK flights will now resume from Saturday 24 October. The first flights will depart to Fuerteventura and Lanzarote this weekend, with many more added in the coming days.\"\n\nThere are now only a handful of places travellers from the UK can visit without facing restrictions - either when they arrive at their destination, or return.\n\nThere are hopes coronavirus testing for passengers could make travel to more destinations possible, by providing proof of a negative result before travellers leave the UK.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps, meanwhile, has said he is \"hopeful\" a new testing regime for arrivals to Britain can be in place by 1 December, reducing the amount of time people need to spend in quarantine.\n\nHowever, new British Airways boss Sean Doyle last week called for tests for returning Britons before departure, warning the UK would \"get left behind\" without more radical action.\n\nEarlier on Monday the airline cut flight numbers again, saying it would operate fewer planes than planned for the rest of the year as the pandemic continues to hit demand.\n\nThe Foreign Office still advises British nationals against all but essential international travel due to the pandemic.", "A hospitality body has described the government's new financial support package as welcome in the short-term - but \"the equivalent of being abandoned at sea with only a lifejacket\".\n\nThe Scottish Hospitality Group said the current approach was having a \"devastating\" impact on people’s lives and livelihoods.\n\nAnd it warned the new tiered system of restrictions would only add to the problem.\n\nSpokesman Stephen Montgomery said: \"The industry cannot survive if the intention is to impose these restrictions indefinitely.\n\n\"They (the Scottish government) need to sit down and work with businesses before it is too late and save an industry that is the third biggest employer in the country.\n\n\"The hospitality industry is still left bearing the brunt with no scientific, statistical, or medical evidence for these restrictions.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland's match against the Barbarians at Twickenham on Sunday has been called off after 12 Barbarians players were stood down for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe players left their hotel bubble - contrary to team protocols - to have dinner at a London restaurant.\n\nDuring its investigation, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) said it discovered another breach where players left the hotel without permission.\n\nFormer England captain Chris Robshaw is among the players who have apologised.\n\nIt is understood several Barbarians players went to a central London pub on Tuesday as well as an Italian restaurant on Wednesday.\n\nThe RFU said the players' actions meant the \"bubble environment\" was compromised.\n\n\"We are incredibly disappointed to be calling a halt to this fixture,\" said RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney. \"We know how much fans were looking forward to seeing the teams play.\n\n\"However, our priority is to protect the health and safety of the England squad and the other international teams they will go up against this autumn.\"\n\nRobshaw, Richard Wigglesworth, Sean Maitland and Jackson Wray were among the 12 players stood down from the fixture, along with a number of other Saracens players.\n\nRobshaw, who is set to join San Diego Legion in the US, expressed his \"deepest apologies\" for \"leaving the hotel post-training with some of my team-mates\".\n\n\"A huge effort went into conducting this match in a safe fashion and it was irresponsible of me to break the protocols which are put in place to protect players, staff and the public,\" he said.\n\n\"I understand that my actions have ultimately contributed to the cancellation of Sunday's match and I am sincerely remorseful for my role in undoing all the amazing work that went into trying to make it happen.\n\n\"I promise that I will learn from this mistake and ensure something like this never happens again.\"\n\nFormer England scrum-half Wigglesworth said: \"Embarrassed and beyond gutted to have let (coach) Vern Cotter and everyone at Barbarians FC as well as the RFU.\n\n\"Should not have happened and for that I am truly sorry. I've let a lot of people down including myself and wish I'd done it differently. Sorry again.\"\n\nSaracens lock Joel Kpoku and former Ireland wing Fergus McFadden also posted social media apologies.\n\nThe Barbarians, who announced their 23-man squad on Wednesday, were given a 15:00 BST deadline on Friday to attempt to recruit a team.\n\nPremiership Rugby officials emailed clubs on Thursday to ask if they would release players to play for the invitational side.\n\nHowever, it has now been deemed unsafe to fulfil the fixture.\n\nSweeney said: \"There has been a great deal of effort put into Covid codes of conduct and planning for games, including cooperation with Premiership clubs to release additional players to fulfil the fixture safely.\n\n\"We are all incredibly frustrated and disappointed that the actions of a number of Barbarians players mean we no longer feel it is safe for the game to go ahead.\"\n\nBarbarian FC expressed their \"extreme disappointment\" in the conduct of the players who breached regulations.\n\nThe build-up to Barbarians games is famous for its focus on socialising and the team management installed a team room in their London base to keep the players entertained.\n• None Can a government minister outrun the secrets of his past?\n• None Behind the scenes of a club reborn", "Half of Scotland's councils are to move down a level following the latest review of the country's Covid restrictions.\n\nThese include the 11 areas which had been in level four, which contains the toughest restrictions.\n\nThe changes take effect on Friday. So what are the rules which apply in the different levels?\n\nAbout 2.3 million people in west and central Scotland have been living under these restrictions, which are the closest to a full lockdown, since 20 November.\n\nAll non-essential shops are closed, as are all pubs, cafes and restaurants - although they can still offer a takeaway service.\n\nHairdressers, tailors, barbers and beauticians also had to shut, along with all leisure, entertainment and visitor attractions, and public buildings.\n\nGyms and sports centres are also closed, with only non-contact sports allowed outdoors.\n\nSocialising is not allowed in people's homes, although six people from two households can still meet outdoors.\n\nIt is illegal to travel outside your council area without a reasonable excuse and journeys within your area should also be kept to a minimum.\n\nUp to 20 people can attend places of worship, weddings, civil partnerships, funerals and wakes. Wedding and civil partnership receptions are not allowed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants, visitor attractions, libraries, hairdressers, barbers and beauticians can reopen if an area moves down to level three.\n\nA maximum of six people from two households can meet in hospitality venues, either indoors or outdoors. However, no alcohol can be sold, and premises must close at 18:00.\n\nAll leisure and entertainment venues are closed, such as soft play, funfairs, snooker and pool halls, indoor bowling alleys, casinos and bingo halls. Outdoor live events are banned.\n\nGyms can open for individual exercise but indoor group exercise activities for over-18s are not allowed. Organised outdoor non-contact sports, personal training and coaching can take place, but contact sports are banned for adults (apart from professional sport).\n\nUnder-18s can take part in organised sports and activities, both indoor and outdoor, as long as they follow the guidance for that sport.\n\nAs in level four, it is against the law to travel outside your council area unless your journey is for an essential purpose.\n\nPlaces of worship can open for up to 50 people, and there is a 20-person limit for weddings, civil partnerships, funerals, wakes and receptions.\n\nIn-home socialising is still not allowed, although up to six people from two households can meet outdoors and in hospitality settings.\n\nPubs, cafes and restaurants can serve alcohol indoors, but only with a main meal, and must close by 20:00. Outdoors, alcohol can be consumed without a meal and venues can stay open until 22:30.\n\nMost leisure and entertainment premises are still closed. However, cinemas and bingo halls can reopen with physical distancing measures in place.\n\nStadium gatherings and events are still banned, other than drive-ins.\n\nAdults are allowed to take part in organised outdoor sports, personal training and coaching, as well as indoor exercise classes and non-contact sports. Contact sports are not allowed indoors.\n\nThe rules for places of worship and for life events, such as weddings and funerals, are the same as in level three.\n\nBy law, those in levels two and below should not travel into level three or four areas unless their journey is essential. People should also not travel to or from other parts of the UK without a reasonable excuse.\n\nPeople living in level two and below are also asked to minimise unnecessary journeys between areas in different levels.\n\nThere should be a \"reasonable\" degree of normality in level one.\n\nIn Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles, up to six people from two households are allowed to meet indoors at home.\n\nHowever, the ban on meeting in your or another person's home remains in the other level one areas.\n\nUp to eight people from three households can meet outside - either in a park or garden, or outdoors at a hospitality venue.\n\nPubs cafes and restaurants can serve food and alcohol in line with normal licensing rules, but must close by 22:30.\n\nSoft play, funfairs, snooker and pool halls, indoor bowling alleys, casinos and bingo halls can reopen, although nightclubs and adult entertainment venues are still closed. All indoor and outdoor visitor attractions can also open.\n\nThe guidelines on participating in sport are similar to those in level two, with adults still unable to take part in indoor contact sports.\n\nIt is possible for crowds to return to sports stadia with limited numbers, and outdoor seated events are also allowed.\n\nOutdoor grouped standing events are still banned, although small indoor seated events can take place.\n\nThe rules for travel, life events and places of worship are the same as in level two.\n\nThis level is broadly comparable to the position in August when the virus was very suppressed in Scotland but still a threat.\n\nA maximum of eight people from three households would be able to meet indoors, either in someone's home or in hospitality premises.\n\nUp to 15 people from five households can gather outdoors, either in a park or garden or outdoors at a pub, cafe or restaurant.\n\nAll outdoor events are allowed, with restricted numbers. Indoor events can go ahead where those attending are seated or able to walk around a venue, but events where people stand in groups should not take place.\n\nLeisure and entertainment remains open with the exception of nightclubs and adult entertainment venues.\n\nUp to 50 people can attend weddings, civil partnerships, funerals, wakes and receptions. The same number can attend indoor places of worship, but 200 people could be allowed at an outdoor act of worship.\n\nThe same travel rules apply as in levels one and two.", "Climate change activists are staging a protest outside the Grangemouth oil refinery.\n\nDemonstrators from Extinction Rebellion are attempting to prevent access to the Ineos plant and have blocked two roads with boats. The group said protesters had also locked themselves together.\n\nThe group has accused the petrochemical manufacturer of being Scotland's biggest climate change polluter.\n\nIneos said it would continue to explore ways to reduce emissions at its sites.\n\nProtesters are also demonstrating outside the company's London headquarters.\n\nAn Extinction Rebellion statement said it had blocked the Bo'ness Road gate with a boat and that another boat was located at the Ineos office on Inchyra Road.\n\nExtinction Rebellion Scotland said Covid-19 safety precautions were being taken, including face masks, social distancing and use of hand sanitiser, while participating activists were using a track and trace app.\n\nCampaigners held up banners stating \"No Future in Fossil Fuels\" and \"Climate Justice = Social Justice\".\n\nAnnie Lane, 26, a campaigner from Glasgow, said: \"We are here to expose the climate destruction that Ineos is causing. We are running out of time, with the climate crisis affecting so many in the global south already.\"\n\nIneos said that between 2009 and 2019, emissions from its Grangemouth site had reduced by 37% and emissions from the chemicals business had fallen by 43%.\n\nA spokesman said the company's sites were exploring ways to reduce emissions.\n\nHe added: \"As more and more energy-intensive manufacturing industries in Scotland close down, then it is inevitable that those which the Scottish economy so heavily rely on will stand out above the rest in terms of their emissions.\n\n\"Observers should be left in no doubt: manufacturing products in the UK we rely on every day, every week, every year reduces carbon footprint from importing such items, ensures compliance with the strictest environmental and safety standards and delivers carbon savings through their applications, 'light-weighting' vehicles, components for wind turbines and so on.\n\n\"We do our utmost to do this as efficiently (and environmentally responsibly) as possible - because this is how we will remain in business.\"\n\nSupt Simon Jeacocke of Police Scotland said officers had reached agreement with protesters to allow a peaceful demonstration ending at 14:00.\n\n\"At 2pm, the group informed police that they did not wish to leave the area and as a result, 12 people have been arrested,\" he said.\n\n\"In addition, two sailing boats and various other items used to create the roadblock have been seized.\n\n\"Reports will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal and the road will be fully re-opened in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 16 and 23 October. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs which can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nThis out-of-this-world shot of the milky way above Lonan House in Glen Lonan was snapped by Michael Kent.\n\nAutumn has arrived. Andrena Coburn's daughter shares her name with the season and enjoys her special time of year playing hide and seek behind the big fir trees in the Hermitage at Dunkeld.\n\nDoe a deer - this friendly female deer wasn't shy as she met Michelle Borland on a visit to Glencoe.\n\nRay - this drop of golden sun adds the finishing touches to Marion Reid's portrait of autumn.\n\nMe myself and I - Bruce Melvin's daughter Evie has the hills near Cairnsmore of Fleet all to herself in this picture.\n\nCanoe believe how beautiful the light and the broody sky look for this kayaker on Loch Bracadale, Skye?\n\nOh deer - this majestic creature was waiting for a snack from Marc McCubbin from Renfrew at the Kingshouse Hotel in Glencoe.\n\nA housebreaking squirrel is caught in the act stealing nuts in Edinburgh.\n\nWho says we only choose dogs? Cleo the cat represents the feline faction as she enjoys the autumn sunshine in her garden in Motherwell.\n\nA line of the times: Aoibheann Devine thought this washing line near Pittenweem was very 2020.\n\nAhead of the curve: Stephanie Brough got the best part of the day on her morning run through the McLennan Arch on Glasgow Green.\n\nWhy couldn't the pony sing? Because he was a little hoarse: Christie Mellis reckons her son Nathaniel was sharing a joke with a local horse where his gran stays near Cove, Kilcreggan.\n\nHaving it Largs: A rainbow encapsulates the North Ayrshire town, spotted from the Cumbrae ferry terminal by Maureen Kerrigan.\n\nNo going back: Lucy, aged 10 braces for the cold after jumping off the slipway at Lamlash Bay, Arran as her mum Alison Roberts snapped the shot.\n\nThis tree-mendous picture of Finn the Cocker Spaniel at the Cat Gates at Culzean Castle has a cinematic feel to it.\n\nSandie Pow's husband Colin travels at the speed of kite as he surfs on the family's favourite beach, Sands of Luce in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nStephen Robertson soaked up the rich colours of autumn highlighted in this beautiful sunset over the hamlet of Altandhu and the summer isles.\n\nFour-year-old George is on track for a nice day out as he waves at the approaching train driver and passengers on the miniature railway as Strathaven Model Society staged the final rides of 2020.\n\nMist and yellow fruitfulness: Autumn colours take over in the back garden of Sarah Morris in Hamilton.\n\nGene Webster saw some shades of Halloween in this in-tree-guing shot taken at Glenmore in Aviemore.\n\nSea bass: Alan Bruce from Edinburgh captured this cold-looking view of Bass rock with gannets looking on.\n\nThree Exmoor ponies at North Berwick Law take a colt hard look at a couple of dogs walking past.\n\nWish view were here: Linda Young captures Ard Neackie on Loch Eriboll - a rocky promontory connected to the mainland by a sandy spit.\n\nLeave me alone: Ross Collins witnesses a car-free Kelvin Way in Glasgow as it remains pedestrian-only for social distancing.\n\nJoe and Joshua appreciate a neighbour's rainbow in support of our NHS.\n\nMussel Beach: Jan DolnyI took an autumnal walk along Musselburgh Beach and was reminded how the town got its name, with thousands of mussel shells lining the shoreline beyond Fisherrow Harbour.\n\nDrama scene: Craig Buchan's photo from St Fillans looking out over Loch Earn looks like the start of a movie with the morning mist breaking over the still loch.\n\nIn the run-up to Halloween, this moody picture of the light at the end of the tunnel on Inchcolm Island in the Firth of Forth has a hint of Harry Potter about it, and He Who Must Not Be Named.\n\nIt's not Ard to see why we loved this mirror image shot of Loch Ard by Alan from Glasgow.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Coronavirus infections continue to rise across the UK, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nIt estimates cases have risen by a quarter to more than 35,200 a day in England.\n\nInfection rates have been highest among teenagers and young adults in recent weeks.\n\nIt comes as stricter rules come into force for millions more people across the UK.\n\nAround one in 130 people you might meet in the street in England had coronavirus in the week to 16 October, data from the ONS infection survey suggests.\n\nThis compares with one in 180 in Wales and Scotland, and one in 100 in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe highest levels of the virus continue to be in the north-west and north-east of England.\n\nMeanwhile, the R number has decreased slightly and is now estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.4. That means every 10 people with the virus pass it on to 12 or 14 others, on average.\n\nThe ONS figures are based on a survey of people in random households whether they have symptoms or not, giving one of the most accurate pictures of the epidemic.\n\nAlthough cases are still rising, they suggest a slight slowing in the rate of growth of infections since the previous week's survey.\n\nThis echoes data from Public Health England which suggests cases may now be falling among people in their teens and 20s while still increasing in all other age groups.\n\nThe ONS figures are much higher than the lab-confirmed cases recorded by the UK government every day. Another 21,242 cases and 189 deaths were confirmed on Thursday.\n\nAnother source of data, the Covid Symptom study app, suggests there were more than 36,000 new daily cases in the UK over the two weeks to 18 October - up from nearly 28,000 a week ago.\n\nThese numbers are based on users logging their symptoms and positive tests on the app.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nTim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, and founder of the app, said the gap between the northern regions of the UK and the south \"was growing\".\n\n\"Our data clearly shows that the number of cases is still being driven by the younger generations, which should mean less pressure on NHS admissions compared to earlier in the year,\" he said.\n\nBut he warned that people of all ages can get long Covid and it is important to control the second wave.\n\nPHE's weekly report on the spread of the virus shows case rates are still highest in the under 30s, but are now coming down.\n\nIn contrast, cases per 100,000 people in all age groups over 30 continue to rise.\n\nIn hospitals, admissions and deaths are still rising right across England and health officials are concerned that black, Asian and minority ethnic communities make up nearly 40% of admissions to intensive care.\n\nThe highest hospital admission rates for people with Covid-19 were in the over 85s, and in the north west of England.\n• None How will the vulnerable be protected from Covid? And other questions", "It is Boris Johnson's \"ambition\" for people to celebrate Christmas with their families, his spokesman has said.\n\nThe prime minister is \"hopeful\" that \"some aspects of our lives\" could be \"back to normal\" by then, he added.\n\nBut a scientific adviser to the government warned without taking action a normal Christmas was \"wishful thinking in the extreme\".\n\nIt comes as tougher rules come into force for nearly six million Britons - including a lockdown in Wales.\n\nWelsh health minister Vaughan Gething also brought up the prospect of Christmas, saying the 17-day national lockdown, starting at 18:00 BST, was happening now so \"we can have a much more normal Christmas season for businesses\".\n\nBut Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said the priority was \"saving lives not saving Christmas\".\n\nScots have been warned the idea of a normal Christmas is a \"fiction\" and they should prepare for digital celebrations.\n\nSpeaking at a briefing for journalists, the No 10 spokesman said: \"The PM has been clear previously that he is hopeful that in many ways we could be able to get some aspects of our lives back to normal by Christmas.\n\n\"As I say, we've been clear about the ambition to ensure that people may celebrate Christmas as a family this year.\"\n\nBut earlier, government scientific adviser Prof John Edmunds said the idea that people could \"carry on as we are\" and then have a normal Christmas with friends and family was \"wishful thinking in the extreme\".\n\nProf Edmunds, who sits on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) committee, said: \"The only way that we can have a relatively safe and normal Christmas is if we take radical action now to reduce incidence - at the very least in high incidence areas - and keep the incidence low across the country by implementing a package of measures to reduce social contacts.\"\n\nProf Edmunds was responding to comments made by government minister Stephen Barclay, who told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he hoped families would be allowed to spend Christmas together.\n\n\"I think few people expect it to be exactly as it would normally,\" said Mr Barclay - but \"the ability of families to spend Christmas together\" was \"something we all hope to be in a position to do\".\n\nSir Jeremy Farrar, who also sits on the Sage committee that advises the government, has already warned that Christmas would be \"tough\" and was unlikely to be the \"usual celebration\" of \"families coming together\".\n\nMeanwhile, the UK recorded another 224 deaths and 20,530 new confirmed cases on Friday.\n\nThe R number for the UK has decreased slightly and is now estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.4. That means every 10 people with the virus pass it on to 12 or 14 others, on average.\n\nWarrington is the latest place to announce it is moving to England's highest level of restrictions - tier three. The measures will take effect next week.\n\nNottingham and parts of Nottinghamshire are also expected to be moved into tier three next week, with the finer details such as whether or not gyms can stay open still to be decided.\n\nSouth Yorkshire will also move into tier three from 00:01 on Saturday, by which time more than seven million people will be living under England's tightest rules.\n\nGreater Manchester, Liverpool City Region and Lancashire are already in tier three.\n\nUnder tier three rules pubs and bars not serving substantial meals have to close, while household mixing is banned indoors and outdoors in hospitality settings and private gardens.\n\nSome areas have also gone further, closing businesses such as bingo halls, casinos, betting shops and soft play centres, while there is guidance against travelling in or out of the area.\n\nRising infections mean Coventry, Stoke and Slough will move into tier two restrictions at 00:01 on Saturday.\n\nThe high alert level means households are banned from mixing indoors and people are encouraged to reduce their use of public transport.\n\nScotland is bringing in its own five-tier system of restrictions which will come into force from 2 November, with the top level close to a full lockdown.\n\nIn Wales, the \"firebreak\" means people will have to stay at home and pubs, restaurants, hotels and non-essential shops will close until 9 November.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? What do the current restrictions mean for you? Do you have any questions? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The drive-in movie theatre is due to be held at Chester FC's stadium\n\nPlans for a drive-in cinema in Chester were bogged down after the toilets were found to be across the border with Wales and subject to Welsh Covid rules.\n\nThe bathroom facilities at Chester FC cannot be used due to the new Covid-19 lockdown in Wales.\n\nAnyone caught short would not have been allowed to cross the border.\n\nBut event promoter Storyhouse has confirmed it has managed to hire some portable toilets so customers \"could have a wee without breaking the law\".\n\nChief executive Andrew Bentley said earlier: \"The toilets are in the stand - it is all a bit crazy.\n\n\"Originally we had planned to have six nights on the Welsh part of the ground but had to change it to the English part of the car park after the Welsh Government brought in new restrictions.\"\n\nAndrew Bentley said it was a \"crazy\" situation\n\nStoryhouse said capacity had been reduced to \"comfortably fit\" all the cars on the English side of the border.\n\nBizarrely the Welsh border also runs down the centre of the club's pitch which could have caused problems for Chester FC's players who will play their first game after the Welsh \"firebreak\" lockdown starts.\n\nBut the ultimate offside trap has been avoided, according to club spokesman Albert Davies.\n\nHe said: \"We are actually classed as elite sport, so the rules do not apply.\n\n\"We've played some great stuff recently and it has been elite football.\"\n\nThe National League North team are in action in the FA Cup fourth preliminary round on Saturday against Marine who are based in... Waterloo.\n\nThe toilets are in the Welsh part of the stadium\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man wanted by police for two years has been arrested after being found in the attic of a south Belfast house.\n\nThe South Belfast Neighbourhood Policing team carried out a search of the house on the Donegall Road on Friday morning.\n\nHe was arrested for possession of a class B controlled drug with intent to supply and two bench warrants.\n\nAnother male was also arrested for possession of a class B controlled drug with intent to supply.\n\nA spokesperson for the PSNI said: \"South Belfast Neighbourhood Policing team carried out a proactive house search in the Donegall Road area this morning.\n\n\"A check of the roof space turned up something interesting also.\n\n\"A male who had been wanted by Police for over two years was located hiding up above.\"", "If social media is to be believed, there was only one winner of the final presidential debate - the person in charge.\n\nKristen Welker has been lauded online for her performance as moderator, in particular being praised for keeping candidates to time and not allowing them to talk over her.\n\nThe 44-year-old grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Harvard in 1998.\n\nShe became NBC's White House Correspondent in 2011, and has since become co-anchor of NBC show Weekend Today.\n\nThere have been more than 125,000 tweets about the NBC journalist, who became only the second black woman to moderate a presidential debate alone, 28 years after ABC News journalist Carole Simpson became the first in 1992.\n\nWelker would have still been at school when Simpson moderated that debate between Bill Clinton and George HW Bush.\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\nFox News journalist Chris Wallace faced criticism for his moderation of the last debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, while Susan Page was similarly criticised for how she handled the vice-presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris.\n\nBut clearly Welker was taking notes from those debates, as she was praised specifically for managing to keep the candidates in line, and controlling the conversation - though she did have the advantage of the candidates being muted during each others' allotted two minutes.\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 Bianna Golodryga 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\nFellow journalists have been vocal in their praise for Welker's performance. NBC's Chief White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson called it \"a career-defining moment\", while news anchor Harris Faulkner said she \"gave the American people a real debate\".\n\nAnd PBS White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor said she was \"beaming\" watching Welker.\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 Yamiche Alcindor 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\nMSNBC host Rachel Maddow labelled Welker the \"clear winner\" of the debate, while previous moderator Chris Wallace told Fox News that he was \"jealous\" of her - wishing that he had been able to take charge of the debate instead.\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 Oliver Darcy 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 was not just Welker's colleagues who were positive about her performance. American author Brigitte Gabriel said she did a better job than Wallace, and one person went so far as to suggest she deserved a medal for her performance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Kimberly Saltz 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 despite calling Welker \"terrible and unfair\" ahead of time, Trump took time during the debate to praise the moderator's performance.\n\n\"By the way, so far I respect very much the way you're handling this,\" he said.", "Virgin Holidays has been ordered to meet refund deadlines following Covid-related cancellations or face court action by the regulator.\n\nThe company has agreed to pay refunds by 30 October for any holidays cancelled before September.\n\nThose cancelled last month or this month will be refunded by 20 November.\n\nBy law, package holidays cancelled by an operator should be refunded within 14 days, but some people have waited three months to get their money back.\n\nA spokesman for Virgin Holidays said it was \"98% through the refund queue\", adding: \"Our focus now is on rebuilding trust with our customers, recognising that it has regrettably taken much longer than normal to process their refunds. We thank them sincerely for their patience throughout.\"\n\nMeanwhile, holidaymakers have spoken to the BBC in recent months over the stress of getting refunds from Virgin Holidays.\n\nDavid and Natalie Rogers had their honeymoon cut short after just a few hours Image caption: David and Natalie Rogers had their honeymoon cut short after just a few hours\n\nNewlyweds David and Natalie Rogers, from Dudley, saved for two years for their dream honeymoon safari trip to Kenya but coronavirus ruined their plans.\n\n\"We were quite angry about having to wait on hold [to Virgin Holidays] for over eight hours, and a message on the line saying that travellers should have already received a voucher for their missed holidays. It just felt like we'd been forgotten about,\" they said.\n\nLynn and Martin Fox had remortgaged their home to pay for a holiday of a lifetime with their two children in Florida.\n\n\"If only they [Virgin Holidays] would have been honest with us and communicated with us, we would have been happy. If they put a date on the refund, we could have planned. But the phone cut off calls and emails were ignored,\" Mrs Fox said.", "During the final presidential debate, Trump and Biden clashed on the response towards the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCovid-19 was the first topic on the night at the debate in Nashville.", "North Korean TV warned viewers that the \"yellow dust\" included \"toxic material, virus, and pathogenic microorganism\"\n\nNorth Korea has warned its citizens to stay indoors over fears that \"yellow dust\" which blows in from China could bring coronavirus with it.\n\nThe streets of the capital Pyongyang were reported to be virtually empty on Thursday following the warning.\n\nThe secretive state claims to be coronavirus-free but has been on high alert since January with strict border closures and restrictions on movement.\n\nThere is no known link between the seasonal dust clouds and Covid-19.\n\nHowever, they are not the only country to suggest a link. The BBC's Disinformation Team notes Turkmenistan also alleged virus-laden dust was the reason citizens were being told to wear masks. They have denied trying to cover up an outbreak.\n\nState-controlled Korean Central Television (KCTV) broadcast special weather segments on Wednesday, warning of an influx of the yellow dust the next day. It also announced a nationwide ban on outdoor construction work.\n\nYellow dust refers to sand from Mongolian and Chinese deserts that blows into North and South Korea at certain times of the year. It is intermingled with toxic dust that for years has raised health concerns in both countries.\n\nOn Thursday, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, a government mouthpiece, said “all workers… must clearly recognise the danger of invading malicious viruses” in response to the dust cloud, the BBC's Disinformation Team noted.\n\nThe Russian Embassy in Pyongyang said on its Facebook page the North Korean foreign ministry had warned it and other diplomatic missions and international organisations in the country about the dust storm, recommending all foreigners stay at home and tightly close their windows on Thursday.\n\nNorth Korean state media has reasoned that research linking the coronavirus to airborne transmission means it \"should take the incoming flow of yellow dust seriously\", reported the specialist news site NK News\n\nThe US Centres for Disease Control has said coronavirus can remain suspended in the air “for hours”. However, it also says it is extremely rare for someone to be infected this way - especially outdoors. The main way people get infected is from standing in close proximity to someone who is infected who then coughs, sneezes or talks, spreading the virus through droplets.\n\nMedia in neighbouring South Korea has also dismissed the suggestion that yellow dust from China could spread Covid-19 to the North as impossible, according to NK News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un chokes up during speech thanking troops in virus fight\n\nDespite claiming the country has no cases of coronavirus, there are deep fears about Covid-19 in North Korea and leader Kim Jong-un has been holding high-level meetings to ensure tight restrictions remain in place.\n\nAnalysts have said it is highly unlikely that North Korea has not experienced any coronavirus cases at all.\n\nThe dust had cleared from the Korean peninsula by Friday and was forecast to stay that way on the weekend.", "Thumbs up or down? Our voter panel's verdict on how confident they are about the state of the US\n\nTwo Biden voters. Two Trump voters. Two undecided voters. All from battleground states.\n\nWe watched the final debate with six voters who will help determine the fate of the nation on 3 November.\n\nOur two undecided voters felt the final head-to-head between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was enough to help lock in their vote.\n\nAs for the rest? The debate simply confirmed their choice for president. Here's what they said.\n\nAndrew is an undecided voter leaning toward Joe Biden, but wishes he had other options to choose from. He works in the restaurant industry and has two young children.\n\nWhat moment stood out to you in the debate?\n\nAt the beginning it looked like they were going to do much better. But Trump seems like he just wants people to like him, it's so pathetic. I questioned it when he said he did more for black people than any other president. He seemed like someone who has such a huge disconnect with reality.\n\nDid Trump or Biden do enough to win your vote tonight?\n\nTrump appealed to me on only one issue, and I still don't like his personality. I have enough information now. Biden is who I'm going to go for, although he's not my favourite choice.\n\nOne word to describe Trump and Biden tonight?\n\nAfter becoming disillusioned with the left, Eliana now supports the policies of the Republican Party and backs the re-election of Donald Trump. She is the president of her local young Republicans group and a former professional dancer. She won the national television competition So You Think You Can Dance in 2012.\n\nWhat moment stood out to you in the debate?\n\nThe standout moments are ones that affect me personally. I ended up spending a tremendous amount on Obamacare. Biden said he would get rid of the competition and that ups the price.\n\nIf your candidate is defeated, what would it mean to you?\n\nIt's incredible that we live in a country with an election process like we have here. I would stay in the country and be a proud citizen. But the way I live my life would very much change. I would take my assets and put them into real-estate because I don't trust the government. I am for low-regulation and for a free market.\n\nOne word to describe Trump and Biden tonight?\n\nJoe Biden was not Jessica's first choice as Democratic candidate but she will cast her vote for the former vice-president because she likes and respects him a lot. An attorney and self-described \"news junkie\", Jessica admits to feeling exhausted by this election.\n\nWhat moment stood out to you in the debate?\n\nWhen Trump was going on about how Biden wanted everyone to have small windows and how he wants to knock down buildings and rebuild them. It stood out to me because it's so silly and such an obviously false depiction of Biden's climate plan.\n\nIf your candidate is defeated, what would it mean to you?\n\nI think I'll be scared if Donald Trump wins again. Less for myself than for future generations. I don't have children, but I have a niece and a nephew who are black, and I fear for their future. I worry about another four years of Trump being president and of Republicans rolling back civil rights, reproductive rights and climate measures.\n\nOne word to describe Trump and Biden tonight?\n\nLesley was raised in Canada and became a US citizen in 2016. She is an independent, and will vote for Joe Biden.\n\nWhat moment stood out to you in the debate?\n\nIn general I felt like Trump wasn't answering the questions. The one part that made my eyebrows raise was when he brought up Hillary Clinton. Why can't he get past that and just lead the country?\n\nIf your candidate is defeated, what would it mean to you?\n\nAs a black person and an immigrant living in this country - things have shifted so much in the last four years. I literally have fear - for my life and people who look like me - if there's another four years of Trump.\n\nOne word to describe Trump and Biden tonight?\n\nNoel is a dual UK-US citizen and undecided voter. Before the debate he said he preferred Biden as a person but was more supportive of Trump's policies.\n\nWhat moment stood out in the debate to you?\n\nThere were two things that really stood out to me. First, when Biden admitted policy mistakes in the past, which is very rare. Trump could probably learn a lesson from that. Second, Biden was completely wrong when he spoke about the minimum wage.\n\nDid Trump or Biden do enough to win your vote tonight?\n\nThe debate did very little to help me. I am leaning more towards Trump after the debate because I didn't like what Biden said about the economy. I don't think Trump really nitpicked Biden's agenda enough. But in the end, Biden seems to want to grow government, which I am personally not in favour of. But is this really the best that America can deliver?\n\nOne word to describe Trump and Biden tonight?\n\nRom was featured on Tuesday's military veterans panel. He enthusiastically supports the president's re-election.\n\nWhat moment stood out in the debate to you?\n\nFor the most part, it was a dignified slugfest. The one moment that stood out was when Biden said he was going to give a pathway to 11 million people who are in the US illegally. We've got millions of unemployed Americans and I don't think that's going to sell very well to anybody who listened to the debate that he's giving priority to people here illegally.\n\nIf your candidate is defeated, what would it mean to you?\n\nI will accept the results, however much I may dislike those results, and I will do it in a dignified way. I have family members who are extreme [Democrats] and said in 2016 when Trump won that he was \"not my president\". I will not take that route. I will take a dignified route as distasteful as it may be for me.\n\nOne word to describe Trump and Biden tonight?\n\nAll voters featured here are members of our US election voter panel. You'll hear more from them, and many of our other voters, throughout the next two weeks.\n\nJoin the conversation: In five words, tell us what's at stake in this election.\n\nWe're just two weeks away from voting day. The BBC wants to answer your questions about the US election on our live page. Submit them here.\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.", "The toy aisle at Tesco on Western Avenue in Cardiff has been blocked off\n\nSupermarkets have been covering up non-essential goods as Wales enters a national lockdown.\n\nFrom 18:00 BST shops will be forced to close for 17 days, unless they sell essential items such as food.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said supermarkets should also stop selling items such as clothes as a matter of \"fairness\" until 9 November.\n\nBut the Welsh Retail Consortium said it was \"deeply disappointed\" with the \"ill-conceived policy\".\n\nRetailers have said the rules are confusing as they have not been given any definition of what is essential.\n\nBy law, clothing and homeware stores, and garden centres, will have to close during the national lockdown, while supermarkets, pharmacies and hardware stores can remain open.\n\nOn Thursday, the Welsh Government said that supermarkets would be told not to sell non-essential goods, like clothes, toys, decorations and electrical items during the 17-day firebreak.\n\nPlastic covering was seen placed over pillows and cat baskets in Asda in Coryton, Cardiff.\n\nPlastic has been seen over goods in supermarkets including microwaves and cat baskets\n\nThe company said it had been given \"little time to implement these changes or clarity on what is deemed 'essential'\" and had \"expressed our deep concerns about the implications for customers accessing products they genuinely need\".\n\nTesco said it would work \"incredibly hard\" to comply with the Welsh Government's rules, while Sainsbury's said it was \"working around the clock to put changes in place\".\n\nThe Welsh Retail Consortium said: \"In spite of the dearth of government clarity, our members' focus now will be on equipping hard-working colleagues with as much information as possible given the undoubted uncertainty and complexity that has been caused by this decision.\"\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 Grant Tucker 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\nGuidance published for retailers on the Welsh Government's website says aisles selling homeware and decorations, toys, mobile phones, clothes and games, should be \"closed to the public\", and some areas may need to be cordoned off.\n\nSpeaking at Friday's Welsh Government briefing, Mr Drakeford said the decision to stop supermarkets from selling all but essential items was based on a \"need for fair play\".\n\n\"I'm not prepared to treat small businesses in Wales in one way, requiring them to close - they are not able to earn a living during these two weeks, as part of our national efforts - and then simply because another sector in society are more powerful, are bigger, that they think that they can be treated differently.\n\n\"It is a straightforward matter of fairness, we are in this together here in Wales.\n\n\"No individual and no organisation is above the effort that we are all required to make.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said \"many hundreds\" of small businesses would be closed across Wales.\n\n\"We cannot do that and then allow supermarkets to sell goods that those people are unable to sell,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"This is not a period to be browsing around supermarkets looking for non-essential goods.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have said businesses and the economy would be hit \"very, very hard\" by the rule, and Plaid Cymru said communication about what the rule meant was \"lacking\".\n\nMr Drakeford defended himself from criticism of the plans saying they were making decisions under \"huge pressure.\"\n\n\"We said from the very beginning that non-essential retail would close in Wales,\" he said. \"All we are doing is clarifying that and remaining consistent with that initial decision.\"\n\nIf people could not find essential products in supermarkets there were ways around the problem, he said, adding that friends and neighbours were \"often very willing to help\".\n\n\"There are online ways that people can purchase goods,\" Mr Drakeford said. \"It is not a problem without a solution.\"\n\nSenedd Conservative leader Paul Davies said: \"It shouldn't have come to this in the first place.\n\n\"We believe that introducing this temporary national lockdown is disproportionate and will actually hit businesses and hit the economy very, very hard, and therefore in our view obviously independent retailers should be allowed to open as well.\"\n\n\"I think that's been the story throughout this pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"I've been arguing on behalf of businesses in my constituency back in May, June, July, give us plans, give us an idea of what is ahead.\n\n\"This firebreak needs to be a reset for the way government communicates these messages.\"", "Piers Corbyn will go on trial in November\n\nJeremy Corbyn's brother Piers was \"specifically targeted\" by police at anti-lockdown protests, his barrister has told a court.\n\nThe weather forecaster, 73, was \"very much on the radar\" of officers patrolling London's Hyde Park in May, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nMr Corbyn denies breaching coronavirus rules during protests on 16 and 30 May.\n\nHe was due to stand trial on Friday but issues with late disclosure of police logbooks have delayed proceedings.\n\nDistrict Judge Sam Goozee indicated his impatience with lawyers, telling them: \"These issues should have been dealt with between June and today\" as he ordered the disclosure of a logbook from 30 May relating to the 'bronze' level of command.\n\nA new trial date for 27 November was set at the same court.\n\nSketching out the defence case, Mr Corbyn's barrister Ben Cooper QC referenced a Black Lives Matter protest on 30 May, pointing out that there were \"no arrests taking place at other protests\".\n\n\"This demonstrates there is a politicisation in the enforcement of the regulations by choosing to permit one set of demonstrators to protest while at the same time discriminating against different groups on the same day,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking outside court before the hearing, Mr Corbyn said: \"If we win today, this will set a precedent for all other people arrested under the Covid regulations.\n\n\"If we lose, we will appeal.\n\n\"Whatever happens, if they impose a fine, I will not pay the fine.\n\n\"I'm not going to pay any fines for these anti-just, illegal laws.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police broke up two large gatherings on Isambard Brunel Road\n\nLarge crowds fled from police as they broke up a street party outside a block of student flats.\n\nOfficers were called to the University of Portsmouth's Margaret Rule Hall where they broke up the gathering at 0:46 BST.\n\nTwo hours later, the force had to disperse a group of 40 from the site.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said it had identified the organiser of the party and officers were reviewing footage of the gatherings on Isambard Brunel Road.\n\nPolice can issue £10,000 fines to the organisers of large gatherings, with attendees fined £200 for a first offence.\n\nInsp Marcus Kennedy said It was \"frustrating\" for officers forced to deal with \"such a clear breach of the current restrictions\" which had been \"in place for some time\".\n\n\"There is no excuse for this type of behaviour,\" he said.\n\nUniversity vice-chancellor Prof Graham Galbraith said he was \"angry and disappointed\".\n\nHe added: \"I want to be clear that any student found to have broken the laws in place will face swift disciplinary action by the university as well as any fines that may be issued by the police.\"\n\nThere have been 306 new coronavirus infections recorded in the city in the the past week, with most in younger adults, and 1,390 positive test cases in total.\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. What you missed - the best bits from Trump and Biden's final debate\n\nThe mute button, or at least the threat of it, seemed to work. In the second presidential debate, Donald Trump and Joe Biden were more restrained.\n\nThe candidates allowed each other to speak. They used respectful tones. Even when they went on the attack, they did so in a calm, deliberate manner.\n\nAfter a pugnacious first debate, during which Donald Trump's constant interruptions may have cost him support in subsequent opinion polls, the president has very visibly dialled down the volume - and it made him a much more effective debater.\n\nThis time, the content of what the candidates are saying might be what the American public remembers from the debate - not the chaotic manner in which it was delivered.\n\nOnce again, Biden largely held up under fire - avoiding the kind of gaffes and stumbles that could have played into Republican attempts to question his age and mental acuity.\n\nThe Trump campaign will try to make an issue out of Biden's call for a \"transition\" from oil-based energy - a risky thing to throw in at the tail end of the debate. In an era of hybrid cars and energy-efficient homes, however, when even petroleum companies employ similar language, it may not hit Americans as hard as Republicans imagine.\n\nIn the end, the raucous first debate probably will be what the history books remember. And with polls showing most Americans already having made up their minds - and more than 45 million already having voted - the chance that this evening has a lasting impact on the race seems slim.\n\nThe Trump campaign complained that this debate was supposed to be focused on foreign policy - perhaps allowing the president to tout what he sees as his accomplishments in the Middle East, trade and Syria and go after Biden on his son's business ties to China.\n\nInstead, like earlier debates, it started on the coronavirus pandemic - a topic the American public cares most about, polls suggest.\n\nDonald Trump, once again touted a vaccine he said would be ready \"in weeks\". He offered personal testimony to the power of the new drugs to treat the disease and boasted that he was now \"immune\".\n\nBiden, not surprisingly, went on the attack. He pointed out Trump had repeatedly promised the disease would disappear on its own. He said there were 220,000 Americans dead and there could be another 200,000 by the end of the year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump and Biden clash over the US response to Covid\n\nIn the back and forth between the two candidates, Trump continued to offer hope that things were getting better and businesses and schools should reopen. And when Trump said that people were \"learning to live\" with the disease, Biden pounced.\n\n\"People are learning to live with it?\" he asked. \"People are learning to die with it.\"\n\nAt one point, Trump offered an answer that he said was \"perhaps just to finish this\". The president, clearly, was eager move on to different subjects.\n\nTrump telegraphed early and often that he would make Biden's son Hunter a topic of the debate, and it wasn't long before the president brought up the former vice-president's family. He alleged that Biden personally profited from his son's business dealings in Ukraine and China, citing recent news stories based on information allegedly gleaned from Hunter Biden's laptop computer.\n\nBiden's defence was a blanket denial, followed by changing the subject to Trump's taxes and business ties to China. That forced the president to spend time explaining about how he really \"pre-paid\" millions of dollars in taxes and again saying he'd someday release his tax returns. The exchange, which would require paragraphs to explain in any sufficient detail, probably left the casual American viewer confused.\n\nTrump was counting on drawing blood with his attacks on Biden's family, making this into a controversy that finally pulls his front-running opponent back to earth. Chances are this night won't do that.\n\nFour years ago, Trump rode a hard line on immigration to the Republican nomination and, ultimately, the White House. When the topic came up in Thursday night's debate, however, he tried to downplay some of the more extreme steps he's taken while in office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump says catch and release policy only works on immigrants with 'lowest IQs'\n\nWhen asked about his administration's policy of separating the children from the parents of undocumented migrants, for instance, Trump tried to turn the conversation to the detention facilities - \"cages,\" in Trump's term - created by the Obama administration to house unaccompanied minor immigrants.\n\nBiden, flashing indignation, noted that the children Trump was detaining came over with their parents and that the policy was making the US a \"laughing stock\". For many American voters, the audio of separated children crying for their parents may still be relatively fresh in their minds.\n\nTrump's response, that those children were \"so well taken care of,\" in \"facilities that are so clean\" probably didn't help his cause.\n\nIn the first presidential debate, Trump talked himself into trouble when the topic turned to race relations, as he danced around whether to directly condemn white supremacist groups. This time around, the president was considerably more nimble.\n\nHe boasted about his cross-party criminal justice reform and funding for historically black colleges. He attacked Biden for his sponsorship of a draconian crime bill in the 1990s that led to a sharp rise in the number of black Americans in prisons. And, perhaps most potently, when Biden began talking about his proposals for reform, he questioned why the former vice-president didn't accomplish more when he served with President Barack Obama.\n\n\"It's all talk but no action with these politicians,\" Trump said. \"Why didn't you get it done? You had eight years to get it done.\"\n\nAnyone who lived through the \"tough on crime\" 1990s in the US would probably be shocked by this debate exchange, where both candidates talked about the number of felons to whom they gave clemency and their efforts at reducing the number of incarcerated Americans. As the mass demonstrations against institutional racism demonstrated earlier this year, the times have indeed changed.", "Tests were carried out on the sanitiser by the Irish Department of Agriculture\n\nHealth officials are looking into whether hand sanitiser used by the NHS in NI is affected by a safety recall in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nVirapro hand sanitiser is being withdrawn from sale in the Republic on the Irish government's instructions.\n\nIt warned prolonged use of the product may cause skin problems, eye and respiratory irritation and headaches.\n\nStormont's Department of Health said checks are being carried to see if any stock delivered to NI is affected.\n\nIt said the Northern Ireland's Health and Social Care Board \"has not received any contact regarding recall\".\n\nThe Virapro safety warning was issued by the Irish Department of Agriculture after it carried out tests on the sanitiser.\n\nThe tests showed that some of the product on sale contained methanol rather than ethanol.\n\nThe department stated that prolonged use of the sanitiser \"may cause dermatitis, eye irritation, upper respiratory system irritation and headaches\".\n\nAs a result, it has removed Virapro hand sanitiser from Ireland's biocidal product register, which outlines products that are legally allowed to be sold in Ireland.\n\n\"This product may not remain on the market or be made available for use,\" the department said in a statement on Thursday night.\n\n\"Members of the public are advised to stop using this sanitiser with immediate effect.\"\n\nIt instructed the Dublin-based firm which sells the item to begin \"an immediate recall of all product\".\n\nTrade publications earlier this year reported that during the early stages of the pandemic, when there were worldwide shortages of hand sanitiser, Virapro delivered orders to both the Health Service Executive in the Republic of Ireland and the NHS in Northern Ireland.\n\nAt the time, the Dublin-based firm said it had to charter extra planes in order to fulfil both orders.\n\nStormont's Department of Health confirmed to BBC News NI that \"the Virapro product has been procured for use in Northern Ireland\".\n\nIn other Covid-19 developments on Friday:\n\n\"At this stage we are unable to confirm if any product supplied is affected,\" its spokesman said.\n\n\"At this point Health and Social Care Northern Ireland has not received any contact regarding recall and is initiating contact with its supplier to establish if any product supplied to Northern Ireland is affected.\"\n\nHe added: \"If product used in NI is found to be affected, then as with any product found to be defective or sub-standard it will be withdrawn from use.\"\n\nVirapro is based in Raheny in County Dublin and its hand sanitiser is used widely in schools in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn a statement, the company said it was \"very concerned\" by the issue and was \"grateful to the department for its diligence\".\n\n\"Following discussions with the department, albeit at the time their concerns had not been confirmed, nonetheless we immediately sealed the product off in our warehouses to prevent any distribution of this batch.\"\n\n​The firm said it was currently contacting its customers and \"providing a full replacement for that product\".​\n\n\"We have been in contact with the manufacturer who is also investigating the matter,\" it added.", "A man has been charged with preparing for a right-wing terrorist attack on a major immigration law firm.\n\nCavan Medlock, 28, of Harrow, north London, is charged with preparing an act of terrorism by researching Duncan Lewis Solicitors with the intention of killing an immigration solicitor.\n\nProsecutors allege he equipped himself with a knife and handcuffs, as well as Nazi and Confederate flags before going to the offices in Harrow on 7 September.\n\nHe faces a trial on 17 May.\n\nHe is charged with preparation of terrorist acts under Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006.\n\nHe is also charged with five further counts, including threatening with a bladed article in a public place, battery, two counts of causing racially aggravated alarm, harassment or distress, and making a threat to kill.\n\nHe is accused of threatening a receptionist with a knife before threatening to kill a solicitor and abusing other members of staff because of their racial or religious background.\n\nMr Medlock was not present during a hearing at the Old Bailey after he stripped to his waist as he briefly appeared by video-link from Wormwood Scrubs prison, before refusing to put his clothes back on.\n\nHe is yet to enter pleas to any of the charges.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain and Japan have formally signed a trade agreement, marking the UK's first big post-Brexit deal.\n\nThe deal, unveiled last month, means nearly all its exports to Japan will be tariff free while removing British tariffs on Japanese cars by 2026.\n\nBut critics have said it will boost UK GDP by only 0.07%, a fraction of the trade that could be lost with the EU.\n\nThe two countries had reached a broad agreement in September, and the deal is expected to boost trade between the UK and Japan by about £15bn.\n\nThe deal, which was negotiated over the summer, will take effect from 1 January 2021.\n\nBut some experts said it was a missed opportunity between the UK and its 11th biggest trading partner.\n\nJapan said UK-EU deal was still crucial for Japanese business, especially its carmakers\n\nDr Minako Morita-Jaeger, international trade policy consultant and fellow of the UK Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex, said: \"Given that Japanese FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) has been playing an important role in the UK economy and retaining its existing investment in post-Brexit is crucial, the UK government should have shown a strong commitment to Japanese investment by including a comprehensive investment chapter encompassing investment protection and dispute settlement.\"\n\nShe added that Japan was the largest investor abroad in the world, accounting for 14% of the world total in 2018.\n\nThe new deal is very similar to the existing EU-Japan deal, but has an extra chapter on digital trade.\n\n\"It used to be said that an independent UK would not be able to strike major trade deals or they would take years to conclude,\" said Ms Truss at a joint press announcement with Japan's Foreign Minister, Toshimitsu Motegi.\n\nMr Motegi said a deal between the UK and the EU was still crucial for Japanese business, particularly carmakers such as Nissan and Toyota who use parts from across Europe in vehicles they assemble in the UK.\n\n\"It is of paramount importance that the supply chain between the UK and the EU is maintained even after the UK's withdrawal,\" he said.", "One council leader described some MPs as \"callously indifferent\" to the plight of children\n\nCommunities across the country are stepping up to the plate to provide free school meals to children after a campaign by Marcus Rashford.\n\nIt comes after a motion to extend free school meals over holidays during the Covid-19 pandemic was rejected by MPs.\n\nThe Manchester United striker had called on people to \"unite\" to protect the most vulnerable children.\n\nFish and chip shops, pubs, restaurants and cafes are among the hospitality venues to offer free meals.\n\nA growing number of councils across England have also pledged to provide food vouchers over half term.\n\nLabour-led authorities in Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, Hammersmith & Fulham and Doncaster are among those agreeing to fund their own schemes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marcus Rashford and his mother Melanie helped out at FareShare Greater Manchester\n\nThe government said all measures would be kept under review after a Labour motion in the Commons to extend the scheme over holidays until Easter 2021 was defeated.\n\nHammersmith & Fulham Council leader Stephen Cowan said watching the vote was \"cutting\".\n\nHe said: \"I have seen a lot of kids who need food. I was in a school on Tuesday speaking to kids who have the free lunches now and they were explaining they have gone for days without a proper meal.\n\n\"They were very sweet kids, and then I looked at the MPs who were so callously indifferent to that and I thought, 'how can that be happening in the fifth richest country on Earth?'\n\n\"There are so many things they spend money on, it's a moral imperative.\"\n\nLiverpool mayor Joe Anderson said the decision would feed about 19,800 children in the city, while Doncaster's mayor Ros Jones said it was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nIan Ward, leader of Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in England, described the government policy on the issue as \"chaotic\" and \"unsustainable\".\n\nGovernment ministers have praised Mr Rashford for highlighting the difficulties facing low-income families, but some Conservative MPs have accused him of \"virtue signalling\".\n\nMore than 200 children's writers are among those urging the government to ensure no child goes hungry this winter.\n\nOther councils who have offered their own meal schemes include York, Wolverhampton, Oldham, Southwark, Redbridge, Lambeth, North Tyneside, Greenwich, Tower Hamlets and Telford & Wrekin.\n\nMarcus Rashford has urged people to \"unite\" to protect the most vulnerable children\n\nOther areas that will provide support include Reading, Middlesbrough, Medway, Kirklees, Brighton, Sefton, Knowsley, Lewisham, Halton and Portsmouth.\n\nTreasury minister Steve Barclay told BBC Radio 4's Today earlier there was an extra £9bn in support available through the welfare system.\n\n\"It's important we support families in need,\" he said.\n\n\"In the design and the measures we've taken, for example on housing support, lifting the allowance at the lowest in terms of rents to cover a much wider range of housing benefits, that again is about supporting families through the welfare system.\"", "Their last time together on stage featured a much more subdued debate with real policy discussions. Topics ranged from the Covid-19 response to race relations in the US.", "Facilities where migrants have been detained include containers where it is not possible to socially distance\n\nThe Home Office did not prepare for a predictable rise in English Channel migrant crossings, leaving men, women and children detained in unfit conditions, the prisons watchdog says.\n\nChief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke said migrants were often held in what looked like an unsafe building site.\n\nFacilities included containers where it was not possible to socially distance.\n\nThe Home Office said it has since improved facilities and the way it deals with arrivals.\n\nSo far, some 7,444 migrants have crossed in boats during 2020 - the third annual jump in arrivals.\n\nWhen the numbers began to rise in 2018, Sajid Javid, the then home secretary, described it as a \"major incident\".\n\nMigrants are generally taken to two facilities in Dover before being transferred to other units or released on immigration bail.\n\nWhile these facilities are not jails, the prisons watchdog has the power to inspect them because they are used to detain people.\n\nOne of the facilities, Tug Haven, received 2,500 migrants between June and August - but Mr Clarke said the facilities were completely unsuitable.\n\nOnce inside, there were a number of gazebos and three containers with chemical toilets - but no means to socially distance and reduce the risk of the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe facilities at Tug Haven were described as \"completely unsuitable\" by the prisons watchdog\n\nThe migrants - mostly from Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria and Eritrea - tended to be wet and cold but during the inspection, the facility ran out of both dry clothes and mugs for hot drinks.\n\nThe detainees - 200 of whom arrived on one day - then spent hours in the open air or in the container units.\n\nDespite the conditions, the detainees were positive about the way they were treated by the staff.\n\n\"We met detainees who had been extremely traumatised after their long journeys, and their positive feedback on the decency shown to them by many individual staff cannot be underestimated,\" said Mr Clarke.\n\n\"However, the detention facilities in Dover were very poorly equipped to meet their purpose and important processes had broken down.\n\n\"It is hard to understand this failure to prepare properly for what must have been a predictable increase in migrant numbers.\n\n\"Just because numbers are unprecedented, that does not mean they are unpredictable or cannot be planned for.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it has made improvements to Tug Haven since the inspection.\n\nThe nearby Kent Intake Unit - a larger facility - had better facilities, said the report.\n\nBut it was also not suitable for detaining the migrants for long periods - not least because social distancing was not possible.\n\nThe inspectors said measures to protect children were weak.\n\nMore than 70 unaccompanied children had been held in the unit in the three months to August, but often they had to wait a long time for an assessment because Kent County Council's social services was overloaded.\n\nOne 12-year-old boy and his 18-year-old brother were told to go to a London hotel but records did not show whether the local social services were aware of the pair's arrival.\n\nThe Home Office said it took the welfare of people in its care \"extremely seriously\" and ensured its facilities were \"decent and humane\".\n\n\"These crossings are dangerous, illegally-facilitated and unnecessary,\" the spokesperson added. \"We are committed to fixing the asylum system, to make it fairer and firmer, compassionate to those who need help and welcoming people through safe and legal routes.\"", "Lily Collins plays the titular Emily, who travels to Paris to work for a marketing firm\n\nThe creator of hit Netflix show Emily in Paris has defended the programme following criticism that its view of the city is idealised and clichéd.\n\nUS writer and executive producer Darren Star said he was \"not sorry for looking at Paris through a glamorous lens\".\n\nThe show follows a young American, played by Lily Collins, who travels to the French capital for work.\n\nIt has been criticised, particularly in France, for promoting stereotypical images of the city and its residents.\n\n\"No cliché is spared, not even the most desperate,\" wrote Premiere's Charles Martin in his French-language review when the show made its debut earlier this month.\n\n\"Cite a cliché about France and the French [and] you will find it in Emily in Paris,\" agreed 20 Minutes' Fabien Randanne.\n\nThe Eiffel Tower is among the familiar landmarks that feature in the show\n\nEmily in Paris has faced criticism from non-French reviewers as well, with one claiming it offers \"a comic-book version\" of the French capital.\n\n\"The first half of the season is an exorcism of all of the French clichés the writers could think of,\" wrote The Guardian's Rebecca Nicholson in her one-star review.\n\nThe Independent's Ed Cumming gave the same rating to a show whose setting he likened to \"a kind of Westworld-style Paris-themed amusement park\".\n\nYet other critics were more forgiving, with Variety's Daniel D'Addario calling it \"a delight\" set against \"a truly inviting backdrop\".\n\nE! Online, meanwhile, let two critics offer contrasting opinions, variously describing the show as \"refreshing\" and \"insufferable\".\n\nSpeaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Star, who also created Sex and the City, said he intended his new show to be \"a love letter to Paris\" seen through the eyes of Collins' title character.\n\nStar's other shows include Sex and the City and Beverly Hills, 90210\n\n\"The first thing she is seeing is the clichés because it's from her point of view,\" he explained. \"I wanted to do a show that celebrated that part of Paris.\"\n\nEarlier this month, Star revealed he had drawn on his own experiences of visiting the city. \"I wanted to showcase Paris in a really wonderful way that would encourage people to fall in love with the city in a way that I have,\" he told the New York Times.\n\nA second series of the show has yet to be commissioned, but Star has revealed he already has ideas about what its heroine will do next.\n\n\"She'll be more of a resident of the city [in season two],\" he told Oprah magazine. \"She'll have her feet on the ground a little more.\"\n\nCollins herself told Vanity Fair she \"would love nothing more than to be able to go back to Paris\" to shoot a second season. The 31-year-old British-born actress is the daughter of pop star Phil Collins.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Supermarkets will only be able to sell items like food\n\nSupermarkets will be unable to sell items like clothes during the 17-day Covid firebreak lockdown in Wales.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it would be \"made clear\" to them they are only able to open parts of their business that sell \"essential goods\".\n\nMany retailers will be forced to shut but food shops, off-licences and pharmacies can stay open when lockdown begins on Friday at 18:00 BST.\n\nRetailers said they had not been given a definition of what was essential.\n\nThe Association of Convenience Stores and the Welsh Retail Consortium have written urgently to the first minister, expressing alarm over the new regulations.\n\nSara Jones, head of the Welsh Retail Consortium, said they wanted the Welsh Government to abandon the \"essential items\" rules.\n\n\"Compelling retailers to stop selling certain items, without them being told clearly what is and what isn't permitted to be sold, is ill-conceived and short-sighted,\" she said.\n\nWelsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies tweeted: \"The power is going to their heads.\"\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's Helen Mary Jones said \"smaller businesses should not be put at an unfair disadvantage during the firebreak lockdown\".\n\nBusiness leaders say companies in Wales have been given just hours to finalise plans for the firebreak lockdown, which ends at midnight on 9 November.\n\nMr Drakeford told a Senedd committee on Friday that \"in the last lockdown, people were reasonably understanding of the fact that supermarkets didn't close all the things that they may have needed to\".\n\n\"I don't think people will be as understanding this time.\n\n\"We will make sure there is a more level playing field in those next two weeks.\"\n\nClothes shops will have to close during the lockdown\n\nThe first minister was responding to Conservative Member of the Senedd Russell George, who said it was \"unfair\" to force independent clothing and hardware retailers to close while similar goods were on sale in major supermarkets.\n\n\"It felt very wrong and disproportionate to the small businesses,\" Mr George said.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"We will be making it clear to supermarkets that they are only able to open those parts of their business that provide essential goods to people.\n\n\"And that will not include some of the things that Russell George mentioned, which other people are prevented from selling.\"\n\nThere is no precise list of non-essential goods in the law coming into force on Friday, but any business selling goods or services for sale or hire in a shop will have to close.\n\nBut there are exceptions for food retailers, newsagents, pharmacies and chemists, bicycle shops, petrol stations, car repair and MOT services, banks, laundrettes, post offices, pet shops and agricultural supplies shops.\n\nUnder the law firms conducting a business that provides a mixed set of services will be allowed to open if they cease conducting the service that must close.", "Among the exchanges between Donald Trump and Joe Biden at last night's presidential debate, one in particular caught the public's imagination.\n\nOn the hotly contested issue of US race relations, President Trump made a reference to Abraham Lincoln - the 16th US president whose victory in the Civil War secured the abolition of slavery.\n\nMr Biden sought to capitalise on the apparent comparison with a mocking quip, but Mr Trump didn't find it funny.\n\nPresident Trump asserted - not for the first time - that \"nobody has done more for the black community than Donald Trump... with the exception of Abraham Lincoln\". He added: \"I'm the least racist person in this room.\"\n\nMr Biden responded: \"'Abraham Lincoln' here is one of the most racist presidents we've had in modern history. He pours fuel on every single racist fire. Every single one.\"\n\nTrump: \"He made a reference to Abraham Lincoln, where did that come in?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What you missed - the best bits from Trump and Biden's final debate\n\nTrump: \"No, no. ... I didn't say 'I'm Abraham Lincoln'. I said, 'Not since Abraham Lincoln has anybody done what I've done for the black community'.\"\n\nMr Trump hit back by questioning Mr Biden's own record on race issues. He cited the 1994 crime bill that Mr Biden helped to draft and which the Black Lives Matter movement blames for the mass incarceration of African-Americans.\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\nAnalysts have taken issue with his claims, saying other presidents in modern times have made far greater progress with civil rights, particularly Lyndon B Johnson, who oversaw the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act in the 1960s.\n\nLast year, Mr Trump made another comparison with the 16th president, saying that no other US leader had been treated as badly by the press as he had - not even Lincoln.\n\n\"Abraham Lincoln was treated supposedly very badly, but nobody's been treated badly like me,\" he said.\n\nPresident Lincoln led the Union to victory over the secessionist southern Confederacy in the war of 1861-65. He ordered African-American slaves to be freed in 1863.\n\nJust days after General Robert E Lee surrendered in 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at a theatre in Washington DC by John Wilkes Booth, while attending a play.\n\nAbraham Lincoln is one of America's most revered presidents", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: What is the five-tier lockdown system?\n\nScotland is to enter a new five-level system of coronavirus restrictions, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.\n\nThe new model will come into force from 2 November, when temporary curbs on the hospitality trade are due to expire.\n\nIt features five tiers of measures - from \"level zero\" to four - to be applied in different areas of Scotland depending on the spread of the virus.\n\nThe top level would be close to a full lockdown, but the aim is for schools to remain open at all levels.\n\nRestrictions under levels two and three are similar to those which are currently in place for different parts of Scotland.\n\nThe first minister said the new strategy was about \"striking the best balances we can\" between suppressing the virus and minimising wider harms to businesses and individuals.\n\nThe move in Scotland comes as tougher restrictions are brought into force for millions of people in England and Wales.\n\nCoronavirus cases in Scotland continue to rise, with 1,401 registered on Friday alongside a further 18 deaths.\n\nThe latest figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest the virus is spreading across the UK, with 1 in every 180 people in Scotland thought to have been infected in the two weeks to 16 October.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the ban on home visits and the short-term restrictions currently imposed on bars and restaurants in the central belt of the country in particular were beginning to slow the increase in cases.\n\nHowever, she said restrictions would still be needed until a vaccine for the virus was developed, adding: \"Everything we do must be consistent with suppressing Covid as far as we can.\"\n\nThe first minister said there would be talks with opposition parties and representatives of businesses - particularly from the hospitality trade - about the exact details of the different levels.\n\nDecisions on which tier each part of Scotland will be placed in will be made alongside local health protection teams in the coming week.\n\nMs Sturgeon has previously said decisions about where levels would be set for each region of Scotland would be taken on a \"collaborative\" basis, but said she would ultimately bear accountability for them.\n\nThe system will come into force from 2 November, following a vote by MSPs, and the application of different levels in different areas will be reviewed on a weekly basis.\n\nThe first minister said: \"It's possible the whole country at some point could be placed in the same level. But it means we don't have to take a one size fits all approach if that's not warranted.\n\n\"A part of the country with low rates of infection won't have to live with the same levels of restrictions as a part of the country with high rates.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said that while case numbers were still rising across Scotland, there were \"some signs of progress\" in the data.\n\nThe average number of new cases per day in Scotland has increased by 7% over the past seven days, compared with the previous week. This is down from a 29% increase on average the previous week, and a 52% jump the week before that.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"Cases are still rising, which is why we cannot be complacent. But the rate of the increase does seem to be slowing down, which gives us grounds for some cautious optimism.\"\n\nMSPs will hold a vote on the proposed framework next week\n\nA system of grants for businesses hit by closures or restricted trading has also been announced, with payments on a par with those offered in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon said firms in Scotland \"deserve nothing less\", but said she wanted greater guarantees of funding from the Treasury \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said Scotland had \"got a fair share\" of UK-wide funding, saying the Scottish government should \"get that funding out to businesses now\".\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said it was \"vital there is clarity over what restrictions people are living under and for how long\".\n\nThe strategic framework comes alongside an expanded testing strategy, which includes a commitment to expand Scotland's testing capacity to 65,000 tests per day by the end of the year.\n\nThis will include boosting the number of tests that can be processed at the UK government's Lighthouse laboratory in Glasgow, as well as NHS facilities and some smaller commercial ones.\n\nNew NHS regional hubs are under construction in Grampian, Lothian and Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and are expected to take on all of the daily routine testing done in care homes around Scotland.\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age 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 on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "It is 60 years since the Severn Railway Bridge disaster which saw two tanker barges - the Wastdale H and the Arkendale H - collide in fog near to Sharpness.\n\nThe two barges were then caught in the tide and collided with a railway bridge which collapsed. Five men lost their lives.\n\nNew drone footage gives us a close-up view of the remains of the shipwrecked vessels.", "Susan Nicholson was murdered by Robert Trigg five years after he killed his previous partner\n\nThe parents of a woman murdered by her boyfriend have won a High Court bid for a new inquest into her death.\n\nSusan Nicholson was killed by Robert Trigg in 2011, five years after he had killed his previous partner, Caroline Devlin, in similar circumstances.\n\nNeither death was initially deemed suspicious by Sussex Police.\n\nMs Nicholson's parents campaigned for a new inquest to investigate whether police failed to adequately protect her.\n\nTrigg, 54, was jailed for life in 2017 for the murder of Ms Nicholson and manslaughter of Ms Devlin at their homes in Worthing, West Sussex.\n\nFollowing the conviction, the High Court quashed the accidental death finding in the original inquest into Ms Nicholson's death and ordered a new one.\n\nSenior West Sussex coroner Penelope Schofield had ruled it would be a short inquest, with no witnesses questioned.\n\nBut the High Court has ordered a full inquest be held after the latest legal challenge.\n\nA spokeswoman for Ms Nicholson's parents, Elizabeth and Peter Skelton, said it would take a in-depth look at potential police failures.\n\nThe family had run a fundraising effort to bring their case against the coroner to the High Court.\n\nBut Sussex Police, an interested party, \"rigorously\" opposed the judicial review, according to the family's lawyer, Alice Hardy.\n\nShe claimed the force presented them with a £6,000 legal bill prior to the hearing and said it would \"expect Susan's parents to pay for their legal fees\" if they lost the case.\n\nRobert Trigg behaved in similar ways after killing both his partners in similar ways, his trial heard\n\nLord Justice Popplewell and Mr Justice Jay said the ruling did not mean the police \"were in fact guilty of any failings, or in breach of the operational duties\".\n\nThey said: \"Our conclusion is merely that that can credibly be suggested, so that an inquest should look into whether that is so.\n\n\"It may find that no criticism of the police is justified, or that any criticisms are isolated failures and not serious. That will be a matter for investigation at the inquest.\"\n\nMr Skelton said the family were \"so relieved that the court has come to this decision\" and hoped the new inquest would provide the answers they needed.\n\nHe added: \"Susan was cruelly taken away from us nine years ago, and yet it has taken this long for the authorities to be questioned about the role they played in her death.\"\n\nElizabeth and Peter Skelton have campaigned for a new inquest\n\nMr and Mrs Skelton's lawyers argued police did not find similarities between her death and Ms Devlin's suspicious and had treated Trigg as a bereaved partner rather than a suspect.\n\nIn 2011, coroner Michael Kendall ruled Ms Nicholson had died accidentally after Trigg claimed he rolled on top of her unintentionally while they slept on a sofa.\n\nIt was only after Ms Nicholson's parents hired professionals to re-examine the original pathologist's report that the case went to court.\n\nSussex Police, which had argued Mr and Mrs Skelton's appeal should be dismissed, said it was \"considering [its] position\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"We will, of course, fully co-operate with HM Coroner in providing information for the inquest.\n\n\"It would not be appropriate for us to make any further comment at this time.\"\n\nThe judges also dismissed an application by Trigg, who was also an interested party in the case.\n\nHe had asked the court to make an order that the coroner should be allowed to reach her own conclusion on how Ms Nicholson died and that she did not have to rule in line with his murder conviction.\n\nBut the High Court judges upheld a ruling made by the coroner last year that \"the fresh inquest cannot reach a verdict inconsistent with Trigg's conviction\".\n\nThe Skeltons' lawyer, Alice Hardy, condemned Trigg for \"jumping on the bandwagon\" and casting some \"pretty insulting aspersions about the two women and their families along the way\".\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We do need to see faster turnaround times\"\n\nEngland's NHS Test and Trace system needs to improve to provide faster results, Boris Johnson has conceded.\n\nAt Thursday's coronavirus briefing, he said he shared \"people's frustrations\" at the turnaround times for results.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said it was \"very clear there's room for improvement\" in the system.\n\nIt comes as figures showed just 15.1% of people who were tested received their result within 24 hours.\n\nThese figures, for the week ending 14 October, are the lowest since the system began.\n\nThe PM previously pledged that all tests would be processed within 24 hours - unless there were issues with postal tests - by the end of June.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference at Downing Street, Mr Johnson said: \"I share people's frustrations and I understand totally why we do need to see faster turnaround times and we need to improve it.\n\n\"We need to make sure that people who do get a positive test self-isolate - that's absolutely crucial if this thing is going to work in the way that it can.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance says there is \"room for improvement\" in test and trace\n\nSir Patrick Vallance said the capacity for testing had increased, but \"it's really important to concentrate on numbers of contacts, isolation, as quickly as you can and getting things (results) back as quickly as you can. Ideally you get the whole process done within 48 hours\".\n\n\"It's very clear there's room for improvement on all that and therefore that could be diminishing the effectiveness of this.\"\n\nHe also said the the high number of infections diminished the effectiveness of the system.\n\nThe percentage of people who received a test result within 24 hours has dropped from 32.8% in the previous week.\n\nThe figures also showed a fall to 59.6% in the proportion of close contacts reached of people who tested positive.\n\nThis is also the lowest weekly percentage since the system began and is down from 63% in the previous week.\n\nThe UK recorded another 21,242 cases on Thursday and 189 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nSir Patrick also told the briefing some coronavirus measures would be needed for some time to come.\n\n\"The numbers (of cases) speak for themselves. They are increasing and they are not going to decrease quickly,\" he told the No 10 news conference.\n\n\"I think it is likely that some measures of restriction are going to need to be in place for a while to try and get those numbers down.\"\n\nSir Patrick added that \"a lot depends now on what happens over the next few weeks\".\n\n\"At the moment, the numbers are heading in the wrong direction but there are some signs in some places of a potential flattening off of that.\n\n\"We need to wait and see and monitor the numbers very carefully.\"\n\nEarlier the government released a job advert looking for a \"VP of operations\" to start immediately, with experience of \"turning around failing call centres\" on a day rate of up to £2,000.\n\nHours later, the Department of Health withdrew the advert, saying it was being redrafted and the text had not been approved.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the statistics on test and trace \"have been bad every week\", while his colleague, shadow health minister, Justin Madders said: \"To have over 40% of people not even being contacted by the test and trace system is an interstellar-sized black hole in the government's plan to reduce transmission.\"\n\nProf James Naismith, director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute at the University of Oxford, said the numbers showed \"a system struggling to make any difference to the epidemic\".\n\nHe said he worried the increasing percentage of household contacts indicated \"a tick-box system rather than proper tracing\" with the value of the system being in reaching non-household contacts who are infectious but asymptomatic.\n\nMr Naismith added the system \"has given a bird's eye view of the pandemic and done very little to halt it\".", "Rhys and Quinn made a banner from hotel bed sheets to take with them to the airport\n\nA man who spent two months in isolation in an Italian coronavirus facility has spoken of his joy of being home with his family.\n\nBritons Rhys James, 23, Quinn Paczesny, 20, and Will Castle, 22, had been teaching in northern Italy before they tested positive for Covid-19 in August.\n\nMr James is now back home in Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, after Italian laws changed, allowing them to leave.\n\n\"It's just so lovely, I'm being treated like royalty,\" he said.\n\nMr James, Mr Paczesny, from Sheffield, and Mr Castle, from Brighton, had been kept in separate rooms in a facility in Florence since they tested positive.\n\nThey had been told they needed two consecutive negative tests - or a double negative - before they could leave the rooms.\n\nLast Friday, after 61 days in separate hotel rooms, having food left outside their doors and staying in touch via video calls, Mr James was told the law had changed and he could leave.\n\n\"We were ecstatic, but it was quite underwhelming, it was just a phone call from reception saying 'you're free to go',\" he said.\n\n\"We were just so happy to get out of there, telling our families was amazing.\"\n\nAfter gathering their belongings from their hotel, on Saturday Mr James and Mr Paczesny flew back to the UK where they were greeted by their parents holding a \"welcome home banner\".\n\n\"It's been so lovely, they are treating me like royalty at the moment - we will see how long that lasts for,\" said Mr James, who has been staying with his family since arriving back.\n\n\"It's just all the little things, being able to cook, eat with my family, being able to walk up the garden, it's just a world of difference to what we had before.\"\n\nRhys James said spending time with other people after being on his own was exhausting\n\nMr James, who works as a travel rep for Tui, flew to Milan on 5 July to teach English at summer schools across northern Italy, before going travelling with his two new friends.\n\nAfter two of the group developed mild symptoms in Venice, the trio isolated in rented accommodation for a few days, before travelling to Florence, unpacking and going to the hospital to be tested.\n\nThey tested positive and were separated and placed in a converted hotel used for isolating patients, and were told they could not even go into the hallway to speak to each other.\n\nThe three friends were moved to three different facilities and made to live apart\n\nMr James, who has coeliac disease, had said he kept being given food he could not eat, and was not allowed to have food delivered.\n\nThe friends tried to stay positive by doing yoga and video calling each other at meal times.\n\n\"You were always told by doctors maybe you'll be able to leave tomorrow, and that was every single day for nine weeks,\" he said, adding it had felt like a prison.\n\n\"We felt on edge all the time, there was no privacy, you had random swab tests all the time, so you feel a bit like a lab rat, and there was no end date.\"\n\nEvery week after having a swab test the group would wait for the results, and last week after each finally getting one negative result they were hopeful of coming home.\n\nBut only Mr Castle got a double negative and was allowed to leave, while the other two tested positive and were facing another week in isolation, before the law changed.\n\nThe friends only met while working in Italy but say they have bonded over the experience\n\n\"We had a lot of support in Italy, I had a lawyer call my hotel room to say they were using our case to try and get the law changed,\" he said, adding the fact only one of them had got two negatives made no sense.\n\n\"Doctors and nurses visiting our rooms were saying they didn't agree with it, but they couldn't let us leave. It was so strict and surreal.\"\n\nMr James said his family threw him a little surprise welcome home party\n\nHaving only arrived home days before a Wales-wide lockdown begins at 18:00 BST on Friday, Mr James said he had been trying to have socially distanced catch-ups with loved ones while he could.\n\n\"I'm still adapting to being home. I'm quite an outgoing person, I went to the shop today and I felt nervous, and I've never had that sort of social anxiety before.\n\n\"The other two have said the same, we are still talking constantly on group chats, and we are all finding the same thing, being around other people is quite exhausting, it's quite nice that we can chat about the experience.\"\n\nThe friends said they were moved to three different Covid facilities while in Italy\n\nMr James said the group - who had all lost weight and are struggling with reduced appetite since they got home - had faced criticism on social media, with people saying it was their own fault for going to Italy in the first place.\n\n\"People have said it's not like we were in a war dungeon or a prison cell, we know it wasn't the worst place in the world, but mentally it really took its toll,\" he said.\n\n\"We were forcing ourselves to sleep though the day just to make it go quicker, I'm getting very exhausted easily just talking all the time.\n\nMr James, who thanked doctors and nurses in Italy for looking after the group, said he would go back to Florence at some point, but maybe not for a couple of years.\n\n\"If there's one good thing to come out of this is I have made great friends,\" he said.", "Manchester went into tier three - the highest level - of lockdown rules at 00:01 on Friday\n\nStricter coronavirus rules are coming into force for nearly six million Britons.\n\nGreater Manchester's population of 2.8 million joined Liverpool City Region and Lancashire in England's highest tier of restrictions at midnight.\n\nAnd from 18:00 BST, the 3.1 million people in Wales will have to stay at home as a 17-day lockdown begins.\n\nIt comes as a minister said there was a \"common purpose here to get the virus down\" so people could enjoy Christmas.\n\n\"I think few people expect it to be exactly as it would normally,\" said Chief Secretary to the Treasury Stephen Barclay - but \"the ability of families to spend Christmas together\" was \"something we all hope to be in a position to do\".\n\nWelsh health minister Vaughan Gething said the lockdown in Wales was happening now so \"we can have a much more normal Christmas season for businesses\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 189 deaths and 21,242 new confirmed cases on Thursday.\n\nWarrington has become the latest place to be placed into tier three - or \"very high\" alert level. The measures will take effect next week.\n\nNottingham and parts of Nottinghamshire are also expected to be moved into tier three next week, with the finer details such as whether or not gyms can stay open still to be decided as talks continue.\n\nThe tier three alert level means people cannot mix with other households and pubs and bars will be closed - unless they are serving substantial meals. Some areas in the top tier have also gone further, closing businesses such as bingo halls, casinos, betting shops and soft play centres.\n\nHouseholds are banned from mixing outdoors in private gardens or anywhere inside and people are advised against travelling into or out of the area.\n\nSouth Yorkshire will also move into tier three restrictions from 00:01 on Saturday, by which time more than seven million people will be living under England's tightest rules.\n\nRising infections mean that Coventry, Stoke and Slough will move into tier two restrictions at 00:01 on Saturday.\n\nThe \"high\" alert level means households are banned from mixing indoors and people are encouraged to reduce their use of public transport.\n\nIn Wales, the \"firebreak\" means people are being ordered to stay at home and pubs, restaurants, hotels and non-essential shops will close until 9 November.\n\nSupermarkets have been told not to sell items such as clothes, as First Minister Mark Drakeford said it would be \"made clear\" they should only open the parts of their business that sell essential goods.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mixed views on the firebreak in Wales' first local lockdown area\n\nAnd the Scottish government is to set out its own tiered alert system of Covid restrictions, which will come into force from 2 November.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it would have five tiers, with the middle tiers corresponding roughly to England's three, plus a lower tier that is \"the closest to normality\" possible without a vaccine.\n\nShe said an additional top tier would be \"closer to a full lockdown\" - and was added because England's chief medical officer had acknowledged tier three restrictions were not necessarily enough to reduce infections in all circumstances.\n\nThe move in Greater Manchester comes after days of confrontation between local politicians and ministers over the level of financial support the area would receive.\n\nAfter the \"very high\" alert level was imposed, the government announced a more generous wage subsidy scheme, backdated to August, for areas that have been under additional restrictions.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds says ministers need to be clearer about how they decide what financial support areas will get and how long this will be for.\n\n\"Initially it was suggested there was some kind of a negotiation going on between government and local areas about support for businesses,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Now it looks like actually there's a formula that's being used by government but they haven't published it anywhere, they've not discussed it, it hasn't been voted on for government.\"", "Supermarkets say they have been given \"very little time\" to implement changes announced ahead of tonight's firebreak lockdown.\n\nA spokesperson for Asda said: “The Welsh Government’s firebreak regulations means that we can only sell products they deem to be essential.\n\n“We have been given very little time to implement these changes or clarity on what is deemed ‘essential’.\"\n\nThe store chain expressed \"deep concerns about the implications for customers accessing products they genuinely need and the risk to colleagues' safety\".\n\n“We will continue to do our utmost to keep our customers and colleagues safe and would appeal to our customers to be patient when they shop with us and to continue to treat our colleagues with respect as they do their best to help them understand the new regulations,” said the spokesperson.\n\nNon-essential goods have been covered up at Asda stores including Coryton in Cardiff Image caption: Non-essential goods have been covered up at Asda stores including Coryton in Cardiff", "Beckton water plant is taking part in the scheme\n\nNinety wastewater treatment sites in England, Wales and Scotland will start testing more sewage for coronavirus.\n\nThe aim is to create an early warning system to detect local outbreaks before they spread.\n\nScientists established earlier this year that fragments of the virus's genetic material could be identified in human waste.\n\nA successful trial in Plymouth has detected a cluster of infections in the local area.\n\nAnd scientists in Scotland have found evidence of the virus in waste water samples from most of its health board areas. The results are consistent with areas where there are confirmed cases of Covid-19.\n\nCrucially, virus fragments can be detected even when there are only asymptomatic Covid-19 cases in the community.\n\nThe project is a collaboration between central and local government, along with academic institutions and water companies.\n\nProf Davey Jones, an expert in soil and environmental science at Bangor University, was one of the researchers to get involved.\n\nHe said: \"We have been monitoring viruses like norovirus and hepatitis in human sewage for the last decade. We added Covid-19 to the list in March this year.\"\n\nHis team discovered that viral levels in wastewater tracked the success of lockdown measures during the first wave.\n\nSamples will be analysed for genetic material\n\nWaste from sites such as Beckton Sewage Treatment Works in East London, will be tested four times a week from now on.\n\nResults of the analysis will then be shared with test-and-trace systems in England, Wales and Scotland - helping them focus on particular communities for extra attention, as well as tipping off local NHS services.\n\nScientists had to overcome some tricky issues to refine the technique, not least that wastewater - by its nature - contains a lot of contaminants and samples vary widely, which makes it tricky to develop a one-size-fits all standard, accurate test.\n\nBut a pilot in south-west England has already helped to spot a rise in infections that occurred last month in Plymouth, where a cluster was silently growing as a result of several asymptomatic cases.\n\nThe levels of the virus's genetic material in the wastewater acted as an invaluable early warning system.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Tracking new outbreaks in the sewers\n\n\"Levels were very low during the summer and then in September there was a sudden spike,\" said Environment Secretary George Eustice.\n\n\"That enabled local health officials to try to identify where around Plymouth there might have been a particular problem, even though the test-and-trace system hadn't shown it up at that point.\"\n\nMr Eustice acknowledges these waste tests are not a substitute for an effective test-and-trace regime, but he describes it an \"added tool in the box\".\n\nRoseanna Cunningham, the Scottish government's Environment Secretary, said: \"The early data is already providing our public health experts with new information, which complements the wider population testing programme to give a more robust picture of the prevalence of Covid disease in Scotland.\"\n\nFor the moment, the testing will be done at water treatment works, but the hope is that sewage tests might become even more localised over time - perhaps down to individual postcodes.\n\nThe technique is already being used elsewhere in the world. The University of Arizona in the US, for example, tests waste from its student residences twice a week.\n\nBritain is also looking to advise developing countries on the practicalities of this method, as many low-income countries do not have enough testing machines for their populations.", "The bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nA woman saw nine people get into a lorry in northern France the day before 39 Vietnamese migrants were found dead inside it in the UK, a court heard.\n\nThe witness, who said police were alerted, said the group were dropped by taxi near a farm shed before the white lorry stopped and they got in.\n\nA little later on 22 October 2019, a lone man arrived saying he was \"looking for his friends\", the Old Bailey heard.\n\nFour men are on trial after the migrants' bodies were found in Essex.\n\nJurors have heard the 39 victims, aged between 15 and 44, had suffocated in the sealed trailer - which was found on an industrial estate in Purfleet - as the temperature inside reached 38.5C.\n\nThe victims were discovered when the container was opened at Purfleet in Essex\n\nGheorghe Nica, 43, of Basildon, Essex, and lorry driver Eamonn Harrison, 23, deny the manslaughters of 39 Vietnamese people, aged between 15 and 44.\n\nMr Harrison, of Mayobridge, County Down, Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota, 37, of Birmingham, deny being part of a people-smuggling conspiracy, which Mr Nica has admitted.\n\nA statement from carer Laetitia Mockelyn was read to the trial, in which she said she had heard Estelle Duyke call the Gendarmes on 22 October about migrants being seen close to her elderly mother-in-law's house, in Bierne.\n\nShe said she later saw the lone man being dropped off by a taxi after the lorry had left with the nine people who had arrived earlier.\n\nWhen he was approached the man said in English he was \"looking for his friends\", before walking off in the direction of a factory.\n\nA police image shows how packed boxes of macaroons in an earlier shipment bore dirty footprints\n\nWhen the Gendarmerie arrived they checked the shed where the nine people had waited but \"there was no-one there\", Ms Mockelyn said.\n\nShe said the nine all appeared to be aged under 35 and among them was a woman wearing a padded jacket, white woolly hat and small backpack, and a \"slightly-built\" man in jeans and classic black cap.\n\nThe man who arrived after the lorry departed was described as being of small build and wearing blue jeans, a padded jacket and Adidas backpack.\n\nMs Mockelyn told officers she had never seen anything like it before.\n\nLorry driver Eamonn Harrison, 23, allegedly picked up the migrants in his trailer before dropping it at the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, on 22 October.\n\nThe court heard the temperature inside the trailer had already risen from 11.7C to 15.6C by 10:30 BST.\n\nThe next morning the trailer was collected by Maurice Robinson in Purfleet, Essex, and he discovered the bodies of the men, women and children, the jury was told.\n\nProsecutors said Harrison had two encounters with the police in the days before he allegedly collected the migrants. The first time was due to the fact he was intoxicated and the second because his trailer was parked illegally.\n\nMeanwhile, haulage boss Ronan Hughes, Robinson and alleged key organiser Gheorghe Nica were caught on CCTV at the Ibis Hotel in Thurrock, Essex, on the evening of 18 October.\n\nHughes, 41, and Robinson, 26, have pleaded guilty to 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than £3bn of furlough job protection money could have been stolen by criminal gangs and employers, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said.\n\nThe spending watchdog said up to £2bn of taxpayer money may have gone to criminals using fake companies.\n\nFirms also claimed for workers not on furlough or inflated the money needed.\n\nThe NAO, which has already warned about \"bounceback\" business loan fraud, said nearly one in 10 workers on furlough had been asked to work by their boss.\n\nThe government defended the scheme as a \"lifeline\" without which lives would have been ruined during lockdown.\n\nBut in a report on Friday, the NAO said it was brought in so rapidly in March that \"considerable levels of fraud and error\" were likely.\n\nDesigned to help those who could not work due to lockdown, the Coronavirus Jobs Retention Scheme scheme supported more than 9.6 million workers at its peak.\n\nWorkers on leave have been paid 80% of their salaries, in full or part by the government, although it will be replaced by a less generous jobs scheme from 1 November.\n\nThe NAO said that a fraud hotline set up by the tax authorities, HMRC, received over 10,000 reports of contraventions, while its own survey, conducted by Ispos Mori, found 9% of furloughed workers had continued to work at the request of their boss.\n\nLondon's usually bustling Regent Street in June. Large parts of the economy were forced to shut down during lockdown.\n\nSome employers had also claimed furlough payments but not passed them on in full to employees, the NAO said.\n\nBy May about a third of the UK workforce was on furlough, while at least 2.6 million self-employed were also given state support via a separate programme.\n\nHowever, the NAO said as many as 2.9 million people were unable to access any help, \"either because of ministerial decisions about where to focus support, or because HMRC did not have data needed to properly guard against the risk of fraud\".\n\nThe civil service had done well to launch the job protection schemes so quickly, said Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, but due to the pace at which they were introduced it had not been able to follow standard procedures.\n\nHe said the tax office should have done more to prevent fraud including informing employees whether their employer was part of the furlough scheme.\n\n\"In future, the departments should do more while employment support schemes are running to protect employees and counter acts of fraud,\" Mr Davies said.\n\nEarlier this month MPs on the Public Accounts Committee also warned that setting up the schemes at such short notice had left \"unacceptable room for fraud\".\n\nThe NAO is recommending that any future support schemes should consider how to ensure more people are eligible, if they have suffered loss of income, as well as how to prevent further fraud.\n\nThe Treasury and HMRC should also focus on assessing fraud and error and recovering overpayments.\n\nA government spokesperson said it made \"no apology\" for the speed at which the schemes were delivered.\n\n\"The government's priority from the start of the outbreak has been on protecting jobs and getting support to those who need it as quickly as possible, and our employment support schemes have provided a lifeline to millions of hardworking families across the UK.\n\n\"Our schemes were designed to minimise fraud from the outset and we have rejected or blocked thousands of fraudulent claims. We will not tolerate those who seek to defraud taxpayers and will take action against perpetrators, including criminal prosecution.\"", "Household mixing is banned indoors and most places outdoors under tier three restrictions\n\nWarrington will move to England's highest tier of coronavirus restrictions from next week, its council has confirmed.\n\nThe Labour-run council said it had reached agreement with the government and would be moving into tier three.\n\nConservative MP for Warrington South, Andy Carter, said this was proportionate with the financial settlements for other tier three areas.\n\nThe Cheshire town, home to about 210,000 people, is the 35th-worst hit place in England according to government figures.\n\nAs of Monday, the government reported 733 coronavirus cases in Warrington, with a rate of 349 per 100,000 people in the previous seven days.\n\nCouncil leader Russ Bowden said case numbers remained \"stubbornly high\" and \"urgent action\" was needed.\n\nRestrictions are expected to come into force at 00:01 GMT on Thursday.\n\nThe council has said people must not:\n\nThe council said people should:\n\nUnder the rules pubs and bars which don't serve substantial meals will close, along with soft play centres, betting offices and casinos.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles are not affected.\n\nSarah Lott and her husband Paul run family business The Jungle Play Centre in Warrington\n\nSarah Lott, who runs The Jungle soft play centre in Warrington, said she was \"devastated\" and has already had a staff member in tears since the announcement.\n\nShe said she did not understand why trampoline parks could stay open but soft play could not.\n\n\"You can't pinpoint the reason. If the government had scientific advice or told us why. What is the evidence that soft play centres are a pit of germs?\" Ms Lott said.\n\n\"We are working at 40% capacity, there is loads of room, adults wear masks and we clean between sessions. There is no issue at all.\"\n\nShe said she has already let two thirds of her staff go and is \"down to the bare minimum\".\n\n\"I don't know how we are going to survive. Our rent is over £10,000. It is a blow. It is just horrific. Here we go again,\" she added.\n\nWarrington, like many parts of England, has seen a surge in cases over the last eight weeks, according to government figures.\n\nThe area recorded 349 cases per 100,000 people in the week to 19 October, well above England's overall rate of 187.4 per 100,000 over the same period, but a slight drop on the previous week so far.\n\nIt also saw 10 further deaths from coronavirus in the last week and hospital admissions to Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals rose by 10 in the seven days to 18 October on the previous week.\n\nAuthorities such as Salford, Wigan and St Helens have seen higher rates, while Halton - already in tier 3 as part of the Liverpool City Region - Cheshire East and Cheshire West all recorded lower rates.\n\nGareth Hammond who runs the Chapel House Inn in Burtonwood said it was a \"blessed relief\" to shut after some \"stressful days\" since being placed in tier two.\n\nHe had been forced to \"separate friends who had been drinking together for years\", he said, and there had been \"difficult conversations\" with customers who felt there was \"no logic\" behind the rules.\n\nGareth Hammond who runs the Chapel House Inn said it would be a \"relief\" to close after stressful days trying to police tier two rules\n\n\"You would have a couple of people who had been working in a van together all day but I had to tell them they could not sit together and have a drink afterwards,\" he said.\n\nHe also said it had been \"uncomfortable\" as people from other tier three regions had \"flooded\" the Warrington pubs.\n\nHowever, Mr Hammond said, the business could only survive short term by \"scrimping and saving\".\n\nIf the current restrictions went on for as long as the initial lockdown, he said, it could be \"a different kettle of fish\".\n\nHe said having to close would be \"difficult to manage\" , but he didn't know how long he could carry on operating under tier two conditions.\n\n\"We're making very little money and it is not enjoyable,\" he said.\n\nHouseholds will no longer be able to mix outside hospitality venues as they can in tier two\n\nBookmaker Harold Smith, who runs a betting shop, said the move was \"completely misinformed\".\n\n\"More people stand outside at the bus stop than come into the shop,\" he said.\n\n\"Since they introduced no smoking people don't stay in the shop any more. Any that do are wearing masks.\"\n\nPunters \"didn't come back\" after the initial lockdown in March, he said, adding: \"we are doing our business on the telephone now\".\n\nThe council said £1.68 m of the funding package would be allocated to supporting its public health response, including testing and enforcement.\n\nIt said £4.2m would be used for business and employment support.\n\nLabour MP for Warrington North, Charlotte Nichols, said it was a \"grim inevitability\" that Warrington would be put in tier three.\n\nShe said the town had \"double the average rate of infection\" among over-60s and its main hospital was \"nearing its ICU capacity\".\n\nMs Nichols said only about 60% of close contacts were being traced due to the \"failing\" system.\n\nShe also criticised Warrington's financial settlement as being \"not remotely enough\" and said the government's formula for working it out was \"far too rigid\".\n\nWarrington will follow Greater Manchester, which joined Liverpool City Region and Lancashire in tier three at midnight.\n\nSouth Yorkshire will move into tier three restrictions from 00:01 on Saturday.\n\nNottingham and parts of Nottinghamshire are also expected to be moved into tier three next week, with the finer details such as whether or not gyms can stay open still to be decided as talks continue.\n• None Warrington in talks over move to tier 3 regulations", "\"I still have nightmares most nights about being completely out of my depth.\"\n\nGemma, a ward nurse in Northern Ireland, was redeployed to a critical care unit at the end of March when the first wave of coronavirus struck.\n\n\"I had never looked after a critically ill intensive care patient in my life,\" she says.\n\n\"I just thought, I'm coming in here and I'm going to die. I'm going to catch Covid and I'm going to be one of those patients in the beds.\"\n\nAs the second wave of the pandemic takes deep root across parts of the UK, thousands of NHS workers are struggling to recover from what they have already been through.\n\n\"We were all in PPE all the time,\" recalls Nathan, a senior intensive care nurse at a hospital in the Midlands. \"All you can see is people's eyes, you can't see anything else.\"\n\nHe describes trying to help junior members of staff survive long and difficult days.\n\n\"And I'd see these eyes as big as saucers saying help me, do something. Make this right. Fix this.\"\n\n\"The pressure was insane, and the anxiety just got me,\" he says. \"I couldn't sleep, and I couldn't eat, I was sick before work, I was shaking before I got into my car in the morning.\"\n\nNathan ended up having time off with severe anxiety, but he is now back at the hospital, waiting for the beds to fill up again.\n\nWe've spoken to a number of nurses and doctors across the UK who are deeply apprehensive about what lies ahead this winter.\n\nWe're not using their real names because they shared their views on condition of anonymity, in order to speak freely.\n\nAll believe it is important that the general public hears first-hand about the enormous strain the health service and its staff have been under.\n\nIt has not just been about coping with the devastating effects of a new and deadly disease.\n\nPressure to deal with the huge backlog of other medical treatments, which had been put on hold, meant some health care workers didn't have much of a break during the summer either.\n\n\"I finally went on holiday in September and it was like I came out of a fog,\" says Danny, an intensive care doctor and anaesthetist based in Yorkshire.\n\n\"Almost the last six months of my life was just some kind of haze that I don't remember very well. You just became all about Covid and nothing else,\" he says. \"And I think that got us through the first wave, but obviously it isn't a sustainable mechanism to carry on.\"\n\nThat widely shared feeling of exhaustion has been heightened by long-standing concerns about staff shortages, and by deep resentment - particularly among nurses - about pay and conditions.\n\nOne of the lasting images of the first wave of Covid is of the weekly \"clap for carers\" - that moment of national unity that took place on doorsteps at 20:00 every Thursday night.\n\nHealth care workers have been very appreciative of public support, but many say they would prefer a proper pay settlement to another round of applause.\n\nAnd Jo Billings, a psychologist from the Covid Trauma Response Working Group at University College London, says \"the narrative of health care workers being heroes or angels has largely been really unhelpful.\"\n\nIt painted a picture that people do this because they're special, not because they're simply doing their job, for which they should be adequately paid and protected.\n\n\"It's also been a real barrier to people seeking help with their own problems,\" Dr Billings says, \"because they feel heroes don't struggle. An angel doesn't get PTSD.\"\n\nThe first wave of Covid-19 could have been much worse than it was. In fact, many doctors expected it to be. A lot of the extra capacity that was created so quickly in the health system, in temporary Nightingale hospitals and elsewhere, was not needed.\n\nBut health care staff speak of an \"all hands on deck\" mentality, when people were doing long shifts and were often away from home for extended periods to protect their families.\n\n\"It was mentally draining, and we've not really had a proper downtime,\" says Moussa, a respiratory consultant from Greater Manchester. \"As soon as the first wave finished, we started catching up with the backlog of other cases. So, there was another mountain to climb.\"\n\nThat sense of fatigue and frustration, in a health service already stretched to the limit before Covid struck, is captured in data put together by the Covid Trauma Response Working Group.\n\nIts Frontline Covid study of nearly 1200 health care workers from across the UK between May and July found that nearly 60% of them met the criteria for at least one of three things - anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nVarious risk factors were identified, including fear of transmitting Covid to others, unreliable access to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at the time, feeling stigmatised due to their role, and not feeling able to talk to a manager about how they were coping.\n\nConversations with NHS staff reveal a system of support for staff welfare and mental health which is patchy - fantastic in some places, not so in others.\n\n\"A junior doctor I spoke to the other day was talking about what a difficult time she'd found in another hospital,\" says Dorothy Wade, a psychologist at University College Hospital in London. \"And I said, 'Didn't you have anything like this at the other hospital?' And she said, 'No, absolutely nothing. There was nothing on offer at all.'\n\nShe says quite a lot of hospitals still don't have a staff psychologist, and didn't have resources to offer any provisions.\n\nIt has been a similar story in intensive care units, says Nicki Credland of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses.\n\n\"In some places there have been significant amounts of psychological support,\" but in others \"staff are reporting that they're needing to go to their GP.\"\n\nNHS England says nearly half a million staff were given extra support with their health and mental wellbeing needs during the first wave, via self-help apps, text services, online forums and telephone helplines.\n\nBut in most cases, it is down to local management, and sometimes support isn't available at the time that shift workers need it.\n\n\"Members of staff in our ward have been permanently scarred by Covid,\" says Jacqui, a nurse at a small community hospital in London. \"They sometimes struggle now doing some of the more minor tasks. [But] we were very lucky that we're in a very good, small trust,\" she says, \"which has taken all that on board and is supporting them.\"\n\nA large number of health care workers, however, were redeployed into new hospitals or new wards, or even into entirely new areas with very little training and very little preparation.\n\nAnd the Frontline Covid survey reveals that many of them were distressed by what they saw.\n\nThat is partly because even at the best of times in critical care, a lot of patients are going to die.\n\n\"You have to have this slight disconnect with what's going on because you have to accept that you can do everything right, and the patient still might not survive,\" says Danny, the ICU doctor in Yorkshire. \"But people coming from elsewhere in the hospital haven't had the time to develop that kind of mentality.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Gemma was asked recently by her manager if she would like to volunteer to go back into an ICU.\n\n\"I laughed in her face and said no,\" she admits. \"I don't know if I'll be made to go. But as soon as you walk over the threshold of a hospital, you cannot refuse to look after a patient. And the thought is, you've done it before, you can do it again.\"\n\nThere's little doubt that morale in the NHS would be higher if staff felt they were being rewarded more fairly.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) surveyed more than 40,000 of its members in the aftermath of the first Covid wave, and found that pay, and feeling under-valued, was their number-one concern.\n\n\"It may feel like now is not the time to talk about pay, with so many people in lockdown and in serious financial difficulty,\" says Mike Adams of the RCN, \"but we've thought about this very carefully.\n\n\"If you want to do one thing for nurses who need a boost to get through the rest of this year, and through the winter, it would be to show you value them with a meaningful pay rise.\"\n\nMany staff are frustrated because they know that is unlikely to happen.\n\nNearly three quarters of respondents to the RCN survey said they thought they were more valued by the general public after the onset of Covid-19. But less than one fifth thought they were more valued by the government in their part of the UK.\n\n\"All that clapping, and all that goodwill,\" says Nathan, \"and now it's back to normal.\"\n\nDoctors earn more money than nurses, but express similar sentiments.\n\n\"We've lost 40% of our pension pot in the last five years,\" says Jack, a consultant in London. \"And everyone is looking at it and wondering whether they should get out now before we lose any more.\n\n\"I think by next March, it's going to be a great deal worse,\" he says\n\nThat in turn highlights another message delivered by members of the RCN. In the aftermath of the first Covid wave, 35% of more than 40,000 people said they were actively considering leaving the profession.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson told the BBC that there are now more than 300,000 nurses in England, including 13,000 who joined recently.\n\n\"And this year there was a 22% increase in applications for nursing degrees, on top of our £28m fund to boost international recruitment,\" the spokesperson continued.\n\nIt takes years to train new recruits, however, and there were more than 40,000 nursing vacancies across the NHS at the beginning of the year.\n\nNow, with Covid an ever-present danger, many experienced members of staff are thinking of leaving, and many of them are not coming back.\n\n\"Nurses approaching retirement used to - in significant numbers - retire, and then return on a smaller number of hours,\" says Mike Adams at the RCN. \"But that is just not happening as much. We're losing the guides and mentors for the student nurses and the newly qualified nurses.\"\n\nGemma in Northern Ireland says she plans to leave the NHS when this next Covid phase is over, and get a job in the private sector where she won't be redeployed at a moment's notice.\n\n\"A lot of what got us through is the camaraderie, informal chats in the tearoom,\" she explains. \"But we're not even allowed to chat in the tearoom anymore. We have to sit apart with masks on.\n\n\"I'd say a large proportion of my team feel the same. A couple of nurses have just taken early retirement saying, 'No, not doing it anymore.'\"\n\nMany people in the NHS think the public aren't always aware of how acute staff shortages could become.\n\n\"The focus during the first wave was all on ventilators and the Nightingales and beds and things like that,\" says Danny in Yorkshire. \"But the actual thing we need is staff.\"\n\nHe highlights a concern raised by a number of NHS staff that we talked to - an awful lot of people were so burnt out by the first wave that they may not be able to commit so much this time.\n\nStaffing up of ICU became a focus in the early months of the pandemic\n\n\"We've noticed there's a real reluctance among doctors, nurses, everyone to pick up these extra shifts now,\" he says. \"People are realising the importance of family, the pandemic has encouraged everyone to make life simpler, and they want to do something more sustainable second time around.\"\n\nThe challenge could be particularly acute in intensive care.\n\nIn south-west London, Jacqui worked in an ICU during the first wave, and has the rights skills and experience. But she doesn't think she can do it again.\n\n\"Intensive care is incredibly physical, and I hurt my shoulder last time trying to roll a patient over,\" she says. \"Psychologically, I'm not sure I could completely cope with it again.\"\n\n\"It has actually made me go, 'Right, next year, I really will take my pension, I won't work full time anymore.' I've done my bit.\"\n\nBack in March and April, staff were redeployed in large numbers from other parts of the health system, particularly from operating theatres, to bolster intensive care.\n\nBut if the government wants things like elective surgery and operations elsewhere in the health system to continue, many of those extra staff may not be available.\n\n\"We haven't miraculously managed to find an extra 10,000 ICU nurses over the past five months,\" says Nicki Credland. \"That gives us a problem, which is compounded by staff that are off sick because of the psychological and physical response to the first wave of Covid.\"\n\nThere are potential solutions to ease serious staff shortages if the virus strikes specific areas hard. Seriously-ill patients could be moved to hospitals under less pressure, or experienced staff, based in areas where the virus is spreading more slowly, could be moved into hotspots.\n\n\"We're taking a much more local approach,\" the medical director of NHS England Stephen Powis said last week, \"and we are determined to keep the capacity for non-Covid services open for as long as possible.\n\n\"That involves hospitals helping each other, the use of independent sector hospitals where we can, and it might involve some of the Nightingale hospitals.\"\n\nA doctor at an NHS trust near Liverpool - which is in tier three - confirmed that her hospital was on standby to take patients from Liverpool City Region, even though its ICU was already full.\n\nAmbulances stand by in Strasbourg in March to load patients with Covid-19 into a medicalised train\n\nBut if the pandemic gets a lot worse, the effectiveness of local cooperation like this could be limited. And there is no national plan for moving people or resources around the country.\n\n\"In France, they reconditioned trains and made carriages into mobile intensive care units,\" says Jack, the consultant in London. \"In Holland, they had a big double-decker bus, a mobile ICU to move large numbers around. But I'm not aware that we've got anything other than fleets of ambulances.\"\n\nWhen you look back to March, there is no doubt some things have changed for the better. There is far more testing of NHS staff, including testing staff without symptoms in hotspot areas, and there is far less anxiety about the supply of personal protective equipment.\n\nDoctors also know more about the disease and ways to try to treat it, which should have a positive effect on staff morale.\n\n\"We still don't have a cure, but seeing people get better obviously makes staff stronger psychologically,\" says consultant Jack. \"We're only human after all.\"\n\n\"We will put our best foot forward, and we'll do the best for the patients,\" says Nathan, the ICU nurse in the Midlands, \"but I can genuinely say all of my colleagues, including senior management, are terrified.\"\n\n\"We're not sure how, in terms of resilience, we are going to be able to get through this.\"\n\nAcross the NHS you can hear similar concerns - a determination to step up to the plate again, but also the knowledge that adrenalin only gets you so far.\n\nThe desire to continue with business as usual in the NHS - treating other conditions and diseases as normal - is a laudable, and probably an essential, aim.\n\nBut that may not prove possible - some hospitals are cancelling operations already.\n\n\"The pressure to still run all the normal functions of the NHS and deal with a Covid second wave that's got the potential to be bigger than the first one,\" says Moussa, \"that's a harsh, harsh thing when we feel we need to prioritise.\"\n\nMany doctors were expecting a second wave to start around November, so it has come in some places a little earlier than predicted. And even in a normal year, the onset of winter and the flu season puts huge additional capacity pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe government argues that the system has shown extraordinary resilience in the face of a pandemic unprecedented in living memory.\n\nBut Moussa argues that as a country, \"we could have done more to be ready for the second wave\".\n\n\"When you think about it,\" he says, \"it's a bit of a perfect storm.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeeds United ended Aston Villa's winning start and ruined their chance of going top of the Premier League thanks to a brilliant Patrick Bamford hat-trick.\n\nVilla came into Friday's game having won their first four games of a league campaign for the first time since 1930-31, but three expert finishes from the Leeds striker prevented the hosts making it a club record five victories on the spin to open their season.\n\nThe result lifts Leeds to third - their highest position at the end of a day in the division since September 2002.\n\nIt was reward for a relentlessly positive performance from an injury-hit visiting side that should probably have yielded more goals.\n\nIn the first-half, Bamford missed with a header and then side-footed wide after being found by Jack Harrison's low cross at the end of swift counter-attacking move.\n\nLeeds' record signing Rodrigo was also guilty of spurning good opportunities, slicing one shot wide before seeing an effort blocked by Ezri Konsa.\n\nDean Smith's Villa team, who had put seven goals past champions Liverpool in their previous home game, saw a Jack Grealish shot cleared off the line by Luke Ayling after the ball had fallen to the midfielder from Trezeguet's miscued shot.\n\nVilla's captain also went close with a saved effort from close range after he had shown great tenacity and skill to carry the ball from within his own half.\n\nBut Bamford had the decisive say, finding the corner of the net from just a few yards out after Emiliano Martinez had palmed out Rodrigo's low shot.\n\nIf his first was simple, his second and third were stunning - a rising effort into the top corner from 20 yards after he was found by Mateusz Klich on 67 minutes and a dug out, curling finish following Helder Costa's low ball seven minutes later.\n\nLeeds are now two points and a place behind Villa, who remain second, a point behind leaders Everton.\n• None How Bamford and Leeds are proving doubters wrong\n• None Best action and reaction from Aston Villa v Leeds\n• None Football Daily podcast: Hat-trick Bamford and what next for Wilshere?\n\nLeeds maybe have not been as spectacular as Villa in the early stages of 2020-21, but they are certainly making their mark on a top flight that had been without them for 16 years.\n\nThere were plenty of times during that period when little was missing in their absence, but now - with Marcelo Bielsa in charge - the pleasure is all the Premier League's.\n\nLeeds have already shown they are unwilling to be daunted and compromise their attacking principles, even when facing the elite sides.\n\nAnd at Villa Park, with influential midfielder Kalvin Phillips and captain Liam Cooper missing through injury and a makeshift defence in place, they took apart the division's form team on their own patch.\n\nUnder Bielsa, Leeds create chances but they have not always had the cutting edge to make them count, with Bamford too often frustratingly profligate.\n\nPremier League life with Leeds clearly suits the English striker, though, and Friday's hat-trick took him to six goals in six matches this term. His treble is also the sixth in the top flight already in 2020-21 - after 49 games, it is the earliest that has happened.\n\nLeeds themselves have now scored 12 league goals, the most by a newly promoted club after six games of a season in the competition since Middlesbrough also netted 12 in 1992-93.\n\nIt is perhaps in-keeping with what has been a chaotic Premier League season so far that Villa, yet to drop points and whose last appearance on their own ground saw them put seven past Liverpool, would be put to the sword by newly promoted Leeds.\n\nBut still it defied all expectation. Villa were second best throughout, unable to compete with the visitors' intensity and energy.\n\nEven Grealish, who has impressed so much, was unable to inspire his side, although he did have moments - not least of all with the solo run that almost brought an opener for the hosts early in the second half.\n\nBamford's first goal was a big blow, his second sent Villa to canvas and the third knocked them out.\n\nIt was a bad night at the office, but Smith's side remain a work in progress - and while he is unlikely to be pleased after defeat, one poor showing in five is a percentage he will surely take.\n\nThe key now will be whether Villa can respond to such a ruthless ending to one eight-game unbeaten streak by building another.\n\n'We probably got away with a 3-0' - what the managers said\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith, speaking to Match of the Day: \"Very frustrated, especially with the last 40 minutes. I thought the first half was very even. They scored the first goal and we got worse and they were very good. We probably got away with a 3-0 in the end with the chances they had.\n\n\"Who knows what would have happened if we had scored? That is the first time we have been behind in a game and we didn't handle it very well.\"\n\nLeeds boss Marcelo Bielsa, speaking to Match of the Day: \"It was an important game for us and a deserved triumph. We scored first and were a little bit lucky they didn't score some of the chances they had. We were playing well even before the goal and had played well enough to go ahead.\"\n\nOn striker Patrick Bamford, Bielsa added: \"Very happy for Patrick because he scored some wonderful goals. Apart from that [he is] a noble player who sacrifices a lot for the team - generous also. I think his development is more to do with him and less to do with me.\"\n• None This was Aston Villa's first defeat in nine Premier League matches (six wins) and also the first time they had fallen behind at any stage in any of those nine matches.\n• None This was the biggest win by a newly promoted side in an away Premier League match since October 2019, when Aston Villa won 5-1 at Norwich, and the biggest by a promoted club away from home while also keeping a clean sheet since Brighton won 3-0 at West Ham in October 2017.\n• None Since the start of last season, Aston Villa have lost 22 Premier League games and conceded 72 goals in the competition - only Norwich City (27 defeats, 75 goals conceded) have lost and conceded more in the division in that time.\n• None Bamford has scored six goals in Leeds' first six league matches this season - only Eric Cantona in 1992-93 (also six) has scored as many goals for the club at this stage of a Premier League campaign.\n• None The Englishman is only the second player to score in Leeds United's first three away games in a top-flight league season, after Gordon Hodgson in 1937-38.\n• None Bamford is the ninth Leeds player to score a Premier League hat-trick and the first since Mark Viduka away at Charlton in April 2003.\n• None Attempt missed. Jack Harrison (Leeds United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. John McGinn (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\n• None Mateusz Klich (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\n• None Attempt saved. Patrick Bamford (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamie Shackleton with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Patrick Bamford. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can a government minister outrun the secrets of his past?\n• None Behind the scenes of a club reborn", "Ms Sturgeon will set out plans for the new system at her daily coronavirus briefing\n\nThe Scottish government is to publish details later of a new five-tier alert system of Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nThe new system - which adds two levels to the three tiers used in England - will come into force from 2 November.\n\nIt will set out different levels of measures that can be applied either nationally or regionally, depending on the rate of infection across Scotland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this would provide clarity about rules and flexibility for different areas.\n\nThe new \"strategic framework\" will also include details of support for businesses hit by restrictions and a new testing strategy.\n\nTemporary restrictions targeting the hospitality industry in the central belt of Scotland in particular have been extended to cover the gap until the new system comes into force.\n\nDetails of how it will work are to be published on Friday, but Ms Sturgeon has already revealed that it will feature five different levels.\n\nThe three tiers currently used in the English system - of \"medium\", \"high\" and \"very high\" alert - will be broadly equivalent to the middle of the Scottish system.\n\nAn extra level will be added at the bottom, which Ms Sturgeon said would be \"the closest to normality that we can reasonably expect to live with until we have a vaccine\".\n\nAnd another tier will be added at the top, featuring harsh restrictions similar to those imposed at the outset of the pandemic in March.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"When England published their [system] the chief medical officer in England at the time said he thought the top level was not enough to necessarily, in all circumstances, get the virus down. So we think we need one above that which is closer to a full lockdown if things got to be that serious.\"\n\nMSPs will hold a vote on the proposed framework next week\n\nOpposition parties were consulted while the new framework was being drawn up, and MSPs will put the broad principles to a vote when Holyrood returns from its half term recess.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said decisions about where levels will be set for each region of Scotland would be taken on a \"collaborative\" basis, but said she would ultimately bear accountability for them.\n\nThe first minister said she wanted to avoid a standoff like that between the UK government and local leaders in the Greater Manchester region, adding: \"I believe it's really important that the buck for these difficult decisions stops here, with me and government.\"\n\nThe strategic framework comes alongside an expanded testing strategy, which includes a commitment to expand Scotland's testing capacity to 65,000 tests per day by the end of the year.\n\nThis will include boosting the number of tests that can be processed at the UK government's Lighthouse laboratory in Glasgow, as well as NHS facilities and some smaller commercial ones.\n\nNew NHS regional hubs are under construction in Grampian, Lothian and Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and are expected to take on all of the daily routine testing done in care homes around Scotland.\n\nAlongside the Scottish government's paper, the Office for National Statistics is expected to publish the initial results of a Covid infection survey north of the border.\n\nThis estimates how many people in private households were infected with the virus over a two-week period, which Ms Sturgeon said would provide \"an additional tool to track the spread and prevalence of the virus and tailor our response to it accordingly\".", "British retail sales have continued to increase for the fifth consecutive month, boosted by non-food items including DIY and garden supplies, according to official figures.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said retail sales volumes rose by 1.5% between August and September.\n\nSpending on groceries remained high, but petrol sales were still down as motorists made fewer journeys.\n\nSales are now 5.5% higher than the pre-pandemic levels seen in February.\n\nThe three months to September saw the biggest quarterly increase on record, as retail sales volumes increased by 17.4% when compared with the previous three months.\n\nHowever, analysts warned that the sales surge was unlikely to last, with many parts of the country returning to coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"While food sales have done well in recent months as people have eaten out less, non-food store sales have now made a recovery at 1.7% above their February levels,\" the ONS said.\n\n\"Home improvement sales continued to do well in September, with increased sales in household goods and garden items within 'other' non-food stores.\"\n\nFuel was the only main sector to remain below February's pre-pandemic level, the ONS said, with volume sales 8.6% lower in September when compared with February 2020.\n\n\"As lockdown eased, we saw an increase in travel and the quantity of fuel bought. However, as many people remained working at home and with certain restrictions still in place, fuel sales were yet to fully recover,\" it added.\n\nAnother positive contribution came from sales of spectacles and contact lenses, the ONS said.\n\n\"We gained feedback from opticians in this sector, suggesting that pent-up demand for eye tests and optical wear increased their sales when lockdown measures had eased,\" it added.\n\nThe proportion of online sales was at 27.5%, compared with 20.1% reported in February.\n\n\"There's no doubting that UK consumers have been doing their bit to boost the economy, following a quarter of record retail sales growth,\" said Lynda Petherick, head of retail at Accenture UKI.\n\n\"There's little time for retailers to gather breath, though, and they will already be wondering - or perhaps dreading - what lies ahead in Q4.\n\n\"This should be a time for excitement as the crucial 'golden quarter' for retail is now underway. However, with lockdown measures across the UK tightening by the day, retailers are braced for a difficult and unconventional end to the year.\"\n\nOne retailer, James Daunt, chief executive of booksellers Waterstones, told the BBC that his stores were \"entering a very unpredictable period of trading\".\n\nOn the move towards local lockdowns, he said: \"It's had a negative impact, particularly in large metropolitan cities - big city centres, where people use public transport.\n\n\"But in local High Streets, [there is] much less impact and in some, not at all.\"\n\nFurther evidence of the impact of local lockdowns on the economy came from the latest IHS Markit/CIPS flash UK composite output index, which indicated a \"sharp slowdown\" in growth due to a much weaker contribution from the service sector.\n\nThe index registered 52.9 in October, down from 56.5 in September and August's recent peak of 59.1. Anything above 50 indicates economic expansion.\n\nIHS Markit said respondents to its survey had frequently commented on tighter restrictions across the hospitality sector, with service providers as a whole reporting a decline in new business for the first time since June.\n\n\"The latest reading pointed to the weakest rise in UK private sector output since a return to growth was first signalled in July,\" it added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An attempt was made on Thursday to move the whales out to sea\n\nBoats are being used to herd whales from a Scottish loch into the open sea ahead of a huge military exercise in the region.\n\nExperts have been monitoring the northern bottlenose whales in Gare Loch in Argyll for the last month.\n\nAn operation began at 10:30 on Thursday to move the whales from the sea loch over fears sonar used by warships could distress the animals.\n\nThere are also concerns that one of the whales is looking \"skinny\".\n\nEurope's largest military exercise - Joint Warrior - begins on Saturday and its headquarters will be at Faslane, the naval base next to Gare Loch.\n\nThe operation to move the mammals is being led by the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR).\n\nIt said five whales have been spotted in the Loch Long area and some have entered some of the smaller lochs nearby.\n\n\"It is very unusual for them to be in coastal waters,\" said a charity spokesman.\n\n\"However, we have had similar incidents in recent years where animals of the same species have entered lochs, including Loch Long, that have subsequently left of their own accord without intervention, and presumably have succeeded in returning to their proper habitat.\n\n\"We recently became aware that a significant military exercise is due to begin next week, and as whales are particularly sensitive to underwater sound, have been concerned about the effect it may have on the animals.\"\n\nIt added that attempting to move them \"of course does come with risks of its own and there is no guarantee it will be successful given the depth of water and distance that needs to be covered, so will be undertaken with as much care as possible.\n\n\"We will of course reassess our actions and options if the whales decide that they will not go.\"\n\nGavin Lemon, a volunteer with the charity, said the animals would be herded from Gare Loch using a number of boats in formation.\n\nHe said it was important to move the animals while they were healthy and in good condition.\n\n\"We've been monitoring them - they are feeding on local fish,\" he said. \"They usually like squid and the like, diving up to 1,000m (3,000ft).\n\n\"Gare Loch is about 25m (80ft) deep. So they've not been having their normal diet, but it has been sustaining them.\n\n\"However, one of them looks skinny which is not a good sign with a whale.\"\n\nJamie Munro has been photographing the whales while they have been in the area between the naval base and the top of the loch.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"At first we thought it a real novelty with the three of them tail slapping and breaching. We thought they were fishing.\"\n\nBut he said concern grew and whale watchers have expressed concern that the animals were in distress.\n\n\"I've been watching them now from our house for six days and every morning I go out early hoping not to see them and that they have made it out, but sure enough they pop up and so it goes.\"\n\nWarships, aircraft, marines and troops from the UK, Nato and allied forces will take part in the military exercise, which is due to run until 15 October.\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: \"The Royal Navy takes its environmental responsibilities very seriously and continues to work with the relevant UK authorities to ensure all practical measures required to reduce environmental risk and comply with legislation are taken.\n\n\"A necessary series of safety checks is observed and an environmental risk assessment is carried out before any underwater task is undertaken by MoD, to minimise any potential risk to marine life.\"\n\nHe added that members of the armed forces who are involved in the Exercise Joint Warrior training in the area will be made aware of the presence of the whales and the latest sightings.\n\n\"All participants are aware that environmental protection remains a priority for the exercise and we are prepared to amend the programme if these whales remain in an atypical situation,\" he added.", "Chrissy Teigen and husband John Legend have said they are in \"deep pain\" after losing their baby during pregnancy.\n\n\"We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we've never felt before,\" she wrote in a moving Instagram statement.\n\nHer post was accompanied by several black and white photos, including one of her crying in her hospital bed.\n\nModel Teigen and singer Legend have two children, and in mid-August revealed they were expecting a third.\n\nIn her latest post, Teigen revealed the Los Angeles-based couple had named the baby Jack.\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 chrissyteigen 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\n\"We never decide on our babies' names until the last possible moment after they're born, just before we leave the hospital,\" she wrote.\n\n\"But we, for some reason, had started to call this little guy in my belly Jack. Jack worked so hard to be a part of our little family, and he will be, forever.\n\n\"I'm so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn't give you the home you needed to survive. We will always love you.\"\n\nRetweeting her, Legend added \"We love you, Jack\" alongside five black love hearts.\n\nTeigen later added: \"Driving home from the hospital with no baby. How can this be real.\"\n\nTeigen, who is also a TV presenter, had been documenting her pregnancy on social media. She was taken to hospital on Sunday due to excessive bleeding but had reassured fans she and the baby were healthy.\n\nIn her latest post, however, she revealed that \"we were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed\".\n\nTeigen thanked her followers for their \"positive energy, thoughts and prayers\" and expressed gratitude for the \"amazing\" life she enjoyed with her family.\n\n\"But everyday can't be full of sunshine,\" she continued. \"On this darkest of days, we will grieve, we will cry our eyes out. But we will hug and love each other harder and get through it.\"\n\nLegend, 41, is a multiple Grammy-winning artist whose 2013 track All of Me - a song he dedicated to his wife - spent 92 weeks in the UK singles chart.\n\nHis parallel careers in film, music and TV work have seen him become an EGOT - one of only 16 people who've won a competitive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.\n\nThe couple were flooded with messages of condolence and support on social media, with many praising their strength for sharing their grief and some recounting their own experiences of loss.\n\n\"I know many other women like me who also have experienced miscarriage appreciate your sharing your story to help demystify this all too common occurrence,\" wrote one Twitter user.\n\nAnother wrote: \"We lost twins at 20 weeks and your bravery for sharing this can hopefully slow people to know they are not alone. Thank you.\"\n\nKim Kardashian West was among the celebrities who sent messages, writing: \"We're always here for you and love you guys so much.\"\n\nActress Viola Davis sent a \"big virtual hug of love, love, love\", while socialite Paris Hilton said she was \"so sorry for your loss\".\n\nActress Gabrielle Union added: \"We love you guys so much and we will be here for whatever yall need. Always.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Those who tested positive at the plant and those they have been in close contact with are isolating\n\nTesting has uncovered 170 cases of Covid-19 among workers at a pork meat processing plant in Cornwall.\n\nFive hundred staff at Pilgrim's Pride in Pool, near Camborne, were tested in a contact tracing exercise by the NHS.\n\nMost of those who tested positive were unaware they had Covid-19 and were not displaying symptoms.\n\nThey and those they have been in close contact with are isolating in line with government guidelines, said Cornwall Council.\n\nCases of Covid-19 in the South West are still below the national average, latest figures show.\n\nCornwall remains the area in the region with the highest number of cases.\n\nIn the week to Sunday, numbers rose from 115 to 180. The infection rate is 31.5 per 100,000.\n\n\"In total, almost 500 employees at the factory have been tested and the vast majority of the cases who tested positive were not displaying symptoms,\" said Cornwall Council.\n\nRachel Wigglesworth, interim director for Public Health for Cornwall Council, said: \"In finding people who weren't displaying symptoms we have potentially stopped much wider spread in our communities\".\n\nCouncil leader Julian German said \"proactive testing\" was \"helping us to take action quickly to limit the spread of Covid in our communities\".\n\nPilgrim's Pride said in a statement said \"from the outset\" it had \"worked conscientiously to do all we can to protect our workforce and the local community\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Helen Hancock and Martin Griffiths were found by police on New Year's Day\n\nA man has been jailed for life for murdering his wife and her new partner on New Year's Day.\n\nDerby Crown Court heard Helen Hancock, 39, and Martin Griffiths, 48, suffered 103 injuries when they were stabbed at her home in Duffield, Derbyshire.\n\nA paramedic said it was the \"most violent incident he had ever seen\", the court was told.\n\nRhys Hancock, who admitted both murders when found at the scene, was jailed for a minimum of 31 years.\n\nThe court heard how 40-year-old Hancock, of Etwall, called 999 himself at 04:26 to report his double murder, saying: \"I have just stabbed them... there is blood everywhere\".\n\nJudge Nirmal Shant described it as a \"brutal attack\" which had \"deprived two families of the people they loved\".\n\nThe prosecution described how, after coming back from the pub, Hancock had told his mother he \"felt like he wanted to kill\" the pair.\n\nHe told her he knew he would be sentenced to 25 to 30 years for what he was about to do but still shared a cup of tea with her before leaving.\n\nHe took her emergency buzzer and landline phones so she could not call the police and then drove to Ms Hancock's house with two knives from his mother's kitchen.\n\nThe court was told Hancock had found out about his wife's new relationship on 26 December\n\nOnce there he entered through the backdoor and attacked the pair in the bedroom.\n\nThe court heard how one paramedic described the scene as a \"blood bath\".\n\nHelen Hancock and Martin Griffiths were found at her and Mr Hancock's former marital home in New Zealand Lane, Duffield\n\nOfficers, alerted by his mother after she found her mobile phone, found him outside the property covered in blood.\n\nHe told them: \"I'm hardly going to deny it - look at me.\"\n\nProsecutor Michael Auty QC said: \"There is no escaping these murders were premeditated, they were savage, the attack was merciless, there were elements of sadism and the intention was always... and only to kill.\n\n\"Perhaps, above all else, they were committed in the coldest of blood.\"\n\nBut Judge Shant concluded she \"could not be sure\" this was \"sadistic or sexual\" and would not be handing out a whole life term, although she accepted it was a \"borderline\" case.\n\nShe added: \"No sentence I impose will seem adequate to [the victims' families] and nothing I do can fill the undoubted void that the deaths of Helen Hancock and Martin Griffiths have left.\"\n\nMs Hancock, who had been using her maiden name Almey, worked as a PE teacher at Fountains High School in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.\n\nIn a statement read to the court her family described her as a \"beautiful, vibrant and outgoing person who loved and lived life to the full\".\n\nHer sister added Mr Hancock's actions had left their children without either a mother or a father.\n\nMr Griffiths' family said his death was \"like losing a precious piece of a jigsaw and so never being able to see the full picture again\".\n\nHelen Hancock and Martin Griffiths climbed Mount Snowdon together a few days before they both died\n\nThe case was referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) due to contact between Derbyshire Police and Ms Hancock in the period leading up to the murders.\n\nAn IOPC spokesperson said: \"We are close to finalising our investigation and we will consider releasing our findings when all associated proceedings, including coronial, have been concluded.\"\n\nThey previously told the BBC the police contact related to \"a number of domestic incidents over a period of time\".\n\nThe court had heard Hancock was on police bail at the time of the murders after he allegedly threw something at his wife in October 2019, causing a laceration.\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. Sir Keir Starmer says the government is \"lurching from one ridiculous proposition to another\"\n\nProposals to process asylum seekers in disused ferries are \"inhuman\", Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nHe accused the government of \"lurching from one ridiculous proposition to the next\".\n\nAccording to Refugee Action, 35,566 asylum applications were made in 2019 down from a peak of 84,000 in 2002.\n\nTop Home Office civil servant Matthew Rycroft said \"everything is on the table\" when it comes to \"improving\" the UK's asylum system.\n\nAnd Downing Street said it was looking at what other countries do \"to inform a plan for the UK\".\n\nBut the Labour leader fiercely criticised the plan, telling reporters: \"This isn't creative thinking... these suggestions are inhuman and the government shouldn't be pursuing them.\n\n\"Everybody knows that the biggest problem with asylum seekers' claims is that it takes a long time for the Home Office to process them, that's the problem, it's been there for years.\n\n\"Get your house in order, get that sorted out instead of lurching from one ridiculous proposition to another.\"\n\nHe called for better international cooperation, adding: \"There is of course an issue with people trying to get to the United Kingdom, but people are fleeing often from persecution.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel asked officials to look at policies, including housing people who are seeking asylum offshore.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Financial Times reported the Foreign Office had carried out an assessment for Ascension Island, a remote UK territory in the Atlantic Ocean - which included the practicalities of transferring migrants thousands of miles - and decided not to proceed.\n\nNow the Times has reported that the government is giving \"serious consideration\" to the idea of buying retired ferries and converting them into processing centres, but it says the Home Office rejected a proposal to use decommissioned oil platforms in the North Sea.\n\nThe newspaper also says processing migrants on an island off the coast of Scotland had been considered, but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that \"any proposal to treat human beings like cattle in a holding pen will be met with the strongest possible opposition from me\".\n\nAppearing before the Public Affairs Committee, Home Office Permanent Secretary Mr Rycroft said he would not comment on leaks to newspapers, but that the department was \"brainstorming\" ideas.\n\nHe said: \"No decisions have been taken. No final proposals have been put to ministers.\"\n\nMr Rycroft said the UK would \"always comply with all of our international obligations\" and civil servants would \"assess all of the various different possible ideas out there to see which are legal and which make operational sense… so that ministers can ultimately make decisions\".\n\nHow does the government tempt fewer people to attempt a perilous crossing of the Channel to reach the south coast?\n\nWell, one idea is to make it clear that even a successful crossing won't mean getting to stay in the UK - at least in the short term.\n\nThe government is exploring \"all sorts of options\" - not my words, but those of the most senior civil servant in the Home Office.\n\nHence the recent headlines about transferring asylum seekers to a lump of British rock in the middle of the South Atlantic - Ascension Island, or buying an old ferry to house them.\n\nBut remember, although the numbers coming over the Channel in boats are at a record high, they are still a small proportion of overall asylum seekers coming to the UK.\n\nAnd rows about asylum are far from new.\n\nTwenty years ago, it was the then-Home Secretary, Jack Straw, found himself in a row with his own party about what the Labour government should do about the issue.\n\nSo this is an historic problem for parties of both colours.\n\nThe SNP's home affairs spokeswoman, Joanna Cherry, said the leaked plans showed \"the callousness at the core\" of the government, and the plans would \"treat vulnerable asylum seekers as cattle rather than human beings\".\n\nBut Conservative MP for Gravesham in Kent, Adam Holloway, said the Home Office was \"completely right\" to be looking at other options that were \"some sort of deterrent\" for asylum seekers.\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today programme: \"We need to break the link in people's minds that if you get to Britain you're going to stay in Britain, you're going to stay in a hotel and you're going to be accommodated.\"\n\nHe added that the UK needed to find a \"civilised version\" of the model used by Australia, which has controversially used offshore processing and detention centres for asylum seekers since the 1980s.\n\nThe discussion comes as record numbers of people are crossing the Channel to the UK, with 400 arriving in one day in September.\n\nAscension Island is more than 4,000 miles (6,000km) from the UK\n\nNearly 7,000 people have reached the UK in more than 500 small boats this year - by 23 September, 1,892 migrants had arrived during the month, more than in all of 2019.\n\nBut they are still a small proportion of the asylum seekers coming to the UK.\n\nTo be eligible for asylum in the UK, applicants must prove they cannot return to their home country because they fear persecution due to their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, gender identity or sexual orientation.\n\nA caseworker decides if they have a valid claim by taking into account factors such as the country of origin of the asylum seeker or evidence of discrimination.\n\nThis is supposed to be done in six months but delays in processing claims have increased significantly in the last year.\n\nWhile waiting for a decision to be made, asylum seekers are usually not allowed to work and are initially placed in hostel-type accommodation before longer-term housing is arranged.", "People in England use an estimated 4.7 billion plastic straws each year\n\nA ban on single-use plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds has come into force in England.\n\nThe measure, originally due to start in April, makes it illegal for businesses to sell or supply the items.\n\nPeople in England use an estimated 4.7 billion plastic straws, 316 million plastic stirrers and 1.8 billion plastic-stemmed cotton buds each year.\n\nEnvironmental campaigners welcomed the ban but called for a crackdown on further single-use items.\n\nAn exemption will allow hospitals, bars and restaurants to provide plastic straws to people with disabilities or medical conditions that require them.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said the government was \"firmly committed\" to tackling environmental \"devastation\" caused by single-use plastics.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the move but said the items formed only a \"fraction\" of the plastic waste littering the environment.\n\nSion Elis Williams, of Friends of the Earth, said ministers \"must also do more to challenge our throwaway culture by forcing a shift away from all single-use materials in favour of reusable alternatives\".\n\nTatiana Lujan, of environmental law charity ClientEarth said straws, cotton buds and stirrers were \"some of the most pointless plastics out there\" and the ban on them was \"a no-brainer\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five ways to break up with plastic\n\nBut they remained \"a tiny fraction\" of single-use plastics, she said, adding that countries such as Ireland and France had \"shown far more ambition\" with targets on reusable packaging and deposit return schemes.\n\nMr Eustice said the government was \"building plans\" for a deposit return scheme to encourage recycling of single-use drinks containers.\n\nThe Welsh government has said it is also considering a similar ban on plastics.\n\nA number of national restaurant chains ditched plastic straws before the ban was announced.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Talks are ongoing over new Wylfa nuclear plans, it has been confirmed\n\nPlans for a new nuclear power station on Anglesey may not be over, letters to the UK government have revealed.\n\nJapanese firm Hitachi pulled the plug on the £20bn scheme at Wylfa on Anglesey two weeks ago.\n\nBut developer Horizon Nuclear Power has sent two letters to ministers stating talks with other \"third parties\" are continuing.\n\nA decision on planning consent was due to be made on Wednesday, but will now be delayed until 31 December.\n\nThe chief executive of Horizon Nuclear wrote to the UK government's Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary Alok Sharma on 22 September and 28 September.\n\nIn the letters, Horizon's Duncan Hawthorne asked for a \"short extension\" on the deadline to announce the government's decision on whether it would allow planning permission for the original Hitachi plans for Anglesey.\n\nThe Development Consent Order (DCO) process, which is the name given to planning applications for major UK infrastructure projects such as Wylfa, has been under consideration since June 2018.\n\nMr Hawthorne's second letter to the energy secretary said: \"Since Hitachi Ltd's announcement to cease development activities associated with the Wylfa Newydd DCO Project, Horizon has been engaged in discussions with third parties that have expressed an interest in progressing with the development of new nuclear generation at the Wylfa Newydd site.\n\n\"These discussions are still at an early stage and it is felt that a short deferral would allow time for Horizon and those interested parties to determine whether, and if so how, the Wylfa Newydd DCO Project could be taken forward in Hitachi Ltd's absence.\"\n\nWylfa Newydd was being developed for Hitachi in the UK by its subsidiary Horizon Nuclear Power\n\nThe nuclear boss said he could not reveal any more details about the talks, or who was involved, due to discussions being \"commercially sensitive\".\n\nBut, he added: \"My team and I will be working hard over the coming months to bring these to a positive conclusion at which point we will be able to provide you with a more comprehensive update, including the extent to which this could materially impact on the development consent order currently before you for determination.\"\n\nWork on the Wylfa Newydd project on Anglesey was suspended in January 2019 because of rising costs after Hitachi failed to reach a funding agreement with the UK government.\n\nOn 16 September, Hitachi finally announced it was halting its involvement in Wylfa and its project at Oldbury-on-Severn in Gloucestershire - despite describing both sites as \"highly desirable\" for new nuclear plants.\n\nIt said it made the decision given 20 months had passed since the project had paused \"and the investment environment has become increasingly severe due to the impact of Covid-19\".\n\nThe Anglesey project would have seen 9,000 jobs created in the construction phase.\n\nThe new Wylfa power station would have been built next to the old power plant on Anglesey\n\nThe UK government responded to the decision by stating it remained willing to discuss a replacement for the original Wylfa plant, which shut in 2015 after 44 years of service, with viable companies.\n\nIt said the UK remained committed to nuclear power and recognised the Hitachi announcement was \"very disappointing news\" for people in north Wales.\n\nWriting to Horizon Nuclear on Wednesday, the energy secretary said he had considered the request to delay the planning consent decision while talks continued,.\n\n\"In the circumstances, it is appropriate to reset the decision deadline for the application to 31 December 2020,\" said Mr Sharma.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Even an effective coronavirus vaccine will not return life to normal in spring, a group of leading scientists has warned.\n\nA vaccine is often seen as the holy grail that will end the pandemic.\n\nBut a report, from researchers brought together by the Royal Society, said we needed to be \"realistic\" about what a vaccine could achieve and when.\n\nThey said restrictions may need to be \"gradually relaxed\" as it could take up to a year to roll the vaccine out.\n\nMore than 200 vaccines to protect against the virus are being developed by scientists around the world in a process that is taking place at unprecedented speed.\n\n\"A vaccine offers great hope for potentially ending the pandemic, but we do know that the history of vaccine development is littered with lots of failures,\" said Dr Fiona Culley, from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London.\n\nThere is optimism, including from the UK government's scientific advisers, that some people may get a vaccine this year and mass vaccination may start early next year.\n\nHowever, the Royal Society report warns it will be a long process.\n\n\"Even when the vaccine is available it doesn't mean within a month everybody is going to be vaccinated, we're talking about six months, nine months... a year,\" said Prof Nilay Shah, head of chemical engineering at Imperial College London.\n\n\"There's not a question of life suddenly returning to normal in March.\"\n\nThe report said there were still \"enormous\" challenges ahead.\n\nSome of the experimental approaches being taken - such as RNA vaccines - have never been mass produced before.\n\nThere are questions around raw materials - both for the vaccine and glass vials - and refrigerator capacity, with some vaccines needing storage at minus 80C.\n\nProf Shah estimates vaccinating people would have to take place at a pace, 10 times faster than the annual flu campaign and would be a full-time job for up to 30,000 trained staff.\n\n\"I do worry, is enough thinking going into the whole system?\" he says.\n\nEarly trial data has suggested that vaccines are triggering an immune response, but studies have not yet shown if this is enough to either offer complete protection or lessen the symptoms of Covid.\n\nProf Charles Bangham, chairman of immunology of Imperial College London, said: \"We simply don't know when an effective vaccine will be available, how effective it will be and of course, crucially, how quickly it can be distributed.\n\n\"Even if it is effective, it is unlikely that we will be able to get back completely to normal, so there's going to be a sliding scale, even after the introduction of a vaccine that we know to be effective.\n\n\"We will have to gradually relax some of the other interventions.\"\n\nAnd many questions that will dictate the vaccination strategy remain unanswered, such as:\n\nThe researchers warn the issue of long-term immunity will still take some time to answer, and we still do not know if people need vaccinating every couple of years or if one shot will do.\n\nCommenting on the study, Dr Andrew Preston from the University of Bath, said: \"Clearly the vaccine has been portrayed as a silver bullet and ultimately it will be our salvation, but it may not be an immediate process.\"\n\nHe said there would need to be discussion of whether \"vaccine passports\" are needed to ensure people coming into the country are immunised.\n\nAnd Dr Preston warned that vaccine hesitancy seemed to be a growing problem that had become embroiled in anti-mask, anti-lockdown ideologies.\n\n\"If cohorts of people refuse to have the vaccine, do we leave them to fend for themselves or have mandatory vaccination for children to go to schools, or for staff in care homes? There are lots of difficult questions.\"", "A Met Police sergeant killed at a custody centre while on duty died from a gunshot wound to the chest, an inquest has heard.\n\nNew Zealand-born Sgt Matiu Ratana died in hospital after being shot by handcuffed suspect Louis De Zoysa.\n\nShe opened and adjourned the inquest into the 54-year-old's death until a later date.\n\nSgt Ratana's son dialled into the inquest hearing from Australia.\n\nIt comes on the day New Zealand's High Commissioner to the UK visited the scene where Sgt Ratana was killed.\n\nBede Corry laid a wreath and paused briefly in front of a memorial at Croydon Custody Centre.\n\nNew Zealand High Commissioner Bede Corry joined Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick in Croydon on Thursday\n\nDozens of police officers have paid tribute to Sgt Matiu Ratana\n\nSince Friday a shrine outside the custody centre has been lined with scores of floral bouquets and surrounded by New Zealand flags and sports jerseys.\n\nMr Corry said: \"New Zealanders were shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic death of Sgt Matiu Ratana.\n\n\"As someone who was a police officer in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, he uniquely served both countries. We know he will be deeply missed.\"\n\nMr De Zoysa, 23, had been arrested for possession of ammunition and possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply following a stop and search in the London Road area of Pollards Hill at 01:30 BST on Friday.\n\nLouis De Zoysa was arrested on Friday in the London Road area of Pollards Hill\n\nDet Supt Nick Blackburn told the inquest at Croydon Town Hall that Mr De Zoysa arrived at Croydon Custody Centre and was taken into a holding room with officers who prepared to search him again.\n\n\"The custody sergeant, Matt Ratana, entered the holding room as part of his duties when the suspect produced a firearm and discharged the weapon several times, during which both Sgt Ratana and the suspect were injured.\n\n\"Police and paramedics treated him at the scene and he was taken to hospital by the London Ambulance Service.\n\nA revolver handgun was recovered from the scene, Det Supt Blackburn added.\n\nMr De Zoysa remains critically ill at St George's Hospital in Tooting and is still yet to be questioned by detectives investigating the murder.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and had been taken to the custody centre in a police vehicle, before being escorted into the building.\n\nNo police firearms were discharged in the shooting, and the case is not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThe Banstead farmland used to serve as an ammunition depot during the Second World War\n\nSix days on from the fatal shooting detectives are still extensively searching Mr De Zoysa's family in home in Norbury, south London, and a farmland in Banstead, Surrey, which is expected \"to take days to complete\", the Met has said.\n\nOn Wednesday a man from Norwich, who was arrested on suspicion of supplying a firearm, was bailed by detectives until late October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stanley Johnson was pictured in a newsagents without a face covering on Tuesday\n\nThe prime minister's father, Stanley Johnson, has been pictured shopping without a face covering, breaking current Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nMr Johnson - a former Tory MEP - has apologised, claiming he may not be \"100% up to speed\" with current rules after returning from abroad.\n\nFines for not wearing a covering in a shop were raised by the government last week to £200 for first time offenders.\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has also apologised for breaking the rules.\n\nHe was pictured at a dinner party which appeared to have nine guests, going against the government's \"rule of six\".\n\nAsked about the pictures, Boris Johnson's official spokesman said it was now for the police to \"determine what action to take\", adding: \"What the prime minister is clear on is that the rules apply for everyone and everyone should follow them\".\n\nThe PM's father was seen in a newsagents in West London without a mask on Tuesday, with the picture first appearing in the Daily Mirror.\n\nIt came a day before his son, Boris Johnson, held a press conference, appealing to the public to \"follow the rules\" and warning fines would be imposed on those who don't.\n\nSpeaking to the Mirror, Stanley Johnson said: \"I'm extremely sorry for the slip up and I would urge absolutely everybody to do everything they can to make sure they do follow the rules about masks and social distancing.\n\n\"The fact this was my first day back in the UK after three weeks abroad is, I am sure, no excuse for not knowing the rules.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the PM's father \"fully understands that it is vital for everyone to abide by the rules\".\n\nMr Johnson was criticised back in July for travelling to Greece during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe guidance on air travel from the UK Foreign Office advised against \"all but essential international travel\" at the time and insisted on a two-week quarantine on return.\n\nBut he told the Daily Mail he was in the country \"on essential business\" to ensure a property he rents out was \"Covid-proof\" before holidays restart.\n\nThe picture of Mr Corbyn appeared in the Sun, with the newspaper saying the gathering had taken place on Saturday.\n\nAcross England, people face fines starting at £200 for meeting inside or outside in groups of more than six - although the rules are stricter in some parts of the country.\n\nThe North London MP told the paper: \"I recently had dinner at a friend's house where the number of guests eventually exceeded five.\n\n\"I understand that remaining at the dinner was a breach of the rule of six. I apologise for my mistake.\"\n\nResponding to the picture, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"All of us should obey the rules, Jeremy knows that, I know that, all of us have to comply with the rules.\n\n\"I have said throughout that whatever the Government rules are, we should all follow them. We have got a duty to so.\"\n\nAsked whether Mr Corbyn should be fined, Sir Keir told reporters: \"It's not for me to decide who should be fined, but it is for me to say that everybody should follow the rules.\"\n\nIt is not known if either Mr Johnson or Mr Corbyn have received fines.", "Students should be allowed to leave university and study online if they want to, according to unions representing academics and students.\n\nThe National Union of Students (NUS) and the University and College Union are calling for the government to take urgent action.\n\nIt comes after university campuses have been hit by outbreaks of the virus, with many students in self isolation.\n\nLarissa Kennedy, NUS president, said students had been left \"trapped in halls\" and were struggling to access food and wellbeing resources.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said students will be allowed to be with their families at Christmas if they choose to.\n\nBut the education unions are calling for a move to online learning wherever possible - and they say students should be given a safe way to leave campus now if they want to.\n\nStudents should not face any financial detriment for giving up accommodation, or choosing to defer or leave university, they say.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called on the government to provide a \"support package\" to those university students currently self-isolating.\n\nHe said: \"There should have been serious consideration to delay going back. There certainly should have been some thought as to testing.\"", "Stipe Lozina walked up to Rana Elasmar - who he did not know - and attacked her\n\nAn Australian man who punched and stamped on a pregnant woman in a suspected Islamophobic attack has been jailed for three years.\n\nMs Elasmar, then 38 weeks pregnant, had been with friends in a cafe when Lozina entered and approached their table, asking for money.\n\nWhen she refused, he launched into a \"vicious\" assault fuelled by religious prejudice, a trial heard.\n\nProsecutors said he had yelled \"you Muslims wrecked my mum\" before leaning over and punching Ms Elasmar to the ground.\n\nHe struck her at least 14 times and stamped on the back of her head before other customers managed to pull him away.\n\nSecurity video of the attack outraged people across Australia.\n\nSentencing judge Christopher Craigie previously described it as a \"wicked and deplorable\" attack from an \"obviously unwell\" man.\n\n\"The assault was one with a grave potential to cause very serious harm to both the victim and her unborn child,\" he said on Thursday.\n\nMs Elasmar told the court in September she had felt targeted because of her religion, and had feared for her baby's life and her own.\n\n\"If nobody intervened, I could have been killed,\" she said.\n\n\"I made a conscious decision to turn my abdomen away from his punches. I wanted to protect my baby.\"\n\nShe suffered minor injuries and gave birth to a boy three weeks after the attack.\n\nBut the court heard she had suffered lasting trauma since, including fears about being in public and explaining the attack to her four children.\n\n\"Islamophobia needs to end. Violence against women needs to stop,\" she said last month.\n\nLozina refused legal help and represented himself in court. During his trial, he made many incoherent rants, Australian media reported.\n\nThe judge noted that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had a \"longstanding struggle with mental illness\".\n\nHe will be eligible for parole in 2022.", "Lockdown, social distancing and local anti-virus restrictions have made seeing loved ones difficult if not impossible for many since Covid-19 hit the UK.\n\nFor elderly relatives, care home residents and those shielding, the situation has been even more heartbreaking and lonely.\n\nBut 26-year-old Lucy Mein from Edinburgh has managed to find a unique way of staying in touch with her 86-year-old grandmother who lives hundreds of miles away in Northampton.\n\nIt has even brought them closer as they share an old-fashioned way of communicating.\n\nLucy's gran Margaret is 86 years old and deaf.\n\nLucy shared one of her paintings on social media and attracted dozens of compliments for the sweet gesture for her grandmother\n\nDuring lockdown the family tried Zoom calls but they frustrated Margaret as she couldn't hear them. She was also not able to have visitors.\n\nLucy started painting her gran a picture every Sunday and writing up her weekly news.\n\nMargaret would then send letter back by the following Friday and the pair became pen-pals.\n\nLucy told BBC 5 Live's Drive programme: \"It's like sending love in an envelope.\"\n\nLucy now treasures her letters from Margaret\n\nThe idea started with a birthday card at the end of the summer.\n\nLucy said: \"I sent my grandma a birthday card, and she sent me a 'thank you' letter.\n\n\"She lives with my grandpa and has struggled in lockdown.\n\n\"I always felt connected to her by writing. She writes really well and it's lovely to receive those letters. I just wanted to send her something that would cheer her up.\"\n\nMargaret loves handmade things and the pair have always made and sent handmade birthday cards to each other.\n\nLucy's husband suggested she keep it up.\n\nShe said: \"So now I just send her a letter and draw something every week.\n\n\"There's a massive geographical gap between us with me in Scotland, her in Northampton. So it's really important for me to keep in touch somehow because I haven't seen her since Christmas.\"\n\nOne of Lucy's paintings for her grandmother\n\nLucy is training to be an architect and she started painting for the first time since high school during lockdown, mainly to get away from her computer. She says she has fallen back in love with it.\n\nShe paints with watercolours and has sent Margaret, landscapes, nature scenes, bible verses and anything that pops into her head.\n\nAnd she thinks anyone can do the same to create a special bond with a loved one.\n\nShe said: \"I have loved getting those letters. I keep them in a drawer and feel properly connected and like I can share my life with her and it has deepened our relationship.\n\n\"I can't recommend doing this enough to people. It has been a lovely thing to do at such a difficult time.\"\n\nLucy said she hadn't drawn or painted for years and enjoyed doing it for her beloved grandma", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Scotland's first minister has not announced any additional coronavirus restrictions in her latest review of the rules.\n\nBut Nicola Sturgeon said she would not hesitate to take further action in the coming weeks if it was needed to curb the recent increase in cases.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus has nearly doubled to 154 over the past week.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said the country's R number could now be as high as 1.7.\n\nThe first minister said that a further 668 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours, which she said was 10.8% of those who had been newly tested.\n\nThree more people have died after testing positive for the virus - bringing the total number under that measurement to 2,522.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the figures demonstrated why it had been necessary to impose tighter restrictions last week, when a ban on visiting other people's homes was introduced alongside a 10pm curfew for pubs and restaurants.\n\nBut she gave no indication that the Scottish government was planning to impose a so-called \"circuit-breaker\" lockdown.\n\nThe country's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, said earlier on Thursday that this was being \"seriously considered\".\n\nProf Leitch said the move could see the country put back into stricter lockdown for a two or three week period, potentially during the October school holidays, with businesses such as pubs and restaurants possibly having to close and tighter travel restrictions being introduced.\n\nBut he stressed that no decision had yet been taken on whether it would be necessary.\n\nProf Jason Leitch said a circuit breaker lockdown was being considered, but no decision on it has yet been taken\n\nMs Sturgeon did formally confirm that the easing of some measures, which had originally been due to take place next week, would definitely not go ahead.\n\nThese rules cover soft play areas, indoor contact sports for those aged 12 and above, and some live events and sports stadiums.\n\nMs Sturgeon had indicated last month that they were unlikely to be relaxed at this stage.\n\nShe told the Scottish Parliament: \"I hope members will agree that it would not be sensible to ease restrictions that are still in place while infection rates are rising and we are working to bring them back down.\n\n\"We will review these restrictions again by 15 October. However, if we need to take further action before that to curb the spread of the virus we will not hesitate to do so, but of course we will report that to parliament.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said all proposals for future coronavirus restrictions - including any plan for a circuit-breaker lockdown - should be voted on by the Scottish Parliament before being imposed.\n\nMr Leonard said: \"Since the need for local and targeted restrictions, new rules have increasingly been announced via late night press releases, Twitter and TV interviews.\n\n\"Parliament has so far not had an opportunity to give its consent to local restrictions, unless they have already expired.\n\n\"This is no way to govern. Parliament is supposed to provide checks and balance to government power. Without this we risk a real democratic deficit.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon responded by pledging: \"Where it is possible we will seek to bring things to parliament in advance\".\n\nBut she added: \"This is an infectious virus and we have to act quickly and flexibly sometimes if we have a sudden spike or outbreaks that are putting health and life at risk.\"", "Travellers arriving in the UK from Poland, Turkey and three Caribbean islands will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 on Saturday.\n\nPoland's infection rate has risen, while the UK government said it removed Turkey over concerns about the way the country reports its data.\n\nThere will also be tougher fines for those who fail to self-isolate - up to a maximum of £10,000 in England.\n\nOne airport group says it is a \"further blow\" to a \"struggling\" sector.\n\nThe UK reported a further 6,914 coronavirus cases and 59 deaths on Thursday, and stricter measures have been announced to control a spike in areas of northern England.\n\nAnnouncing the changes to the quarantine list, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said data from Poland showed that \"test positivity has nearly doubled increasing from 3.9% to 5.8% alongside a rapid increase in weekly cases\".\n\nPoland is reporting 25.9 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people, up from 15.6.\n\nArrivals from the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba will also have to quarantine from Saturday, he added.\n\nThose islands reported 142.4 new cases per 100,000, unchanged from 142.4 the previous week.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish Government announced that those arriving from the Portuguese islands of the Azores and Madeira will no longer need to quarantine in Scotland \"due to the low number of cases\".\n\nThe Azores and Madeira were already on the \"exempt\" list for the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Scottish government's statement added that it was \"clear that case numbers in Turkey have been under-reported\".\n\nTurkey's reported infection rate has dropped to 12.9 cases per 100,000, down from 14.2 in the week prior.\n\nIt has also been announced that in England, fines for the first offence of failing to self-isolate when required will start at £1,000, before increasing to £2,000, then £4,000 up to a maximum of £10,000.\n\nThe upper limit for repeat offences was previously £3,200. The increase in fines will come into force from 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 Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP 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\nSince the introduction of the travel quarantine regime in the summer, police officers have investigated more than 4,000 alleged breaches of the rules.\n\nMore than 200 people were found to be ignoring the quarantine requirement, but escaped a fine because they listened to the officer on their doorstep.\n\nOverall there were just 38 penalties for breaching holiday quarantine.\n\nIf you look at the official data coming out of Turkey then it sits comfortably below the UK's benchmark for applying the quarantine of 20 cases for every 100,000 people.\n\nBut revelations that the number of cases in Turkey has been under-reported has put the country onto the \"red\" list.\n\nTurkey and Poland are key destinations for airlines and airports so it's another blow for the travel sector.\n\nThe Department for Transport is still looking at whether testing can be used at airports to reduce the quarantine period from 14 to seven days.\n\nIt is almost impossible for the police to enforce quarantine rules so it is hoped heavier fines for repeat offenders will mean fewer people will break the rules.\n\nThe Manchester Airports Group, which owns and operates Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, said Poland and Turkey's removal from the travel safe list \"means that a large proportion of the markets our passengers usually travel to are now effectively closed-off, despite many of them having much lower infection rates than the UK\".\n\nThe announcement \"is a further blow to the already struggling aviation sector\", a statement said.\n\nThe group said it was \"vital\" for the government to establish a testing regime \"which would allow for a safe reduction in quarantine periods for passengers arriving from abroad\".\n\nTim Alderslade, from Airlines UK, the trade body for UK registered airlines, said a testing regime was \"the only way we can reopen international travel\".\n\n\"Without testing aviation cannot recover and we will miss the opportunity to get the economy moving again,\" he said.\n\nThe Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) also said it was a \"massive blow for the travel industry\".\n\n\"This coupled with popular winter-sun destinations, like the Canary Islands - still on the quarantine list - only piles the pressure on a struggling sector,\" the travel industry trade body said.\n\n\"Many travel businesses are in precarious position and will find it difficult to survive unless the government acts now with tailored support to assist the travel industry.\"\n\nConcert pianist Tomasz Lis has cancelled a performance in Poland on Sunday because of the rules\n\nTomasz Lis, who lives in London after moving to the UK from Poland 23 years ago, runs a travel company offering tailored trips to his home country. He says the new rule will cost him thousands of pounds.\n\nThe 43-year-old said: \"It's been an impossible year already and the government would do much better by checking temperatures at the airports, for instance, and test people who may have it rather than introduce those absurd rules.\"\n\nMr Lis is also a concert pianist and has cancelled a performance in Poland on Sunday because of the rules - meaning he will lose £3,000 and the cost of his flights.", "No events that would attract a gathering or crowd will take place this year\n\nEdinburgh's Christmas festivals for 2020 have been cancelled because of the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council and event producers Underbelly said the decision followed the \"latest advice\" from public health experts.\n\nAny event which could attract a gathering or crowd - including market stalls and rides - will now not happen.\n\nThe council said the focus would move to celebrating Edinburgh's Christmas online this year.\n\nEdinburgh's Hogmanay street party was called off in July because of the pandemic, but organisers had hoped that other events could take place with access controlled to ensure social distancing.\n\nHowever, the council said it was now clear the \"best place\" to experience Edinburgh's Christmas and Hogmanay would be from home.\n\nCases of Covid-19 are on the increase across Scotland and new measures designed to stem the rise came into force on 22 September, including a 22:00 curfew for bars and restaurants.\n\nAdam McVey, leader of City of Edinburgh Council, said: \"Whilst we understand the absence of popular events will bring some disappointment, we want to be clear that Edinburgh's Christmas isn't cancelled and our businesses right across the city will be offering their usual festive cheer for us to take advantage of.\n\n\"We look forward to announcing details of an innovative digital 2020 programme soon to help in these celebrations.\"\n\nEvents in Edinburgh over Christmas and New Year have traditionally included markets, fairground rides and a fire parade which starts the city's Hogmanay festival.\n\nThe city would have also marked its 28th Hogmanay street party, which has had a capacity of 75,000 in recent years.\n\nCharlie Wood, director of Underbelly, said: \"We very much wanted to bring some festive cheer and light to Edinburgh this Christmas and to support local makers and producers, at the end of what has been a challenging year for everyone.\n\n\"Public health is our absolute number one priority, and with the ongoing uncertainty concerning Covid-19 and the possibility of further restrictions, we have taken the collective and very sad decision with the council, NHS Lothian and Scottish government not to proceed with this year's Edinburgh's Christmas sites in the city centre.\n\n\"There will be no public events which might encourage gatherings of people at either Edinburgh's Christmas or Edinburgh's Hogmanay.\"\n\nThe festival is a boost to local businesses in the run up to Christmas\n\nRussell Imrie, from the Edinburgh Hotels Association, said the cancellation of the festival would be \"devastating\" for businesses in the city.\n\n\"To put an event on of some sort, with Christmas markets dispersed through the city centre, at least it was something you could market for people to come to Edinburgh and it would be something for them to do with a festive feel about it,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme.\n\n\"To now hear that everything is cancelled, it almost removes the reason for people to come to Edinburgh during the festive period because they'll just be coming to a city like any other normal day over the winter period.\n\n\"At least when there was a festival on it really did feel like a special occasion to visit the city.\"", "There are currently different rules across local areas of England\n\nThe government is to push ahead with a new \"three-tier\" approach to coronavirus restrictions in local areas of England, the BBC understands.\n\nThe Department of Health confirmed last month the system was being considered - but it has now been signed off by government officials and politicians.\n\nAn announcement is expected next week, with the roll-out of the new tiers expected in mid-October.\n\nThe Department of Health said there were \"no imminent changes\" expected.\n\nA spokesman for No 10 added: \"We keep all of the measures which we put in place under review - if there is anything further to set out then we will do so to the House\".\n\nAccording to a memo seen by the BBC, public health officials will receive precise proposals later on Thursday.\n\nThe government's aim is to replace the patchwork of existing Covid-19 restrictions across the country.\n\nAreas that fall into tier one will have fewer than 100 cases per 100,000 of population and will need to adhere to national restrictions - such as the \"rule of six\" and social distancing.\n\nTier two would kick in where cases are above 100 per 100,000. Restrictions for these areas would be similar to those currently in place in large parts of northern England, such as bans on household meetings.\n\nAnd tier three areas would have significantly higher rates and would face full lockdowns - excluding schools and essential businesses, like supermarkets, as well as places of worship.\n\nThe memo seen by the BBC shows plans for additional money for local authorities placed into tiers two or three.\n\nLocal authorities would get £1 per head of population if placed into tier two and £2 per head for tier three.\n\nWhen all areas are \"mapped\" onto the new system, it is not believed any areas will be moved to level three at this stage.\n\nThe BBC understands some within Public Health England are concerned at the speed of the transition.\n\nBut there is also an acknowledgement the new system could \"simplify and rationalise the current set up\".", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have called for the end of \"structural racism\" in a piece written for a newspaper for Black History Month.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan said there had been changes in the UK in the past 30 years but \"sufficient progress had not been achieved\".\n\nThey were writing in the London Evening Standard as they highlighted leaders in the UK's black community.\n\nThe couple recently urged voters in the US election to \"reject hate\".\n\nThe duke and duchess have moved to Santa Barbara with their son Archie and agreed a deal to create shows for the streaming service Netflix, having stepped back as senior royals in January.\n\nIn the piece they said that \"if you are white and British, the world you see often looks just like you\" and spoke of the importance for young people of seeing role models and leaders who share the same skin colour as them.\n\n\"For as long as structural racism exists, there will be generations of young people of colour who do not start their lives with the same equality of opportunity as their white peers. And for as long as that continues, untapped potential will never get to be realised,\" they warned.\n\nThe duke and duchess concluded the article by saying: \"We cannot change history, nor can we edit our past. But we can define our future as one that is inclusive, as one that is equal, and one that is colourful.\"\n\nRace equality think tank Runnymede describes structural racism as \"the set of circumstances artificially created over generations, through European colonialism, which holds 'whiteness' to be superior.\"\n\nAfter the article was published, a spokesman for Prince Harry told the BBC: \"The Duke believes structural racism exists in the UK and I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who disagrees with that.\n\n\"He is not saying that Britain itself is structurally racist or that Britain is racist.\" The spokesman said the Duke was referring to parts of institutions in Britain.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex during their tour of South Africa\n\nIn an accompanying interview Meghan said she understood that the Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd's death in the US had been \"inflammatory for a lot of people\" but said when there is peaceful protest with the intention of wanting community and equality, \"that is a beautiful thing\".\n\nShe added: \"While it has been challenging for a lot of people certainly having to make this reckoning of historical significance that has got people to the place that they are, that is uncomfortable for people. We recognise that. It is uncomfortable for us.\"\n\nPrince Harry told the paper he accepted some of their views may be seen as \"controversial\" but said it was an important time to use their platform. He said it was not about \"pointing the finger\" but was an important time in British and world culture \"that we should be grasping and actually celebrating\".\n\nThey also discussed their son, who Meghan said keeps them on their toes and dance group Diversity's performance on Britain's Got Talent, which the duke said was \"the most amazing display\".\n\nThe list of \"Next Gen Trailblazers\" was selected by BAME celebrities including rugby player Maro Itoje, Booker-prize winner Bernadine Evaristo and Baroness Doreen Lawrence.", "SNP MP Margaret Ferrier spoke in the Commons on Monday while awaiting the result of a coronavirus test, which later turned out to be positive.\n\nShe travelled back to Scotland by train the day after the positive test result.\n\nMs Ferrier said she had been self-isolating at home since then.\n\nShe released a statement three days after the positive test, saying she was \"very sorry for her mistake\".", "The BBC revealed how criminal gangs had set up fake companies to claim loans.\n\nThe government was warned in May that its flagship loan scheme to help small firms affected by Covid was at \"very high risk of fraud\" from \"organised crime\", it has emerged.\n\nThe state-owned British Business Bank (BBB) which supervises the Bounce Back Loan Scheme, twice raised concerns.\n\nA BBC report revealed that criminals were setting up fake firms to get loans worth tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nThe Bounce Back Loan Scheme has already paid out more than £38bn.\n\nIn early May, just two days before the scheme launched, the chief executive of the BBB, Keith Morgan, wrote of the \"very significant fraud and credit risks\", adding that it was \"vulnerable to abuse by individuals and organised crime\".\n\nThe bank, he said in a letter to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, could not guarantee \"robust controls\".\n\nOther concerns included an \"extensive reliance on customer self-certification\" and \"potential for market distortion\". He said that the BBB had commissioned a review of the scheme by accountants PwC, which had classified its fraud risk as \"very high\".\n\nIn his letter, dated 2 May and which followed a email warning the day before, Mr Morgan also raised concerns that the quick introduction of the scheme had \"created huge operational challenges\".\n\nHowever, Mr Sharma said the scheme should go ahead despite the risks, because of what he called the \"unprecedented situation facing the country\".\n\nBounce Back Loans are 100% government-backed loans of up to £50,000, and were introduced to mitigate the huge pressure on small businesses after the economy went into coronavirus lockdown. They do not have to be paid off for six years, and are interest-free for the first 12 months.\n\nAccording to latest Treasury figures, there have been 1.55 million applications, with 1.26 million approvals and £38.02b paid out.\n\nAt the weekend, the BBC's Angus Crawford revealed how fraudsters were targeting the loan system. One bogus company, Tellings Home Made Furniture, \"borrowed\" £50,000 by stealing the personal details of a man called Mark Telling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment Mark Telling finds out he's been a victim of fraud\n\nThe revelations come after the head of the National Audit Office told the Guardian Bounce Back Loans were the \"riskiest\" of all the bailout measures.\n\nBut a government spokesman told the BBC the loan scheme had been vital for many businesses and that fraudsters would be pursued.\n\nHe said: \"Our loan schemes have provided a lifeline to thousands of businesses across the UK - helping them survive the outbreak and protecting millions of jobs.\n\n\"Our support has been targeted to ensure we help those who need it most as quickly as possible and we won't apologise for this.\"\n\nHe said the government worked with agencies to minimise fraud, \"with lenders implementing a range of protections including anti-money laundering and customer checks, as well as transaction monitoring controls. Any fraudulent applications can be criminally prosecuted for which penalties include imprisonment or a fine or both\".", "Future in full flow: Teacher and students at Epsom College\n\nMinisters are using powers under the Coronavirus Act to require schools to offer pupils who are not in school the same lessons as those in class.\n\nTeaching unions reacted angrily to the move calling it a \"grave error\" which risks damaging the government's relationship with the profession.\n\nIt comes after official figures showed one in six secondaries in England were partially closed to some pupils.\n\nThe government said it was formalising pupils' rights to remote learning.\n\nIt comes as huge swathes of the north-east and north-west of England are under stricter lockdown measures.\n\nMinisters have insisted that schools will only close as a last resort in the event of widespread virus spread.\n\nInstead, in areas where cases are high, schools may switch to a rota system of two weeks on, two weeks off.\n\nThe guidance, published on the Department for Education website, said: \"The Direction means schools have a duty to provide education to children at home, as they do when children are in the classroom.\"\n\nIt added: \"The Direction will help provide assurances to both pupils and parents that if pupils have to self-isolate at home their education will not be disrupted.\n\n\"In the event of a confirmed case, schools are following the necessary guidance, including requiring small groups of children to self-isolate.\n\n\"In these cases, continuing to provide education is an absolute necessity.\n\n\"The Direction helps ensure this and sets a clear expectation on the high-quality education they should receive.\"\n\nIn Darlington, Year 3 teacher, Mary Craghill has been teaching by video link\n\nBut general secretary of the NAHT head teachers' union Paul Whiteman said there was no need to reach for legal powers as there was every indication that schools have taken their preparations for partial or full closure seriously.\n\nHeads were \"taking steps to ensure they meet and exceed government and parental expectations for remote education, should circumstances require it,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"Right now, government action should be focused wholly on support, not sanction - the carrot, not the stick.\n\n\"Bitter experience tells us that mandating compliance to a minimum criteria is a poor way of driving quality and excellence in a system.\n\n\"There is absolutely no reason to believe that emergency powers are required to compel schools to act.\n\n\"By reaching for legal powers, the government risks sending an unequivocal message to the profession and parents that they do not trust school leaders to act in the interests of young people in this country.\"\n\nHead teachers unions had advised DfE officials strongly against using such emergency powers, adding that they had been working flat out for months to support children's education.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Mary Bousted said: \"Staff in schools are desperate to do their best for pupils and the pandemic makes their roles all the more important.\n\n\"The legal requirement to provide remote education must be backed by government support for what is, by some distance, not business as usual.\"\n\nShe claimed a support package, announced alongside the guidance, promising 100,000 laptops, fell short by a long way.\n\n\"This government is once again trying to cut corners over Covid.\n\n\"Schools were crying out for the right support for online learning throughout lockdown, not least for disadvantaged young people who did not have the right IT or wi-fi equipment at home that would have ensured a continuity and parity of learning.\"\n\nThe government is also facing growing pressure to make a back-up plan in case GCSEs and A-levels cannot go ahead.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Further restrictions are expected to be announced for Merseyside later after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said rules could be \"even stricter\" than in the North East as there were \"serious concerns\" about managing the virus.\n\nHe said financial support needed to follow any new restrictions.\n\nLiverpool's weekly infection rate rose to 258 per 100,000 on 28 September. Knowsley has the second highest rate in the country at 262 in the same week.\n\nSt Helens had 212 per 100,000 and Halton had 206, while Burnley in Lancashire has the highest rate at 327 per 100,000.\n\nRestrictions on households mixing, with a ban on people meeting in homes and gardens and pubs being told to shut early, were brought in across Merseyside earlier in September.\n\nDuring that time, Liverpool's infection rate has risen 13 fold.\n\nMr Anderson said he thought this was due to an increase of people moving around the city, with schools and students returning and people going back to work.\n\nHe said: \"There are more people in the city we didn't have before and they are now moving freely around the city...spreading human contact is spreading the disease and virus which is what it thrives on.\"\n\nPossible new measures for Merseyside could include restricting pubs to only serving alcohol with food or making pubs and restaurants takeaway only.\n\nThe government is also considering whether people who had already been shielding should start to shield again, Mr Anderson said.\n\nPeople in Merseyside were already advised only to use public transport for \"essential purposes\"\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he had discussed the situation with Health Secretary Matt Hancock last night after infection rates were shown to be doubling every six or seven days.\n\nIf stricter measures are brought in, Mr Anderson said some kind of \"local furlough\" was needed because the area \"relies very heavily\" on the hospitality sector which would be \"hit hard\".\n\n\"I think we're gong to have to have [stricter measures] in order to arrest and supress the virus but we need that financial support too.\"\n\nIt is now illegal for two million people in several parts of north-east England to mix in any indoor setting, including pubs and restaurants.\n\nPeter Kinsella, who owns Spanish restaurant Lunya in Liverpool said a short term lockdown could be \"catastrophic\" without targeted support.\n\n\"Just as we were starting to recover our income will be taken away again. Expenses, costs, don't go away.\n\n\"We are a viable business here...we paid £8m in taxes over the last ten years. The government need us to be here long term to pay taxes to get us out of this.\"\n\nA delegation of the region's MPs also met the Health Minister Helen Whately.\n\nSefton MP Bill Esterson said he asked her for \"clear communication\" on any measures brought in and financial support for businesses.\n\nHe said \"trust is in short supply\" and the government must \"fix NHS test and trace fast\" or the virus would \"spiral even further out of control\".\n\nAre you in one of the regions? What will stricter measures mean for you? Emailhaveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\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 comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the Berlin patient, pictured in 2012\n\nThe first person cured of HIV - Timothy Ray Brown - has died from cancer.\n\nMr Brown, who was also known as \"the Berlin patient\", was given a bone marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to HIV in 2007.\n\nIt meant he no longer needed anti-viral drugs and he remained free of the virus, which can lead to Aids, for the rest of his life.\n\nThe International Aids Society said Mr Brown gave the world hope that an HIV cure was possible.\n\nMr Brown, 54, who was born in the US, was diagnosed with HIV while he lived in Berlin in 1995. Then in 2007 he developed a type of blood cancer called acute myeloid leukaemia.\n\nHis treatment involved destroying his bone marrow, which was producing the cancerous cells, and then having a bone marrow transplant.\n\nThe transfer came from a donor that had a rare mutation in part of their DNA called the CCR5 gene.\n\nCCR5 is a set of genetic instructions that build the doorway that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) walks through to infect cells.\n\nMutations to CCR5 essentially lock the door and give people resistance to HIV.\n\n\"I quit taking my medication on the day that I got the transplant, after three months there was no HIV any more in my body,\" Mr Brown told the BBC in 2012.\n\nThe virus was never detected in his body again. He was in effect \"cured\".\n\n\"I was excited about it, but I still kind of feared it might come back, but it didn't,\" he added.\n\nBut the leukaemia, that led to his HIV cure, returned earlier this year and spread to his brain and spinal cord.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that I announce that Timothy passed away... surrounded by myself and friends, after a five-month battle with leukaemia,\" his partner Tim Hoeffgen posted on Facebook.\n\nHe added: \"Tim committed his life's work to telling his story about his HIV cure and became an ambassador of hope.\"\n\nMr Brown's cure was too risky and aggressive to be used routinely - it remains principally a cancer treatment. The approach is also too expensive for the 38 million people, many in sub-Saharan Africa, thought to be living with an HIV infection.\n\nHowever, Mr Brown's story inspired scientists, patients and the world that a cure could eventually be found.\n\nThe International Aids Society (IAS) said it was mourning with \"a profoundly heavy heart\".\n\n\"We owe Timothy and his doctor, Gero Hutter, a great deal of gratitude for opening the door for scientists to explore the concept that a cure for HIV is possible,\" said Prof Adeeba Kamarulzaman, the IAS president said.\n\nThe second person cured of HIV was announced earlier this year. Adam Castillejo - known as the London patient - had a similar treatment to Mr Brown and could come off his HIV drugs.\n\n\"Although the cases of Timothy and Adam are not a viable large-scale strategy for a cure, they do represent a critical moment in the search for an HIV cure,\" said Prof Sharon Lewin, the director of the Doherty Institute in Melbourne, Australia.\n\n\"Timothy was a champion and advocate for keeping an HIV cure on the political and scientific agenda.\n\n\"It is the hope of the scientific community that one day we can honour his legacy with a safe, cost-effective and widely accessible strategy to achieve HIV remission and cure using gene editing or techniques that boost immune control.\"", "The restrictions will ban people from leaving the Madrid area unless it is for an essential trip\n\nThe Spanish government has ordered a partial lockdown in the capital Madrid and surrounding areas badly affected by coronavirus after a rise in cases.\n\nUnder the new restrictions, residents will not be allowed to leave the area unless they have to make an essential journey.\n\nHowever, Madrid's regional government says the lockdown is not legally valid.\n\nGreater Madrid accounts for more than a third of the 133,604 cases diagnosed in Spain over the past two weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a majority of Spain's regional governments, who are in charge of healthcare, voted in favour of imposing restrictions in areas with more than 100,000 residents if they met three benchmarks - 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, 35% Covid patient occupancy in intensive care units and positive results in 10% of tests.\n\nMadrid, which has a rate of 780 infections per 100,000, already meets the criteria. The order, published on Thursday, gives the city's authorities 48 hours to put in place the restrictions, which fall far short of the lockdown measures imposed nationally on 14 March.\n\nUnder the new restrictions, people in Madrid and nine neighbouring towns will only be allowed to leave their area for essential trips involving work, school and university, visits to the doctor and care for the vulnerable.\n\nSocial gatherings will be limited to six people and restrictions on hours and numbers are also being imposed on hotels, places of worship and shops. Parks and playgrounds are exempt unless the local authority chooses to shut them.\n\nMadrid's regional government, which is controlled by the conservative opposition and did not vote in favour of the restrictions, has argued that the lockdown is not legally valid.\n\nRegional health chief Enrique Ruiz Escudero accused the central government of sending a \"message of alarm and agitation\" and did not rule out fighting the lockdown in court. But Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso said on Thursday that while the order would be challenged in court, it would be complied with.\n\nThe Madrid regional government had chosen not to put the city and surrounding areas into lockdown, instead issuing restrictions in 45 basic healthcare areas in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nThese measures themselves were controversial as they affected mostly poorer areas of the city and prompted protests by hundreds of residents.\n\nSpain's central government argued that the restrictions were not sufficient and recommended an end to all unnecessary movement across the city.\n\nSpain has seen a significant rise in cases in recent weeks. More than 31,411 people have died during the pandemic and there have been more than 748,000 infections, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThe World Health Organisation earlier this week said European countries were seeing \"worrying increases of the disease\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police described video of the incident which shows a figure approach the officers' car, before opening fire\n\nInvestigators in Los Angeles have charged a man with the attempted murder of two police officers who were shot as they sat in their patrol car.\n\nDeonte Lee Murray, 36, was already in custody for unrelated carjacking charges, prosecutors said.\n\nAt a court appearance on Wednesday he pleaded not guilty to the charges in both cases, AP News reported.\n\nWidely shared video of the shooting showed a figure approach the police car, open fire and then run away.\n\nThe officers were seriously injured but have since been released from hospital.\n\nFootage of the 12 September attack, described by police as an ambush, caused a national outcry and both candidates in the presidential race - President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden - called for the perpetrator to be severely dealt with.\n\nIn a statement, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said Deonte Lee Murray had been charged with two counts of attempted murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He had been in custody since his arrest on 15 September for the carjacking charges, the statement said.\n\nFollowing Wednesday's court appearance, Mr Murray was remanded in prison with bail set at $6.15m (£4.7m) and is due back in court in November.\n\nPolice guarded the hospital where the wounded officers were taken\n\nProsecutors have not suggested a possible motive for the shooting of the officers, which happened in the Los Angeles suburb of Compton.\n\nThey were not named but were described as a 31-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man.\n\nThe female officer was shot in the jaw and arms while the male officer was hit in the forehead, an arm and a hand.\n\nIt later emerged that, despite her injuries, the female deputy helped her partner to safety and applied a tourniquet to his wounded arm.\n\nWith law and order a key issue in next month's presidential election, both candidates strongly condemned the attack at the time.\n\nPresident Donald Trump shared footage of the incident and tweeted: \"Animals that must be hit hard.\"\n\nMr Biden, meanwhile, said that the \"cold-blooded\" shooting was unconscionable and \"the perpetrator must be brought to justice\".", "A video of a dying indigenous woman screaming in distress and being insulted by hospital staff shows the \"worst form of racism\", says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nJoyce Echaquan streamed herself on Facebook shortly before she died.\n\nA nurse has been fired and three investigations are under way.\n\nMs Echaquan's family has said they will be taking legal action over her death.", "Google's hardware chief has said its new flagship smartphone was designed to go on sale during an economic downturn.\n\nAs a result, the Pixel 5 has abandoned some of its predecessor's headline features and runs on a slower chip in order to be sold at a lower price.\n\nHowever, it does gain 5G connectivity and some new photography capabilities.\n\nExperts say it will face tough competition from other mid-range Android handsets, but the included bundle of Google services could help.\n\n\"To not bring to market a true flagship demonstrates Google is now thinking about the market in a very different way than it was last year,\" commented Ben Stanton from the tech consultancy Canalys.\n\n\"And on a price-specs basis alone, Google will probably lose to Samsung and Chinese competitors.\n\n\"Its key selling point, however, remains that it offers a stock Android experience with superfast updates.\"\n\nThis is a reference to the fact that many other Android device-makers layer their own proprietary user interfaces on top of Google's operating system, and typically take longer to offer software updates.\n\nThe Pixel 5 will cost $699/£599, and has a 6in (15.2cm) display and 128 gigabytes of storage. That compares to the $999/£929 price of last year's top-end 6.3in Pixel 4XL.\n\nGoogle also unveiled a 5G-enabled version of its existing Pixel 4a, which will cost £499.\n\nSmartphone designs are typically locked in place many months before the products go on sale, in order to secure the required components and carry out tests.\n\nGoogle's senior vice president of devices and services acknowledged that the Pixel 5's features had been decided upon before the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nBut he said a deliberate choice had been taken to offer a 5G-capable phone at \"an affordable price\".\n\nThe Pixel 5 can wirelessly charge some accessories placed on its back\n\n\"What the world doesn't seem like it needs right now is another $1,000 phone,\" said Rick Osterloh.\n\n\"Obviously nobody anticipated the pandemic, but we actually did think that the world was possibly headed for an economic downturn... and it only further emphasised our point of view that this is the right thing.\"\n\nTech jettisoned from the Pixel 4 includes the Soli radar chip, which Google had taken five years to develop. It automatically turned on the older phone's screen when its owner approached and allowed gesture controls.\n\nLast year's face-unlock sensors have also been ditched, with a return to the Pixel 3's fingerprint sensor on the back of the Pixel 5.\n\n\"These technologies will be used in the future, but they're very expensive,\" Mr Osterloh said.\n\nThe Pixel 5's Snapdragon 765G chip is also rated as being slower and having lower graphics-processing performance than last year's Snapdragon 855, although Mr Osterloh said he did not believe consumers would notice.\n\nMr Osterloh has been Google's hardware chief since 2016\n\nThe device does benefit from some improvements, including being able to produce a shallow-focus effect in \"super low-light conditions\".\n\nOne of its rear cameras now has a wider angle lens than before. And there are a choice of new video stabilisation modes.\n\nIn addition, the RAM memory has been boosted to 8GB, which should help the phone switch from task-to-task more quickly.\n\nAnd Google is bundling some of its subscription services including three months of its games-streaming platform Stadia and 100 gigabytes of online storage.\n\n\"Bundling three months of Stadia Pro cloud gaming with 5G Pixel phones is smart, because gamers benefit in particular from the 5G experience,\" commented Ian Fogg from OpenSignal.\n\n\"But cloud gaming is still 'early' tech for mobile.\"\n\nGoogle hopes the phone will help attract more users to its cloud gaming service Stadia\n\nThe Pixel 5's competition will include Samsung's Galaxy S20FE and the forthcoming OnePlus 8T - which are also being targeted at the \"mid-market\".\n\nGoogle shipped 4.6 million Pixel smartphones over the 12 months leading up to July 2020, according to research firm IDC.\n\nThat marked a 37% drop over the same period a year earlier. However, a wider fall in demand for smartphones meant the brand still rose from being ranked 16th to 12th in terms of market share for the final quarter of each period.\n\nOther products unveiled at Google's virtual event included Nest Audio - a redesigned version of its Google Home smart speaker, which now promises more bass and louder volumes.\n\nThe Google Nest Audio is covered in a fabric made out of recycled material\n\nGoogle is the second best-selling smart speaker brand in Western markets. But it is still forecast to sell about a third of the number of Amazon's Echo speakers in the UK this year, according to research firm eMarketer.\n\nGoogle also showed off a new version of its television-streaming dongle, which is now called Chromecast with Google TV.\n\nUnlike its predecessors, the device comes with its own remote control, which allows users to control their TV and soundbar via its buttons or voice commands as an alternative to using a smartphone app.\n\nThe latest Chromecast dongle now comes with its own remote\n\nIt also brings together movies and TV shows from the various apps each user subscribes to in order to make its own recommendations.\n\nThe Apple TV set-top box and Amazon's latest Fire TV stick both offer similar functions.", "Top row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nThe Manchester Arena bomber was known or suspected to be in contact with six people who were being investigated by MI5, a public inquiry has heard.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in May 2017.\n\nAbedi's contacts were linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL, the inquiry was told.\n\nBut there was no intelligence indicating he was planning an attack or posed a risk to national security, the legal team for the Home Office said.\n\nThe inquiry, scheduled to last into next spring, is looking at events before, during and after the attack including the radicalisation of Abedi and what the security services knew about him.\n\nDelivering an opening statement on behalf of the Home Office and MI5, Cathryn McGahey QC said there were missed opportunities to investigate Abedi more closely in the months before the attack.\n\nBut she said: \"MI5 did not identify any points where a different course of action would have been likely to lead to a different outcome.\"\n\nMost evidence relating to MI5 will be heard in secret at the inquiry for \"national security\" reasons, but some new facts did emerge in the Security Service's opening statement, raising serious questions about both its judgement and internal processes.\n\nWhen MI5 closed its investigation into Abedi he was deemed so low risk he was not even referred to the counter extremism scheme Prevent, which receives thousands of referrals each year.\n\nMI5 linked Abedi to at least six people it was actively investigating. He was linked to two of these people in the early months of 2017 - precisely when the attack was being prepared.\n\nInformation that did result in him being considered for further investigation was received in mid-2016, but did not generate a response from an internal \"priority indicator\" until 3 March 2017.\n\nIt then took until 8 May to decide whether to have a further meeting - by which time he was in Libya - but it was not scheduled until 31 May.\n\nMI5 today admitted a \"missed opportunity\" for failing to request that Abedi be stopped when re-entering the UK, which he did five days before the attack itself on 22 May that year.\n\nMs McGahey said despite Abedi coming to the attention of MI5 several times in the years before the bombing, \"there was no intelligence to indicate that he was engaged in attack planning or otherwise posed a risk to national security\".\n\nAt the time of the attack, Abedi had been identified \"for further low-level investigation to identify whether he had re-engaged in Islamist extremist activity,\" she said.\n\nMs McGahey said MI5 admitted it received intelligence on Abedi on two occasions in months before the attack.\n\n\"In retrospect this intelligence was highly relevant to the planned attack but the significance of it was not fully appreciated at the time,\" she said.\n\nCathryn McGahey QC said at the time of the attack Abedi had been identified \"for further low-level investigation\"\n\nShe told the inquiry at Manchester Magistrates' Court that MI5 cannot provide more details about this in an open hearing.\n\n\"There is no question of secrecy being used to conceal failure\", she said. \"MI5 has nothing to hide from this inquiry.\"\n\nMs McGahey said MI5 had provided unfettered access to the inquiry and information has been withheld from core participants only when necessary to protect national security.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Andrew Warnock QC, speaking for Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service (GMFRS), apologised for its inadequate and inefficient initial response.\n\nHe told the public inquiry: \"It is unacceptable that it took over two hours for the fire and rescue service to arrive at the arena.\n\n\"We would like to say to the families and victims that we are sorry that this happened.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@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 men said they loved the UK and the people who saved their lives, but the accommodation was \"not suitable\"\n\nAsylum seekers being housed in a military training camp said they were shocked by the conditions.\n\nThe group of men, from Iraq and Iran, said it was the first time they had been placed in military accommodation since arriving in the UK.\n\nProtests and counter-protests have taken place this month at the site in Penally, Pembrokeshire, that could house up to 230 asylum seekers.\n\nA police commissioner has called on the Home Office to apologise.\n\n\"It's cold and impossible to social distance,\" one of the asylum seekers told the BBC.\n\nThe Home Office said it had \"worked at pace\" to provide suitable accommodation \"during these unprecedented times\".\n\nSome of the group seeking asylum are as young as 17\n\nThe group, who did not want to give their names, are aged between 17 and 26 and waiting for their claims to be processed.\n\nOne said the UK had \"saved\" his life after fleeing Iraq, but Penally was the seventh \"and worst\" location he had been sent to in seven months in the UK.\n\n\"It's not good for human people here,\" he said.\n\n\"We are not army, we are civic people. We are an engineer, a doctor, a nurse, a teacher.\n\n\"It's very cold and we are six people in a very small room. It is too many. We can't social distance.\"\n\nSome protesters carried banners reading \"migrants and refugees welcome here\"\n\nHe said the group was \"shocked\" to be behind barbed wire and high fences.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has criticised the Home Office's decision to place asylum seekers at the camp, saying it was \"unsuitable\" for vulnerable people who have \"fled terror and suffering\".\n\nAnd there had been a \"lack of planning, communication, consultation and information\", according to Dyfed Powys Police and Crime Commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn.\n\nHe described the move as \"totally unacceptable\" and said it showed a \"lack of respect\" to residents in Penally and the surrounding area.\n\n\"It has been left to our local agencies including the police to pick up the pieces of this impractical Home Office decision and I am therefore asking for a direct apology,\" Mr Llywelyn added.\n\nOne of the group, who said he had fled a war zone, said some of them found being in a military setting distressing.\n\n\"He came from war and political fighting and now they put him in an army camp,\" he said.\n\n\"Being here, he remembers all the things that happened to him. It's scary.\"\n\nOne asylum seeker showed his scars from the war in his home country\n\nMr Drakeford blamed the Home Office for its handling of the situation, saying his request for a two-week delay for the housing was blocked.\n\nLast week, the Home Office said it was working to find suitable accommodation for asylum seekers, with facilities in the south-east of England under strain.\n\nHowever, members of the group said they had been told they would be in Penally for a year.\n\n\"We don't have anything against the location, we feel safe, but we are not army,\" the man said.\n\n\"This is not temporary. Please, we can't stay here.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, police say they arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of arson and criminal damage after they were called to the camp at about 22:30 BST. He remained in police custody, Dyfed Powys Police added.\n\nThe ambulance service said paramedics also responded and a person was taken to Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest. Their condition is not known.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Following a review of available government property, the [Ministry of Defence] agreed to temporarily hand over two of their sites in Kent and Pembrokeshire which are now being used to house asylum seekers.\n\n\"Nobody staying at these sites is being detained. Asylum seekers are able to come and go from the accommodation and are staying in safe, Covid-compliant conditions, in line with the law and social distancing requirements.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Ministers are considering converting disused ferries moored off the coast to process people seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nAccording to Refugee Action, 35,566 asylum applications were made in the UK in 2019 - down from a peak of 84,000 in 2002.\n\nDowning Street said it was looking at what other countries do \"to inform a plan for the UK.\"\n\nLabour called the proposal to process people on ferries \"unconscionable\".\n\nThe most senior civil servant at the Home Office, Matthew Rycroft, said \"everything is on the table\" when it comes to \"improving\" the UK's asylum system.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel asked officials to look at policies, including housing people who are seeking asylum offshore.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Financial Times reported the Foreign Office had carried out an assessment for Ascension Island, a remote UK territory in the Atlantic Ocean - which included the practicalities of transferring migrants thousands of miles - and decided not to proceed.\n\nNow the Times reports that the government is giving \"serious consideration\" to the idea of buying retired ferries and converting them into processing centres, but it says the Home Office rejected a proposal to use decommissioned oil platforms in the North Sea.\n\nThe paper also says processing migrants on an island off the coast of Scotland had been considered, but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that \"any proposal to treat human beings like cattle in a holding pen will be met with the strongest possible opposition from me\".\n\nAppearing before the Public Affairs Committee, Permanent Secretary Mr Rycroft said he would not comment on leaks to newspapers, but that the department was \"brainstorming\" ideas.\n\nHe said: \"We've been looking at what a whole host of other countries do in order to bring innovation into our own system.\n\n\"No decisions have been taken. No final proposals have been put to ministers... this is in the realm of the brainstorming stage of a future policy.\"\n\nMr Rycroft said the UK would \"always comply with all of our international obligations\" and civil servants would \"assess all of the various different possible ideas out there to see which are legal and which make operational sense… so that ministers can ultimately make decisions\".\n\nHow does the government tempt fewer people to attempt a perilous crossing of the Channel to reach the south coast?\n\nWell, one idea is to make it clear that even a successful crossing won't mean getting to stay in the UK - at least in the short term.\n\nThe government is exploring \"all sorts of options\" - not my words, but those of the most senior civil servant in the Home Office.\n\nHence the recent headlines about transferring asylum seekers to a lump of British rock in the middle of the South Atlantic - Ascension Island, or buying an old ferry to house them.\n\nBut remember, although the numbers coming over the Channel in boats are at a record high, they are still a small proportion of overall asylum seekers coming to the UK.\n\nAnd rows about asylum are far from new.\n\nTwenty years ago, it was the then-Home Secretary, Jack Straw, found himself in a row with his own party about what the Labour government should do about the issue.\n\nSo this is an historic problem for parties of both colours.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said Labour would oppose any move to use ferries, adding: \"Even considering this is appalling.\"\n\nHe accused the government of \"lurching from one inhumane and impractical idea to another\" and claimed it had \"lost control and all sense of compassion\".\n\nThe SNP's home affairs spokeswoman, Joanna Cherry, said the leaked plans showed \"the callousness at the core\" of the government, and the plans would \"treat vulnerable asylum seekers as cattle rather than human beings\".\n\nBut Conservative MP for Gravesham in Kent, Adam Holloway, said the Home Office was \"completely right\" to be looking at other options that were \"some sort of deterrent\" for asylum seekers.\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today programme: \"We need to break the link in people's minds that if you get to Britain you're going to stay in Britain, you're going to stay in a hotel and you're going to be accommodated.\"\n\nHe added that the UK needed to find a \"civilised version\" of the model used by Australia, which has controversially used offshore processing and detention centres for asylum seekers since the 1980s.\n\nThe discussion comes as record numbers of people are crossing the Channel to the UK, with 400 arriving in one day in September.\n\nAscension Island is more than 4,000 miles (6,000km) from the UK\n\nA Home Office source said this week that ministers were looking at \"every option that can stop small boat crossings and fix the asylum system\", but no final decisions had been made.\n\nNearly 7,000 people have reached the UK in more than 500 small boats this year - by 23 September, 1,892 migrants had arrived during the month, more than in all of 2019.\n\nBut they are still a small proportion of the asylum seekers coming to the UK.\n\nTory MP Natalie Elphicke, who represents Dover, said the government had been \"clear they are going to take whatever action is necessary to put a stop to these small boat crossings\".\n\nShe told the BBC No 10 and the Home Office were looking at a \"whole range of things\" to address the \"draw factor\" of the UK, \"from cruise ships and ferries through to offshore fast track assessment centres, through to changing the immigration law\".\n\nEarlier in the Commons, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove told Parliament the government was \"actively looking at the steps that we can take\" to stop illegal crossings in the English Channel so the UK can \"maintain our commitment to providing a safe haven\" but also \"safeguard our borders\".\n\nTo be eligible for asylum in the UK, applicants must prove they cannot return to their home country because they fear persecution due to their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, gender identity or sexual orientation.\n\nA caseworker decides if they have a valid claim by taking into account factors such as the country of origin of the asylum seeker or evidence of discrimination.\n\nThis is supposed to be done in six months but delays in processing claims have increased significantly in the last year.\n\nWhile waiting for a decision to be made, asylum seekers are usually not allowed to work and are initially placed in hostel-type accommodation before longer-term housing is arranged.", "Norton said judges would not be able to \"compare like with like\"\n\nGraham Norton has questioned the need for Strictly Come Dancing to feature same-sex couples.\n\nFormer Olympic boxer Nicola Adams is set to become the first celebrity to be paired with a same-sex partner when this year's series begins next month.\n\nNorton said same-sex pairings meant the judges would not be able to \"compare like with like\".\n\n\"It does kind of muddy the waters for the judges,\" the chat show host and author told Best magazine.\n\n\"As you have people who can be openly gay on that show, I don't ­particularly need to see a man dancing with a man,\" continued Norton, who is gay himself.\n\n\"I understand the reason the Strictly bosses might do it is coming from a good place, but it does kind of muddy the waters for the judges.\"\n\nHe added: \"If you've got two partners who can do lifts and men's bodies are different shapes, how would that work?\n\n\"I don't think it's a homophobic thing. You want to be able to compare like with like.\"\n\nHearst, which publishes Best magazine, confirmed to the BBC that the interview with Norton took place before the announcement that Nicola Adams would have a female partner this year.\n\nStrictly has previously featured gay contestants dancing with a partner of the opposite sex, including Judge Rinder, Susan Calman and Scott Mills.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAdams requested a female partner for her appearance on the show this year, commenting that it was \"definitely time for change\".\n\n\"I think it's really important,\" she said. \"It's definitely time to move on and be more diverse, and this is a brilliant step in the right direction.\"\n\nHer dance partner has not yet been revealed.\n\nEarlier this month the BBC released a statement defending the same-sex pairing after viewers complained about the move.\n\n\"Strictly Come Dancing is an inclusive show and is proud to have featured same-sex dancing amongst the professional dancers in group numbers in previous series,\" the corporation said.\n\n\"We have stated, in the past, that we are open to the prospect of including same-sex pairings between our celebrities and professional dancers, should the opportunity arise.\n\n\"Nicola Adams requested an all-female pairing, which we are happy to facilitate. The show is first and foremost about dance.\n\n\"The sex of each partner within a coupling should have no bearing on their routine.\"\n\nThe move follows a one-off routine from last year's series that saw two male professionals, Johannes Radebe and Graziano di Prima, dancing together.\n\nEarlier this year ITV's Dancing On Ice featured its first same-sex couple when it paired Ian Watkins - H from Steps - with professional skater Matt Evers.\n\nThe 18th series of Strictly will begin in October but will be shorter than usual, with judge Bruno Tonioli having a reduced role amid coronavirus restrictions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Middlesbrough mayor Andy Preston said the government needed to \"understand local knowledge and expertise\"\n\nA ban on households mixing anywhere indoors in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough is \"unacceptable\", a mayor has said.\n\nIt follows Health Secretary Matt Hancock's announcement of stricter rules in parts of the north of England to combat a rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nMiddlesbrough mayor Andy Preston said the rules would \"damage mental health\" and \"we defy the government and we do not accept the measures\".\n\nBe he said he \"won't condone\" anyone disobeying the new regulations.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care has been approached for a comment.\n\nThe new restrictions mean that from one minute past midnight on Saturday households can no longer mix in homes and gardens and indoor settings such as pubs and restaurants.\n\nMr Hancock said the measures, affecting 250,000 people in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough, would bring both towns in line with other parts of the North East.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Preston had put in a request to the government for a ban on household mixing, but without a change to the current \"rule of six\" for meeting others outside of homes in Covid-secure venues such as cafes, restaurants and pubs.\n\nThe new rules will affect about 250,000 people in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough\n\nFollowing the announcement, the elected independent mayor said: \"I think this measure has been introduced based on... a monstrous lack of communication and ignorance.\n\n\"They will destroy viable jobs and damage mental health.\n\n\"The government needs to understand our local knowledge and expertise and ability to get things done and preserve jobs and wellbeing.\"\n\nHe said the town had some \"astonishingly well-run\" cafes and restaurants which were capable of hosting people, socially distanced.\n\n\"That being denied is a monstrous barrier to returning to normality and protecting mental health and our culture and our society,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"Of course I won't disobey the law and absolutely won't condone anyone else disobeying it, but as things stand today with this announcement, I'm saying to the government 'no, it's not acceptable, it's not good enough, come and talk to us'.\"\n\nSimon Clarke, Conservative MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, described the measures in a tweet as \"very regrettable\", but added: \"We are where we are and must now focus on obeying the rules, bringing the infection rate down and getting back to normal as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMike Hill, Labour MP for Hartlepool, said it was an \"absolutely disgraceful one size fits all\" approach that was made \"without consulting local MPs and leaders\".\n\nHartlepool council leader Shane Moore accused the government of reneging on assurances that enhanced restrictions would not be introduced until the authority had confirmed in writing it was happy with what was being proposed.\n\nThe Hartlepool Independent Union councillor said the new rules would have a \"devastating impact\" on local businesses.\n\nHowever, Labour MP for Middlesbrough Andy McDonald, described the move as \"inevitable\".\n\nHe said: \"It's only 13 miles from Middlesbrough to Sedgefield in County Durham and the virus is clearly in circulation right across the region at levels that are concerning, and the virus pays no heed to the local authority borders between County Durham and the Tees Valley local authority areas.\"\n\nThe new measures come into force one minute past midnight on Saturday\n\nIn Middlesbrough, Toni Cook, owner of the Sticky Fingers Cafe and Rock bar, said the new rules would hit trade.\n\n\"We are not going to see the year out,\" she said.\n\n\"I understand there's a virus and I understand it's rampant but we all need to act and conform to certain ways, but a lot of us are and we are bending over backwards to do this but we are still punished.\"\n\nTim Cave, who was enjoying a drink on his day off from work, added: \"If you've got no symptoms, does it matter if you're sat with a mate who you haven't seen for so long?\n\n\"It's just going to affect people's mental wellbeing, people need that someone they don't see every day to be able to go and sound off at.\"\n\nAndrew Quinn, a student at Teesside University, said: \"I've been looking forward to coming here for a year or so and then we can't even meet up with other households in our accommodation building either, so we can't see our families or our friends in the building.\"\n\nFellow fresher Amy Hardy added: \"I've got friends in other halls of residences and even though we all go to university together and we're in the same lectures, we see each other every day, we're not allowed to pop to the bar for a drink, pop to the pub for a pint, it's madness really.\"\n\nThe Reverend Gemma Sampson, the curate of two churches in Hartlepool, expressed concerns about the effects of the restrictions.\n\n\"One of my congregation said to me 'I'd rather die of coronavirus than loneliness',\" she said.\n\n\"And I feel like both those things are an equal threat and the risk of loneliness is so great in the worst possible way.\"\n\nThe boss of Middlesbrough FC said the public should fully appreciate the seriousness of coronavirus, having recently recovered from it.\n\nNeil Warnock, 71, said: \"It's life and death with this horrible virus.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Authorities will analyse infection rates and come to a decision on Sunday, the health minister said\n\nFrench authorities could place Paris under maximum Covid alert from Monday, the country's health minister warned.\n\nOlivier Véran said infection rates in the capital and its suburbs are rising and a decision on imposing new restrictions will be made on Sunday.\n\nHe added that a \"total closure of bars\" could be needed in the capital.\n\nFrance, one of many European countries that are seeing a rise in cases, recorded more than 13,000 infections on Thursday.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that surging figures in Europe should serve as \"a wake up call\".\n\nIn a news conference on Thursday, Mr Véran said the Paris region passed three thresholds qualifying for a maximum alert on Thursday.\n\nOne of these was the number of infections, which has now surpassed 250 per 100,000 people.\n\n\"We need a few days to confirm the trends, but if they are confirmed, we'll have no choice but to put it on maximum alert, from Monday,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Véran, more than 30% of beds in Paris's intensive care units have been filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nHe warned that if the maximum alert was put in place, there would be no more family reunions and bars would be closed. Bars and restaurants in the region already have to close by 22:00.\n\nSimilar restrictions have already been introduced in Marseille. Last Monday, Mr Véran announced bars, restaurants and gyms would close in the southern city for at least two weeks amid an upsurge in cases.\n\nOn Thursday, France recorded 13,970 cases and 63 deaths. More than 31,986 people have died in the country since the pandemic began, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, the Spanish government has ordered a partial lockdown in the capital Madrid. Under the restrictions, residents will not be allowed to leave the area unless they have to make an essential journey.\n\nThe UK has taken Poland and Turkey off its no quarantine list. Those arriving from the two countries from 04:00 BST (03:00 GMT) on Sunday will have to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nPoland's infection rate has risen, while the UK government said it removed Turkey over concerns about the way the country reports its data.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The church threatened with Kalashnikovs over Covid-19 outbreak", "Navalny was released from hospital in Berlin last week\n\nLeading Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny says he believes President Vladimir Putin was responsible for his poisoning.\n\n\"I assert that Putin is behind this act, I don't see any other explanation,\" he told German news magazine Der Spiegel in an interview.\n\nGermany, where Mr Navalny is recovering, says he was poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent. Its findings were confirmed by labs in France and Sweden.\n\nResponding to the interview on Thursday, Mr Putin's spokesman said there was no evidence that Mr Navalny had been poisoned with a nerve agent, and said CIA agents were working with the opposition leader.\n\nMr Navalny collapsed on a flight in Russia's Siberia region on 20 August. He was transferred to the Charité hospital in the German capital Berlin two days later.\n\nIn an interview published by Der Spiegel on Thursday - the first since he fell ill - Mr Navalny said the order to use Novichok could only have come from the heads of three of Russia's intelligence services, all of whom work under Vladimir Putin.\n\n\"If 30 people have access to a [chemical] agent, and not three, then it's a global threat,\" the 44-year-old told the magazine.\n\nHis supporters initially believed his tea had been spiked at Tomsk airport but traces of the nerve agent were later found on water bottles at the hotel where he stayed the previous night.\n\nSpeaking of his experience, Mr Navalny said: \"You feel no pain, but you know you're dying. Straight away.\"\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 navalny 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\nIt was only because of \"a chain of lucky circumstances\" that he had been able to receive urgent medical care and survive, he said. Otherwise, \"it would have just been a suspicious death\".\n\nAsked why the Russian president would target him, Mr Navalny spoke of recent unrest in the far eastern province of Khabarovsk.\n\n\"The Kremlin realises that it must take extreme measures to prevent a 'Belarus situation',\" the opposition leader said, in reference to weeks of mass anti-government protests there following a disputed election.\n\n\"The system is fighting for its survival and we've just felt the consequences.\"\n\nMr Navalny was released from hospital in Berlin last week and is still receiving physiotherapy to aid his recovery.\n\nHis spokeswoman said last week that his bank accounts had been frozen and his flat seized but Mr Navalny told Der Spiegel he still planned to return to Russia.\n\n\"Not going back would mean that Putin had achieved his goal... I will not give Putin the gift of not returning to Russia.\"\n\nThe EU and a number of governments have called for Russia to investigate Mr Navalny's poisoning.\n\nIf the attack on Alexei Navalny was meant to frighten him into silence or compliance, it failed. He's made it clear that he intends to return to Russia - and to opposition politics - more determined than ever, pledging to take on those \"villains\" who commit \"the most heinous crimes\".\n\nBut the fact he identifies Vladimir Putin as chief \"villain\" in his poisoning has infuriated the Kremlin. Its spokesman called the accusation \"utterly unfounded\" and \"insulting\".\n\nThat's standard Kremlin-speak but Dmitry Peskov also said he had \"concrete information\" that Alexei Navalny was getting \"clear instructions\" from the CIA. That's new, and an escalation apparently aimed at discrediting him as thoroughly as possible here in Russia.\n\nMr Navalny has already mocked the claim online, wondering whether the CIA was \"instructing\" him on his physiotherapy, as that's all he's been doing since his release from hospital. He's threatened to sue for what he called a \"monstrous lie\", which he believes is meant to distract Russians from what the Kremlin \"needs to hide\".\n\nA nerve agent from the Novichok group was also used to poison Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England in 2018. They both survived, but a local woman, Dawn Sturgess, died after coming into contact with the poison.\n\nBritain accused Russia's military intelligence of carrying out that attack. Twenty countries expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats and spies. Moscow denied any involvement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A technical problem forced a full-day trading halt on Japan's stock exchanges, including the popular Nikkei 225 index on Thursday.\n\nThe shutdown happened when a backup system failed to kick in after a hardware malfunction, according to the Japan Exchange Group.\n\nIt was quick to point out the halt wasn't connected to cyber-attackers.\n\nTrading was suspended at the main Tokyo stock exchange along with connected bourses in Nagoya, Fukuoka and Sapporo.\n\nJapan Exchange Group apologised for the one-day shutdown and said it aimed to resume trading as normal on Friday.\n\nTokyo's roughly $6tn (£4.6tn) stock market is the world's third largest, after New York and Shanghai, according to data from the World Federation of Exchanges.\n\nThe trading halt closed one of Asia's few major regional markets on Thursday, with exchanges in Hong Kong, Shanghai, South Korea and Taipei all closed for holidays.\n\nThe suspension soured the mood of some investors, who were expecting the market to rebound after an acrimonious US presidential debate pushed the Nikkei 225 1.5% lower on Wednesday.\n\nThe trading halt was the exchange's first significant glitch since 2018, when a trading system problem left some securities firms unable to make orders.\n\nThe Nikkei 225 index includes the shares of many of Japan's biggest companies including Honda, Nissan, Hitachi and Canon.\n\nMany stock markets have been hit with temporary glitches in the past.\n\nIn August, the New Zealand Exchange was hit by cyber-attacks that forced it to halt trading over the course of one week.\n\nOver the past decade, the tech-heavy Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange, the Singapore stock exchange and Bombay's Sensex have all faced technical glitches that have delayed trading.\n\nIn 2017, a temporary market error saw the share price of several major tech firms wrongly listed at the same price on the Nasdaq.", "Part of a London street is cleared of diners ahead of the 22:00 BST curfew\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has promised MPs votes \"wherever possible\" on England or UK-wide coronavirus rules before they come into force.\n\nBut he warned that some urgent regulations could not be held up.\n\nIt follows concern from Tory MPs over a lack of parliamentary scrutiny, while the Commons Speaker warned the government against treating Parliament with \"contempt\".\n\nMPs voted to extend the coronavirus powers by 330 votes to 24.\n\nMr Hancock was speaking in the House of Commons ahead of a vote on a motion that will extend the Coronavirus Act.\n\nThe emergency legislation passed in March grants extensive powers to the authorities to tackle Covid, such as closing schools and stopping mass gatherings.\n\nAddressing MPs, the health secretary said: \"I am sure that no member of this House would want to limit the government's ability to take emergency action in the national interest as we did in March.\n\n\"And we will continue to involve the House in scrutinising our decisions in the way the prime minister set out last week, with regular statements and debates and the ability for members to question the government's scientific advisers more regularly.\n\nHealth Secretary told MPs they would get a vote \"wherever possible\"\n\n\"And I hope the new arrangements will be welcomed on all sides of the House and I will continue to listen to colleagues' concerns, as I've tried my best to do so throughout.\"\n\nSir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 committee of backbench Conservative MPs, had been pushing for MPs to have more of a say over restrictions introduced to tackle the virus.\n\nHe welcomed Mr Hancock's announcement saying: \"We are grateful that he and other members of the government have understood the importance of proper scrutiny in this place and the benefits that can bring to better government as well.\"\n\nAsked by a former Conservative chief whip Mark Harper for clarity on which new rules MPs would be allowed to vote on, Mr Hancock said \"I hope over the weeks to come we will demonstrate through our actions and what we bring forward that we are true to this commitment, which essentially will become a new convention.\"\n\nOther Conservatives expressed frustration with the government. Sir Charles Walker said the 90 minutes provided for the debate was \"just not good enough\" while Sir Bernard Jenkin warned that \"the prime minister cannot lead his parliamentary party unless he has their consent\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said: \"We recognised that the government, in a pandemic, any government needs extraordinary powers available, and why with a heavy heart today, facing this highly unsatisfactory situation of an all or nothing motion, we will not be blocking its passage today.\"\n\nHowever, the Liberal Democrats have said they would vote against extending the Coronavirus Act because of the power it gave ministers to \"reduce rights\" for carers.\n\nSeven Conservatives and six Labour MPs also voted against the motion.\n\nDozens of Tory MPs backed an amendment to the motion by Sir Graham calling for future regulations affecting the whole of England only to be introduced if Parliament has the opportunity to debate and vote on them in advance.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle did not select the amendment explaining that any amendment to the motion risked creating uncertainty about the legality of the Act, and potentially opened it up to court challenge.\n\nHowever he told MPs: \"The way in which the government has exercised its powers to make secondary legislation during this crisis has been totally unsatisfactory.\n\n\"All too often important statutory instruments have been published a matter of hours before they come into force and some explanations as to why important measures have come into effect before they can be laid before this House has been unconvincing and shows a total disregard for the House.\"\n\nHe said he was \"now looking to the government to rebuild trust with the House not treat it with the contempt it has shown\".\n\nResponding to Sir Lindsay Hoyle's criticism, the prime minister's spokesman said the government was \"looking at further ways to involve parliament in the process in advance\".", "Mr Mackay had been widely tipped as a future first minister prior to his resignation\n\nDerek Mackay has continued to claim expenses for accommodation in Edinburgh despite not having been seen at the Scottish Parliament since quitting as finance secretary in February.\n\nMr Mackay stepped down after admitting he \"behaved foolishly\" by messaging a 16-year-old boy on social media.\n\nHe is now an independent MSP having been suspended from the SNP, and has not taken part in any debates or votes.\n\nHowever, he claimed for accommodation in Edinburgh for 10 days in July.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Mackay said the expenditure \"complies with Scottish Parliament allowance rules\" and \"covered the notice period and requirements of terminating the accommodation tenancy\".\n\nHe added: \"Mr Mackay's Renfrewshire North and West constituency office is continuing to operate remotely, in line with the Scottish government's coronavirus guidance, in dealing with casework and making representations on behalf of constituents.\"\n\nExpenses records covering the period directly after Mr Mackay's resignation are yet to be published by the parliament, but BBC Scotland has seen claims filed by the Renfrewshire North and West MSP for rent totalling £327.10 in early July.\n\nHolyrood was in recess at the time, although members did sit on one of the 10 days involved for Nicola Sturgeon to update them on the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAs a current MSP Mr Mackay is entitled to claim an \"Edinburgh accommodation provision\" and there is no rule that he must attend parliament to do so.\n\nHowever records show he has not taken any part in formal proceedings since he quit the government in February.\n\nThe Scottish Sun newspaper revealed hours before Mr Mackay was due to set out the Holyrood budget that he had sent hundreds of messages to a teenage boy over a six-month period.\n\nHe issued a statement apologising \"unreservedly\" to the boy and resigned from his cabinet post.\n\nPolice later concluded that there was \"nothing to suggest that an offence has been committed\", and the SNP suggested in March that the MSP was \"under medical supervision\".\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Graham Simpson said Mr Mackay's constituents would be appalled that he was claiming money for accommodation in Edinburgh despite not turning up to parliament and working for them.\n\n\"It shows exactly why we need my Mackay's Law to be put into legislation in order to oust MSPs like him who shun their responsibilities to the public,\" he said.", "The rolls used in Subway's hot sandwiches contain too much sugar to be considered bread, according to Ireland's Supreme Court.\n\nIreland's highest court made the ruling in a case about how the bread is taxed.\n\nAn Irish franchisee of the US company had claimed it should not pay VAT on the rolls it uses in heated sandwiches.\n\nBut the court ruled that because of the level of sugar in the rolls they cannot be taxed as bread, which is classed as a \"staple product\" with zero VAT.\n\nUnder Ireland's VAT Act of 1972, ingredients in bread such as sugar and fat should not exceed 2% of the weight of flour in the dough.\n\nThe five judges, who were considering an appeal by Bookfinders Ltd, a Subway franchisee based near Galway, concluded that in Subway sandwiches the sugar content is around 10% of the flour in the dough for both white and wholegrain rolls.\n\n\"Subway's bread is, of course, bread,\" said a spokesperson for Subway.\n\n\"We have been baking fresh bread in our stores for more than three decades and our guests return each day for sandwiches made on bread that smells as good as it tastes.\"\n\nIn Irish law, bread is considered a staple food and has a zero rate of VAT. Following the ruling, the rolls are subject to tax at 13.5%.\n\nThe case stems from a decision by Ireland's tax authority in 2006 to refuse Bookfinders' request for a refund on VAT payments made between 2004 and 2005.\n\nAfter an appeal commissioner upheld the tax authority's refusal of a refund, Bookfinders took its case to the High Court which it lost before going to the Court of Appeal, where it was also unsuccessful.\n\nIt is not the first time Subway's bread has been in the spotlight. In 2014, the company announced it was removing azodicarbonamide - the so-called \"yoga mat\" chemical - from its rolls.\n\nSubway stopped using the so-called \"yoga mat\" chemical - azodicarbonamide - in its bread in 2014\n\nThe chemical is used to whiten flour and improve the condition of dough. It is also used to make vinyl foam products such as yoga mats and the underlay for carpets.\n\nSubway stopped using the agent six years ago but the US Food and Drug Administration continues to approve the use of the chemical in produce.\n• None How safe are takeaways and supermarket deliveries?", "Archie Lyndhurst with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nCBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, has died at the age of 19 after a short illness.\n\nHe was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the comedy show So Awkward.\n\nIn a statement, Nicholas said he and wife Lucy were \"utterly grief stricken and respectfully request privacy\".\n\nCBBC head of content Cheryl Taylor said he was \"such a talented young actor\", adding: \"All of us at BBC Children's are devastated.\"\n\nShe added: \"He will be greatly missed by us all and our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends at this time.\"\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10. In 2013, his father Nicholas told the BBC that his son had inherited the \"acting gene\".\n\nArchie appeared in So Awkward, a sitcom following the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nNicholas and Archie Lyndhurst in So Awkward\n\nChannel X North, the independent production company that makes So Awkward, said it was \"deeply shocked and saddened\" by the news.\n\n\"He was an incredibly talented performer and his contribution to So Awkward, on and off screen, will not be forgotten,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"As well as hilarious, he was a generous, kind-hearted young man who we had the honour to work with on the show for seven years.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this time.\"\n\nJohn Challis, who played Aubrey \"Boycie\" Boyce in Only Fools, said Archie's death was \"the saddest news of all\".\n\nHe said Archie was \"just starting out on his chosen career in acting\" and that his \"heart aches for Nick and Lucy\".\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 John Challis 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\nActress Sue Holderness, who played Boycie's wife Marlene in the show, said the news was \"too sad\", adding: \"My heart goes out to his Mum and Dad and to all who knew him.\"\n\nSamuel Small, who appeared with Archie in So Awkward and also in a 2014 episode of Game of Thrones, posted a lengthy tribute on Instagram to his \"brother\" and \"best friend\".\n\n\"I still can't quite comprehend that you have passed,\" he wrote. \"You still had so much life to live and I'd give anything for you to keep on living it.\n\n\"I wish you could've all known Archie how we knew him,\" he continued. \"I've never met someone so full of life [who] touched so many peoples hearts.\n\n\"I still can't find the words that do him justice and show how much of a beautiful soul he was.\"\n\nLyndhurst appeared in 75 episodes of the CBBC programme\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta believes his side took a \"step forward\" by beating Liverpool on penalties to reach the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup.\n\nAfter a goalless 90 minutes at Anfield, Gunners goalkeeper Bernd Leno saved two penalties in the shootout before Joe Willock scored the winning spot-kick.\n\nArsenal lost 3-1 in the Premier League at the Reds four days ago, and Arteta was pleased with his side's response.\n\n\"We still have lots to learn but we are on the right path,\" the Spaniard said.\n\n\"It is the third time in about eight weeks we have played against the best team in Europe, in my opinion, and it is a step forward for my team.\n\n\"We want to treat every competition as an opportunity to win a trophy, we have to do that for the club we represent and we will do that.\"\n\nThe teams produced a 5-5 thriller at Anfield in the competition last season before a penalty shootout, won by Liverpool, but this was a considerably less exciting match.\n\nBoth sides struggled for fluency after making numerous changes from their Premier League meeting on Monday.\n\nBut after Divock Origi and Harry Wilson saw efforts saved by Leno, Willock converted the decisive penalty.\n\nArsenal will now host Manchester City in the last eight, with all ties to be played in the week commencing 21 December.\n\nMohamed Elneny's miss in the shootout looked like it was going to be costly for the Gunners, but German goalkeeper Leno salvaged the situation for Arteta's side.\n\nLeno's excellence was a theme of the match, particularly once Liverpool - who had made nine changes from their win on Monday - got to grips with the game towards the end of the first period.\n\nThe former Bayer Leverkusen keeper brilliantly parried new signing Diogo Jota's header and deserved some fortune when Takumi Minamino hit the crossbar with the follow up when he ought to have scored.\n\nArsenal were organised and disciplined in defence and despite Mohamed Salah joining Minamino and Jota in an experienced frontline for Jurgen Klopp's side, they could not find the breakthrough.\n\nLiverpool were made to work hard for openings, and when they did create chances, Leno thwarted them as he produced superb saves to deny both Jota and Virgil van Dijk after the break.\n\nThe 28-year-old became the first Arsenal goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet at Anfield since Vito Mannone in September 2012.\n\n'I really have belief in Bernd' - what they said\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, speaking to Sky Sports: \"If there would have been a winner in 90 minutes it should have been us but we are not in dreamland, you have to score. I liked a lot of parts of the game, we mixed it up a lot and I saw a proper performance, a lot of things we like on the pitch when you wear this wonderful shirt. A penalty shoot out is tricky, everyone knows. That is it.\"\n\nWhat did the performance lack? \"Goals. So many things are different when you mix it up in decisive positions especially. I really liked how the boys did it, there were a lot of good individual performances, it could have been a Premier League game but here or there we lacked the last pass. There were not a lot of chances in this game because there was a lot of work from both teams closing each other down.\n\nOn Xherdan Shaqiri's absence from the squad: \"Some were not involved. It is the time of the year when some things happen in the background and you have to react - that is what we did.\"\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta, speaking to Sky Sports: \"I am really happy with the performance. I think the boys were exceptional. We corrected a few things from Monday and it was superb.\n\n\"We competed much better, the level of aggression we had, the way we pressed them really high was exceptional. Bernd Leno was really good. When we needed him we had him. You need a top individual performance to win at Anfield and that is what we had tonight.\n\n\"I really have belief in Bernd. I know him really well and what he can give us. We didn't want Emiliano Martínez to go but it was probably the right thing for both parties to do. The gap towards Liverpool is still big. We will keep improving to try and reach their level.\"\n\nOn drawing his former club Manchester City: \"I was waiting and enjoying the victory and then we have to play Manchester City. It is what it is, there are a lot of tough teams left in the competition and we will prepare for it.\"\n\nLiverpool are next in action when they travel to face Aston Villa in the Premier League on Sunday, 4 October (19:15 BST). Arsenal host Sheffield United in the Premier League on the same day at 14:00 BST.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0(4), Arsenal 0(5). Joseph Willock (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty saved! Harry Wilson (Liverpool) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, left footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0(4), Arsenal 0(4). Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0(4), Arsenal 0(3). Curtis Jones (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0(3), Arsenal 0(3). Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Divock Origi (Liverpool) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0(3), Arsenal 0(2). Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0(2), Arsenal 0(2). Cédric Soares (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0(2), Arsenal 0(1). Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0(1), Arsenal 0(1). Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0(1), Arsenal 0. James Milner (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How Do You Cope?: Fabrice Muamba on the night that changed his life\n• None All the reaction from some heavyweight EFL Cup ties", "At Whipsnade Zoo, a male southern white rhino called Sizzle has been introduced to new female rhinos, in the hope that they will breed\n\nZoos' vital conservation work is being put at risk by a Covid-related funding crisis.\n\nBreeding programmes to rescue rare species may have to be cancelled, with many zoos facing the biggest cash crisis in their history.\n\nThe body that represents British zoos says a government rescue package is inaccessible for most of its members.\n\nOnly one zoo has claimed successfully, the BBC has learned.\n\nZoos face huge income losses due to lockdown and reduced visitor numbers. Ultimately, this will impact on their ability to care for species which are the last of their kind on Earth, and now found only in zoos.\n\n\"The extinct-in-the-wild species are absolutely dependent on human care,\" said Dr John Ewen of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).\n\n\"It's our decision about which way to go forward that determines extinction or recovery.\"\n\nThe scimitar-horned oryx is regarded as a conservation success story\n\nBBC News has discovered that just one zoo out of around 300 in England has successfully made a claim from a £100m government recovery fund.\n\nThe trade body that represents Britain's zoos and aquariums, Biaza, says the way the government's bailout fund is structured means it is virtually impossible for most of its members to claim.\n\nThey need to be 12 weeks from bankruptcy to qualify and by that time any responsible animal park would already be trying to find new homes for its residents, the association says.\n\nIt warns that many international breeding programmes, designed to ensure the survival of rare species, may have to be cancelled and without government help some big UK zoos face closure.\n\nThe government says its rescue package was designed to provide a safety net if zoos got into really serious financial difficulties.\n\nPolynesian tree snails are being saved from extinction\n\nZoos are one of the largest funders of conservation work around the world, particularly large, successful zoos in Europe, North America and Australia.\n\nDr Alexandra Zimmermann is a senior research fellow at Oxford University and former head of conservation at Chester Zoo.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"Zoos contribute hundreds of millions of support all over the world for conservation in the wild so if we lose a lot of that support from the effects of Covid, then that has really detrimental effects on conservation everywhere.\"\n\nAt least 77 species of plants and animals are classified as extinct in the wild by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which compiles data on endangered species.\n\nThe Guam kingfisher is one such bird, disappearing in the 1980s from the island of Guam, a US territory in the western Pacific.\n\nA stowaway snake was accidently brought in on military equipment, where it wreaked havoc on the ecosystem. With no natural predator, the snake species rapidly multiplied, eventually growing to such a number that it ate most of the island's native bird species.\n\nAll 100 or so Guam kingfishers live in human care\n\nThe last few kingfishers on Earth were rescued and taken into captivity. There are now 100 or so birds in breeding programs at US zoos, with plans to reintroduce them to Guam and other suitable islands, if a safe habitat can be found.\n\nMany of the zoos were already under strain to breed enough birds to keep the population going, even before the pandemic, said Dr Ewen.\n\n\"Covid's come along and put incredible pressure on all of the institutions that care for them,\" he added.\n\nGuam has more than 2 million snakes, which have wreaked havoc with the ecosystem\n\nSince many of the \"last stand\" species have gone extinct in the wild due to human actions, we have a responsibility to save them, said Dr Amanda Trask of ZSL.\n\n\"It's crazy not to take that chance and try and bring them back,\" she said.\n\nLockdown has placed many zoos around the world in a precarious financial situation. While many institutions have reopened, reduced visitor capacities due to social distancing are adding to the financial pressures.\n\nZoos face huge bills from caring for animals; ZSL's monthly running costs were £2.3 million at the height of lockdown and it stands to lose £20 million this financial year.\n\nSome small zoos have already closed down while others are reducing conservation work.\n\nPere David's deer: Breeding at Whipsnade Zoo after becoming extinct in the wild\n\nDr Matyas Liptovszky, honorary assistant professor of zoo animal medicine at the University of Nottingham, said species kept alive in zoos and botanical gardens are \"the last safeguards of irreplaceable parts of our worlds\".\n\nThe UK spends hundreds of millions annually on museums to preserve cultural and historic relics, but not in keeping extinct animals alive, he said, describing this as \"bizarre\" for a nature and animal-loving nation.\n\n\"One of the biggest differences between a great UK museum, which preserves remnants of already extinct animals, and a great UK zoo, which fights to keep alive another one on the way to extinction, is the complete lack of government funding for the latter one,\" he said.\n\n\"Their visitor revenue is directly funding vital conservation and scientific work, but with no or reduced number of visitors, they deserve and desperately need external help\".", "Blackbaud's software is used by non-profit organisations to help obtain donations\n\nBank account information and users' passwords are among details feared stolen by hackers in a security breach at a service used to raise donations from millions of people.\n\nMany UK universities and charities, as well as hundreds of other organisations worldwide, use the software involved.\n\nIts developer Blackbaud made the admission in a regulatory filing.\n\nThe firm previously said the theft had been limited to other personal data - but not payment details.\n\nIt added it was contacting affected clients. They, in turn, will need to send follow-up alerts to at least some of the donors they had already contacted about the incident.\n\n\"We have informed the small subset of Blackbaud customers who were part of this development,\" the company told the BBC.\n\n\"We apologise that this happened and will continue to do our very best to supply help and support as we and our customers jointly navigate this cyber-crime incident.\"\n\nThe BBC has learned that some of the organisations believed to have been impacted by the latest development include:\n\n\"We are aware that some financial data may have been accessed as a result of the data breach and are working with Blackbaud to determine if this affects us,\" said a spokesman for the National Trust.\n\nThe National Trust is a charity that looks after places of historic interest and natural beauty\n\nMillions of people worldwide have been warned they could have been affected in the original alerts sent out about the attack over recent months.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Information Commissioner's Office told the BBC: \"Our investigation is ongoing and we will be making further enquiries regarding the latest developments.\"\n\nThe ICO said it knew of 166 UK organisations that had been affected by the security breach.\n\nThey include dozens of universities as well as health-related charities, schools and trusts set up to care for historic buildings.\n\nInternational clients who were affected also included hospitals, human rights organisations, non-profit radio stations and food banks.\n\nSouth Carolina-based Blackbaud said the new findings did not apply to all clients affected by the hack, but acknowledged that, in some cases, the payment information involved had not been digitally scrambled, as might have been expected.\n\n\"Further forensic investigation found that for some of the notified customers, the cyber-criminal may have accessed some unencrypted fields intended for bank account information, social security numbers, user names and/or passwords,\" its filing said.\n\nDozens of universities have sent emails and other alerts to current students and alumni about the attack\n\n\"In most cases, fields intended for sensitive information were encrypted and not accessible.\"\n\nAn updated security notice on the firm's site added that the firm did not believe credit card details had been exposed.\n\nOne cyber-security expert said it was essential that affected donors be told as soon as possible.\n\n\"It's simply not acceptable to store financial data, and passwords, in an unencrypted form,\" said Prof Alan Woodward from the University of Surrey.\n\n\"This latest revelation means that whereas their customers relied upon their initial statements to reassure people that banking information was not affected, that has now to be potentially reversed.\"\n\nThe hack occurred in May and was first disclosed to the public in July.\n\nAt the time, Blackbaud said it had paid the attackers a ransom and believed the thieves had subsequently destroyed the stolen data.\n\nPaying a ransom in such circumstances is not illegal, but goes against the advice of numerous law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, NCA and Europol.\n\nA banking security news site reported last week that Blackbaud faces at least 10 lawsuits in the US over the matter.", "A ban on different households meeting will be introduced amid further restrictions for the north of England after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nIt will be illegal to meet indoors in places such as pubs in the Liverpool City Region, Warrington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough from Saturday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs the new rules \"are necessary\".\n\nIn Middlesbrough, the mayor Andy Preston said: \"We defy the government and we do not accept these measures.\"\n\nBut he later said he would obey the law and urged others to do so.\n\nMr Hancock said he wanted the rules to stay in place for \"as short a time as possible\" and also \"recommended against all social mixing between households\".\n\nMr Hancock told the House of Commons: \"Earlier this week we brought in further measures in the north-east, however in parts of Teesside and the north-west of England cases continue to rise fast.\"\n\nDifferent households are being banned from mixing indoors anywhere\n\nKnowsley, an area in the Liverpool City Region, had the second highest rate in the country at 262 per 100,000 on 27 September.\n\nLiverpool's weekly infection rate rose to 258, Warrington's was 163 and Hartlepool and Middlesbrough both had 121 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nBurnley, where no further restrictions are yet to be imposed beyond the Lancashire-wide ones already introduced, has the highest infection rate in England at 327 per 100,000.\n\nSix areas in England have been added to the coronavirus watchlist as an \"area of concern\".\n\nThey are Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire East, Wakefield in West Yorkshire, Rotherham in South Yorkshire and Luton in Bedfordshire.\n\nSheffield has now been designated an \"area of enhanced support\".\n\nMr Hancock said: \"Working with council leaders and the mayors, I'm today extending these measures that have been in the north-east since the start of this week to the Liverpool City Region, Warrington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough.\"\n\nMr Preston tweeted he did not accept the new rules and described them as \"unacceptable\" and based on a \"monstrous lack of communication and ignorance\".\n\nHe said: \"We tried to communicate with the government but they didn't listen.\n\n\"They're imposing restrictions that [will] kill viable jobs and damage mental health.\"\n\nHowever, he went on to confirm he would obey the law and urged others to do so.\n\nMiddlesbrough has been on the government's watchlist following an increase in cases\n\nRestrictions on households mixing, with a ban on people meeting in homes and gardens, were brought in across Merseyside and Warrington last month.\n\nHouseholds were also advised not to mix in public places but that was not enforceable by law.\n\nIt will now be illegal to mix indoors anywhere but there is also a recommendation not to mix outside, in beer gardens or parks.\n\nColm Buteux and his wife, who is a teacher, have two children, aged 13 and 10, and live in Warrington.\n\nHe said the new restrictions \"won't make a massive difference\" but he does feel families with two parents can be \"socially isolated\".\n\n\"I do get why the government is doing this but they should let families [with two parents] have access to a support bubble,\" he said.\n\nSingle parents can form a social bubble with another household.\n\nThe 50-year-old contract commercial manager said he was \"relieved\" his children were still going to school and doing sports.\n\n\"I don't care if they close every pub, I want my children to go to school and do exercise,\" adding it was \"tough\" during lockdown when they were stuck at home.\n\nColm Buteux said he was relieved his two children were still going to school\n\nJo Davies, from Walton, Liverpool, lost her partner to Covid-19 in March and now lives alone.\n\nThe 72-year-old is used to having daily visits from her family who come round for meals and a \"chit chat\".\n\nShe has seven grandchildren and one great grandchild and will be moving in with her daughter and her husband for the new restrictions so she can care for her two grandchildren while her daughter is working shifts.\n\n\"My grandchildren keep me young and I'm devastated I won't be able to see them all, and there is going to be so many people like me,\" she said.\n\nHartlepool and Middlesbrough previously had no additional restrictions apart from national measures.\n\n\"I know individual rules are challenging but they are necessary and there are early signs they are working,\" Mr Hancock added.\n\nMr Hancock told MPs we must not \"let up\" but there was \"small hope\" given by a study from Imperial College which suggested the R number may be falling.\n\n\"I put it no stronger than that. Cases are still rising. However, as the chief medical officer set out yesterday this second peak is highly localised and in some parts of the country the virus is spreading fast.\"\n\nMr Hancock said £7m funding would be provided to support areas affected.\n\nMayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson told BBC Radio Merseyside: \"It's a strange one because it seems to be a halfway house.\n\n\"The infection rate is basically out of control…the businesses, the bars, the hotels, the restaurants, those are the people that are employed by the hospitality sector. Thousands of them are going to close and potentially won't come back.\"\n\nHe said funding announced was a \"drop in the ocean\" and he was \"deeply, deeply worried\" about businesses.\n\nOne of the strange things with the first wave in the UK was that the virus seemed to seed everywhere.\n\nIn other countries, Spain and Italy for example, it was much more localised with the virus highly concentrated in a few towns and cities.\n\nBut as the second wave rolls out, a clear pattern is emerging with marked peaks in a number of north-west and north-east areas.\n\nIt was a point made at the televised briefing on Wednesday with chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty saying the UK may have quite a different spread this time round.\n\nThe situation could easily change. Other areas may see sharp rises in the coming weeks - although the evidence at the moment suggests a more gradual increase.\n\nThe big unknown is why this is happening. Certainly there were higher levels of infection in the north when lockdown lifted, making it easier for the virus to take off.\n\nThere are a number of other theories - from the socialising habits of young people to the high concentration of densely-populated housing.\n\nWhatever the cause, the high rates of infection and climbing hospital admissions in these areas is the issue that is causing ministers and their officials most concern at the moment.\n\nThe leader of Knowsley Council, councillor Graham Morgan, tweeted he was \"concerned\" the further restrictions \"won't be enough to stop the spread of the virus here\".\n\n\"We're at a critical point and need swift, effective solutions to protect our residents.\"\n\nSteve Rotheram, metro mayor of Liverpool City Region, said he wanted to know the exit strategy for these restrictions.\n\nHe said: \"It's a bit like the Hotel California- you can check out but you can never leave. Other areas have gone into restrictions and months later they are still there. We can't afford that.\"\n\nMarie Rimmer, Labour MP for St Helens South & Whiston, said she welcomed measures that would \"help to keep all of us safe\" but with each new set of restrictions, things were \"getting more confusing and more difficult\".\n\nThe strain it is taking on mental health alone cannot be underestimated, she said.\n\nMr Hancock also said Bolton would be \"brought in line\" with the rest of Greater Manchester.\n\nThis means easing restrictions which reduced all pubs and restaurants in the town to takeaway only.\n\nThere would be no other changes to restrictions elsewhere, including West Yorkshire, Midlands, North East and other parts of Greater Manchester, he said.\n\nAre you in one of the regions? What will stricter measures mean for you? Emailhaveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\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 comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "Cars have been queuing in Clydach for tests but the centre is closed\n\nPeople needing Covid-19 tests have been sent to a centre in an area under local lockdown, despite it being closed.\n\nRhondda Labour MP Chris Bryant said the situation in Clydach Vale, near Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT), was an \"utter farce.\"\n\nThe site is run by Serco and slots are booked via the UK government-run online system.\n\nThe UK government, which oversees most of Wales' coronavirus tests, said testing capacity increased daily.\n\nAll those who booked at the Clydach site were contacted and advised to go to an alternative site in Abercynon where they will be tested, a spokesman said.\n\nRichard Case, 45, from Llanharan booked a test at Clydach Vale at 10:00 BST on Thursday for his 13-year-old son Dylan, who has a sore throat and dry cough.\n\nWhen he and Dylan arrived they joined a queue of \"around 20 vehicles\" but could see in the distance that people were turning around.\n\n\"I thought they were there having the tests and then turning around, but only when we got to the front of the line did we see that everything there, all the council offices up there, were completely shut off.\n\n\"And it wasn't until I looked on Twitter and saw Chris Bryant's tweets when I got home that I realised that the test centre had been shut.\"\n\nRichard Case (centre) was sent to the closed Clydach Vale site for a test\n\nMr Case then logged back on to book another test. Again, the system offered him Clydach Vale, but he selected Abercynon instead where he got a test at 12:30.\n\nThe experience of being sent to Clydach Vale was \"frustrating to say the least\", he said.\n\n\"I can only imagine people that are trying to get there on public transport, who've got children, or whose symptoms are much worse - it's not very good.\"\n\nThe Clydach Vale testing centre closed on Wednesday after demand fell\n\nRCT's Labour council leader Andrew Morgan told BBC Wales a mobile testing unit was originally set up at Porth and then moved to Clydach three weeks ago.\n\nIt was closed on Wednesday as demand had fallen but bookings were still being taken on Thursday, he said.\n\n\"It seems they didn't take it off the booking system so hundreds have been turning up there - many from outside the area,\" he said.\n\nThe Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board tweeted to say its teams were \"working on this as a matter of urgency\".\n\nMr Bryant said: \"I'm grateful to the health board and RCT who are trying to sort this out - and I've contacted [UK government Health Secretary] Matt Hancock as well.\n\n\"But we feel really badly let down in the Rhondda at the moment.\"\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf was the second county to be put into local lockdown last month after a rise in coronavirus cases there.\n\nA UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) spokesman said: \"NHS Test and Trace is providing tests at an unprecedented scale - 225,000 a day on average over the last week - with the vast majority of the public reporting no issues at all with the process.\n\n\"Testing capacity increases daily and we're on course to have capacity for 500,000 tests every day by the end of October - bringing in new labs that can process tens of thousands of tests a day, opening new test sites, and trialling new rapid tests that will give results on the spot.\"\n\nA spokesman for Serco said the company \"does not manage the booking system but we understand that all those booked have been sent a message by DHSC asking them to go to Abercynon where they will be tested. We have also sent one of our team to Clydach to redirect people to Abercynon.\"", "The man's lawyers told the High Court his parents \"nurtured his dependency\"\n\nA 41-year-old man has failed in a legal bid to force his wealthy parents to continue financially supporting him.\n\nA qualified solicitor with mental health disabilities, the man said his parents \"nurtured his dependency\" on them but reduced support as his relationship with them deteriorated.\n\nHis lawyers said the judge had powers to order parents to provide support based on laws relating to marriage and children.\n\nBut the judge ruled he had \"no case\".\n\nSir James Munby said in a ruling following a remote family court hearing that the claim was \"most unusual\" and as far as he knew \"unprecedented\".\n\nNeither of the parties was named, but the judge said the man lived in London and his parents in Dubai.\n\nAlthough the man has a degree in modern history, is a qualified solicitor and has a master's degree in taxation, Sir James said he has \"various difficulties and mental health disabilities\" and has been unemployed since 2011.\n\nHis parents have supported him, allowing him to live in a flat in central London that they own, and until recently paying the utility bills.\n\nBut the judge said: \"The relationship between the applicant and his parents, in particular, it would appear, his father, has deteriorated and the financial support they are prepared to offer has significantly reduced.\"\n\nThe case appeared to be \"unprecedented\", Sir James Munby said\n\nThe man's lawyer, Tim Amos, said his parents are \"very wealthy\" and could comfortably pay any support the court might reasonably order.\n\nMr Amos characterised the parents as having \"nurtured his dependency on them for the last 20 years or so\" and now \"seek to cast that dependency onto the state\".\n\nLawyers for the parents disputed this account.\n\nSir James dismissed the case on legal grounds, saying the court had no jurisdiction to grant his claims under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, the Children Act 1989, or under human rights law.\n\nThe man's lawyer had argued that the provisions in these laws allowing the court to order payments to support young children could also apply to adult children - if they were undergoing education and training, or if they had special circumstances such as a disability.\n\nBut the judge pointed out that these provisions only applied when a court order for financial support has already been made when the child is young, and when the parents are not living with each other - which was not the case for this man.\n\nHe said the law was clear that an adult child \"should not be able to take his parents to court to obtain finance\".\n• None Is this the end of the bank of mum and dad?", "Elvington Airfield, pictured in 2017, is a former RAF base near York\n\nThe fatal accident occurred at Elvington Airfield, a former RAF base near York, governing body Motorsport UK said.\n\nIt said the driver's family had been informed and an investigation into the circumstances had begun.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said it was called to reports of a \"serious collision\" at the scene shortly after 16:30 BST.\n\nElvington was an RAF station until 1992, and has become a popular motorsports venue since entering private ownership.\n\nIt has hosted dozens of world record attempts, and is also used as a filming location.\n\nOn Sunday, Jason Liversidge, who has motor neurone disease, set a world speed record in his custom-made electric wheelchair.\n\nIn 2006, Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was involved in a near-fatal crash at Elvington.\n\nHe suffered serious brain injuries when his jet-powered car crashed at almost 300mph, but made a full recovery.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The plug in question had a design flaw, found Which?\n\nA smart plug for sale on Amazon poses a fire risk and people should immediately stop using it, an investigation by consumer watchdog Which? suggests.\n\nAmazon said it had removed the Hictkon smart plug with dual USB ports from sale, pending investigation.\n\nIts live connection was too close to an energy-monitoring chip, Which? found.\n\nAnd this could cause an electrical discharge between two electrodes, posing a fire risk particularly in homes with older wiring.\n\nThe investigators also said the product's CE mark, normally associated with having passed rigorous European safety standards, was misleading.\n\nSome Chinese companies use a similar CE mark to designate \"China export\".\n\nOthers simply fake the safety mark because there is no central database to check whether it has been verified and it can be self-declared by companies.\n\n\"Companies get away with it until they don't,\" said Clever Compliance chief executive Max Stralin.\n\n\"The same issue arose with the burning hoverboards back in 2015.\"\n\nAmazon said customers concerned about purchases should contact its customer-service team.\n\n\"We monitor the products sold in our stores for product-safety concerns,\" it said.\n\n\"When appropriate, we remove a product from the store, reach out to sellers, manufacturers and government agencies for additional information or take other actions.\"\n\nBut Which? Computing editor Kate Bevan said: \"Too often we've seen dangerous products being sold on online marketplaces from unknown brands - in many cases originating from China's electronics capital, Shenzhen - that appear to have little accountability and are virtually impossible to contact.\n\n\"This raises big concerns around safety checks and monitoring carried out by online marketplaces like Amazon.\n\n\"Currently, consumers face a lottery regarding the safety of the products they buy from online marketplaces and whether they meet required safety standards in the UK.\n\n\"That's why it's vitally important that the government gives online marketplaces more legal responsibility for preventing unsafe products from being sold on their sites.\"\n\nShe called for government legislation and an \"enforcement body with teeth\" to crack down on rogue devices.\n\nHictkon products, which include muscle massagers, ultraviolet lamps, touchscreen monitors and Hallow-e'en masks, are available only on Amazon, according to Which?\n\nMany of the top 10,000 UK sellers on online marketplaces were also based in China, it said:\n\nBut Amazon allows some sellers to ship products to its UK-based fulfilment centres, so they are packed and distributed by it, rather than directly from China.", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nDoctors at a child gender clinic raised concerns about the use of puberty blockers 15 years ago - an issue that was also discussed by staff last year.\n\nAn internal review conducted in 2005, obtained by BBC Newsnight, says some clinicians felt pressured to refer patients for the treatment too quickly.\n\nStaff at the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) raised serious safeguarding issues last year.\n\nThe Trust which runs the clinic said the report was \"no longer relevant\".\n\nGIDS, which is run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, is a specialised unit for young people who have difficulties with their gender identity.\n\nIn 2005, the Trust's then medical director, adult psychiatrist Dr David Taylor, conducted a review into the service - then called the Gender Identity Development Unit.\n\nHe reported that colleagues at the Trust were working hard to provide good care for patients, but highlighted concerns about some aspects of their treatment.\n\nThe document details concerns raised by some clinicians at that time about alleged pressure on staff to refer patients for treatment with puberty blockers, a lack of a robust evidence base underpinning this treatment, and the apparently troubled backgrounds of some young people referred. These included past sexual abuse and trauma.\n\nNewsnight obtained the 2005 review via the Freedom of Information Act, a move which the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust resisted. It argued disclosure of the document would \"adversely impact on the Trust's ability to provide effective and safe services to its patients\".\n\nBut the Information Commissioner's Office ruled that the document's publication was in the public interest.\n\nIn his 2005 report Dr Taylor, who left in 2011 after 30 years, made a series of recommendations for improvements to the service - which in 2005 was much smaller, receiving tens of referrals per year rather than thousands.\n\nDr Taylor called for the service to monitor patients after leaving, for more research into this area of healthcare, and for staff to be supported if faced with pressure to refer for treatments when they thought it was inappropriate.\n\nIn his report, which was published in 2006, he said puberty blockers might be the best course of action for some, but added that in his view young people needed a period of explorative therapy first.\n\nThe document also detailed concerns from some staff about the speed at which some young people were being referred for treatment with puberty blockers.\n\nThese drugs stop a young person's body developing, with the aim of helping to relieve gender dysphoria - distress caused when a person's gender identity does not match their biological sex. The NHS now recognises that little is known about their long term side effects.\n\nConcerns about the use of puberty blockers were subsequently raised by other staff in the internal 2019 review of the service.\n\nIt is unclear why some recommendations made in 2005 were not implemented, but Dr Taylor told Newsnight there may be several reasons, and said the demand for the service was \"greater than the capacity of the unit to cope.\"\n\nSociety's shifting attitudes towards gender identity, and the underfunding of other adolescent mental health services are also important, he told the BBC.\n\nLast month the NHS announced an independent review into gender identity services for young people.\n\nIn a statement the Trust said: \"This report from 2006 is not relevant to the circumstances and issues faced by the GIDS service today. The service had been nationally commissioned since 2009, with NHS England (NHSE) taking responsibility for it in 2013. The service specifications were reviewed in 2016 and are currently under review again, as scheduled.\n\n\"Some of the young people we see in the service experience difficulties which may or may not be related to gender dysphoria. GIDS is a specialist service and relies on an integrated care model in which it works closely with local CAMHS to support ongoing difficulties.\n\n\"It is important to recognise that not all co-occurring difficulties will be resolved by accessing specialist psychosocial exploration of gender identity and related issues.\"\n\nThe Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust welcomed the NHS review of gender services, to be conducted by Dr Hilary Cass, the former President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.\n\n\"We welcome this and hope this will lead to better and quicker access to support for these young people.\"", "Top row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nThe Manchester Arena suicide bomber was missed by seconds by a police patrol, the inquiry into the bombing heard.\n\nSalman Abedi, dressed in black and bent over by the weight of the home-made bomb in a large rucksack, later made his way to the foyer where he detonated the explosive, killing 22 people.\n\nThe inquiry has heard of \"missed opportunities\" prior to the attack.\n\nPolice personnel patrolling Manchester Arena were also absent from patrol for more than two hours, the inquiry heard.\n\nFour British Transport Police (BTP) operatives were present on the night of the attack, one PC and three PCSOs, patrolling in pairs, the hearing in Manchester was told.\n\nIt heard PC Jessica Bullough and PCSO Mark Renshaw took a break at about 19:30 BST, leaving Manchester Arena to buy food, as the Ariana Grande concert began on 22 May 2017.\n\nThey returned 45 minutes later and resumed patrolling two hours and 10 minutes after they first departed to buy food, the inquiry heard.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the explosion\n\nTwo more PCSOs, Jon Morrey and Lewis Brown, took an hour's break from 21:15.\n\nBetween 21:15 and 21:37, it appeared no BTP officer was patrolling the railway station, when Abedi took up his position at 21:33 in the foyer of the venue, the inquiry heard.\n\nEarlier, the two PCSOs had conducted a routine check on toilets at Victoria Station at 20:49, less than a minute after Abedi left there.\n\nBoth police and Showsec security workers later received reports of suspicions from members of the public about Abedi, the inquiry was told.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West spoke in a debate in the House of Commons before returning unwell back to Scotland\n\nScotland's first minister says the actions of an SNP MP who travelled to Westminster despite experiencing Covid symptoms are \"utterly indefensible\".\n\nMargaret Ferrier said she made the journey because she was feeling \"much better\" - but also returned home after getting a positive test result.\n\nShe is facing calls to resign from opponents and SNP politicians, after she was suspended by the party.\n\nNicola Sturgeon tweeted her support for the decision to suspend the MP.\n\nShe said: \"This is utterly indefensible. It's hard to express just how angry I feel on behalf of people across the country making hard sacrifices every day to help beat Covid.\n\n\"The rules apply to everyone and they're in place to keep people safe. @Ianblackford_MP is right to suspend the whip.\"\n\nGlasgow East MP David Linden, one of Ms Ferrier's former SNP colleagues, told BBC Question Time she \"should resign\" as an MP.\n\nHis fellow SNP MPs, Kirsty Blackman and Stephen Flynn, have also called for her to step down.\n\nMeanwhile, Ruth Davidson, former Scottish Conservative leader, told BBC Newsnight: \"She shouldn't be an MP at all. That's on her and if she had a shred of decency she would [resign],\" she said.\n\nTaking public transport after testing positive amounted to an \"absolutely reckless endangerment of person and of life\", she added.\n\nMs Ferrier said she took a coronavirus test on Saturday after experiencing \"mild symptoms\", but travelled to London on Monday as she felt better.\n\nThe MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West spoke in the coronavirus debate in the House of Commons on Monday, and said she received her positive test result that evening.\n\nShe then took a train back to Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Ferrier said she had informed the police and that she deeply regretted her actions.\n\n\"I travelled home by train on Tuesday morning without seeking advice. This was also wrong and I am sorry,\" she said.\n\n\"I have been self-isolating at home ever since.\"\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed they had been contacted by Ms Ferrier, saying officers were \"looking into the circumstances\" and liaising with the Metropolitan Police Service.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said he had spoken to Ms Ferrier, who accepted that what she had done was wrong.\n\nHe said: \"Margaret will be referring herself to the parliamentary standards commissioner as well as the police. I am tonight suspending the whip from Margaret.\"\n\nDave Penman, general secretary of the FDA union, which represents some Commons staff, said it was \"such a deliberate and reckless act\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's a complete disregard for others. Coronavirus is like any other health and safety issue in the workplace - we all have obligations to other people and anyone who recklessly endangers other people has to face consequences.\"\n\nWhen someone tests positive for coronavirus they normally attract sympathy and concern.\n\nBut that's in extremely short supply for Margaret Ferrier after she admitted breaking Covid self-isolation rules.\n\nShe may have apologised for attending parliament and making lengthy journeys by public transport with coronavirus but she has not offered an explanation.\n\nHer behaviour is far more serious than the lockdown travel breach that cost Catherine Calderwood her job as Scotland's chief medical officer.\n\nIt is also more serious than the lockdown travels of the prime minister's adviser, Dominic Cummings, who Mrs Ferrier called on to resign.\n\nIt is no surprise then that the Conservatives are demanding the MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West stands down from Parliament.\n\nShe has already been suspended by the SNP and the party leader, Nicola Sturgeon, has described her behaviour as \"utterly indefensible\".\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle wrote to MPs on Thursday evening to say he was informed after Ms Ferrier told the SNP whip on Wednesday afternoon that she had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"The House authorities immediately took all necessary steps in line with their legal obligations and PHE [Public Health England] Guidance,\" he wrote.\n\n\"On the basis of the information supplied to the contact tracing system, only one individual has been identified as a close contact in relation to this case and is now self-isolating.\"\n\nA House of Commons spokesperson said the House's priority was to ensure the safety of those working on the estate.\n\nThe statement added: \"We have closely followed public health guidance on the action to take following a confirmed case of Covid on site.\n\n\"Parliament has a dedicated team to support the test and trace teams across the UK, acting as a central point of contact in the event of any suspected or confirmed cases, where an individual has been working on the estate.\"\n\n\"She has put passengers, rail staff, fellow MPs, Commons staff and many others at unacceptable risk,\" he said.\n\n\"To breach the rules twice is simply unforgivable, and has undermined all the sacrifices made by her constituents.\"\n\nTrain drivers union Aslef described her actions as \"both dangerous and disgraceful\".\n\nMs Ferrier was one of the MPs who called on the prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings to resign in the wake of the controversy over his visit to the North East of England during lockdown.\n\nAt the time, she said his actions had \"undermined the sacrifices that we have all been making\" and described his position as \"untenable\".", "Loss of a sense of smell may be a more reliable indicator of Covid-19 than cough or fever, research suggests.\n\nA study by University College London (UCL) of 590 people who lost their sense of smell or taste earlier in the year found 80% had coronavirus antibodies.\n\nOf those people with antibodies, 40% had no other symptoms.\n\nThe research only looked at people with mild symptoms, however.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nEvidence that loss of smell and taste could be signs of coronavirus began to emerge from about April, and they were added to the official list of symptoms in mid-May.\n\nCurrent guidance states anyone who experiences a loss of, or change to their sense of smell or taste should self-isolate and apply for a test.\n\nBut lead author of the UCL study, Prof Rachel Batterham, says cough and fever are still seen by many as the main symptoms to look out for.\n\nShe recruited people between 23 April and 14 May by sending out texts via four GP surgeries in London, enrolling those who reported losing their smell or taste in the previous four weeks.\n\nAll of these participants were tested for antibodies, and four out of five were positive, suggesting a previous Covid-19 infection.\n\nThe study was constrained by the fact that all its participants had mild symptoms, including or limited to a loss of smell or taste, so they may not be representative of all Covid patients.\n\nBut its findings emphasise the importance of people looking out for any change to their sense of smell or taste, and self-isolating if they realise they can't smell \"everyday\" items like perfume, bleach, toothpaste, or coffee, Prof Batterham said.\n\nWhile not all coronavirus patients will necessarily lose their sense of smell, if you do lose your sense of smell it is highly likely to be coronavirus, this research seems to suggest.\n\nThe thing to look out for is a loss of smell without having a blocked or runny nose, Prof Batterham explained.\n\nIt's thought loss of smell happens with Covid-19 because the virus invades the cells found at the back of the nose, throat and on the tongue.\n\nThis is distinct from the experience of having a cold where smell and taste might be altered because a person's airways are blocked.\n\nKing's College London researchers, who run the Covid Symptom Study app, previously estimated 60% of people with coronavirus lost their sense of smell or taste.\n\nAlthough this is considered a milder symptom and unlikely to land someone in hospital, Prof Batterham points out the potential dangers of losing your sense of smell including not being able to detect smoke, leaking gas or food that has gone off.\n\nIf suffered longer term, it can also have a significant impact on people's quality of life.\n\nThousands of people online have reported worrying experiences including causing fires and not being able to smell the smoke. Some have noticed constantly smelling a rancid \"garbage\" odour or experiencing a metallic taste, while others have found themselves unable to taste food for months after being clear of the virus.\n\nThe group of people who only lose their smell without experiencing any other symptoms may also pose the \"greatest risk\" to others since they may feel generally well and carry on going about their daily lives, Prof Batterham pointed out.\n\nAlthough the two often go together, loss of or change to smell was more common than loss of taste among people who have recovered from coronavirus, she said.\n\nHer research took place at a time when loss of smell and taste were not recognised symptoms of the virus.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? How have current restrictions affected you? Emailhaveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\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 comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "Emma and her husband James were devastated that they could not be together when they aborted their baby for medical reasons\n\nA woman who had a termination alone because of Covid restrictions said no-one else should have to go through the \"devastating\" experience.\n\nEmma Kemsley, from Saffron Walden, was told at a scan her baby boy was very unlikely to survive outside the womb.\n\nHer husband James was not allowed to attend the scan or the termination, leaving them \"heartbroken\".\n\nThe Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) said it hoped hospitals could be flexible.\n\nRestrictions have recently been lifted on many maternity wards to allow partners to attend scans and during labour, but this would not always include terminations.\n\nMrs Kemsley, who has endometriosis, said she was overjoyed to fall pregnant after six rounds of IVF and was told at her 12-week scan the baby was healthy.\n\nHowever, at an 18-week scan at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, in May, she found out his bladder was blocked and his lungs, kidneys and heart were not developing properly.\n\nEmma and James had six rounds of IVF to conceive their baby boy\n\nShe said the sonographer said her son had very little chance of survival outside the womb and gave her the number for an abortion clinic, telling her she needed to arrange a termination herself.\n\nMrs Kemsley, 33, who is a magazine editor, said: \"The hospital basically washed their hands of me. They were so clinical in their language and just told me to sort it out myself.\n\n\"I was completely alone and my husband James was in the car park. I had to break the news to him over speakerphone.\"\n\nMrs Kemsley struggled to find a clinic because the procedure was complicated by her endometriosis and because she was so far on in the pregnancy.\n\nShe made a complaint to Addenbrooke's and they eventually helped her find a specialist hospital where she could have the surgery.\n\n\"By this time, I was 20 weeks pregnant. It was just so scary and I felt so alone.\n\n\"James was desperate to support me but was forced to sit in the car park again.\n\n\"It was his baby too, he deserved to be there.\"\n\nJames said he was desperate to support his wife but could only watch from the sidelines\n\nMr Kemsley, 37, works as a personal development coach and has been helping men through similar experiences.\n\nHe said: \"No one should have to hear about the loss of their child over speakerphone. I should have been by my wife's side, supporting her, through every step of the process.\"\n\nAmanda Rowley, head of midwifery at Addenbrooke's, said the hospital had aimed to handle the restrictions in \"as sensitive and compassionate way as possible\".\n\nShe said: \"We are deeply sorry if the care provided fell below the high standards that we set ourselves.\"\n\nNHS England has recently written to hospitals asking them to allow partners to attend maternity units, after a campaign called for bans to be lifted.\n\nHowever, restrictions remain in place in most hospitals for terminations, in line with the national guidance on inpatient visitors.\n\nA spokesperson for RCOG said it had been an \"incredibly difficult\" time for women and their partners.\n\n\"Terminating a pregnancy because of a fetal condition can be a difficult experience, especially if women are having the procedure alone,\" they said.\n\n\"We very much hope trusts and boards are able to be flexible and support women and their partners at this time.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None James Kemsley - Same You Different Perspective The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a 90% rise in Covid-19 patients in intensive care in the past week\n\nDetails of a 60% rise in both hospital admissions and patients in beds with Covid-19 in Wales over the past week are shown in latest official figures.\n\nIt is being led by a dramatic rise in coronavirus patients in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg area, according to NHS Wales.\n\nThere were 229 Covid-19 patients in the health board's hospitals, the highest numbers since the end of May.\n\nMeanwhile, two more deaths were confirmed due to an outbreak inside Royal Glamorgan Hospital.\n\nIt takes the total of deaths to 10 due to infections caught inside the hospital near Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf. The number of linked cases has now risen to 89, after 60 were reported on Wednesday.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board also said it now had 22 confirmed cases of Covid-19 at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\n\"We have one ward closed and strict infection prevention and control procedures are being followed\", said a spokesman. \"We have also increased our testing in the hospital.\"\n\nDirector of public health Dr Kelechi Nnoaham added: \"The number of cases at Prince Charles Hospital are unlinked to the cases at Royal Glamorgan Hospital.\n\n\"Temporary restrictions to services at the Royal Glamorgan hospital will remain in place until we are absolutely sure that we have contained the spread of the virus on the site.\n\n\"The opening of our field hospital next week will create capacity at the hospital for patients who need the most specialist care, and enable others to relocate to a Covid-free setting.\"\n\nThere were 550 Covid patients in hospital beds in Wales on Tuesday, although this is 40% of the levels at the pandemic's peak.\n\nNHS Wales chief executive Dr Andrew Goodall outlined the rises to Senedd members on Wednesday, but the weekly figures give further detail.\n\nThe 229 Cwm Taf Morgannwg patients make up 41% of all Covid-19 hospital patients across Wales.\n\nThey also make up a third of all hospital admissions, while neighbouring Aneurin Bevan is providing another fifth.\n\nDuring a period when Covid-19 is resurging - obviously there's a lot of focus on the rising numbers of cases.\n\nBut case rates fluctuate depending on how much testing is happening and where.\n\nArguably, a more accurate picture of the situation comes from the data on how many people are in hospital with confirmed or suspected Covid-19.\n\nThis measure often lags behind the rising number of cases as it takes a period of time, usually from when someone gets exposed to developing symptoms and then becoming ill.\n\nAlthough it's worth remembering not everybody infected will get ill. But the picture that emerges from today's figures is that the pressure on the NHS is building yet again, with the numbers of patients with coronavirus in hospital wards and in intensive care rising sharply - and now at their highest levels since June.\n\nIt's also striking the proportion of all Covid-19 patients in Welsh hospitals who are from the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board area.\n\nThis reflects the high rates in communities, like Rhondda Cynon Taf, and the serious outbreak at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.", "Cases are highest in the North West, North East and Yorkshire and The Humber\n\nCoronavirus cases in England have \"increased rapidly\", data shows, as ministers grapple with what to do next.\n\nEstimates suggest between one-in-170 and one-in-240 people you meet in the street has the virus.\n\nBoth current cases, and the speed at which they are increasing, are much higher in the north of England than the national average.\n\nScientific advisers warn hospital admissions are \"very close\" to levels in early March.\n\nThe official government statistics do not capture the full pattern of the number of people infected.\n\nMeanwhile, the largest study of coronavirus, by Imperial College London, has also reported its analysis of 175,000 people, with the last samples taken on Monday.\n\nAcross England, it says cases are continuing to increase, but not as aggressively as at the beginning of September.\n\nBut this masks a stark regional picture - with cases doubling around twice as fast in the North West, Yorkshire and the West Midlands compared to the whole of England.\n\nIt also shows there has been an eight-fold increase in cases in people over 65 as the epidemic surge that started in younger age groups bleeds into the rest of the population.\n\nProf Steven Riley, from Imperial, said: \"I think it's clear that the prevalence is still increasing\" and that if new, tougher measures were needed in northern England, then they should come in \"sooner rather than later\".\n\nThe rise in cases and people being admitted to hospital is causing mounting political concern. New rules are expected to be announced on Monday and come into force on Wednesday.\n\nThe precise details are still being debated, but measures including closing pubs and restaurants, or a ban on overnight stays, are on the table.\n\nData presented to MPs by England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, appears to put the hospitality sector in the firing line, given that parts of society such as schools and universities are being kept open.\n\nA slide shown at the meeting lists hospitality as the most frequent setting for coronavirus exposure.\n\nIt says pubs, restaurants and the hospitality sector as a whole are a major area where people testing positive for the virus have been mixing.\n\nGillian Keegan, minister for skills and apprenticeships, said the government had to act to stem the rise in cases.\n\n\"This is serious - it is getting out of control, and we have to do something to bring it back under control,\" she said.\n\nThe Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) says it is \"almost certain that the epidemic continues to grow exponentially across the country and is confident that the transmission is not slowing\".\n\nSir Mark Walport, a member of Sage, told the BBC: \"On the 19 March, just before the first set of widespread restrictions, hospital admissions were 586 in England and on the 6 October they were 524.\n\n\"So we are very close to the situation at the beginning of March.\"\n\nHospital admissions are around one fifth of the level at the peak in spring, but are currently doubling every fortnight.\n\nSir Jeremy Farrar, another Sage member and director of the Wellcome Trust, says: \"We are back to choices faced in the early March... the longer the decisions are delayed, the harder and more draconian are the interventions needed to change trajectory of [the] epidemic.\"", "Tory Lanez has been charged with shooting Megan Thee Stallion.\n\nThe rapper - real name Daystar Peterson - is accused of shooting Megan several times at her feet and wounding her.\n\nAccording to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, it happened after the pair got into an argument whilst riding in an SUV in the Hollywood Hills on 12 July.\n\nTory Lanez, who's 28, is also charged with carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle.\n\nIf convicted the Canadian artist faces up to 23 years in prison.\n\nHe's denied the charges - but only in music he's released since the incident.\n\nCourt hearings will begin on October 13 at the Foltz Criminal Justice Centre in Los Angeles.\n\nRapper Tory Lanez hasn't spoken out about the alleged shooting\n\nAt first Megan, whose real name is Megan Jovon Ruth Pete, claimed she was cut by glass, but she later posted on Instagram that she had been shot by Tory.\n\nThe 24-year-old also claimed she was scared police would start shooting if she said a gun was involved.\n\n\"I didn't tell the police nothing, because I didn't want us to get in no more trouble than we was about to get in.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSince the incident, Megan accused Tory's team of spreading misinformation online.\n\n\"Stop acting like black women is aggressive when all they be doing is speaking the... facts, and you... can't handle it,\" she said.\n\nShe spoke about being called a \"snitch\" online - and also disputed claims that she hit Tory Lanez before the shooting.\n\nTory Lanez hasn't spoken about the incident directly but released an album Daystar last month with many of the tracks addressing the incident.\n\n\"Megan people tryna frame me,\" he raps on the opening track, Money Over Fallout.\n\n\"Girl, you had the nerve to write that statement on that affidavit, knowing I ain't do it but I'm coming at my truest.\"\n\nIn the same song, he casts doubt on whether she was shot at all, asking: \"How you get shot in your foot, don't hit no bones or tendons?\"\n\nOn another track he has a dig at JoJo who removed a collaboration from her album following the incident.\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.\n\nThe way in which police restrained a mentally ill man contributed to his death in custody, an inquest jury has found.\n\nKevin Clarke, who had schizophrenia, was surrounded and restrained by officers in a field in March 2018.\n\nHe told officers who handcuffed him twice that he \"couldn't breathe\".\n\nJurors at Southwark Coroner's Court deliberated for five days after hearing evidence from police officers and paramedics for over a month.\n\nThe inquest had heard that the 35-year-old told officers \"I'm going to die\" as he was put into handcuffs, due to his size, but was \"ignored\" and then lost consciousness as he was taken to an ambulance.\n\nReturning a narrative conclusion, the jury concluded that the decision to use restraints on Mr Clarke was \"inappropriate\".\n\nThe jury said the use of restraints \"probably more than minimally or trivially\" contributed to his death.\n\n\"It is highly likely that at least one officer heard Mr Clarke say 'I can't breathe' on one of the occasions he repeated it,\" they added.\n\n\"Despite this, no action was taken other than one officer saying 'you've got to breathe, you've got to breathe, breathe, deep breaths'.\n\n\"Failure to remove restraints at this point was contrary to guidance and training.\"\n\nKevin Clarke was handcuffed twice when he collapsed\n\nMr Clarke's mother, Wendy Clarke, told the BBC sitting through the whole inquest was \"painful, very painful to see a lack of urgency\".\n\n\"Kevin should have been alive today but there was no urgency in his care,\" she said.\n\n\"All that he needed was to have been taken from where he was to a place of safety, and the ambulance service let him down, the police let him down and the home let him down.\"\n\nHis sister Tellecia Strachen said the inquest had been \"distressing\".\n\n\"We haven't been able to grieve probably because we're constantly reminded of what's happened,\" she said.\n\n\"They knew it was an emergency, there was no sense urgency and there were so many missed chances at every step, at every level, by all the interested parties.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tellecia Strachen, Kevin Clarke's sister: \"There must not be another George Floyd\"\n\nMr Clarke had been living at the Jigsaw Project, a residential support service, for about two years up until his death in hospital.\n\nHe had been seen by officers earlier that day in Lewisham, but was not sectioned despite concerns from staff at Jigsaw.\n\nJurors found that the communications between police and staff at Mr Clarke's residential support service were insufficient.\n\nBut they said the insufficiency did not contribute to his death.\n\nBodyworn footage played in the inquest showed the moment Mr Clarke was restrained by officers and put in two sets of handcuffs.\n\nVarious clips showed officers leading Mr Clarke away from the field towards an ambulance - but he passed out and never regained consciousness.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service has already admitted its crew failed to conduct a \"complete clinical assessment\" of Mr Clarke on arrival.\n\nThis amounted to a \"failure to provide basic medical care\", which the jury said possibly contributed to his death.\n\nThe cause of his death was given as \"acute behavioural disturbance, in a relapse of schizophrenia, leading to exhaustion and cardiac arrest, contributed to by restraint, struggle and being walked\".\n\nDuring the inquest a mural of Kevin Clarke was created outside Lewisham Police Station\n\nReacting to the jury's decision, the Met Police's Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family \"for the failings identified by the jury\".\n\n\"The officers who attended that day found themselves in a very difficult situation dealing with a man undergoing a mental health crisis who clearly needed urgent medical care,\" he said.\n\nHe said they made a rapid assessment and within 90 seconds had called for an ambulance.\n\n\"The jury has made several observations about how those officers dealt with Mr Clarke,\" he added.\n\n\"Now we need to carefully consider those observations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Businesses groups have largely welcomed a new wage support for workers at firms forced to close by Covid restrictions.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said the state will cover two-thirds of staff wages at closed workplaces, and firms in England can get grants of up to £3,000 per month.\n\nThe subsidy is an extension to the Job Support Scheme announced last month.\n\nThe CBI business lobby group said it \"should cushion the blow for the most affected and keep more people in work\".\n\n\"But many firms, including pubs and restaurants, will still be hugely disappointed if they have to close their doors again after doing so much to keep customers and staff safe,\" added CBI boss Dame Carolyn Fairbairn.\n\nThe business group additionally called for a \"consistent and open strategy for living with Covid-19 through the autumn and winter\".\n\nAn update on restrictions, which could see pubs and restaurants shut in the worst-affected areas, is expected on Monday.\n\nUK Hospitality, an industry body representing pubs, restaurants and bars, also welcomed the government support for wage bills, but said more help was needed for companies still trading under restrictions.\n\n\"Support for nightclubs and other businesses left in limbo, still unable to reopen, is very welcome. It will help save jobs in a sector that would be sorely missed it were allowed to die,\" said UK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls.\n\n\"However, worryingly, it does nothing to address the issues faced by sector businesses operating well below capacity due to restrictions and consumers avoiding travel and struggling to keep their workforce employed\".\n\nThe boss of London pub company Young's said pubs and restaurants should be congratulated by the government for creating safe environments for patrons, not seen as a problem whose activities should be restricted.\n\nChief executive Patrick Dardis said: \"Since reopening, we have had 2.7 million people through our doors, but just nine confirmed Covid cases. That's an infection rate of just 0.00000328%.\n\n\"Our sector has spent hundreds of millions in ensuring it is Covid safe and secure for staff and customers alike.\"\n\nThe head chef at Newcastle field-to-fork restaurant Bistro forty six, Max Gott, said the restrictions already in place mean he can only sit 12 people per night instead of 30.\n\nIf a local lockdown was imposed, Mr Gott said the company would have to decide whether it was worth taking the grants, shut up shop and furlough staff while \"trying not to haemorrhage too much money while we shut, or try and operate as a takeaway and try and make some money and break even, although that's unlikely\".\n\nHe said it would be better for staff if his restaurant could access grants and the subsidy while operating as a take-away.\n\n\"Some of the staff won't be able to live on two-thirds wages, we've got mortgages to pay,\" Mr Gott added.\n\nSee-sawing between opening and closing the restaurant, based on customer reactions to restrictions, came with added costs each time, he said.\n\n\"We've got bills coming in all the time - we've got stock that we'll lose - if we had to shut we've got £300 of stock that we'd put in the bin or try to give away or something so it all adds up and each time we get told to shut and then open it's a cost\".\n\nMany businesses could be forced to close if lockdown restrictions are tightened\n\nFederation of Small Businesses boss Mike Cherry said the extra help for closed businesses would be \"welcomed by thousands of small businesses\".\n\n\"Evolving the Job Support Scheme to provide two-thirds of total salary costs together with enhancing existing cash grants for those faced with this scenario are both game-changers, and it's welcome to see them adopted today.\n\n\"We will work with government on clarity on where and when any new restrictions will apply, and clear, accessible small-business-friendly guidance to make sure this help gets to those facing a lockdown of their business premises.\"\n\nAlthough it said \"a lockdown with support for staff wages is better than a lockdown without any support,\" the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce warned that if businesses were forced to close it was not just staff who lost money.\n\n\"Companies who supply the food and drink we consume in bars, pubs, cafes and restaurants will feel the consequences too,\" said Belfast Chamber chief executive Simon Hamilton.\n\n\"Similarly, sectors which aren't formally forced to close could well find that their custom drops because of wider lockdown restrictions, thus impacting on their viability too.\"", "Only a few hundred North Atlantic right whales remain\n\nMore than 350 scientists and conservationists from 40 countries have signed a letter calling for global action to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises from extinction.\n\nThey say more than half of all species are of conservation concern, with two on the \"knife-edge\" of extinction.\n\nLack of action over polluted and over-exploited seas means that many will be declared extinct within our lifetimes, the letter says.\n\nEven large iconic whales are not safe.\n\n\"Let this be a historic moment when realising that whales are in danger sparks a powerful wave of action from everyone: regulators, scientists, politicians and the public to save our oceans,\" said Mark Simmonds.\n\nThe visiting research fellow at the University of Bristol, UK, and senior marine scientist with Humane Society International, has coordinated the letter, which has been signed by experts across the world.\n\n\"Save the whales\" was a familiar green slogan in the 1970s and 1980s, part of a movement that helped bring an end to commercial whaling.\n\nWhile stricken populations in most parts of the world have had a chance to recover from organised hunting, they are now facing myriad threats from human actions, including plastic pollution, loss of habitat and prey, climate change and collisions with ships.\n\nBy far the biggest threat is becoming accidently captured in fishing equipment and nets, which kills an estimated 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises a year.\n\nRally in Mexico to draw attention to the vaquita\n\nHundreds of scientists have expressed the same concern - that we are moving closer to a number of preventable extinctions. And unless we act now, future generations will be denied the chance to experience these intelligent social and inspiring creatures.\n\nThey point to the decline of the North Atlantic right whale, of which only a few hundred individuals remain, and the vaquita, a porpoise found in the Gulf of California, which may be down to the last 10 of its kind.\n\nAnd they say it is almost inevitable that these two species will follow the Chinese river dolphin down the path to extinction. The dolphin, also known as the baiji, was once a common sight in the Yangtze River but is now thought to have died out.\n\nThe letter, which has been signed by experts in the UK, US, Mexico, South Africa and Brazil, among others, points out that these \"dramatic\" declines could have been avoided, but that the political will has been lacking.\n\nDr Susan Lieberman of the Wildlife Conservation Society said she signed the letter to help scientists raise these issues more widely.\n\n\"It is critical that governments develop, fund, and implement additional needed actions to better protect and save these iconic species - so they don't end going the way of the baiji,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe scientists say that more than half of the 90 living species of whales, dolphins and porpoises, are of conservation concern, and the trend of acting \"too little, too late\" must end.\n\nThey are calling on countries with whales, dolphins and porpoises (cetaceans) in their waters to act to monitor threats and do more to protect them.\n\nSarah Dolman of Whale and Dolphin Conservation, UK, said accidental capture in fishing gear, known as bycatch, is an issue around UK waters, causing the deaths of thousands of cetaceans and other animals, including seals and birds, a year.\n\nThese include harbour porpoises and common dolphins, and increasing numbers of minke and humpback whales off the coast of Scotland.\n\nShe said entanglement in fishing nets was a \"horrible way to die\" with some animals surviving with broken teeth or beaks, or losing their young.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"We have a long way to go before we can be confident the fish we are eating is not causing bycatch of protected species like whales and dolphins.\"\n\nThe letter is part of a growing movement by scientists and conservationists to raise awareness of the threats faced by whales and their smaller relatives, the dolphins and porpoises.\n\nThe matter was discussed in September at a meeting of the scientific conservation committee of the International Whaling Commission, which has a core mission to prevent extinctions.\n\nMembers have set up an \"extinction initiative\" to work out how many extinctions we may be facing and what more we can do to prevent them.", "Pubs in Wales currently have to stop serving alcohol at 22:00\n\nPubs in Wales could close if coronavirus cases continue to rise, the health minister has warned.\n\nAll bars and restaurants across central Scotland have been closed following a surge in cases.\n\nVaughan Gething said the Welsh Government was considering the measure, but said it could mean \"significant unemployment\" unless there was financial support from Westminster.\n\nCurrently, pubs, cafes and restaurants in Wales stop serving alcohol at 22:00.\n\nMr Gething told BBC Radio Wales \"we are not yet at a point\" where widespread closures of bars was needed, but the situation was \"rapidly evolving\".\n\nThe man in charge of Public Health Wales' response to the pandemic, Dr Giri Shankar, has raised concerns over ongoing transmissions in pubs and bars\n\nFigures show there has been 33 cases linked to venues in the Garw Valley, Bridgend county, and cases have been linked to bars in Newport in recent weeks.\n\nRestrictions are to be further tightened in parts of England early next week, with the closure of bars and restaurants a possibility, the BBC has been told.\n\nIn Wales, the infection rate stands at 95.1 cases per 100,000 of the population, over the past seven days, with 2,999 people testing positive in the last week.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Gething said the infection rate would need to drip below 50 cases per 100,000 in order to avoid \"larger measures\" regionally or nationally.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales the situation was being reviewed every day, but the Welsh Government was \"considering\" closing pubs.\n\nNew rules in Scotland have been described as a \"death sentence\" for many pubs and restaurants\n\nBut, he said, the impact on people's livelihoods would be significant if the UK government did not give financial support.\n\n\"We also have to consider, if we are going to close a sector of the economy without support... then they are going to lose their jobs, they are going to lose their businesses, and there is a direct health impact that comes from significant unemployment,\" he said.\n\n\"We are not at the point where we need to have wholesale closures in the hospitality industry, but this is a rapidly evolving, highly infectious disease and the picture could be different on Sunday or Monday then the one we have today.\n\n\"I'm not itching to press a button, I'm looking to see what we can do to keep people alive, and to keep Wales safe.\"\n\nOwner of the Boar's Head Hotel in Carmarthen, William Hunter, said he did not think his business would be viable if there were any further changes to the rules.\n\n\"It's so worrying at the moment. We're more than 50% down - any more restrictions will push us that bit further which won't be viable,\" he said.\n\n\"We're at the stage where we're offering 50% off all food, four days a week - which is keeping us afloat.\"\n\nAt a daily coronavirus briefing, First Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"When I was talking to the chief constable of Gwent and others yesterday, the evidence on the ground in that part of Wales was that the numbers that are rising are not being caused by hospitality businesses.\"\n\nHe said the approach was to \"match the action to the source of the problem\".", "Olivier Max Caramin died in 2017 while working on a Queensland farm\n\nAn Australian employer has been fined over the death of a Belgian backpacker who collapsed from heat stress while working on a farm picking fruit.\n\nOlivier Max Caramin, 27, died in a Queensland hospital in November 2017 after just three days on the job.\n\nHis employer, Bradford Clark Rosten, pleaded guilty to breaking labour laws. He was fined A$65,000 (£36,000; $47,000) but avoided a conviction.\n\nAustralia's fruit-picking sector has faced much criticism over conditions.\n\nThe industry is often heavily staffed by overseas backpackers who can use it to extend their working holiday visa.\n\nMr Caramin had hoped do that by working on the farm in Ayr, a town in tropical northern Queensland.\n\nOn the day of his collapse, he had been picking pumpkins for hours in 35C heat with no shade.\n\nLocal media reported that Mr Caramin had told co-workers he was struggling, but they were told to keep picking to meet a quota.\n\nOn Friday, the Townsville Magistrates Court found Mr Rosten - who ran a labour-hire company - failed to provide proper safety training to his workers.\n\nMagistrate Ross Mack noted Mr Rosten's remorse and previously good record, but said \"complacency\" had contributed to Mr Caramin's death.\n\nAn earlier investigation by Queensland's workplace regulator found that workers had been provided with inadequate health information and ill-considered conditions.\n\nIn recent years, several other cases of backpacker exploitation, underpayment and abuse have come to light.\n\nIndustry representatives have argued such issues are not widespread, but critics say backpackers are vulnerable in the usually isolated, rural areas.\n\nIn 2017, the mother of British backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung - who was murdered in a Queensland hostel - called for Australian farm work to be better regulated. Rosie Ayliffe said an \"aggressive atmosphere\" had contributed to her daughter's death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I'm sitting in the cubicle where Mia died'\n\nA study in the same year found one in three backpackers working in Australia were being paid about half the minimum wage or less.\n\nFruit and vegetable farms have struggled this year due to the pandemic reducing the number of available pickers, especially from overseas. The sector is facing an estimated shortfall of 30,000 workers.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Celebrity cook Mary Berry and grime pioneer Dizzee Rascal have been honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.\n\nBerry, who has earned the status of national treasure over a six-decade career, was \"overwhelmed\" at being made a dame for services to broadcasting, the culinary arts and charity.\n\nIt is \"such a huge honour\", she said.\n\nDizzee Rascal, real name Dylan Kwabena Mills, has been made an MBE for services to music.\n\nReacting to the news, Dame Mary added: \"When I was first told that I was going to be a dame you don't really believe it. And then it's so exciting, and you feel very proud.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mary Berry on damehood: \"I'll still be the same person\"\n\n\"For most of my life I have been lucky enough to follow my passion to teach cookery through books and the media.\n\n\"To be a dame is really the icing on the cake.\"\n\nThe former Great British Bake Off judge joked: \"I just wish my parents and brothers were here to share my joy, as my only achievement at school was just one O-Level - in cookery of course.\"\n\nDame Mary is no stranger to the Royal Family, having made meringue roulades with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge last year, for her Berry Royal Christmas TV special.\n\nThe much-loved broadcaster, baker and food writer is also a patron of Child Bereavement UK, after having lost her son William aged 19 in a car crash in 1989.\n\nIn 2018, she told The Graham Norton Show she was once arrested at an airport after baking ingredients were mistaken for drugs.\n\nDizzee Rascal has had five UK number one singles\n\nDizzee Rascal is considered to have been one of the founding fathers of grime - a UK-based electronic rap genre which grew out of the English capital at the start of the century.\n\nIn 2003, aged 19, the East London MC became the youngest artist to win the Mercury Prize, with his debut album Boy in da Corner.\n\nThe elder statesman of the British rap game, who drops his seventh album E3 AF at the end of October, told the BBC in 2017 that he deserved to be given top billing at Glastonbury Festival.\n\n\"I've toured this festival for years, never disappointed,\" he said. \"You can always count on me.\"\n\n\"I'm basically at the stage where they need to make me headline this thing - because they ain't had no British rappers headline this festival.\"\n\nHis drive and success helped to pave the way for modern superstar Stormzy to eventually become the first black solo headliner in the history of the Worthy Farm event last year, bringing UK hip-hop and grime into the mainstream in the process.\n\nDame Mary is joined by veteran actress and Coronation Street star Maureen Lipman and The Woman in Black author Susan Hill, in being made a dame commander. The former played the title character's mother in Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning 2002 drama The Pianist.\n\nThere were knighthoods for one of the country's first rock 'n' roll icons Tommy Steele, for services to entertainment and charity, along with Brookside, Grange Hill and Hollyoaks creator Professor Phil Redmond, for services to broadcasting and arts in the regions. Hercule Poirot actor David Suchet was also knighted for services to drama and charity.\n\nDerrick Evans - more commonly known as Mr Motivator - has also been made an MBE after creating online home exercises during lockdown and hosting a week-long workout with Linda Lusardi to raise money for Age UK's Emergency Coronavirus Appeal.\n\nAnother English music star, singer Mica Paris, was also made an MBE, as well as performer and vocal coach Carrie Grant.\n\nDavid Attenborough and Lorraine Kelly also make the Queen's latest list\n\nElsewhere, broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough added to his legacy by being made a GCMG - one the country's highest honours.\n\nSir David, who has spoken to a big Glastonbury crowd himself in recent years, is considered to be an inspiration for people of all ages in the UK and beyond, for a lifetime spent warning world leaders of the need to protect the planet and of ongoing issues around climate change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Paul Smith, the chairman of the clothing label Paul Smith, was made a Companion of Honour, for services to fashion.\n\nLongstanding daytime ITV presenter and journalist Lorraine Kelly was made a CBE alongside Judy Craymer, the woman behind the movie Mamma Mia! and singer-songwriter/campaigner Joan Armatrading - for services to music, charity and equal rights.\n\nProfessor Brian Cox, scientist and presenter of BBC shows including The Wonders of the Universe, was also made a CBE alongside actor Adrian Lester, who is currently starring in BBC drama series Life and appeared in the films Primary Colors and The Day After Tomorrow.\n\nBernardine Evaristo was made an OBE and Professor Brian Cox was made a CBE\n\nOBEs went to ELO singer and music producer Jeff Lynne; and Tony Hatch - the man who wrote the theme tunes for Neighbours, Crossroads, Emmerdale and Petula Clark's Downtown; as well as Last Tango in Halifax screenwriter Sally Wainwright - for services to television.\n\nBooker Prize-winning-author Bernardine Evaristo was also appointed at the same level.\n\nThe Girl, Woman, Other novelist became the first black woman to win the award, when she shared it with Margaret Atwood in 2019, after the judges broke their rules by declaring a tie.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Atwood and Evaristo become the first authors to jointly win the Booker Prize since 1992\n\nHow to Train Your Dragon writer Cressida Cowell was made an MBE for services to children's literature, while ITV's Dr Hilary Jones was made an MBE too, for services to broadcasting, public health information and charity.\n\nRapper Lady Leshurr was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to music and charity.\n\nThe freestyle performer, whose real name is Melesha Katrina O'Garro, performed her distinctive rap, Quarantine Speech, for a YouTube fundraiser during lockdown.\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 Lady Leshurr This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nRap duo Krept and Konan, real names Casyo Johnson and Karl Wilson, were also awarded the British Empire Medal for services to music and the community in Croydon.\n\nThey launched the Positive Direction Foundation three years ago, which offers activities including including workshops in music production, engineering and songwriting for young people.\n\nLast year they also judged the first series of BBC Three's The Rap Game UK.\n\nKrept and Konan: Honoured for their music and work in their community\n\nThe Queen's Birthday Honours list is usually revealed in June, but it was delayed this year by several months due to coronavirus.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A number of people have died in an Edinburgh hospital following an outbreak of Covid-19 on a cancer ward.\n\nSix other patients at Edinburgh's Western General have also been confirmed with the virus.\n\nNHS Lothian said it was investigating the outbreak and the ward had been closed to new admissions and discharges to allow tests to be carried out.\n\nIt comes after a number of positive cases were also identified on wards at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said a ward had been closed to new admissions and other Covid-19 control measures introduced at the hospital.\n\nIn Edinburgh, patients and staff are being screened for the virus as part of the health board's response.\n\nAn incident management team (IMT) has also been set up and new infection control measures put in place.\n\nNHS Lothian said all patients on the cancer ward had been informed of the outbreak and contact tracing was being carried out.\n\nPatients who would normally return home for the weekend to spend time with families have been asked to remain in the hospital to reduce the risk of further transmission.\n\nDr Donald Inverarity, consultant microbiologist and chair of the IMT, said: \"Our thoughts are with the family of the deceased and I would like to express our sincere condolences.\n\n\"The situation will continue to be reviewed and monitored very closely.\n\n\"Patient safety is our main priority and while we understand that the request not to go home for the weekend may be upsetting, it is necessary.\"\n\nIn Glasgow, the health board said strict infection control guidance was being observed to ensure patient treatments could continue.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"We have a number of positive cases in wards at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and staff are working extremely hard to ensure the appropriate measures have been implemented to minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"This includes the temporary closure of the ward to new admissions and other Covid-19 control measures.\n\n\"All those affected have been contact traced, screened and are self-isolating. All asymptomatic contact patients are being cared for separately from the confirmed cases.\"", "President Trump is taking a drug which he has touted as a “cure” for Covid-19, and says he will roll it out across the US.\n\nThe drug uses a combination of antibodies, and is developed by US based company Regeneron using human cells derived from an aborted foetus.\n\nBut the Trump administration suspended funding for projects using human foetal tissue from abortions in 2019. There is no outright ban however on the use of foetal material in drug research.\n\nAt the time of the funding suspension, the Department of Health and Human Services released a statement saying: “Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death is one of the very top priorities of President Trump’s administration.”\n\nThis has raised questions about the president’s use and promotion of new coronavirus treatments which have been developed using the practice.\n\nRemdesivir, another drug used by the president, and some vaccine development projects with White House funding also rely on the same cell lines produced from foetal tissue.\n\nBut the policy excluded cell lines made before June 2019. The cells used by most of the companies now trying to find a coronavirus treatment were derived from tissue of a foetus aborted in the 1970s.\n\nSo the latest drugs being touted by Trump don’t violate the current regulations as long as they’re not being developed using cell lines from a recently aborted foetus.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDominic Calvert-Lewin marked his England debut with a goal as Gareth Southgate's side eased to victory in the friendly against Wales at Wembley.\n\nEverton's in-form striker rose to head his 10th goal of the season after 26 minutes from Jack Grealish, delivering an impressive all-round display until he was substituted just before the hour.\n\nThe outstanding Grealish was at the heart of England's best work, drawing the foul that led to England's second goal eight minutes after the break. Kieran Trippier delivered a perfect free-kick that was turned in by an ecstatic Conor Coady for his first international goal.\n\nEngland were now in control against a Wales side defending an eight-match unbeaten run and Danny Ings, making his first start, showed superb athleticism to add a third in the 63rd minutre with a perfectly-executed overhead kick after Tyrone Mings had headed down a Kalvin Phillips corner.\n• None Best action and reaction from England v Wales\n\nCalvert-Lewin was the Premier League's striker in form with nine goals for Everton - so it was no surprise this was an England debut bursting with confidence.\n\nThe 23-year-old has matured rapidly and all that development was on show as he delivered further illustration that he has what it takes to become the complete striker.\n\nCalvert-Lewin's attitude and workrate have never been in question but his goals output has. Now, with Everton top of the Premier League under manager Carlo Ancelotti, he cannot stop scoring.\n\nHere, he was the beneficiary of brilliant work by Grealish, whose cross from the right was the sort any striker dreams of, Calvert-Lewin soaring to power in the header.\n\nHe was taken off just before the hour but his power in the air, close control, hold-up play and strong running made this an impressive bow.\n\nEngland's other contender for the man-of-the-match award was Grealish, who had waited so long for his international debut and finally got on for 14 minutes in the dismal goalless draw against Denmark in Copenhagen in early September.\n\nHere, given his first start, Aston Villa's captain ran the show from midfield, drifting into dangerous positions, creating danger and constantly drawing fouls in dangerous positions.\n\nGrealish gave a top-class performance and his contribution, along with that of debutant Calvert-Lewin, will have delighted Southgate.\n\nThe added bonus came with all three goalscorers getting off the mark with their first goals for England.\n\nWales were missing their two big stars, the injured Gareth Bale and the unavailable Aaron Ramsey - who will now join up with the squad. Ramsey missed this game under coronavirus protocols, with Juventus having put their squad in a bubble last Saturday after two non-playing staff tested positive.\n\nThose absences showed as they had a fair amount of possession in the first half but created little - it might have been different had those two been present.\n\nGiggs will have been casting his eyes towards the Uefa Nations League games against the Republic of Ireland and Bulgaria - so one of his biggest concerns would have been the injury that forced off key striker Kieffer Moore in the first half.\n\nHe will have been worried too by Wales' vulnerability to crosses and set-piece deliveries, which brought England's three goals.\n\nWales have more important tests ahead and while this was an experimental night for Giggs, it was still a disappointing outcome.\n\nSix on the bounce against Wales for England - key stats\n• None England have won six consecutive matches against Wales for the first time since a run of seven between March 1908 and March 1914.\n• None Wales suffered their worst defeat against England since May 1973, also a 3-0 defeat.\n• None Three players all scored their first England goals in this game (Calvert-Lewin, Coady and Ings), the first time that's happened since June 1963 against Switzerland (Tony Kay, Johnny Byrne and Jimmy Melia).\n• None Dominic Calvert-Lewin became the 188th player to score on his England debut and the first Everton player to do so since Fred Pickering in 1964.\n• None Conor Coady ended a run of 111 games for club and country with a goal, scoring his first goal since April 2018 for Wolves against Bolton in a Championship match. It was the first time he'd had two shots in a match since March 2017 for Wolves against Reading.\n• None England gave four players (Saka, Calvert-Lewin, Barnes, James) their England debuts, the second game running four players have earned their debuts. It's the first time since April/May 1933 that England have given four or more debuts in consecutive internationals.\n• None There were just 54 caps between the players in the England starting XI before kick-off, the fewest for an international since 1976, when the XI for a game against Wales had just 47 caps between them.\n• None The starting XI featured players from 10 different clubs (Burnley, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal, Liverpool, Wolves, Everton, Spurs, Leeds, Southampton and Aston Villa), the most for a match since May 1997 against South Africa.\n• None Kieran Trippier captained England for the first time, becoming the first outfield player since David Beckham in June 2008 against Trinidad & Tobago to captain England while playing for a non-English club (Atletico Madrid).\n• None Attempt saved. James Ward-Prowse (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Danny Ings.\n• None Attempt saved. Danny Ings (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Ainsley Maitland-Niles. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Nottingham has the highest Covid-19 infection rate in the UK, according to the latest data.\n\nPublic Health England figures show that 689.1 per 100,000 people tested positive for the virus in the city over the past week.\n\nDocuments leaked earlier today indicate that new social distancing rules for Nottinghamshire are due to be announced on Monday.\n\nLocal politicians have criticised the delay in imposing restrictions.\n\nNottingham City Council leader David Mellen said the government's lack of action on new measures in Nottingham \"makes absolutely no sense\" and that \"strict interventions are needed urgently\".\n\nThe Labour politician said: \"The delay leaves this weekend open to potential abuse of the existing rules, which could result in yet more Covid cases in our city.\"\n\nHe called on the government to \"act urgently and decisively or, better still, give us the powers to let us get on with taking action ourselves\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Mellen says a lack of coronavirus restrictions this weekend could mean a “last chance to party\" in Nottingham\n\nIn the week up to 5 October, Nottingham recorded 2,294 cases, up from 407 the previous week.\n\nEarlier, the county council said the rate of infection for Nottinghamshire was 106 per 100,000, much lower than the rate in Nottingham.\n\nAlthough the government has yet to introduce formal measures, local authorities have asked people in the county to avoid mixing indoors with other households indoors following the \"dramatic\" rise in cases.\n\nNottingham's director of public health Alison Challenger said: \"Everyone needs to stick rigidly to their social bubbles and not mix with other households.\n\n\"There is no need to wait for additional government restrictions.\"\n\nGedling MP Tom Randall said he would \"wholly support calls\" for people to follow stricter guidelines, while Nottingham South MP Lilian Greenwood has called the delay in introducing measures \"reckless and indefensible\".\n\nMs Greenwood added: \"It's outrageous that [MPs] only found out about this decision from the media.\"\n\nOn Thursday evening, the government released a statement urging residents to follow \"the advice of the local authority\", as well as practising social distancing, wearing face coverings, and getting tested if they exhibited symptoms.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"The local authority has our full backing and support.\"\n\nBut Nottingham North MP Alex Norris, who was briefed about the government's strategy during a call with health minister Edward Argar, said he was sceptical about the government's strategy.\n\nHe said: \"When pressed about Nottingham, the advice that came back was, 'We've not decided yet', which is very hard to understand.\n\n\"They won't support us because they won't bring in the restriction we're appealing for them to bring in.\n\n\"We're trying to get ahead of those restrictions by suggesting them to people ourselves, but of course we don't have the legal backing to enforce those.\"\n\nBen Bradley, MP for Mansfield - which has a lower infection rate of 62.2 - called on the government to reconsider blanket restrictions for the whole of the county.\n\nThe Conservative politician added: \"It would be really frustrating to have restrictions imposed when, locally, we might not need them.\"\n\nAccording to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, leaked documents show Nottinghamshire is expected to go into level two of a new \"three-tier\" system next week.\n\nThey indicate people will still be able to go on holiday outside the county, but only with people from their own household or support bubble.\n\nHouseholds would still be able to meet indoors if they are in a support bubble.\n\nJo Cox-Brown, founder of Night Time Economy, which works with businesses and local authorities to create safer nights out in English cities, said further restrictions could have a devastating effect on jobs.\n\n\"[Businesses] are terrified. The night-time economy is worth 14,000 jobs in Nottingham alone,\" she said.\n\n\"They were closed for three months, they have been trading for two months but at 50-75% of normal occupancy levels, so financially these venues are on their knees.\"\n\nAcross England, bars and restaurants could be forced to close as the government prepares to tighten restrictions for the worst-affected areas.\n\nIt follows the announcement that similar outlets across central Scotland are to be closed for 16 days.\n\nLocal restrictions have yet to be imposed in the city\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick has refused to say whether pubs and restaurants in the north and in Nottingham will be forced to close.\n\nHe said: \"We are currently considering what steps we should take, obviously taking the advice of our scientific and medical advisers, and a decision will be made shortly.\"\n\nAsked if there will be an announcement linked to the hospitality industry, he said: \"We are considering the evidence. In some parts of the country, the number of cases are rising very fast and we are taking that very seriously.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The woman made visits to a gym after returning from Mykonos\n\nA woman who failed to self-isolate when returning from holiday on a Greek island has been fined £1,000.\n\nPolice said they were left with \"no choice\" after the woman left her home in Warrington in a \"blatant flouting\" of Covid-19 rules.\n\nShe left home on \"several occasions\" including three visits to a gym in Warrington, Cheshire, after returning from Mykonos.\n\nThe island is currently on the government's 14-day quarantine list.\n\nWarrington is also currently subject to tighter restrictions after a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nSupt Julie Westgate said: \"On this occasion officers from Cheshire Police have had no choice but to issue a fixed penalty notice of this nature.\n\n\"It's a shame we have had to do this because the majority of Cheshire residents are sticking to the rules.\n\n\"Unfortunately this woman put not only herself but others at risk by consistently breaching the regulations.\n\n\"Our officers will always engage, explain and encourage the public to make the right decision, but in this instance they had to enforce due to the blatant flouting of the rules.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Indian actors, lawmakers and cricketers have urged people to visit the stall\n\nA viral tweet has changed the fortunes of a struggling food stall in India's capital Delhi, even earning it a spot on the food delivery app, Zomato.\n\nCustomers have been flocking to the spot, touched by a video of the stall's 80-year-old owner crying over the lack of business during the pandemic.\n\nAnd owners Kanta Prasad and his wife, Badami Devi, are now local celebrities.\n\nStreet food is hugely popular in India, but the pandemic has hit vendors hard, forcing many to shut shop.\n\nThe couple have been running their shop, Baba ka dhaba, since 1990 in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar. They serve fresh, home-cooked meals - the menu typically includes parathas, a round, buttered bread popular northern India, a gravy of some kind, rice and dal, a thick soup of lentils. A meal sells for less than 50 rupees (about $0.70; £0.50).\n\nMr Prasad says that his business had come to a standstill\n\nThey managed to make ends meet all these years, but the pandemic was devastating, Mr Prasad told a food blogger in a recent interview.\n\nHe is seen crying in the video as he talks about his struggles. Mr Prasad shows the dishes they have prepared for the day. When he is asked how much he has earned so far, he shows a few 10-rupee notes and breaks down.\n\nThe blogger, Gaurav Wasan, shared the clip on Instagram on Wednesday. It travelled quickly, soon making its way on to Twitter. A woman shared it saying it \"completely broke her heart\" and urged people in Delhi to visit Baba ka dhaba and help Mr Prasad and his wife.\n\nIt was just a matter of time before the tweet was noticed by celebrities - from Bollywood stars to cricketers - and ordinary people alike. The video has been watched over four million times.\n\nBy the end of Thursday, Zomato had tweeted saying Baba ka dhaba was now listed on their app - the service even urged people to let them know of any other struggling food stalls so they could help.\n\nCustomers have thronged the stall since the video went viral\n\nIn the video, Mr Prasad says he and his wife start preparing the menu at 6.30am every morning and finish by 9.30am.\n\nThe first lot of customers are usually informal workers or office-goers looking for a hearty breakfast. But the pandemic, which cost people their jobs or forced them to stay at home, has shrunk business.\n\nMrs Prasad says that at times they take the unsold food back home, and on some days, they don't have money to cook a meal for themselves.\n\nBut ever since the video went viral, the stall has seen a steady flow of customers, some of whom are eager to squeeze in a selfie with the now-famous spot.\n\nTV crews have been showing up as the stall and its owners continue to grab headlines. Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor and cricketer R Ashwin are among those who have offered to help.\n\nMr Wasan told ANI that he had come across Baba ka dhaba by chance. \"They told me that were making losses every day. So I made a video at the spot and shared it with my followers.\"\n\nHe adds that he has collected around $2,700 in donations to repair the stall and the couple's house.\n\nThe Prasads are both touched and elated.\n\n\"It is all because of Gaurav that the customers have lined up today,\" Mr Prasad told ANI news agency. \"Yesterday there was almost no sales. Today I feel that the whole country is with us.\"", "Bangor will go into lockdown this weekend, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nEight wards in the city - Garth, Hirael, Menai, Deiniol, Marchog, Glyder, Hendre and Dewi - will have further Covid-19 restrictions from 18:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe restrictions will be similar to those in other counties across Wales.\n\nResidents will not be allowed to leave or enter the areas without a reasonable excuse and can only meet outdoors.\n\nThe Pentir ward, which includes parts of Penrhosgarnedd and is the site of Ysbyty Gwynedd, is not covered by the restrictions.\n\nThe Welsh Government said Bangor had seen a significant cluster of cases and the incident rate stands at about 400 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nIt said cases are appeared to be closely associated with young people and the student population.\n\nBangor is home to 10,000 students at its university\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the cases were \"largely linked to people socialising\".\n\nHe added that although large parts of Wales are currently under further local restrictions, \"this is not a national lockdown\".\n\n\"These are a series of local restrictions to respond to rises in cases in individual areas,\" he said.\n\n\"It's always difficult to make the decision to impose restrictions but we hope that these measures will make help to control the spread of the virus.\"\n\nLeader of Gwynedd council, Dyfrig Siencyn, said: \"Acting now will help slow the rapid increase in positive cases in the city, break the chain of transmission and protect Bangor residents as well as the wider Gwynedd public.\"\n\nHe said the council appreciates the impact lockdown will have on people and businesses.\n\nBut taking these steps now will hopefully mean avoiding \"stricter and more disruptive measures further down the line\".\n\nHe added that there was no room for complacency for residents across Gwynedd, even though the current lockdown only affects Bangor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the stop was shared widely on Twitter after being posted by former Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie, who questioned why the vehicle had been targeted\n\nFive police officers are facing an investigation over the stop and search of British athlete Bianca Williams and her partner in west London.\n\nMs Williams and Ricardo dos Santos, whose baby son was in the car, believe they were racially profiled when they were stopped in Maida Vale, on 4 July.\n\nThe Met referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) after footage was widely shared.\n\nSal Naseem said a \"threshold for a misconduct investigation\" had been met.\n\nThe IOPC's regional director added: \"Decisions on any further action will only be made once our investigation is complete.\"\n\nThe Met had said officers were patrolling the area in which Ms Williams was stopped because of an increase in youth violence.\n\nCommonwealth Games gold medallist Ms Williams, 26, accused the Met of racially profiling her partner, who was driving a black Mercedes.\n\nThree days after the incident, the Met apologised to Ms Williams.\n\nBianca Williams won European and Commonwealth gold in the 4x100m relay in 2018\n\nThe force also referred itself to the IOPC, despite two reviews by the force's directorate of professional standards concluding there had been no misconduct.\n\nThe five officers will now be investigated for potential breaches of police standards of professional behaviour relating to use of force; duties and responsibilities; and authority, respect and courtesy, the IOPC said in a statement.\n\nThe IOPC said its independent investigation would focus on seven points including why Mr Dos Santos's car was followed and stopped and whether the force used against Mr Dos Santos and Ms Williams was lawful, necessary, reasonable and proportionate.\n\nIt is also being questioned why a Merlin report, a Met-run database that stores information on children who have become known to the police for any reason, was created for Ms Williams's son.\n\nMr Dos Santos and Ms Williams say police handcuffed them while their son was in the car\n\nInvestigators will also look at whether Ms Williams and Mr Dos Santos \"were treated less favourably because of their race\" as well as the accuracy of the accounts provided by the officers and the \"appropriateness of the communications\" issued by the Met.\n\nThe IOPC statement said it would look at whether there were grounds for Mr Dos Santos to be kept in handcuffs after he had been searched.\n\nIt added: \"In relation to Ms Williams the potential breaches, which will all be thoroughly investigated, include taking hold of her without first having sought her co-operation with the search; handcuffing her initially and continuing to handcuff her after she had been searched; her continued detention and whether there were grounds to do so.\"\n• None Police 'willing to learn' after athlete stopped\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After seven months, the Royal Ballet company is back on stage at the Royal Opera House in London.\n\nThe performances will be different to before - with social distancing on stage and off.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hospital porter David Morgan Jones is still recovering from his fight with Covid-19\n\nThe next few months could be extremely difficult for north Wales' NHS unless the spread of coronavirus is contained, senior doctors believe.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board has plans to deal with a patient surge while maintaining essential services.\n\nBut acting deputy medical director Kate Clark warned if the pressure becomes too great, non-emergency operations could be put on hold.\n\nIn the spring, most non-urgent treatments were postponed.\n\nThis was in anticipation of the first peak of cases and ever since, the health board has struggled to deal with a growing backlog.\n\n\"All of our services have got plans in place to understand at what point they would need to release staff to support the Covid response,\" said Dr Clark.\n\n\"We want to maintain our essential services as long as possible - and do more than we did the first wave - but we're prepared that if things do become really severe then we will have to look to stop doing some of that activity and switch that resource.\"\n\nHospital bosses hope to maintain services such as treatment for cancer while dealing with a second wave\n\nFigures from Public Health Wales published on Thursday show the Betsi Cadwaladr health board area had an infection rate of 144 cases per 100,000 people in the most recent seven-day period.\n\nThis is the second highest rate in Wales, behind the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board area.\n\nAreas such as Flintshire, Denbighshire and Conwy also have a significant older populations.\n\nFour council areas in north Wales are currently subject to lockdown restrictions, with people not able to leave or enter Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham without a \"reasonable excuse\".\n\nThere is also concern about a recent rise in cases in Gwynedd.\n\nDr Clark says they are monitoring the situation, adding: \"What we saw in the first wave was a push from England and over the border, so Wrexham was hit first and then Glan Clwyd and then down to Gwynedd.\n\nAnglesey and Gwynedd are the only counties in north Wales not under local lockdown rules\n\n\"We're seeing again increased activity in Wrexham and Glan Clwyd, less so in Bangor.\"\n\nDan Menzies, a respiratory physician at Glan Clwyd hospital in Denbighshire also said the number of Covid cases being seen was increasing steadily.\n\n\"It's always been in the background, even over the summer months, there's been a few patients here and there that have been admitted with Covid but now I think we're seeing those numbers increase steadily, over the last few weeks in particular,\" he said.\n\n\"And unlike the last four or five weeks for example, we're seeing patients with the more serious consequences. So the respiratory-type problems, the pneumonias, requiring higher levels of care and intervention.\"\n\nDoctors say the virus is now better understood and treatments have been refined\n\nDoctors are keen to stress that people should not be put off from seeking medical help and Dr Menzies said hospitals were still safe for patients.\n\n\"People develop all sorts of conditions, lung cancer is just one example, which we want to pick up as early as we can. We don't want to see people presenting late when it is untreatable and incurable,\" he said.\n\nNot only is the NHS in north Wales gearing up for a potential second wave which could last longer than the first, but also the pressures of winter when other respiratory illnesses circulate more generally.\n\nOfficials want to try to keep essential services going such as cancer care.\n\nThey admit this will be a big challenge - particularly in terms of staffing, with some having had little rest after dealing with the first coronavirus wave.\n\nBut Dr Menzies said the NHS was now in a stronger position as the virus was now better understood.\n\n\"We've looked after a large number of people with Covid now, so straight away when they come through the door we can identify patients that might be most at risk of having problems,\" he said.\n\n\"And then the treatments that we're offering have become more refined over the last few months, we've managed to tailor things down.\n\n\"We know drugs that are more effective and we've got those in our armoury and in our repertoire, so we can use those in patients that we think are at risk.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "A rapid \"bedside\" test for coronavirus could help cut the spread of the infection in hospitals, scientists say.\n\nIn their study, the rapid test took under two hours to show results, while standard tests - which have to be sent to laboratories - took much longer.\n\nResearchers say this meant patients taking the rapid test could be isolated more quickly when positive, potentially reducing the spread of the virus.\n\nThey are calling urgently for more rapid tests on the NHS.\n\nThe report appears in the journal the Lancet Respiratory Medicine.\n\nIn March and April 2020, scientists at Southampton General Hospital tested 500 people with symptoms of coronavirus with a rapid Covid-19 test, done close to the bedside, and analysed by a machine on the same ward.\n\nThey compared these results with around 500 patients given only the standard nose-and-throat swab tests which had to be sent to a separate laboratory for analysis.\n\nPatients who had the bedside test were isolated or put on dedicated coronavirus wards on average a day earlier than patients waiting for standard swab results.\n\nIn the early days of the pandemic, scientists found it took an average of 21 hours to complete and get the result from standard tests, resulting in delays in patients getting to the right part of the hospital.\n\nThey say standard testing times have improved in many hospitals in recent months.\n\nBut they argue rapid, so-called \"point-of-care\" tests still have considerable benefits because transporting samples to laboratories, waiting for enough samples to analyse, and the results then being sent on to clinical teams before being checked, can all take time.\n\nDr Tristan William Clark, who conducted the study, told the BBC: \"With the rapid tests, the same team admitting the patient can often do the test and check the results, making sure the patient goes to the most appropriate ward. This can mean things are much quicker.\"\n\nHe acknowledges the tests can be expensive but says the costs are \"highly likely to be offset by the benefits of moving patients to the right wards quickly\".\n\nProf Lawrence Young, at Warwick Medical School, described the work as \"an exciting development\".\n\nHe said: \"The value of this approach in rapidly identifying infected patients means that such individuals can be quickly isolated away from non-infected patients leading to improved infection control. It also means that infected patients can be more rapidly and efficiently enrolled in clinical trials.\"\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\nEmployees who work for UK firms forced to shut by law because of coronavirus restrictions are to get two-thirds of their wages paid for by the government.\n\nThe scheme, announced by Rishi Sunak, begins on 1 November for six months and a Treasury source said it could cost hundreds of millions of pounds a month.\n\nA restrictions update, which could see pubs and restaurants shut in the worst-affected areas, is expected on Monday.\n\nLeaders in areas now under restrictions said the scheme did not go far enough.\n\nIn a statement, the mayors of Greater Manchester, North Tyne, Sheffield and Liverpool said: \"We are pleased that the government has listened and recognised that any new system of restrictions must come with a substantial package of financial support.\"\n\nBut they said it was only a \"start\" and more help was needed \"to prevent genuine hardship, job losses and business failure this winter\".\n\nThe announcement comes just a fortnight after the government unveiled its Job Support Scheme - replacing the furlough scheme - to top up the wages of staff who have not been able to return to the workplace full time.\n\nThe latest scheme will only apply to businesses told to close - rather than those who choose to shut because of the broader impact of Covid restrictions.\n\nThe support will be reviewed in January. Until November businesses that are asked to close can continue to use the existing furlough scheme.\n\nThe grants will be paid up to a maximum of £2,100 per employee a month and the Treasury said they would protect jobs and enable businesses to reopen quickly once restrictions are lifted.\n\nOne pub manager in Otley, West Yorkshire, said the scheme \"doesn't even touch the sides\" in terms of its impact on pubs.\n\n\"Two-thirds of somebody's wage isn't going to cut it,\" said Mel Green, 41, of The Black Bull.\n\n\"We're in a trade where everyone's on national minimum wage pretty much. They're the ones that are losing out. A lot of them are living hand to mouth already and they've already had hours reduced.\"\n\nThe chancellor said the latest measures for companies forced to shut would provide \"reassurance and a safety net for people and businesses in advance of what may be a difficult winter\".\n\nIn addition, for businesses forced to close in England, Mr Sunak announced an increase in business grants - with up to £3,000 a month paid every fortnight.\n\nThe Treasury says the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive increased funding allowing them to bring in similar measures if they choose to.\n\nIt is a sign of how quickly the coronavirus situation has soured that the chancellor is having to return to a policy he thought he'd parked less than two weeks ago when he announced his Winter Economic Plan.\n\nThe government insists this is not a retread of the furlough scheme, which is due to expire at the end of this month, but in all important aspects this is furlough mark two.\n\nThe crucial bit is that small employers will not have to make any contribution to their workers' wages if they are legally forced to shut down.\n\nLarger businesses will have to contribute about 5% of employee costs in the form of National Insurance and pension contributions.\n\nThat is much more generous than the expiring furlough scheme and way more generous than the Job Support Scheme Mr Sunak announced 10 days ago, which requires employers to pay 55% of active workers' salaries.\n\nThe reason for that is simple - those measures applied to businesses that were allowed to be open. This new scheme only applies to businesses which are not.\n\nOther questions are not simple - who will be eligible? What about businesses that were never allowed to reopen since March?\n\nWill it be applied by postcode? Will you be able to walk 10 minutes down the road to go to the pub that is open but having to pay 55% of staff wages when it's less than half full?\n\nAnd perhaps most importantly for the expected \"beneficiaries\" of this scheme - the hospitality industry - how strong is the evidence on which this policy is based and can we see it in detail?\n\nLabour said the government's \"rather slow, incompetent, dithering response\" had caused \"unnecessary anxiety and job losses\".\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds welcomed the measures but called for further changes to the scheme to incentivise employers to keep more of their staff on.\n\nThe CBI business lobby group said the scheme \"should cushion the blow for the most affected and keep more people in work\".\n\n\"But many firms, including pubs and restaurants, will still be hugely disappointed if they have to close their doors again after doing so much to keep customers and staff safe,\" added CBI boss Dame Carolyn Fairbairn.\n\nFederation of Small Businesses boss Mike Cherry said the extra help for closed businesses would be \"welcomed by thousands of small businesses\".\n\nShop workers' trade union Usdaw said it was concerned retailers facing reduced business in an area subject to the new restrictions would not benefit from the scheme.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people in the UK to have tested positive for coronavirus rose by 13,864 - a decrease of 3,676 on Thursday's figures - with a further 87 deaths reported on the government's dashboard.\n\nThe chancellor described his announcement as \"a very different scheme to what we've had before, this is not a universal approach, this is an expansion of the job support scheme specifically for those people who are in businesses that will be formally or legally asked to close\".\n\nAsked whether the announcement suggested the government was going to ask businesses, such as those in hospitality, to shut, Mr Sunak said: \"The rise in cases and hospital admissions in certain parts of the country is a concern.\n\n\"It's right the government considers a range of options... but it's also right they engage with local leaders.\n\n\"That is what's happening this afternoon and over the weekend so those conversations can happen and collectively we can decide on the appropriate response.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The shadow chancellor welcomes a “U-turn” by the government to pay workers made to stay at home in any new lockdowns.\n\nThe Job Support Scheme, which will replace the furlough scheme from 1 November, will see eligible workers get three quarters of their normal salaries for six months.\n\nTo qualify, employees must be in a ''viable job'' where they can work for at least one-third of their normal hours.\n\nFor the hours not worked, the government and employer will each pay one-third of the remaining wages. This means the employee would get at least 77% of their pay.\n\nPubs and restaurants could be closed in the worst-affected areas under new measures\n\nA tiered system of measures for England is expected to be announced by Monday, in an effort to stall rising infection rates, to replace the patchwork of existing rules across the country.\n\nUnder the new system, different parts of the country would be placed in different categories - although ministers are still discussing the precise details.\n\nPubs and restaurants could be closed in the worst-affected areas, including parts of northern England and the Midlands, while a ban on overnight stays is also being considered.", "UK takeaway pizza chain Papa John's is investigating allegations that taxpayer cash was fraudulently claimed during the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\n\nA Papa John's franchisee Raheel Choudhary claimed over £250,000 in non-existent meals during the scheme, the Daily Mail alleges.\n\nMr Choudhary has denied all the allegations.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"We are confident that we were fully compliant with the criteria set by the government.\"\n\nPapa John's GB Ltd said it was investigating the allegations \"thoroughly\".\n\n\"We will be extremely concerned and disappointed if they prove to be true. All of Papa John's UK stores are run by franchisees and we made it very clear to all franchisees that we felt it unlikely that they would be eligible to participate in Eat Out To Help Out (EOTHO),\" a spokesman told the BBC.\n\n\"It is important that our investigation is completed fully before drawing any conclusions, but if any franchisee participated improperly in EOTHO, they will have been in breach of their franchise agreement with us, and we will require them to make things right.\"\n\nThe Mail said it conducted its investigation with the help of several whistleblowers who worked for Mr Choudhary's stores.\n\nThe newspaper claims that Mr Choudhary instructed staff to process thousands of fake meals under the scheme across 57 of the 61 branches he owns, resulting in hundreds of thousands of pounds being wrongly claimed.\n\nIn one incident, the Mail alleges that 13 orders were processed in under a minute at the Tunbridge Wells branch, despite staff being told it was forbidden to eat in the store, which has no tables.\n\nIt is alleged that branch managers were given targets of £500-£600 per day for stores that had turnovers of under £10,000 per week, or a target of £1,000 a day for bigger branches with a turnover of more than £10,000 per week.\n\nThe newspaper added that Mr Choudhary had instructed his staff to record payments made by \"phantom covers\" as voucher payments.\n\nA representative for Mr Choudhary disputed the value of the claims made under the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, stating it was £185,015 and not the alleged £250,000.\n\nMr Choudhary said in a statement: \"Of my 61 franchises, 40 have seating capacity, and we implemented the 'Eat Out to Help Out Scheme' in all of those 40 stores from Monday to Wednesday throughout August.\n\nOver 100 million meals were claimed by diners in August during the Eat Out to Help Out scheme\n\n\"All customers who benefited from the scheme ate in store and we are confident that we were fully compliant with the criteria set by the government.\n\nA representative for Mr Choudhary said the Eat Out to Help Out scheme accounted for 9% of total orders in August.\n\nMr Choudhary said: \"When the government's scheme ended, we followed up with our own discount offer in September.\"\n\nMr Choudhary said that on average, his stores saw an average of 32 customers a day across the 40 stores that took part in the scheme in August.\n\nHowever, the BBC understands that franchisees were clearly instructed by Papa John's GB Ltd that the franchise would not be participating in the scheme.\n\nFranchisees are bound by agreements that require them to follow all guidelines issued by Papa John's GB Ltd, as well as abiding by and meeting ethical standards and regulatory obligations.\n\nIt is also understood that the digital tills software, which is frequently remotely updated by the head office, has never included an Eat Out to Help Out scheme voucher button, and the scheme cannot be used on the Papa John's UK website either.\n\nA HMRC spokesperson said: \"It's our duty to protect taxpayers' money and we will not hesitate to act against those who attempt to break the rules.\n\n\"We have built checks into the Eat Out to Help Out scheme to prevent fraud and protect public money, and will check claims and take appropriate action to withhold or recover payments found to be dishonest or inaccurate.\n\n\"Anyone concerned that an establishment is abusing the scheme can report fraud to HMRC.\"", "The container had \"become a tomb\", the Old Bailey heard\n\nThirty-nine people who died in the back of a lorry trailer tried to break out through the roof as they ran out of oxygen, a court has heard.\n\nThe Vietnamese nationals, aged between 15 and 44, suffocated as they were transported from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Purfleet on 23 October last year.\n\nThe court was told people smugglers got \"greedy\" and attempted \"two loads in one\".\n\nFour men are on trial at the Old Bailey in connection with the deaths.\n\nSome of the people recorded goodbye messages to their families.\n\nNguyen Tho Tuan, 25 recorded a message for his wife and children saying \"I am sorry. I cannot take care of you. I am sorry. I am sorry. I cannot breathe.\n\n\"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nWhen police officers entered the trailer the next morning they found the migrants had used a metal pole to try to break out of the sealed unit, the court heard.\n\nThe court has heard how the 39 victims had been sealed in the pitch black unit in \"unbearable\" 38.5C heat for 12 hours.\n\nA forensic expert calculated it would have taken about nine hours for the air to turn toxic in the trailer, soon after resulting in death.\n\nProsecutor Bill Emlyn Jones told jurors: \"It may well have crossed your minds - why did this trip go so terribly wrong, when on the other occasions the migrants survived the trip and were safely unloaded?\n\n\"You may well conclude that on this occasion the criminals just got too greedy, at £10,000 a head.\n\n\"They had too many people loaded into a single lorry.\"\n\nJurors were told there had been identical and successful trips with fewer people on 11 and 18 October.\n\nMr Emlyn Jones suggested they may have been \"under pressure to double up\" after 20 migrants were removed from a lorry driven by Christopher Kennedy, one of those on trial, on 14 October near Eurotunnel in France.\n\nAt least two of the migrants discovered in Mr Kennedy's lorry on 14 October were found dead in the trailer at an Essex industrial estate nine days later.\n\nA port worker who drove the unaccompanied trailer off the ship just after midnight noticed a pungent smell \"similar to waste\", the court heard.\n\nGheorge Nica, 43, of Basildon, Essex, and Eamonn Harrison, 23, of Mayobridge, Co Down, Northern Ireland, deny 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nMr Harrison, Mr Kennedy, 24, of Co Armagh, Northern Ireland and Valentin Calota 37, of Birmingham, deny being part of a wider people-smuggling operation, which Mr Nica has admitted.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Joshua Tree earned U2 a Grammy Award for album of the year\n\nU2's The Joshua Tree has been named the best album of the 1980s.\n\nReleased in 1987, it made U2 one of the world's biggest bands, thanks to anthems like With Or Without You and Where The Streets Have No Name.\n\nNow, listeners to BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the 80s have chosen it as the decade's best record, in a poll marking National Album Day on Saturday.\n\nDire Straits' Brothers In Arms came second, followed by The Stone Roses' eponymous debut.\n\nAll but one of the top 20 are by male artists, with the exception being Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love - which lands at number 11.\n\nThe Human League's Dare, which takes sixth place, also features prominent contributions from singers Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley; while albums by Madonna, Janet Jackson, Tracy Chapman and Grace Jones feature further down the list.\n\nThe Joshua Tree was almost called The Two Americas. Later, Desert Songs was another contender, before the band settled on The Joshua Tree - a title that perfectly captured the sacred/secular tension of U2's landscaped songs and Biblical imagery.\n\nWritten against the backdrop of the Cold War, the album reflected two sides of the American dream, with the Irish band seduced by its glamour but repelled by what bassist Adam Clayton called \"the bleakness and greed\" of the Reagan era.\n\n\"And it feels like we're right back there in a way,\" said guitarist The Edge, after hearing the results of Radio 2 poll. \"Politics are still so polarised.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've had the privilege of playing The Joshua Tree live all over the world in the last few years and it's almost like the album has come full circle.\n\n\"We're just thrilled that people are still connecting with these songs, night after night, year after year.\"\n\nProduced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, The Joshua Tree won U2 a Grammy for album of the year, and songs like I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and Bullet The Blue Sky - a criticism of US activities in Central America - have remained staples of their live shows ever since.\n\nIn the UK, it was the ninth best-selling album of the 1980s, beaten by several records - including Michael Jackson's Bad and Phil Collins' No Jacket Required - which came lower down Radio 2's list.\n\nSounds of the 80s presenter Gary Davies reflected that choosing the ultimate 80s album was a near-impossible task.\n\n\"Because there were so many brilliant albums in the 80s, having to choose just one is really difficult,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he added: \"I'm very pleased to see that the Radio 2 listeners have impeccable taste by choosing an album from my all-time favourite band.\"\n\nA countdown of the audience's top 40 favourite albums will be broadcast on Friday, 9 October from 20:00 BST on Radio 2 and BBC Sounds.\n\nNational Album Day follows on Saturday, with an 80s theme of its own. Record stores will be stocked with limited editions of classics like ZZ Top's Eliminator, Paul Simon's Graceland, Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual, Prefab Sprout's Steve McQueen and Duran Duran's self-titled debut album.\n\nOn Twitter, Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess will hold an all-day session of his album listening parties, featuring Toyah Willcox (15:00 BST), Marillion (17:30 BST), Matthew Wilder (19:00 BST), Blossoms (20:00 BST) and La Roux (21:00 BST).\n\nBBC Four will also screen a weekend of documentaries dedicated to 80s music, while Radio 2, 6 Music and the Asian Network will be playing tracks from the decade throughout Saturday and Sunday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Parts of England, including Sheffield, have seen big jumps in the rate of coronavirus\n\nCoronavirus is \"getting out of control\" in the north of England, a minister has said, as she defended government plans to bring in new restrictions.\n\nGillian Keegan said the country was in an \"unbelievably serious situation\", but added that communication with areas facing new rules needed to be clearer.\n\nIt comes as Labour's Sir Keir Starmer called for local leaders to be \"in the room\" and included in decisions.\n\nThe chancellor will set out support linked to the new restrictions later.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said Rishi Sunak's latest move as part of the Jobs Support Scheme would help to \"protect jobs and provide a safety net for those businesses that may have to close in the coming weeks and months\".\n\nIt has already been announced that the scheme, which will replace the furlough scheme when it ends this month, will see workers get three quarters of their normal salaries for six months.\n\nA tiered system of measures for England is set to be announced within days, in an effort to stall rising infection rates.\n\nUnder the new system - which will replace the patchwork of existing rules - pubs and restaurants could be closed in the worst-affected areas, while a ban on overnight stays is also being considered.\n\nBut there has been growing anger among MPs and local leaders about the way the government has communicated the proposed changes with them.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham accused the government of treating the north of England with \"contempt\" after he learned ministers were considering shutting hospitality venues in the worst-affected areas in a newspaper report.\n\nMr Burnham said he would challenge the closure of pubs, bars and restaurants if the measure did not come with financial support.\n\nHe told BBC's Question Time: \"The message I've given to the government is a pretty clear one - there can be no restrictions without support.\n\n\"And if it's going to be the tier three restrictions - effectively a national lockdown - we have to go back to a full furlough scheme for those staff, support for those businesses, otherwise the north of England is going to be levelled down this winter and I won't accept it.\"\n\nIn response, Gillian Keegan, minister for skills and apprenticeships, said the government had to act to stem the rise in cases.\n\n\"This is serious - it is getting out of control, and we have to do something to bring it back under control,\" she said.\n\nBut she acknowledged that communication with the worst-hit areas needed to improve.\n\n\"We definitely need to work locally and we definitely need to make sure that the communications are much clearer.\"\n\nMs Keegan also said she understood how \"very frustrating\" it must be for local leaders \"if leaks are made or there is speculation in the press\".\n\n\"But clearly we have to do something if we're going to bring those cases back under control.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the government of \"operating under the misguided, arrogant and counterproductive view that 'Whitehall knows best'\".\n\nHe said the government had \"lost control of the virus\" and urged ministers to \"get a grip\".\n\n\"It was an act of gross irresponsibility for anonymous No 10 sources to tell a few newspapers on Thursday about plans to impose further restrictions on millions of people, without any detail, without any consultation and without any statement from the prime minister.\n\n\"This has significantly added to the sense of confusion, chaos and unfairness in the approach that is being taken.\"\n\nIn response, a government source said Sir Keir should \"be supporting measures to protect the NHS and save lives - instead of playing politics in the middle of a global pandemic\".\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned the country was facing a \"perilous moment\" in the pandemic, with cases continuing to rise.\n\nThere were 17,540 new cases of coronavirus recorded in the UK on Thursday, up from the 14,162 reported the day before, government data showed. A further 77 people died after testing positive for the virus within 28 days.\n\nMr Hancock said the situation was becoming \"very serious\", and that he was most concerned about parts of Yorkshire, the North West and North East of England, as well as areas of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nFears have been raised that NHS services could be overwhelmed if the virus gets out of control.\n\nNHS England data published on Thursday showed the number of people waiting more than a year to start hospital treatment is at its highest level since 2008 - with some 111,026 people waiting more than 52 weeks to start hospital treatment in August.\n\nProf John Edmunds, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the virus was \"holding a gun\" to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's head over the restrictions being introduced.\n\nThe nation faces an anxious wait to see the full impact on the NHS, he said.\n\n\"In the north of England now, we are not that far away from the health service being stretched.\n\n\"Because even if we turn the epidemic around now, infections that occur today won't go to hospital for another week or two,\" he said.\n\nDr Stephen Griffin, associate professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds, said the increase in cases should \"serve as a warning to the government to take further action without delay\".\n\n\"It is clear that the consequences of not suppressing infections sufficiently over the summer may be severe if we cannot get on top of this increase,\" he said.\n• None What happens when furlough ends?", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill, owner of the Peacocks and Jaeger clothing brands, says it plans to appoint administrators in an attempt to save the business.\n\nThe move puts 21,000 jobs at risk amid what the company described as \"brutal\" trading conditions.\n\n\"Like every retailer, we have found the past seven months extremely difficult,\" said Edinburgh Woollen Mill chief executive Steve Simpson.\n\nThe stores will continue to trade as a review of the firm is carried out.\n\nThe company says it has had \"a number of expressions of interest for various parts of the group\" which it will consider.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill (EWM), which is owned by billionaire businessman Philip Day, has 1,100 stores for its brands.\n\nThe businesses attract older shoppers who are likely to be keeping away from the High Street to protect against coronavirus, says Catherine Shuttleworth, an independent retail expert.\n\nShe said it was a \"devastating blow\" to small towns and tourist areas where they are based and that buyers for the businesses as a whole could be hard to come by.\n\n\"You might get piecemeal buyers, but I don't hold out much hope,\" she said.\n\nMr Day has a £1.14bn fortune, according to the Sunday Times Rich List published in May 2020.\n\nHe bought Bonmarché out of administration in February. The deal ruffled some feathers, since Mr Day was its previous owner and landlords and suppliers were expected to forgive some of its debts.\n\nBonmarché is not part of the plans announced on Friday. Edinburgh Woollen Mill, including Bonmarché, employs 24,000 people.\n\nEWM said it had filed a notice to appoint administrators, partly because of \"the harsh trading conditions caused by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and a recent reduction in its credit insurance\".\n\nMr Simpson said: \"Through this process, I hope and believe we will be able to secure the best future for our businesses, but there will inevitably be significant cuts and closures as we work our way through this.\"\n\nHe also blamed part of the company's troubles on \"a series of false rumours about our payments and trading which have impacted our credit insurance\".\n\nEWM has been accused by suppliers in Bangladesh of not paying for goods. The company denies this.\n\nEWM has appointed FRP to review the business. The firm was also hired for the Bonmarché administration.\n\nA spokesperson for FRP said: \"Our team is working with the directors of a number of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group subsidiaries to explore all options for the future of its retail brands, including Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Jaeger, Ponden Mill and Peacocks.\"\n\nThe pandemic has accelerated a shift in the retail industry from physical stores to online shopping people have been stuck at home and stores have been temporarily closed.\n\nLast month, the boss of one of the UK's most successful and resilient High Street chains told the BBC that hundreds of thousands of traditional retail jobs may not survive in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nLord Wolfson, who runs clothing firm Next, said there was a clear threat to thousands of jobs, which are now \"unviable\" because the lockdown has triggered a permanent shift to online shopping.\n\nAre you an Edinburgh Woollen Mills employee? Have you been affected by the issues raised here? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pubs and restaurants in the central belt will have to close for two weeks\n\nAdditional police officers will be deployed in communities across Scotland to ensure pubs and restaurants close at 18:00, Police Scotland has said.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone said patrols would be \"highly visible\" to explain and encourage compliance with new Covid restrictions.\n\nAfter premises close in the central belt, they will not reopen until at least 25 October.\n\nTighter restrictions will also come into force in the rest of the country.\n\nLicensed premises will not be able to serve alcohol indoors and opening hours will be limited.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the moves were \"essential\" to get the spread of the virus back under control.\n\nMr Livingstone said most people had co-operated with the police and supported their work during the Covid crisis. But he said he was concerned about a \"small minority\" who continue to host house parties.\n\nIn the week up to Sunday 4 October, police broke up 271 illegal house parties, issued 106 fines, and made 18 arrests.\n\n\"While restrictions have changed quickly and often, I do not believe anyone in Scotland can be in any doubt that house gatherings and house parties allow the virus to spread and are unlawful,\" Mr Livingstone said.\n\nMeanwhile business owners have warned the new rules could cost thousands of jobs but details of a £40m package of support for hospitality businesses are still to be set out.\n\nAbout 3.4 million people in five health boards - Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, Lanarkshire, Forth Valley and Ayrshire and Arran - are to be subject to the harshest restrictions.\n\nIn these areas across the central belt, licensed premises will have to close for 16 days, although they can still serve takeaways.\n\nCafes with a licence will not have to close, as long as they do not serve alcohol but there is confusion over what constitutes a cafe.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the government was seeking to strike a \"difficult balance\"\n\nHospitality venues in the rest of Scotland will be allowed to open, but will only be permitted to serve non-alcoholic drinks and food indoors between 06:00 and 18:00.\n\nLicensed premises in these areas will still be able to serve alcohol in outdoor areas, such as beer gardens, up to the 22:00 curfew introduced in September.\n\nAt her daily briefing, Nicola Sturgeon said the government was waiting for an announcement from the UK Chancellor on the furlough scheme, which could have an effect on their proposals for a business support package.\n\nShe said the Scottish plan would include support for employment, a cash grant for each business and a discretionary fund for local authorities.\n\nThe new restrictions are an attempt to arrest a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, with a further 1,246 positive tests recorded on Friday.\n\nThere are 397 people in hospital being treated for the virus, with 33 in intensive care. Six confirmed Covid deaths were also recorded in the last 24 hours.\n\nA paper published by the government on Wednesday claimed that the rate of infections could hit a peak similar to that experienced in March before the end of October.\n\nFurther measures will also come into force from midnight to bring back the 2m (6ft 6in) physical distancing rule in shops and tighten the rules around the wearing of face coverings.\n\nOutdoor live events, adult contact sports, group exercise classes, snooker and pool halls, casinos and bingo halls will also have to close in the health board areas covering Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, Lanarkshire, Forth Valley and Ayrshire and Arran.\n\nPeople are also being asked to avoid public transport where possible and not to share a vehicle with another household.\n\nScotland's national clinical director has insisted the new restrictions are not meant as a \"punishment\" from the Scottish government for people not complying with the regulations.\n\nProf Jason Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on Friday: \"The enemy here is not the clinical advice. The enemy here is a deadly virus that has killed a million people.\"\n\nProf Leitch also told the programme he was \"very hopeful\" that the combination of the recent limitations on household mixing and the new measures will enable progression to the \"next version of what the restrictions might look like\".\n\nBut, highlighting the spiralling number of cases across Europe, he warned: \"There has to be a reverse gear.\"", "Two weeks in, the NHS Covid-19 app for England and Wales seems to have got off to a good start, with more than 16 million downloads so far - but a range of employers are actively discouraging their staff from using it.\n\nEarlier this week, both the pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline and a Hull-based fuel supplier told staff the app should be switched off at work - both said it was unnecessary in their \"Covid-secure\" workplaces.\n\nAnd now, there are numerous reports teachers are being told they should not use the app in school.\n\nI have received a message from a teacher in north-west England who wants to remain anonymous.\n\nThis person downloaded the app on the day it was released and then, last Monday, tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nAs the test had been booked through the app, it then triggered alerts telling three colleagues at the school to go into isolation.\n\nBut then, according to the teacher, the secondary school's business manager told the three people involved to ignore the messages and delete the app if they felt they had not been within 2m (6ft) for at least 15 minutes.\n\nOne of the teachers ignored that advice, went into isolation and had a test.\n\nBut when that proved negative, they returned to work - which is contrary to the government advice to complete your period of isolation even if you have a negative test.\n\nMy anonymous contact told me: \"Too many schools want to keep staff in, even if it means breaking the law.\n\n\"I am in a school with about 75-80% black African heritage intake, so our demographic is at very high risk.\"\n\nWe have also heard of a school in Eastbourne, in Sussex, telling teachers not to use the app \"in school time\".\n\nOne head teacher told his colleagues there was a danger a staff member could receive an alert relating to their external activities, which would then trigger more alerts affecting the school.\n\nEast Sussex County Council said it had not issued any guidance on the matter, but suggested the school might have based its policy on an interpretation of a national guidance document.\n\nThe prime minister visited a secondary school in his constituency last week\n\nAnd more cases keep coming in.\n\nA teacher in the Midlands messaged me to say it had been suggested he and his colleagues \"delete the app and ignore messages so [as] not to interfere [or] risk A-level resits\".\n\nOne teacher, however, had a different story.\n\n\"Our headmaster has advised staff and pupils over 16 to use the app,\" he said.\n\n\"This is what persuaded me to use it.\n\n\"Our head has been amazing.\n\n\"I feel looked after, like he cares about the staff as well as the kids.\"\n\nA Department of Health official said: \"We want as many people to download and use the app as possible.\n\n\"It is important to use the NHS Covid-19 app at all times unless in specific scenarios which are set out in our guidance.\"\n\nThat guidance says contact tracing should be turned off at work when:\n\nBut while some teachers may be locking their phones away some of the time, these exemptions do not appear to justify a blanket ban on using the app in schools – or indeed at GlaxoSmithKline's labs and factories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How to install the NHS Covid-19 app\n\nPart of the issue seems to be a lack of understanding of how the app works.\n\nIt is only if a member of staff tests positive and the app determines they have had close contact with another app user for a significant period that alerts will be sent telling those people to isolate.\n\nSo employers need to ask themselves if a member of staff tests positive, why would you not want colleagues at risk of spreading the infection alerted as swiftly as possible?", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 2 and 9 October. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs which can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nSwing state: \"With the sky painted in an epic array of colours I had to get the camera out\", Andrew Leinster said of this stunning image of Isla Morris at Burnturk Woods looking towards the Lomond hills.\n\nThe tide and groom: \"My daughter Kirsty and her new husband Andy Sneddon having some post-wedding fun on the beach at Luskentyre, Harris\", from Lynn Cadger.\n\nSurf's up: Ian Brown captured this action shot at Troon, with Ailsa Craig in the background.\n\nLike an oil painting: The harbour in Aberdeen, Europe's oil capital, in all its glory thanks to Erskine Logan.\n\nMotherly love: A red deer and her calf in Galloway at sunrise, thanks to Mandy Williams.\n\nFull marks: \"This is the moon over Goat Fell on the Isle of Arran and Saltcoats harbour in north Ayrshire\", says Peter Ribbeck.\n\nA nice day on the horizon: A sensational sunrise scene at Broughty Ferry beach, courtesy of Connor McLaren.\n\nBorder crossing: First light on Beinn Each in the Trossachs, starring Dougal the border terrier, from Stephen Willis.\n\nHigh hopes: \"I don't know the fella in this picture but I hope he sees it\", says Claire Scott. \"Beautiful day with amazing views from the summit of The Cobbler.\"\n\nA sly drink: \"This fox cub has learnt to drink from our birdbath in Edinburgh\", says Peter MacKenzie.\n\nMonster effort: Loch Ness from the air, thanks to Justin Hill.\n\nThistle do nicely: Brian Hughes took this Flower of Scotland shot in Pittencrieff Park in Dunfermline.\n\nThe calm before the storm: \"Looking across the countryside near Quilquox, Aberdeenshire, in beautiful light shortly before a rain shower\", says Andy Leonard. \"I was struck by the bright green of the new crops and the trees silhouetted against the storm clouds.\"\n\nSplit decision: \"I captured this shot of the sun truly splitting the trees on a walk up Dumgoyne Hill on the edge of the Campsie Fells\", says Morven Hibbert.\n\nSwell idea: Stephen Swindell captured the power of these waves at Aberdeen harbour amid Storm Alex at the weekend.\n\nSeeing double: \"The photo was taken at Ferneyhill Cemetery in Kelso looking towards the Thomson Monument\", says Wendy Richardson.\n\nAfternoon Knapp: John Cuthbert captured this atmospheric scene at Knapps Loch in Inverclyde.\n\nTable for two: Marian Coburn spotted these “twins” in Perth.\n\nA well-trained eye: An atmospheric shot at the Glenfinnan Viaduct, from Tom Blackman\n\nClouding the view: \"There wasn't much of a view from the summit of Ben Klibreck due to cloud - but there was once you dropped below the clouds\", reports Neil MacRitchie.\n\nCatch of the day: Angela Mihovska caught this fishing scene off the Stonehaven coast.\n\nA deer friend: Cassie Richardson sent this photo taken in front of Buachaille Etive Mòr.\n\nLeven it late: \"Captured this lovely sunset over Loch Leven while staying in Glencoe\", says Gerry Feeney.\n\nA robin red rest: Tracy Macpherson spotted this little chap taking a break at Dunoon.\n\nA whale of a time: Peter Maciver caught this majestic moment at Gare Loch.\n\nWhere Hugo, I go: \"This amazing sunset shows Arbroath beach in all its beauty, with my happy dachshund Hugo exploring\", says Charlene Craig. \"He loves the beach more than life itself.\"\n\nStorr blimey: \"Took this picture on a walk up to the Old Man of Storr\", says Jon Wood of his impressive Isle of Skye shot.\n\nFishing for compliments: Gerry McKeown also caught this beautiful image after an evening on Loch Coulter, Stirling.\n\n\"No, it’s not a volcano!\": That was Phil Ashby's description of this well-timed shot of Glen Etive.\n\nRoe deer oh dear: \"This chap decided to feed on our plants and shrubs in our garden in Oban\", says Dave Todd. \"Grabbed this image through our kitchen window\".\n\nBest of bothy worlds: \"Cycled past this on an mountain bike ride over from Glen Artney\", says Duncan McLay.\n\nSomething in the Ayr tonight: \"We've been having some lovely colours at sunset lately\", says Eilean Low.\n\nA lovely golf shot: Mark Grierson from Edinburgh captured a \"fire-like\" sunset at Gifford golf course.\n\nBeak-a-boo: \"Wee bit close Mr Swan, taken at Hogganfield Loch\", says Rosie McGeachan in Glasgow.\n\nStag night: Moon and Mars aligning above Andy Scott's sculpture in Dumbarton\", says Gerry Doherty.\n\nBeach buoys: \"This is washed up in Irvine beach park at the moment\", says Martin McKerrell. \"It made an interesting focus for those walking on the beach\".\n\nOutstanding in its field: \"I came across this suitably masked scarecrow in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh\", says Chris Pinder. \"Who wouldn't want to maintain a social distance from her?!\"\n\nSons set: Charlie Gallagher caught this tranquil moment featuring sons Charlie, four, James, 10 and Chris, 11, enjoying an ice cream at the end of the day in Largs.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Davina McCall and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen will be on the reboot of the show\n\nDavina McCall has been named as the host of Channel 4's upcoming reboot of the BBC show, Changing Rooms.\n\nThe presenter will join interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, who was on the original home improvement show which broadcast on the BBC from 1997 to 2004.\n\nThe show sees two sets of homeowners work against the clock to renovate a room in each other's houses.\n\nThe original show was hosted by Carol Smillie.\n\nIt also featured designers including Linda Barker, Anna Ryder-Richardson and Graham Wynne along with carpenter Andy Kane.\n\nStaying largely true to the original format, the reboot will air across six hour-long episodes.\n\n\"I'm so excited to be presenting Changing Rooms,\" said former Big Brother presenter McCall. \"It's a classic\".\n\n\"It's the perfect time to bring it back, everyone is going DIY and decor mad. I can't wait to see all the amazing transformations - I might even get stuck in myself if I'm allowed to be let loose with a paint brush.\"\n\nLockdown measures enforced due to the Covid-19 pandemic brought about a surge in TV watching and online streaming, according to media watchdog Ofcom.\n\nMany broadcasters, hastily came up with ideas for new TV shows to make life indoors a bit more bearable, such as the BBC's HealthCheck UK Live and Grayson's Art Club, on Channel 4.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the return of Changing Rooms, Jonny Rothery, commissioning editor for Channel 4, said: \"With us all spending so long staring at our own four walls, there's never been a better time to see the return of the nation's favourite interiors show.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Political leaders from the North of England have warned the chancellor's latest Covid rescue package may \"not be enough\" to save jobs and businesses.\n\nRishi Sunak earlier announced the state will pay two-thirds of the wages of staff whose employers are legally forced to close over the coming months.\n\nHe said he wanted to work with regional chiefs to help them through the winter.\n\nBut the mayors of Greater Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield said they still feared widespread \"hardship\".\n\nAnd a group of North-East council leaders are set to oppose any plans to close pubs or other hospitality venues in the worse-affected areas, which could be announced as early as next week.\n\nThe government is poised to introduce a new three-tiered framework of restrictions for England after coming under pressure to simplify the patchwork of different restrictions in force across much of the North.\n\nAhead of an expected announcement next week, Mr Sunak outlined a support package for firms which are no longer trade from their premises, including wage subsidies and increased cash grants from 1 November.\n\nBusiness groups welcomed the move but Labour said thousands of workers would be excluded while Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and his Liverpool counterpart Steve Rotheram - whose regions are expected to be subject to extra restrictions - also expressed caution.\n\n\"We are pleased that the government has listened and recognised that any new system of restrictions must come with a substantial package of financial support,\" the two men said in a statement, also signed by Sheffield Mayor Dan Jarvis and Jamie Driscoll, Mayor of North Tyne.\n\n\"What has been announced by the Chancellor today is a start but, on first look, it would not appear to have gone far enough to prevent genuine hardship, job losses and business failure this winter.\"\n\nAnd the leaders of Northumberland, Newcastle, South and North Tyneside, Gateshead, Sunderland and County Durham councils are set to oppose any further restrictions.\n\nMartin Gannon, the leader of Gateshead Council, told the BBC that existing measures in place were beginning to work and further restrictions risked \"confusing the message\" and \"undermining public confidence\".\n\n\"If you look at the underlying figures across the region, we are seeing the beginning of a decrease in the number of new cases,\" he said following a meeting with Cabinet Office representatives.\n\n\"So, our message to the government is that we don't want to see any further restrictions or closing of the economy.\"\n\nDuring a briefing on Thursday led by England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty, 150 MPs from Northern constituencies were shown research from Public Health England suggesting bars, pubs and restaurants accounted for 41% of cases in which two or more under-30s visited the same venue in the week before testing positive.\n\nThey were reportedly told that the number of coronavirus patients in intensive care in the north of England would ultimately surpass the April peak if infections continued to increase at the current rate,\n\nConservative Chief Whip Mark Spencer told BBC Radio Nottingham that ministers and scientific advisers were striving to come up with a \"very clear and easily understood system\".\n\nMinisters had been expected to announce the new system of tiered restrictions this week but there were reports this has been delayed due to disagreements within cabinet.\n\nAccording to a memo seen by the BBC last week, restrictions would be rationalised into three tiers, depending on the level of infection in a particular area.\n\nTwo weeks ago, Tory MPs unhappy with lack of Parliamentary scrutiny over local lockdowns forced the government to agree to give them a vote before any new nationwide curbs come into force.\n\nMr Spencer, who is in charge of maintaining discipline on the Conservative benches, said the government would honour its promise to its MPs, with a vote expected next week.\n\nAsked about the reported delay in officially announcing the plan, which was briefed to selected newspapers on Wednesday, he said it was \"important to get this right rather than fast as it would be very easy to announce something that isn't going to work\".\n\nThe new system, he suggested, would be similar to the current approach used by government based on infection rates but with greater flexibility built in.\n\n\"As we see the disease increase we will obviously go up those tiers but if we can all observe the social distancing and make sure we keep away from each other the disease will hopefully start to go down in number and then we can ease off that again.\"", "Harry Richford died a week after he was born\n\nAn NHS trust has been charged over the death of a baby who died seven days after an emergency delivery.\n\nHarry Richford died a week after he was born at Margate's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital (QEQM) in 2017.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) said East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust had been charged with exposing Harry and his mother Sarah Richford to significant risk of avoidable harm.\n\nThe trust has apologised \"unreservedly\" to the family over its failings.\n\nAn inquest earlier this year ruled Harry's death was \"contributed to by neglect\".\n\nFollowing the inquest, the independent Kirkup review of maternity services at the trust began its investigations. At the time, Susan Acott, chief executive of the NHS trust, told a board meeting there had been 15 baby deaths that could possibly have been preventable.\n\nHarry's parents Sarah and Tom said they had been in the spotlight for nearly three years\n\nThe Richford family said they were pleased the CQC had made \"this landmark decision\".\n\n\"It will now be for the courts to hear all of the evidence that the CQC and our family have amassed over the last three years and to decide whether the clinical care and treatment offered at that time could be considered safe, or whether there was a criminal breach of the duty of care that was clearly owed to both Sarah and Harry at their most vulnerable time,\" they added.\n\n\"In the meantime, the Kirkup inquiry will carry on their work looking into the way maternity services were delivered since 2009 for all families affected, with the aim of finding the truth and ensuring these circumstances cannot be repeated.\"\n\nThe family urged anyone with concerns about maternity care in east Kent to contact the inquiry.\n\n\"Our family have been in the spotlight for nearly three years, now is our time to pass the responsibility of finding the truth and ensuring lasting change in east Kent to the CQC, the courts, Bill Kirkup and indeed the government,\" they said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Richford family said they were pleased with the decision\n\nEast Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Susan Acott said the trust had \"admitted to the CQC that it failed to provide safe care and treatment for which we are profoundly sorry\".\n\n\"We are deeply sorry and apologise unreservedly for our failure to provide safe care and treatment resulting in the death of baby Harry in November 2017,\" she said.\n\n\"Mr and Mrs Richford's expectation was that they would welcome a healthy baby into their family. We are deeply sorry that we failed in our role to help them do that and for the devastating loss of baby Harry.\n\n\"We recognise the mistakes in both Harry's delivery and subsequent resuscitation and that Harry's family was not given the support and answers they needed at the time. We deeply regret the extra pain that this caused them.\"", "Two billionaire brothers from Blackburn have been made CBEs a week after clinching a £6.8bn deal to buy the Asda supermarket chain from Walmart.\n\nMohsin and Zuber Issa were among a number of business bosses on the Queen's Birthday Honours list.\n\nGlaxoSmithkline chief executive Emma Walmsley was made a dame for services to the pharmaceutical industry.\n\nThe drugs firm is one of about 20 that is part of a global race to develop a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe billionaire Issa brothers started their business 20 years ago with one rented petrol station and grew it into a network of nearly 6,000 forecourts across 10 countries.\n\nIt was announced last week that the Issa brothers and private equity firm TDR Capital would take a majority stake in Asda.\n\nWalmart said that, under the new owners, Asda will invest £1bn in the supermarket over the next three years.\n\nA number of honours were awarded to people for their work during the coronavirus pandemic, including Ms Walmsley.\n\nShe was given a damehood for services to the pharmaceutical industry and business after leading the UK's biggest drugs manufacturer for the past three years.\n\nEmma Walmsley has been chief executive of GlaxoSmithkline since 2017\n\nGlaxoSmithkline (GSK) is part of the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine, and said last week it had started clinical trials with fellow drugs firm Sanofi.\n\nAs chief executive, Ms Walmsley has been instrumental in the company's involvement in international efforts to develop a vaccine.\n\nProperty tycoon Tony Gallagher was given a knighthood in relation to his service to \"land development and the property business\".\n\nThe Gallagher Estates founder is a friend of former Prime Minister David Cameron and a major donor to the Conservative party.\n\nAndrew Mackenzie, the former chief executive officer of mining giant BHP Billiton, was made a Knight Bachelor for services to business, science, technology and to UK and Australia relations.\n\nClare Woodman the chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley International was given a CBE for services to finance.\n\nFashion entrepreneur Sir Paul Smith was also recognised on the annual list, being named as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour.\n\nThere were also honours for a number of utilities bosses.\n\nRichard Flint, who recently retired as Yorkshire Water's chief, Olivia Garfield, chief executive at Severn Trent, and Chris Jones, who stepped down as chief of Welsh Water last year, all become CBEs.", "El Shafee Elsheikh (l) and Alexanda Kotey (r) were flown to the US on Wednesday\n\nTwo Islamic State (IS) suspects from the UK have pleaded not guilty in a US court to charges of conspiring to murder four American hostages.\n\nEl Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are accused of belonging to an IS cell dubbed \"The Beatles\" involved in kidnappings in Iraq and Syria.\n\nAppearing by videolink, they both pleaded not guilty at a hearing in Alexandria, Virginia.\n\nThey had been flown from US custody in Iraq to face charges on Wednesday.\n\nElsheikh, 32, and Kotey, 36, are facing trial for involvement in the murders of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and relief workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.\n\nBoth of the accused waived their right to a fast trial.\n\nSetting the date of the next hearing for 15 January, Judge TS Ellis described the case as \"complex and unusual\" and said it may involve classified information.\n\n\"Time is required in order to achieve the ends of justice in this case,\" the judge said.\n\nElsheikh and Kotey are suspected of involvement in the deaths of other hostages, including Alan Henning - a taxi driver from Salford, Greater Manchester, who was delivering aid - and Scottish aid worker David Haines, from Perth, as well as two Japanese nationals.\n\nThey are also face charges of supporting terrorism and conspiring to commit hostage taking.\n\nOriginally from west London, their alleged IS gang was given its 1960s pop group nickname by hostages due to their British accents. They were stripped of their UK nationality in 2018.", "The singer has recorded dozens of hits with the Housemartins, The Beautiful South and Jacqui Abbott\n\nSinger Paul Heaton has been praised for his generosity, after the final editor of Q Magazine revealed how he supported staff when the publication closed.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Ted Kessler explained how the star made a large donation to the magazine, which was shared amongst 40 staff.\n\n\"It really was the most amazingly kind, selfless, generous act,\" he said. \"For some, it meant a bill could be paid.\"\n\nIn thanks, the staff commissioned a Q Award to honour the star.\n\nReceiving it on Friday, Heaton thanked the magazine for its support and the \"kind words\" about his donation.\n\n\"It was just meant to make sure people weren't left on their arse,\" he said in a video posted to Twitter.\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\nKessler, who was at the helm of Q Magazine when it closed in July, shared the story on what would have been the date of the annual Q award ceremony.\n\n\"We had the Roundhouse booked for two nights for the Q Awards next week,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"We didn't have talent sorted when we had to Covid cancel in April, but Nadine Shah was presenting and the two gigs were Liam Gallagher one night, Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott the other.\n\n\"The only award we knew for sure was to Paul Heaton, as we'd heard he'd never won one.\n\n\"Think of all the brilliant songs he's written for The Housemartins, Beautiful South, etc. Millions of records sold. No Q award (or Brit) for his songwriting. So we knew he'd be Classic Songwriter.\n\n\"Then, a few days after Q closed, we got a message from him saying that to thank Q for all the support we'd given him over 35 years, he was going to donate a large sum to thank us in our turmoil. Obviously, I politely declined.\n\n\"He was insistent. I accepted the donation and shared it amongst over 40 staff and freelancers working for Q at the time, all of whose minds - like mine - were blown.\"\n\nPosting a photo of Heaton's award, Kessler concluded: \"We got him that award in the end. Britain's greatest living pop star. A true legend.\"\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 Ted Kessler 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\nFans welcomed the anecdote with an outpouring of joy and gratitude.\n\n\"Such a non-2020 thing to happen,\" said Mat Osman, bassist for Suede. \"A musician who I love is suddenly trending and it turns out that it's just because he's a lovely guy.\"\n\n\"This kind of thing is just enough to retain faith in human nature. What a wonderful thing to do,\" added BBC 6 Music's Shaun Keaveny.\n\n\"A proper working class hero,\" added one fan, while another commented: \"Paul Heaton and his songs have pulled me out of very dark times. He deserves all the kudos, awards and love that goes his way,\" added another user.\n\nHeaton, who was formerly a member of the Housemartins and The Beautiful South, is known for his generosity.\n\nIn 2017, he revealed that he had offered all the royalties from his back catalogue to the government - meaning that every time a hit like Happy Hour, Rotterdam or Perfect 10 was played, the money would be used to fund schools and the NHS.\n\n\"I felt I'd made enough money from them, I didn't want to nationalise my savings, as such, I was just saying this was a gift to the British public,\" he told Channel 5's Matthew Wright programme.\n\nHowever, he said, the offer was turned down.\n\nThe star was also due to play a free concert for NHS staff on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis next week, along with his current singing partner Jacqui Abbott.\n\nThe show, in Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena, has been rescheduled for April, due to ongoing restrictions on live events.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Deke Duncan has joined WLHA but still broadcasts Radio 77 to one listener - wife Pamela - at home in Stockport, Greater Manchester\n\nA DJ who featured in a 1970s BBC TV report about his \"one listener\" radio shows broadcast from his garden shed to his wife in the house has been signed by a US radio station.\n\nDeke Duncan, 75, was filmed by BBC Nationwide in Hertfordshire 40 years ago, and he will now broadcast on Wisconsin's WLHA Radio from Sunday.\n\nHe was tracked down in 2018 by BBC Three Counties Radio and his story has since been reported all over the world.\n\n\"I'm living the dream, still,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm really thrilled about it - join me for a cheerful earful every Sunday.\"\n\nOn BBC Nationwide on BBC One in the 1970s, DJ Deke Duncan said his \"ultimate ambition would be to broadcast to the rest of Stevenage\"\n\nInspired by pirate station Radio Caroline, Duncan started playing records from his back garden in Gonville Crescent, Stevenage in 1974, and still does it from his home in Stockport, Greater Manchester.\n\nHe set up Radio 77, but with no licence, the station could only be sent to a speaker in his living room to wife Teresa - his only listener.\n\nIn 2018, the film was tweeted by BBC Archive and BBC Three Counties Radio found him in Stockport, Greater Manchester, where he was still presenting to one listener on Radio 77 - his second wife Pamela.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deke Duncan was given a one-off show by BBC Three Counties Radio\n\nWLHA AM is operated by University of Wisconsin alumni who studied there in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nDuncan said his show, which can be heard online at 16:00 BST, would be \"exactly like Radio 77 that I've been doing for nearly 50 years\".\n\nProgramme director, Kevin \"Casey\" Peckham said he was \"truly delighted\" Duncan had joined the team.\n\n\"Deke's finely-honed talent for doing upbeat, fast-paced, and imaginative radio in the style of great radio of the 1960s and 1970s is a perfect fit for us,\" he said.\n\n\"We recognized [him] as a kindred spirit who shared our own passions for radio as it existed decades ago.\"\n\nDuncan presented non-stop weekend slots from his shed at 57 Gonville Crescent in Stevenage in 1974 - home of Radio 77\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "A US man in Thailand who was arrested for writing a negative hotel review will avoid legal action and jail time.\n\nWesley Barnes had posted several reviews allegedly accusing the Sea View Resort of \"modern day slavery\".\n\nHe was subsequently detained and charged under Thailand's strict anti-defamation laws.\n\nPolice said Mr Barnes and the resort had managed to reach an agreement, which included an apology to the hotel and to Thailand's tourism authority.\n\nHe was also told to send a statement to foreign media organisations that had previously written about his then possible arrest, including BBC News.\n\nIn it, Mr Barnes said that he apologised for his \"repeatedly false and untrue statements... made to maliciously defame Sea View. These reviews were written out of anger and malice\".\n\nThe statement said he regretted his actions, adding that \"the hotel has forgiven me and agreed to withdraw the complaint\".\n\nColonel Kitti Maleehuan, superintendent of the Koh Chang police station - the island where the resort is located - told the AFP news agency that both parties had met over a mediation session overseen by police.\n\nMr Barnes will also have to provide \"an explanation to the US embassy\", said AFP - though it did not elaborate.\n\nThe hotel had said it would withdraw its complaint against Mr Barnes if he met all these terms.\n\nMr Barnes had ahead of the mediation session told news agency Reuters that he wanted to \"end this case once and for all\".\n\nIf found guilty, he could have faced up to two years in prison.\n\nMr Barnes, who works in Thailand, had stayed in the Sea View resort earlier this year.\n\nHe is said to have got into an argument with staff over him wanting to bring his own bottle of alcohol while dining in the restaurant.\n\nA hotel statement said he had \"caused a commotion\" and refused to pay a corkage fee which was eventually waived when the manager intervened.\n\nSince leaving, Mr Barnes posted several negative reviews of the property, after which the hotel sued him for defamation.\n\nThe hotel said the reviews were \"false\" and \"defamatory\"\n\nThe hotel has alleged that his reviews were \"fabricated, recurrent, and malicious\", with one post on TripAdvisor accusing the hotel of \"modern day slavery\".\n\nMr Barnes, though, had earlier told the BBC that this particular post was never published as it violated TripAdvisor's guidelines.\n\nHe also said he had already lost his job over the incident and expressed worries that the publicity his case had received would make it harder to find new employment.\n\nThe hotel told the BBC that after the reviews had been published, it had received cancellations and inquiries about employee treatment.\n\nThailand's tourism sector has been hit hard by the fallout of the global coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Receiving multiple false and defamatory reviews over a period can be extremely damaging, especially, during these incredibly difficult times,\" the statement from the hotel said.\n\nThey added that they had repeatedly tried to contact Mr Barnes before they filed the suit.\n\n\"We chose to file a complaint to serve as a deterrent, as we understood he may continue to write negative reviews week after week for the foreseeable future,\" they said.\n\n\"Despite our multiple efforts to contact him to resolve the matter in an amicable way for well over a month, he chose to ignore us completely. He only replied to us when he had been notified of our complaint by the authorities.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I shouldn't be scared to walk down the street\"\n\nTwo years ago, 50-year-old Tommy Barwick was attacked after London's Pride parade. He was left requiring the use of a wheelchair.\n\n\"I heard shouting behind me that was homophobic. Then I was hit. I felt my back crack and I fell to the floor. They stamped on my back,\" said Tommy - and they swore at him as he lay on the ground and told him he \"deserved it\".\n\n\"The pain - it was so awful. I was in and out of consciousness. I thought I was going to die, I really did. I thought I was never going to see my daughter again,\" he said, recalling the traumatic experience.\n\nThis homophobic assault - an attack based on prejudice against LGBT people - was part of a surge in such cases over the past five years.\n\nNew figures obtained by the BBC from all 45 police forces in the UK reveal that the number of reported homophobic hate crime cases almost trebled - from 6,655 in 2014-15, the year same sex marriage became legal in England, to 18,465 in 2019-20.\n\nIn the past year, there has been a 20% rise in reports to police of homophobic hate crime, according to the data which was obtained through Freedom of Information requests.\n\nPolice forces said this increase could reflect a greater confidence in reporting such crimes.\n\nBut LGBT charities said they had seen a rise in people experiencing such hate crimes and this could be just the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\nThe attack has left Tommy in pain - and it meant losing his livelihood because he was no longer able to run the shop he owned.\n\n\"My life was taken from me. I can't play with my daughter like I used to. I don't sleep. I have flashbacks. I have nightmares. I'm financially ruined,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut his attackers were never found. The police force dealing with his case has apologised for the way that his case was handled, and the BBC has seen the letter.\n\n\"I wanted to reiterate my apology for the lack of face-to-face contact with any officer after your attack. It is clear that the service you received left you feeling let down, and this is not acceptable,\" he was told by the police.\n\nBut Tommy doesn't think that's good enough.\n\n\"They've told me that they handled my case wrong, and that now they'll train their officers better. But that doesn't help me. I haven't got a lot of trust in them anymore.\"\n\nA hate crime is a criminal offence that is motivated by \"hostility or prejudice\" towards someone because of factors such as their race or religion or their sexual orientation.\n\nIt means prosecutors can apply to the court to increase the offender's sentence.\n\nSuch cases of hate crimes based on sexual orientation seem to have been increasing in many areas.\n\nCharlie Graham, a 21-year-old from Sunderland, says homophobic hate crime is just a part of life.\n\nCharlie has been attacked several times over the past three years - and was left beaten and covered in blood after the most recent incident a few months ago.\n\n\"I did go downhill after the first two of three times. Like really downhill, to the point where I was in a hole and I didn't want to come out of it,\" Charlie said about the impacts of the attacks.\n\n\"Suicidal thoughts, drinking, not giving a care in the world.\"\n\nAs with Tommy's experience, Charlie's attackers were never found. The police looking into the case apologised.\n\nEven after going through such horrific experiences, Charlie refuses to change any way of life, and said nobody else should have to either.\n\n\"I could come up with lots of examples where we are getting it right,\" said Deputy Chief Constable Julie Cooke, the lead for LGBT at the National Police Chiefs' Council.\n\n\"But I absolutely take seriously where we don't. And we need to make sure that we improve and learn from those times when we've not done it right,\" she said.\n\n\"It is hugely underreported. And so please do come forward. And if you're not getting the right response that you would expect, please make sure that you tell us about that.\"\n\nBut Nancy Kelley, chief executive of Stonewall, the LGBT charity, doesn't think the rise is just down to better reporting.\n\n\"We are definitely seeing a real increase in people reaching out for help across all of the LGBT organisations,\" she said.\n\n\"So we are very concerned that this is a real rise in people who are being attacked because of who they are and who they love.\n\n\"We know that 80% of LGBT people don't report hate crimes. So this is really just the tip of the iceberg.\n\n\"One of the key steps to changing this is making it visible, and by standing up and saying that we shouldn't have to experience this kind of hate and abuse.\"", "Fewer than half of state schools in England offer counselling for pupils on site in the wake of the coronavirus lockdown, research says.\n\nThe Institute of Public Policy Research study says fewer schools offer such services now than in 2010 and schools in more deprived areas were most likely to have lost out.\n\nIt wants a national entitlement to mental health support in schools.\n\nThe government says it is investing in mental health and children's wellbeing.\n\nBut John Trickett, Labour MP for Hemsworth, who has been campaigning with counselling organisations on the issue, said he was very angry about the lack of access, despite government pledges.\n\n\"The fact that some schools in more deprived areas haven't been able to offer counselling and other pastoral services isn't surprising in this context, but it is wrong, unfair and should make people's blood boil,\" he said.\n\n\"This generation of school and college children have already experienced unprecedented upheaval in the last six months.\"\n\nThere has been a huge increase in young people struggling with mental health issues in recent years, and a further spike in cases related to lockdown is expected by many groups working with children.\n\nGeneral secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers Paul Whiteman said mental health support teams were a vital aspect of improving access to mental health support, but progress to develop these had slowed.\n\nHe added: \"It has never been more important for young people to get the support they need, but it still appears that it is a lottery. The government urgently needs to step in to correct this.\"\n\nThe IPPR based its findings on a survey of nearly 7,000 teachers in state and private schools, weighting the results to reflect the national picture.\n\nSome 48% of the teachers polled said their schools offered counselling on the school site.\n\nAllowing pupils to access counselling in school is important because it reduces the lesson time they will miss if they have to travel elsewhere for appointments.\n\nIt also helps staff can understand whether the pupil is dealing with an ongoing issue.\n\nAlso, teachers, parents and head teachers frequently say they find it difficult to access the support services they need for their children.\n\nWaiting lists for support through the NHS can be long, and young people often need to be severely impaired before they are approved for help.\n\nHarry Quilter Pinner, IPPR associate director and lead author of the report, said the pandemic had highlighted inequalities in society and the very real needs of children.\n\n\"Many schools are unable to provide the support young people need to thrive.\n\n\"Without urgent government action to ensure every school can provide vital services such as counselling and after-school clubs there is a profound risk that the legacy of the pandemic will be even bigger educational and health inequalities.\n\n\"The government has started to put in place some support for young people in the wake of the national lockdown. But it can and should go further - the pandemic should be seen as an opportunity to 'build back better'.\"\n\nThe Department for Education pointed to its £8m training programme for schools to access the knowledge and resources they need to support children and young people, teachers and parents.\n\nThe Wellbeing for Education Return programme, which started in September, will support staff working in schools and colleges to respond to the additional pressures some children and young people may be feeling as a direct result of the pandemic. These include bereavement, stress, trauma or anxiety.", "Bars and restaurants are to be shut in another four French cities where Covid-19 is spreading\n\nThe French government has imposed tighter coronavirus restrictions in four more cities with high infection rates, as a number of European countries see a surge in cases.\n\nThe cities of Lyon, Lille, Grenoble and Saint-Etienne will become zones of maximum alert from Saturday.\n\nBars and restaurants will have to close, as they did in Paris earlier this week and Marseille last month.\n\nThe measures were announced as France saw a near-record 18,129 new cases.\n\n\"The situation has deteriorated in several metropolises in recent days,\" French Health Minister Olivier Veran said at a news conference on Thursday. \"Every day, more and more people are infected.\"\n\nFrance's maximum-alert level comes into force when the infection rate in a locality exceeds 250 infections per 100,000 people and at least 30% of intensive care beds are reserved for Covid-19 patients.\n\nHospitals in the Paris region moved into emergency mode on Thursday, as coronavirus patients took up almost half of intensive-care beds.\n\nFrance's coronavirus situation mirrors that of other European countries, including the Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine and the Czech Republic, which all reported record increases in daily cases on Thursday.\n\nEven Germany, a relative success story of the pandemic in Europe, has started to see what its health minister has called a worrying rise in cases.\n\nA large proportion of the rise in coronavirus cases globally is being driven by outbreaks in Europe, the Americas and South-East Asia.\n\nOn Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases, with the total rising by 338,779 in 24 hours.\n\nGermany saw its highest daily rise in infections since April, with confirmed cases rising by almost a third to more than 4,000.\n\nIt has now recorded a total of 310,144 cases with a death toll of 9,578, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The UK in contrast has registered 544,275 cases and 42,515 deaths. On Thursday 17,540 new cases were recorded in the UK.\n\nAt a news conference, RKI President Lothar Wieler said Germans must be wary of what he called the \"prevention paradox\" - the feeling that measures were no longer needed because case numbers were relatively low.\n\n\"The current situation worries me a lot. We don't know how the situation in Germany will develop in the coming weeks. It's possible we'll see more than 10,000 new cases a day, it's possible the virus will spread out of control,\" he said.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn praised the German people for their \"prudent actions\" in integrating the rules into their day-to-day lives, but added: \"We must not gamble away this achievement.\"\n\nHe pointed the finger at large groups of socialising young people, who \"think they are invincible\", for failing to follow the rules on social distancing and hygiene and welcomed the curfews on evening entertainment introduced by Berlin and Frankfurt.\n\nAs the autumn school holidays get under way in Germany, rules for domestic travel have also been tightened and include a ban on overnight stays in hotels or holiday apartments for anyone coming from \"risk zones\" where infection rates top 50 per 100,000 inhabitants.\n\nGermans have also been urged to avoid travelling abroad during the holiday period.\n\nThere are already bans on large gatherings in areas with high infection rates, testing at airports for people arriving from high-risk countries and fines for anyone failing to wear face coverings in shops or on public transport.", "However you look at the blizzard of statistics about the Coronavirus, the disease is still spreading - despite town after town being placed under extra limits.\n\nEven before Nicola Sturgeon's moves on Wednesday to try to break the spread in Scotland, ministers in SW1 were looking at the next steps they would need to take to stop the acceleration of the virus.\n\nAs we've reported, the government is likely to introduce a tiered approach to put different parts of the country with different spreads of the diseases into different categories.\n\nBut the exact nature of the strictest form of restrictions are yet to be set in stone.\n\nIt's a complicated equation. The Department of Health is worried about the spread of the disease, as well as other patients losing out on other treatments because of the focus on Covid.\n\nNo 11 is fearful about the impact on the economy, which has already had a profound shock.\n\nAnd it's No 10's job to worry about all of it, then reach a conclusion.\n\nBut Boris Johnson also knows that his own MPs and the opposition parties are more and more sceptical as each day passes about what the government proposes.\n\nIt's clear that shutting pubs and restaurants is a possibility - the \"circuit breaker\" that we have talked about on here lots of times.\n\nBut there are many questions still to be settled.\n\nWould that happen everywhere? Or just in the most affected parts of the country?\n\nWould closures be total or for a certain period of time only?\n\nWould they be temporary? Or put in place until an indeterminate time?\n\nA lot is unknown, but the discussions are serious. The Treasury is already looking at financial support for the different options, including not just closing pubs in the most affected areas, but potentially well beyond.\n\nThere is a lot yet to settle, and the next formal announcement is likely (as things stand) not to come until Monday.\n\nBut more action is clearly on the way.", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nScotland are one game away from their first major finals since 1998 after a nerve-shredding win on penalties against Israel at Hampden.\n\nKenny McLean scored the pivotal spot-kick in the depleted Scots' first ever shootout, with only a victory in Serbia on 12 November now separating Steve Clarke's men from Euro 2020.\n\nIt was a turgid affair at an empty national stadium between two below-par teams, but five perfect penalties from the hosts have a nation daring to dream of reaching a long-awaited tournament.\n\nScotland, without a clutch of players after call-offs due to Covid-19 protocols and injury, are now on a six-game unbeaten run.\n\nSerbia lie in wait in the play-off finals after they defeated Norway 2-1 in extra time in Oslo.\n• None What could still ruin Scotland's dream?\n\nHoping for the best, fearing the worst. The mantra of every Scotland fan following the match across the land. Was it now, or would it continue to be never?\n\nAs the Tartan Army dared to whisper of the former, the preamble silenced much of the chatter.\n\nStuart Armstrong, Kieran Tierney, Ryan Christie, Scott McKenna, Liam Palmer, James Forrest and Oliver Burke all ruled out - the first three amid Covid controversy.\n\nWhat followed in the fledgling moments of this encounter would have offered modest reassurance. While seeing plenty of the ball, Scotland struggled to serve the front two of Oli McBurnie and Lyndon Dykes.\n\nInstead, the hosts' best efforts came from set-pieces. Andy Robertson arced a free-kick wide in a half chance before Scott McTominay missed a jaw-dropping chance, steering a header the wrong side of the post from six yards when left all alone.\n\nThe noise of the Manchester United man - playing again in a back three - chastising himself for the miss walking off at the break the only thing cutting through the Hampden silence.\n\nScotland captain Robertson was four years old the last time the country graced a major tournament, and the pressure seemed to suffocate him and his team-mates.\n\nWhile the back three looked steady, there was little intensity going forward, minimal width and nothing for Ofir Marciano to do in the Israel goal.\n\nInstead, the team ranked 93rd in the world were the ones to get the only shot of the 90 minutes on target, Eran Zahavi's zinger from distance being dealt with by David Marshall.\n\nThe game limped over the line into extra time - Scotland's first added half hour since 1961 - with what was likely to have been a unified sigh of resignation across the country.\n\nSubstitute Ryan Fraser brought intent and conviction to the side, the Newcastle winger sparking flickers of intent, but again Marciano's gloves remained immaculate. Twenty two years of hurt down, 15 minutes to play.\n\nThe agonising torture of Scotland's first penalty shootout seemed inevitable, but Israel offered one huge heart-in-mouth moment.\n\nCeltic's Hatem Elhamed's cross was missed by Liam Cooper. Lurking behind was Shon Weissman, but the Real Valladolid striker's outstretched leg missed it too. The cracks in the fingers contracted tighter.\n\nThen the nerves were shredded further. A last-gasp Robertson corner found the head of Cooper. His connection was true, but the ball crashed off an upright and out of play to signal penalties.\n\nScotland were now into uncharted waters. Nothing up until this point suggested how plain sailing it would be.\n\nJohn McGinn, Callum McGregor, McTominay, Lawrence Shankland and McLean all scored, with Marshall saving Zehavi's opening spot kick. It trigger delirium on the pitch, at homes everywhere, and no doubt on streets outside of pubs that closed - or were supposed to, at least - halfway through extra time.\n\nIt's safe to come out from the back of the sofa, but best keep the spot warm for next month.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nNot as much what did we learn, but what were we reminded of? Watching Scotland should come with a health warning.\n\nThis is a national team that for so many years has threatened to be consumed by the beast of a two-decade burden of regret, angst and humiliation. While Israel didn't threaten for the most part, the group of players in dark blue struggled to find their rhythm.\n\nBut, it wouldn't be Scotland unless it was done the hard way. While Clarke will say Slovakia and Czech Republic in the Nations League in coming days will get due respect, the focus internally will surely be on preparing for Serbia. With an influx of players returning, you just never know...\n• None This was Scotland's first goalless draw in 55 matches, since November 2013 against United States.\n• None Scotland have gone six games without defeat in all competitions (W4 D2) for the first time since being unbeaten in seven matches under Gordon Strachan in October 2017.\n• None Only one of the game's 29 shots was on target - Eran Zahavi's attempt for Israel in the 72nd minute.\n• None It was the first time Scotland have not had a shot on target at home since the game against Belgium in September 2013.\n\nScotland's focus now falls to Sunday's visit of Slovakia to Hampden in the Nations League, then the arrival of the Czechs on Wednesday. Honestly...\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(5), Israel 0(3). Kenny McLean (Scotland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(4), Israel 0(3). Mohammad Abu Fani (Israel) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(4), Israel 0(2). Lawrence Shankland (Scotland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(3), Israel 0(2). Shon Weissman (Israel) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(3), Israel 0(1). Scott McTominay (Scotland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(2), Israel 0(1). Nir Bitton (Israel) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(2), Israel 0. Callum McGregor (Scotland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Eran Zahavi (Israel) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0(1), Israel 0. John McGinn (Scotland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Liam Cooper (Scotland) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andrew Robertson (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by John McGinn.\n• None Offside, Israel. Nir Bitton tries a through ball, but Shon Weissman is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Exploring how it defines the way we feel\n• None What We're Not Taught In Schools", "Premier League games not selected for broadcast in October will be available to fans on a pay-per-view basis.\n\nThe five fixtures per round not already picked to be shown live, will be available on BT Sport Box Office or Sky Sports Box Office, priced at £14.95.\n\nClubs have agreed this \"interim solution\" to allow fans to continue watching their teams live.\n\nPremier League clubs voted 19-1 in favour of the move, with Leicester City the only one to vote against it.\n\nThe move has drawn criticism from football supporters, while the Premier League said it and its clubs \"remain committed to the safe return of fans as soon as possible\".\n\nSpectators have been unable to attend Premier League games since football was halted on 13 March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe top flight resumed on 17 June with the remaining 92 games of last season being played behind closed doors and the opening games of this season have followed suit.\n\nThe Premier League and UK government had hoped to bring fans back into stadiums from 1 October but those plans were scrapped following an increase in coronavirus cases.\n\nSky Sports managing director Rob Webster said: \"Our subscribers still get more than 140 of the very best matches, while supporters of individual clubs won't have to miss out on any games during this period.\"\n\nBT Sport said fans without a subscription would still be able to access their Box Office service.\n\nFormer Manchester United and England right-back Gary Neville, now a Sky pundit, said on social media it was a \"really bad move\" by the Premier League.\n\nIn a statement, the Football Supporters' Association urged broadcasters to \"reconsider their pricing\".\n\n\"Today's announcement shows that fan power works,\" the FSA said. \"At the start of this season the Premier League and its broadcasters had planned to leave match-going fans entirely locked out of their side's matches; now thanks to the sustained pressure of our #LetUsWatch campaign all games will be available for fans.\n\n\"Many Premier League clubs have already taken money from fans for matches they can't attend, so we urge them to get refunds out to those supporters as soon as possible, particularly season ticket holders.\"\n\nAlex Hurst, the chair of Newcastle United's Supporters Trust said: \"The idea that Premier League clubs need to implement PPV because of economic needs would carry more weight if they hadn't just spent £1bn on players, furloughed staff, received government loans, weren't charging fans for games they aren't going to and hadn't just made thousands of staff redundant.\"\n\nSupporters of EFL clubs can buy match passes to watch their teams for £10 using the iFollow service.\n\n'The Premier League's move has raised eyebrows within government' - analysis\n\nEver since last season resumed, all Premier League matches have been available to watch live via the top flight's broadcast partners. This was partly to help the government encourage fans to stay at home while games stayed behind closed doors, rather than congregating outside grounds or in pubs.\n\nBut having had their hopes of a partial return of fans inside grounds from 1 October dashed, despite the success of pilot events, the clubs have had enough of generating nothing from these matches.\n\nTheir annoyance at being told turnstiles must remain shut when pressure is also building on them to come up with a bailout for the EFL, is likely to have hardened their stance.\n\nBut after clubs spent more than £1bn in the summer transfer window, and at a time when many supporters will be struggling financially, there will be anger about having to pay £15 for matches fans had grown used to watching for no extra cost, on top of their subscriptions for Sky and BT. Those who have also bought season tickets will be particularly infuriated.\n\nI understand the Premier League's move has raised eyebrows within government, and clubs will now come under renewed pressure to refund season ticket holders, and perhaps reduce the pay-per-view cost going forward.\n• None Exploring how it defines the way we feel\n• None What We're Not Taught In Schools", "Scottish LibDem leader Willie Rennie says today's guidance highlights the confusion generated by the first minister's statement on Wednesday.\n\nHe told BBC One Scotland's Coronavirus Update that there should be a \"proper package of financial support for those self isolating\".\n\nMr Rennie says Scotland should be mass testing students and called for a timetable to detail when society can return to \"some form of normality.\"\n\nMr Rennie adds it is incredibly important to get the route map right going forward.\n\nHe says: \"This chopping and changing of the last week can't be repeated in future.\n\n\"We need to have clarity. We need to have debate. We need to have scrutiny.\n\n\"We can't have the parliament being bounced, which is what I warned was going to happen this week.\"", "The chancellor will set out on Friday more support for businesses forced to close by law, with tighter virus rules expected in England next week.\n\nRishi Sunak will outline the next stage of the Job Support Scheme to help firms that \"may have to close in the coming weeks or months\", the Treasury says.\n\nAn update on restrictions, which could see pubs and restaurants shut in the worst-affected areas, is due on Monday.\n\nRegional leaders have called for more help for struggling firms.\n\nThe chancellor is expected to announce the new financial support scheme will be a six-month plan, with a three-month review point.\n\nBut Labour's shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said Mr Sunak's Job Support Scheme was \"forcing businesses to flip a coin over who stays and who goes\" because it was cheaper to employ one worker than two to do the same hours.\n\nThe Job Support Scheme, which will replace the furlough scheme from 1 November, will see eligible workers get three quarters of their normal salaries for six months.\n\nTo be eligible, employees must be in a ''viable job'' where they can work for at least one-third of their normal hours.\n\nFor the hours not worked, the government and employer will each pay one-third of the remaining wages. This means the employee would get at least 77% of their pay.\n\nNearly three million workers - or 12% of the UK's workforce - are currently on partial or full furlough leave, according to official figures. The current furlough scheme ends on 31 October.\n\nBut Labour's shadow chancellor Ms Dodds tweeted that the Job Support Scheme \"makes it more expensive to bring staff back than many other international schemes\".\n\nShe said the cost to an employer of bringing back two workers in the arts sector for half of the week versus one for the whole week was £163 in the UK, compared with £98 in the Netherlands, £69 in France and nothing in Germany.\n\n\"Once again it seems like the chancellor has waited to the last possible minute to start listening to Labour and bring in targeted support for those parts of the country under local restrictions,\" she said.\n\n\"The chancellor's constant flip-flopping on furlough is putting 900,000 jobs at risk, leaving workers in limbo and creating chaos in the midst of a pandemic.\"\n\nA tiered system of measures for England is set to be announced by Monday, in an effort to stall rising infection rates, to replace the patchwork of existing rules across the country.\n\nUnder the new system, different parts of the country would be placed in different categories - although ministers are still discussing the precise details.\n\nPubs and restaurants could be closed in the worst-affected areas, while a ban on overnight stays is also being considered.\n\nConservative chief whip Mark Spencer has said MPs will be given a vote on the proposed new framework, saying the tiered system was \"being worked on at the moment\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Nottingham that ministers and scientific advisers were striving to come up with a \"very clear and easily understood system…so we all know what the aim is\".\n\nOn Thursday, England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty presented evidence to MPs in a video call that a \"significant proportion\" of exposure to coronavirus was happening in the hospitality sector - but nothing more was shown on the scope, severity, timing or precise location of any new restrictions.\n\nBut there has been growing anger among MPs and local leaders about the way the government has communicated the proposed changes with them.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham accused the government of treating the north of England with \"contempt\" after he learned ministers were considering shutting hospitality venues in the worst-affected areas in a newspaper report.\n\nMr Burnham said he would challenge the closure of pubs, bars and restaurants if the measure did not come with financial support.\n\nHe told BBC's Question Time: \"The message I've given to the government is a pretty clear one - there can be no restrictions without support.\n\n\"And if it's going to be the tier three restrictions - effectively a national lockdown - we have to go back to a full furlough scheme for those staff, support for those businesses, otherwise the north of England is going to be levelled down this winter and I won't accept it.\"\n\nIn response, junior minister Gillian Keegan said the government had to act to stem the rise in cases.\n\n\"This is serious - it is getting out of control, and we have to do something to bring it back under control,\" she said.\n\nBut she acknowledged that communication with the worst-hit areas needed to improve.\n\nThere were 17,540 new cases of coronavirus recorded in the UK on Thursday, up from the 14,162 reported the day before, government data showed. A further 77 people died after testing positive for the virus within 28 days.\n\nNHS England data published on Thursday showed the number of people waiting more than a year to start hospital treatment is at its highest level since 2008 - with some 111,026 people waiting more than 52 weeks to start hospital treatment in August.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? What do the current restrictions mean for you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Liverpool is expected to be placed under severe new restrictions next week\n\nThe prime minister is to make a statement to MPs on Monday giving details of new restrictions to slow the spread of coronavirus in England.\n\nA letter from Boris Johnson's adviser to MPs in the North West seen by the BBC says it is \"very likely\" some areas will face further restrictions.\n\nBut some regional leaders warn the new plan for a three-tier local lockdown system will only create more confusion.\n\nIt comes as a doctors' union calls for clearer and more stringent rules.\n\nUnder the new restrictions, pubs and restaurants could be closed in parts of northern England and the Midlands - where some of the highest numbers of cases are occurring - while a ban on overnight stays is also being considered.\n\nIt is understood that the most severe measures - imposed for areas in tier three - would be agreed with local leaders in advance.\n\nThe details of each tier, including the level of infection at which an area would qualify for it and the nature of the restrictions, are being debated this weekend.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was grossly irresponsible for anonymous government sources to tell newspapers on Thursday about plans for further restrictions on millions of people, without any detail, consultation or statement from the prime minister.\n\nThe letter to the MPs from Downing Street's chief strategic adviser Sir Edward Lister says the government is hoping to \"finalise these details as soon as possible\" amid \"rising incidence in parts of the country\".\n\nIt also cites the \"engagement that is taking place today and during the course of the weekend with local authority leaders in your region\".\n\nSir Edward says the set of measures being discussed \"present difficult choices. We must seek to strike the right balance between driving down transmission, and safeguarding our economy and society from the worst impact\".\n\nIn the face of pressure from MPs, elected mayors and council leaders, the prime minister has signalled he wants \"much closer engagement\" with local politicians.\n\nAs a senior government source said, they will bring \"expertise on what will work in their regions\".\n\nThe hope is for \"top tier\" restrictions in the new multi-level system to be agreed between the government and local leaders in advance.\n\nThere is an acknowledgement from inside government that this marks a change in approach. It is a shift away from what Labour described as a \"Whitehall knows best\" attitude.\n\nIt will allow local politicians, some of whom until now have complained of being frozen out, to have a greater input.\n\nBut it will also mean they are accountable, alongside government ministers, for the success or failure of the measures introduced.\n\nThey will have to share the responsibility, perhaps blame, if measures don't work or prove unpopular.\n\nAnd amid calls for clarity, it seems the new tiered system could vary region by region, making clear national messaging more difficult.\n\nSusan Hopkins, deputy director of Public Health England's national infection service, said the number of cases was rising all over the country, but more quickly in the North East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber than the South.\n\nShe said it was concerning that cases were rising \"quite fast\" in pockets of north-west England among the over-60s, the group most likely to need to be admitted to hospital.\n\nA number of areas in the North West, the North East and the Midlands are already subject to stricter restrictions. A tiered system of measures is designed to replace the patchwork of existing rules across the country.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions there needed to be \"greater freedom for local areas to design measures for themselves\".\n\nHe said there was \"a merit to simplicity\", adding that in local areas \"local leaders will know best\".\n\nLiverpool's Labour Mayor Joe Anderson said he expected Liverpool - where there are currently 600 cases per 100,000 people - to be placed in tier three, under the highest set of restrictions.\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme he understood this would involve the lockdown of all the city's pubs from Wednesday.\n\nHe said the government was wrong to allow Liverpool's bars and pubs to stay open this weekend, with infection rates so high.\n\nHe accepted people in the city should take individual responsibility and said he was \"angry and frustrated\" at those flouting the rules, but added: \"I'm not convinced people trust the government's decisions.\"\n\nAsked what his role would be in setting the restrictions, he said there had been conversation with Downing Street, but no consultation. It was clear the decisions had already been made, he said, but they were listening to his suggestions about how spikes in the city could best be dealt with.\n\nMartin Gannon, Labour leader of Gateshead Council, said there had been \"warm words\" in a meeting with civil servants but ultimately the laws would be made by government.\n\nHe said he would oppose any further restrictions placed on the North East, saying they could be \"counter-productive\" and lead to resistance from the public. Current measures were starting to bring down case numbers, he insisted, and the government needed to help local authorities win people's confidence.\n\nAnd Glen Sanderson, Conservative leader of Northumberland County Council, said he did not want blanket restrictions on Northumberland, which has large rural areas \"virtually unaffected\" by the virus as well as towns where case numbers were rising.\n\n\"I don't think the argument is there to bring in much tougher restrictions - we have to take people with us. If we can't get people to conform, we won't make any progress,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMeanwhile, the British Medical Association (BMA) said the government's measures to reduce the spread of the virus had not worked, given the uncontrolled escalation, and has made its own recommendations.\n\nIt wants to see masks worn in all offices and outdoors where two-metre distancing is not possible; free medical grade masks for the over-60s and vulnerable groups; financial support for businesses to become Covid-secure; and the \"rule of six\" tweaked to allow only two households to meet in groups of no more than six.\n\nChairman Dr Chaand Nagpaul said: \"The infection has risen following rapid relaxation of measures and with the Westminster government letting down its guard - as recently as August, the government was encouraging people to travel, go to work and mix in restaurants and pubs.\"\n\nSpeaking at the Co-operative Party virtual conference, Labour leader Sir Keir accused the government of serial incompetence, saying a test, trace and isolate system was \"critical\". Without that, \"thousands and thousands of people are walking around today who should be in self-isolation\", he warned.\n\nOn Friday the number of people in the UK to have tested positive for coronavirus rose by 13,864 - a decrease of 3,676 on Thursday's figure - with a further 87 deaths reported on the government's dashboard.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? What have restrictions meant for you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "England player Marcus Rashford was named in the Queen's delayed birthday honours list for services to vulnerable children in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 22-year-old Manchester United forward successfully campaigned to extend free school meals over the summer after pressing the government into a U-turn on the issue.", "The rare raptor, seen only a handful of times in the UK, was spotted at Moulton West Fen earlier\n\nAn enormous bone-eating vulture, rarely seen in the UK, has been spotted in the skies over Lincolnshire.\n\nThe bearded vulture, or lammergeier, is normally found in Alpine regions, and has a wing span of 2.5m (8.2ft).\n\nThe rare raptor was captured on film by Mark Hawkes at Moulton West Fen earlier after news of its arrival circulated on social media.\n\nIt was recently spotted in Norfolk, having spent the summer roosting in the Peak District.\n\nMr Hawkes, who lives in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, said he drove to the area after reading the news on the \"birder grapevine\".\n\nHe was lucky enough to see the it flying around with crows, and later \"sitting tight in a field\", he said.\n\nMr Hawkes added that about 200 other enthusiasts had also made the trip.\n\nAnother birder, Will Bowell, said it was an amazing sight to see, adding he was looking forward to seeing where it went from here.\n\nThe bird was first captured on film earlier this year in the Peak District.\n\nTeenager Indy Kiemel Greene photographed the bird in the Peak District in July\n\nAt the time, Tim Birch, from Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, said the bird - dubbed \"Vigo\" - was about two years old and had flown over to the UK from the Alps, where the endangered species is being reintroduced.\n\nPreviously, the only other reported sighting of a bearded vulture in the UK was in 2016, around Dartmoor and Monmouthshire.\n\nBut despite its enormous size, the bird is not dangerous to people or farm animals, and feeds on scavenged bones, Mr Birch added.\n\nBearded vultures are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List - meaning they are a \"near threatened\" species.\n\nThey get their name from a distinctive tuft of feathers under their lower beak.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "MPs from the Midlands and northern England are calling for more detail on possible plans to close restaurants and pubs in areas worst-hit by coronavirus.\n\nThey met ministers earlier, with some venting frustration about potential restrictions appearing in newspapers before being announced in Parliament.\n\nA tiered system of measures could be introduced next Wednesday, in an effort to stall rising infection rates.\n\nThe government said it was trying to create \"greater consistency on rules\".\n\nThere were 17,540 new cases of coronavirus recorded in the UK on Thursday, up from the 14,162 reported the day before, government data showed. A further 77 people died after testing positive for the virus within 28 days.\n\nMPs took part in a video call with health ministers Nadine Dorries and Edward Argar - and England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty - earlier on Thursday.\n\nThe chief medical officer presented evidence to the MPs that a \"significant proportion\" of exposure to coronavirus was happening in the hospitality sector - but nothing more was shown on the scope, severity, timing or precise location of any new restrictions.\n\nYet again, ministers are wrestling with grim trade-offs where no decision is pain-free.\n\nBut they're also wrestling with a communications challenge: what do you do when newspapers have been briefed that \"Restaurants and pubs in North forced to shut again\", as the Times front page headline reads today, but it hasn't yet been formally decided and announced?\n\nWell, a cabinet minister ends up doing a round of interviews where he or she can't answer any of the key questions directly: precisely which parts of the country will be affected by the new regulations, when, for how long, and how severe will they be?\n\nCue noisy grumbles from local leaders in those cities with sky-high infection rates, who don't know what is going to happen.\n\nYes, most of those leaders are Labour politicians not averse to complaining about a Conservative government, but ministers are left with an announcement that appears half-made: the prospect that various businesses may have to close or significantly scale back what they do, but without it being clear which ones, or where.\n\nProfound changes affecting millions of people hover as an imminent prospect. But ask a specific question, and the answer is we don't know.\n\nShadow health minister Alex Norris, an MP for Nottingham North - now the city with the highest case numbers in England - told BBC News: \"It was not the most convincing call to be part of.\"\n\n\"When pressed about Nottingham, the advice that came back was, 'We've not decided yet,' which is hard to understand when I have then talked to local journalists and they are getting better briefings than we are.\"\n\nHe said he understood new restrictions would be coming in next week, adding he believed they should come in immediately \"given we are top of the list now\".\n\nBen Bradley, Conservative MP for Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, who took part in the call, said: \"There are some really challenging circumstances.\n\n\"We talked about the North West and North East in particular, where we were talking about - in three weeks' time - having hospitalisation levels higher than in the original peak.\"\n\nHe said ministers had told the MPs to expect new measures to be announced on Monday and implemented on Wednesday.\n\nThe meeting came amid growing anger among politicians about the way the government has handled new restrictions in parts of the country with high infection rates.\n\nLabour's mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, told the BBC he had been \"having discussions with ministers this week. At no point did somebody say, 'We're closing all hospitality in the north of England on Monday.'\"\n\nFormer minister Jake Berry, the Conservative MP for Rossendale and Darwen, has accused the prime minister of enjoying his emergency powers \"a little bit too much\" and of being \"London-centric\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for Bishop Auckland, Dehenna Davidson, said in the Commons that the government was \"exactly right to take a localised approach\".\n\nBut she said the public in some areas of her constituency did not understand why they faced local restrictions when case numbers were low.\n\nA slide shown at the meeting lists hospitality as the most frequent setting for coronavirus exposure.\n\nLiverpool's Labour Metro Mayor, Steve Rotheram, said the \"North should not be a petri dish for experimentation by central government\".\n\nMPs have also expressed unease about the \"rule of six\" and the 10pm curfew for pubs and restaurants, calling for the scientific rationale behind the measure to be made public.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said his party will not be \"voting down\" the curfew next week, instead saying the rule \"needs to be reformed\".\n\nOthers on the left of the Labour Party, including former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, want a more \"severe\" lockdown. One told the BBC they wanted a \"zero Covid approach - hard, fast and backed up by comprehensive testing and financial support\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cllr David Mellen says a lack of coronavirus restrictions this weekend could mean a “last chance to party' in Nottingham.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick has not ruled out pubs being closed but said the response would be \"proportionate and localised\".\n\nHe told the BBC the precise measures for different areas would be announced \"in the coming days\".\n\nMr Jenrick added that the government was trying to give \"greater consistency on rules so they're easier to understand\" and was working on \"slightly broader canvases of regions or cities and counties to avoid differences in people's daily lives if they drive over the border\".\n\nThe government is expected to introduce a new \"three-tier\" approach to coronavirus restrictions in local areas of England in an effort to simplify the system and avoid public confusion, the BBC understands.\n\nBut details of how severe restrictions will be in each tier have yet to be confirmed.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were \"whispers in Whitehall of a 'firewall' approach\" to new restrictions expected next week.\n\nThis could mean extra limits to be turned on and off again to allow for Christmas, with the possibility of more being introduced in January and February to help the NHS cope.\n\nBut Laura Kuenssberg said the situation was \"still unclear with so many unknowns\" and final decisions have not been made.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have written a letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, calling for the furlough scheme to be extended before enforcing any shutdowns of industries, such as hospitality and retail.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPubs and restaurants across the central belt of Scotland have closed for the last time in at least two weeks.\n\nAfter they shut their doors at 18:00, they will not reopen until 25 October at the earliest.\n\nIt comes as the Scottish government publishes details of a £40m support package for businesses forced to close due to Covid restrictions.\n\nThere will be a tightening of rules across the rest of the country but licensed premises can remain open.\n\nPolice Scotland said additional officers would be deployed to ensure premises comply with restrictions.\n\nA protest against the measures took place in Glasgow on Friday evening, with bar workers dumping a large pile of ice outside the City Chambers.\n\nBar workers showed their contempt for the new rules\n\nA letter posted to the Glasgow Bartenders Club said venues in Edinburgh were also leaving the remaining contents of their ice machines outside the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe new rules come into force as six further Covid deaths were confirmed by the first minister in her daily briefing.\n\nShe said 1,246 positive tests had been recorded and the number of Covid patients in hospital was continuing to increase. \"The restrictions which come into force today are significant, but the case numbers we have seen in recent weeks - including, increasingly, the figures for people being hospitalised - show why they are necessary,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"We have to stop the virus from spreading further. And having already restricted meetings between households in each other's homes, the most important additional step we can take is to restrict meetings in bars and restaurants.\"\n\nThe Scottish government plans to help businesses with a £40m package which includes support for employment, a cash grant for each business and a discretionary fund for local authorities.\n\nMinisters were waiting to hear details of the UK's plans to help affected employees before laying out the full details of their scheme.\n\nEconomy secretary Fiona Hyslop outlined the details of the fund on Friday evening:\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said people who work for UK firms forced to shut by Covid restrictions will get two-thirds of their wages paid by the government.\n\nHe also announced increased grants for business in England - a move the UK government says will lead to £700m additional funding for Scotland.\n\nPubs across the central belt of Scotland closed their doors at 18:00\n\nThe scheme is due to start on 1 November - a week after the latest Scottish restrictions are due to end. But employers should be able to use the existing furlough scheme until the end of October.\n\nScotland's Finance Secretary Kate Forbes welcomed the move but called for more clarity on \"what it covers in terms of health, transport and business support\".\n\nThe measures were described as \"good news\" by the Scottish Chambers of Commerce.\n\nBut its chief executive, Liz Cameron, warned they were not enough to offset the impending loss of trade and jobs.\n\n\"We need governments to focus on enabling business to continue to freely function, and manage our way through this situation,\" she said. \"This stop-start approach is damaging for business.\"\n\nScottish Tory leader Douglas Ross described the funding increase as \"seismic\" while his colleague, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, said it provided a \"vital safety net\".\n\nAbout 3.4 million people in five health boards - Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, Lanarkshire, Forth Valley and Ayrshire and Arran - are subject to the strictest restrictions.\n\nLicensed premises will be closed for 16 days although they can still serve takeaways.\n\nCafes with a licence have been told they can remain open as long as they do not serve alcohol but there is confusion over what constitutes a cafe.\n\nHospitality venues in the rest of Scotland will be allowed to open, but will only be permitted to serve non-alcoholic drinks and food indoors between 06:00 and 18:00.\n\nLicensed premises in these areas will still be able to serve alcohol in outdoor areas, such as beer gardens, up to the 22:00 curfew introduced in September.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"These measures still allow for some social contact in cafes during the day. And they do not prevent people from taking half-term holidays which have already been booked, or from going ahead with weddings which have already been planned.\n\n\"But for a period of just over two weeks, they will remove some of the major opportunities the virus has to spread. That should have a significant impact on transmission rates.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Police Scotland revealed that in the week up to 4 October officers broke up 271 illegal house parties, issued 106 fines and made 18 arrests.\n\nAre you a pub or restaurant worker in central Scotland? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC asks Ismail Abedi why he's not co-operating with the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nThe elder brother of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber has refused to say why he is not co-operating with the public inquiry into the atrocity.\n\nThe inquiry has heard that Ismail Abedi has declined to answer questions in case he incriminates himself.\n\nThe BBC located the 27-year-old in Manchester, where he still lives, and approached him to ask why. He refused to engage and drove away.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and many more injured in the May 2017 attack.\n\nSalman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nEarlier this year, younger brother Hashem Abedi was jailed after being convicted of murdering all those who died.\n\nThe bombing after an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 people and injured hundreds more\n\nSalman and Hashem had spent months preparing the attack - buying bomb-making chemicals, transporting their purchases around Manchester, and renting a flat to make explosives.\n\nA public inquiry is investigating every aspect of the bombing.\n\nIsmail Abedi told Sky News in August that he wanted to \"apologise for the pain\" his brothers had caused and said he had \"no idea they had taken this path\".\n\nBut he was not questioned on any of the evidence from the trial. His refusal to co-operate with the inquiry emerged soon afterwards.\n\nLast month, Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said: \"Ismail Abedi, the brother of the killers, has been required by the inquiry legal team to answer a series of questions relating to what might in general terms be described as the issue of radicalisation.\n\n\"To date, he has declined to answer those questions on the basis that he maintains that his answers may tend to incriminate him.\"\n\nMr Greaney said that none of the Abedi family - the brothers' parents live in Libya - had provided a \"substantive response\", adding that it was \"most unhelpful\" and he hoped the family would \"reflect and understand that they have a moral obligation to provide the information we require\".\n\nInquests into the Westminster and London Bridge attacks of 2017 did hear evidence from family members of the attackers. The Arena inquiry is the equivalent process for the Manchester attack.\n\nThe Abedi parents moved to the UK after fleeing Col Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, with their children born in Britain and brought up in Manchester.\n\nAt the time of the attack the parents had moved back to Libya. The family had regularly travelled to the country following the 2011 revolution.\n\nHashem Abedi was arrested in Libya the day after the bombing\n\nIsmail had purchased one-way tickets to Libya for his two brothers in April 2017. Salman returned five days before the bombing, while Hashem stayed there and was only extradited to the UK over two years later.\n\nBut Ismail Abedi, who is married, has remained in Manchester. He was arrested the morning after the Arena bombing, but later released without charge.\n\nThe inquiry has heard that in 2015 he was stopped by police after arriving at Heathrow Airport and that his mobile phone had contained recruitment videos and literature produced by the Islamic State group.\n\nThe inquiry has also been told that his Facebook account had earlier been viewed by MI5 and seen to show, among other things, a picture of Ismail holding a machine gun with an IS logo imprinted on the image.\n\nThe inquiry is looking at a number of things, including the emergency response to the attack\n\nEvidence presented during the Hashem Abedi trial also raises questions for Ismail.\n\nIsmail's name was used to buy car insurance for Salman and Hashem, neither of whom had a driving licence, for a car they bought to transport materials around Manchester during the preparations.\n\nA bank card in the name of the brothers' mother - which received over £1,000 in benefits each month despite her being in Libya - was used by Salman and Hashem to buy relevant items during their attack preparations, but it was found in Ismail's possessions when he was arrested following the bombing.\n\nThe public inquiry was told that a Libyan number was texting both Salman and Ismail on the evening of the attack.\n\nSalman received texts a few minutes apart saying \"call\" and \"ASAP\".\n\nBetween the messages, the number wrote to Ismail saying: \"Allah's peace and blessings be upon you.\"\n\nMr Greaney, during the inquiry opening, said: \"This message and the coincidence of its timing with what was happening in Manchester may be innocent, but do serve to indicate that... the inquiry will need to explore whether, and if so to what extent, the Abedi family or members of it were a radicalising influence on Hashem Abedi and Salman Abedi.\"\n\nBut BBC research shows the Libyan number in question was Hashem Abedi's.\n\nEvidence at Hashem's trial linked him to the number. The evidence included a text from Ismail to a contact saying whose number it was.\n\nSalman called Hashem later that night - the last call he made before the bombing.\n\nPete Weatherby QC, representing seven bereaved families at the inquiry, told the BBC there had to be \"maximum transparency\" from all those called on to assist.\n\n\"If there is a lack of openness and transparency that is much for difficult for the public inquiry to achieve its ends, delivering truth and justice to the families and ultimately trying to prevent an outrage of this kind happening again,\" he added.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have won an apology from a US news agency after drones were allegedly used to take pictures of their son, Archie.\n\nThe couple's case at Los Angeles County Superior Court said the 14-month-old was photographed at their home in the city by an unnamed person during the coronanvirus lockdown.\n\nThey described the incident as an invasion of privacy.\n\nThe X17 agency will also reimburse some of the royal couple's legal fees.\n\nIt has agreed to hand over the photos, destroy any copies it holds and stop distributing the images.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan are now based in Santa Barbara, California, having stepped back as senior royals at the end of March.\n\nAccording to court documents, they were living at the home of a friend in Los Angeles when the photographs were taken of Archie and Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland.\n\nTheir lawyer Michael Kump said: \"Over the summer, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex took action against intrusive and illegal paparazzi photos taken of their family at a private residence...\n\n\"This is a successful outcome. All families have a right, protected by law, to feel safe and secure at home.\"\n\nAccording to the legal action filed in July, the royal couple were constantly being followed by paparazzi, who tracked them down following their move to the US, flying helicopters overhead and cutting holes in their security fences.\n\nCalifornia privacy laws make photographing or filming anyone in their homes by use of drone or telephoto lenses illegal.\n\nIn a statement, X17 said: \"We apologise to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their son for the distress we have caused.\n\n\"We were wrong to offer these photographs and commit to not doing so again.\"\n\nIn a separate legal action in London, against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online, Meghan is suing for breach of privacy and copyright infringement over the publication of a letter she wrote to her father. The publisher denies the claims.", "French charity worker Sophie Pétronin and ex-Malian opposition leader Soumaïla Cissé have been freed\n\nFour people abducted and detained in Mali, including 75-year-old French charity worker Sophie Pétronin and ex-Malian opposition leader Soumaïla Cissé, have been released.\n\nMs Pétronin, who was seized in December 2016, was the last French citizen to be held hostage anywhere in the world. She has now arrived in France.\n\nTwo Italian nationals were also freed.\n\nThe release was part of a prisoner swap for more than 100 jihadists, believed to be affiliated to al-Qaeda.\n\nThe Malian presidency has not revealed how it was able to free the hostages.\n\nMalian and international armed forces have been struggling to contain a jihadist insurgency in the north of country that first emerged in 2012.\n\nMs Pétronin and Mr Cissé, who was abducted in March while campaigning for parliamentary elections, were taken to the capital, Bamako, in a military plane along with the two Italians, Mali's presidency announced on Thursday.\n\nHundreds of Mr Cissé's supporters later gathered at Bamako airport to greet the opposition leader on his arrival. Others expressed their jubilation by driving through the streets of the capital sounding their car horns.\n\n\"I am very happy to be here, for Mali, for my family,\" Mr Cissé said on his return, adding: \"I have spent six months... in conditions that were very austere... in a state of isolation.\"\n\nAuthorities had been working on the hostages' release for months.\n\nFollowing news of Ms Pétronin's release on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he felt \"immense relief\" and was \"happy to know she is free\".\n\n\"To the Malian authorities, thank you,\" he said in a tweet, adding: \"The fight against terrorism in the Sahel continues.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Ms Pétronin's son Sébastien Chadaud said he was weary of celebrating after earlier reports that his mother was set to be free proved to be false. \"We've already lived through moments like this, for four years,\" he said.\n\nPresident Macron met Ms Pétronin as she arrived in Paris on Friday\n\nMs Pétronin's son Sébastien Chadaud in the Malian capital Bamako earlier this week\n\nThe two Italian hostages released were named as Pierluigi Maccalli, a missionary priest who was kidnapped in 2018, and Nicola Chiacchio, who was believed to have been captured while travelling in the region as a tourist.\n\nIn April, the two appeared in a video together which was reportedly handed to local media outlets by an unnamed group.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the Malian authorities announced the release of a dozen political and military figures arrested during the coup.\n\nIn August, Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was overthrown by a military junta and little is known of what happened to talks to secure a prisoner swap after the coup.\n\nAbducted on Christmas Eve 2016 in the northern city of Gao, she was well known locally for her work helping orphans and other children suffering from malnutrition.\n\nShe had been running Swiss charity Association Aid to Gao since 2004 and was an expert in guinea-worm disease, which spread through contaminated water in northern Mali.\n\nWhen Tuareg rebels, backed by Islamists, seized Gao as unrest spread in Mali in 2012, seven Algerian diplomats were abducted and the Algerian consul gave her protection until the building came under attack. She fled through a back door and was spirited out of Mali into Algeria wearing long robes.\n\n\"We crossed the desert in just one night, when normally it takes two days,\" she told Le Dauphiné Libéré newspaper in May 2012. \"I checked the speedometer, we were going at 130km/h (80mph).\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron thanked the Malian authorities after news of Ms Pétronin's release\n\nShe had escaped Mali in disguise but soon returned, and was abducted in a daylight raid claimed by Mali militant group JNIM.\n\nShe has appeared in two hostage videos and at one point her son went to a local mediator who said the kidnappers were prepared to accept a ransom for her release. In one video, in June 2018, she appealed for help from Mr Macron, looking tired and gaunt.\n\nShe was suffering from cancer and malaria at the time of her abduction.\n\nMr Cissé, who was kidnapped while campaigning for legislative elections, is a former government minister and a prominent opposition leader.\n\nFormer Malian presidential candidate Soumaïla Cissé was abducted in March\n\nHe was the main challenger to Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in the 2013 and 2018 presidential elections - losing both times. Following the result of the 2018 vote, he complained of electoral fraud.\n\nPresident Keïta was overthrown in August, in part because of a perceived failure to tackle the jihadist militants in the north of the country, and Mr Cissé's continued captivity was seen as a symptom of that.\n\nA separatist rebellion in the north of the country that began in 2011 created the conditions for militant jihadists to take control of parts of the region.\n\nIn 2013, a French-led force helped seize back territory, but a network of jihadist groups remained active and they were able to carry out attacks and kidnappings.\n\nThe Malian government has not been able to regain full control of the north.\n\nFrance continues to support forces in Mali and in other parts of the Sahel region in their fight against the militants.", "Liverpool is one of many cities where there are extra restrictions\n\nIn many areas under local lockdown, cases and hospital admissions have continued to soar. Does that mean restrictions don't work?\n\nConsider the national lockdown in the spring. While it feels like it was one single policy, it was in fact a package of different measures. Schools, universities and offices shut. Pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops closed. No-one could mix with people from outside their household. People were advised not to use public transport and to limit the number of times they visited essential shops.\n\nTogether these had a dramatic impact on cases, and the number of coronavirus patients in hospital plummeted from 20,000 to about 800.\n\nHow much each part of that lockdown contributed is hard to say.\n\nThe rules were relaxed but then, at the end of June, Leicester became the first place to go into a local lockdown. Other cities, and whole regions, have followed. But so far, Leicester's lockdown is the only one to have come close to the strictness of the national policy. Shops and pubs were stopped from opening. Households were barred from mixing indoors. And new cases of the virus dropped by 60% during July. People in hospital beds with coronavirus fell from 88 to 18.\n\nSince Leicester, local lockdowns have multiplied. More than 15 million people - very roughly, a quarter of the UK population - have come under new curbs, in some form.\n\nAnd it's become harder to see whether they are working or not.\n\nAfter the first changes, cases continued to rise, throughout August. Then, after pub and restaurant closures, case rates dropped sharply. It is, however, too soon to say for sure that the stricter measures led directly to the decline.\n\nIn the rest of Greater Manchester, gatherings with other households were banned but shops, pubs and restaurants remained open. Cases have mostly kept climbing throughout these local restrictions.\n\nHowever, the latest week's data will be welcome news - suggesting the sharp increases might be levelling off. The rise in cases in many areas under local lockdown appears to be slowing, in line with the national picture.\n\nThis may be a sign that the England-wide \"rule of six\" is working.\n\nA large national study, published last week, confirmed the growth in cases was slowing across England, although overall levels remained high. But restrictions on households meeting - which have been seen at a local level - don't always lead to a slowing case rate. And this change in impact highlights the many factors involved which make it difficult to isolate the precise effect of local lockdowns.\n\nPeople don't necessarily change their behaviour exactly in line with rule changes.\n\nWhen concerns about cases rising begin to be reported, some people alter their behaviour before any law change. Other people, even when the rules come into place, don't obey them.\n\nSo it may be a question of timing: are people more ready to restrict their movements now than they were in August?\n\nTo complicate the figures further, other things have been going on at the same time as local lockdowns were being introduced, including summer holiday season and schools reopening.\n\nIn Leicester, cases fell when restrictions were introduced. When they were progressively eased in August and September, cases started to rise. But this rise coincided with more people travelling abroad. And with children going back to school.\n\nIn Greater Manchester, cases also rose over those months despite the area being in lockdown - albeit a looser version than Leicester's had been.\n\nUnpicking these different factors is a big challenge.\n\nLooking at \"positivity rates\" - the proportion of all tests that are positive, adjusting for different levels of testing - shows there have been increases in cases across England, with particularly sharp spikes in the North West and North East between the end of August and the end of September. Restrictions in those regions were only introduced between the middle of September and the beginning of October, making it too soon to see the impact of these rules.\n\nBut in Blackburn, which has been in lockdown long enough for an effect to be seen, there was also a rise in cases - though this has come back down in recent weeks.\n\nRecent increases in hospitalisations from coronavirus have highlighted the extent of the challenge facing the north of England. Though without up-to-date localised data, it is difficult to judge whether the impact on a local level - such as those in Blackburn - have helped prevent serious cases.\n\nThere's no doubt the national lockdown had a considerable impact on cases.\n\nFundamentally, the virus needs people to be in close contact and mixing between circles to spread through the population. How tight the restrictions are makes a difference - look at the experience of Leicester, compared with Oldham or Blackburn.\n\nBut so do the crucial issues of timing and compliance. A lockdown only works if people stick to it.\n\nThe data also indicates that any impact lockdowns do have is far from permanent - relax the restrictions and allow more contact, and the virus will quickly start to spread again.\n\nUnless and until a viable vaccine becomes available, government will be faced with the same choice: shut down large chunks of society or allow the virus to tear through communities, with little idea of the true toll that either will exact.", "Simon Calder said the intensity of the comments was \"off the scale\"\n\nA travel writer said he received \"such intense abuse\" when he suggested people visit Wales that he has \"no further plans\" to book a stay in the country.\n\nSpeaking on ITV's This Morning earlier this week, Simon Calder listed Gwynedd and Ceredigion, as well as Belfast and Edinburgh, as places people could go.\n\nBut he said he then received a torrent of abuse via email and social media.\n\nVisit Wales said it was trying to welcome people back \"in a way that is safe\".\n\nIn an article for The Independent, Mr Calder said he had replied to many of the hundreds of people who messaged on social media and understood the deep concern about the spread of coronavirus, but did not now intend to book a holiday in Wales again.\n\n\"Anyone lucky enough to have a public platform, it's clearly quite right people respond how they want and I applaud feedback,\" he said.\n\n\"The intensity of negative comments were of a magnitude I've not experienced, completely off the scale.\"\n\nMr Calder said he had never meant to upset anyone and had followed travel advice, but it was an \"interesting lesson\" on current sensitivities.\n\nHe added: \"The hundreds of people I inadvertently angered may be glad to hear that I have no further plans to book a stay in Wales.\n\n\"I intended to inspire travellers to enjoy, responsibly, a part of the UK that is rich in wonders, and hoped their visits would in turn support local businesses.\"\n\nMuch of south and north Wales are under local lockdown restrictions, with people unable to leave or enter 15 of Wales' 22 local authorities, as well as the town of Llanelli.\n\nHowever, Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to put a ban on people leaving areas of England with high instances of Covid-19 to visit Welsh beauty spots.\n\nThis led the Welsh Government to say it would consider quarantine measures for people entering Wales from Covid hotspots in the UK.\n\nThe counties of Gwynedd, Ceredigion, Powys, Anglesey and Pembrokeshire are not currently under lockdown restrictions, meaning people from England are able to visit.\n\nAberystwyth was also named as one of Wales' \"easy\" destinations\n\nMr Calder named Gwynedd - via Machynlleth, Aberystwyth and other seaside towns - as a great idea for a holiday.\n\nHe told the ITV programme: \"My absolute top tip, you could stop off in the lovely town of Machynlleth where you've got some great outdoor attractions such as the Centre for Alternative Technology which I just love, and of course you can go to Aberystwyth and all the resorts, Barmouth and Harlech all the way round to lovely Pwllheli.\n\nHe said he had \"concurred\" with Visit Wales' assertion that areas of the country were \"good to go\".\n\nEarlier this week, people said they were worried about an \"influx\" of tourists after TV personality Stacey Solomon posted photographs on social media about a holiday to Rhayader, Powys.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"We expect any visitors to Wales to respect the area they choose and abide by local restrictions.\n\n\"It's well documented that the first minister has written to the prime minister requesting he stop people travelling to Wales from areas of England with high coronavirus infection rates - but he has yet to receive a response.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Level three restrictions in Ireland remain in place until midnight on 27 October\n\nThe Irish foreign affairs minister has said that his government is \"not in the business of erecting barriers on the (Irish) border\" but a conversation with Stormont about how \"movement is being restricted within NI\" is needed.\n\nSimon Coveney told RTÉ that more co-operation between north and south was needed.\n\nMovement is restricted between counties in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nGarda (Irish police) checkpoints have been set up across the country.\n\n\"During the first wave we had managed to see lot of co-operation between the PSNI and An Garda Síochána in terms of restricting movement generally on the island,\" he said.\n\n\"What is required here is clarity from politicians north and south and closer cooperation between the two CMOs, which is already a very good relationship, but politicians need advice from their CMOs to ensure we have a lot more co-operation,\" he added.\n\nMr Coveney also told RTE's Morning Ireland that NI Secretary Brandon Lewis had told him that the UK government has already made significant funding available to the NI Executive, specifically for Covid-19.\n\n\"I'd like to speak to some of the senior politicians in Northern Ireland today to establish exactly what is the blockage there because certainly was very clear with me yesterday that funding should not be the blockage,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile it has been announced that there will be no countries on the Republic of Ireland's safe travel list from Monday, the Irish Foreign Ministry has announced.\n\nThe Irish government's Green List features countries people can travel to without having to restrict their movements when they return.\n\nFrom Monday, Cyprus, Finland, Latvia and Liechtenstein will be removed.\n\nThe list does not affect cross-border travel to and from Northern Ireland.\n\nNowhere was found to be below the required 14-day cumulative number of Covid-19 cases.\n\nThis criteria, judging the number of cases per 100,000 population, is based on data from the European Centre for Disease Protection.\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 department of foreign affairs said it reviews the list every Thursday, with changes taking effect the following Monday.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Ireland continues to work with EU partners to finalise negotiations on the new Council Recommendation on co-ordinating travel with the Union ('EU traffic lights system').\n\nThe Northern Ireland Executive publishes a separate list on exempted countries and territories from which travellers do not have to self-isolate.\n\nIt still includes Cyprus, Finland, Latvia and Liechtenstein.\n\nTravel by people from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is allowed across the Irish border, however, Great Britain is excluded from the Republic's Green List.\n\nTighter Covid-19 restrictions are currently in force in County Donegal until 16 October.\n\nThe move followed a rise in case numbers in Donegal and NI's north west. The chief medical officers from NI and the Republic of Ireland have advised against all but necessary travel across the NI-Donegal border.", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "Baddeley was arrested near the surgery in Chepstow\n\nA man who secretly stalked his dentist for years has been sent back to prison after being found outside his surgery.\n\nThomas Baddeley, 42, from Bristol, was sentenced in August after being found with a 'murder kit', near the home of his former dentist Ian Hutchinson.\n\nOn Friday, he pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order by going to Dr Hutchinson's surgery.\n\nDistrict Judge Martin Brown said his \"obsession\" was continuing and he would be sentenced on 23 October.\n\nBaddeley was previously jailed for 16 months at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting stalking Dr Hutchinson without fear, alarm or distress, and two offences of possessing offensive weapons.\n\nHe had been arrested near Dr Hutchinson's home in November 2019, wearing a balaclava and carrying what was described in court as a \"murder kit\".\n\nIt contained items including a large knife, crossbow with bolts, bleach and a hammer, and his car seats were covered in plastic sheeting.\n\nA crossbow was among the weapons found in Thomas Baddeley's car in 2019\n\nHe was released from prison on licence after sentencing in August 2020, due to time served on remand.\n\nIn October 2020, a police officer saw Baddeley near Dr Hutchinson's surgery in Chepstow.\n\nThe officer, who was aware of the restraining order, noted Baddeley was riding a bike and had made efforts to disguise himself.\n\nHe was walking \"in the general direction\" of the surgery when he was arrested.\n\nSteve Jones, defending, told the court there had been no contact with Dr Hutchinson and that the dentist had not seen Baddeley.\n\nHowever, Judge Brown said the case had had a huge impact on Dr Hutchinson.\n\n\"This is a very unhealthy obsession because there has been no other explanation presented to the court,\" he said.\n\n\"The only reason you were in the Chepstow area was to continue your obsession.\"", "Geek Retreat recently opened new stores in Northwich and Chelmsford\n\nFrom online fashion to grocery, only a handful of sectors have bucked the coronavirus downturn, and now it seems comics and gaming have joined the list.\n\nGeek Retreat - which specialises in \"all things geeky\" including comics, memorabilia and table top games - says it will open another 100 stores over the next two years, at a time when the UK High Street is under pressure.\n\nThe Scottish firm currently has 14 UK sites, which combine retail space with cafes and areas to play games and hold events.\n\nIt said its Covid-safe plan would create around 600 new jobs.\n\n\"During the pandemic, while our gaming events have had to stop and the hospitality side of our business is more difficult, our stores still have loyal communities who support our retail side,\" Geek Retreat boss Peter Dobson told the BBC.\n\n\"We have made sure all of our stores are welcoming and accessible to gamers whatever their interests, providing a place for our loyal customers to get out of the house and play safely post-lockdown.\"\n\nGeek Retreat boss Peter Dobson says the games and hobby sector is expanding\n\nCountless High Street businesses had to close temporarily during lockdown, and many remain under pressure as shoppers minimise social contact.\n\nHowever, Mr Dobson said Geek Retreat was benefitting from the growth of the wider games and hobby sector which is valued at £8bn a year in the UK and predicted to expand by 3% in 2020.\n\nEarlier this year, miniature wargames manufacturer Games Workshop - which is best known for its Warhammer products -announced record sales and profits, and its shares were promoted to London's FTSE 250 index.\n\nGeek Retreat - founded in Glasgow in 2017 - stocks merchandise such as comics, posters, clothing, figures and memorabilia as well as games and trading cards.\n\nIt also specialises in various cult brands such as Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars and Harry Potter, while selling graphic novels and gaming accessories such as dice.\n\nThe retailer said it expected to open sites in Bournemouth, Northampton and Liverpool in coming months, followed by Southampton, Dumfries, Cardiff and Sutton in London.\n\nThe chain, which operates as a franchise, aims to open five stores per month from the beginning of 2021, but points out that with the Covid-19 virus those plans are subject to change.\n\nMr Dobson said all his outlets were Covid secure, with only limited numbers allowed in at one time. Customers also have to book events in advance, submit their details for track and trace and follow social distancing rules.", "After criticising the country's top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci this morning, President Trump doubled down on the denunciation at a campaign rally this afternoon in Arizona.\n\nThe president then turned to his rival, Joe Biden, saying that the Democrat \"wants to listen to Dr Fauci\".\n\nFauci has served as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, and has become one of the most visible figures in the government’s coronavirus response.\n\nBut Biden doesn't seem to mind the association with Dr Fauci. He retweeted the president's remarks with a simple \"yes\".\n\nFauci has served under six US presidents - both Democrats and Republicans - and he knows a bit about the rough and tumble politics of Washington.\n\nOver his five decades as a medical researcher, he has seen his effigy burnt, heard the cries of protesters calling him a \"murderer\", and had smoke bombs thrown outside his office window.\n\nYou can read our profile here.", "Twenty one people were killed in two blasts on 21 November 1974\n\nThe home secretary is to consider the case for a public inquiry into the 1974 Birmingham Pub Bombings.\n\nThe blasts at the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs on the night of 21 November killed 21 people and injured 220.\n\nTheir families have long called for a public inquiry into what happened.\n\nPriti Patel said she \"recognised the desire to see those responsible brought to justice\".\n\nFresh inquests last year ruled the victims were unlawfully killed, but did not establish who was responsible.\n\nThose hearings came about after years of campaigning by families for a full account into what happened that night.\n\nJulie Hambleton, who lost her sister Maxine in the pub bombings, said the Justice for the 21 group believed an inquiry was the only way to establish \"truth, justice and accountability\" for the victims.\n\nThe blasts ripped apart the Mulberry Bush pub at the base of the Rotunda and the Tavern in the Town in nearby New Street\n\nWest Midlands Mayor Andy Street said: \"Whilst this is not a firm commitment, it is a step towards securing a public inquiry and ultimately justice for the 21 murdered that night and their families.\n\n\"I am firmly of the belief that the only way to achieve justice now is through an open, panel-led, public inquiry, and I will continue to make the case alongside the J421 campaign. The families, and the city of Birmingham, need closure.\"\n\nMs Patel said: \"My sympathy remains with all those affected by these awful events 46 years ago.\"\n\nShe said she would \"welcome\" the opportunity to meet some of the families, so she could \"take their views into account\" before making a decision about an inquiry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Following the inquests, Julie Hambleton called on police to bring the bombers to justice\n\nMs Hambleton said: \"She [Priti Patel] needs to hear from us first hand what we have gone through and what we continue to fight for.\n\n\"A statutory inquiry is the only way forward. It is such a complex set of circumstances and the big question is, who bombed Birmingham and who killed our loved ones?\"\n\nSix men - Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker - were wrongly jailed for life in 1975 for the bombings.\n\nThe group, who became known as the Birmingham Six, had their convictions quashed in the appeal court and they were released in 1991.\n\nWest Midlands Police said there continued to be an active criminal investigation into the case.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "China's economy continues its recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic according to its latest official figures.\n\nThe world's second-biggest economy saw growth of 4.9% between July and September, compared to the same quarter last year.\n\nHowever, the figure is lower than the 5.2% expected by economists.\n\nChina is now leading the charge for a global recovery based on its latest gross domestic product (GDP) data.\n\nThe near-5% growth is a far cry from the slump the Chinese economy suffered at the start of 2020 when the pandemic first emerged.\n\nFor the first three months of this year China’s economy shrank by 6.8% when it saw nationwide shutdowns of factories and manufacturing plants.\n\nIt was the first time China’s economy contracted since it started recording quarterly figures back in 1992.\n\nThe key economic growth figures released on Monday suggest that China’s recovery is gathering pace, although experts often question the accuracy of its economic data.\n\nThe quarterly figures are compared to the same quarter of 2019.\n\n\"I don't think the headline number is bad,\" said Iris Pang, chief China economist for ING in Hong Kong. \"Job creation in China is quite stable which creates more consumption.\"\n\nChina’s trade figures for September also pointed to a strong recovery, with exports growing by 9.9% and imports growing by 13.2% compared to September last year.\n\nOver the previous two decades, China had seen an average economic growth rate of about 9% although the pace has gradually been slowing.\n\nWhile the Covid-19 pandemic has hampered this year's growth targets, China also remains in a trade war with the US which has hurt the economy.\n\nChina's economy continues to grow at rates unimaginable in other Covid-hit countries.\n\nDraconian lockdown measures to control the virus combined with some government stimulus appeared to have worked well.\n\nWhile growth of 4.9% is slightly below some forecasts, industrial output - a good barometer of state controlled activity - came in above expectations.\n\nChina's communist party rulers wanted to see ramped up supply, but retail sales were slower than predicted.\n\nNonetheless it appears to be a broadening recovery with the all-important services sector rebounding.\n\nDomestic tourists and travellers have probably helped the recovery continue by spending their money at home because global restrictions mean they can't - yet - go abroad.\n\nEarlier this year China's central bank stepped up support for growth and employment after widespread travel restrictions choked economic activity. But it has more recently held off on further easing.\n\nPremier Li Keqiang warned earlier in October that China needs to make arduous efforts to achieve its full-year economic goals.\n\nFor the second quarter of this year, economic growth in China reached 3.2% as it started its rebound.\n\n\"China's economy remains on the recovery path, driven by a rebound in exports,\" said Yoshikiyo Shimamine, chief economist at the Dai-Ichi Life Research Institute in Tokyo.\n\n\"But we cannot say it has completely shaken off the drag caused by the coronavirus.\"\n\nChina's economy should also get a boost this year from \"Golden Week\" - an annual holiday in October that sees millions of Chinese travel.\n\nWith international travel severely restricted, millions of Chinese have been travelling, and spending, domestically instead.\n\nThere were 637m trips in China over the eight-day holiday which generated revenue of 466.6bn RMB ($69.6bn, £53.8bn), according to data from its Ministry of Culture and Tourism.\n\nDuty-free sales in the tropical island province of Hainan more than doubled from last year, soaring by nearly 150% according to the local customs data.", "Can I eat out with someone from a different tier? And other questions\n\nWe've been answering more of your questions about what new regulations in place across the UK mean for you. They include one from a reader who lives in a tier two area who wants to know if they can have dinner with their sister at a tier one restaurant, indoors. The answer is no, as you can't mix with anyone indoors if you live in a tier two area, as it's under high alert. You can meet outside though, as long as there aren't more than six of you. There are also questions on whether you can stay at a partner's house if you live in areas under different regulations (in short - it depends where you live, whether you have formed a bubble and whether there's childcare to take into consideration), and on the job support scheme. Read more here - and click or tap here if you want to send in a question yourself.", "Deaths at home up by nearly a quarter in Wales\n\nMore than 1,600 extra deaths have occurred in people's own homes in Wales so far this year than average, according to analysis by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Deaths from heart disease amongst men in their own homes were 22.7% higher compared with the five-year average - while there were more than 29% fewer deaths through this cause in hospital. Deaths for women from dementia in their own homes almost doubled in Wales, while in hospitals they fell by 25.5%. “While deaths in hospitals and care homes have dropped below the five-year average since the initial peak of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve consistently seen deaths in private homes remain well above the five-year average,\" said ONS analyst Sarah Caul. Unlike the high numbers of deaths involving Covid-19 in hospitals and care homes, the majority of deaths in private homes are unrelated to the virus. Up to 11 September, there have been 7,440 deaths in people's homes in Wales, with 134 of these involving Covid-19. This was 1,624 deaths more than the five-year average for the same period. Nearly two-thirds of these excess deaths came in the 70 to 89 years age group. One expert has suggested these deaths would normally have occurred in hospital. People may have been reluctant to go, discouraged from attending, or the services have been disrupted, Sir David Spiegelhalter of the Cambridge University said.", "Greater Manchester is currently in tier two, or \"high alert\" level\n\nGreater Manchester leaders have been given a deadline of midday to reach a deal with the government over moving to tier three Covid restrictions.\n\nIf a deal is not reached, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said the PM would decide on the next steps.\n\nIn this situation, the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said the \"implication\" was the top tier of rules would be imposed.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the region was seeking a \"fair figure\" of support from the government.\n\nMr Burnham told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he would be meeting with local leaders this morning and would advise them to set out the request in a letter to the government.\n\nThe government and local leaders - including mayors and MPs - have been embroiled in 10 days of talks over moving Greater Manchester's 2.8m population from tier two to the highest restrictions.\n\nGreater Manchester has been under local restrictions since July.\n\nThe \"very high\" alert level - also known as tier three - would mean closing pubs and bars which do not serve meals, and additional restrictions on households mixing.\n\nMr Jenrick said local leaders had been \"so far unwilling to take the action that is required to get this situation under control\".\n\nIt come as the number of weekly registered coronavirus deaths in England and Wales rose by 438 and increased by a third in the space of seven days, according to official figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Mr Burnham described the government's \"late-night ultimatum briefed to the media\" as a \"slightly provocative move\", but he said he was going to \"try and find a way forward\".\n\nHe said local leaders had never been given a figure for additional financial support in return for further restrictions.\n\nAs well as setting out what a \"fair figure\" of support was, Mr Burnham said he wanted \"full flexibility\" to support people who will be affected by restrictions.\n\nHe said: \"I think it is fair to recognise that if you put a place under restrictions for as long as we've been under restrictions it grinds people down. It pushes businesses closer to the brink.\"\n\nMr Burnham has previously called for the government to reintroduce the 80% furlough scheme used during the UK's first lockdown, instead of the new Job Support Scheme which covers 67% of the wages (covered by employers and the government) of people affected by tier three closures.\n\nBusiness minister Nadhim Zahawi told Today £22m had been offered to Greater Manchester - equivalent to £8 per person - and there would be \"additional support commensurate with what we have done in Liverpool City Region and in Lancashire\".\n\nMr Burnham said he would not \"break the law\" if no agreement was reached between both sides and the government imposed tier three measures on Greater Manchester.\n\n\"It's their prerogative to do what they think is needed,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"But I would say to them that I don't think it will help us bring people with what they want to do to control this virus. I think it would be better to come to an agreement.\"\n\nMr Burnham also said he thought the shielding of elderly and vulnerable people in Greater Manchester needed to be \"looked at seriously\" and suggested it was \"part of the solution\".\n\nSir Richard Leese, the Labour leader of Manchester City Council, told BBC Newsnight he hoped a deal could still be made, but added: \"If government imposes tier three - and I hope that won't happen - we will clearly need to comply with that.\"\n\nOn Monday, Mr Burnham and Sir Richard accused the government of using \"selective statistics\" on hospital occupancy rates to bolster the case for tougher rules.\n\nOn Monday evening, the two sides couldn't even agree on what they actually discussed earlier.\n\nBelieve the local leaders and on Monday morning there seemed to be hope in the air. Officials from central government had mooted the possibility of a hardship fund to help support low-paid workers who stand to lose out if businesses close their doors under tighter restrictions.\n\nThe message local leaders took from their meeting was that, while the Treasury is adamant they are not going to extend their national furlough scheme - nor increase the level of cash available from its replacement, the Job Support Scheme - Westminster might sign off extra money that could be spent that way, if local politicians saw fit.\n\nThere was no concrete agreement on the numbers, but sources in Greater Manchester suggest the cost of supporting those who need the extra help comes in at around £15m a month.\n\nAfter that call, the consensus among North West leaders was moving in the direction of signing on the dotted line, with another call planned with Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick for the afternoon.\n\nBut rather than ushering in a new spirit of co-operation, that meeting went south.\n\nA three-tier system of alerts was announced a week ago in an attempt to control rising coronavirus cases without a UK-wide lockdown.\n\nSo far, only the Liverpool City Region and Lancashire have been moved into tier three.\n\nHowever, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons on Monday that discussions are planned for South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, north-east England and Teesside also moving into the top tier.\n\nSpeaking ahead of those discussions with government, Nottingham City Council leader David Mellen said he would make clear \"that we want a package that properly protects local people, businesses, jobs and education, whether it's for tier two or tier three\".\n\nElsewhere in the UK, in Wales people will be told from Friday to stay at home, while pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops will shut, as part of a \"short, sharp\" national lockdown until 9 November.\n\nA two-week school closure has begun in Northern Ireland as part of a tightening of restrictions.\n\nIn Scotland, the tightest restrictions are in place in the central belt, and there are plans for a three-tier framework of measures, similar to England's.\n\nOn Monday, government figures showed the UK recorded a further 18,804 coronavirus cases and 80 deaths.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? What have restrictions meant for you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A project manager on the Grenfell Tower refurbishment has admitted she \"binned\" notebooks relating to her work, after the deadly fire at the building.\n\nClaire Williams told a public inquiry she thought the information was \"documented elsewhere\" and not needed.\n\nThe inquiry chairman said it was hard to understand why she had \"taken it upon herself\" to do such a thing.\n\nIt comes after her former colleague disclosed notebooks with \"material of the utmost relevance\" only last week.\n\nThe first phase of the Grenfell inquiry concluded that cladding put on during the refurbishment fuelled the fire in June 2017 in which 72 people died.\n\nThe inquiry is now examining how the blaze could have happened in the first place.\n\nPolice searched the offices of the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (TMO) and took away material from the desks of staff after the blaze.\n\nWhile the inquiry has access to official emails and minutes of meetings, hand-written notes could reveal more detail about decisions taken during the refurbishment of the tower.\n\nMs Williams told the inquiry she left the job in May 2018 and lawyers for her former employers have possession of a notebook covering \"probably 2017 and 2018\".\n\nBut she said she may have thrown out \"two or three notebooks\" containing records dating back to 2013, explaining: \"If the police didn't take them, I binned them.\"\n\nInquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick asked: \"You binned them even though you knew, by that time, there was already on foot a public inquiry?\"\n\nMs Williams said: \"I think I just tidied up the desk. I would have looked at them and thought 'There's nothing here that isn't in formal evidence'.\"\n\nShe told the inquiry: \"There was nothing underhand about it. I was clearing my desk, I looked and decided that everything that was in there was formally represented in minutes or other paperwork and it was of little value.\"\n\nShe said: \"It wasn't a conscious, hiding anything decision, it was 'I'm clearing my desk'. I put them in the bin.\"\n\nEarlier, counsel for the inquiry, Richard Millett QC, said he would be questioning Ms William's former colleague Peter Madison on Tuesday.\n\nHe said Mr Madison, former head of assets and regeneration at the TMO, needs to give \"clear and convincing explanations\" of why his notebooks and diaries had not been been disclosed to the inquiry, and possibly the police, until now.\n\nThe material, including 300 pages of handwritten notes, was handed over at the weekend after Mr Madison heard the evidence of colleagues and realised they might be of value.", "Welsh Government ministers are meeting again on Sunday to discuss a 'fire-break' national lockdown\n\nOfficials are \"not blind\" to the impact another national lockdown would have on the economy, Wales' health minister has said.\n\nVaughan Gething said the concern being voiced \"weighs heavily\" on ministers.\n\nA decision on a two or three-week \"fire-break\" lockdown is expected on Monday.\n\nHowever, Conservative leader in the Senedd Paul Davies said he would not support the measure \"until I know what the details are\".\n\nMr Gething told BBC Politics Wales he recognised a circuit-breaker lockdown to slow the infection rates would have real impacts \"in terms of people being able to pay their bills\".\n\n\"We're also not blind to the fact that doing nothing means that Covid will continue to grow and we will continue to see harm,\" he added.\n\n\"We want to be able to get to the end of the year with a pattern that people can live with.\n\n\"What we can't do though is give people a guarantee that things will not happen during the winter. That depends on all the choices that we make.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government cabinet met on Sunday afternoon to continue its discussions, and agreed to meet again on Monday ahead of the expected announcement from First Minister Mark Drakeford.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Ministers have held a number of meetings over the weekend with senior Welsh Government officials, scientists and public health experts to consider their advice on a potential need for a 'fire break' set of measures to control the virus.\n\n\"The Welsh cabinet met this evening to consider that advice. The cabinet will meet again tomorrow morning to make a final decision. The first minister will update the people of Wales on any decisions taken tomorrow.\"\n\nSeventeen areas in Wales currently have local lockdown rules in place\n\nPrior to the cabinet meeting, Mr Gething insisted no final decision had been taken on lockdown measures.\n\nIt follows the publication of a letter on possible dates for a short, Wales-wide lockdown.\n\nIt prompted calls from the Welsh Conservatives for an emergency recall of the Senedd on Monday.\n\n\"They should come now to the Senedd tomorrow to make a statement to explain that (letter), and also to explain what their plans are, because it's unacceptable that they are actually briefing organisations and the media,\" said Mr Davies.\n\n\"They should be making the decisions and making the announcements in the Senedd, that's the point we're making.\"\n\nThe letter was sent to all Confederation of Passenger Transport members by the Welsh director\n\nIn the letter to members of the Confederation of Passenger Transport, Wales director John Pockett said lockdown would start at 18:00 on 23 October and end on 9 November.\n\nBut Mr Pockett has since told PA Media he was assuming what would happen.\n\n\"The letter is genuine and it contains what I assume or surmised would be the position,\" he said.\n\n\"It was me advising my bus operator members to be prepared for something and this is what it may well be.\n\n\"It could be more - it could be anything. I think other associations have communicated with their members in the same way.\"\n\nThe speculation over the possible lockdown has led to \"frustration\", said one of Wales' police and crime commissioners.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement: \"We have had meetings last week in relation to the preparation for what may be happening in the future.\n\n\"The reality, and I will be very open about this, the detail of that has not necessarily been shared in a huge amount with us and there is sometimes - and has been during the whole period - some frustration on the part of policing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Laura Foster explains what a circuit breaker is and how it could help tackle Covid-19\n\nPlaid Cymru Member of the Senedd Sian Gwenllian said the Welsh Government \"must urgently set out its plans for a national fire-break\".\n\n\"We are concerned about the lack of clarity and anxiety caused by a drip-feed of information circulating in the media and elsewhere over the weekend,\" she added.\n\nBaroness Wilcox, the former head of the Welsh Local Government Association, said there was a \"growing consensus that we need a different set of measures\".\n\n\"We need different actions to respond to the virus,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"The measures we have put in place at both a local and a national level, with help from the public, have kept the spread of the virus under check.\n\n\"However, there is a growing consensus that we now need to introduce a different set of measures and actions to respond to the virus as it is spreading across Wales more quickly through the autumn and winter.\n\n\"We are actively considering advice from SAGE and our TAC Group.\n\n\"A 'fire-break' set of measures to control Covid-19, similar to that described in the SAGE papers, is under consideration in Wales. But no decisions have been made.\"", "A hacking group is donating stolen money to charity in what is seen as a mysterious first for cyber-crime that's puzzling experts.\n\nDarkside hackers claim to have extorted millions of dollars from companies, but say they now want to \"make the world a better place\".\n\nIn a post on the dark web, the gang posted receipts for $10,000 in Bitcoin donations to two charities.\n\nOne of them, Children International, says it will not be keeping the money.\n\nThe move is being seen as a strange and troubling development, both morally and legally.\n\nThe hackers posted their tax receipt for the $10,000 donation\n\nIn the blog post on 13 October, the hackers claim they only target large profitable companies with their ransomware attacks. The attacks hold organisations' IT systems hostage until a ransom is paid.\n\nThey wrote: \"We think that it's fair that some of the money the companies have paid will go to charity.\n\n\"No matter how bad you think our work is, we are pleased to know that we helped changed someone's life. Today we sended (sic) the first donations.\"\n\nThe cyber-criminals posted the donation along with tax receipts they received in exchange for the 0.88 Bitcoin they had sent to two charities, The Water Project and Children International.\n\nChildren International supports children, families and communities in India, the Philippines, Colombia, Ecuador, Zambia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and the United States.\n\nA Children International spokesperson told the BBC: \"If the donation is linked to a hacker, we have no intention of keeping it\".\n\nThe Water Project, which works to improve access to clean water in sub-Saharan Africa, has not responded to requests for comment.\n\nAnother receipt was posted on the dark web blog showing a $10,000 donation\n\nBrett Callow, Threat Analyst at cyber-security company Emsisoft, said: \"What the criminals hope to achieve by making these donations is not at all clear. Perhaps it helps assuage their guilt? Or perhaps for egotistical reasons they want to be perceived as Robin Hood-like characters rather than conscienceless extortionists.\n\n\"Whatever their motivations, it's certainly a very unusual step and is, as far as I know, the first time a ransomware group has donated a portion of their profits to charity.\"\n\nThe Darkside hacker group is relatively new on the scene, but analysis of the crypto-currency market confirms they are actively extorting funds from victims.\n\nThere is also evidence they may have links to other cyber-criminal groups responsible for high-profile attacks on companies including Travelex, which was crippled by ransomware in January.\n\nThe way the hackers paid the charities is also a possible cause for concern for law enforcement.\n\nThe cyber-criminals used a US-based service called The Giving Block, which is used by 67 different non-profits from around the world including Save The Children, Rainforest Foundation and She's The First.\n\nThe now-deleted tweet celebrating the donation from the hackers\n\nThe Giving Block describes itself online as \"the only non-profit specific solution for accepting crypto-currency donations\".\n\nThe company was set up in 2018 to offer cryptocurrency 'millionaires' the ability to take advantage of the \"huge tax incentive to donate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies directly to non-profits\".\n\nThe Giving Block told the BBC it was not aware these donations were made by cyber-criminals. It said: \"We are still working to determine if these funds were actually stolen.\n\n\"If it turns out these donations were made using stolen funds, we will of course begin the work of returning them to the rightful owner.\"\n\nThe company did not clarify if this means returning the stolen money to the criminals, or attempting to work out which of the criminal victims it intended to reimburse and how.\n\nThe Giving Block, which is also an advocate for crypto-currencies, added: \"The fact they used crypto will make it easier, not harder, to catch them.\"\n\nHowever, The Giving Block has not given details on what information they collect on their donors. Most services that buy and sell digital coins like Bitcoin require users to verify their identity, but it's not clear whether this has been done here.\n\n67 charities use The Giving Block to accept crypto-currency\n\nAs an experiment, the BBC attempted to donate anonymously through The Giving Block's online system, and was not asked any identity verification questions.\n\nExperts say the case highlights the complexity and dangers of anonymous donations.\n\nCrypto-currency investigator Philip Gradwell from Chainalysis said: \"If you walked into a charity shop with an anonymous mask on and donated £10,000 in cash, then asked for a taxable receipt, questions should probably be asked - and it's no different.\n\n\"It's right to say that researchers and law enforcement have become adept at tracing crypto-currency funds as they are moved around from wallet to wallet. But finding who actually owns each wallet is far more complicated.\n\n\"By allowing anonymous donations from potentially illicit sources, it opens up the danger of money laundering.\n\n\"All crypto-currency businesses need a full range of Anti-Money Laundering measures including a Know Your Customer (KYC) program of basic background checks, so that they can understand who is behind the transactions their business facilitates.\"\n\nThe BBC has spoken with other charities which accept donations via The Giving Project.\n\nSave the Children told the BBC it would \"never knowingly take money obtained through crime\".\n\nShe's the First, a charity for girls' education around the world, said it would not be comfortable accepting money from anonymous, possibly criminal, sources and said: \"It's a shame that bad actors would exploit the opportunity to donate crypto-currency for personal gain, and we hope that even anonymous donors share our community's values.\"", "Manchester has resisted being put into the \"very high risk\" tier\n\nEarly in the pandemic, the government consistently said it was \"following the science\" - but what does that really mean, and is the divergence between politics and science now wider than it has ever been?\n\nSome with heels clacking on the cobbles, others capturing the moment on their phones - it's like the aftermath of a big win in the football, or the Saturday after pay day. The videos show Concert Square in Liverpool heaving with crowds.\n\nAnd this in a city on the crest of a second wave of coronavirus, where almost all the intensive care beds in the hospitals are full.\n\nIt was Tuesday night, hours away from the Liverpool City Region entering the toughest restrictions in the country. But the footage sparked anger, and on Twitter there was a fight over the damage to the city's reputation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crowds gather in Liverpool on eve of new Covid rules\n\nDozens of tweets insisted that those present must have been students, that no true Liverpudlian would set foot in Concert Square, let alone behave like that. The tweeters were adamant - these people came from outside.\n\nThe mayor and the metro mayor condemned the scenes - but that wasn't the only thing they were angry about.\n\nThey accused the government at Westminster of not providing enough financial support - workers affected by the closure of businesses such as bars and gyms will only get two-thirds of their wages.\n\nOn the first day of lockdown, one gym owner showed his defiance by remaining open and was fined for it.\n\nGyms have indeed provided a source of confusion. Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson questioned why gyms in the Liverpool City Region had to close when the area moved into tier three - very high alert - but those in Lancashire, which went into tier three on Saturday, were allowed to stay open.\n\nLiverpool was the first place in England to go into the strictest measures\n\nIn Blackburn, with 438 cases per 100,000 (in the week to 13 October), you can work out, but in Wirral, with 284 cases per 100,000, you can't.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged inconsistencies. \"There are anomalies, that's inevitably going to happen in a complex campaign against a pandemic like this.\"\n\nBut do these discrepancies encourage those who feel the government's decision-making sometimes veers away from the science?\n\n\"Following the science\" was a phrase we heard a lot of earlier in the year. It's what, we were repeatedly told, the government at Westminster was doing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe reality was always more nuanced. There was a range of scientific views on a topic about which precious little was known at the outset, and there are still vast amounts to learn.\n\nAdded to that, from the perspective of ministers, this could never only be about scientific advice.\n\nThere was a constant swirl of broader considerations, what we might call the three Ls - lives, liberties and livelihoods. Ministers have been tussling with the three Ls from the start of the pandemic. But the divergence has never been wider than it is now.\n\nClaire Hamilton is the BBC's political reporter for Merseyside @chamiltonbbc\n\nThe critical moment in recent weeks can be traced back to 21 September, when Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser and Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser, warned of the need for immediate action.\n\nIn a televised briefing, Sir Patrick warned cases could reach 50,000 a day by mid-October if they doubled every seven days, as had happened in recent weeks.\n\nWe now know that on that same day, the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) met and suggested the \"immediate introduction\" of a \"short period of lockdown,\" and a series of longer term measures, including:\n\nA day later, what actually happened?\n\nThe prime minister said people should work from home if they could and a 22:00 curfew for pubs and restaurants was introduced. In other words, not a lot of change.\n\nWhat happened to \"following the science\"?\n\nPlenty at Westminster whispered, even before we had seen the minutes from the Sage meeting, that this was a victory for those in government, like Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who worried about the pandemic's crippling economic consequences.\n\nMr Sunak has been consistent - warning again, just this week, of the danger of \"rushing to another lockdown\". He warned, instead, of the \"economic emergency\", touching on another of the three Ls - livelihoods.\n\nWhen you speak to people in the Treasury, you get an insight into what informs this outlook.\n\n\"We have to keep an eye on the medium term. There may not be a vaccine. Listening to the scientists recently, the mood music has changed. They're more pessimistic,\" says one.\n\nThis is no longer about dealing with a short-term emergency, but being resilient through a medium or long-term slog of a crisis.\n\nAnd that means the Treasury is well aware of what is going out - in public spending - and what is coming in, in taxes.\n\n\"There isn't the headroom there was,\" an insider says - a reference to the £200bn already spent.\n\nAnd there is a keen awareness of the economic consequences of shutting pubs. \"Our economy is comparatively very reliant on social consumption,\" is how it is described.\n\nThe experts know the ministers have to take into account a variety of factors. One Sage member said: \"Our job is to give clear unvarnished science advice so they can do that with their eyes open.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer advocated a short, limited lockdown - the circuit-breaker suggested by the scientific advisers.\n\nBut does Sir Keir calling for a circuit-breaker make it more or less likely to happen?\n\nSince then, the government - to quote Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab - has been \"leaning in\" to its regional response for England.\n\nPolitical convention says, everything else being equal, it is harder to adopt a policy advocated by your opponents than it is by independent advisers.\n\nThen there's the last of the three Ls. Liberties.\n\nAmong the most influential Conservative backbench voices is Sir Graham Brady, who said ministers had got used to \"ruling by decree\" and \"the British people aren't used to being treated like children\".\n\nThis unease at how the pandemic has, in their view, swept away some of the checks and balances on those in power, is widely held in Parliament.\n\nThen there's the question of geography. First there was devolution for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but now we're all aware of the big English cities that have metro mayors because they are fighting back against Westminster.\n\nAccording to well-placed sources, Health Secretary Matt Hancock had argued for tougher measures in private. But the need to get local leaders on board has meant the tiered system has had to leave some wriggle room for negotiation.\n\nMinisters were stung when Middlesbrough mayor Andy Preston said he flatly rejected the restrictions that the government announced there in early October. \"It was a real problem for us - it undermined the public health message and threatened to undo what we were trying to achieve,\" one government source said.\n\nSteve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, had been asking for a lockdown circuit-breaker for at least two weeks - but he said any measures must come with a bespoke financial support package for businesses. It appears this hasn't been forthcoming.\n\nBut the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has gone much further than his colleague in Liverpool. On Friday, he was described as \"effectively trying to hold the government over a barrel\" by Mr Raab.\n\nMr Burnham, a former Labour cabinet minister, who lost out to Jeremy Corbyn in the 2015 Labour leadership contest, is suddenly back on the national stage. He is demanding noisily and frequently the need for more generous support for those unable to work because of tier three restrictions.\n\nThere is nervousness within the Labour Party nationally, and elsewhere in the north of England, about this stance. Some worry it imperils people's health, others that it's become \"the Andy show\" - as one figure put it.\n\nThe idea of \"metro mayors\" voted for directly by the people of the region has long been championed by the Conservatives. David Cameron was a particular fan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Top SAGE scientist tells us the regional restriction row is dangerous\n\n\"Some Conservatives are now realising you've got to be careful what you wish for,\" an early advocate of them says.\n\n\"And remember this, Boris Johnson was a mayor. There is a path to Downing Street that can pass via a town hall. Perhaps Andy Burnham has realised that too.\"\n\nWhat we are seeing is how different parts of the UK have tilted in different directions. Loyalty to region, to nation, to party. The legacies of past perceived slights and injustices. The realities of perceived injustices now.\n\n\"We owe a big thanks to George Osborne for bequeathing us this incredible standoff,\" a senior Conservative says about the row.\n\nSome Conservative ministers ponder privately that - in the end - Mr Sunak will be forced to be more generous to those unable to work under tier three restrictions. They don't think it'll be politically sustainable to pay people normally on the minimum wage, less than the minimum wage, for months on end.\n\nThe rows between local and central government leaders are \"very dangerous\" and \"very damaging to public health\", according to Prof Sir Jeremy Farrar, Sage member, and director of the Wellcome Trust.\n\nBut these are not the only rows that have been taking place. Across the scientific and medical community tempers are frayed and the pandemic is taking its toll.\n\nThere is a network of committees that feed into Sage, bringing together a wide range of experts from sociologists and public health directors to epidemiologists.\n\nMany are not paid for their advice and instead are fitting it in around their day jobs. \"We do it because we care and it's our life's work,\" said Prof Devi Sridhar, an expert in global public health at Edinburgh University, who has been advising the Scottish government.\n\nTalk to these experts and it is clear they are exhausted.\n\n\"The requests just keep coming in,\" one said. \"We're fed up, especially when we hear that test-and-trace consultants are getting paid £7,000 a day, and we have to put up with MPs going on the TV telling the world we are naïve and don't live in the real world. It's demoralising.\"\n\nBut it is not just between politicians and scientists that disputes have developed. Rival camps of scientists are clashing. Two online petitions have now been established: the Great Barrington declaration for those who want to see controlled spread of the virus and protection of the vulnerable, and the John Snow Memorandum for those arguing for outright suppression until a vaccine is developed.\n\nProf Francois Balloux, director of the UCL Genetics Institute, says the toxic atmosphere that is developing is really \"unhelpful\".\n\nBrought together, it has created a climate where almost every utterance or development is examined for double-meaning.\n\nThe problem facing advisers and decision-makers is two-fold. First, the nature of the virus means it is a lose-lose situation - whatever decision is taken has negative consequences either for the spread of the virus, or for the economy, education and wider health and well-being. What's more, there is not a simple binary choice of one thing or the other.\n\nFor example, much has been made in recent weeks about the need for the NHS to also focus on non-Covid work, which has taken a terrible hit during the pandemic.\n\nReferrals for urgent cancer check-ups and the number of people starting treatment have dropped, while the amount of routine surgery being done is still half the level it was before the pandemic.\n\nThis can have tragic consequences. This week the British Heart Foundation warned the number of younger adults dying of heart disease had increased by 15% during the pandemic.\n\nThe argument put forward by some is that the government should choose to do more non-Covid work. But, and this is a point the health secretary has been making week after week, if hospitals fill up with coronavirus patients, it makes non-Covid work harder to do.\n\nThe second key issue - and this goes to the heart of the disagreements we have seen bubble up in recent weeks among the scientific and medical community - is that there are huge gaps in the evidence and knowledge.\n\nThis is true on everything from the numbers infected already and the level of immunity exposure brings to the true impact of \"long Covid\", and exactly what effect any restrictions beyond a full lockdown actually have.\n\nIn normal times, the scientific and medical community is able to reach more of a consensus off the back of rigorous randomised controlled trials and painstaking peer review.\n\nBut in a fast-moving pandemic with a new virus, that has simply not been possible. Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia, says it means there is such \"uncertainty in the science\" that he does not think any plan is guaranteed to work.\n\nAnd then there is the human factor - the unintended consequences of actions that are impossible to take into account in the modelling. Hence the prospect of scenes like the ones we saw in Liverpool, which were not taken into account by Sage in its latest advice.\n\nBut Prof Keith Neal, an infectious disease expert at Nottingham University, says it shouldn't come as a surprise that people react in the way they do. Both young and old are suffering, he says, from not being able to meet up with people. \"This degree of isolation is not allowed in prisons under human rights legislation.\"\n\nPeople from different households will not be able to drink together inside, after London went into tier two\n\nIt is, he says, therefore natural that some people will ignore the rules. Closing pubs may sound good on paper, he says, but it could lead to an increase in house parties where people are \"far more at risk\".\n\nSo where has this left us?\n\nThe complexity of competing interests, uncertainty in the science and general exhaustion across society both among decision-makers and the public has, some fear, left us in the worst of both worlds.\n\nDelay and deliberation, says Sir Jeremy Farrar is a \"decision in itself\".\n\nBut by reaching a decision by default there is a risk - another adviser says - of making the same mistakes we made at the start of the pandemic.\n\n\"In March we toyed with the Swedish model of limited restrictions with the hope of developing immunity and then hesitated. But we then went for a lockdown, but it was introduced bit by bit and it was too late anyway.\n\n\"The same thing has happened again - we have delayed and then gone for some half measures. I can understand why. This is bloody difficult.\"\n\nThe government is now hoping it will be just enough that we can get through this wave without a devastating number of deaths or hospitals being overwhelmed. But it's a big risk - it could all unravel.", "Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan's lawyers say he is \"surprised and saddened\" by the allegations\n\nThe Hay literary festival has accused a senior Gulf royal of an \"appalling violation\" after he allegedly sexually assaulted one of their employees.\n\nCaroline Michel, Hay chair, said they would not work in Abu Dhabi again while Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan remains minister of tolerance.\n\nTheir employee, Caitlin McNamara, claims he attacked her earlier this year and is seeking legal redress.\n\nMs McNamara, 32, told the Sunday Times that the alleged attack happened on 14 February at a remote private island villa where she had been summoned, she thought, to discuss preparations for the first-ever Hay Festival in Abu Dhabi, which was opening 11 days later.\n\nShe said she told both her employer and embassy officials soon after the attack, and went to the police in the UK when coronavirus lockdown restrictions lifted.\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 Hay Festival 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\nAccording to the Sunday Times, Ms McNamara is waiting to hear whether the Crown Prosecution Service will take up her case, and said she had decided to waive her right to anonymity because \"I feel I have nothing to lose\".\n\n\"I want to do this because I want to highlight the effect of powerful men like him doing things like that and thinking they can get away with it,\" she told the newspaper.\n\n\"It seemed clear from the set up I was not the first or last. It really took a massive mental and physical toll on me for what to him was probably just a whim.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times said Sheikh Nahyan had not responded to its approach for a comment on the allegations, but had received a statement from London libel lawyers Schillings which said: \"Our client is surprised and saddened by this allegation, which arrives eight months after the alleged incident and via a national newspaper. The account is denied.\"\n\nSchillings declined to give further comment to the BBC.\n\nIn a statement, posted on Twitter, Hay Festival Chair Caroline Michel, said: \"What happened to our colleague and friend Caitlin McNamara in Abu Dhabi last February was an appalling violation and a hideous abuse of trust and position.\n\n\"Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan made a mockery of his ministerial responsibilities and tragically undermined his government's attempt to work with Hay Festival to promote free speech and female empowerment\".\n\n\"We continue to support Caitlin in seeking legal redress for this attack and we urge our friends and partners in the UAE to reflect on the behaviour of Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan and send a clear signal to the world that such behaviour will not be tolerated. Hay Festival will not be returning to Abu Dhabi while he remains in position.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: What is it like to self-isolate in student halls?\n\nSome of Scotland's biggest universities did not reduce the capacity of their student halls despite the need for physical distancing, the BBC has found.\n\nA Disclosure investigation found many student halls were 100% full despite the risks of spreading Covid.\n\nIt also found that guidance on offering remote teaching was changed at the last minute, pressuring students to attend.\n\nProf Stephen Reicher, who advises both UK and Scottish governments, said it was an \"accident waiting to happen\".\n\nHe said the risks were \"pretty clear\" and that he and others spoke publicly about the need for widespread Covid testing when students returned but this was never done.\n\nProf Reicher said it was pretty clear what the risks were\n\nScotland's students began to return to university in mid-September.\n\nAs they packed into student halls, hundreds tested positive for the virus and thousands more were told to self-isolate.\n\nSt Andrews University, which had \"strongly recommended\" students return to the town, recorded three cases imported from outside Fife in mid-September. Subsequently, it asked all students to observe a \"voluntary lockdown\".\n\nThere was confusion across the country about whether students in university accommodation were able to go back to their family home.\n\nBBC Scotland's Disclosure programme found that there have so far been 1,500 positive tests among students in halls, 10% of all cases in Scotland since 19 September.\n\nThe programme found some universities cut the number of students in halls of residence by as much as half but St Andrews University, the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, in Glasgow, were at full capacity.\n\nThe Royal Conservatoire said it did not own or operate student accommodation but had an arrangement with a private company.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We have a lease agreement with a purpose-built student accommodation provider for 164 ensuite rooms in a recently opened facility. To-date we have received no reported cases of Covid in our leased accommodation.\"\n\nEight other universities would not tell the BBC whether or not they cut numbers to allow physical distancing.\n\nThe return of students appears to have eased some of the financial pressures on higher education.\n\nIn May, at the height of the pandemic, the Scottish Funding Council predicted losses of up to £500m for the sector but universities are thought to have performed much better due to a higher than expected numbers of students.\n\nThe Disclosure programme heard that, as late as 31 August, draft government guidance for Scottish universities said \"work and study that can be done remotely must be done so\".\n\nThis would have meant that many students did not have to travel to university to take part in their course,\n\nThe University and Colleges Union (Scotland) said this was changed to instead focus on \"blended\" or \"hybrid learning\" and asked institutions to make \"reasonable efforts\" to facilitate remote working.\n\nThe UCU said the guidance was changed overnight and published on 1 September without its knowledge.\n\nIt believes the change was made to allow universities to market more face-to-face teaching and bring students back to campus.\n\nCarlo Morelli, from UCU Scotland, said: \"If you're telling students they have to come to campus, then they're going to have to take up the accommodation that's offered to them. So the push was from the universities to get students to come and take up their place in accommodation.\"\n\nThe Disclosure investigation also found that some universities are subject to \"nomination agreements\" with private accommodation providers.\n\nThis is where universities enter deals with private developers to provide modern attractive accommodation. These deals may include guarantees from universities that a certain percentage of the rooms will be filled each year.\n\nFor instance, the University of Edinburgh has eight nomination agreements in place, with a fifth of its students living in accommodation rented from private providers.\n\nFinancial analyst Louise Cooper told the programme that there had been an explosion of student numbers in recent years and universities had turned over their property portfolios to private developers.\n\nBut she said the \"risk\" of the properties being empty was generally being borne by the universities.\n\n\"The underlying model requires high occupancy, students in there, paying their weekly, monthly rents,\" she said. \"As ever, you need to follow the money.\"\n\nThe University of Edinburgh said: \"Throughout the pandemic our prime concern has been, and remains, the health, safety and general well-being of our students and staff. This will always come before any financial considerations.\"\n\nEight universities did not answer:\n\nEdinburgh University's Prof Peter Mathieson said the decision was not financial\n\nEdinburgh University vice-chancellor, Prof Peter Mathieson, said the decision to bring students back was driven by \"a belief that we want to provide the best possible student experience that we can\".\n\nHe said the university had focused on making the teaching environment safe for students and staff.\n\nAlastair Sim, from Universities Scotland, also said universities were \"prioritising learning\".\n\nProf Reicher, a professor of social psychology at St Andrews, said that when experts looked at the US data it was \"pretty clear that going back to university was a real risk\".\n\nHe said everyone should have been tested when they arrived and they should not have been allowed to mix together until later.\n\nUniversities minister Richard Lochhead said there were no \"hidden agendas\" over blended learning\n\nHigher Education minister Richard Lochhead said the advice was that testing capacity should be focused on students who had symptoms of Covid.\n\nHe said that having identified positive cases, the Test and Protect regime and self-isolation was the best way to prevent the transmission of the virus.\n\n\"In terms of asymptomatic testing, we are currently looking at whether there is more we can do that as a government, and that may well involve student populations going forward, because it's a developing science and the tests are also improving,\" he said.\n\nMr Lochhead said there was no \"hidden agendas\" that led to the blended learning guidance.\n\nHe said it came after the back and forth of debate and the aim was to strike a balance between face-to-face teaching and online learning.\n\nThe minister said students' leaders had told him of concerns about purpose-built accommodation in Scotland and he had already given a commitment to carry out a review.\n\nMr Lochhead said: \"We've done our best. I accept we'll look back on this and think we've made mistakes, because we're all dealing with a very difficult situation, where there are no easy options.\"", "The Transport Secretary says he is \"very hopeful\" a new testing regime for travellers to the UK can be in place by 1 December, reducing the amount of time people need to spend in quarantine.\n\nGrant Shapps said it could happen as long as there was enough testing capacity to support the plan.\n\nThe government has been consulting on a system where passengers would be tested after just a week of isolation.\n\nBut BA's new boss wants testing before departure, not quarantine on arrival.\n\nAddressing an online aviation conference, Mr Shapps said the government was looking at introducing a virus test alongside a shortened quarantine period by early December.\n\n\"My ministerial colleagues and I have agreed a regime, based on a single test provided by the private sector and at the cost to the passenger, after a period of self-isolation,\" he said.\n\n\"It will mean a single test for international arrivals, a week after arrival.\"\n\nThe government's travel taskforce, which is working on the plans, will put its recommendations before the prime minister in November, Mr Shapps said.\n\nThe idea is to reduce the amount of time travellers coming into the UK have to spend self-isolating - currently 14 days for those arriving from areas not included on the government's list of \"travel corridors\".\n\nThe government's approach may be designed to protect public health, but is unlikely to win it many friends in the aviation industry.\n\nJust before Grant Shapps spoke, and at the same event, British Airways' new boss Sean Doyle used his first major public appearance since his appointment to argue for a \"fundamental rethink\" of the UK's approach to flying during the pandemic.\n\nIt was time, he said, to replace the current quarantine regime with a \"reliable and affordable\" test taken before flying.\n\nPeople within the sector blame the current restrictions for killing off hopes of a strong revival in the sector, after the lockdown earlier this year.\n\nThe prospect of spending two weeks in isolation, they say, is simply deterring people from travelling. Ryanair plans to operate at 40% of its normal capacity this winter, while Easyjet will have just 25% capacity.\n\nMr Doyle suggested that even a reduction in the quarantine period to seven days would not be enough to change matters.\n\nBut Mr Shapps made it clear the government will press on with its own plans.\n\nSpeaking at the same conference, British Airways' new boss Sean Doyle emphasised his objections to the current system.\n\n\"We need to get the economy moving again and this just isn't possible when you're asking people to quarantine for 14 days,\" said Mr Doyle, a week after he replaced Alex Cruz as chief executive of the airline.\n\nHowever, he said that even if quarantine was reduced to seven days, demand for travel would remain low, and called for tests before departure.\n\n\"People won't travel here and the UK will get left behind,\" Mr Doyle said.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was in talks with the US about trialling pre-departure tests, but no agreement has been reached yet.\n\nBritish Airways is currently slashing thousands of jobs amid a slump in demand for air travel - a pattern seen at other carriers.\n\nSome warn there could be hundreds of thousands more cuts unless the sector gets additional government support.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association has downgraded its 2020 traffic forecasts, after \"a dismal end to the summer travel season\".\n\nThe association, which represents 290 airlines, estimates that it will be at least 2024 before air traffic reaches pre-pandemic levels.", "John Leslie said he could not remember being at the party in 2008\n\nFormer TV presenter John Leslie has been found not guilty of sexual assault.\n\nThe 55-year-old was on trial at Southwark Crown Court accused of grabbing a woman's breasts at a Christmas party in 2008.\n\nThe woman made a complaint to the police in 2017.\n\nMr Leslie began his TV career in 1989 on the BBC's Blue Peter show. He went on to host Wheel of Fortune and This Morning.\n\nThe jury returned a not guilty verdict after 23 minutes of deliberations, following the week-long trial.\n\nHis former co-presenters Anthea Turner and Fern Britton were his character witnesses in the trial.\n\nMr Leslie told the jury he could not remember being at the party, and described the single allegation of sexual assault from 5 December 2008 as \"crazy\" and \"ludicrous\".\n\nGiving evidence, he said: \"I would not have touched her like some mannequin and walked off.\"\n\nHe told the jury he had previously been made out to be an \"aggressive, sexual monster\" by the tabloid press.\n\nThe jury returned a not guilty verdict on Monday after 23 minutes of deliberations\n\nMr Leslie said his life changed in 2002 when he was wrongly identified on live television as the unnamed alleged rapist in his former girlfriend Ulrika Jonsson's autobiography.\n\nPresenter Matthew Wright later apologised, saying he named him in error, the court was told.\n\nMs Jonsson has never made any complaint to police, the jury heard.\n\nThe jury took just 23-minutes to reach their verdict.\n\nAs the court reassembled John Leslie was asked to stand to hear the foreman say they'd found him not guilty of one count of sexual assault.\n\nOn hearing those words the former Blue Peter presenter began to sob in the dock.\n\nHis father, Les Stott, who's attended court every day with his son, punched the air before he too broke down in tears.\n\nThe two of them hugged and cried before they left.\n\nMr Leslie, from Edinburgh, said there had never been any sexual assault allegations against him before his name was wrongly linked to the book, and described the fallout as \"Armageddon\".\n\nHe said the tabloids \"decided I was their man\", and there had been \"adverts for women to come forward with allegations\".\n\nMr Leslie, whose full name is John Leslie Stott, told the jury he had become reclusive, paranoid, depressed and suicidal amid the allegations, saying: \"I lost everything.\"\n\nIn 2003, two charges of indecent assault against him made by one woman were dropped, and not guilty verdicts were recorded at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nAfter Monday's verdict, Judge Deborah Taylor said: \"Mr Stott, you for the second time leave this court without a stain on your character and I hope it will be the last time you have to attend.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vessels carrying migrants were intercepted by Border Force and brought to Dover\n\nUp to 170 migrants in 12 boats have crossed the English Channel after days of choppy sea conditions improved.\n\nA further 222 people were stopped from making the \"perilous\" journey by French authorities, the Home Office said.\n\nThe authorities later confirmed the body of a man in a lifejacket, found on a beach near Calais at 08:00 BST, was that of a migrant.\n\nSix migrants on two kayaks tied together were also rescued by the French navy off the coast of Calais.\n\nThe man, who was found dead on the beach at Sangatte, had almost certainly been trying to cross the Channel, said Pascal Marconville, the prosecutor of nearby town Boulogne-sur-Mer.\n\nThe number of people reaching the UK by boat had fallen in October amid harsher conditions in the Channel.\n\nMr Marconville said initial examinations of the man's body indicated there was no third party involvement in his death.\n\nSix migrants were rescued from a makeshift raft in French waters\n\nThere was also no suggestion he had been in the water for any length of time - washing up just a few hours after attempting to make the crossing.\n\nOfficers investigating his death would work with the migrant communities based in Calais and Dunkirk to try to establish his identity and the circumstances around his death, he added.\n\nAbout 260 people have successfully made the crossing this month, compared to a record 1,951 in September.\n\nHome Office minister Chris Philp said the government was \"taking action at every step of these illegally-facilitated journeys to make this route unviable\".\n\nThe National Crime Agency this week arrested 12 people alleged to be responsible for smuggling migrants into the UK, he said.\n\nA 30-year-old man was arrested in Hastings on Friday on suspicion of sourcing boats in the UK and transporting them to France, where they were allegedly used to cross the Channel.\n\nA demonstration was held in support of asylum-seekers outside a barracks in Folkestone\n\nMeanwhile, about 250 people gathered in Folkestone, Kent, to show support for asylum-seekers being housed inside a former army barracks.\n\nIt followed claims that far-right activists were using the arrival of asylum-seekers at the Napier barracks to \"fuel hate\".\n\n\"There's a narrative that has been put forward by a group of people saying that these fellow human beings aren't wanted in Folkestone and we know that isn't the case,\" said Bridget Chapman, of charity Kent Refugee Action Network.\n\nAnd Clare Moseley, co-founder of refugee charity Care4Calais, said they were only risking crossing the Channel \"because they are frightened, fleeing appalling horrors in some of the most dangerous places on earth\".\n\n\"They [also] do it because of the grim and unsanitary conditions in Calais, where they are constantly harassed and abused by the authorities,\" she continued.\n\n\"They do it because there is no safe and legal way to have their UK asylum claim heard.\"\n\nKent Police thanked \"the vast majority of the attendees\" at the Folkestone protest at what it described as a \"peaceful event\".\n\nOne man was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage following a confrontation with a small counter demonstration.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The team have been monitoring road crossings, roadkill and use of tunnels\n\nUp to 335,000 hedgehogs are dying each year on UK roads, a study suggests.\n\nThe figure represents a three-fold mortality rate on 2016 data, described as \"alarming\" by a team at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) researchers.\n\nA study in 2016 put the UK road death figure at 100,000 but experts suggested that was a \"mid-line estimate\".\n\nResearchers said measures such as tunnels and speed bumps \"could\" protect the animals but ultimately relied on drivers' behaviour to change.\n\nPhD student Lauren Moore led the review, which has been jointly funded by wildlife charity People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) and NTU.\n\nNew research suggests as many as 335,000 hedgehogs are killed on UK roads each year\n\nRecent estimates put the hedgehog population in England, Wales and Scotland at about one million, compared with 30 million in the 1950s.\n\n\"Hedgehog roadkill is sadly a very familiar sight both in the UK and in Europe,\" Ms Moore said.\n\nThe research considered a number of measures to protect the creatures, including speed bumps, road signs and tunnels, but concluded none would be effective without help from drivers.\n\n\"Although we know some hedgehogs use road-crossing structures, we don't yet know how effective these solutions are,\" Ms Moore continued.\n\n\"Changing drivers' behaviour has been shown to be difficult to achieve and sustain, reducing the potential for meaningful reductions in roadkill.\"\n\nNew signs featuring a picture of a hedgehog started to appear in 2019\n\nShe thought the solution may lie in a combination of measures constructed \"in carefully chosen locations\" close to hedgehog hotspots.\n\nNida Al-Fulaij, grants manager at PTES, said: \"With thousands of hedgehogs killed on UK roads every year, the continuous development of road networks, without any mitigation, puts this already endangered species at even further risk.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "A Chinese animal park has promised to improve safety after one of its workers was fatally attacked by bears in front of a tourist bus.\n\nThe accident at the Shanghai Wildlife Park took place on Saturday in the zoo's \"wild beast area\".\n\nVideo reportedly of the incident, which was shared on social media, shows a group of tourists yelling as they watch the bears from inside a bus.\n\nThe park has expressed its condolences to the worker's family.\n\nIn a statement on its website, the Shanghai Wildlife Park said it was \"extremely distressed that such a tragedy occurred\", adding that it also \"apologised to tourists for any inconvenience caused\".\n\nThe park says it is currently looking into the incident, would improve its safety management and \"do our best to handle the aftermath of the incident\".\n\nIt has since temporarily closed the wild beast area, refunded tickets for visitors and \"strengthened its safety operations\".\n\nThe video, circulating on China's Weibo, shows tourists yelling as they sit inside a bus, while several bears can be seen gathered outside, crowded in one spot.\n\nThe area is only accessible to visitors by bus, with footage on social media site Weibo showing how animals are allowed to roam freely.\n\nIn the video, a man can be heard exclaiming \"there's someone [there]\", while someone else is heard asking \"what's going on?\".\n\nThe video quickly went viral and stirred debate about the existence of zoos.\n\nSome argued that the bears were only acting as any wild animal would, proposing the only solution to eradicate such accidents was to \"just close zoos... let animals be free\".\n\nOthers condemned the zoo's lack of safety measures, and expressed sympathy for the tourists that witnessed the accident, saying they would be \"deeply traumatised\".\n\nIt is rare for zoo workers in China to be mauled to death by animals, but attacks are not entirely uncommon - although in most of these cases, these accidents are allegedly brought on by the visitors themselves.\n\nIn 2017, a man was bitten by a bear in a drive-through wildlife park in China after he ignored park warnings and rolled down his window to feed the bear.", "Kath Sharpe says the division is \"crackers\"\n\nPeople across the country have opposing views about the government's new coronavirus tier system.\n\nBut in the case of Langwith, on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border, the division is somewhat more literal.\n\nThe county boundary runs down the middle of Portland Road, meaning houses on one side have \"tier one\" restrictions, while the other side is \"tier two\".\n\nIt's caused some amusement among residents, but also much frustration due to the difficulty of living in a community with two sets of rules.\n\nThe division between the two tiers runs right down the middle of Portland Road\n\nPeople on the Derbyshire side of the street, currently in tier one, can meet socially in groups of six indoors, while those on the other side are subject to more stringent restrictions - due to the fact Nottinghamshire became tier two this week.\n\nKath Sharpe, a 72-year-old parish councillor who lives in the village, said people had been joking about building a wall down the middle of the road.\n\n\"It's crackers,\" she said. \"As far as I'm aware, we've not had any cases of Covid in the village.\n\n\"People here have been very good at following the rules but I don't think they're going to stick to this - plus, who's going to come and enforce it?\n\n\"It should have been looked at as a whole community, not some of it lumped in with what's happening miles away.\"\n\nDave Mather says tier one ends at his garden wall\n\nDave Mather, 69, a retired miner who lives on the Derbyshire side of Portland Road, said: \"It's absolutely crazy - Derbyshire and tier one ends at my garden wall.\n\n\"They should have realised you can't divide a village up.\"\n\nDawn Wakeling doubts people in the village will follow the different restrictions\n\nDawn Wakeling, 49, lives on the tier one side of the road but her mother, whom she helps look after, lives across the street.\n\nShe said they will remain unaffected, as they are in a bubble, but added: \"People aren't going to follow it.\n\n\"I wouldn't be going to Nottingham but I won't be avoiding parts of the village. It has to be done on a village-by-village basis.\"\n\nBeverley Booker, 54, lives on the tier two side.\n\n\"When the border is just a walk to the other side of the street, it's a bit daft, isn't it?\" she said.\n\nKath McCormack, 66, who lives on the Nottinghamshire side, said: \"I know we're technically in Nottinghamshire, but Derbyshire is just a road away.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense to split a village in two.\"\n\nIt's not just people on the street that are feeling divided - the split has affected the whole village.\n\nJanice Mitchell, 64, said she will not be able to see her seven-year-old granddaughter because she lives in tier two.\n\n\"It's difficult to understand,\" she said. \"I know they have to have borders but why not go to the end of the road, rather than cut through the middle?\n\n\"I'll follow the rules but now I can't have my granddaughter to stay.\"\n\nThe village's pubs also fall into different tiers.\n\nBev Plumb, landlady of the Jug and Glass Inn, which is in tier two, said she had already had customers contacting her to cancel bookings.\n\nShe said the fact people can meet in pubs just a short walk down the road is an issue, and questioned how she would be able to enforce the ban on households mixing.\n\n\"People are trying to do the right thing, trying not to break the law, but it does affect our business,\" she said.\n\n\"There shouldn't be a blanket approach for the whole of Nottinghamshire.\"\n\nThe village pub that falls into tier two has had cancellations\n\nDerbyshire Labour councillor Joan Dixon drew attention to the anomaly on social media.\n\nShe said: \"There is some local amusement but there is also the sense that the rules are becoming very complicated and people are weary now.\n\n\"There are a lot of close-knit families in that community who will be affected.\"\n\nBoth Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire county councils urged residents to stick to the restrictions.\n\nA Nottinghamshire spokesperson said: \"If they are in Nottinghamshire, it will be a legal requirement not to mix with other people indoors unless they live with them, have a support bubble with them or fall under one of the other exceptions.\"\n\nA Derbyshire spokesperson said: \"These are government restrictions and we would urge people to follow all the latest guidelines.\"\n\nIt added it was the government that decided which tier areas were placed in.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said decisions were made in \"close consultation\" with local leaders.\n\n\"We... constantly review the evidence and will take swift action where necessary,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There will be a pause on giving the flu vaccine to people under 65 in Northern Ireland until more stock is received, the Public Health Agency has said.\n\nIt said that following \"phenomenal\" demand, Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK was \"now reaching full uptake of the allocated stock\".\n\nThe agency added that there was a \"worldwide issue\" with supply.\n\nIt advised patients that it will take \"a number of weeks\" for more vaccine doses to be delivered and distributed.\n\nDr Gerry Waldron from the Public Health Agency (PHA) acknowledged the temporary restriction on supply \"will cause some concern\" for patients who are awaiting vaccination.\n\nHowever he added he \"would like to provide reassurance that people will still get the vaccine well in time before we anticipate that flu will be circulating widely in the community\".\n\nVulnerable patients had been advised that getting vaccinated against seasonal flu was more important than ever this year, to avoid putting more pressure on health services during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDr Waldron said more than 500,000 doses of flu vaccine have already been distributed in Northern Ireland which he described as \"an unprecedented number at this stage of a seasonal flu vaccination programme\".\n\n\"Indeed, we have distributed more vaccines in the past few weeks than the entirety of previous flu seasons,\" he added.\n\n\"It is great to see people getting the vaccine in such high numbers, but it does create the unusual situation of pausing some aspects until further supplies become available,\" Dr Waldron explained.\n\n\"As this is a worldwide issue, it will take a number of weeks for the vaccine to be delivered and distributed, with a plan to reopen ordering in mid-November,\" he said.\n\nA PHA spokeswoman also confirmed that the flu vaccination programme in schools is separate from the adult programme and it is not affected by the supply issue.\n\nUntil more adult vaccine stocks are received, GP surgeries and health trusts are being advised to use their existing supplies and to notify the PHA of unused vaccine so it can be redistributed to other practices that may need it.\n\nThe PHA has also asked for frontline health workers to be given priority for vaccination across the health and social care sector.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock, who made history by beating two men at the PDC World Darts Championship, has narrowly failed to qualify for the 2021 tournament.\n\nShe lost out despite winning the last of four women's events which offered two spots for the championship, which starts at Alexandra Palace in December.\n\nDeta Hedman edged through on a total of 85 legs to 83 for the second place, after Lisa Ashton had sealed her spot.\n\nShe played in the 2019 World Championship while Hedman will make her debut.\n• None Insight: Hedman's life on and off the oche\n\nSherrock earned the nickname 'Queen of the Palace' after becoming the first woman to win a match en route to the third round of the 2020 tournament.\n\nBut the 26-year-old from Milton Keynes finished just outside the top two in the PDC Women's Series Order of Merit despite reaching two finals, a semi-final and a quarter-final over four events in Barnsley.", "Rallies are held across France in support of Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson.\n\nBanners reading \"Je suis enseignant\" (I am a teacher) and \"Je suis Samuel\" (I am Samuel) were on display in solidarity.", "Instagram is being investigated by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) over its handling of children's personal data on the platform.\n\nThe social media app's owner Facebook could face a large fine if Instagram is found to have broken privacy laws.\n\nIt comes amid reports Instagram failed to protect data, including allowing email addresses and phone numbers of those under 18 to be made public.\n\nFacebook said it rejected the claims but was cooperating with the DPC.\n\nA number of US tech giants have their European headquarters in Ireland, and the DPC is the lead European Union regulator under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force in 2018.\n\nThe DPC is responsible for protecting individuals' right to online privacy, and has the power to issue large fines.\n\nThe Irish regulator is investigating whether Facebook has a legal basis for processing children's personal data and if it employs adequate protections and restrictions on Instagram for children.\n\nSeparately, it is also looking at whether Facebook has adhered with GDPR requirements in relation to Instagram's profile and account settings. It is inquiring into whether Facebook is adequately protecting the data protection rights of children as vulnerable people.\n\nThe minimum age for having an Instagram account is 13.\n\n\"Instagram is a social media platform which is used widely by children in Ireland and across Europe,\" said Graham Doyle, a deputy commissioner with DPC.\n\n\"The DPC has been actively monitoring complaints received from individuals in this area and has identified potential concerns in relation to the processing of children's personal data on Instagram which require further examination.\"\n\nAccording to reports, the investigation stems from a complaint from David Stier, a US-based data scientist who last year analysed profiles of almost 200,000 Instagram users across the world.\n\nHe estimated that for over a year, at least 60 million users under the age of 18 were given the option to easily change their profiles into business accounts.\n\nInstagram business accounts require users to display their phone numbers and email addresses publicly, meaning that personal data belonging to many users is visible to other Instagram users.\n\nData scientist David Stier is concerned that complete strangers can contact children using their emails and mobile numbers on Instagram\n\nThe same personal information was also contained in the HTML source code of web pages accessed when using Instagram on a computer, meaning that it could be \"scraped\" by hackers.\n\nMr Stier reported his findings to Facebook, but he wrote in a Medium blog that Instagram had refused to mask the email addresses and phone numbers for business accounts.\n\nHowever, Facebook did decide to remove the contact information from the source code of Instagram pages.\n\nHowever, on Monday a Facebook spokeswoman told the BBC that Mr Stier's claims were based on a misunderstanding of its systems.\n\n\"We've always been clear that when people choose to set up a business account on Instagram, the contact information they shared would be publicly displayed. That's very different to exposing people's information.\n\n\"We've also made several updates to business accounts since the time of Mr Stier's mischaracterisation in 2019, and people can now opt out of including their contact information entirely.\"\n\nMr Stier has also alleged that hackers might have succeeded in stealing personal information from Instagram's website, after it was revealed in May 2019 that contact details relating to 49 million users were stored online in an unguarded database owned by a firm in India.\n\n\"Do we have a responsibility to keep kids' phone numbers and emails hidden so that strangers can't find them just by clicking a button?\" wrote Mr Stier.\n\n\"Speaking as a parent, I want to be assured that the experience Instagram offers to teens is as 'adult-overseen' as possible.\"", "The name change comes after years of debate in the Quebec town\n\nThe small Canadian town of Asbestos that decided it needed a rebrand has done away with the name derived from its mining heritage.\n\nThe Quebec town, home to some 7,000 people, voted for \"Val-des-Sources\" as its new moniker.\n\nThe town was once the location of the world's largest asbestos mine.\n\nIt was given the English name for the mineral - rather than the French amiante - in the late 19th Century.\n\nBut the town's council said the connotation hindered its ability to attract foreign investment, and announced last November that the hunt was on for a new name.\n\nThe town, about 150 km (95 miles) east of Montreal, finally announced the winning title with some fanfare on Monday evening.\n\nIt was picked after a lengthy consultation and a vote by town residents, including those as young as 14.\n\nAbout half the town residents eligible to cast ballots did so. Val-des-Sources won with just over 51% of the vote in the third round of voting.\n\nThe name is \"above all, inspiring for the future\", Mayor Hugues Grimard said.\n\nOther possibilities on the shortlist were L'Azur-des-Cantons, Jeffrey-sur-le-Lac, Larochelle, Phénix and Trois-Lacs, which came in second place.\n\nAsbestos won't be changing its town signs immediately, said Mr Grimard, who suggested it could be the end of the year before the formal, legal switch.\n\n\"It'll be a nice Christmas present,\" he said.\n\nThe town of Asbestos thrived for over a century on the chrysotile asbestos manufactured at its open-pit mine. The mine suspended operations in 2011.\n\nOnce considered a miracle mineral, asbestos was used in construction industries for strengthening cement, in insulation, roofing, fireproofing and sound absorption.\n\nBut by the mid-20th Century, concerns about its use were growing as more and more studies linked asbestos to deadly illnesses.\n\nBreathing in asbestos fibres has been linked to cancer and other diseases.\n\nGlobal demand plummeted as countries around the world began banning asbestos. Canada was a latecomer, only banning its manufacture, import, use and export in 2018.\n• None Quebec town of Asbestos seeks new name", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly returned as hosts of Strictly this year, but stayed 2m apart\n\nThe launch episode of this year's Strictly Come Dancing was watched by an average of 8.6 million viewers, according to overnight ratings.\n\nThat's an increase on last year's opening show audience, which attracted 7.8 million.\n\nSaturday night's episode achieved a 42.2% audience share and had a peak of nine million viewers, a spokesman for the programme said.\n\nThere were several big changes to the format due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nEach couple has formed a bubble to limit contact with other people, and in the studio celebrities and their partners performed in front of a socially distanced audience.\n\nThe judges sat at their own mini-podiums although Bruno Tonioli was missing as he is also a judge on US show Dancing with the Stars.\n\nHe usually flies back and forth to appear on both shows but that isn't possible this year due to self-isolation rules when travelling between the US and the UK.\n\nBruno will, however, appear remotely on the Sunday results show and will appear in the studio later in the series once Dancing in the Stars has wrapped up.\n\nThere will be no Halloween or Blackpool specials either.\n\nBut what did the critics make of the new-look format? Has the magic gone or is this just the glut of glitter we need to see us through a tough winter?\n\nThe Telegraph's Ed Power was pleased to have the show back, giving it four stars out of five and declaring that, \"Strictly, for all its concessions to Covid, felt reassuringly unchanged\".\n\nHe added: \"With the New Normal becoming increasingly abnormal, this was comfort TV of the first rank.\"\n\n\"While Coronavirus has obviously brought complications to Strictly 2020 it hasn't, on the evidence of a reliably glittery launch episode, sapped the heel-clicking juggernaut of any of its strut.\"\n\nJan Moir, writing in the Daily Mail, was also pleased to have Strictly back.\n\n\"Strictly Come Dancing returned on Saturday night, providing a joyous burst of fun for viewers starved of sparkle and gagging for glitter,\" she wrote.\n\nBut she wasn't impressed with the show's regular references to how they've adapted to the Covid-19 guidelines.\n\n\"Claudia and Tess spend far too much time patiently explaining the show's Covid rules - we get it! - although the admirable ingenuity, planning skills and can-do determination to make the show happen are nothing short of miraculous.\"\n\nMoir was confident the show could still thrive without Bruno's enthusiastic presence.\n\n\"Bruno Tonioli is absent this year, but I fear he won't be missed much in the shortened format; no Blackpool, no Clauditorium, fewer episodes,\" she wrote.\n\nOlympic boxing champion Nicola Adams made history by becoming the first celebrity to dance in a same sex pair, partnering up with Katya Jones.\n\nMoir wrote: \"Strictly's first same-sex partnership has garnered much attention, but what is the fuss about?\"\n\nThe Independent's Emma Bullimore gave the show a maximum five stars, noting: \"Another fab-u-lous surprise awaits this year, as the pairings take place out and about across the country, captured in pre-recorded films.\n\n\"It's much more natural, less prolonged, and quite frankly a relief for everyone involved.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's not a perfect show. Anton du Beke insists on singing (to the delight of nobody). And every member of the (much smaller) audience is wearing a mandatory plain black face mask, which feels stingy - could the budget not have stretched to a few sequins for the fans?\n\n\"But coming in from a grey day to glitterballs, glamour and smiles is a long-awaited injection of pure joy.\"\n\nThe Guardian's Heidi Stephens wrote a live blog on Saturday night, declaring it was \"so good to be back\".\n\nShe found the studio a little quiet though.\n\n\"Ah, we're in the studio and it's gone disco. It seems strange without an audience, but on the upside, no out-of-time clapping.\n\n\"Usually I'd bitch about how this show takes 90 minutes to do a pairing job that should take about ten, but I'm so Strictly-starved I'm prepared to go with it. Embrace the endless filler, everyone.\"\n\nViewers, including artist Grayson Perry, were also pleased to have Strictly to look forward to.\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 Grayson Perry 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 Pointless presenter Richard Osman was also a little frustrated by the frequent Covid-19 references.\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 Richard Osman 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 3 by Rainy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Kristina Rihanoff 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\nITV Love Your Garden presenter Katie Rushworth summed the mood up.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Katie Rushworth 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 first live show airs this Saturday, 24 October.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool centre-back Virgil van Dijk wants to return stronger after learning he needs surgery on the knee injury he sustained in the 2-2 draw at Everton.\n\nThe 29-year-old Netherlands defender was unable to continue following a rash challenge by Toffees keeper Jordan Pickford in the first half on Saturday.\n\nIt is unclear how long the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury will keep him out for.\n\n\"I'm ready for the challenge ahead,\" he said in a post on social media.\n\nThe former Celtic and Southampton centre-back went for a scan before a specialist confirmed the extent of the damage.\n\n\"I'm now fully focused on my recovery and will do everything I can to be back as soon as possible,\" said the Dutchman.\n\n\"Despite the obvious disappointment, I'm a firm believer that within difficulty lies opportunity, and with God's help I'm going to make sure I return better, fitter and stronger than ever before.\n\n\"In football, as in life, I think everything happens for a reason and it's important to try and keep level-headed whether going through the highs and lows.\"\n• None How much will Liverpool miss Van Dijk? The stats that show his value\n\nReturning to action after ACL surgery can take many months and Liverpool are refusing to specify how long the Dutchman will be out for until after his operation.\n\nSurgery will not be immediate and the operation has yet to be arranged.\n\nClub sources are reluctant to rule out a return to action this season, as much will depend on his rehabilitation.\n\nVan Dijk has been a key figure for Liverpool since signing for them in January 2018 for £75m.\n\nHe played every league game for the club in the past two seasons as Liverpool finished second in 2018-19 before winning their first top-flight title in 30 years in 2019-20.\n\nThe Dutchman was also a leading figure for the side as they won the Champions League in 2019 and the Club World Cup later that year.\n\nHe had played seven times for the Reds this season prior to the Merseyside derby.\n\nThe injury will have \"massive implications\" for Liverpool's season, according to BBC pundit Chris Sutton, who won the Premier League as a striker for Blackburn in 1994.\n\n\"He is their rock at the back, their organiser. Simply put, he is irreplaceable. They are going to have to somehow fill that void. He is such a big player for them,\" he said.\n\nVan Dijk's absence will leave manager Jurgen Klopp with Joe Gomez and Joel Matip as his main centre-backs as well as the inexperienced Nathaniel Phillips, Rhys Williams and Sepp van den Berg.\n\nGomez and Matip have never started a match together as centre-backs for Liverpool. Before Saturday's Merseyside derby, the last time they both played in that position for any part of a game was the last hour of the 4-1 defeat by Tottenham in October 2017 at Wembley\n\nMidfielder Fabinho deputised at centre-back in the win at Chelsea earlier this season.\n\n\"We won't know until the end of the season how much impact it will have on the Liverpool squad. There will be a sense of togetherness. It will definitely hinder their defence of the title,\" said former Liverpool defender Stephen Warnock on BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"It's that old cliche: 'Let's win it for Virgil and make sure we have something to celebrate at the end of the season.'\n\n\"But when you are in the changing room, you look across and you haven't got Virgil van Dijk - this big colossus of a player. Defensively when things are going well and you turn back and see Van Dijk, it's okay. Now you turn back and he's not there.\n\n\"It's not being disrespectful to the players that are in there but he is their number one centre-back - someone who has performed to such a high level since he has come into the football club.\"\n\nIn addition to Liverpool, the Netherlands will be keeping their fingers crossed he will be fit to take part in the postponed Euro 2020, which is now set to take place from 11 June to 11 July 2021.\n\nThis is truly terrible news for Liverpool.\n\nThe Premier League champions may not be putting a timescale on Virgil van Dijk's likely absence but in the short term, they don't really have to.\n\nFew players have returned from cruciate ligament surgery within six months - and depending on the exact extent of the damage, it could be longer.\n\nEven a six-month absence would keep Van Dijk out until the back end of April. Effectively, it means Jurgen Klopp will have to do without his defensive talisman and 2019 PFA Player of the Year for the rest of the season.\n\nIt will stretch Liverpool's defensive resources - and Matip and Gomez have a big job ahead of them in a season in which the physical demands will be like no other given the reduced amount of time the campaign is being played over.\n\nThe news will frustrate Liverpool even further because Everton keeper Pickford escaped punishment for the terrible tackle that inflicted the damage.\n• None Is it time for a national 'circuit-breaker'?\n• None What impact has Covid-19 had on the climate?", "The most senior police officer on duty before the Manchester Arena attack had taken an \"unacceptable\" two-hour break before the bombing, the inquiry heard.\n\nPC Jessica Bullough admitted she then missed bomber Salman Abedi walking from the train station into the arena.\n\nThe British Transport Police (BTP) officer had been qualified for only eight months, and was still in her probationary period.\n\nThe suicide bombing killed 22 people and injured many more on 22 May 2017.\n\nThe public inquiry into the attack heard there were no police officers on patrol when 22-year-old Abedi made his journey from Victoria Station to the arena foyer.\n\nThe hearing was told PC Bullough took a break of two hours and nine minutes, during which time Abedi walked from the tram stop into the City Room.\n\nPC Bullough admitted her break should have been between 50 minutes and one hour.\n\nThe inquiry heard if she had come back 10 minutes earlier she would have seen Abedi carrying a large rucksack that contained explosives.\n\nShe said looking back, it was \"unacceptable\" to have taken a break of that length, and said she probably would not have done that had a supervisor been present.\n\nTop row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nPC Bullough was the first on the scene in the foyer after the suicide attack at the end of the Ariana Grande concert.\n\nShe said: \"I think the training I had wasn't sufficient to deal with what I was witnessing.\"\n\nJohn Cooper QC, representing some of the bereaved families, said: \"Effectively did you feel left in the lurch?\"\n\nBTP PCSO Lewis Brown said he and a colleague took a break before other officers had returned from theirs, meaning there was no-one on patrol between just before 21:00 and 21:35 BST, when Abedi made his trip from the station into the foyer.\n\nMeanwhile, a father picking up his children on the night of the Manchester Arena attack told the inquiry he thought \"straight away\" that Abedi was a suicide bomber.\n\nNeal Hatfield said when he saw Abedi in the foyer of the arena his rucksack did not look normal as it did not flex under his weight.\n\n\"It was rock solid, that's what alarmed me straight away,\" Mr Hatfield said.\n\nMr Hatfield was about to go up the stairs to the mezzanine area of the arena's City Room when he saw Abedi with his back to him \"in the process of lying down, he had a backpack on the floor next to him\".\n\n\"I thought suicide bomber straight away, very little doubt in my mind. Honestly, my heart was racing,\" he said.\n\n\"The way he was dressed, the way he was acting, the body language was that he was trying to protect the bag. He was pretending to be casual, but I could see what he was doing.\"\n\nThe inquiry has heard Salman Abedi made three scouting trips round the Arena and Victoria Station\n\nMr Hatfield said he made eye contact with Abedi, who looked \"emotionally distressed\".\n\n\"He seemed frightened, his eyes were glazed over and he seemed nervous, agitated, he didn't seem right,\" he added.\n\nMr Hatfield told the inquiry he saw two members of the security team nearby and believed they were having a conversation about Abedi, and gesturing towards him.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prosecutors in rape cases in England and Wales need to be aware of changing sexual behaviour in the digital age, when deciding if a case should go to court, new guidance says.\n\nNaked selfies, dating apps and casual sex are covered in a wide-ranging Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) review.\n\nThe CPS says prosecutors must understand that many teenagers believe sexting is part of \"everyday life\".\n\nIt follows criticism over record-low rape convictions in England and Wales.\n\nThere has also been a big drop in cases being taken to court.\n\nThe CPS says it has worked with victim support groups to produce this new guidance aimed at challenging long-held rape myths and stereotypes.\n\nIt found such stereotypes are common, such as believing that wearing a short skirt is proof of implied consent to sex.\n\nHowever prosecutors also need to understand that technology has changed the way people communicate and behave.\n\nSiobhan Blake, CPS rape lead, said: \"It's vital that our prosecutors understand the wider social context of these changes. For example, many teenagers believe that sending explicit photos or videos is part of everyday life.\n\n\"Our prosecutors must understand this and challenge any implication that sexual images or messages equate to consent in cases of rape or serious sexual violence.\"\n\nChanges have also been made to guidance in cases involving same sex violence and when there are victim vulnerabilities, with a focus on psychological and mental health issues.\n\nThe latest statistics for rape convictions in England and Wales are due out on Thursday. The last quarterly figures in July showed convictions at an all-time low.\n\nIn 2019-20, 1,439 suspects in cases where a rape had been alleged were convicted of rape or another crime - in 2016-17 there were 2,991 convictions. The number of prosecutions also fell from 5,190 in 2016-17 to 2,102 in 2019-20.\n\nAt the same time the CPS launched \"a five-year blueprint\" to reduce the gap between reported cases of sexual violence and those which come to court.\n\nOver the past five years, cases reported to police and initially recorded as rape have risen sharply to 59,747, but the number making it to court in that time has more than halved.\n\nIn 2017 Rebecca began a relationship with a man who lied to her that he was a police officer. In reality he was a convicted criminal with a history of violence.\n\nShe discovered this after he threatened her with a knife, punched her, tried to break her hand and raped her.\n\nAfter the attack Rebecca says she had some seemingly normal WhatsApp exchanges with her attacker because she was terrified of him.\n\nShe was told by CPS lawyers that because of this he would not be prosecuted.\n\nRebecca says she was left suicidal by her experience and she's unsure whether she would advise other complainants to come forward.\n\nShe describes the timing of this new guidance - with rape convictions at a record low in England and Wales - as a whitewash.\n\n\"I hope the myth-busting training starts with the CPS lawyers who specialise in rape and serious sexual offences. In my view they are the problem,\" she says. \"I have seen first hand how the CPS strategy is to pull apart a case and play the 'odds' game.\n\n\"Their approach is to second guess what a jury will decide. The lawyers are fixated on conviction rates and funding, not on representing victims.\"\n\nRebecca says that while a focus on digital communication might help younger complainants, it won't be relevant to older victims.\n\n\"Rape doesn't discriminate. It is endemic and it happens to people of all ages. There are swathes of people who do not get involved in sharing naked pictures or sexting.\"\n\nThe End Violence Against Women coalition and their lawyers at the Centre for Women's Justice are currently involved in legal action over rape prosecutions.\n\nIn a case due to be heard early next year, they are mounting a court challenge that will examine rape prosecution policy and practice.\n\nSarah Green, director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said: \"The new guidance for rape prosecutors is welcome if it enables those who prepare cases for court to predict and reject sexist stereotypes about rape and to really consider the impact of trauma on how rape survivors may present.\n\n\"Rape prosecutions are at an all-time low - with just one in 70 reported cases going to court. We hope therefore that this new guidance will be accompanied by comprehensive new training for all prosecutors and a clear message from CPS leaders that improvement here is expected and is a top priority.\"\n\nFay Maxted, chief executive of the Survivors Trust, said it was important to dispel misconceptions and misunderstandings.\n\n\"Negative stereotypes and myths about rape victims are pervasive in society, creating a toxic environment where victims and survivors fear they will be judged or disbelieved.\"", "Scaffolding has been erected after faulty cavity barriers were found\n\nHundreds of residents at a housing complex in west London are having to move out while fire safety and structural problems are investigated.\n\nPeople living in the Paragon complex in Brentford are being evacuated after faulty cavity barriers, which prevent flames spreading, were found.\n\nEvery occupant of the 1,059 high-rise homes will be moved out this week.\n\nHousing association Notting Hill Genesis (NHG) said it was \"working to uncover the full extent of the issues\".\n\nOne resident told the BBC it was \"sickening\" they had been allowed to move into an \"unsafe building\".\n\nLaura Howes, 19, was placed in the building by the University of West London (UWL), where she is student.\n\nMs Howes said the university owed her \"a massive apology\".\n\n\"We should be getting the rent back for the months we've been staying in an unsound building,\" she said.\n\nUWL said in a statement: \"Alternative accommodation has been secured for all those affected.\n\n\"Extensive support plans are in place to facilitate the smoothest possible transition to the new accommodation.\"\n\nMany residents at Paragon are students at the University of West London\n\nSome residents are currently self-isolating with positive coronavirus cases, one resident told the BBC.\n\nSam Wilkins, 19, said covid-positive residents were about to be taken out of isolation and moved to different flats.\n\n\"It doesn't make much sense to me. It feels like NHG are panicking,\" he said.\n\nNHG said all residents had found alternative accommodation, including in hotels, and it was providing financial support.\n\nSince the Grenfell Tower fire the building has had a \"waking watch\" to ensure residents are alerted in the event of a blaze.\n\nBut technical consultants have advised they could not guarantee the safety of residents and so an evacuation was required.\n\nKate Davies, NHG's group chief executive, said: \"I understand that Paragon residents may feel angry or alarmed by this news, as they have every right to be.\n\n\"This is a very distressing time and we are genuinely sorry for the huge amount of disruption and uncertainty that this situation will cause.\n\n\"This is a complex situation and we don't yet have all the answers. We are working to uncover the full extent of the issues at Paragon so that we can provide residents with clarity about timescales, next steps and options as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Raelyn Reynolds spent 110 days in hospital after being born at 26 weeks, six weeks after her mother's waters had broken\n\nThe family of a baby who stopped breathing shortly after being born at 26 weeks in a lorry have praised paramedics who helped save her.\n\nGemma Greensmith gave birth to daughter Raelyn outside her Staffordshire home in June.\n\n\"We got into my partner's work lorry to go to hospital but didn't make it off the street,\" she said.\n\nIt quickly became obvious their daughter Raelyn was not breathing and the couple dialled 999.\n\n\"They talked us through how to do CPR on the phone,\" Ms Greensmith said.\n\n\"We both did a bit - I was pumping with my thumb on her chest and my partner was blowing into her mouth.\n\n\"But she was so tiny, you couldn't barely see her mouth.\"\n\nThe 33-year-old from Cheadle said she was absolutely terrified, then \"relieved beyond belief\" when the ambulance arrived.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service paramedics Kirsty Lockett and Jenine Cryle took over CPR, with the baby still attached to her mother.\n\nParamedics Ian Yates, and Kirsty Lockett surprised Gemma Greensmith and partner Mark Reynolds outside the hospital with gifts and balloons\n\nThe actions of the parents and paramedics proved decisive, doctors later revealed.\n\nRaelyn was eventually discharged on 29 September after 110 days at the Royal Stoke University Hospital.\n\n\"While we were in hospital one of the consultants managed to keep in contact with the paramedics and keep them up-to-date with her progress, so it was amazing to see them outside when we were discharged,\" Ms Greensmith said.\n\n\"I will never forget what they did and will always remember them.\"\n\nParamedic Ms Lockett said \"nothing will ever compare to the feeling of meeting Gemma and Raelyn and seeing them happy and healthy\".\n\nHer colleague Ms Cryle described the outcome as \"once in a life-time\" and one of her \"proudest moments\".\n\nGemma Greensmith and partner Mark Reynolds rang the hospital bell when baby Raelyn's treatment ended after 110 days\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service is encouraging everyone to learn how to do CPR. For further details visit the WMAS website.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People aged 70-89 made up most of those dying at home\n\nMore men than normal are dying at home from heart disease in England and Wales, and more women are dying from dementia and Alzheimer's, figures show.\n\nMore than 26,000 extra deaths occurred in private homes this year, an analysis by the Office for National Statistics found.\n\nIn contrast, deaths in hospitals from these causes have been lower than usual.\n\nThe Covid epidemic may have led to fewer people being treated in hospital.\n\nOr it may be that people in older age groups, who make up the majority of these deaths, are choosing to stay at home - but the underlying reasons for the figures are still not clear.\n\nAlzheimer's disease charities called for action over the \"heartbreaking\" side-effects of lockdown and isolation.\n\nBetween March and September 2020, there were 24,387 more deaths in England than expected in private homes, and 1,644 in Wales. The large majority did not involve Covid-19.\n\nOf these, an extra 1,705 men died from heart disease at home in England - 25% more than normal.\n\nIn Wales there was a similar rise in men dying from heart disease at home, of 22.7%.\n\nOver the same period, deaths in hospitals from heart disease went down by about a quarter in England and Wales.\n\nDuring the pandemic, deaths from dementia and Alzheimer's disease at home increased the most among women - with 1,400 more than normal.\n\nWhile deaths from these conditions also rose in care homes, hospital deaths from dementia went down - by 40% in England, and 25% in Wales.\n\nCompared with normal years, there have been more deaths at home from a number of major causes, including cancers and respiratory diseases, during the last six months.\n\nThe ONS figures show that deaths in private homes, hospitals and care homes were well above the five-year average during April and May, at the height of the UK epidemic.\n\nSince then, deaths in care homes and hospitals have dropped to below normal levels and stayed there, but deaths in people's homes have remained higher than usual.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter, chairman of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge, said that equated to an extra 100 people dying at home every day.\n\n\"Usually around 300 people die each day in their homes in England and Wales,\" he commented.\n\n\"The latest ONS analysis confirms that even after the peak of the epidemic this has stayed at around 400 a day and shows no sign of declining. That's one third extra, very few of which are from Covid.\"\n\nHe suggested these deaths would normally have occurred in hospital.\n\n\"People have either been reluctant to go, discouraged from attending, or the services have been disrupted,\" Prof Spiegelhalter added.\n\n\"It is unclear how many of these lives could have been extended had they gone to hospital, for example among the 450 extra deaths from cardiac arrhythmias.\"\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK said the fact more people were dying from dementia in their own homes than ever before was \"truly heartbreaking\".\n\n\"Many people say they would prefer to die at home, but we need to understand whether people with dementia are able to access the medical help they need during the Covid-19 pandemic,\" said director of policy and public affairs, Samantha Benham-Hermetz.\n\n\"It's likely that factors such as social isolation and people's fear of coming forward to access the medial care they need has led to such a huge increase, which is why it's more important than ever that people with dementia are not neglected.\"", "This year's Olympics ended up being postponed because of the pandemic\n\nRussian hackers targeted this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo with the aim of disrupting them, UK officials said.\n\nThe Foreign Office said Russia's GRU military intelligence carried out \"cyber reconnaissance\" against officials and organisations involved.\n\nThe alleged attacks took place before the Games were postponed until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOfficials did not, however, specify the nature or extent of the cyber-attacks in detail.\n\nAt the same time, the US Department of Justice announced charges against six Russian GRU officers for alleged cyber-attacks serving \"the strategic benefit of Russia\".\n\nThe group sought to disrupt the 2018 Winter Olympics, the 2017 French presidential election, and Ukraine's power grid, US prosecutors said.\n\n\"No country has weaponised its cyber capabilities as maliciously or irresponsibly as Russia,\" assistant attorney general John Demers told a press conference, calling it \"the most disruptive and destructive series of computer attacks ever attributed to a single group\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the attacks targeting organisers, sponsors, and logistics providers of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games were \"cynical and reckless\".\n\n\"We condemn them in the strongest possible terms,\" he said. \"The UK will continue to work with our allies to call out and counter future malicious cyber-attacks.\"\n\nForeign Office officials also revealed details of the attack on the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.\n\nOn that occasion, the operation was a \"false flag\" - one designed to look like it came from North Korea or China, they said.\n\nThe UK and US have been trying to increase the pressure on Russian hackers for a number of years by publicly exposing their activity, and they will be hoping that news of Moscow targeting an event like the Olympics will draw wider support from other countries.\n\nIt is thought that this attempt at disruption, like the 2018 attack on the Winter Olympics, was in response to Russia being excluded from sporting events for doping violations. Two years ago, some attendees were unable to print tickets for the opening ceremony, leaving empty seats, and this is the first time the UK government has formally attributed that attack to Russia.\n\nWestern intelligence officials believe there is some disruption caused by the exposure of Moscow's practices and specific techniques, forcing the hackers to adapt.\n\nBut there is not much sign that the public campaign is forcing a rethink over their willingness to engage in such activity.\n\nThe 2018 Winter Olympics operation is said to have taken aim at the opening ceremony - targeting broadcasters, officials, sponsors, and even a ski resort.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre, which helped to analyse the information, said the 2018 attack was \"intended to sabotage the running of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games\" by disabling its networks.\n\nOne method was to deploy malware that deleted data from the computer systems used that year.\n\nIt was prevented by IT officials cutting off affected computers and replacing them entirely to prevent the malware from spreading, it said.\n\nUK officials have attributed several cyber-attacks against major organisations to GRU units operating under various names such as Sandworm, VoodooBear and Iron Viking.\n\nThe Foreign Office itself was subjected to one such attack in 2018, when GRU-affiliated hackers attempted to access its computer systems using a spearphishing attack.", "Sophie Howe has called for politicians to be \"brave and radical\"\n\nA shorter working week and universal basic income should be piloted by the next Welsh Government, a policy influencer has said.\n\nWales' Future Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe has published a \"manifesto\" ahead of May's Senedd election setting out policies she would like the next administration to adopt.\n\nAn emphasis on green policies is also on her list of suggestions.\n\nShe called on politicians to \"be brave and start making radical changes\".\n\nOn 6 May, voters are due to head to the polls to vote for their representatives in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nThe election will be the first time 16 and 17-year-olds are able to vote in Wales and also the first poll since the Welsh assembly was renamed the Welsh Parliament.\n\nEstablished as part of the Future Generations Act, the commissioner's role is to help public bodies and policy-makers in Wales \"think about the long-term impact their decisions have\", but they cannot block a decision or give plans the go-ahead.\n\nA universal basic income means everyone gets a set monthly income, regardless of means.\n\n\"This is a call to action which is future-focused and which is progressive, and I want to live in a Wales where politicians support that progressive approach,\" Ms Howe said.\n\n\"What this is about is focusing on what are the things that are going to be critical to ensuring the best possible future for our future generations.\n\n\"That has to be a low-carbon future. That has to be a future where we question 'is our economic model right?' The fact that we place value on how many hours you work, how much money you make, rather than 'are you healthy, are you safe, are you well, is your mental health OK?'\"\n\nMs Howe says there has been a \"fundamental shift\" in attitudes due to the pandemic\n\nMs Howe - the first person to do the £95,000-a-year job, which she has held since 2016 - said a \"fundamental shift\" during the coronavirus pandemic had led people to reflect on these issues.\n\nAccording to her manifesto, a \"ministry of possibilities\" would bring together the \"brightest and best... to consider radical changes in government systems, adopt new innovative models and work in ways that take calculated risks\".\n\nShe said her achievements included the Welsh Government's decision to scrap the M4 relief road and a \"transformation\" of planning policy.\n\n\"What my role does is provide the ability to be a figurehead to act as the guardian of future generations and to call out politicians where they are not doing that,\" Ms Howe said.\n\n\"For too long our political systems have focused on short-term decision-making in the interests of their electoral successes at the next ballot box.\n\n\"What I'm saying is they must go beyond that - they must be demonstrating to our young people now and those yet to be born that they are acting in their interests.\"\n• None 'I worry about not being good enough'", "Seventeen areas in Wales currently have local lockdown rules in place\n\n\"Clear guidelines\" are needed if a new national lockdown goes ahead in Wales, a council leader has said.\n\nHugh Evans said it was \"important that we keep the public on board\" with any new plans to tackle a rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe Denbighshire council leader and others held talks with the Welsh Government on Friday \"to consider what is going to happen next week\".\n\nDiscussions on a \"fire-break\" lockdown are continuing over the weekend.\n\nMr Evans told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he wanted the Welsh Government to \"come up with clear guidelines, and a clear understanding, if this does happen\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Laura Foster explains what a circuit breaker is and how it could help tackle Covid-19\n\nMr Evans said he was told on Friday that \"no decision has been made yet\".\n\nDenbighshire is one of 17 areas in Wales with local lockdown rules in place to try to reverse an increase in coronavirus cases.\n\nMovement is restricted in and out of these places without a reasonable excuse, such as going to work.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said a \"short, sharp\" circuit-breaker could slow down the virus.\n\nHe said a decision was likely to be made on Monday, while talks continued with health officials, scientific advisors and councils over the weekend.\n\n\"Doing nothing is not an option,\" he said.\n\nPeople from Covid-19 hotspots in England are banned from visiting Wales, under Welsh Government rules\n\nMeanwhile, businesses face an anxious wait to hear if any changes will affect them.\n\nJonathan Greatorex, owner of The Hand hotel at Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, near Llangollen, Denbighshire, said he had already borrowed money to cover costs, with a wage bill of £5,000 a week.\n\n\"Coming into winter with fuel bills going up, costs going up, it's completely, completely, worrying for everyone,\" he said.\n\nKathryn Jones, sales and marketing director at food wholesaler Castell Howell in Carmarthenshire, said the firm had faced a \"nightmare\" since the first national lockdown in March and feared \"it's just about to get worse\".\n\n\"We have placed orders for produce to come in next week for half term. Are schools involved… are we going to end up throwing produce away?\" she said.\n\nNail and beauty salon owner Kelli Gwiliam, from Pencoed, Bridgend, said she felt \"numb\" due to the possible effects on her business from a second lockdown.\n\n\"If there is no help, I really do think this is the beginning of the end,\" said the mother-of-four.\n\nShe said her 11-year-old son told her \"not to worry about Christmas this year\".\n\n\"That's heart-breaking,\" she said.", "The agriculture minister has also said he has grave reservations about the new restrictions\n\nDUP minister Edwin Poots should apologise for saying coronavirus is more common in nationalist areas, Sinn Féin's John O'Dowd has said.\n\nLast week, Mr Poots said the difference in transmission between nationalist and unionist areas was \"around six to one\".\n\nHe has also criticised new lockdown restrictions imposed by the executive to manage the virus.\n\nMr O'Dowd said his comments about virus levels in different council areas were a \"disgrace\" and should be withdrawn.\n\nThe Department of Health said it was vital to stress that Covid-19 represented \"a threat to everyone in society, regardless of their background, and that it is spreading across the community\" in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"For the record, data on Covid infections is not collected according to religious or political affiliation,\" it added.\n\nA further six Covid-19 related deaths have been reported in Northern Ireland by the Department of Health, bringing its total to 621.\n\nThe department also reported an additional 820 positive cases of the virus, meaning there have been 28,040.\n\nThere were 3,869 individuals tested in the previous 24 hours.\n\nMr O'Dowd's comments came after Mr Poots, the agriculture minister, had spoken to UTV on Friday, openly criticising the imposition of the new regulations, which are in place for the next four weeks.\n\n\"I will abide by the regulations, as have most people in my community,\" said Mr Poots.\n\n\"What I'm saying is, those people who didn't abide by them, including the Sinn Féin leadership - because a lot of this started shortly after the Bobby Storey funeral.\n\n\"A lot of the problems started after that event, and people in that community saw the breaking of the rules.\n\n\"That's why there is a difference between nationalist areas and unionist areas - and the difference is around six to one.\"\n\nThe remarks have drawn criticism from other political parties at Stormont.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Poots was defended by his party colleague, Education Minister Peter Weir, who said \"people have a right to express their opinions\".\n\nAccording to the latest Department of Health data, there are now 261 hospital inpatients being treated for Covid-19, compared to the peak of the first wave in April, when there were 322 people in hospital.\n\nThere are 29 people in intensive care, with 25 of them ventilated.\n\nThere are also 80 outbreaks of Covid-19 in care homes across Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Derry and Strabane area, which at one point had the worst infection rate in the UK, has seen numbers decrease and is now at 769.9 cases per 100,000 over a seven day period.\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 Michelle O’Neill 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\nHealth Minister Robin Swann appealed for members of the public not to become \"distracted\" and to adhere to public health messages on social distancing and reducing contacts.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the predictions that were made about the increase in cases and the consequences this will bring are coming true,\" he said.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill tweeted: \"It is evident that the covid situation is deteriorating rapidly,\" she said.\n\n\"The next four weeks are critical and we all need to work together to try and gain back some control.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme on Monday, Mr O'Dowd condemned the comments by Edwin Poots.\n\n\"His comments about the breakdown of the council areas and his hint that this is a Catholic problem is an absolute disgrace,\" he said.\n\n\"(They are) comments that he should withdraw - and comments he should apologise for.\"\n\nAlliance MP and the party's deputy leader, Stephen Farry, also called for an apology.\n\n\"People found it deeply offensive - the onus has to be on an apology,\" he told Talkback.\n\n\"The DUP have an absolute lock on decision-making, nothing ever comes to the executive table or leaves it without the DUP's full agreement, so people are scratching their heads as to how last Tuesday the DUP could be saying one thing in the executive and then seeing a key minister peeling off in that way.\"\n\nNelson McCausland said it was important to ask questions about why some communities had higher infection rates than others\n\nHowever, former DUP assembly member Nelson McCausland said Mr Poots' views had been misrepresented.\n\nHe said in Great Britain it was pointed out at an early stage that there was a higher incidence of coronavirus in black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups.\n\n\"No-one's saying that's racist - those are legitimate questions for people to ask and in fact it's important that they are asked,\" he said.\n\nHe said it was important to establish if there was a social reason as to why somewhere like Derry and Strabane had such a high rate of infection.\n\nSinn Féin's Mr O'Dowd also defended actions of his colleague, Communities Minister Carál Ní Chuilín, after she called for all sporting events to be played behind closed doors.\n\nThe regulations do not prohibit spectators attending outdoor sporting events, and First Minister Arlene Foster tweeted that it was \"preposterous\" for sports clubs to be told anything to the contrary.\n\nMr O'Dowd said he believed Ms Ní Chuilín had taken \"responsible action\" by urging sports clubs to hold events without spectators.\n\n\"She wrote directly to sports clubs and she'll be meeting them in the next few days to discuss this further,\" he added.\n\n\"How the joint first ministers choose to respond is up to them - there are protocols and avenues in place for those discussions to take place other than on Twitter.\"", "Bank of England (BoE) boss Andrew Bailey has said the UK faces \"an unprecedented level of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nBritain's economy shrank by 20% in the three months to June as it battled with the coronavirus pandemic, the biggest fall of any large advanced economy.\n\nHis remarks come as tighter coronavirus restrictions are imposed across the UK.\n\nMr Bailey warned that there is significant risk of economic growth continuing to be lower than expected.\n\nThe governor told an online event on Sunday that he expected output at the end of the third quarter to be 10% lower than the end of 2019.\n\n\"Of course, that is heightened now by the return of Covid... the risks remain very heavily skewed towards the downside,\" he said during the video conference for central banks, which was hosted by the Group of Thirty, a panel of economic policymakers and senior bankers.\n\nMr Bailey said that it was best for policymakers to act aggressively, rather than cautiously, in the face of uncertainty,\n\nHe also touched on the ongoing debate over setting negative interest rates, which would bring the cost of borrowing below zero.\n\n\"Our assessment of negative interest rates, from the experience elsewhere, is that they probably appear to work better in a more wholesale financial market context, and probably better in a nascent economic upturn,\" he said.\n\nIf interest rates are negative, the BoE charges for any deposits it holds on behalf of the banks. That encourages banks to lend the money to business rather than deposit it.\n\nBut with interest rates already low, it is not clear how much negative rates would help spur new activity.\n\nDuring the same event on Sunday, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) spoke about growing concerns over sharp increases in debt levels in poorer countries.\n\nIMF's managing director Kristalina Georgieva says suspending debt payments is only a temporary measure\n\nIn April, officials from the \"Group of 20\" (G20) countries with the largest and fastest-growing economies agreed to suspend debt repayments and interest payments for the world's poorest countries until the end of the year.\n\nThe G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative has helped 44 countries defer $5bn (£3.8bn) repayments to spend on tackling the coronavirus crisis instead.\n\nHowever, the IMF's managing director Kristalina Georgieva said that urgent action was still needed in the form of restructuring debts.\n\n\"We are buying some time, but we have to face reality that there are much more decisive actions ahead of us,\" she said. \"Doing too little too late is costly to debtors, costly also to creditors.\"\n\nShe added that global debt levels were predicted to reach 100% of gross domestic product in 2021.\n\nIn early October, the IMF said the global economy is still in deep recession, despite the fact that it has predicted a global economic contraction of 4.4%, which is more moderate than it envisioned in June.\n\nIt warned that most economies will suffer lasting damage, and that extreme poverty is likely to rise for the first time in more than 20 years.", "NHS Blood and Transplant is boosting stocks of blood plasma for very ill coronavirus patients ahead of winter.\n\nIt wants more people who have recovered from Covid-19 to become donors.\n\nTheir plasma contains antibodies that are believed to help other sufferers fight the virus.\n\nFourteen new donation centres will open in November and December, to bring the total in England to 42. The blood plasma will be used to treat patients in Covid trials.\n\nMother-of-seven Ann Kitchen, from London, was the first person in the UK to get the treatment.\n\nShe was being treated for coronavirus in intensive care at St Thomas' Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ann \"felt so well\" after being given plasma from patients who had recovered from Covid-19\n\nNHSBT says donations are urgently needed to confirm the benefit for patients, and then make the treatment available for general use in the NHS.\n\nAbout 850 people have received the transfusions so far.\n\nTrial results are expected before the end of the year.\n\nMinister for Innovation Lord Bethell said: \"The use of convalescent plasma has shown promising results in treating coronavirus, and the opening of more donation centres is an important step towards getting this innovative treatment to more patients, if clinical trials demonstrate it should be available on the NHS.\n\n\"More donations are needed and everyone has a part to play in stopping this virus from harming our loved ones. I urge everyone who has had Covid-19 to come forward and donate - your contribution could save lives.\"\n\nDonating takes about 45 minutes and requires the insertion of a needle into the arm.\n\nAfter your appointment, you can get on with your normal day and your body will naturally replace the plasma you have donated.\n• None 'Right thing' to be part of Covid-19 plasma trial\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Health Secretary Sajid Javid says there are \"no guarantees\" when it comes to ruling out new restrictions or another circuit breaker before Christmas.\n\nBut what exactly is a circuit breaker in Covid terms?\n\nThe UK, Northern Ireland, Singapore and Israel have all previously used circuit breakers to try to reduce their coronavirus cases.\n\nBut how do they work? How long is a Covid circuit breaker? How can it help tackle Omicron?\n\nBBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains it all in a minute.", "A decision on further restrictions is due to be announced later\n\nA decision on a \"short, sharp\" national lockdown across Wales is due to be announced later.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford is set to make an announcement about a two or three-week \"firebreak\" around midday.\n\nThe Welsh Government cabinet is meeting this morning to make a final decision over the circuit-breaker, after considering advice from experts.\n\nBut mounting speculation about a two-week lockdown to slow down the virus has been fuelled by a letter.\n\nWales director of the Confederation of Passenger Transport, John Pockett, wrote to members on Friday, saying a lockdown would start at 18:00 on 23 October and end on 9 November, which would \"take us back to the situation in March\".\n\nHe subsequently told PA Media he was \"surmising\" the outcome.\n\nThe Welsh Government's cabinet met on Sunday afternoon, with further discussions taking place on Monday morning before a final decision is made.\n\nOn Friday Mr Drakeford said a \"firebreak\" lockdown would be a \"short, sharp shock to all our lives\".\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 Mark Drakeford 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\"We would all have to stay at home to once again save lives. But this time it would be for weeks not months,\" he said.\n\nIt comes as talks continue to discuss if Greater Manchester will move into England's top tier of Covid rules.\n\nLiverpool and Lancashire already have the strictest lockdown restrictions in England where most adult sports facilities including gyms and betting shops have been forced to shut amid other tighter rules on meeting people outside your \"bubble\".\n\nAll schools in Northern Ireland have shut for two weeks from Monday in a bid to curb their rising Covid-19 cases while pubs, restaurants and cafes across NI closed their doors to sit-in customers on Friday.\n\nIn Wales, the extent of the expected national lockdown is currently unclear as talks continue to discuss whether or not schools will close and what financial support the Welsh Government can give to businesses when the furlough scheme comes to an end next week.\n\nIt comes as half-term is due to start on Monday 26 October, but it is not clear if a lockdown will coincide with that.\n\nThe Welsh Government has been urged to consider a four-week shutdown - or even longer - to turn around the surge in coronavirus cases, that has been almost a thousand daily cases for three of the last five days.\n\n\"In the first week of a circuit-breaker, you would still see cases probably going up because there would be people who caught it before the measures came in,\" Jamie Jenkins, former head of health analysis at the Office for National Statistics, told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"You might be looking at at least two and a half weeks before you see any improvement, and then if you're looking a the data, you'll probably want to see the rate coming down to the rate we saw about a month ago.\n\n\"You're probably looking at two, three, four weeks - and then having to say we have to go a bit further - that is the difficulty of putting a time limit on a circuit-break when you are trying to assess how long this is going to be.\"\n\nSeventeen areas in Wales currently have local lockdown rules in place\n\nCurrently about 2.3 million people in Wales are living in communities under local lockdown rules - 15 of Wales' 22 counties plus Bangor and Llanelli - where coronavirus infection rates are at their highest.\n\nRestrictions include a ban on travelling outside of those areas without \"reasonable excuse\", the ending of extended households or bubbles and people can only meet other households outdoors.\n\nBusinesses across Wales said they were anxious to find out whether they would be told to close.\n\nWelsh hospitality bosses warned a Wales-wide temporary lockdown could put jobs at risk for almost a third of their 140,000-strong workforce, as well as the 40,000 employed in their supply chain.\n\nHospitality bosses says the sector needs government financial support to survive a winter lockdown\n\n\"It's going to be a really difficult time and I can see a lot of business going to the wall,\" David Chapman, executive director in Wales of industry body UK Hospitality, told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"I can see jobs being shed as furlough is coming to an end. We need full support, if we don't get support now we are going to lose people in large numbers.\n\n\"We could lose up to 40,000 jobs which will be a massive impact in many rural and coastal communities.\n\n\"When we were shut down in March, the government came up with a package which was brilliant and immediate. The business rates and furlough package was great - but things are starting to get tighter.\n\n\"If we don't get the furlough equivalent or more, we're going to have to balance cutting jobs, which will damage the community, or shutting businesses which would be even worse.\n\n\"But if we can help, stay open and get through to next summer we can start contributing the £37bn a year we put into the UK economy.\"\n\nA circuit-breaker is a tight set of restrictions imposed for a fixed period of time and the Welsh Government has said its \"firebreak\" version would mean restrictions lasting \"for weeks not months\".\n\nCouncils agree \"something needs to be done\" to stop the surge in coronavirus cases in Wales but the leader of the group representing councils says ministers will decide \"the best option\" as they \"balance health and the economy\".\n\n\"We are seeing cases rising, almost a thousand on Sunday and the impact on the economy is quite substantial right now,\" Andrew Morgan, leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council and the Welsh Local Government Association, told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Laura Foster explains what a circuit breaker is and how it could help tackle Covid-19\n\n\"Not only does every one of those cases have to self-isolate right now but all of their close contacts have to - so every day contact tracers are asking thousands of people to self-isolate.\n\n\"Over a 10-day period we are talking tens of thousands of people so if you think there is no harm to the economy right now it is foolhardy - and these numbers will continue to grow.\"\n\nMr Morgan, who has been part of talks with government, said financial support to Welsh businesses will be \"fundamental\" to plans of ministers as \"businesses are anxious to know\" the new measures.\n\nMr Drakeford previously said that a \"successful firebreak would re-set the virus at a lower level\".\n\n\"Together with a new national set of rules for the whole of Wales after the firebreak period we would have slowed the virus down enough to get us through to Christmas,\" the first minister said.\n\nLeaders say financial help to businesses will be \"fundamental\" as Welsh ministers discuss the detail of a Wales-wide lockdown\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have called for an emergency Senedd debate as this is \"where major announcements of this kind should be made\" in a \"parliamentary democracy\".\n\n\"I think it's unacceptable, I think the first minister needs to make a statement in the Senedd, and that's why we've called for an emergency session,\" said Darren Millar, vice-chair of the Welsh Conservatives and Clwyd West MS.\n\n\"If they want growing consensus then they also need to engage with other political parties and they haven't been doing that.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said the case for a firebreak was \"now overwhelming\" and urged the Welsh Government \"to address the weaknesses of the test, trace and isolate system\".\n\n\"I want as few restrictions as possible to be imposed, but properly enforced, and with clear support for people and businesses affected,\" said Plaid's health spokesperson Rhun ap Iorwerth MS.\n\nPlaid's proposals include measures to \"improve our track, trace and isolate system, to safeguard workplaces, and to ensure sufficient financial support for businesses and their employees\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRoss Barkley dedicated his winning goal to Aston Villa's medical staff as Dean Smith's side maintained their 100% start to the season by edging victory at Leicester.\n\nThe game looked set to be the first goalless match of the campaign, but Barkley finished incisively into the bottom corner to give Villa all three points and send them second in the Premier League.\n\nVilla have won their opening four top-flight games for the first time in 90 years.\n\nBarkley joined Villa on loan from Chelsea in the summer and has been impressive for the West Midlands club, with the goal his second in as many games.\n\nHowever, he revealed that a knee problem had left him in doubt for Sunday's game.\n\n\"I was 50-50 in the week and our club doctor did a really good job getting me right,\" said Barkley.\n\n\"He said I would end up scoring the goal and I did, so I dedicated the goal to him.\n\n\"The manager has given me the platform to play and I am excited and looking forward to every game.\"\n\nIt had been a drab Sunday night encounter until Barkley's 91st-minute effort, with neither goalkeeper called on to make difficult saves.\n\nDouglas Luiz had curled a 25-yard shot straight at Leicester's Kasper Schmeichel, while Villa's Emiliano Martinez kept out Youri Tielemans' deflected long-range strike.\n\nVilla are just one point behind leaders Everton with a game in hand, while Leicester remain fourth.\n\nThe fixture was a poignant one, as last season's equivalent back in March was the final game staged with fans before the coronavirus-enforced suspension to the season.\n\nSince then supporters have not been allowed into stadia - but had a crowd been in attendance, many may have been thinking of an early exit as the contest appeared to be drifting towards a bore draw before Barkley's late intervention.\n\nVilla narrowly avoided relegation last season but have started this campaign in magnificent fashion, backing up their 7-2 dismantling of champions Liverpool last time out with a narrow victory on this occasion.\n\nThey have won four Premier League games in a row for the first time since 2009, stretching their unbeaten run in the competition to eight games.\n\nThe signing of Chelsea's Barkley on a season-long loan came as a surprise, but it looks to be an inspired acquisition by Smith and the England international has formed a good understanding with Jack Grealish.\n\nThe goal was a superb strike from the former Everton player, striding forward as the Leicester defence backed off before firing a crisp, low drive past the reach of Schmeichel.\n\n\"We have seen Ross Barkley do that enough times for Everton and Chelsea so we are pleased he did it for us,\" said Smith.\n\n\"It was touch and go whether he started. He had a knock to the knee, but a great goal and a real battling performance by the whole team.\"\n\nLeicester were in the top four for much of last season before falling away after the restart, and they began this term with three straight victories.\n\nBut they have since faltered, losing back-to-back games, and rarely looked like finding the net against Villa.\n\nWithout the injured Jamie Vardy to call upon up front, Leicester struggled to carve out meaningful chances and Belgium full-back Timothy Castagne and Nigeria forward Kelechi Iheanacho both saw their efforts comfortably saved by Martinez.\n\nEven the introduction of the rarely-sighted Algerian Islam Slimani, making his first Foxes appearance since January 2018 following loan spells away, could not spark any attacking impetus for Brendan Rodgers' side.\n\nPromising defender Wesley Fofana, 19, was given his debut after signing for £30m from Saint-Etienne, but there was little the French teenager could do to prevent Barkley's superb strike.\n\n\"I didn't think we deserved to lose,\" said Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers.\n\n\"We tried to be too precise in the final third of the pitch. It was just that final ball when we get into the box. It is still very early and we will continue to work hard.\n\n\"We are disappointed but we will go again.\"\n\nLeicester are in Europa League action on Thursday against Zorya Luhansk (kick-off 20:00 BST), while Villa look to maintain their impressive Premier League start when they host Leeds next Friday (20:00).\n\nVilla keep it clean - the stats\n• None Aston Villa have won their opening four games of a league season for the first time since the 1930-31 campaign, when they went on to finish second in the top flight.\n• None Leicester have suffered consecutive Premier League home defeats without scoring for the first time since February 2017.\n• None Aston Villa are unbeaten in their last eight Premier League games (W6 D2); their longest run without defeat in the competition since October 2011 (10 games).\n• None Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers suffered his first defeat against Aston Villa in the Premier League since September 2014 (1-0 in charge of Liverpool), having won each of his previous four meetings with them since then.\n• None Aston Villa have kept a clean sheet in both of their two away games in the Premier League this term, after keeping none in 19 away games in the competition last season.\n• None Ross Barkley has scored in each of his two Premier League appearances for Aston Villa (2 goals), as many as he managed in his last 42 for Chelsea before moving to Villa Park.\n• None Since the start of last season, Aston Villa's Jack Grealish has won 182 fouls in the Premier League (including five tonight) - the most of any player in the competition.\n• None Goal! Leicester City 0, Aston Villa 1. Ross Barkley (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by John McGinn.\n• None Attempt saved. Bertrand Traoré (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by John McGinn with a cross.\n• None Offside, Aston Villa. John McGinn tries a through ball, but Ollie Watkins is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Attempt missed. Matt Targett (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Aston Villa. Emiliano Martínez tries a through ball, but Ollie Watkins is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Islam Slimani (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ayoze Pérez (Leicester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by James Maddison. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Is it time for a national 'circuitbreaker'?\n• None What impact has Covid-19 had on the climate?", "Passengers flying from Heathrow to Hong Kong on Tuesday will be the first to have the option of paying for a rapid Covid test before checking in.\n\nThe test will cost £80 and the result is guaranteed within an hour.\n\nThe aim is to help people travelling to destinations where proof of a negative result is required on arrival.\n\nCollinson, the company behind the initiative had hoped the test could be used to enter Italy, but talks with the Italian government are continuing.\n\nA growing number of countries have classified the UK as being \"at risk\", meaning travellers from the UK face more restrictions.\n\nThe authorities in Hong Kong now require people to show they have a negative test result, taken within 72 hours of a flight from London.\n\nThe rapid saliva swab, which is now available at Heathrow Terminals 2 and 5, is known as a Lamp (Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification) test.\n\nBritish Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific will now offer it to customers.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of the aviation trade body Airlines UK, said he would like the cost of the test to be lower.\n\n\"For business passengers £80 is probably quite competitive but we've certainly said to the government in terms of introducing a test on arrival in the UK anything from £50-£60 would be better,\" he said.\n\nA Lamp test is quicker than the PCR test, which is widely used in the NHS, because the sample does not need to be sent to a laboratory.\n\nCollinson, the company behind the initiative at Heathrow, admitted that the Lamp test is \"slightly less sensitive\" than the PCR test.\n\nHowever, the Lamp test is considered to be much better than another rapid option - the antigen test.\n\nCollinson's chief executive David Evans told the BBC that \"health screening\" was quickly becoming another stage of the airport experience.\n\nHe said passengers would only have to turn up at the airport an hour earlier. And he maintained testing would help give people confidence to travel, because flights would be \"Covid-secure\".\n\n\"It starts to make travel easier again,\" he said.\n\nCollinson, which partners with Swissport, hopes testing will help open up routes between the UK and other countries.\n\nPeople arriving in Italy from the UK must now either prove they had a negative coronavirus test before departure, or take a test on arrival at an airport in Italy.\n\nHowever, the type of test offered at Heathrow is not sufficient for people travelling to some destinations, such as Cyprus, the Bahamas and Bermuda.\n\nAll those places currently require proof of a negative PCR test, which requires analysis in a laboratory.\n\nThe hope is that more countries will change their rules and allow for other types of test, which could be administered on the spot at Heathrow.\n\nIt is important to note that the new testing facility at Heathrow is not for passengers flying into the airport.\n\nThat means it will not have any immediate impact on the UK's two-week travel quarantine for people arriving from \"at risk\" countries.\n\nCollinson set up a separate testing facility in arrivals at Heathrow over the summer. However, that facility has not been used by passengers, because the government has not given its backing to testing people on arrival.\n\nMinisters have promised that next month, they will give their formal approval to the idea of people paying for a test after a week of quarantine, to avoid the full two weeks.\n\nOn Monday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed the government was in talks with the US Department of Homeland Security about a different type of system, possibly involving \"multiple tests\".\n\nThe government is looking at another system, under which people could take one test two or three days before they fly into the UK, and then another test when they arrive.\n\nThat could make it possible for someone arriving in the UK from an \"at risk\" country to avoid quarantine altogether.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said he could not say when that type of system would be up and running, because it required international co-operation.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford said children would be the top priority in the \"short, sharp\" lockdown in Wales.\n\nWales will go into a \"short, sharp\" national lockdown from Friday, 23 October until Monday, 9 November.\n\nPeople will be told to stay at home, while pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops will shut.\n\nPrimary schools will reopen after the half-term break, but only Years 7 and 8 in secondary schools will return at that time.\n\nMr Drakeford told a media briefing it had been a difficult decision but the NHS would not be able to look after the increasing number of seriously ill people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Not reaching a trade deal with the EU is an “outcome for which we are increasingly well prepared”.\n\nThe EU has said it is willing to \"intensify\" talks on a trade deal with the UK this week to try to break the impasse between the two sides.\n\nIts negotiator Michel Barnier said the bloc was prepared to discuss all areas of disagreement, including fishing and competition, based on legal texts.\n\nMichael Gove said he welcomed the bloc's latest \"constructive\" step.\n\nLater, No 10 said there was \"no basis to resume talks\" unless there was a \"fundamental change\" from the EU.\n\nThe UK has accused the EU of dragging its feet and failing to respect its sovereignty in the negotiations.\n\nIn a Commons statement, Cabinet Office Minister Mr Gove said his \"door was not closed\" to further talks but the EU needed to change its position for the process to continue.\n\nAfter a call between Mr Barnier and the UK's chief negotiator, Lord Frost, Downing Street released a statement saying the EU needed to try to find an agreement \"between sovereign equals\".\n\nOn Friday, No 10 suggested formal negotiations were \"over\" as the EU was not serious about discussing the details of a free trade agreement similar to the one it has with Canada - the UK's preferred outcome.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK should \"get ready\" to trade with the EU from 1 January, when it leaves the single market and customs union, without a specific agreement.\n\nBut following a video call with his UK counterpart Lord Frost on Monday, Mr Barnier said he was willing to accelerate the process in the coming days to try to bridge the gap between the two sides.\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\nMr Barnier suggested all subjects would be on the table and the discussions would be based on specific legal texts, which the UK has accused the EU of refusing to consider in recent weeks.\n\nIn response, Lord Frost tweeted that the proposal to intensify work had been noted, and added: \"But the EU still needs to make a fundamental change in approach to the talks and make clear it has done so.\"\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 Frost 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\nUpdating MPs on the state of the talks, Mr Gove said the EU's latest move was a positive one and suggested the UK would respond in kind.\n\nHe said: \"Even while I have been at the despatch box, it has been reported that there has been a constructive move on the part of the EU and I welcome that.\n\n\"We need to make sure we work on the basis of the intensification they propose and I prefer to look forward in optimism rather than look back in anger.\"\n\nHe added: \"If there has been movement, and there seems to be movement, then no-one would welcome it more than me but what we can't have from the EU is the illusion of engagement without the reality of compromise.\"\n\nSome senior Conservatives have urged the government to walk away from the talks, suggesting the EU is no longer negotiating in \"good faith\".\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said the EU's \"refusal\" to engage in meaningful talks on trade in financial services and agricultural products was a breach of the terms of the withdrawal agreement governing the UK's exit.\n\nThe government has said the UK will prosper whatever the outcome of the negotiations, as it will be able to exercise freedoms not available while being an EU member.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Reeves calls on the government to be “honest” about the effect of the UK not reaching a trade deal with the EU.\n\nBut business groups have warned the UK's fallback option of a so-called \"Australian-style\" arrangement - where UK-EU trade will default to World Trade Organization rules - would be disastrous as it would see tariffs on goods moving across the channel.\n\nWith less than 75 days to go before the transition period ends on 31 December, the government has urged business to step up its preparations for the looming changes to trading rules.\n\nThe PM will hold a meeting with industry groups on Tuesday to emphasise the need for action.\n\nLabour has said the government only has itself to blame for the current uncertainty, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves calling on ministers to be \"honest\" about the effect on the UK of not agreeing a trade deal.\n\nAnd former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May suggested the implications of failing to agree a future partnership would also be highly damaging for the UK's security.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brexit: Theresa May seems unimpressed with Michael Gove's plan\n\nMrs May, who quit last year after Parliament rejected her withdrawal agreement three times, said the UK \"should not be resigned\" to the prospect of failing to agree a deal over law enforcement and information sharing.\n\nShe warned that \"if the UK walks away with no deal, then our police and law enforcement agencies will no longer have the necessary access to databases in order to be able to continue to identify and catch criminals and potential terrorists in order to keep us safe\".\n\nIn response, Mr Gove said \"significant progress\" had been made in terms of security co-operation but the EU could not make access to databases conditional on the UK accepting the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Burnham: \"This is not just Greater Manchester's fight\"\n\nGreater Manchester's mayor has called on Boris Johnson for help in \"breaking the impasse\" over stricter Covid-19 curbs in the region.\n\nAndy Burnham said in a letter to the PM and other party leaders that Parliament should hold an urgent debate to end the deadlock.\n\nLater the mayor said he had a \"constructive call\" with Mr Johnson's chief strategic adviser.\n\nEarlier, minister Michael Gove said: \"We hope to agree a new approach.\"\n\nMr Gove said the government wanted the best for Greater Manchester and that he hoped \"we can find a way through together\".\n\nBut he criticised what he described as the \"incoherence\" of politicians in that region and warned that if an agreement could not be reached the government would \"look at\" having to impose restrictions.\n\nLeaders in Greater Manchester, including Mr Burnham, have rejected a move to England's tier three alert level without better financial support.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he may \"need to intervene\" if local leaders do not accept a move to tier three curbs.\n\nA further 16,982 people tested positive for the virus as of Sunday, the Department of Health figures showed, with a further 67 deaths occurring within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the figure for positive Covid cases in Scotland should be \"treated with some caution\" due to \"a delay within the UK lab system\". Cases rose by 316 in Scotland with no further deaths recorded.\n\nThe UK government said there was no capacity issue at a Lighthouse laboratory in Glasgow and that rerouting of tests to other laboratories was routine practice.\n\nMr Burnham has said he would be \"ready to speak to the prime minister at any time\" to discuss the situation. The mayor's spokesman confirmed Mr Burnham had spoken to Sir Edward Lister, a No 10 official, in a phone call on Sunday afternoon.\n\nIn the letter, Mr Burnham said the prospect of tier three - very high - restrictions on hospitality and other areas \"is not just a Greater Manchester issue\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Establishing clear national entitlements of the kind we had during the first lockdown will create a sense of fairness which in turn would help build public support for, and compliance with, any new restrictions.\"\n\n\"As leaders of the main political parties in Westminster, I urge you to work together to help resolve this current dispute and establish a fair financial framework for local lockdowns that the whole country will be able to support,\" he added.\n\nIn the language of negotiation, it seems the government and mayor of Greater Manchester may have stepped back from the brink.\n\nBoth sides softened their tone in interviews this morning, there was talk of ending the war of words and finding a new way through.\n\nBut it's important to remember this is not just a two-way row.\n\nThe most telling intervention of the last 24 hours has not been from Andy Burnham or Michael Gove, but the senior Conservative MP Sir Graham Brady.\n\nHe represents a constituency in the region and says MPs, council leaders and mayor are \"united\" across party lines in resisting tier 3 restrictions.\n\nSo, while the argument plays out in public between the government and Mr Burnham, it may be won or lost in private between ministers and their own backbenchers whose support is crucial to the government's approach.\n\nEarlier, Mr Burnham told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show there had been \"exaggeration\" by the prime minister of rising case numbers in Greater Manchester.\n\nMr Johnson said on Friday cases in the region had doubled over the previous nine days. Mr Burnham said that while cases were \"up slightly\" they were \"certainly not doubling every nine days\".\n\nSir Graham Brady, a senior backbench Conservative and MP for Altrincham and Sale West in Greater Manchester, described the region's Labour and Tory MPs as \"pretty united\" and said positive tests were \"flattening\".\n\nThe latest data on infection rates in the city of Manchester itself show they have fallen slightly, to around 458 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nAcross Greater Manchester as a whole - which includes another nine boroughs including Salford, Stockport and Bury - the infection rate is slightly up.\n\nSo it is a mixed picture, but the region as a whole is still a long way off other areas such as Derry, Nottingham and Liverpool.\n\nBut in many ways it is not the infection rate that matters. What counts are the number of people who are falling so seriously ill they end up in hospital.\n\nWe know that lots of otherwise fit and healthy students falling ill with Covid-19 is not going to have a significant impact on the local health service, but lots of older people falling ill would change the picture quickly.\n\nLast week it was reported that, in Liverpool, around 95% of intensive care beds were occupied.\n\nBut Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham told the BBC on Sunday morning there were only 64 occupied beds in the city region.\n\nAcross Greater Manchester, leaders accept there is a serious problem. But they question whether it is serious enough to warrant the kind of economic impact - not to mention the effect on people's mental health - that moving to tier three - very high - would have.\n\nMr Burnham also described \"side deals\" with councils in regions moving into tier three - very high - as not \"good enough for me\".\n\nLiverpool City Region's metro mayor Steve Rotherham announced his area will receive an additional £44m and a similar package worth £42m was given to local leaders in Lancashire.\n\n\"Let's remember, the places they're trying to close in tier three - pubs, bookies, gyms - these are places where people are on low wages. And what we're saying is you cannot take away their place of work and not give them support,\" Mr Burnham said.\n\nHe called on the government to re-introduce the 80% furlough scheme used previously in the pandemic to support the low paid affected by tier three closures. Currently, a less generous scheme to provide two-thirds of wages is on offer.\n\nThe Labour mayor added: \"The truth is health, protecting health, is about more than controlling the virus.\"\n\nA letter from Tory MPs representing areas on the lowest tier of England's Covid alert system called on Mr Burnham to accept a move to tier three - very high - rather than allow national restrictions through a so-called \"circuit-breaker\".\n\n\"It does not make sense to shut down the whole country when the virus is spiking in particular locations,\" it said.\n\nBut four Conservative MPs representing seats in Greater Manchester hit back, describing the letter as \"deeply disappointing... unnecessary and ill-advised\", \"neither wanted nor helpful\" and a \"No 10 approved communication\".\n\nAnd Mr Burnham said: \"I'm not sure a sort of 'we're alright, Jack' letter from a group of southern Conservative MPs is going to cut much ice [in Greater Manchester].\"\n\nMeanwhile, Prof Jeremy Farrar, a scientific adviser to the government, said Christmas will be \"tough\" this year with traditional family celebrations unlikely.\n\n\"Christmas will be tough this year. I don't think it's going to be the usual celebration it is and all families coming together, I'm afraid,\" he told Sky News.\n\n\"I think we have to be honest and realistic and say that we are in for three to six months of a very, very difficult period.\"\n\nBut the Wellcome Trust director said there is \"light at the end of the tunnel\", as he believes a Covid-19 vaccine and effective treatment will be ready in the first quarter of 2021.", "Yasmin Qureshi said she started to feel unwell about two weeks ago and immediately self-isolated\n\nBolton South East MP Yasmin Qureshi has been admitted to hospital with pneumonia after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe Labour MP said she started to feel unwell about two weeks ago and immediately self-isolated at home.\n\nMs Qureshi, 57, said she was admitted to Royal Bolton Hospital on Saturday after beginning to feel \"much worse\".\n\n\"I'm being very well looked after and have nothing but praise and admiration for the wonderful staff,\" she added.\n\n\"They have been amazing throughout the process and I would like to extend my thanks to everyone working here in such difficult circumstances.\"\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\nShadow international development minister Ms Qureshi has been one of the Greater Manchester MPs arguing against tier three restrictions being imposed in the region.\n\nLocal leaders want better financial support before agreeing to a move to the top tier of rules, which would force some businesses to close.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has called on the government to reintroduce the 80% furlough scheme instead of a new Job Support Scheme, which covers 67% of the wages of people affected by tier three closures.\n\nHe said businesses that would close under tier three \"are places where people are on low wages\" and two-thirds pay was not enough.\n\nBut Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said further delays to a decision will \"put people's lives at risk\".\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer has tweeted his support for Ms Qureshi, saying: \"My thoughts are with my friend @YasminQureshiMP who has been admitted to hospital after being diagnosed with Covid-19.\n\n\"My thanks go to the staff caring for Yasmin at the Royal Bolton Hospital, along with NHS staff across the country who are on the frontline against Covid-19.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Code-breaking hub Bletchley Park's contribution to World War Two is often over-rated by the public, an official history of UK spy agency GCHQ says.\n\nThe new book - Behind the Enigma - is released on Tuesday and is based on access to top secret GCHQ files.\n\n\"Bletchley is not the war winner that a lot of Brits think it is,\" the author, Professor John Ferris of the University of Calgary, told the BBC.\n\nBut he said Bletchley still played an important role.\n\nAnd GCHQ had a significant influence in other conflicts, according to the signals intelligence historian.\n\nGCHQ, known as Britain's listening post, was set up on 1 November 1919 as a peacetime \"cryptanalytic\" unit.\n\nDuring World War Two, staff were moved to Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, to decrypt Nazi Germany's messages including, most famously of all, the Enigma communications.\n\nThis provided an inside view of Nazi orders and movements.\n\nThe work was kept secret for decades but an official history of British intelligence in the war would later say it had shortened the conflict by two to four years and without it the outcome would have been uncertain.\n\nBletchley Park remains the most iconic success in British code-breaking and intelligence gathering. But some of the mythology surrounding it has masked the reality, the new book argues.\n\nNazi Germany actually had the advantage when it came to intelligence and code-breaking for the early part of the war because Britain's own communication security was so poor.\n\nEventually, Britain overtook the Germans and Bletchley carried out \"amazing\" work which did hasten victory, but not necessarily by the amount some previous estimates have claimed.\n\n\"Intelligence never wins a war on its own,\" says Prof Ferris.\n\nHe was given extensive access to the secret files of the intelligence agency, although some limits were placed on what he could see and write about, including more recent interceptions of other countries' diplomatic messages and some of the technical secrets of code-breaking.\n\nThe book provides a detailed sweep of the agency's contribution from its founding after World War One through to the cyber age of today, including the impact of revelations from US whistleblower Edward Snowden.\n\nProf Ferris writes that a \"cult of Bletchley\" has protected GCHQ and boosted its reputation, and argues that the fact he is able to raise questions about it show GCHQ was sincere in giving him freedom to come to his own conclusions.\n\n\"GCHQ is probably Britain's most important strategic asset at the moment and will probably remain that way for generations,\" he says.\n\n\"I think that Britain gains from keeping it strong and world class, but at the same time, you need to put in proportion what it is you can and cannot get from intelligence.\"\n\nBletchley was still a high-point, he said, because of the ability to get inside the enemy's strategic communications.\n\nThis was not possible against the Soviet Union in the Cold War, although GCHQ was still able to provide the majority of intelligence about its adversary's military thanks to innovative work in studying the patterns of communications.\n\nSteel helmets abandoned by Argentine armed forces who surrendered in 1982 at Goose Green to British Falklands Task Force troops\n\nProf Ferris also argues the agency's contribution was particularly important in the 1982 Falklands Conflict.\n\n\"I don't think Britain could have won the Falklands conflict without GCHQ,\" Prof Ferris told the BBC.\n\nHe said because GCHQ was able to intercept and break Argentine messages, British commanders were able to know within hours what orders were being given to their opponents, which offered a major advantage in the battle at sea and in retaking the islands.\n\n\"They understand what the Argentines planned to do. They understand how exactly the Argentines were deploying their forces.\"\n\nThe book provides new details on the controversial sinking of the Argentine warship Belgrano and over whether enough was done to warn of the invasion.\n\n\"It was a failure of policy, as far as I'm concerned, rather than a failure of intelligence,\" Prof Ferris told the BBC.\n\nThe book also details the close alliance with the US which persists to this day and how the make-up of staff who work at the agency, now based in Cheltenham, has changed over time.\n\nIn a foreword, the current director of the intelligence agency, Jeremy Fleming writes: \"GCHQ is a citizen-facing intelligence and security enterprise with a globally recognised brand and reputation. We owe all of that to our predecessors.\"", "A meeting between ministers and local leaders about Greater Manchester's Covid restrictions has ended without agreement.\n\nLocal leaders want better financial support for workers before any move to the top tier of rules, which would force some businesses to close.\n\nThe communities secretary has said local leaders have a deadline of noon on Tuesday to reach a deal.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded a further 18,804 coronavirus cases and 80 deaths.\n\nFollowing the meeting, Greater Manchester's Labour Mayor Andy Burnham told the BBC: \"The government could have a deal if it better protects low-paid people. It is choosing not to do that.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that he might \"need to intervene\" if local leaders did not accept a move to tier three - the highest level of England's coronavirus restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the Commons further discussions were planned with leaders in South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, north-east England and Teesside about restrictions in these areas.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about Monday afternoon's meeting between Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick and local leaders in Greater Manchester, which one source on the call said ended \"abruptly\".\n\nIn a joint statement, Mr Burnham and the Labour leader of Manchester City Council Sir Richard Leese said: \"We had been encouraged by earlier discussions at an official level where the idea of a hardship fund, to top up furlough payments and support the self-employed, had been tabled by the government.\n\n\"It was both surprising and disappointing when this idea was taken off the table by the secretary of state.\"\n\nBut a spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said that while it was \"disappointing\" no agreement had been reached, Mr Burnham was \"incorrect in claiming that officials made this proposal today\".\n\nA key sticking point of the dispute is that Mr Burnham wants the government to reintroduce the 80% furlough scheme used during the UK's first lockdown, instead of the new Job Support Scheme which covers 67% of the wages of people affected by tier three closures.\n\nThis evening, the two sides can't even agree on what they actually discussed earlier.\n\nBelieve the local leaders and this morning there seemed to be hope in the air. Officials from central government had mooted the possibility of a hardship fund to help support low-paid workers who stand to lose out if businesses close their doors under tighter restrictions.\n\nThe message local leaders took from their meeting was that, while the Treasury is adamant they are not going to extend their national furlough scheme that has supported millions of wages any further - nor increase the level of cash available from its replacement, the Job Support Scheme - Westminster might sign off extra money that could be spent that way, if local politicians saw fit.\n\nThere was no concrete agreement on the numbers, but sources in Greater Manchester suggest the cost of supporting those who need the extra help comes in at around £15m a month.\n\nAfter that call, the consensus among North West leaders was moving in the direction of signing on the dotted line, with another call planned with Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick for the afternoon.\n\nBut rather than ushering in a new spirit of co-operation, that meeting went south.\n\nMeanwhile, people in Wales will be told from Friday to stay at home, while pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops will shut, as part of a \"short, sharp\" national lockdown until 9 November.\n\nIt comes as a two-week school closure begins in Northern Ireland as part of a tightening of restrictions.\n\nScotland continues to draw up plans for a three-tier framework of measures, similar to England's.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said that in Greater Manchester the number of new cases in people over the age of 60 had tripled in the most recent 15 days of full data - from 89 cases per 100,000 on 27 September to 282 per 100,000 on 12 October.\n\nHe said government projections suggested coronavirus patients would take up the entire current intensive care capacity in Greater Manchester by 8 November, not including capacity in Nightingale hospitals.\n\nHowever, Prof Jane Eddleston, the region's medical lead for the coronavirus response, said Greater Manchester's intensive care capacity was not at risk of being overwhelmed.\n\nProf Eddleston said the situation was \"serious\" but despite the \"stark\" figures on hospital admissions and cases, extra capacity would be available.\n\nIn their joint statement, Mr Burnham and Sir Richard said Greater Manchester's intensive care unit occupancy rate was \"not abnormal for this time of year\" and it was \"essential... public fears are not raised unnecessarily\".\n\nThere is a blizzard of numbers flying around about Greater Manchester, and the North West more widely, as national and local politicians argue about whether to introduce local restrictions.\n\nBut a curious element that seems to have been missed is that the rise in cases may have already stalled.\n\nThe last few days show no rise in the average number of new infections across the North West, while Manchester itself may actually be seeing cases fall after peaking at more than 500 a day on average at the end of September.\n\nThis will take some time to filter through into hospital cases as the people who are ill enough to be admitted to hospital have been infected a few weeks before.\n\nBut already there are signs the rises in hospital admissions are slowing.\n\nThat's not to say hospitals and intensive care in particular is not busy. The pressures are akin to what the NHS would normally see in the peak of winter and, of course, it's only October.\n\nBut talk of units becoming overwhelmed when they have not even really dipped into their \"surge capacity\", transforming other parts of the hospital into temporary intensive care wards, seems somewhat premature.\n\nWhat happens in the coming weeks though will be crucial.\n\nEarlier, Mr Jenrick indicated that Greater Manchester could be offered a financial package similar to the \"tens of millions\" of pounds of support agreed for Lancashire and the Liverpool City Region - the two parts of England already in tier three.\n\nNottingham's Labour council leader David Mellen has also called for more support for businesses in the city if it is moved to tier three.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? What have restrictions meant for you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roehl Ribaya became the last patient to leave the unit in Blackpool\n\nA man who was the last patient to leave Blackpool Victoria Hospital's intensive care unit after being treated for Covid-19 in July has died.\n\nRoehl Ribaya spent 60 days in intensive care in the summer but \"never recovered\" from the long-term effects of the virus.\n\nHis widow, nurse Stella Ricio-Ribaya, performed CPR on him when he suffered a cardiac arrest.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"He was taken too soon.\"\n\nThe Filipino aerospace engineer's family said the virus had taken a heavy toll on the 47-year-old even after he was discharged from hospital on 14 August.\n\nHe had a cardiac arrest on 13 October and was in a coma until he died two days later.\n\nRoehl Ribaya was \"very funny and always joking around\", said his friend Mark Delabajan\n\nMrs Ricio-Ribaya, who lives in St Annes in Lancashire, said: \"He was never the same. He was so breathless all the time.\n\n\"Please follow the government's advice so we can stop this virus.\n\n\"We don't want any more to die.\"\n\nClose friend Mark Delabajan said the family were \"devastated\".\n\nHe said Mr Ribaya's cause of death was cardiac arrest with the secondary cause given as post-Covid pulmonary fibrosis.\n\n\"It was long Covid. His breathing was never the same and he couldn't get up the stairs,\" he said.\n\n\"He was rushed back into hospital a number of times.\"\n\nRoehl Ribaya's wife Stella Ricio-Ribaya said he remained breathless after being discharged\n\nMr Ribaya arrived at the Blackpool hospital on 29 May and spent 48 days in intensive care on a ventilator.\n\nIn July, when he was clapped out of intensive care, lead consultant Dr Jason Cupitt said it signalled the hospital had \"survived the first wave of this silent killer\".\n\nKevin McGee, chief executive of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"We were extremely saddened to hear about the death of Roehl and our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this sad time.\"\n\nIn July, Dr Jason Cupitt (centre) said Mr Ribaya's discharge from hospital showed \"we have survived the first wave\"\n\nMr Delabajan said Mr Ribaya was the \"life and soul of the party... very funny and always joking around\".\n\n\"The staff in Blackpool Victoria Hospital were very fond of him,\" he added.\n\nMr Delabajan's wife Angela has set up a fundraising page on Go Fund Me to raise money for Mr Ribaya's family.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Matt Hancock was pictured on Monday without a mask\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has been seen travelling in his chauffeur-driven car without wearing a mask, against the advice of No 10.\n\nThe public face fines of £200 if they fail to wear a covering in taxis or private hire cars.\n\nThere is an exemption for chauffeur-driven cars, but Downing Street said it had advised all its ministers to wear coverings.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said there were masks available in all ministerial cars.\n\nThe picture was first published on the Daily Mirror website.\n\nIt shows the health secretary arriving at the Department for Health and Social Care on Monday without a mask.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Hancock had been wearing a mask on the journey, but removed it as his car approached the department.\n\nAsked later whether the minister would be reprimanded for going against the advice, the prime minister's official spokesman said he had not seen the photo.\n\nHe added: \"On the general point, we set out at the time that we were making face coverings available in all ministerial cars so that ministers would be able to wear them.\"", "Christmas is unlikely to be the \"usual celebration\" of \"families coming together\", a leading scientist has said.\n\nJeremy Farrar, who sits on the Sage committee that advises the government, warned it would be a \"tough\" Christmas.\n\nThe Wellcome Trust director also told Sky News there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" as he believed a vaccine would be ready early in 2021.\n\nPM Boris Johnson has warned things will be \"bumpy to Christmas and beyond\".\n\nEarlier this week, Prof Farrar told BBC Newscast arguments between Westminster and local leaders were \"very dangerous\" and also that a circuit-breaker, or a short, limited lockdown, was needed now.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, Prof Farrar said the UK faces a \"very, very difficult\" period.\n\n\"Christmas will be tough this year. I don't think it's going to be the usual celebration it is and all families coming together, I'm afraid,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we have to be honest and realistic and say that we are in for three to six months of a very, very difficult period.\n\n\"The temperatures drop, we are all indoors more often, we have the other infections that come this time of year.\n\n\"It's much better for us to be upfront and honest now, and say we are in for a really difficult time, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.\"\n\nProf Farrar said he thought a vaccine and effective treatment would be ready early next year.\n\n\"I do believe the vaccines will be available in the first quarter of next year, I do believe that monoclonal antibodies to treat patients and save lives will be available in the coming months,\" he said.\n\n\"It's with that context that I think we need to reduce transmission now and we need to get ourselves back to the beginning of September as a country, not in piecemeal, not in fragments across the country, but as a whole country.\"\n\nSpeaking further about the need for a circuit-breaker, Prof Farrar claimed there could be 50,000 cases per day in England.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, warned in a press conference on 21 September that the UK could face 50,000 cases a day by mid-October if no action was taken.\n\nProf Farrar said an Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey, which he described as the \"best data in the country at the moment\", showed that 27,000 people were getting infected each day in England as of 10 October, but he said, given a time lag, it would actually be more than 50,000 by now.\n\nThe ONS survey tests a representative sample of the general population to provide an estimate of the true spread of the virus, as it picks up asymptomatic cases that would not necessarily be identified in the daily figures.\n\nThe ONS figures are far higher than the number of confirmed cases announced by the government each day.\n\nOn Sunday, the government figures showed 16,982 people tested positive for the virus and a further 67 people had died.\n\nProf Farrar said the \"best time\" to have introduced the short, limited lockdown would have been around 20 September, but said the \"second best time is now\".\n\nHe said the worst time would be at the end of November when things had got worse.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also called for a circuit-breaker but the prime minister has said its three-tier system of regional restrictions avoids the \"misery of a second national lockdown\".", "Energy regulator Ofgem is introducing new rules from 15 December to help vulnerable customers who struggle to pay their energy bills this winter.\n\nSuppliers will be required to offer emergency credit to customers who cannot top up prepayment meters.\n\nAnd if customers are in debt, suppliers must put them on \"realistic and sustainable\" repayment plans.\n\nIn March, suppliers voluntarily agreed with the government to support people affected by the pandemic.\n\nNow Ofgem has updated its licence rules to formally require suppliers to help customers in financial difficulty.\n\nThe industry watchdog said those in financial distress would get some breathing space, but ultimately all customers will need to pay for the energy they use.\n\nThis follows Ofgem cutting the price cap on default tariffs and prepayment meters, due to falling gas wholesale prices, which means cheaper energy bills for millions of people this winter.\n\n\"Suppliers have stepped up to the challenge of supporting their customers during the Covid-19 crisis, especially those in vulnerable situations,\" said Ofgem's director of retail Philippa Pickford.\n\n\"Customers who are struggling to pay their bills should contact their supplier as soon as possible. The extra protections we have announced today will help ensure they get some breathing space this winter.\"\n\nFrom 15 December, suppliers will be required to offer emergency credit or extra prepayment credit to households in vulnerable circumstances.\n\nThis could be because people are temporarily unable to afford to top up their prepayment meters, or are unable to visit their local shop due to having to self-isolate or having a mobility issue.\n\nEnergy suppliers need to offer emergency credit to people on prepayment meters who are temporarily unable to top them up\n\nOfgem wants to reduce the number of prepayment customers who run out of credit and end up being without energy.\n\nThe regulator also wants to make sure that suppliers have appropriate credit management policies, make proactive contact with customers, and set repayment rates based on their ability to pay.\n\nIn September, Citizens Advice estimated that 6 million people in the UK have fallen behind on paying at least one household bill during the pandemic, and that many more are on the cusp of being unable to afford to make ends meet.\n\n\"This raft of new protections from Ofgem should help more people who are struggling to stay afloat,\" said Citizen Advice's chief executive Dame Gillian Guy.\n\n\"Energy is an essential service and everyone should be confident they can adequately heat their home and protect their health - especially during a global pandemic.\n\n\"We've been pressing for the measures agreed between government and energy suppliers to help people through the coronavirus pandemic to be extended and widened, so we're very pleased to see this announcement from the regulator.\"\n\nHowever, she warned that many consumers will still struggle to \"pay for the basics\", even with help from energy suppliers.\n\nDame Gillian added: \"Government needs to do more to support those who need it most, including making the temporary uplift to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit permanent.\"", "HMS Vigilant is one of Britain's four Vanguard-class submarines\n\nA Royal Navy officer has been sent home from the US after reporting to take charge of a submarine's Trident nuclear missiles while unfit for duty.\n\nLt Cdr Len Louw is under investigation at Faslane naval base in Scotland amid reports he had been drinking.\n\nColleagues raised concerns when the weapons engineering officer arrived for work on HMS Vigilant last month.\n\nThe Scottish Sun reported claims the submariner was \"staggering drunk\" when he came on board the £3bn vessel.\n\nHMS Vigilant - one of Britain's four Vanguard-class submarines which carry up to eight Trident missiles armed with nuclear warheads - was docked at a US naval base at the time.\n\nThe BBC understands the officer had been drinking the night before and was carrying a bag of leftover chicken from a barbecue for his lunch.\n\nHMS Vigilant is normally based at Faslane in Scotland but was in the US for maintenance\n\nHMS Vigilant is normally based at Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde at Faslane in Argyll and Bute, but at the time of the incident in September, it was undergoing maintenance at the Kings Bay facility in Camden County, Georgia.\n\nThe weapons engineering officer is responsible for all weapons and sensors on board.\n\nIt is not yet clear if drink was the reason why Lt Cdr Louw was judged unfit to carry out his duties, but due to the responsibilities of his job, he was sent back to the UK pending an investigation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Defence Press Office\n\nA Royal Navy spokesman said: \"An investigation is under way therefore it would be inappropriate to comment further.\n\n\"However, where an individual's conduct falls short of the high standards we expect, we won't hesitate to take the appropriate action.\n\n\"While we don't comment on the detail, there are numerous safety checks and processes to protect the safety and use of weapons aboard all submarines.\"\n\nIt is not the first time HMS Vigilant's crew has made the headlines.\n\nIn October 2017, a captain was relieved of his command after an alleged \"inappropriate relationship\" with a female member of his crew.\n\nLater that same month, nine sailors posted on the submarine were dismissed from the Royal Navy after failing drugs tests.", "Nicola Sturgeon has played down a row with the UK government over delays to Covid-19 tests in Scotland, saying she has no interest in a \"war of words\".\n\nOnly 316 new cases of the virus were reported on Sunday - a dramatic drop from 1,167 on Saturday.\n\nThe Scottish government said this was due to tests being diverted from the UK government's Lighthouse lab in Glasgow to other sites across the country.\n\nThe UK government spokeswoman insisted this was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the governments were \"working very hard\" to improve turnaround times for tests and did not disagree on the \"substance\" of the issue.\n\nShe said there were \"intermittent frustrations\" about the testing system, but said people should have confidence that it \"does work\".\n\nThe number of positive tests registered jumped back to 993 on Monday, with the number of people in hospital also continuing to rise.\n\nAfter the figures for Sunday bucked the recent trend, a post on the Scottish government website claimed that \"demand from outwith Scotland\" had caused a delay in test results coming back from the Lighthouse lab in Glasgow, with swabs being redirected elsewhere.\n\nThe UK government issued a response insisting there was \"no capacity issue at the UK government's Glasgow Lighthouse lab\", and that \"rerouting tests to other laboratories is a routine practice to ensure timely processing\".\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, the first minister said it was \"not in anybody's interest to have a war of words\".\n\nShe said: \"We are working very hard with the UK government to ensure turnaround times, particularly for tests that are already taking longer than we would want, are as quick as possible.\n\n\"When I looked at the UK government statement I'm not sure they are denying or challenging the substance of what I am saying - it recognises that a large number of tests have been diverted to labs elsewhere in the UK.\n\n\"We hope that redirection will have stopped as of yesterday.\"\n\nThe Lighthouse laboratory is based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow\n\nMs Sturgeon said tests from drive-through centres - which are usually taken by people who have symptoms and are thus more likely to return positive results - were among those diverted, which she said \"might explain\" why Sunday's figures were \"probably artificially low\".\n\nAllan Wilson, who is president of the Institute of Biomedical Science, based at Monklands hospital in North Lanarkshire, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme the problem was that no one understood how the Lighthouse laboratories operate.\n\nHe said: \"The issue we have with the Lighthouse lab is that there is a lack of transparency to what happens in that lab because it is not part of the NHS testing, it is delivered through the UK government and it is difficult to find out what the actual issues are until we actually hit problems like we just hit.\n\n\"They work as a network, so they move samples around the country if there are problems. That in itself increases turnaround time and delays results getting back. They did have an issue with staffing, certainly when staff returned to academic institutions, when universities started back, and we know they are actively recruiting.\n\n\"What we are calling for is more transparency. If the Lighthouse labs worked more in collaboration with the NHS labs we would be able to work between the two more easily and focus on those samples and results that are needed urgently.\"\n\nPeople across Scotland are currently banned from visiting other people's homes, and tougher restrictions on licensed premises were introduced earlier this month.\n\nTemporary measures in the central belt have led to the closure of pubs and restaurants in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Forth Valley and Ayrshire and Arran NHS board areas.\n\nThose living in these areas have been warned not to travel to other parts of Scotland or to areas in England where such restrictions are not in force.\n\nThese measures are due to expire on 26 October, to be replaced by a new \"strategic framework\" for suppressing the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon is drawing up plans for a \"three-tier framework\" of alert levels which would trigger different restrictions, either on a local or national basis.\n\nThis will be set out at the end of the week, with MSPs set to debate and vote on the plans when Holyrood returns from the half term recess.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this was an \"important step as we look ahead to winter\", which would be a \"very challenging period\".", "Right-wing nationalist Ersin Tatar has won the presidential election in Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus.\n\nMr Tatar, who is pro-Turkey and wants the divided Mediterranean island to be two separate states, received nearly 52% of the vote in a surprise victory.\n\nHis opponent and incumbent leader, Mustafa Akinci, sought reunification with the Greek part of the island.\n\nCyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded the north after a military coup backed by Greece.\n\nThe island was effectively partitioned, with the northern third run by a Turkish Cypriot government and the southern two-thirds by the internationally-recognised government led by Greek Cypriots.\n\nThe self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) - which has a population of around 300,000 - is recognised as an independent state only by Turkey, while the rest of the world sees it as part of Cyprus.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who supported Mr Tatar during his election campaign, congratulated him on his victory.\n\nThere has been no comment yet from the Cypriot government in Nicosia, although opposition parties there have lamented the result.\n\n\"We deserve our sovereignty - we are the voice of Turkish Cypriots,\" he said.\n\n\"We are fighting to exist within the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, therefore our neighbours in the south and the world community should respect our fight for freedom… because we deserve it.\"\n\nResponding to the result on Twitter, Mr Erdogan said Turkey would \"continue to provide all types of efforts to protect the rights of the Turkish Cypriot people\".\n\nSupporters of Ersin Tatar celebrated his victory in the northern part of the divided capital Nicosia\n\nSunday was the second round of the presidential election, after Mr Tatar secured 32% of the vote in the first round on 11 October, while incumbent President Akinci won almost 30%.\n\nFollowing the result, Mr Akinci's re-election hopes were boosted after he gained the backing of Tufan Erhurman, who had come third in the first round of voting.\n\nThroughout the campaign, Mr Akinci had accused Turkey of interfering in the election. He admitted defeat on Sunday night but said the contest \"wasn't normal\".\n\n\"These results mark the end of my 45-year political career,\" Mr Akinci was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency. \"I wish good luck to our people.\"\n\nMr Tatar's victory in northern Cyprus follows increased tensions between his backer Turkey and Greece over energy claims in the eastern Mediterranean in recent months.", "Facebook has deleted a post in which President Trump had claimed Covid-19 was \"less lethal\" than the flu.\n\nMr Trump is at the White House after three days of hospital treatment having tested positive for the virus.\n\nHe wrote the US had \"learned to live with\" flu season, \"just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!\"\n\nTwitter hid the same message behind a warning about \"spreading misleading and potentially harmful information\".\n\nUsers have to click past the alert to read the tweet.\n\n\"We remove incorrect information about the severity of Covid-19, and have now removed this post,\" said Andy Stone, policy communications manager at Facebook.\n\nAn exact mortality rate for Covid-19 is not known, but it is thought to be substantially higher - possible 10 times or more - than most flu strains, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThe President has reacted by posting: \"REPEAL SECTION 230!!!\"\n\nThis is a reference to a law that says social networks are not responsible for the content posted by their users.\n\nBut it allows the firms to engage in \"good-Samaritan blocking\", including the removal of content they judge to be offensive, harassment or violent.\n\nIf the law were to be repealed, social media companies would face being sued over the edits and changes of user content they made.\n\nThis is the second time that Facebook has deleted a post from the president. Twitter has intervened more often with deletions and warnings.\n\nUsers do not see Trump's tweet in his timeline unless they click on the View link\n\nBoth social networks have vowed to combat potentially dangerous misinformation around the virus.\n\nBut Mr Trump has taken issue with what he sees as editorialising by the companies.\n\nShortly after Twitter put a warning label on his posts for the first time in May, Mr Trump signed an executive order to repeal Section 230.\n\nThe proposal has attracted cross-party support - but for different reasons.\n\nThe Republicans say there is a bias against or even outright censorship of conservative views online and want this to stop. The Democrats say they are more interested in the spread of misinformation.\n\nLast week, the US Senate Commerce Committee issued subpoenas for the heads of Facebook, Twitter and Google to probe the matter further.\n\nPressure has been mounting on Facebook and Twitter to do more to tackle misinformation both about the pandemic and the US election. For that reason, their decisive action on Trump's recent post promoting false claims about the severity of coronavirus will be welcomed.\n\nThat said, Trump's comments about the flu - and those yesterday saying \"Don't be afraid of Covid\" - have already started to fuel conspiracy theories online.\n\nPosts in pro-Trump and anti-mask Facebook groups have shared the comments with captions about the pandemic not being real, or not very serious. They have also used it to encourage others not to follow health guidance like wearing a mask or social distancing.\n\nEarly on in the pandemic, the BBC investigated the human cost of misinformation, including those who fell seriously ill because social media posts led them to doubt the reality or severity of the pandemic and ignore advice.\n\nThe hope will be that this action from social media sites could reduce the risk of that happening - but those who may have already been exposed to this disinformation could be impacted.\n\nAnd all eyes will be on social media sites to see if they keep up this approach to tackling disinformation - coronavirus, political or otherwise - especially from the US Election candidates as polling day nears.", "The \"extremely rare\" orange-coloured lobster was saved by a fishmonger in Lancashire\n\nA \"one in 30 million\" orange Canadian lobster has been saved from the pot by a fishmonger and sent to live out its days in an aquarium.\n\nThe apricot-hued arthropod, which are normally a speckled dark brown colour, was found by Steve Atkinson in a delivery to his shop in Fleetwood.\n\nHe said he called Sea Life Blackpool after spotting the crustacean, which \"stood out dramatically\" in the box.\n\nSea Life curator Scott Blacker said its colouring was \"extremely rare\".\n\n\"Its striking and extremely unusual orange colour is actually only found in one in 30 million,\" he said.\n\n\"It really is something very special.\"\n\nThe lobster will now permanently live in the main tank at Sea Life Blackpool\n\nHe said the lobster, which Mr Atkinson found in September, had completed a 21-day quarantine and would now go \"on permanent display to the public in one of our main tanks\".\n\n\"We will, of course, be ensuring it has a forever caring and loving home,\" he added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sue Taylor and Lola Mitchell haven't been able to travel because of coronavirus restrictions\n\nTrain customers have expressed their anger at being unable to get refunds for tickets they can no longer use because of UK coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIn some parts of the UK, people have been advised against all but essential travel after a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHowever, passengers who bought advance tickets to travel to or from these areas are not entitled to refunds.\n\nThe passenger watchdog said customers shouldn't be left \"out of pocket for doing the right thing\".\n\nAdvance tickets are usually non-refundable, although those restrictions were temporarily relaxed when the UK went into a nationwide lockdown in March.\n\nUK train companies have been propped up during the pandemic by money from the government, which has set the advance ticket policy.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it was focusing investment \"on maintaining services\" to \"ensure we are fair to taxpayers\".\n\nLola Mitchell, 41, from Brighton, said it was \"unbelievable\" she hadn't been able to get a refund for her £106.50 tickets for a return journey from London to Newcastle.\n\nShe was due to travel to the North East last month for a socially-distanced concert, which was cancelled when new restrictions were introduced in Newcastle on 17 September.\n\nThose measures included advising people in the area to only use public transport for essential purposes.\n\nLola cancelled her trip and has been trying to get her money back from LNER for her advance tickets, which are sold as non-refundable.\n\nShe was offered the option of changing her date of travel for a £10 fee before her scheduled departure - but not a refund.\n\nThe government-owned train company has told customers that the Department for Transport has told it that \"normal ticket restrictions are still to be upheld\" despite the local lockdowns.\n\nLola said that the day before her planned travel date, LNER emailed her to ask her to consider whether making her journey was essential.\n\n\"What a wind-up, if they are not prepared to offer a refund,\" she said.\n\nAaron, from London, had also planned a trip to Newcastle with his girlfriend. They were going to celebrate their first anniversary and had booked their train tickets \"months before the restrictions came in\" for the first weekend in October.\n\nHe says he was \"shocked\" when LNER wouldn't refund his \"non-essential journey\", and instead told him to choose another time, for a £10 admin fee - although LNER currently only sells tickets up until November.\n\nThat isn't an option for him, he says, because \"who knows if they'll be out of lockdown - and secondly I have no reason to travel to Newcastle any more\".\n\nAnother rail customer, Sue Taylor, 46, who lives in Fulham in London, was planning on staying with friends in Glasgow. She had bought a £33 advance ticket with Avanti for the return journey to London at the end of October.\n\nLast month indoor visits between households were banned, first in Glasgow, and then extended to the rest of Scotland, until further notice.\n\nThe train companies will allow customers to change their advance tickets to a different day for a £10 administration fee, although Avanti has only released tickets until mid-December.\n\nSue said she would settle for a credit note, or the ability to be able to change the date of the ticket without a charge.\n\n\"As it stands the only options I have are to either lose the ticket or pay another £10 to change, to a date of who knows when. So much uncertainty.\n\n\"Do I change it now for £10, only to have that date become unworkable and have to pay another £10 to change again? There's no winning for me.\"\n\nShe added: \"I do understand that the advance single ticket is, under normal circumstances, non-refundable, but we know nothing about the current situation is normal.\"\n\nAnother train company offering long-distance travel across the UK, CrossCountry Trains, doesn't charge the £10 admin fee - although that was a policy it introduced before the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of independent passenger watchdog Transport Focus, said: \"Passengers no longer able to travel because of local lockdowns shouldn't be out of pocket for doing the right thing.\n\n\"If they are asked not to travel, it seems unfair that they will lose the money for pre-booked journeys.\n\n\"While the government continues to provide high levels of support to make sure the day to day railway keeps operating, advance tickets must be made more flexible or the railway will lose both custom and goodwill.\"\n\nTaxpayer money was used to plug the shortfall in ticket revenues after passenger numbers fell during lockdown\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators, said the government initially offered refunds on advance tickets \"due to the exceptional circumstances the country faced\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"Significant taxpayer funding continues to help maintain rail services which is supporting the country's recovery from the pandemic and, after careful consideration, the government does not intend to allow refunds for non-refundable advance tickets.\"\n\nLast month the Department for Transport extended emergency measures to cover the losses of train firms by 18 months in England, while extra funding has also been provided in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman said the government took immediate action at the outbreak of the pandemic to support the rail industry and delivered \"refunds on all advance fares, as well as removing charges for cancellations\".\n\nShe added: \"With fares revenue having fallen to less than 5% of pre-Covid levels, we must ensure we are fair to taxpayers and focus investment on maintaining services, to enable social distancing and support our economic recovery.\"", "Jeni Larmour from County Armagh was named as one of the students who died\n\nThree university students and a man have died in suspected drugs-related incidents in the north-east of England.\n\nTwo 18-year-old women and a 21-year-old man died in Newcastle, and another man, who was also 18, died in Washington, Northumbria Police said.\n\nOne of those who died has been been named as Newcastle University student Jeni Larmour, 18, from County Armagh.\n\nPolice said ketamine and MDMA were \"suspected to have been a factor in the deaths of the students.\"\n\nA large-scale investigation has been launched and officers have been searching student accommodation with sniffer dogs.\n\nTen people have been arrested and released on bail as inquiries continue.\n\nEmergency services were called to student accommodation on Newcastle's Richardson Road twice over the weekend\n\nMs Larmour had been \"a model pupil\" and deputy head girl at The Royal School Armagh, the school said in a statement.\n\n\"Her outstanding qualities as a pupil were recognised in her final year when she was appointed deputy head girl, a role she carried out to a very high standard,\" it said.\n\nNewcastle University said its students had been in the city for less than 48 hours when they died.\n\nVice-chancellor Chris Day has written to all students warning them about the two tragedies.\n\n\"We are all heartbroken and our thoughts and condolences are with their families, friends and loved ones at this most difficult of times.\n\n\"We know that many of you will be affected by this distressing news.\n\n\"Whatever difficulties you have gone through, we have ample support both at the university and in the city,\" he said\n\n\"Whatever those problems are, please do not turn to excessive alcohol or drugs to solve them because you have seen the potential consequences.\"\n\nThe university's students' union urged students, and all young people in the area, to \"look out for each other\".\n\nOne of those who died was a student at Northumbria University\n\nMs Larmour was pronounced dead at a building on Richardson Road shortly after 06:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nLater on Saturday, at about 16:00, emergency services were called to a man on the Coach Road Estate in Washington who had suffered a cardiac arrest after reportedly taking MDMA, police said.\n\nOn Sunday, at about 08:15, police were called to Newcastle's Melbourne Street when a 21-year-old Northumbria University student became ill. It is believed he had taken MDMA. He died in hospital.\n\nThen just after 13:00 on Sunday, another 18-year old female student was found dead at the same student building where Ms Larmour had died the previous day. Police said it was \"believed ketamine had been present at the address\".\n\nCh Insp Steve Wykes said it was \"too early\" to say whether a \"bad batch of drugs\" was involved.\n\nHe added: \"What we must remember is illegal drugs are never safe and so that message is incredibly important.\n\n\"But we are conducting significant inquiries to try and understand what the substances involved do contain.\"\n\nProfessor Fiona Measham, chair in criminology at Liverpool University and co-founder of the harm-reduction charity The Loop, said she believed lockdown restrictions were of \"concern\".\n\n\"Particularly because nightclubs are closed and the pubs are closing early,\" she told BBC Radio Newcastle.\n\n\"I think the reason it's a concern about nightclubs in particular is that nightclubs often have paramedics, they have harm-reduction services and they have security staff that help keep people safe.\n\n\"So if you close the nightclubs, you lose that safety net.\"\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.", "Rebel Tories have clashed with a health minister over the ban on gatherings of more than six people in England, arguing it doesn't make sense.\n\nThe government easily won a vote on retaining the rule by 287 votes to 17.\n\nSir Graham Brady - one of 14 Tories to oppose the rule - told minister Helen Whately the \"rule of six\" was not based on scientific evidence.\n\nMs Whately hit back, saying the government could not allow coronavirus to \"rip\" through communities.\n\nBut the comment angered Tory former minister Mark Harper.\n\nHe said all MPs \"want the government to be successful\" in combating coronavirus, but they did not appreciate being accused of \"wanting to let it rip and kill tens of thousands of people\" every time they suggested an alternative strategy.\n\nLabour agreed with many of the backbenchers' points in the Commons debate, but the party abstained in the vote on the restrictions, which came into force three weeks ago.\n\nHowever, five DUP MPs joined the Tory rebels in voting against the restriction.\n\nThere could be a bigger rebellion coming if MPs vote on England's 22:00 hospitality curfew.\n\nTory rebels are confident that dozens of backbenchers would be prepared to retrospectively vote down the measure.\n\nIn the Commons debate leading up to the vote on the rule of six, MPs on all sides demanded to know why children had not been excluded from the restriction - as they have in Scotland and Wales.\n\nSir Graham, who chairs the influential 1922 committee of Tory MPs, said: \"Can she (Ms Whately) share with us her estimate of the efficacy of the rule of six compared to that of a rule of eight, had that been introduced instead?\n\n\"Is the rule of six more or less effective than a ban on household mixing?\"\n\nHe added: \"These rules are a massive intrusion into the liberty and private lives of the whole British people, and they're having a devastating economic effect as well, which will result in big job losses and masses of business failures.\"\n\nTory MP Huw Merriman said he feared the rule of six would \"do more harm than good\" as people might end up ignoring rules \"that do make sense\" - adding he had not seen any evidence it would reduce rates of Covid-19.\n\nTory former minister Steve Baker added: \"We're hearing about people who are being destroyed by this lockdown. Strong, confident people, outgoing people, gregarious people, who are being destroyed and reduced to repeated episodes of tears on the phone.\n\n\"This is a devastating social impact on our society and I believe that people would make different choices were they the ones able to take responsibility for themselves.\"\n\nShadow health minister Justin Madders reeled off a list of questions to Ms Whately on the policy, echoing many of the criticisms made by Tory and Lib Dem MPs.\n\nHe said Labour would support \"whatever reasonable steps are necessary to protect the NHS and save lives\", but said the government was guilty of \"mixed messages and confused communications\".\n\nBut Ms Whately said the rule of six gave \"a clear steer\" and made the guidance \"simple and absolutely clear for everybody\".\n\nShe added: \"We are also taking a path of on the one hand trying to enable a level of socialising for the sake of people's quality of life, while taking steps to control the virus.\n\n\"That is where we have taken the position that the rule of six achieves that balance.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister says new measures will not amount to the lockdown seen in March\n\nNew coronavirus restrictions for Scotland will be announced on Wednesday - but it will not be another full lockdown, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nOptions for a so-called \"circuit-breaker\" to slow the spread of the virus were discussed by the Scottish cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nBut the first minister said people would not be told to stay at home, and there would be no national travel ban.\n\nAnd schools will only close for the October holidays.\n\nHowever, the first minister did not rule out local travel restrictions being introduced, or the possible closure of pubs and restaurants, in areas with higher rates of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon was speaking as 800 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus rose by 44 overnight and now stands at 262, with 25 patients being treated in intensive care.\n\nThe virus is continuing to spread across Scotland, but particularly in central belt areas such as Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Forth Valley and Ayrshire and Arran.\n\nSome parts of the country are currently seeing infection levels higher than 50 per 100,000 people. A local lockdown was imposed in Aberdeen in August when it had 20 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nWhen new measures barring people from visiting each other inside their homes were imposed two weeks ago, an average of 285 new cases were being reported each day.\n\nThat figure now stands at 729 cases per day, which Ms Sturgeon said showed how the pandemic had \"accelerated\".\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was facing \"the most difficult decision point yet\" if it wanted to suppress the virus ahead of winter.\n\nShe said the country was facing a \"sharply rising rate of infection again\", with cases spreading from younger age groups into the older and more vulnerable population.\n\nHowever she said the government needed to \"strike a balance\" between the public health toll and the wider costs of lockdown to the economy and people's lives.\n\nSome tourism and hospitality businesses have warned that they may never recover from the effects of any further restrictions that impact on them.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the wider harms of lockdown \"weigh very heavily\" on her, and said she hoped the fact this was being \"carefully considered\" would reassure businesses.\n\nThe first minister will set out new measures in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday after further talks with ministers and advisors - but has stressed that \"we are not going back to where we were in March\".\n\nShe said: \"We are not proposing another lockdown at this stage, not even on a temporary basis.\n\n\"We are not going to ask you to stay inside your own homes the way we did in March.\n\n\"And while we have been asking people to think carefully about non-essential travel, and while restrictions on travel may sometimes be an option and necessary for hotspot areas, we are not about to impose restrictions on the whole of the country.\n\n\"We are not about the shut down the whole economy or halt the remobilisation of the NHS.\n\n\"And apart from the October holidays, we are not proposing to close schools even partially.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon refused to be drawn on what specific measures are being considered, but said her statement would address whether they would need to be imposed Scotland-wide or more locally.\n\nShe said she would \"set out the rationale\" and scientific basis for any decisions in her speech to MSPs.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said any further restrictions would need to be supported by further action to safeguard jobs and businesses.\n\nMr Ross said: \"There hasn't been a single policy from the SNP anywhere near as ambitious as what (UK Chancellor) Rishi Sunak has delivered.\n\n\"All the SNP have done is try to pass the buck back to the UK government. So far, they've given businesses and people fearful of losing their jobs nothing but empty words.\n\n\"The money is there for the SNP to act. We heard this week the £500m Growth Scheme delivered half of the promised funding. The missing millions should be delivered to businesses now, this week, before it's too late.\"", "Doctors are being told to \"think carefully\" before ordering any tests for their patients, amid shortages caused by a supply chain failure at a major diagnostics company.\n\nSwiss pharmaceutical firm Roche said problems with a move to a new warehouse had led to a \"very significant\" drop in its processing capacity.\n\nA spokesman said Covid-19 tests would be prioritised.\n\nBut the backlog could affect tests including for cancer and heart disease.\n\nOne NHS trust in the south west has already advised its GPs to stop all non-urgent blood tests.\n\nA memo seen by the BBC, sent to clinicians within a large hospital trust in London, said leaders were \"preparing for a sustained disruption\".\n\n\"We urgently need all clinical teams to only send tests that are absolutely essential for immediate patient care, delaying testing where possible,\" it said.\n\nThyroid and cortisol tests were unavailable, while certain cholesterol, liver function and inflammation tests were \"severely restricted\".\n\nIn a statement, Roche said: \"We deeply regret that there has been a delay in the dispatch of some products.\n\n\"We are prioritising the dispatch of Covid-19 PCR [diagnostic] and antibody tests and doing everything we can to ensure there is no impact on the supply of these to the NHS.\"\n\nIt did not comment on the impact on other specific tests including for kidney, liver and thyroid function, sepsis and infection.\n\nDr Tom Lewis, lead clinician for pathology at North Devon District Hospital, said his hospital's trust had sent out communications that all non-urgent blood tests in the community should be stopped.\n\nWithout rationing these non-urgent tests, he said, they would run out of swabs in \"three to four days\".\n\nEven with rationing, essential equipment could run short by next week, he said.\n\nA scientist at a major London hospital's lab said they had already stopped doing thyroid tests, and expected an important test of liver function, and another for inflammation, to run out within the day.\n\nMany of the London labs are supplied by Roche, he said, with reagents - substances used to analyse test results - proving a particular problem.\n\nAllan Wilson, president of the Institute of Biomedical Science, said if the problem continued for days \"it probably will have minimal impact, but if it's weeks then yes it could have a considerable impact on our ability to deliver tests,\" across a whole range of conditions in the UK.\n\nThe main issue appears to be with the supply of reagents - used to detect the presence of a substance whether that's pregnancy hormones, blood glucose or coronavirus.\n\nBecause these have such wide application, the number of different diagnostic tests that could be affected is vast.\n\nIf you go to your GP with a hormonal imbalance, chest infection or sexually-transmitted infection (STI), your test will end up being processed in the lab using these materials.\n\nIf you're admitted to hospital, you will have your electrolytes tested again relying on the same kind of materials. And your organ function may also be monitored in the same way.\n\nKit supplied by Roche is crucial in testing the health of your liver, heart and kidneys.\n\nThey also supply antibodies which are used in cancer diagnosis.\n\nFor NHS trusts which use the company as their main supplier of these types of diagnostic equipment, the work of whole departments could be at risk.\n\nRoche initially told trusts it could take more than a fortnight to resolve the problem.\n\nBut a spokesperson later said they were confident there would be \"significant improvements by the weekend\" and that they would be \"well on the way to resolution by the end of next week\".\n\nThe company is one of the main suppliers of diagnostic testing equipment and materials in the UK.\n\nThe affected warehouse in West Sussex is Roche's only distribution centre in the UK and covers the whole country.\n\nIn September it moved from another warehouse in East Sussex as part of its Brexit preparations, the BBC understands.\n\nIt is \"not a problem with the volume of product available\" but a logistical issue affecting their ability to distribute it, a spokesperson said.\n\nDr Lewis said perhaps most concerning was the shortage of electrolyte tests supplied by Roche, since these were \"the key test\" for critically ill patients, as well as being extremely commonly used by GPs to check people's medications were safe.\n\nOne virologist in the Midlands tweeted that her service had not received Hepatitis C testing kits, and was now running short.\n\nMaterials used in cancer diagnostics could also be affected.\n\nIn a letter sent to NHS trusts, seen by the BBC, Roche said: \"In September we moved from our old warehouse to a new automated warehouse capable of much higher volumes.\n\n\"However, during the transition we encountered some unforeseen issues and a very significant drop in our processing capacity. Since then we have worked around the clock to prioritise and manage orders as well as increase this capacity\".\n\nThe letter went on to advise local NHS services to \"activate [their] local contingency plans\" and \"look to prioritise essential services only\".\n\nBut one clinician pointed out that local contingency plans often involve sending tests to a nearby lab, which in this case might also be affected.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said:\"Roche has alerted hospitals to an issue with their supply chain, and they will be working urgently to resolve this issue.\"\n\nHave you been affected by any issues around testing? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "An artist's impression showing the memorial in its proposed location\n\nPlans for a Holocaust memorial next to Parliament would create a \"trophy site\" for terrorists, the former independent reviewer of terror laws has warned.\n\nThe memorial has been proposed for Victoria Tower Gardens on Millbank.\n\nBut a planning inquiry has been told by Lord Carlile that the landmark would be a \"self-evident terrorism risk\".\n\nThe Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said it was confident the site would be secure.\n\nThe plan was previously rejected by Westminster City Council, but the final decision will be made by the government following the public inquiry.\n\nHowever, the plans have significant support from more than 170 MPs and peers, including Housing and Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick.\n\nAnd last week, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the Jewish Chronicle the memorial was \"vital\" in order to educate future generations about the Holocaust.\n\nAn online planning inquiry into the plans began on Tuesday.\n\nIn his written evidence to the inquiry, Lord Carlile said: \"From my extensive experience of observing, analysing and discussing terrorism issues with front-line practitioners, I have absolutely no doubt that the proposed site raises a clear - indeed self-evident - terrorism risk.\n\n\"I give this warning with regret, but with total conviction. This would be a threat to the public, and also a potential threat to Parliament.\"\n\nThe project features 23 large bronze fin structures and an underground learning centre.\n\nIt was announced in 2016 by then Prime Minister David Cameron, who said it would be dedicated to the six million Jewish men, women and children and other victims murdered by the Nazis.\n\nHowever, several senior Jewish figures have also voiced their opposition to the location of the memorial, while the Royal Parks said it would have a \"significant harmful impact\" on the area.\n\nLord Carlile QC said the issue was personal to him.\n\n\"I have a strong interest in this,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Many of my close relatives were exterminated in the Holocaust. My half-sister's mother was murdered in Auschwitz.\n\n\"I am absolutely determined that this should be remembered properly. I just feel that this isn't the right place for it.\"\n\nThe proposed plans feature 23 large bronze fin structures and an underground learning centre\n\nHe added: \"I know - indeed I believe everybody knows - that the Houses of Parliament are an iconic target for terrorists.\n\n\"This site is cheek by jowl with the Houses of Parliament.\n\n\"This site would also be, potentially, a target for right-wing extremists. It seems to be foolish for these two iconic places to be on the same broad site.\"\n\nHe added: \"International terrorists usually want to make a splash. Having a site which combines the Houses of Parliament and the new British Holocaust memorial seems to me to be asking for trouble.\"\n\nA spokesman for the MHCLG said: \"We are fully aware of the security implications associated with this site and we have been advised on measures to mitigate risks.\n\n\"The memorial will stand as a reminder to all in parliament, and the whole nation, of our responsibility to remain vigilant against intolerance and bigotry.\"\n\nIn addition to Lord Carlile's security concerns, a group of 42 Holocaust academics raised concerns that the centre would portray Britain as \"the ultimate saviour of the Jews\".\n\nIn a joint letter to the inquiry led by Dr Hannah Holtschneider of the University of Edinburgh, they said: \"Situating the UK Holocaust memorial next to the Houses of Parliament is likely to create a celebratory narrative of the British government's responses to the Jewish catastrophe during the Nazi era and beyond.\"\n\nThe project has government backing as well as support from the opposition benches.\n\nSir Keir told the Jewish Chronicle: \"The fight against intolerance and prejudice in our society, and the stain of anti-Semitism, goes on.\n\n\"So I offer my wholehearted support to the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre and its placement next to the heart of our democracy.\"\n\nCommunities Secretary Mr Jenrick said in February the government remained \"implacably committed\" to the construction of the memorial.\n\nHe said it would ensure \"future generations never forget\".\n\nKaren Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said the project was important to preserve the stories of survivors of the Holocaust as well as the stories of the six million \"whose voices we will never hear\".\n\nThe works are being led by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation.\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. Dominic Raab \"considering further action\" over Uighur Muslims\n\nDominic Raab has not ruled out boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympic Games over the treatment of the Uighur Muslims by the Chinese government.\n\nThe foreign secretary said it was his \"instinct to separate sport from diplomacy and politics\" but that there \"comes a point where that might not be possible\".\n\nHe said there had been \"egregious human rights abuses\" against the group.\n\nChina has faced growing accusations over its treatment of the Uighurs.\n\nIt is believed the government has detained up to one million of the population in \"re-education camps\" in the Xinjiang region.\n\nThere are also claims it has carried out the forced sterilisations of Uighur women.\n\nIn July, Mr Raab accused China of \"gross\" human rights abuses against the population and said he would not rule out taking sanctions against the country.\n\nBut the Chinese Ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, said the accusations were baseless and that Uighurs \"enjoy peaceful, harmonious coexistence with other ethnic groups of people\".\n\nMr Raab was appearing at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and was asked about what the UK was doing to combat persecution of Uighur Muslims.\n\nHe said: \"In the UK, our concerns can only be growing about the reports of what's happening in Xinjinag and we would want to work very closely with our international partners to give the most powerful message, whether it is in the UN... or whether it is in applying sanctions.\n\n\"We do need to look at what action to take. The concerns of what's happening to the Uighurs, the detention, the mistreatment, the forced sterilisation, is something that we cannot just turn away from.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the UK needed to \"call them out [and] hold China to account\", adding: \"We need to be making the point to China, as a country that rightly has expectations to be treated as a leading member of the international community, that this is at odds with the responsibilities that come with being a leading member of the international community.\"\n\nAsked by fellow Conservative MP Alicia Kearns whether boycotting the Winter Games in 2022 would send a strong message, Mr Raab said: \"Generally speaking my instinct is to separate sport from diplomacy and politics but there comes a point where that may not be possible.\n\n\"I would say, let's gather the evidence, let's work with international partners, let's consider it further in the round with further action we need to take.\"\n\nThe chair of the committee, Conservative Tom Tugenhadt, also asked Mr Raab whether he would encourage the Duke of Cambridge whether to attend on behalf of the British government.\n\nThe foreign secretary said that decision would be \"part of a wider process\" and he would look at it \"very closely and carefully\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Denis Villeneuve's Dune is the latest Hollywood blockbuster to have its release date delayed.\n\nThe Warner Bros sci-fi epic featuring a star-studded cast including Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya was due for release in December.\n\nThe premiere has now been pushed back to October 2021, according to Variety.\n\nWarner Bros has also delayed The Batman, now due in March 2022, but the company has brought forward Matrix 4 to December 2021.\n\nThe Batman, starring Robert Pattinson, was set for release on 1 October 2021, so would have clashed with the new release date for Dune.\n\nThe Matrix 4 was originally due out in May this year but was postponed to April 2022. It's now coming just over three months earlier, taking the slot intended for Black Adam, the DC Comics movie starring Dwayne Johnson.\n\nThat film has been taken off the schedule altogether, as has Minecraft: The Movie, which was due to open in March next year.\n\nMoving The Matrix 4 to December next year will also allow The Batman to hold the blockbuster limelight the following spring.\n\nThe Keanu Reeves action/sci-fi franchise is also thought to have completed most of its shooting before the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the world's movie production, including The Batman.\n\nThe Matrix's next outing has been brought forward\n\nThe Batman re-started principal photography at the start of September but had to shut down again when a member of the production team tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nSome media outlets reported it was Robert Pattinson, although that has never been confirmed.\n\nHollywood studios have been deterred from putting out their major releases due to the pandemic but cinema chains had been banking on these films to draw back audiences.\n\nCineworld has confirmed plans to temporarily close its theatres in the UK and US due to a lack of new releases. The Regal chain followed suit, while Odeon and Vue have shared their concerns over the situation.\n\nThe Odeon will open a quarter of its cinemas only at weekends.\n\nThe changes announced by Odeon and Cineworld come after the release of the new James Bond film was delayed again.\n\nThe premiere of No Time To Die had already been moved from April to November because of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Mitchell, director of theatrical insights at Gower Street Analytics, said: \"Bond was really the one that UK exhibitors were really relying on more than any.\"\n\nThe film's star Daniel Craig told Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show that \"this thing is just bigger than all of us\".\n\n\"We want to release the movie at the same time all around the world and this isn't the right time. So fingers crossed 2 April is going to be our date.\"\n\nMeanwhile the British Film Institute (BFI) has said it is \"deeply concerned\" about the challenges facing the cinema industry.\n\nNo Time to Die, starring Daniel Craig as James Bond, will now be released in 2021\n\nBen Roberts, the BFI's chief executive, warned the impact of the release date delays and closures would be felt across the whole sector.\n\nHe added: \"The BFI will continue to work with the distribution and exhibition sector over this difficult time.\n\n\"However, many cinemas across the UK are still open and welcoming audiences. The government-backed Culture Recovery Fund is giving vital support to struggling independent cinemas in England.\"\n\nMr Roberts reminded customers independent films are still being released in cinemas.\n\nOn Tuesday, Showcase Cinemas said it would be keeping its UK cinemas open, after resuming business in July.\n\n\"We were delighted to start reopening our cinemas back in July, and are committed to keeping them open,\" said Mark Barlow, Showcase's UK general manager said.\n\nFilm producer Rebecca O'Brien, known best for her collaborations with director Ken Loach, told Radio 4's Today programme she thought Cineworld's decision to close its screens and put at risk the jobs of 5,500 employees in the UK alone was a \"cynical\" move.\n\n\"They demonstrate here that they don't have the best duty of care to their employees and that they don't really care,\" she added.\n\n\"The cinemas that are open have made it very possible [for audiences to return] and cinemas shouldn't just be going for the fast buck with the Bonds.\"\n\nIt is hoped that the Cineworld cinemas will be able to reopen next year, with staff being asked to accept redundancy in the hope of rejoining the company when theatres open again.\n\nHollywood had hoped Christopher Nolan's blockbuster Tenet would entice customers back into cinemas after months of closures.\n\nCineworld chief executive Mooky Greidinger said it had been \"very successful internationally and the movie will reach something like $300m gross in the international market... but I would say also the studios have their side of the story, the investment today of the movies is huge\".\n\nMr Greidinger also pointed to the fact that cinemas in Los Angeles and New York, the two biggest movie-going markets in the US, remain largely closed due to the pandemic, putting studios off releasing films.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "John McAfee has been charged with failing to file tax returns for four years\n\nAnti-virus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been arrested in Spain and faces extradition to the US where he has been charged with tax evasion.\n\nProsecutors say he failed to file tax returns for four years, despite earning millions from consulting work, speaking engagements, crypto-currencies and selling the rights to his life story.\n\nNone of the income is connected with the software firm which bears his name.\n\nMr McAfee has not publicly commented on the charges.\n\nIf convicted, he could face up to 30 years in prison.\n\nIn a statement the US Justice Department said Mr McAfee allegedly evaded tax liability by having his income paid into bank accounts and cryptocurrency exchange accounts in the names of nominees. As a result, it is alleged, he failed to file any tax returns from 2014 to 2018.\n\nHe is also accused of concealing assets, including a yacht and real estate property, in the names of others.\n\nThe charges were announced shortly after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed that it had brought civil charges against Mr McAfee.\n\nThe government regulator alleges that Mr McAfee made over $23m (£17.7m) by \"leveraging his fame\" and recommending seven cryptocurrency offerings between 2017 and 2018, which allegedly turned out to be \"essentially worthless\", without disclosing that he was paid to do so.\n\nThe SEC is seeking to impose a civil penalty on him, and disgorge him of any \"allegedly ill-gotten gains\", with interest. It also wants to permanently ban him from serving as an officer or director of any listed company, or any company which files reports to the SEC.\n\nIn addition, the SEC has charged Mr McAfee's bodyguard, Jimmy Watson, with aiding and abetting the sale of digital currencies, along with other allegations.\n\nNeither he nor Mr McAfee have commented publicly on the charges.\n\nMr McAfee is a controversial figure in the technology sector. He came to prominence in the 1980s when he founded a company that released the first commercial anti-virus software - McAfee VirusScan - and helped spark a multi-billion dollar industry.\n\nAlthough that business has since been sold to Intel, he still develops cyber-security products of his own.\n\nThe entrepreneur, who was born in the UK, also launched unsuccessful bids to become the Libertarian Party's candidate for the presidential elections in 2016 and 2020.\n\nMr McAfee has previously expressed his disdain for taxes, tweeting last year that he hadn't filed tax returns for eight years because \"taxation is illegal.\"\n\nLast year he was also briefly detained in the Dominican Republic for allegedly bringing weapons into the country.\n\nIn 2012, Mr McAfee made headlines after Belize police began investigating the death of his neighbour, Florida businessman Gregory Faull, and named Mr McAfee as a \"person of interest\".\n\nMr McAfee left the country after the death, saying he feared for his own safety, but said he had \"no connection whatsoever\" with the killing.\n• None Security guru McAfee says he was hacked", "A presenter of a new documentary about slavery has rejected the idea of selling art and artefacts with links to the trade, to compensate descendants.\n\n\"I don't think the sensible way to achieve reparation is to sell off national heritage,\" Afua Hirsch said.\n\n\"I want people to see it and engage with it. The more accessible it can be, the more it can be used to educate.\"\n\nThe writer and broadcaster is fronting Enslaved with actor Samuel L Jackson. The series starts on BBC Two on Sunday.\n\nSamuel L Jackson and Afua Hirsch both discovered their roots on the show\n\nHirsch, who writes a column for the Guardian and penned the book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, told The Radio Times: \"I'm not about destroying history at all. I want people to see it and engage with it.\n\n\"But I do feel quite critical that until now these things have been held in a way that neither educates nor enlightens us about our colonial history.\"\n\nShe was responding to a question about the National Trust, which has identified 93 properties with connections to colonialism and historic slavery. Hirsch said she applauded the organisation, but that their collections should be used to tell a more complete version of history.\n\nShe added on Twitter that the interview \"left out the part where I said the amount owed in reparations MONUMENTALLY exceeds the amount that could be raised by selling off National Trust collections\".\n\nHirsch, who was born in Norway but grew up in the UK, added that the debate about the legacy of slavery was \"not about beating ourselves up, it's about understanding how we got here\".\n\nEnslaved used new diving technology to locate and examine sunken slave ships in the UK, the Caribbean and Florida, retrieving artefacts such as a large ivory tusk 45 miles off the coast of Devon. The four-part CBC/Epix series has already been broadcast in the US.\n\nThe transatlantic slave trade saw European countries including the UK traffic around 12 million people from West Africa to the Americas between the 16th and 19th Centuries.\n\nHirsch also filmed with Jackson in Elmina, Ghana, one of the major slave trading posts in what was then known as the African Gold Coast.\n\nShe added that history taught in British schools should acknowledge the country's role in the slave trade rather than just celebrate its abolition.\n\nIt is not compulsory for schools to teach about the slave trade, but teachers can choose to include it when covering British history from 1745-1901 at Key Stage 3, for pupils aged 11-14.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Can the government see its way to a greener future?\n\nA huge breakthrough in climate policy was signalled this week when China announced it will reduce its emissions to net zero by 2060.\n\nIt's a potentially game-changing leap, following in the footsteps of the UK's existing 2050 net zero target.\n\nBut promises are easy, actions are more challenging - and the UK has been steadily slipping from its climate targets.\n\nIt's consistently promised tougher policies for the future, but for a few years, Britain's long-term climate strategy has lain buried in fog.\n\nWe know the net zero carbon destination point, but we can't yet see how the government intends to get there.\n\nAt last, in a contribution to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday, the prime minister did briefly illuminate several paths towards carbon Nirvana.\n\nBut they're only tantalising pointers to the direction of travel, when a full, clear properly funded roadmap is urgently needed.\n\nMr Johnson speaking this week to the UN General Assembly\n\nIn previous years, climate policy was typically held up in different government departments.\n\nBut environmentalists say key policies are now stuck in a Downing Street logjam awaiting sign-off from the prime minister himself.\n\nIt prompts John Sauven from Greenpeace to plead: \"Some of the ideas the government is proposing are really impressive – but the prime minister needs to resolve disputes within government on environmental policies. Now is the time for him to lead.\"\n\nNo 10 insists that deadlines for decisions on climate and the environment will be met in key policy areas like those in the long list below:\n\nThe National Infrastructure Strategy will lay out plans for government to spend £100bn on big projects.\n\nPast spending might have been dominated by new roads, but the government has gone quiet over its £27bn roads programme.\n\nNew roads will increase emissions, and the Covid experience suggests some of the roads cash might be more wisely invested in broadband instead.\n\nRadical ideas are under discussion for redesigning city centres, and for providing new electricity networks that’ll be needed to power electric vehicles (EVs).\n\nEmissions from transport remain high, but Mr Johnson is pinning his hopes on EVs. He told UNGA he'd spring forward the phase-out date for diesel and petrol cars.\n\nIt's thought 2030 will be the new date, with plug-in hybrids allowed until 2035 - although that's still in the fog.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps accepts that overall car use must also fall because even battery-powered cars contribute to pollution. But that will need some behaviour change, which is against the PM's instincts.\n\nOn aviation, the Citizens' Assembly UK said people would support a tax on frequent fliers.\n\nThat would be truly radical, but Mr Shapps and Mr Johnson hope clean technology will allow travellers to escape guilt-free to the sunshine.\n\nThere are planning issues in transport, too. How does the government stop housebuilders building in places where people need their car to get a pint of milk?\n\nHeat is a Cinderella problem – more than a third of UK carbon emissions are created by heat production.\n\nMinisters are being pressed to announce a date when gas home boilers will be phased out.\n\nIndustries want incentives for low-carbon heat, and Mr Johnson's UN remarks suggest he has been persuaded by the well-funded lobby trumpeting the role of hydrogen in heating and some transport, although that looks expensive.\n\nThe nuclear giant EDF is suggesting that nukes might be harnessed to generate heat, but there's scepticism about this.\n\nThe government is also under pressure to stop buildings being demolished where possible, because new building materials create a lot of carbon emissions.\n\nMr Johnson told UNGA the UK could become the \"Saudi Arabia of wind\".\n\nOffshore wind no longer needs subsidy but progress is being delayed by a host of other factors, including their impact on birds, or fishing. It does need help.\n\nTo the dismay of some green campaigners, Mr Johnson also committed himself to nuclear power – although it's not clear if that means the behemoth Sizewell C, or multiples of mini-nukes called SMRs.\n\nPerhaps we'll have both. But neither will happen unless the PM agrees government-backed funding.\n\nThe PM also declared himself for \"evangelist\" to the carbon capture technology that catches CO2 emissions from industry, albeit at a heavy cost. He said he'd previously been sceptical. How will this be funded?\n\nUnder international climate rules, each nation is obliged to produce its own decarbonisation plan. Mr Johnson is urging nations to join the UK in doing that on 12 December, the fifth anniversary of the successful Paris climate conference. But what will Britain's revised target be?\n\nIn the past, the Treasury has often blocked climate policies, but since the net zero law was passed, observers say it's been generally supportive. It needs to lay out how much the many commitments will cost.\n\nCampaigners say it should go further, with a \"green\" reform of tax policy – especially on gas.\n\nThe chancellor has earmarked £3bn for energy efficiency - £2bn of it for households. It's a huge job-creating measure, and the fund was due to be spent by the end of March.\n\nBut the insulation industry, which shrank when ministers previously withdrew funding, can't now absorb all that cash. So the scheme is likely to be extended. Experts demand a 10-year funding plan.\n\nThe PM told UNGA a \"green industrial revolution\" would create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and quipped the UK \"would never be lagging on lagging\" (insulation).\n\nWhile the PM was hailing the UK's green leadership, he's been accused of hypocrisy at home because he's refused to ban the burning of peat moorland and the sale of peat for gardens.\n\nPeat is the biggest store of carbon in the UK, but policies to protect it have been delayed after protests from country landowners.\n\nNearly two years ago the government published its outline Environment Bill, hailing it a flagship of legislation. But the PM has left this flagship becalmed in the Commons without a breath of Parliamentary time for nearly 200 days.\n\nThe Bill will set targets for improving air, water, waste and wildlife. It will also create an Office of Environmental Protection to replace the European courts.\n\nBut until it's passed, that office doesn't exist, so, on Brexit day, British citizens will lose their ability to appeal if their government breaks environmental laws.\n\nRuth Chambers from the pressure group Greener UK has lost patience. \"Nature is in freefall,\" she says. \"The government’s promises look hollow.\"\n\nThe Bill sets out the framework for UK farm policy after Brexit. The Lords are insisting it bans imports of chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef into the UK.\n\nThe National Farmers Union (NFU) president, Minette Batters, said allowing these imports would be \"morally bankrupt\".\n\nThe government has repeatedly said it doesn’t want to import those goods – but insists it can't have its hands tied in trade negotiations.\n\nFarming is a major source of carbon emissions, and the government has been wrestling with policies that will cut CO2 from the land whilst also supporting farm businesses and restoring wildlife.\n\nThis is an issue of dizzying complexity – especially for farmers facing the shock of leaving the EU.\n\nMinisters will be under pressure to risk riling their own supporters to eat less red meat to protect the planet - as well as their own health.\n\nThis long list – by no means comprehensive - demonstrates how seriously many departments are addressing what used to be considered a peripheral problem – the environment. It also reveals how difficult it will be to enact policies.\n\nChris Stark from the Climate Change Committee told me: \"We're in an unprecedented time.\n\n\"We look to the PM for some leadership… it's desperately needed. But this feels like a very important and exciting period.\"\n\nMr Stark is optimistic about the political outcome of next year's Glasgow climate conference.\n\nBut he admits a caveat: we've got climate disruption with just one degree of warming so far, and the way things are looking we'e still heading towards a highly dangerous three degrees.", "Donald Trump has returned to the White House after being treated by medics for coronavirus. Before leaving Walter Reed medical centre for home, he first drove by his supporters, who had gathered outside. So what do people make of his actions?\n\nScott Pio says Trump is showing love to his supporters by visiting them Image caption: Scott Pio says Trump is showing love to his supporters by visiting them\n\nScott Pio, a 36-year-old software engineer who lives in Loudoun County, Virginia, was one of those who gathered outside of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, to show their support for the president.\n\nPio applauded the president’s decision to go for a drive and does not think it was a risky move. The president, he says, ventured outside of the gates of the military hospital because he wanted “to show his supporters love for being out there\".\n\nPio adds: “He wouldn’t have done it if he didn’t really care about the people who are supporting him.”\n\nNeil Melton says Trump shows a 'winning spirit' even when ill Image caption: Neil Melton says Trump shows a 'winning spirit' even when ill\n\nNeil Melton, a construction-project manager who lives in Prairie Village, Kansas, says he appreciates the way Trump has been candid about his experience with coronavirus.\n\n“He’s trying to be one-on-one with the American people, and he’s trying to show: ‘Hey, I’m just like you.’’”\n\nAt the same time, says Melton, he likes to see the president project strength – such as when he walked to the top of a White House staircase and stood at a balcony and took off his mask.\n\n“People want to see that winning spirit,” says Melton. “They don’t want to live with this Covid lifestyle forever.”\n\nMelton adds: “He wants to show some symbolism: ‘Hey, we can come out of this.’”\n\nStevie Storck says Trump is not taking the virus seriously Image caption: Stevie Storck says Trump is not taking the virus seriously\n\n“After three days, he was saying: ‘You don’t need to be afraid of it,’” says Stevie Storck of Windsor, Pennsylvania.\n\nShe lives on a block with Trump signs (“Make Liberals Cry Again”), and she says people in her community do not always follow public-health guidelines.\n\nPeople are sometimes cavalier about wearing masks in the post office and in shops, she says, and she is concerned they will be emboldened by the president’s actions.\n\n“The misinformation he spread about the virus is a big danger to our community,” she says. “He’s just furthering that attitude of not taking it seriously.”", "Credit Suisse has apologised after a report that Tidjane Thiam, then its chief executive, left his chairman's birthday party when a black performer dressed as a janitor danced on stage.\n\nThe banking giant said in a statement: \"We are sorry for any offence caused.\"\n\nThe New York Times said last November's Studio 54-themed party also included chairman Urs Rohner's friends dancing on stage wearing afro wigs.\n\nMr Thiam revived the bank's fortunes but was ousted this year.\n\nHe left in February after it emerged that two former employees of the bank had been put under surveillance, although Mr Thiam denied knowledge of the operations.\n\nCredit Suisse stressed that the birthday party was neither organised by the company nor its chairman, Mr Rohner.\n\nThe bank stressed its commitment to diversity, saying it had put in place \"a number of initiatives to improve ethnic diversity across the bank\".\n\nIt said it had signed up to the UK's Business in the Community Race at Work Charter, which requires firms to adopt a zero-tolerance policy towards racial harassment or bullying, and in the US it has a programme to hire, retain and advance black talent.\n\n\"Credit Suisse is strongly committed to equality, diversity and supporting all our employees,\" the investment bank said.\n\n\"As a company, we are proud to be a geographically and culturally diverse group, and we strive to further strengthen this culture, which supports all our colleagues.\"\n\nThe Guardian reported that a friend of Mr Thiam said the former executive had not received a personal apology.\n\nMr Thiam could not be reached for comment.\n\nMr Thiam, who ran Credit Suisse between 2015 and February this year, has had an illustrious and varied career. The French Ivorian studied in France and worked in management consultancy before serving as Ivory Coast's Minister of Planning and Development, until a military coup led to him being placed under house arrest.\n\nHe later became boss of financial services firms Aviva Europe and Prudential before joining Credit Suisse five years ago. In doing so he became the only black executive at the top of a major global bank.\n\nMr Thiam, who also holds French citizenship, has appeared on Desert Island Discs as the first ever black chief executive of a top 100 UK company.\n\nHe is on record saying he was heavily courted for his role at Credit Suisse and had strong backing from Mr Rohner.\n\nThat backing was withdrawn along with that of the rest of the board after the spying scandal, although some leading shareholders retained their support.", "London Ambulance Service sent five ambulances to the school\n\nThirteen children at a north London school were taken to hospital when they fell ill after eating what they believed were \"sweets\".\n\nThe pupils from La Sainte Union Catholic School, Highgate, were taken by ambulance to hospital for treatment just after midday.\n\nPolice said the sweets were believed to contain tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), an active ingredient of cannabis.\n\nInvestigations are under way to establish the quantity in each sweet.\n\nNo-one is believed to be seriously unwell and the children's parents have been informed.\n\nNo arrests have been made but inquiries have begun to establish what happened.\n\nThe school, which is a girls' Roman Catholic secondary, has not been evacuated.\n\nA spokesman for the school said: \"The students became ill after eating what they believed were sweets.\n\n\"The contents of what the students ate and how they came into possession of them is being investigated by the police.\n\n\"We have made parents aware of this incident.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have backed the latest stage of a bill to allow undercover agents to commit crimes on operations.\n\nThe government says the legislation will give a \"sound legal footing\" for those who work to \"protect the public\".\n\nBut backbenchers are divided over the implications for human rights and civil liberties, and many have concerns over if the right safeguards are in place.\n\nFormer Tory minister David Davis has warned the bill could \"impinge on innocent people\".\n\nDuring a debate on the bill, shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said Labour would not oppose it at this stage.\n\nBut he said the party would \"seek to improve [it] on the vital issue of safeguards, so the public can have confidence in the process and our law enforcement bodies can carry out that vital work of keeping us all safe\".\n\nHowever, a number of Labour MPs broke party orders to abstain on the vote including former leader Jeremy Corbyn and former shadow chancellor John McDonnell who voted against the bill.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, another Labour MP Apsana Begum said: \"There is a grave, serious and very real danger [the bill] could end up providing informers and agents with a license to kill.\"\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani said the legislation would explicitly authorise MI5, the police, the National Crime Agency and other agencies that use informants or undercover agents to commit a specific crime as part of an operation.\n\nThe law will require MI5 officers and others to show the crime is \"necessary and proportionate\", but security officials will not say which crimes they will consider authorising, as it could lead to terrorists and other serious criminals working out who is undercover.\n\nHowever, the legislation stresses agencies must not breach the Human Rights Act, which requires the government to protect life.\n\nA senior judge will report on how the power is used and there will be no role for the Crown Prosecution Service in reviewing the crimes.\n\nOpening the debate earlier on Monday, Home Office minister James Brokenshire said the bill would \"help keep our country safe\".\n\nHe said it would \"ensure operational agencies and public authorities have access to tools to keep us safe from terrorists, safe from serious organised crime groups and safe from those who wish to cause harm to our country and citizens\".\n\nAnd he also pointed to comments by the new director general of MI5, Ken McCallum, that claimed such operations had thwarted 27 terror attacks in the country since March 2017.\n\nBut a number of MPs from across the House raised concerns around safeguards to ensure agents would not be able to commit crimes such as murder or torture.\n\nTory MP Steve Baker said: \"For those of us who like the red meat of law and order, it has forced us to look inside the abattoir and we don't like what we see.\n\n\"I can't imagine ministers will be authorising killing or torture, but [that should be] on the face of the bill so the public can have confidence.\"\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee, also said the safeguards were \"very vague and very broad\", calling for them to be \"strengthened to get this legislation right\".\n\nThe bill will return to the Commons for its next stages on 15 October.", "The report found improvements were needed in the care of prisoners at risk of self-harm\n\nPrisoners in Swansea have made up to 300 protective clothing items a week for front-line healthcare staff.\n\nA recent visit by HM Inspectorate of Prisons found workshops had been adapted during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThis helped cut the number of inmates kept in their cells for long periods.\n\nInspectors said the number of men training as cleaners increased in response to enhanced levels of hygiene, with 33 bio-hazard cleans carried out in the prison by newly trained inmates.\n\nOverall the coronavirus-shortened scrutiny visit found HMP Swansea to be a \"well-led establishment that, despite some weakness, had overall made good progress\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nIt follows some damning reports in recent years, including one which said the prison was \"not fit for purpose\" after failing to prevent eight suicides over six years, all by prisoners who had been in Swansea for less than a week.\n\nThe latest inspection reported two further suicides since the previous inspection in 2017 \"soon after the prisoners arrived\" and an action plan had been drawn up in response to recommendations by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.\n\nSwansea was once one of the UK's most overcrowded jails and according to a report compiled in July, it remained the ninth most overcrowded.\n\nChief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke said while Swansea had \"progressed\", managers needed to establish \"appropriate oversight in the areas of self-harm prevention\".\n\nBut Mr Clarke said improvements were needed in the care of those at risk of self-harm.\n\nHe found the scale of mental health problems in Swansea was extremely high, affecting almost eight in 10 inmates, which has prompted the introduction of a new crisis team.\n\nThe report said outcomes were better for many prisoners at Swansea than at other local prisons\n\nThe Victorian jail, which opened in 1861, has seen 12 prisoners and 10 staff test positive for coronavirus since March, but there has not been a positive case in a prisoner since April.\n\nThe inspector said a \"good partnership\" with the local health board, Public Health Wales and the Welsh Government meant every symptomatic prisoner was tested for Covid-19.\n\nPrisoners were able to get out of their cells for about 90 minutes a day during the pandemic, with inspectors finding a far greater proportion were involved in \"purposeful activity\" than other prisons.\n\nEven in areas where social distancing was possible, most prisoners were not staying 2m apart. But some measures introduced in response to the pandemic had cut bullying, such as canteen orders being delivered to cells.\n\n\"We found that managers had made significant progress during the Covid-19 pandemic,\" said Mr Clarke.\n\n\"Appropriate priority was given to keeping prisoners in work, maintaining some limited face-to-face education and continuing sentence and risk management.\n\n\"Outcomes for many prisoners at Swansea were better than at other local prisons.\"\n\nThe Prison Service said HMP Swansea had \"played its part in the national effort\" to tackle coronavirus and added as \"restrictions are gradually easing, family visits have resumed\".", "The universities said the majority of its teaching will be done online until at least 30 October\n\nThe two main universities in Manchester are teaching online until \"at least\" the end of the month after a coronavirus outbreak among students.\n\nManchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and the University of Manchester (UM) said it was a \"collaborative decision\" with public health bosses and \"won't impact\" on teaching quality.\n\nIt comes after 1,700 students were told to self-isolate at MMU on 26 September.\n\nUM said the move was to \"protect the health\" of students and staff.\n\nFace-to-face teaching is also being suspended at the University of Sheffield after it saw its biggest rise in cases on Monday.\n\nManchester has the highest rate of infections in England with 561 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThe University of Manchester said more than 1,000 students and 20 staff members have reported testing positive for the virus while the figure is understood to be over 500 at Manchester Metropolitan University.\n\nDavid Regan, the director of public health for Manchester, said: \"Clearly we need to introduce a contain approach with the universities just to manage transmission over the next three weeks.\"\n\nManchester has the highest rate of infections in England with 561 cases per 100,000 of the population\n\nThe universities said teaching will be done online until at least 30 October, but there will be a review on 23 October. Exceptions to the online teaching include accredited and professional programmes, and laboratory, clinical and practice-based subjects.\n\nThe University and College Union welcomed the move towards virtual learning but said Covid-19 outbreaks \"could have been prevented had the decision been taken earlier\".\n\n\"Hundreds of students that did not have to move into student accommodation are now self-isolating without their familiar support network,\" Martyn Moss, from the UCU said.\n\nAll teaching will be moved online at the University of Sheffield, with the exception of clinical teaching and research, from Friday until 19 October.\n\nA spokesperson said it would be \"working hard to resume these activities as soon as possible\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritain's Geraint Thomas was forced to pull out of the Giro d'Italia because of a fractured hip.\n\nThe Ineos Grenadiers rider, 34, crashed just before the start of Monday's third stage after a drinks bottle became lodged under his front wheel.\n\nA scan on Monday was inconclusive but a second on Tuesday showed a fracture.\n\nWelshman Thomas completed Monday's stage but lost more than 12 minutes, effectively ending his hopes of winning the race.\n\n\"It's so frustrating. I'd put so much work in to this race,\" said Thomas, who won the Tour de France in 2018.\n\n\"I did everything I could and feel like I was in just as good, if not better, shape than when I won the Tour. I was feeling really good. So for it just to end like this is gutting.\n\n\"I woke up and wanted to start with the boys and at least help them go for stages over the next few days, but deep down I knew something wasn't right, so we went to get these extra scans.\n\n\"It does make the decision easier when there's a fracture in some ways, because obviously I don't want to do any more damage.\"\n\nThomas was among the favourites to win this year's Giro before his crash during the neutralised zone at the start of Monday's mountainous stage up to Mount Etna.\n\nHe appeared to be riding comfortably despite badly torn kit and landing on his hip.\n\nBut Thomas slipped back from the peloton about 25km from the end of the stage.\n\nIneos Grenadiers doctor Phil Riley said on Tuesday: \"Geraint had an MRI and a CT scan this morning which revealed a small undisplaced fracture in the lower part of the pelvis, which wasn't picked up on the X-rays yesterday.\n\n\"As a precaution, he will be withdrawn from the race as it's an injury that could easily be aggravated.\"\n\nWhat now for Thomas and Ineos?\n\nThomas' withdrawal is a major blow for Ineos, whose run of five successive Tour victories ended last month after defending champion Egan Bernal abandoned the race when he lost seven minutes to leaders on stage 15.\n\nIneos must now decide on a new leader for the rest of the Giro, with Tao Geoghegan Hart their highest-placed rider in the general classification at three minutes 19 seconds off the lead.\n\nFor Thomas himself, having to pull out of another Grand Tour is bitterly disappointing.\n\nIn the build-up to this year's Giro, he had spoken about his burning desire to address his \"unfinished business\" with the race, having been forced to withdraw in 2017 after another crash beyond his control.\n\nThomas missed this year's Tour in order to concentrate on the Giro and his preparations had gone well as he finished second at the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race and fourth in the Road World Championships time trial.\n\nHaving been denied another chance to win a second Grand Tour, Thomas must now heal from the latest in a long line of injuries and use this pain to fuel his determination to come back stronger next season.\n• None England star talks to Headliners about his battle with bulimia", "The number of people admitted to hospital with Covid-19 on one day has jumped by nearly a quarter in England.\n\nThere were 478 people admitted to hospital on Sunday - the largest daily figure since early June - up from 386.\n\nMore than two-thirds of those were in the North West, North East and Yorkshire.\n\nIt comes as a further 14,542 cases were confirmed across the whole of the UK on Tuesday. That daily figure has trebled in a fortnight.\n\nExtra restrictions have been introduced in many areas of the UK to try to contain the spread of the virus - including across the whole of Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn top of these national measures, parts of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and areas in the Midlands, Lancashire, Merseyside, West Yorkshire and the North East of England have seen additional rules imposed.\n\nBut Prof John Edmunds, who advises the government's coronavirus response as part of Sage, said more stringent national lockdown restrictions were needed to bring the pandemic under control.\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight local restrictions in the north of England had not been very effective, and the government's \"light tough\" measures were just \"delaying the inevitable\".\n\n\"We will at some point put very stringent measures in place because we will have to when hospitals start to really fill up,\" he said.\n\n\"Frankly, the better strategy is to put them in place now.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new coronavirus restrictions would be announced on Wednesday - but it will not be another full lockdown.\n\nAnd households could be banned from mixing in Nottingham after a surge in cases, a city health official has said.\n\nThe BBC understands that the government will push ahead with a new \"three-tier\" approach to restrictions in local areas of England, in an effort to replace the patchwork of existing measures.\n\nUnder the system, local areas would be put under one of three levels of restrictions based on the number of cases per 100,000 people.\n\nHowever, the mayors in Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Manchester - where cases are soaring - said a \"more nuanced approach\" than this was needed.\n\nThe current restrictions \"are not working, confusing for the public and some, like the 10pm rule, are counter-productive\", they said, in a letter to the health secretary.\n\nThey are demanding more powers for local police and councils to try to address the rising infection rates \"based on local knowledge\".\n\n\"Our response should consider broader local impacts than absolute numbers of infections: impacts on jobs and business; effects on poverty and deprivation; and relative infection rates in different sections of the population,\" they said.\n\nAs always, we should be cautious about reading too much into one day's change.\n\nBut of all the measurements of Covid, hospital admissions are perhaps the most reliable and they had been rising quite gradually before the jump on Sunday.\n\nSadly, we should expect cases to continue rising.\n\nThis is the time of year when emergency admissions for respiratory illness do go up.\n\nIn a normal year, we can expect 1,000 admissions a day for flu and respiratory viruses by December.\n\nWhat we don't know is to what extent the normal illnesses are adding to this Covid total.\n\nThese new admissions mean about 3% of hospital beds are now occupied with Covid patients.\n\nThere are reports that hospitals, particularly in northern England, are very busy.\n\nBut elsewhere beds are free. The reduction in other services, from cancer care to routine operations, means bed occupancy levels are about a quarter lower than normal.\n\nHowever, unions would point out that a shortage of staff means there are not always the doctors and nurses available to care for patients.\n\nCases and hospital admissions have been rising sharply in cities in the north of England, but are substantially lower in the south.\n\nIn Manchester, where the rate of infection is 529 cases per 100,000 people, the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University have said they will teach online only until \"at least\" the end of the month. More than a thousand students in the city have already been told to self-isolate.\n\nFace-to-face teaching is also being suspended at the University of Sheffield, after the city's rate increased to 287 per 100,000.\n\nIn Liverpool the rate is 487 per 100,000 and in Newcastle Upon Tyne it is 435. There are 60 cases per 100,000 people in London, 46 in Bristol and 32 in Norwich.\n\nAcross the UK, the latest daily figures show a further 76 people have died within 28 days of testing positive.\n\nThat is a long way off the death tolls reached in April, but BBC medical editor Fergus Walsh said there was concern hospital admissions and eventually deaths would \"just keep rising\", unless coronavirus cases were brought under control in the north of England.\n\nIn total, nearly 2,800 patients are in hospital with Covid in England, compared with more than 17,000 at the epidemic's peak. A total of 2,783 Covid-19 patients spent Monday night in England's hospitals - the highest daily total since 25 June. There were also 349 patients in mechanical ventilation beds.\n\nThe latest hospital admissions figures, released for Sunday, show there were 478 new patients admitted - the highest daily figure since 3 June.\n\nIn Scotland, 262 people confirmed to have Covid-19 are in hospital - a rise of 44. In Wales, 92 admissions were recorded on the government's coronavirus dashboard - but that figure includes people who are suspected to have coronavirus, as well as those who have tested positive. There were no admissions in Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the government won a vote on retaining the \"rule of six\" in England by 287 votes to 17.\n\nAmong the MPs who voted against it were 12 rebel Tories, one of whom called it a \"massive intrusion\" into people's lives that does not \"make sense\".\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman earlier described it as a \"sensible and helpful\" measure.", "The health secretary has said a technical glitch that saw nearly 16,000 Covid-19 cases go unreported in England \"should never have happened\".\n\nThe error meant that although those who tested positive were told about their results, their close contacts were not traced.\n\nBy Monday afternoon, around half of those who tested positive had yet to be asked about their close contacts.\n\nLabour said the missing results were \"putting lives at risk\".\n\nExperts advise that ideally contacts should be tracked down within 48 hours.\n\nThe technical error was caused by some Microsoft Excel data files exceeding the maximum size after they were sent from NHS Test and Trace to Public Health England.\n\nIt meant 15,841 cases between 25 September and 2 October were left out of the UK daily case figures.\n\nPHE said the error itself, discovered overnight on Friday, has been fixed, and outstanding cases had been passed on to tracers by 01:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nBut Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs the incident as a whole had not yet been resolved - with only 51% of those whose positive results were caught up in the glitch now reached by contact tracers.\n\nHe said it had \"not substantially changed\" the government's assessment of the epidemic, however, and had \"not impacted the basis on which decisions about local action were taken\".\n\nHe also said outbreak control in care homes, schools and hospitals had not been directly affected, as they do not rely on the data in question.\n\n\"This incident should never have happened. But the team have acted swiftly to minimise its impact,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC has confirmed the missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software. Furthermore, PHE was to blame, rather than a third-party contractor.\n\nThe issue was caused by the way the agency brought together logs produced by the commercial firms paid to carry out swab tests for the virus.\n\nThey filed their results in the form of text-based lists, without issue.\n\nPHE had set up an automatic process to pull this data together into Excel templates so that it could then be uploaded to a central system and made available to the NHS Test and Trace team as well as other government computer dashboards.\n\nThe problem is that the PHE developers picked an old file format to do this - known as XLS.\n\nAs a consequence, each template could handle only about 65,000 rows of data rather than the one million-plus rows that Excel is actually capable of.\n\nAnd since each test result created several rows of data, in practice it meant that each template was limited to about 1,400 cases. When that total was reached, further cases were simply left off.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the missing results were \"putting lives at risk\".\n\nHe said the unreported cases meant as many as 48,000 contacts had not been traced and therefore not been isolating, with \"thousands blissfully unaware they've been exposed to Covid, potentially spreading this deadly virus\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock tells MPs the late reporting of test results was a “serious issue that is being investigated fully”.\n\nPaul Wells said the NHS Covid-19 app allowed him to \"carry on as normal\" even after his husband had uploaded a positive test result and been told to self-isolate.\n\n\"It's very frustrating to hear that processes or systems are not working correctly, especially with something that is high risk,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The knock-on effect is damaging to not only myself and my husband, but the ripple effect it has to family and friends and our neighbours.\"\n\nOn Monday afternoon, the government's coronavirus dashboard announced a further 12,594 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 515,571.\n\nAnother 19 people were reported to have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe earlier technical error meant the daily case totals reported on the government's coronavirus dashboard over the past week have been lower than the true number.\n\nDaily figures for the end of the week were about 10,000 rather than the roughly 7,000 that had been reported.\n\nBBC analysis found the number of cases reported for the week to 1 October increased by 92.6% in the North West after taking in the missing tests - with similar rises reflected across England.\n\nThe increase, of 8,348 cases, is mostly down to the missing tests, but the figures also included some results which came back after 2 October.\n\nYou can look at the case numbers two ways: we normally count them on the date they're reported, which today would be 12,594.\n\nBut today's news has shown how reporting lags can skew those trends.\n\nIf you arrange the figures by the date the tests were taken, you can get a clearer picture.\n\nIn that analysis, we reached an average of 10,000 new cases a day towards the end of last week.\n\nThat's about double what it was a fortnight ago.\n\nIt's hard to say for sure what's happened since then, since it takes a few days for tests to be reported and for these figures to settle down.\n\nBut that pattern is consistent with other data: the number of people going into hospital, or official surveys and symptom trackers.\n\nThey all paint a picture of an epidemic that's growing - not doubling every week, but growing.\n\nThere's hope in some parts of the data that the pace of growth may be slowing slightly, but there's no evidence that it's shrinking.\n\nMr Hancock suggested that the error did not impact the introduction of local restrictions last week.\n\nHowever, Liverpool Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram said the measures brought in there were \"predicated on\" figures that were \"underestimated by a considerable sum\".\n\n\"We understand that there needed to be further restrictions because of those increases in transmission rates, but we've not received any of the scientific evidence that backs that up,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It seems that the restrictions were predicated on a false promise that the figures that we were provided with were the basis for the announcement.\"\n\nPHE data shows Liverpool has the second highest rate of infection in England, at 456.4 cases per 100,000 people in the week to 1 October, from 287.1 the week before. Knowsley in Merseyside, Newcastle, Nottingham, Leeds and Sheffield have also seen sharp rises.\n\nManchester has the highest rate of infection, at 495.6 cases per 100,000 people, from 223.2 the week before.\n\nThe BBC's Danny Savage said the head of public health in Manchester estimates the infection rate among the city's student population is as high as 3,000 cases per 100,000.\n\n\"We'll have to watch closely at what those figures are like in student populations across the country in areas with a high number of infection,\" he said.\n\nPHE said NHS Test and Trace has made sure there are enough contact tracers working, and is working with local teams to ensure they also have sufficient resources to be urgently able to contact all cases.\n\nThe number of call attempts is being increased from 10 to 15 over 96 hours.\n• None 1,980cases per day, on average, were missed in that time\n\nHave you recently tested positive? Have you been contacted by test and trace? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "As the new academic year begins at Cambridge, the university has exclusively revealed to the BBC that they have admitted a record number of 137 black UK students, the highest figure ever for the university and up 46 students on last year, which was also a record year.\n\nWhilst this is a step in the right direction for Cambridge, they admit there is still a way to go. BBC reporter Ashley John-Baptiste has followed three black students who started last year through what turned out to be quite an extraordinary year.", "Len McCluskey (pictured) has expressed concern about the direction the Labour Party is taking\n\nA meeting of the Unite union executive has decided to cut its affiliation money to the Labour Party by about 10%, BBC Newsnight understands.\n\nUnite is the Labour Party's single biggest donor, providing the party with millions in funding every year.\n\nBut there is anger in the union about Labour's direction under Sir Keir Starmer with a source saying he and his inner team were \"just not listening\".\n\nSir Keir said he enjoyed \"strong relations\" with Unite.\n\nThe party and the union would \"continue campaigning side-by-side and shoulder-to-shoulder\" on \"important\" issues facing workers, he added.\n\nUnite general secretary Len McCluskey was a major ally of the former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and is a stalwart of the party's Left. He is due to stand down as general secretary in 2022.\n\nAhead of the meeting of Unite's executive, he told Newsnight another cut in funding might happen if the party changed course too drastically under its new leader.\n\nHe said: \"I have no doubt if things start to move in different directions and ordinary working people start saying, 'Well, I'm not sure what Labour stand for,' then my activists will ask me, 'Why are we giving so much money'?\"\n\nHe went on to express dismay that Unite funds had been spent by Labour paying damages to whistle-blowers who contributed to a Panorama programme about Labour's handling of the anti-Semitism crisis.\n\nMr McCluskey said his executive was angry about the decision \"because they thought it was an absolute mistake and wrong to pay out huge sums of money to individuals who were suing the Labour Party based on the Panorama programme, when Labour's own legal people were saying that they would lose that case if it went to court. So we shouldn't have paid them anything.\"\n\nBut, when the payout was announced, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said it was a \"prudent move\" which was \"part of that healing process\" that the party needed.\n\nAnd, in a statement read out in the High Court, Labour said it unreservedly apologised and was determined to root out anti-Semitism in the party and the wider Labour movement.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the decision was \"for Unite as a union.\"\n\nThere is some frustration on the Labour left that Sir Keir ran for the leadership on the party's left but has quickly tacked to the centre since winning the contest in April this year.\n\nA Unite source said: \"Keir and his inner circle are just not listening.\n\n\"There's a lot of anger from the people who knock on the doors and man the phones. They don't want to be taken for granted.\"\n\nThe source went on to say that Mr McCluskey was likely to redirect the money to left-wing grassroots organisations to support a socialist programme, \"which he sees as vital to produce a Labour victory in 2024\".\n\nResponding to Mr McCluskey's comments, Sir Keir said: \"The decision was a decision for Unite as a union.\"\n\nHe added: \"I haven't spoken to Len in the last 24 hours but I speak to him on a regular basis. We've got a very good relationship with Unite and will continue to work with them.\"\n\nLast month, TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady told the BBC: \"Keir has had a really strong start. You only have to look at the opinion polls to see that.\n\n\"I hear Keir talking about decency, dignity. Those are really important values, along with people looking after each other.\"\n\nThe campaign to choose Mr McCluskey's successor begins next year.", "A PE teacher who \"just loves competing\" has broken the world record for the Over-50s at high jump.\n\nJulia Machin, from Burgess Hill, West Sussex, leapt 1.66m, beating the previous record by 5cm.\n\nShe said she still participates in sport because she enjoys it, adding: \"I consider records to be a bonus.\"", "Some tourism and hospitality businesses may never recover from the effects of more coronavirus restrictions, industry leaders have warned.\n\nThe first minister will announce any further Covid curbs in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday.\n\nSome government advisers have backed the idea of a \"circuit breaker\" lockdown as a \"short, sharp shock\".\n\nAt her daily briefing Nicola Sturgeon said no final decisions had been taken but there would no return to lockdown.\n\nShe said schools would remain open, the remobilisation of the NHS would not be halted and there would be no nationwide restriction on travel.\n\nBut she did not rule out local travel limits or further controls on people meeting in bars or restaurants.\n\nStephen Leckie, the owner of the Crieff Hydro Hotel in Perthshire, said the developments made \"extremely harrowing reading\" for people working in hotels, restaurants, self-catering businesses or visitor attractions.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the next three weeks - covering many schools' October break - was the last chance for these businesses to make money before the end of the year.\n\n\"Any form of travel restriction would in effect be a lockdown those in this industry,\" he said.\n\n\"If we had to close for the remainder of this month for example, we'd walk from the frying pan straight into the fire.\n\n\"From November for the next five months, this industry, these people, our businesses, would simply lose money and many just wouldn't reopen next year.\"\n\nMr Leckie, who also chairs the Scottish Tourism Alliance, said consumer confidence had been knocked and people were cancelling bookings every time there are reports of possible further Covid restrictions.\n\nHe added: \"If we were to lockdown this Friday, we have our rotas seven days in advance.\n\n\"We cannot simply say to our people - and there will be 700 people working this weekend across our company - we cannot simply say to them, 'Look we're locking down, we're not going to pay you, we don't need you to come to work'.\"\n\nBusinesses also face a \"mammoth amount of work\" in paying back deposits to people if all the bookings are cancelled, he said.\n\n\"Surely there must be other levers that we can pull in order to restrict the spread of this virus,\" he said.\n\n\"Surely the blanket travel restriction, or circuit breaker or lockdown, as we're understanding it, surely that's not the answer. There must be other levers they can pull in order to halt this virus.\"\n\nCarina Contini, a restaurateur in Edinburgh, questioned whether the closure of hospitality was a \"fait accompli\". \"Is this absolutely the alternative?\" she asked.\n\nA further lockdown - however short - would have \"devastating consequences for many, many businesses\", she added.\n\nThe Scottish Hospitality Group (SHG), which represents nine of the country's largest independent hospitality operators, warned a two-week lockdown would cost its members £10m and harm their 6,000-strong workforce, including 1,500 under-25s.\n\nNic Wood, who runs the Signature Pubs chain and is a member of SHG, said: \"Not only does a bar or restaurant job provide much-needed money for young Scots, it gives them the people skills and experience that are vital in building their careers.\n\n\"It will be heartbreaking if we are forced to make redundancies because the government has shut us down again.\n\n\"Young people in Scotland will once again bear a disproportionate amount of the burden and coming on top of all the issues that students and young people are facing already, this will be a step too far.\"\n\nDuring her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said she hoped that her statement outlining what would not happen during a \"circuit-breaker\" would reassure the hospitality industry.\n\nShe added: \"Hopefully the fact that we are carefully weighing all of these factors and thinking about economic impact and how we mitigate that will also give a degree of reassurance.\n\n\"I understand how horrendously difficult this is for people like Stephen Leckie who has watched a business that has been built up with a lot of blood, sweat and tears over the years struggle in the way so many businesses have.\n\n\"I, like everyone does, find that heartbreaking, I find so many aspects of dealing with this pandemic utterly heartbreaking. I can't magic the virus away - I wish I could.\"", "Margaret Ferrier travelled back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nMP Margaret Ferrier is believed to have attended Mass at a church in Glasgow after showing Covid symptoms.\n\nThe Daily Record reported that Ms Ferrier gave a reading as she joined up to 50 parishioners at St Mungo's RC church in Townhead on 27 September.\n\nShe later travelled to London before returning to Glasgow by train after testing positive.\n\nMs Ferrier has been widely condemned for risking the health of people in parliament and on public transport.\n\nShe has been suspended by the SNP and faces calls to quit as an MP. The Metropolitan Police are also investigating.\n\nThe Catholic Church in Scotland said it could not confirm whether Ms Ferrier, or anyone else, attended the Mass due to data protection laws.\n\nA spokesman for the Archdiocese of Glasgow said: \"For the good of the whole community, it is important that anyone who is required to self-isolate does so in accordance with the government's guidance, so anyone in that situation should not attend Mass.\n\n\"It is disappointing if this has not happened but we would like to reassure people that we fulfil all the government and church guidelines.\"\n\nPolice Scotland are not thought to be considering any action since self-isolation is guidance rather than a legal requirement in Scotland.\n\nMs Ferrier is believed to have joined up to 50 parishioners at St Mungo's church\n\nUnder government Covid-19 restrictions, no place of worship should admit more than 50 people at any one time, regardless of its size or usual capacity.\n\nPlaces at services are allocated via a booking system and everyone attending must wear a face covering.\n\nMs Ferrier, the MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, previously said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" on Saturday 26 September and was tested for coronavirus.\n\nHowever, she decided to travel by train to Westminster the following Monday before getting her result because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe spoke for four minutes in the Commons chamber during a coronavirus debate - tweeting a video of her speech - but was told later that evening that she had tested positive for the virus.\n\nDespite this, Ms Ferrier took a train back to Scotland on Tuesday 29 September, with SNP whips in the Commons being told about her positive test the next day.\n\nIt is understood she had initially told the party she was going home because a family member was unwell.\n\nMs Ferrier has apologised and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions but has not yet given any indication of whether or not she intends to continue sitting as an independent MP.\n\nShe has referred herself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, as well as to the police.\n\nScotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has described Ms Ferrier's decision to travel to and from London when she should have been self-isolating as the \"worst breach imaginable\".\n\nShe said she had made it \"crystal clear\" to her that her \"reckless, dangerous and completely indefensible\" actions meant she should resign as an MP.", "There could be a \"tsunami\" of cancelled operations this winter as the NHS copes with rising numbers of coronavirus patients, leading surgeons are warning.\n\nMembers of the Royal College of Surgeons of England say they doubt the NHS can meet targets to restore surgery back to near pre-pandemic levels.\n\nPlanned procedures such as hip replacements were paused to free up beds during lockdown in the spring.\n\nAnd hospitals have since been dealing with a backlog.\n\nIn July, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens told trusts hospitals should by September 2020 be performing at least 80% of their September 2019 rates of:\n\nAnd by October, this proportion should rise to 90%.\n\nBut data suggests more than two million people have been waiting longer than 18 weeks for routine operations, with 83,000 waiting more than a year - up from 2,000 before the pandemic.\n\nMore than 140,000 operations such as knee and hip replacements were performed in July 2020, up from 41,000 in April.\n\nBut that is less than half the level seen in July 2019.\n\nThe Royal College of Surgeons of England surveyed nearly 1,000 members in September and found:\n\nPresident of the college Prof Neil Mortensen said: \"This is a national crisis requiring a truly national effort across all hospitals - private and NHS alike.\n\n\"As the virus becomes more prevalent again, there is a real risk of a tsunami of cancelled operations unless surgical beds are funded and protected.\n\n\"That means building up theatre capacity and designating beds exclusively for those who need an operation.\"\n\nAn NHS spokesman said the survey underestimated the amount of surgery now happening in the NHS, adding that goals for the end of August were met.\n\n\"The NHS has flexed its hospital capacity and community services as needed throughout the pandemic, treating over 110,000 severely ill people for Covid-19, and doubling the number of non-urgent operations since April. More people are set to benefit from the deal struck with independent hospitals also to make use of their bed capacity.\n\n\"Covid inpatient numbers are rising and much depends on keeping the virus under control through continued public action on hands-face-space, Test and Trace service, and rapid action to control local outbreaks,\" he said.\n\nHave you had an operation cancelled? How long have you been waiting? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the capital Bishkek\n\nProtesters in Kyrgyzstan calling for the country's parliamentary election to be annulled have broken into parliament in the capital, Bishkek.\n\nFootage showed people in the office of President Sooronbai Jeenbekov, and throwing paper from windows. Parts of the building appeared to be on fire.\n\nThe break-in follows a day of clashes with police, who initially dispersed crowds with water cannon and tear gas.\n\nThe clashes come amid allegations of vote-rigging in last Sunday's election.\n\nOne person died and nearly 600 were injured in the unrest, according to the Health Ministry.\n\nPresident Jeenbekov has appealed for a return to order, accusing \"certain political forces\" of attempting to illegally seize power.\n\nHe has met opposition party leaders and said he would annul the results of the election if necessary.\n\nFollowing the vote, only four parties out of 16 passed the 7% threshold for entry into parliament, three of which have close ties to President Jeenbekov.\n\nOn Monday, police used stun grenades to disperse thousands of protesters in Ala-Too square, before following them into nearby streets.\n\nBut demonstrators later flooded back into the central square before storming the parliament building, known as the White House.\n\nVideo footage shared on social media showed opposition protesters gaining access to the complex, some by climbing fences and others by pushing open the main gates. Later, smoke could be seen billowing out of the building.\n\nThousands of protesters gathered in Ala-Too square in Bishkek amid allegations of vote-rigging\n\nProtesters also released Kyrgyzstan's former President Almazbek Atambayev, who was being held in a remand centre at the State National Security Service awaiting a trial for corruption offences, the local AKIpress news agency reported.\n\nGroups close to the president have been accused of vote-buying and voter intimidation - claims international monitors say are \"credible\" and a cause for \"serious concern\".\n\nOn Monday, 12 opposition parties jointly declared that they would not recognise the results of the vote.\n\nLater, President Jeenbekov's office said that he would on Tuesday meet leaders from all 16 parties that competed in the election, in a bid to defuse tensions.\n\nTwo parties with close ties to President Sooronbai Jeenbekov each took 25% of the vote\n\nOpposition candidates also called on the Central Electoral Commission to cancel the results of the election.\n\nOne candidate, Ryskeldi Mombekov, told a crowd of more than 5,000 protesters on Monday: \"The president promised to oversee honest elections. He didn't keep his word.\"\n\nMr Mombekov's party, Ata Meken, had been confident of entering parliament, but in the end it was one of the eight parties that missed the threshold. Ata Meken leader Janar Akaev suffered a leg injury in the protests on Monday.\n\nProtesters were also calling on President Jeenbekov to resign.\n\nThomas Boserup, head of the election observation mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said in a briefing that although the vote had been \"generally well organised\", allegations of vote buying were a \"serious concern\".\n\nThe police used water cannon, stun grenades and tear gas on demonstrators.\n\nThey first used force to disperse protesters in the main square, but as the crowds moved into other streets in Bishkek, police continued to go after them.\n\nReports of injuries then began to emerge - both among the protesters and the police.\n\nThere were about 5,000 people protesting in Ala-Too square, and the demonstration was largely peaceful for most of the day. But at about 20:10 local time (14:10 GMT), a smaller group of protesters splintered off and went to the parliament building. When they got there, they reportedly tried to break through the gates.\n\nThis is what triggered the police response. The police had said that they wouldn't interfere in the protests as long as they stayed peaceful - but this was seen as a provocative act.\n\nThe demonstrators were initially dispersed, but they later returned and successfully gained entry to the parliament building.\n\nThe two leading parties, which got a quarter of the vote each, were Birimdik and Mekenim Kyrgyzstan.\n\nMekenim Kyrgyzstan, meanwhile, is seen as being closely connected to the powerful Matraimov family. The family's figurehead, Rayimbek Matraimov, was the target of anti-corruption protests last year and is believed to have helped finance Mr Jeenbekov's successful presidential campaign in 2017.\n\nLate on Monday, Birimdik announced that it would be open to a re-run of Sunday's election, and called on other parties that had crossed the 7% threshold to do the same.", "Paul Cleeland has been fighting to clear his name for decades\n\nPapers have shown a gun at the centre of a 1973 murder trial may have been the wrong weapon, it has been claimed.\n\nPaul Cleeland, who says he was wrongly convicted, has obtained a transcript of his failed appeal in 2002.\n\nHe said prosecutors claimed Terry Clarke was shot in Hertfordshire in 1972 with a Gye and Moncrieff (G&M) but two other guns were found at the time.\n\nHis lawyers have said judges wrongly ruled the other guns were excluded. A court heard the claims on Tuesday.\n\nSuspected gangland boss Mr Clarke was shot in Stevenage after returning home from a bar on 5 November 1972.\n\nCleeland always insisted he was innocent but he served 26 years behind bars.\n\nTerry Clarke was killed after he returned home from a bar\n\nCourt documents listed the guns as the G&M shotgun, an American Western Field 12-bore pump action repeater shotgun and a German Muller 12-bore double-barrelled shotgun.\n\nA note by Edward Fitzgerald QC, who previously represented Cleeland, claimed the Appeal Court ruling in 2002 \"was flawed by a fundamental error of fact\".\n\nHe wrote: \"The Court of Appeal in 2002 proceeded on the basis that the evidence excluded the possibility that either of the two shotguns put forward by Mr Cleeland as the murder weapons could have been the murder weapons.\n\n\"However, the transcript of the evidence obtained by Mr Cleeland confirms that the Home Office expert, Mr Pryor, did not rule out the possibility that the pump action shotgun was the murder weapon.\"\n\nLawyers for the 79-year-old from Folkestone, who has been representing himself, obtained the transcript from the court after accessing a closed file in the National Archives.\n\nFolkestone MP Damian Collins, who has backed Cleeland's campaign to clear his name, said: \"Over many years, Paul was unaware of the contents of those papers when they could have real significance to his case.\"\n\nThe MP said most of the original trial evidence had been challenged and said: \"Over the past 10 years I've been involved with it [Cleeland's case], a constant stream of new information has come out and I would say the direction of that information has always been to cast doubt on that original judgement.\"\n\nPaul Cleeland was 30 when he was jailed\n\nCleeland put the claims before the Administrative Court in London on Tuesday.\n\nDuring the hearing, Cleeland told the court the transcript, which he received eight to ten months ago, had been locked away for years and was \"totally in contradiction of the judgement\".\n\nHowever the judge, Lord Justice Lavender, said: \"You were there when Mr Pryor gave evidence.\"\n\nAt the hearing, Cleeland sought to amend the grounds of his application for a judicial review of a Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) decision not to refer his case to appeal that was dismissed last year.\n\nSarah Clover, representing the CCRC, told the court the G&M gun had \"only ever been put forward as a possibility\".\n\nShe said the CCRC had considered the matter and concluded it would not have been justified in referring the case to appeal, while the Appeal Court in 2002 was aware of discrepancies and took them into account when it rejected the case.\n\nThe court heard that the guns were later destroyed.\n\nThe judge will hand down his ruling at a later date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The search involved police, firefighters, coastguard staff and search and rescue volunteers\n\nA man's body has been recovered following a major search of a river in north Wales.\n\nEmergency services had searched the river at Abergwyngregyn, Gwynedd, after reports a telephone engineer had fallen in at about 16:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nA body was found just before 19:15, North Wales Police said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alun Oldfield said the man's next of kin had been informed and his family were being supported.\n\n\"Our heartfelt sympathies are with the man's family and friends at this incredibly difficult time,\" he said.\n\n\"An investigation is now under way to establish what happened.\"\n\nA major search was launched with police, firefighters and the coastguard, and search and rescue volunteers.\n\nTwo specialist water rescue teams and three fire crews from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service searched the river, along with members of Ogwen Valley Search and Rescue Team.\n\nResidents saw the helicopter flying over the river\n\nThe coastguard helicopter attended and two coastguard rescue teams were sent from Bangor and Llandudno to assist in the search.\n\nEarlier this week homes in the village were flooded after the River Aber burst its banks following heavy rain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Repair work from previous flooding was still under way when these properties were hit again", "Poorna Kaameshwari Sivaraj, 36, and her son Kailash Kuha Raj were last seen on 21 September\n\nA three-year-old boy and his parents have died at a flat in west London.\n\nThe bodies of Poorna Kaameshwari Sivaraj, 36, and son Kailash Kuha Raj were found at Golden Mile House on Clayponds Lane, Brentford.\n\nScotland Yard said it believed both had been dead for some time. They were last seen on 21 September.\n\nIt is thought Kuha Raj Sithamparanathan, Kalish's father and Ms Sivaraj's husband, fatally injured himself when officers forced entry.\n\nThe 42-year-old was found with stab injuries and pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.\n\nThe family's deaths mean London has recorded 100 violent deaths this year.\n\nPolice remain at the scene in Clayponds Lane, Brentford\n\nScotland Yard said officers initially received a phone call on Sunday from a family member raising concerns about the welfare of Ms Sivaraj.\n\nOfficers attended the address several times early on Monday but did not receive a reply.\n\nConcerns heightened after speaking to neighbours and officers decided to force entry just after midnight on Tuesday.\n\nA mandatory referral has been made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nNext of kin have been informed and post-mortem examinations are set to take place on Thursday.\n\nLead investigator, Det Ch Insp Simon Harding, said it was being treated as a murder investigation.\n\n\"We know the family often walked their dog, a poodle cross breed, in and around the local area and I would ask anyone who saw them at any time in the last month to contact police so we can begin to build a full picture of their lives,\" he added.\n\nOfficers were called to the property after receiving concerned calls from neighbours\n\nWest Area BCU Commander, Peter Gardner said: \"This horrific incident has understandably caused enormous shock and concern among local residents and across the borough. All our thoughts are with the family and friends of those affected.\n\n\"Local residents can expect to see officers at the scene and patrolling the local area to provide reassurance, and if they have any concerns, I would urge them to speak to our officers.\"\n\nNeighbours earlier told of their shock after the deaths of the family of three.\n\nSheri Diba said the family were \"very friendly\" and she used to regularly see them taking their dog for walks.\n\n\"I've always seen them in the lift. They were very friendly. They said 'Hi, how are you?' I always saw them together going for walks.\n\n\"I feel really bad (hearing the news) because they were very friendly, nice people.\"\n\nMs Diba, a mother of one, said she had lived in the building for seven years and described it as a \"nice area\", but said she had not seen the family for a number of months.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK can and will \"build back better\".\n\nThe Conservatives' theme at their virtual party conference this week is a message that Boris Johnson has sought to impart continuously since the country emerged from lockdown in early July.\n\nBut as the prime minister prepares to deliver his leader's speech on Tuesday, his party is facing up to the impact that the worst public health crisis for a century is likely to have on its ability to deliver on its promises to voters.\n\nThe PM has insisted his mission of national renewal, the \"levelling-up\" agenda which was a key backdrop to the Tories' thumping victory in December's election, has not been put to one side in the national struggle against Covid.\n\nHe says the programme, which the party describes on its conference website as \"driving lasting change in parts of the country forgotten by successive governments\", is being accelerated, rather than slowed, by the pandemic.\n\nAnd the rush of announcements made during the four-day event and beforehand suggest the government knows it cannot afford to lose sight of its over-riding objective, that is to give those living outside London and the south of England a better chance in life and bigger slice of the economic cake.\n\nIn his own speech, the PM will earmark £160m to upgrade ports and infrastructure in Teesside, the Humber and other areas as part of a drive to make the UK a world-leader in low-cost green energy.\n\nElsewhere, the lion's share of a £80m fund for local regeneration projects is going to towns in the North East, North West and Yorkshire, a review of transport links will look at upgrading the A1 in Northumberland, while a shake-up of vocational education will pay for all 18-year-olds without an A-level to take a college course.\n\nThese are all consistent with the Tories' promises in their election manifesto to share prosperity and opportunities more equally across the UK and to boost economic performance beyond the capital.\n\nThe party is also seeking to leave a more permanent imprint of its own by opening a second HQ in Leeds while creating a fighting fund to help its MPs defend the dozens of \"Red Wall\" seats snatched from Labour in December, some of which turned blue for the first time in electoral history.\n\nBut as Conservative activists grapple with the role that transport, green and digital technologies will play in the UK's post-Covid recovery, the legacy of what is the UK's deepest post-war recession cannot be ignored.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies says the government faces a \"daunting task\" if it is to reverse deep-seated regional inequalities, among the most pronounced in Europe, in the current climate.\n\nIn a recent analysis, the respected think tank warned that inequalities within regions are often more acute, with towns in post-industrial regions, coastal resorts and isolated rural areas among those which have fallen furthest behind, a situation which could be exacerbated by Covid and any disruption to post-Brexit trade with Europe.\n\nIt would cost £22bn to level up transport spending, the IFS has said\n\nEven \"well-designed policies could take years or even decades to have a meaningful effect\", it says.\n\nWhile the government is right to focus on addressing decades of under-investment in transport and R&D outside London and the South East, it says the cost of closing the gap cannot be underestimated, with £22bn alone being needed to bring per person spending on transport across England in line with that in the capital.\n\nThe government, it adds, \"cannot be all things to all places\".\n\nWhatever improvements can be made in infrastructure, housing and skills, the IFS says the success of the levelling-up agenda will inevitably be judged on how far employment and pay disparities can be closed.\n\nMiddlesbrough, identified by the think tank as one of the five most \"left-behind\" towns in terms of working-age employment rates, has had some recent success stories to celebrate.\n\nStart-up bank GBB announced recently it would set up its headquarters in the town, creating more than 120 jobs, while the National Hydrogen Transport Centre is also basing itself there - consolidating the Teesside's market-leading position in the emerging clean technology.\n\nBut, at the same time, Covid is casting a long shadow over the North East, with the Mayor of Middlesbrough warning that thousands of jobs in hospitality and retail are \"hanging by a thread\" due to local restrictions.\n\nThe North East hopes to become a world leader in hydrogen transport technology\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newscast podcast last week, Andy Preston - who despite being an independent is admired by local Tories - said the implications of the virtual lockdown for the local economy were \"monstrous\".\n\nHe said he had been left \"fuming\" at what he said was the lack of consultation and dialogue with ministers over restrictions, which have prompted claims of a growing North-South divide in the second wave of the disease.\n\nThe fraying in relations between local leaders and ministers does not augur well at a time when the government's blueprint for further devolution in England has reportedly been shelved until next year.\n\nFar-reaching plans to create more combined authorities and directly elected mayors, while at the same time abolishing a raft of district councils, have caused unease in some Tory heartlands.\n\nFormer deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine, who championed English devolution while advising David Cameron, has urged the government to get on with it, saying a lack of local delivery mechanisms is hampering progress.\n\n\"There should be no presumption that civil servants in London devising schemes which seem sensible to ministers should be imposed on local economies,\" he told a recent meeting of the Lords Economic Affairs Committee.\n\nBut the former Tory, who lost the party whip after rebelling against the government over Brexit, has urged ministers to get the capital on board and not give the impression that London is being penalised for its success.\n\n\"It is very difficult to see how you level up without levelling down somebody,\" he said. \"You are never going to make a success of an economy by holding back the most successful core part.\"", "Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have a lot in common - distinctive hairstyles, larger-than-life personalities and a habit of creating controversy.\n\nAnd now they share the unwanted experience of being leaders taken to hospital with coronavirus.\n\nThe US president is currently being treated for the disease, six months after UK Prime Minister Mr Johnson fell victim to the same virus.\n\nBut how do their experiences compare - and what, if anything, can the US learn from the UK's experience?\n\nOn 27 March, the UK Prime Minister announced he had tested positive for Covid. It was not hugely unexpected given the virus had ripped its way through the top levels of UK government - infecting ministers and senior advisers.\n\nIn a Twitter video Mr Johnson said he had experienced \"mild symptoms\" but insisted he was - \"thanks to the wizardry of modern technology\" - still leading the government's response despite self-isolating.\n\nOne week later he announced that a persistent temperature meant he would have to continue self-isolating.\n\nBoris Johnson looked noticeably unwell when he appeared outside Downing Street a few days before going into hospital\n\nTwo days later, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said his boss had \"very much got his hand on the tiller\". But that evening Mr Johnson was admitted to hospital - although Downing Street stressed this was \"a precautionary step\".\n\nTwenty-four hours later the shocking news came that his condition had \"worsened\" and the prime minister had been moved to the intensive care unit.\n\nThere are parallels between Mr Johnson's experience and Mr Trump's. Like the prime minister, Mr Trump has been keen to emphasise that he is still at work, posting pictures of himself at a desk with documents.\n\nBoth their visits to hospital were described as precautionary - Mr Trump's team said it had been motivated by an \"abundance of caution\".\n\nAnd both leaders - being male, over 50 and overweight - are in an at-risk category.\n\nHowever, there are also differences. Updates on Mr Johnson's condition came solely from the Downing Street spokesperson, rather than the hospital or his doctor, whereas in the US, the president's doctors have held press conferences.\n\nIn some ways this caused confusion - particularly when Dr Sean Conley's account conflicted with briefings from White House staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Sean Conley said he was trying to \"reflect the upbeat attitude\" of his team by not revealing the president received oxygen\n\nBut unlike in the UK, US journalists were able to question the medical team - and perhaps as a result Americans got a broader picture of their leader's health.\n\nIt speaks to a wider difference between the two countries. In America, a whole medical unit based in the White House is devoted to the care of the president and candidates to the presidency are now expected to release medical records\n\nNo such set-up exists in Downing Street and if you Google medical records plus Jeremy Corbyn (the former leader of the opposition) you are more likely to get hits for stories about the National Health Service, than any personal information.\n\nTwo blonde leaders get Covid and end up in hospital.\n\nBut that's where the similarities end.\n\nThere are vast constitutional and cultural differences between British and American politics.\n\nThe cultural first: men in white coats in front of a microphone. We've seen that in Washington.\n\nUpdates from the doctors, in front of the cameras. Updates with detail too: the drugs the president's on, the days he's getting them.\n\nThere is no way medics at St Thomas's Hospital in London were ever going to offer a running, public commentary on the prime minister's health, let alone the content of their syringes.\n\nOh, and an American president has a medical team and facilities on hand at the White House.\n\nIn contrast, Boris Johnson was holed up on his own, upstairs in Downing Street, his tea left at the door of his flat.\n\nAnd now the constitutional: in short, America has one, the UK doesn't.\n\nSo while the question of who takes over isn't easily answered in the UK, there's a long established plan in the US.\n\nOnce the prime minister was admitted into intensive care, his Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, was asked to deputise \"where necessary\".\n\nIn the US, the 25th Amendment sets out the conditions for a vice-president assuming power from his boss, but in the UK, with its unwritten constitution and enthusiasm for precedents over codified rules, there is no formal power that allows for such a transfer of responsibility.\n\nWe knew very little about the exact extent of Mr Raab's authority - and opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested Mr Raab, was \"reluctant\" to take decisions, leaving the government in a kind of limbo while the Prime Minister recuperated.\n\nConstitutional expert Dr Catherine Haddon of the Institute for Government said at the time: \"The lack of a plan for who can take over when the prime minister is incapacitated looks extraordinary to many in the country and abroad.\"\n\nDominic Raab deputised for the prime minister as he was moved to intensive care.\n\nSince his admission to hospital, there has been speculation about how Mr Trump's poll ratings will be affected - particularly with the presidential election one month away.\n\nLooking at the UK example - not much is the answer.\n\nBBC political analyst Peter Barnes says Boris Johnson's personal approval ratings went up - hitting 50% and above - when government introduced measures to tackle coronavirus.\n\nThe high ratings continued throughout the period that the prime minister was ill, and into May, before starting to fall back.\n\nMr Johnson came out of hospital on 12 April and returned to work after a two-week break.\n\nYet six months on, there has been some speculation over whether the Prime Minister is fully recovered. However, when asked if he was suffering from long Covid, Mr Johnson insisted he was \"as fit as several butchers' dogs\".\n\nHis spell in hospital has prompted at least one change in his behaviour. The prime minister has acknowledged he was \"too fat\" when he caught the virus and has hired a personal trainer to get him fit.\n\nSo in a few months' time, Americans may get used to seeing pictures of Mr Trump running laps round the Rose Garden.", "19-year-old Dylan Irvine died in a crash near Crimond on Monday\n\nPolice have apologised to the family of a teenager after they were incorrectly told he had died in a car crash.\n\nThe 18-year-old was critically injured in an incident on the A90 near Crimond in Aberdeenshire at about 07:30 on Monday but his family were told he had been killed.\n\nIn fact, it was 19-year-old Dylan Irvine who had died in the crash.\n\nCh Insp Neil Lumsden said incorrect information had been given to police at the scene.\n\nHe said officers were \"faced with a confused scene including incorrect information provided by a witness\".\n\n\"Officers at the scene of a crash use every avenue available to help identify those involved as quickly and accurately as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said this included using personal effects found at the scene, using police systems to find out who the registered keeper of a vehicle is, looking at who is insured to drive it and checking for any other information through the agencies such as the DVLA.\n\n\"Finally, crash investigators will also use the information gathered from those involved who are able to identify themselves and others\", Ch Insp Lumsden said.\n\n\"On this occasion, officers were faced with a confused scene including incorrect information provided by a witness.\n\n\"Once identified, the error was promptly corrected and the families of those involved were spoken to and were understanding of the circumstances.\n\n\"We have apologised to the families for any unintended upset and will review to identify any learning.\"\n\nMr Irvine's family said he was \"a loving son, brother and grandson, and was loved by all that had the pleasure of knowing him\".\n\n\"He had an adventurous and outgoing soul and had the biggest heart,\" they said.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone with information about the crash to contact them.\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. \"That was a very worrying moment, thinking 'have I now got Covid?'\"\n\nCovid-19 is being \"weaponised\" by offenders, according to one police force which has seen spitting and coughing assaults on officers double.\n\nNorth Wales Police saw twice as many such assaults between March and June compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nAlmost one-third of assault charges on South Wales Police officers were related to spitting or coughing between March and May, BBC research shows.\n\nMaximum sentences for assaults on emergency workers are being doubled.\n\n\"It's just absolutely appalling to weaponise a virus or disease against police officers and emergency service workers\" said North Wales Police Federation general secretary Mark Jones.\n\n\"It's unlike anything we've ever seen before, to be threatened with what is an unseen and silent killer is really terrible.\"\n\nPC David Roberts-Ablett: \"It was a very worrying moment, thinking - have I now got Covid?\"\n\nPC David Roberts-Ablett was coughed at by a man who claimed he had coronavirus symptoms after he was arrested for being violent towards staff at a Tesco supermarket in Cardiff.\n\nDarrell Glen Humphries had been taken to the city's University Hospital of Wales so an injury could be treated when the 53-year-old coughed in PC Roberts-Ablett's face.\n\n\"In these times of Covid, there's a concern. It was a very worrying moment,\" said the constable of nearly 20 years.\n\n\"He had been quite aggressive so I asked him to calm down. It was a very deliberate motion by him, he turned his head, his eyes, fixated on me.\n\n\"It was almost like he was targeting me, and he picked my face, and then deliberately looked straight at me and coughed at me. Fortunately I was wearing my glasses and a mask at the time so I was protected.\"\n\nDarrell Glen Humphries admitted assaulting an emergency worker in May\n\nHumphries, of Canton in Cardiff, was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison by the city's magistrates in May for the attack.\n\n\"It was a very worrying moment, thinking 'have I now got Covid?',\" the officer said.\n\n\"I thought what do I do? Where do I go?\n\n\"There is being a police officer and dealing with the criminal aspect of things, but there's a more humane side to it as well, where there's a lot of implications on me and my family, my colleagues and the people I am serving in Cardiff.\n\n\"It does play on your mind because for a while you just don't know.\"\n\nPolice forces across the UK saw a 21% increase in assaults on their officers in the first three months of lockdown.\n\nIn the North Wales force area, 30 of the 157 crimes recorded against police officers were coughing and spitting, up from 14 the previous year.\n\nOf those, 23 people were charged, up from 10 in 2019, according to a freedom of information request by the BBC.\n\nOne chief constable says an officer told him he would rather in some ways be shoved or pushed than coughed at\n\n\"The amount of deliberate coughing and spitting at police officers has risen quite sharply,\" Mr Jones said.\n\n\"To see that form of assault and attack on a police officer is quite worrying.\"\n\nIn the South Wales force area, the largest in Wales, of the 167 charges of police officer assaults, 55 were \"weaponising\" Covid-19 as threat and related to PCs being spat or coughed on.\n\n\"What we have seen is a number of people effectively making a weapon out of spitting and then presenting that they've got or believe they might have Covid-19,\" said Chief Constable Matt Jukes.\n\n\"A colleague who'd been involved in an incident said 'in some ways I'd rather be shoved, or punched, than get bitten or spat out, because of that long-term worry about the impact on health'.\n\n\"What the spitting and biting does is leaves officers with real uncertainty, until they can get test results.\n\n\"It's not always Covid-19, sometimes it's other infectious diseases. Sometimes they have to wait for reassurance or knowledge that there may be another issue they need to deal with.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage released of woman coughing at police officer in Tyne and Wear\n\nAssaults against police officers have also risen in the Gwent force area from 54 to 57 year-on-year, but they decreased in Dyfed-Powys from 111 to 96.\n\nMaximum sentences for those convicted of assaulting emergency workers in England and Wales are to be doubled, the home secretary said in September.\n\n\"Every day they risk their lives to protect ours - they should never face being punched, kicked or spat at,\" said Justice Secretary Robert Buckland.\n\n\"Anyone looking to harm prison officers, police, fire personnel or health workers should be under no illusion - your disgraceful behaviour is unacceptable and you will feel the full force of the law.\"", "Sir Ian Botham has taken his seat in the House of Lords.\n\nThe Brexit-backing former England cricketer wore the traditional scarlet and ermine-trimmed robe for the brief formal introduction ceremony.\n\nBaron Botham, of Ravensworth in the county of North Yorkshire was nominated for a life peerage in the 2020 Political Honours and will sit as a cross bencher.\n\nThe proceedings were delayed due to a technical problem, prompting groans from peers when Lord Speaker Lord Fowler told them: \"I think rain has stopped play just for the moment.\"", "A surge in cases has seen Nottingham rise to fifth in England for coronavirus rates\n\nHouseholds could be banned from mixing in Nottingham after a surge in cases, a city health official has said.\n\nDirector of public health Alison Challenger said rules were likely to be similar to those already in place in parts of northern England.\n\nThis would mean people from different households would no longer be able to meet.\n\nIt follows a surge in the city's Covid rate to 440.1 per 100,000, giving it the fifth highest rate in England.\n\nNo new rules have yet been imposed, but Nottingham City Council is urging residents to \"follow stricter restrictions\", and not to mix indoors with people from other households apart from their bubble.\n\nThis includes in the home, others' homes and at leisure and hospitality venues.\n\nMs Challenger said: \"Rather than waiting for a national message to come through, it makes sense for people to address those issues now and look at reducing their household contact.\"\n\nThe government is expected to announce tougher rules for the city this week, similar to those introduced in Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds.\n\nEvery area in England with a higher rate of positive tests already has local restrictions in place.\n\nThe city has already seen its historic Goose Fair cancelled due to the virus\n\nMs Challenger told BBC Radio Nottingham the city had seen a \"dramatic\" rise in rates, from 71.2 per 100,000 in the week ending 26 September.\n\nIn the same period, the number of confirmed cases increased from 237 to 1,465.\n\n\"It's a worrying trend and it means the measures we have in place are no longer enough to stop the spread of the virus in the city.\n\n\"So we are going to have to do more to keep people safe,\" she said.\n\nThe \"sudden and very sharp\" rise has coincided with students returning to the city.\n\nThe University of Nottingham said there had been 425 confirmed cases among its student population in the week to 2 October, including 226 students in private accommodation and 106 others living in halls of residence.\n\nBut Ms Challenger said the reasons behind the surge were more complex.\n\nShe said: \"Cases were going up before students came back, but of course large numbers of people living in close proximity, then that's inevitable we will see an increase in a number of cases.\n\n\"But that's not the whole picture, cases are going up everywhere.\"\n\nPublic Health England was now looking at the situation closely, Ms Challenger said.\n\n\"We do expect later this week that the government will be introducing more restrictions in Nottingham, so we can expect to see tighter restrictions,\" she said.\n\n\"The sort of measures we will be looking at are very much around the households mixing in particular.\n\n\"So we may find we are returning to that situation where we are in bubbles and we're asking people not to mix in their households.\"\n\nDetails of any restrictions are currently unclear, including exact boundaries of affected areas and whether it will apply outdoors as well as indoors.\n\nMs Challenger felt, however, it was possible the limit on gatherings may be changed.\n\nThe city council has also said the regional Covid-19 testing site in London Road may need to be moved as the current location has poor drainage.\n\nProvisional applications have also been made for nine additional testing sites in Nottingham.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We work closely with local leaders and public health teams to inform decisions on local interventions, taking into account a range of factors.\n\n\"PHE and NHS Test and Trace are constantly monitoring the levels of infection across the country.\n\n\"We discuss measures with local directors of public health and local authorities, constantly reviewing the evidence and we will take swift targeted action where necessary.\"\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.", "Offshore wind farms will generate enough electricity to power every home in the UK within a decade, Boris Johnson has pledged.\n\nSpeaking to the Conservative party conference, the PM announced £160m to upgrade ports and factories for building turbines to help the country \"build back greener\".\n\nThe plan aims to create 2,000 jobs in construction and support 60,000 more.\n\nHe said the UK would become \"the world leader in clean wind energy\".\n\n\"Your kettle, your washing machine, your cooker, your heating, your plug-in electric vehicle - the whole lot of them will get their juice cleanly and without guilt from the breezes that blow around these islands,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson's speech comes after he made a pledge at a UN biodiversity summit in New York to protect 30% of UK land for nature as a \"boost for biodiversity\".\n\nThe scheme will see the money invested into manufacturing in Teesside and Humber in northern England, as well as sites in Scotland and Wales.\n\nMr Johnson said the government was raising its target for offshore wind power capacity by 2030 from 30 gigawatts to 40 gigawatts.\n\nThe commitments are the first stage of a 10-point plan for a \"green industrial revolution\" from the government, with No 10 promising the rest of the details later this year to \"accelerate our progress towards net zero emissions by 2050\".\n\nThe net zero target means greenhouse gas emissions would be dramatically slashed and any remaining emissions offset, neutralising environmental impacts and slowing climate change.\n\nMr Johnson's speech comes amid a \"fractious\" mood on the Conservative backbenches about his handling of the Covid-19 crisis, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says.\n\nShe said the occasion could provide the prime minister with an opportunity to sell his vision of the country post-pandemic to party members.\n\nBut she added this year's speech - to be delivered virtually without a live audience - would not allow him to plug into the energy of a crowd as he normally would.\n\nThe Beatrice offshore wind farm in Scotland generates enough power for more than 450,000 properties\n\nMr Johnson told the conference he believes that in 10 years' time, \"offshore wind will be powering every home in the country\".\n\n\"Far out in the deepest waters we will harvest the gusts, and by upgrading infrastructure in places like Teesside and Humber and Scotland and Wales, we will increase an offshore wind capacity that is already the biggest in the world.\"\n\nThe PM also repeated his pledge for the UK to become the \"Saudi Arabia of wind power\", adding: \"As Saudi Arabia is to oil, the UK is to wind - a place of almost limitless resource, but in the case of wind without the carbon emissions and without the damage to the environment.\"\n\nThe PM's enthusiastic windy rhetoric has been welcomed by the renewables industry - but there's nothing new about the 40GW figure.\n\nIt was previously announced in the Conservative Party manifesto.\n\nWhat's important today is the promise of cash to improve ports to support the offshore industry in Scotland and the north of England.\n\nIt won't just create jobs to replace some of those being lost in the shrinking oil sector.\n\nIt could also support the onset of floating offshore wind power, which would allow wind farms anchored in deep water far west of Scotland, where the conditions are challenging but the winds are strong and consistent.\n\nThe advances in wind power are momentous, but shouldn't be exaggerated.\n\nThe PM is promising enough power all UK homes - but remember, homes only account for a third of electricity demand. The rest goes to offices and factories.\n\nAnd there's a long way to go before the economy is decarbonised.\n\nThe industry is now waiting for the government's long-delayed energy white paper.\n\nThat will set the course for onshore wind, solar, and the two latest objects of prime ministerial desire - hydrogen produced by surplus off-peak wind energy; and carbon capture, where emissions are caught and pumped into underground rocks.\n\nMinisters will also have to decide how they can fund the new nuclear stations that Mr Johnson says will be part of the UK energy mix.\n\nThe prime minister has previously said the UK should embrace a range of new technologies to achieve its goal of net zero emissions by 2050.\n\nLast month, Mr Johnson said he wanted the UK to take the lead in carbon capture and storage technology, in which greenhouse gas emissions are captured from sources such as power stations and then stored underground.\n\nHe also said the UK government was thinking of bringing forward the date for phasing out new petrol and diesel cars from 2035 to 2030.\n\nGreenpeace UK executive director John Sauven said: \"The prime minister's recognition that last year's Tory manifesto commitment on offshore wind can generate jobs whilst cutting energy bills and carbon is a great lightbulb moment.\n\n\"If carried through it would help cement the UK's global leadership in this key technology.\n\n\"But delivering 40 gigawatts of power on to the grid by 2030 requires action in this Parliament.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal", "The age at which most people start to receive the state pension has now officially hit 66 after steady rises in the qualifying age in recent years.\n\nMen and women born between 6 October, 1954, and 5 April, 1960, will start receiving their pension on their 66th birthday.\n\nFor those born after that, there will be a phased increase in state pension age to 67, and eventually 68.\n\nIt comes as the chancellor vowed the \"triple lock\" pledge is safe.\n\nUnder this pledge, the state pension increases each year in line with the highest of average earnings, prices (as measured by inflation) or 2.5%.\n\nCoronavirus and the furlough scheme is set to distort the calculations for average wages and could mean one bumper year of pension increases. This has led MPs and economists to discuss how this could be smoothed out.\n\nBut, when asked by LBC radio whether the triple lock was safe, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"Yes, our manifesto commitments are there and that is very much the legislative position.\n\n\"We care very much about pensioners and making sure they have security and that's indeed our policy.\"\n\nThe full state pension for new recipients is worth £175.20 a week.\n\nTo receive the full amount, various criteria including 35 qualifying years of national insurance must be satisfied.\n\nThe age at which people receive the state pension has been increasing as people live longer, and the government has plans for the increase to 68 to be brought forward.\n\nHowever, the increases have been controversial, particularly for women who have seen the most significant rise.\n\nCampaigners took their fight to court\n\nCampaigners claim women born in the 1950s have been treated unfairly by rapid changes and the way they were communicated to those affected.\n\nSome of those involved in the campaign recently lost a legal challenge, claiming the move was unlawful discrimination.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has led many people to reconsider retirement plans, especially those who feel they are more at risk from the outbreak.\n\nFormer pensions minister Ros Altmann argued that the crisis meant there was a \"strong case\" for people to be given early access to their state pension, even if it were at a reduced rate.\n\nShe also pointed out the large differences in life expectancy in different areas of the UK.\n\nMillions of people who will rely on their state pension in retirement need to know two things: how much will they receive, and when.\n\nThe future for both is not entirely clear.\n\nFirstly, the age at which the state pension begins has been rising, and will continue to do so. MPs will decide on how quickly this happens, fully aware of the strength of feeling from the WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaign over how this has been handled in the past.\n\nSecondly, there is always plenty of debate over the future of the triple lock - the pledge to ensure the state pension rises by a minimum of 2.5% each year.\n\nAnd if young workers think this has nothing to do with them, they should think again. How long we work before we receive state financial support in retirement is a vital issue for long-term financial planning.\n\nYounger workers have also been urged by pension providers to consider their retirement options, with a strong likelihood of state pension age rising further as time passes.\n\n\"As people live longer, it's clear many will also have to work for longer,\" said Pete Glancy, head of policy at Scottish Widows.\n\n\"The increase to the state pension age provides a timely reminder to everyone to check your pension pots and ask yourself whether the savings you've built up are enough for the kind of life you want in retirement.\"\n\nTom Selby, senior analyst at AJ Bell, said: \"As average life expectancy continues to increase, the state pension age will inevitably follow suit.\n\n\"This means younger savers probably need to plan assuming they might not reach their state pension age until 70 or even beyond. Anyone who aspires to more than the bare minimum in retirement needs to take responsibility as early as possible to build their own retirement pot.\"", "Coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air, sometimes for hours, says the US Centres for Disease Control.\n\nIts updated guidance says this airborne route of transmission is still uncommon - bigger droplets from coughs, sneezes and talking are still the main source.\n\nPeople are at higher risk of catching it the longer and closer they are to someone who has the virus.\n\nLast month, the CDC published - and then took down - a draft version of the guidance warning about possible airborne transmission, saying it had been posted in error.\n\nAt the time, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it knew of no new evidence to suggest this was how the virus was spreading, although it agreed that aerosol transmission was possible in some circumstances.\n\nThere are some examples where people with Covid have infected others who were more than 6ft or 2m away. Others have caught the virus in an air space that an infectious person was present in minutes or hours earlier.\n\nThe CDC says these are rare, and existing advice on protective behaviours - washing hands, wearing face coverings and social distancing - remains the same.\n\n\"People can protect themselves from the virus that causes Covid-19 by staying at least 6ft away from others, wearing a mask that covers their nose and mouth, washing their hands frequently, cleaning touched surfaces often and staying home when sick,\" says the CDC.\n\nIt says the general public do not need to take the added precautions that healthcare professionals do to protect against airborne transmission, such as wearing medical grade masks and other personal protective equipment.\n\nGuidance from the UK government says clinicians carrying out tasks that could generate airborne droplets of saliva loaded with the virus should use the higher standard of protection, including disposable gowns, filtering respirators and face-shielding visors.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This was a virtual conference speech in which the prime minister's gaze extended over the horizon -- to the point when our national conversation is no longer dominated by Coronavirus.\n\nIt was clearly an attempt to reassure Conservative MPs and activists that the Boris Johnson they elected as their leader, and the country enthusiastically embraced as prime minister at the last election, hadn't disappeared.\n\nSo there were the colourful turns of phrase, the sentences that would have generated laughter in the hall, the reassurance he had fully recovered from his bout of the virus.\n\nAnd then it was the big picture: the agenda, alongside delivering Brexit, that delivered that thumping majority back in December last year.\n\nSo: talk of enterprise, talk of home ownership, a green tinged economic recovery.\n\nWas there less in this than a conventional conference speech?\n\nYes: it was shorter, there was no audience, no razzmatazz.\n\nIt was also delivered in the teeth of a pandemic, with a grim autumn and winter beckoning - where the government, like the rest of us, remain hostages to the fortune, or lack of it, of what the pandemic might bring.", "Mike Hampshire says without a bounce back loan he may have to search for other work\n\nQuitting his IT job two years ago to start a beer tour business was a dream for Mike Hampshire.\n\nBut his hopes of breaking even in his second year of operation were crushed when the coronavirus crisis hit in spring.\n\nNow the future of his Leeds-based business is in serious doubt as he's been unable to get a bounce back loan.\n\n\"Without a loan to tide me over I'm going to have to look for other work,\" he said.\n\nIn September, the chancellor extended the deadline for the government's coronavirus loan schemes to the end of November.\n\nBounce back loans allow small firms to borrow up to £50,000 over nine years at preferential rates, with the loans 100% guaranteed by the government.\n\nMr Hampshire is not the only small business owner fighting to survive without being able to get a loan through the government scheme.\n\nMr Bounceback, an anonymous businessman behind a website which helps struggling small firms, said he has heard from lots of people with problems.\n\n\"Several banks are not accepting new customers, and the majority of them have chosen to only allow their existing customers to apply, or even worse some lenders appear to be handpicking customers and inviting them to apply,\" he said.\n\nSmall businesses which bank with smaller lenders could be missing out\n\nSuren Thiru, head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: \"With many firms facing continued cash flow pressures, it is concerning that businesses who bank with non-accredited lenders remain largely unable to access these vital financial lifelines.\"\n\n\"Government, regulators and banks must work together to ensure that a greater number of firms can access this support during this challenging period.\"\n\nBanking trade body UK Finance said that \"the vast majority of applicants have been able to rapidly access the finance they need\" through the scheme which has lent £38bn to 1.26 million smaller businesses.\n\n\"It isn't the only type of lending, I must say,\" said Stephen Pegge, UK Finance's managing director for commercial finance. \"There is a possibility, even if you can't get a bounce back loan, of borrowing elsewhere.\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme there are \"28 accredited lenders account for the vast majority of existing business relationships so most people will bank with one of those\".\n\nBut he said that of those 28 lenders, only \"one or two\" will give a bounce back loan to new customers.\n\nMike Hampshire's guided beer tours came to a sudden halt in March when pubs shut their doors.\n\n\"I've pretty much had no income since March, but had a bit of cash put by, so thought I'd try and ride it out,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"When pubs re-opened, the social-distancing rules made it impossible to run the tours and I've also had to cancel the annual beer festival I run in November.\"\n\nWith his money running out he turned to government support and decided to apply for a bounce back loan.\n\n\"I need about £5,000 to see me through to the spring when, hopefully, things will be better,\" he said.\n\nMike Hampshire's guided beer tours came to a sudden halt in March\n\nBut he banks with Monzo which isn't one of the 28 lenders which signed up for the government scheme.\n\nHe tried to apply through HSBC, but the bank closed its doors to new customers last week, the day before he made his application.\n\nNow he reckons he'll have to take on a different job, just to help him get through the winter.\n\n\"There are so many unknowns. If I do find another job, it could well become a permanent thing which would mean the end of my business.\"\n\nHSBC said that it had made £12bn of bounce back loans and that it was trying to prioritise existing applications, which is why it closed applications to new customers on 30 September.\n\n\"We are no longer accepting new applications for Bounce Back Loans from companies that don't have an existing HSBC business account and we will also stop taking on any new small business banking customers until 14 December,\" the bank said.\n\nLloyds Banking Group, which includes Bank of Scotland and Halifax, said limiting bounce back loans to existing companies made applications speedy, as well as helping with fraud and money laundering checks.\n\nNatWest Group said it had always been its policy that bounce back loans were offered to existing customers.\n\nNatWest also owns the brands Coutts, Royal Bank of Scotland, Ulster Bank and Adam & Company, which are each listed in the 28 lenders taking part in the scheme.\n\nThe deadline for bounce back loan applications is 30 November, which means time is running out for firms who have yet to secure a loan.\n\nThe latest Treasury figures show lenders have approved 1,260,940 applications for the bounce back loan scheme.", "Covid is taking an emotional toll across Europe with rising levels of apathy among some populations, the World Health Organization is warning.\n\nSurvey data reveals the scale of this \"pandemic fatigue\", estimated to have reached over 60% in some cases.\n\nMany people are feeling less motivated about following protective behaviours after living with disruption and uncertainty for months, says the WHO.\n\nAlthough weary, people must revive efforts to fight the virus, it says.\n\nUntil a vaccine or effective treatments are available, public support and protective behaviours - washing hands, wearing face coverings and social distancing - remain critical for containing the virus.\n\nCoronavirus is continuing its spread across the world, with more than 35 million confirmed cases in 188 countries and more than one million deaths.\n\nDr Hans Henri Kluge, WHO's regional director for Europe, says fatigue is to be expected at this stage of the crisis.\n\n\"Since the virus arrived in the European region eight months ago, citizens have made huge sacrifices to contain Covid-19.\n\n\"It has come at an extraordinary cost, which has exhausted all of us, regardless of where we live, or what we do. In such circumstances it is easy and natural to feel apathetic and demotivated, to experience fatigue.\n\n\"I believe it is possible to reinvigorate and revive efforts to tackle the evolving Covid-19 challenges we face.\"\n\nHe says there are strategies to get us back on track, with communities at their heart:\n\nHe highlighted virtual celebrations during Ramadan or floating cinemas as successful new approaches that could help people adapt to the new conditions imposed by the pandemic.\n\nThe UK does its own regular survey on coronavirus and social attitudes and behaviours, based on a poll of around 2,200 adults.\n\nYouGov also tracks public attitudes and says the majority of people are still supportive of restrictions and measures to reduce the spread of the virus, based on surveys of more than 1,600 adults.\n\nStrongest support comes for the measures that are less restrictive on groups of people meeting, with 85% supporting the toughened rules around wearing face masks, the advice to work from home when possible (85%) and pubs operating with table service only (82%).\n\nSupport for other measures is slightly weaker, though closing pubs at 22:00 (69%), reducing capacity at weddings (62%) and limiting indoor sport to six people (61%) are all still backed by a majority of the British public.\n\nDisapproval of government handling of Covid continues to rise, however. Around 65% now say the government is doing a bad job, compared with 20% in late March when the country went into lockdown.\n• None Which treatments work best against Covid?\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. Comic Relief ditch plastic red noses thanks to school campaign\n\nRed Nose Day 2021 will have plastic-free red noses for the first time after schoolchildren persuaded Comic Relief to switch to a natural alternative.\n\nThe charity, which runs the TV fundraising extravaganza, said it had received letters and emails from hundreds of children about the issue.\n\nPupils in Cornwall even got the backing of Sir David Attenborough when they called for an end to plastic red noses.\n\nComic Relief's Richard Curtis said they had \"definitely made a difference\".\n\nRed noses are sold to raise funds for the charity, which made more than £63m the last time Red Nose Day took place in 2019.\n\nThe new noses will be made from bagasse, a natural by-product of sugar cane.\n\nThe stars of the Only Fools and Horses stage show wearing red noses in 2019\n\nAccording to the charity, Fourlanesend Community Primary School in Torpoint, Cornwall, wrote to Sir David suggesting an alternative material, and he wrote back saying the children were \"perfectly correct\" to raise \"the question of replacing plastic products wherever we can, and I hope you get an adequate answer from Comic Relief\".\n\nCurtis told the PA news agency the charity had been thinking about the issue already, but praised the children who got in touch.\n\n\"There is absolutely no doubt that a bit of tactical nudging by some passionate kids definitely made a difference,\" he said. \"That's a good thing and what we would hope of people who support Comic Relief.\"\n\nFourlanesend headteacher Rebecca Norton said: \"Plastic is an issue our children care passionately about as they see so much plastic waste wash up on the shores of our beaches.\n\n\"The children were the driving force behind contacting our local press in 2019 and writing to Comic Relief and can't quite believe this has all happened.\"\n\nThe 18th Red Nose Day will take place on 19 March 2021.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protests in Naples over possible lockdown\n\nProtesters in Naples opposed to stricter coronavirus measures clashed with police late into the night.\n\nSome threw smoke bombs and firecrackers in the centre of the southern Italian city; police responded with tear gas.\n\nThe mainly young crowd defied a night-time curfew imposed late on Friday in the Campania region after cases rose.\n\nRegional President Vincenzo de Luca has called for a national lockdown to avoid a repeat of the casualties seen in the first wave earlier this year.\n\nHundreds broke through a police cordon near the regional headquarters building late on Friday, Italy's Ansa news agency reports.\n\nAlong with smoke bombs, bottles were thrown at the 100-strong line of police in riot gear.\n\nDemonstrators earlier gathered in front of a university building in response to calls on social media. One carried a banner with the words \"you close us, you pay us\".\n\nProtesters chanted slogans calling for financial help\n\n\"No conditions of discomfort, however humanly understandable, can in any way justify violence,\" he said.\n\nItaly, badly hit during the first wave of the virus in March and April, has seen a spike in new daily infections - 19,143 were registered on Friday. Ninety-one deaths were recorded, though that is much lower than the peak of fatalities in the first wave.\n\nRegional leaders have the power to impose their own measures, but Campania's president said regional lockdowns would not be enough.\n\n\"We need to make one last effort to get things under control. We need to shut everything down for a month, for 40 days,\" he said in a statement posted on the regional government's website.\n\nPrime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said he does not want to repeat the national lockdown imposed during the first wave, as Italy continues to grapple with the severe economic consequences.\n\nCampania is the second worst-hit region in Italy in terms of new cases, behind Lombardy, which was the epicentre when the pandemic first arrived in Italy.\n\nMore than 37,000 people have died with coronavirus in Italy, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, and over 484,000 have been infected.\n\nScroll table to see more data Please update your browser to see full interactive", "Crowds looted a warehouse believed to be storing food supplies for distribution during Covid lockdowns\n\nNigeria's chief of police has ordered the immediate mobilisation of all police resources to put an end to days of street violence and looting.\n\nMohammed Adamu said criminals had hijacked anti-police brutality protests and taken over public spaces.\n\nA new wave of looting was reported on Sunday, a day after Mr Adamu ordered police to end the \"violence, killings, looting and destruction of property\".\n\nProtests calling for an end to police brutality began on 7 October.\n\nThe demonstrations, dominated by young people, started with calls for a police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars), to be disbanded.\n\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari dissolved the Sars unit - accused of harassment, extortion, torture and extrajudicial killings - days later, but the protests continued, demanding broader reforms in the way Nigeria is governed.\n\nThey escalated after unarmed protesters were shot in the nation's biggest city, Lagos, on Tuesday. Rights group Amnesty International said security forces killed at least 12 people. Nigeria's army has denied any involvement.\n\nLagos has in recent days seen widespread looting of shops, malls and warehouses, and property has been damaged, with the businesses of prominent politicians targeted. A number of buildings have been torched and prisons attacked.\n\nOn Sunday, there were reports of government warehouses being ransacked in the central city of Jos, as well as in Adamawa and Taraba states, with people taking away food and agricultural supplies.\n\nThere were similar reports of looting from warehouses in Bukuru city, near Jos, on Saturday.\n\nThe warehouses were said to have stored food supplies for distribution during lockdowns imposed to help control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe images of people carrying sacks of supplies from a warehouse in Bukuru were posted on social media\n\nPresident Buhari has said that at least 69 people have died in street violence since the protests across Nigeria began - mainly civilians but also police officers and soldiers.\n\nOn Saturday, the Nigerian police force tweeted that Mr Adamu, the inspector general of police, had told them \"enough is enough\" and ordered officers to \"use all legitimate means to halt a further slide into lawlessness\".\n\nA group that has been key in organising the demonstrations in Lagos had on Friday urged people to stay at home.\n\nThe Feminist Coalition also advised people to follow any curfews in place in their states.\n\nThe group said it would no longer be taking donations for the #EndSARS protests.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An organiser of protests against police brutality in Nigeria tells the BBC he saw soldiers shoot people dead", "Health boards across Wales are preparing for a mass immunisation programme if a Covid-19 vaccine becomes available\n\nNew trials of coronavirus vaccinations will start in Wales \"within weeks\".\n\nA top scientist who works for the body responsible for organising the pilots said different vaccines will be trialed across parts of Wales \"very soon\".\n\nAbout 500 volunteers in the Gwent area have already taken part in trials of the Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.\n\nThe new trials will be for different vaccines, but Health and Care Research Wales would not confirm which products.\n\n\"We're working with vaccines developed by others and they are searching for locations to trial their vaccinations,\" said Dr Angharad Davies, Health and Care Research Wales' lead for infection.\n\n\"Although we're not developing the vaccines ourselves, it is a lot of work.\n\n\"We're looking at starting the trials very soon - within the next month or two. They will be held across Wales.\n\n\"Some will be in the Aneurin Bevan Health Board area in Gwent, some will be in Cardiff and there will be others in north Wales - they will probably be with a different vaccination.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nWales' 17-day national lockdown started on Friday as the Welsh Government aims to slow the surge in Covid-19 cases and hospital admissions by ordering people to stay at home and closing non-essential shops, pubs, restaurants and hotels.\n\nMore than 40,000 people have tested positive and 1,756 people have died with Covid-19 in Wales since the first case at the end of February. There have been more than 41.5 million cases across the world and more than one million deaths.\n\nVaccines are designed to train the immune system in a highly targeted way that leaves lasting protection against one particular infection.\n\nImmunisation is often seen as the holy grail that will end the Covid-19 pandemic, but a report from researchers brought together by the Royal Society said people needed to be \"realistic\" about what a vaccine could achieve and when.\n\nSome 200 different vaccines are being developed across the world, with some countries already using vaccinations developed by their own scientists. Some scientists fear, however, these vaccines may not have been tested rigorously enough.\n\nDr Davies understand 10 vaccinations have now reached a stage in the development process where researchers feel it \"seems safe to administer and creates a response from the immune system\".\n\nPeople have been warned a coronavirus vaccine is \"not around the corner\"\n\n\"It then needs to be tested to see whether it can prevent infection - and whether it is safe on a large scale, looking at potential rarer side-effects,\" she added.\n\nHealth boards across Wales are preparing a mass immunisation programme for when - or if - a vaccine becomes available.\n\nBut one of Wales' top drug professors has warned \"history is against us\" when finding a cure against \"this family of viruses\".\n\n\"It could be a very long time until a vaccine is found which is both safe and effective, and there is no certainty one will appear,\" said Arwyn Tomos Jones, Professor of Membrane Traffic and Drug Delivery at Cardiff University.\n\n\"If everything worked perfectly, there would be hope of a vaccine in around a year I'd say.\n\nThe Welsh Government have confirmed they are working with Public Health Wales and the UK government on plans to distribute the vaccine when one becomes available.\n\nThose facing the highest risk will likely be immunised first, with priority being decided at a UK level by an expert committee.", "Bennu - the asteroid could hold clues as to how the Solar System was formed\n\nA Nasa probe sent to collect rock from an asteroid several hundred million kilometres from Earth has grabbed so much that samples are spilling out.\n\nOfficials behind the Osiris-Rex probe, which landed on Bennu earlier this week, say the collection operation may have performed too well.\n\nPictures beamed back to Earth show a rock has wedged open the door of a container and a fraction of the sample is leaking, Nasa says.\n\nNasa is now trying to stow it safely.\n\n\"A substantial fraction of the required collected mass is seen escaping,\" head of mission Dante Lauretta said.\n\nThe craft is believed to have collected some 400g (14oz) of fragments, he said.\n\nThe probe could not have done better, he added. \"My big concern now is that the particles are escaping because we were almost a victim of our own success here.\"\n\n\"Time is of the essence,\" Thomas Zurbuchen, Nasa's associate administrator for science, told reporters as the space agency focuses on making sure no more is lost.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sampling an asteroid: This image sequence is speeded up and repeated\n\nThe collection container will now be stowed within the spacecraft, which means it will not be possible to measure exactly how much sample has been taken.\n\n\"Although we may have to move more quickly to stow the sample, it's not a bad problem to have,\" Mr Zurbuchen said. \"We are so excited to see what appears to be an abundant sample that will inspire science for decades beyond this historic moment.\"\n\nOsiris-Rex touched down on Tuesday on 500m-wide Bennu, some 320 million kilometres (200 million miles) from Earth.\n\nIt kicked up debris and dust when it took the samples from the asteroid's surface. \"We really did kind of make a mess,\" Mr Dante said on Tuesday.\n\nScientists hope the mission will throw light on how the Solar System began 4.5 billion years ago, once the samples are examined when the spacecraft returns home in 2023. Asteroids contain debris from the formation of the Solar System.\n\nThe spacecraft launched in 2016 and begins its journey back to Earth next March.", "More than 1.4 million people in South Yorkshire are the latest to move to England's top level of restrictions.\n\nTier three measures came into effect at midnight affecting areas including Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.\n\nSheffield City Region's mayor said the measures were needed but called on the government to \"define precisely what the exit criteria is\" from tier three.\n\nMeanwhile, Wales entered the first full day of a national lockdown amid border patrols to stop non-essential travel.\n\nGloucestershire Constabulary said it will patrol routes into the Forest of Dean area and pull over vehicles suspected of making unnecessary journeys out of Wales.\n\nDrivers without a valid excuse will be advised to turn around and, if they do not, will be reported to police in Wales who can issue fines, the force added.\n\nIt comes as another 174 deaths and 23,012 new confirmed cases were recorded on Saturday.\n\nAnd a leading epidemiologist has warned sending some children home from schools may be the only way to control infection rates.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, a former government scientific adviser, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the current restrictions on household mixing \"should have a significant effect\".\n\nBut he said beyond that there was a \"limit to what we can do\" without sending some school year groups home.\n\nProf Ferguson, whose advice led to the lockdown in March, also said it was \"too early to say\" what impact the restrictions were having, adding: \"I think we'll have to wait another week or two.\"\n\nAsked what the impact would be of relaxing lockdown rules for one or two days on Christmas, Mr Ferguson, who quit his role in May after an \"error of judgement\", said it was a \"balancing act\" and \"a political judgement\".\n\n\"It risks some transmission and there will be consequences of that,\" he said. \"But if it's only one or two days the impact is likely to be limited.\"\n\nSome 7.3 million people are now living under England's tightest restrictions.\n\nAs the Sheffield City region entered tier three - very high alert - mayor Dan Jarvis, urged people to \"do their bit\" and stick to the new rules.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he was \"clear what it takes our end\" to get out of tier three, such as a drop in new cases - but the government \"do have to be clear and transparent about the exit strategy\".\n\nElsewhere, Stoke-on-Trent, Slough and Coventry moved into tier two - high alert level - at midnight.\n\nIn Wales, a 17-day \"firebreak\" has started, meaning most non-essential businesses are closed, with people only able to leave home for limited reasons.\n\nIn line with new guidance, supermarkets removed non-essential items from sale - including clothing, kitchen electrical items and crockery - using barriers and plastic sheets to cover products.\n\nShoppers in Wales will not be allowed to buy non-essential items, such as clothing and tableware, in stores\n\nIn Scotland, a five-level system will be introduced from 2 November. The top level would be close to a full lockdown, but the aim is for schools to remain open at all levels.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, schools have been closed for two weeks as part of an extended half-term break. This is part of a four-week \"circuit-breaker\" lockdown, with some businesses being told to close temporarily.\n\nUnder England's tier three rules, pubs and bars not serving substantial meals have to close, while household mixing is banned indoors and outdoors in hospitality settings and private gardens.\n\nAdditional rules in South Yorkshire include the closure of betting shops, adult gaming centres, casinos, and soft play centres. However, gyms will remain open.\n\nThe new measures will be reviewed after 28 days, but Sheffield's director of public health, Greg Fell, said he feared four weeks \"will not be long enough\".\n\nIn a letter to residents, Mr Jarvis, who is also the Labour MP for Barnsley Central, said there was light at the end of the tunnel and the restrictions would \"help us reach it sooner, and at a lower cost\".\n\nHe warned South Yorkshire communities now have some of the highest numbers of cases in the north of England and infection rates are still going up.\n\nIn Barnsley the infection rate in the seven days to 19 October was 486 cases per 100,000 people, in Sheffield 415, in Rotherham 407 and in Doncaster 393. The average area in England had 117.\n\nMr Jarvis wrote: \"It's tempting to think that because new restrictions are not a silver bullet they are not worth the disruption.\n\n\"We don't have the luxury of easy choices. But I have no doubt this was the right one to make.\n\n\"The alternatives carry far too great a risk of causing more deaths, and ultimately more harm to our economy.\"\n\nSouth Yorkshire joins Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region and Lancashire in tier three.\n\nTier three rules will also come into force in Warrington on Tuesday, two days earlier than initially planned, to \"urgently\" reduce coronavirus cases, according to the local council.\n\nNottingham and parts of Nottinghamshire are expected to be moved into the highest tier next week, with the finer details such as whether or not gyms can stay open still to be decided.\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics data estimates cases in England have risen to more than 35,200 a day.\n\nThe ONS survey tests a representative sample of the general population to provide an estimate of the true spread of the virus, as it picks up asymptomatic cases that would not necessarily be identified in the daily figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHow are the restrictions affecting you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A man has been charged with preparing for a right-wing terrorist attack on a major immigration law firm.\n\nCavan Medlock, 28, of Harrow, north London, is charged with preparing an act of terrorism by researching Duncan Lewis Solicitors with the intention of killing an immigration solicitor.\n\nProsecutors allege he equipped himself with a knife and handcuffs, as well as Nazi and Confederate flags before going to the offices in Harrow on 7 September.\n\nHe faces a trial on 17 May.\n\nHe is charged with preparation of terrorist acts under Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006.\n\nHe is also charged with five further counts, including threatening with a bladed article in a public place, battery, two counts of causing racially aggravated alarm, harassment or distress, and making a threat to kill.\n\nHe is accused of threatening a receptionist with a knife before threatening to kill a solicitor and abusing other members of staff because of their racial or religious background.\n\nMr Medlock was not present during a hearing at the Old Bailey after he stripped to his waist as he briefly appeared by video-link from Wormwood Scrubs prison, before refusing to put his clothes back on.\n\nHe is yet to enter pleas to any of the charges.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pressure is mounting on the government to reverse its decision not to provide free school meals over the holidays in England.\n\nSeveral Conservative MPs are opposing No 10's stance, as Labour threatens to push for another Commons vote and some 2,000 doctors call for a U-turn.\n\nIt comes as the PM faces calls to meet footballer Marcus Rashford to discuss his free school meals campaign.\n\nThe government has said it has increased welfare support.\n\nDowning Street has also highlighted tens of millions of pounds in funding for councils to help vulnerable families during the pandemic.\n\nBut there is increasing criticism from within Tory ranks over the government's decision to rule out extending meal vouchers for around 1.3 million vulnerable children in England to cover holidays.\n\nFormer Tory children's minister Tim Loughton, who did not support Labour's motion, said he would lobby ministers to reverse the decision for the Christmas break.\n\nAnd Tobias Ellwood, a former defence minister, said the free school meals scheme was \"well received\" and a \"simple and practical\" way of supporting families.\n\nJohnny Mercer, a defence minister, admitted on Twitter that the government had dealt with the issue \"poorly\".\n\nAnd more than 2,000 paediatricians who work with young people have signed a letter saying England should follow Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in providing meals during the holidays.\n\nMarcus Rashford has led a viral social media campaign highlighting organisations providing food during half term\n\nMeanwhile, chairman of the education select committee Robert Halfon said a meeting would help ministers create a long-term strategy to combat child food hunger.\n\nLabour has said it will force a new Commons vote on the issue if the government does not change its position before the Christmas Commons recess.\n\nTulip Siddiq, shadow minister for children, said she was sorry the issue had \"become a political football\" but some Conservative MPs \"are realising this is principles before party\" and she appealed for more to stand against the government.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast that, with some local councils agreeing to supply meal vouchers during the holidays, the issue had become \"a postcode lottery\" because not every council had \"stepped up\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Conservative MPs rejected Labour's Opposition Day motion to extend free school meals by 322 votes to 261, with five Tory MPs rebelling.\n\nOne of those rebels, Mr Halfon, called on Mr Johnson to meet Rashford, telling the BBC: \"It may be that they don't agree with everything that Marcus Rashford is proposing, but it would give us a chance to come up with a long-term plan to combat child food hunger once and for all.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Rashford, 22, tweeted to condemn the \"unacceptable\" abuse some MPs had received for voting against the motion.\n\nThe government extended free school meals to eligible children during the Easter holidays earlier this year.\n\nFollowing the Manchester United striker's campaign, it bowed to pressure to do the same throughout the summer holiday.\n\nBut this time it has refused to do so, saying it has given councils £63m for families facing financial difficulties due to pandemic restrictions, as well as increasing welfare support by £9.3bn.\n\nBusinesses have been offering to provide children with food during half-term\n\nThis puts it at odds with the other UK nations, which have all extended the policy beyond term time.\n\nHowever, hundreds of cafes, restaurants and some local councils have since pledged to help feed children facing hardship during the October half term - prompting Rashford to say he \"couldn't be more proud to call myself British\".\n\nRashford's petition on child food poverty was approaching 800,000 names on Sunday morning.\n\nMeanwhile, two Conservative MPs have said comments they made about the issue were \"taken out of context\" after their remarks were criticised.\n\nCommenting on a school in Mansfield, Ben Bradley said that \"one kid lives in a crack den, another in a brothel\". Another Twitter user responded, saying that \"£20 cash direct to a crack den and a brothel sounds like the way forward with this one\", to which Mr Bradley replied: \"That's what FSM [free school meal] vouchers in the summer effectively did...\"\n\nMr Bradley said the tweet, which has since been deleted, had been \"totally taken out of context\".\n\nSimilarly, Conservative MP, Selaine Saxby, used the same defence after writing in a since-deleted Facebook post that she hoped businesses who were giving away food for free \"will not be seeking any further government support\".\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "One council leader described some MPs as \"callously indifferent\" to the plight of children\n\nCommunities across the country are stepping up to the plate to provide free school meals to children after a campaign by Marcus Rashford.\n\nIt comes after a motion to extend free school meals over holidays during the Covid-19 pandemic was rejected by MPs.\n\nThe Manchester United striker had called on people to \"unite\" to protect the most vulnerable children.\n\nFish and chip shops, pubs, restaurants and cafes are among the hospitality venues to offer free meals.\n\nA growing number of councils across England have also pledged to provide food vouchers over half term.\n\nLabour-led authorities in Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, Hammersmith & Fulham and Doncaster are among those agreeing to fund their own schemes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marcus Rashford and his mother Melanie helped out at FareShare Greater Manchester\n\nThe government said all measures would be kept under review after a Labour motion in the Commons to extend the scheme over holidays until Easter 2021 was defeated.\n\nHammersmith & Fulham Council leader Stephen Cowan said watching the vote was \"cutting\".\n\nHe said: \"I have seen a lot of kids who need food. I was in a school on Tuesday speaking to kids who have the free lunches now and they were explaining they have gone for days without a proper meal.\n\n\"They were very sweet kids, and then I looked at the MPs who were so callously indifferent to that and I thought, 'how can that be happening in the fifth richest country on Earth?'\n\n\"There are so many things they spend money on, it's a moral imperative.\"\n\nLiverpool mayor Joe Anderson said the decision would feed about 19,800 children in the city, while Doncaster's mayor Ros Jones said it was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nIan Ward, leader of Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in England, described the government policy on the issue as \"chaotic\" and \"unsustainable\".\n\nGovernment ministers have praised Mr Rashford for highlighting the difficulties facing low-income families, but some Conservative MPs have accused him of \"virtue signalling\".\n\nMore than 200 children's writers are among those urging the government to ensure no child goes hungry this winter.\n\nOther councils who have offered their own meal schemes include York, Wolverhampton, Oldham, Southwark, Redbridge, Lambeth, North Tyneside, Greenwich, Tower Hamlets and Telford & Wrekin.\n\nMarcus Rashford has urged people to \"unite\" to protect the most vulnerable children\n\nOther areas that will provide support include Reading, Middlesbrough, Medway, Kirklees, Brighton, Sefton, Knowsley, Lewisham, Halton and Portsmouth.\n\nTreasury minister Steve Barclay told BBC Radio 4's Today earlier there was an extra £9bn in support available through the welfare system.\n\n\"It's important we support families in need,\" he said.\n\n\"In the design and the measures we've taken, for example on housing support, lifting the allowance at the lowest in terms of rents to cover a much wider range of housing benefits, that again is about supporting families through the welfare system.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStaggering the return to universities after Christmas and the use of testing will form the strategy to get students home in December.\n\nScotland's Education Secretary John Swinney has given more details of the plan to allow students to return home.\n\nIt follows a spike in coronavirus infections in September when students moved into university accommodation.\n\nHundreds tested positive across the UK, with thousands told to self-isolate in halls.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, the deputy first minister said the Scottish government was in discussions with the UK government and the other devolved administrations to learn lessons from the experience of early autumn.\n\nHe said: \"Some of the points we are looking at are staggered returns of students, arrangements for how testing can be part of the architecture of how we handle that return.\n\n\"Also, what expectations we have of students when they are returning home and when they return to universities, and how their learning will be undertaken.\"\n\nThe Scottish government is working with the rest of the UK nations to manage the movement of students at Christmas\n\nHe said the discussions involved \"intense detail\" to make sure the movement of students both home for Christmas and returning back to university was handled safely to prevent spread of the virus in other parts of the UK.\n\nHe said testing programmes would be involved.\n\n\"These are some of the options being looked at,\" he added. \"Practicalities are eased if return of students is staggered over a longer period and we are working with institutions because they have to be partners with us on how the learning is undertaken over that period.\n\n\"We want to avoid any situation where there is not too much strain on the testing system or on the possibility of the circulation of the virus when students return or when they return to their homes in the first place.\"\n\nMatt Crilly, president of the National Union of Students (NUS) Scotland, said it wanted to see a \"clear and coherent\" plan from the Scottish government \"urgently\".\n\n\"In terms of a return to campus in the new year, we must avoid a repeat of the mass outbreaks we saw among the student population in the autumn,\" he said.\n\n\"Universities and Colleges need to clearly communicate with their students on what their next semester is going to look like, so that students can make an informed decision on whether they wish to return.\n\n\"NUS Scotland continues to call for remote learning to be the default position. That way no student has to go back to campus unless absolutely necessary. No student should be left asking themselves, again, why they've been asked to return for no good reason.\"\n\nHe added: \"We welcome that the Scottish government and institutions are looking at mass asymptomatic testing for the student population. We would welcome further discussion on this issue.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat Leader Willie Rennie also welcomed the asymptomatic testing which he said could \"hunt down and drive out the virus from campuses\".\n\nOn Saturday he told the BBC the Scottish government was doing everything it could to get students home for Christmas.\n\nHe said he recognised the importance of family and community occasions but that suppressing the virus was paramount.\n\nStudents were asked to stay away from parties, pubs and restaurants for a weekend and were only allowed to return home if they could self-isolate and their households went into quarantine.\n\nAt the time Nicola Sturgeon said it was \"absolutely our priority\" to make sure that students are able to return home for Christmas.\n\nIt comes after children in Scotland were asked to stay at home this Halloween.\n\nStudents in Edinburgh staged a protest against their treatment by the university\n\nMeanwhile, students from Edinburgh University staged a protest over their \"mistreatment\" by the institution during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nProtesters claimed the university made a \"false promise\" of hybrid learning and said many students would not have taken out leases on flats if they had known most learning would be online.\n\nThey also claimed the university's treatment of first years had been \"terrible\", saying the university had \"locked them in halls of residences with zero regard for their mental health and wellbeing\".\n\nStudents gathered to protest in the city's Bristo Square on Saturday, calling for better treatment and services and an \"actual provision of hybrid learning\", saying if the university cannot provide this then a cut in fees for the online semester is needed.\n\nThe university said academic and support staff had been working \"tirelessly\" to provide students with the world-class education that they expect from the institution.\n\nStudents were unhappy at what they saw as a lack of support when cases soared at halls of residence\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We have been working closely with the Students' Union and other student groups to ensure that their views are heard at the highest level.\n\n\"Students are receiving a hybrid learning experience, in line with Scottish government guidance, with some in-person teaching taking place on campus. We are delivering more than 95,000 hours of teaching this semester and more than 35,000 hours of these are scheduled to take place on campus.\"", "The bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nA woman saw nine people get into a lorry in northern France the day before 39 Vietnamese migrants were found dead inside it in the UK, a court heard.\n\nThe witness, who said police were alerted, said the group were dropped by taxi near a farm shed before the white lorry stopped and they got in.\n\nA little later on 22 October 2019, a lone man arrived saying he was \"looking for his friends\", the Old Bailey heard.\n\nFour men are on trial after the migrants' bodies were found in Essex.\n\nJurors have heard the 39 victims, aged between 15 and 44, had suffocated in the sealed trailer - which was found on an industrial estate in Purfleet - as the temperature inside reached 38.5C.\n\nThe victims were discovered when the container was opened at Purfleet in Essex\n\nGheorghe Nica, 43, of Basildon, Essex, and lorry driver Eamonn Harrison, 23, deny the manslaughters of 39 Vietnamese people, aged between 15 and 44.\n\nMr Harrison, of Mayobridge, County Down, Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota, 37, of Birmingham, deny being part of a people-smuggling conspiracy, which Mr Nica has admitted.\n\nA statement from carer Laetitia Mockelyn was read to the trial, in which she said she had heard Estelle Duyke call the Gendarmes on 22 October about migrants being seen close to her elderly mother-in-law's house, in Bierne.\n\nShe said she later saw the lone man being dropped off by a taxi after the lorry had left with the nine people who had arrived earlier.\n\nWhen he was approached the man said in English he was \"looking for his friends\", before walking off in the direction of a factory.\n\nA police image shows how packed boxes of macaroons in an earlier shipment bore dirty footprints\n\nWhen the Gendarmerie arrived they checked the shed where the nine people had waited but \"there was no-one there\", Ms Mockelyn said.\n\nShe said the nine all appeared to be aged under 35 and among them was a woman wearing a padded jacket, white woolly hat and small backpack, and a \"slightly-built\" man in jeans and classic black cap.\n\nThe man who arrived after the lorry departed was described as being of small build and wearing blue jeans, a padded jacket and Adidas backpack.\n\nMs Mockelyn told officers she had never seen anything like it before.\n\nLorry driver Eamonn Harrison, 23, allegedly picked up the migrants in his trailer before dropping it at the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, on 22 October.\n\nThe court heard the temperature inside the trailer had already risen from 11.7C to 15.6C by 10:30 BST.\n\nThe next morning the trailer was collected by Maurice Robinson in Purfleet, Essex, and he discovered the bodies of the men, women and children, the jury was told.\n\nProsecutors said Harrison had two encounters with the police in the days before he allegedly collected the migrants. The first time was due to the fact he was intoxicated and the second because his trailer was parked illegally.\n\nMeanwhile, haulage boss Ronan Hughes, Robinson and alleged key organiser Gheorghe Nica were caught on CCTV at the Ibis Hotel in Thurrock, Essex, on the evening of 18 October.\n\nHughes, 41, and Robinson, 26, have pleaded guilty to 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The organiser was fined after a flat party in Simpson Street\n\nA man has been fined £10,000 after more than 50 people attended a party in a flat in Manchester.\n\nIndoor gatherings are banned as the city tries to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nOfficers said they fined the party organiser after also finding DJ decks, large speakers and a buffet in the flat in Simpson Street, Angel Meadows.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said it had issued 52 fines since tier three rules came into force in the area on Friday.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mabs Hussain said: \"This party was a blatant disregard of the rules and for public health.\n\n\"It is totally unacceptable in the current crisis the whole world is facing and is not what we want our officers to be spending their time doing.\n\n\"We had no alternative but to issue the maximum penalty for breaching the legislation on large gatherings and I hope this serves as a reminder to those considering to flout the rules - we will take action.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Donald Trump has voted early in the US election, while on a campaign visit in Florida. It marks the first time an incumbent president has voted, in-person, in the state.\n\nThere has been record early voting in the US election with 53 million people already having cast their ballots, largely because of fears over Covid-19.\n\nThe official election day is 3 November.", "Coronavirus infections continue to rise across the UK, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nIt estimates cases have risen by a quarter to more than 35,200 a day in England.\n\nInfection rates have been highest among teenagers and young adults in recent weeks.\n\nIt comes as stricter rules come into force for millions more people across the UK.\n\nAround one in 130 people you might meet in the street in England had coronavirus in the week to 16 October, data from the ONS infection survey suggests.\n\nThis compares with one in 180 in Wales and Scotland, and one in 100 in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe highest levels of the virus continue to be in the north-west and north-east of England.\n\nMeanwhile, the R number has decreased slightly and is now estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.4. That means every 10 people with the virus pass it on to 12 or 14 others, on average.\n\nThe ONS figures are based on a survey of people in random households whether they have symptoms or not, giving one of the most accurate pictures of the epidemic.\n\nAlthough cases are still rising, they suggest a slight slowing in the rate of growth of infections since the previous week's survey.\n\nThis echoes data from Public Health England which suggests cases may now be falling among people in their teens and 20s while still increasing in all other age groups.\n\nThe ONS figures are much higher than the lab-confirmed cases recorded by the UK government every day. Another 21,242 cases and 189 deaths were confirmed on Thursday.\n\nAnother source of data, the Covid Symptom study app, suggests there were more than 36,000 new daily cases in the UK over the two weeks to 18 October - up from nearly 28,000 a week ago.\n\nThese numbers are based on users logging their symptoms and positive tests on the app.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nTim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, and founder of the app, said the gap between the northern regions of the UK and the south \"was growing\".\n\n\"Our data clearly shows that the number of cases is still being driven by the younger generations, which should mean less pressure on NHS admissions compared to earlier in the year,\" he said.\n\nBut he warned that people of all ages can get long Covid and it is important to control the second wave.\n\nPHE's weekly report on the spread of the virus shows case rates are still highest in the under 30s, but are now coming down.\n\nIn contrast, cases per 100,000 people in all age groups over 30 continue to rise.\n\nIn hospitals, admissions and deaths are still rising right across England and health officials are concerned that black, Asian and minority ethnic communities make up nearly 40% of admissions to intensive care.\n\nThe highest hospital admission rates for people with Covid-19 were in the over 85s, and in the north west of England.\n• None How will the vulnerable be protected from Covid? And other questions", "A 17-year-old boy has been killed in a street stabbing in east London.\n\nThe Met Police said officers were called to Westbury Road in Walthamstow at 21:20 BST on Friday, where they found the boy injured.\n\nParamedics treated the teenager at the scene but he was pronounced dead shortly after.\n\nOfficers are in the process of establishing his identity and informing his next of kin. No arrests have been made.\n\nA crime scene remains in place while detectives carry out an investigation.\n\nA local resident, who did not want to be named, said that before the arrival of emergency services they \"didn't hear anything at all that indicated violence, heard no shouting etc that we thought was odd\".\n\n\"It is incredibly tragic and such a senseless loss of life. It feels especially shocking when it happens so close to home, and on an otherwise peaceful street,\" they said.\n\nThe resident said sniffer dogs were at the scene on Friday night, while two cars had been removed by police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A self-proclaimed member of a violent anti-government group has been charged with rioting during the George Floyd protests in Minnesota.\n\nFederal prosecutors said Ivan Hunter, a 26-year-old from Texas, opened fire on a Minneapolis police precinct to escalate the unrest back in May.\n\nHe was arrested in an FBI investigation into the Boogaloo Bois extremists.\n\nOther far-right groups have also been suspected of trying to foment violence at recent racial justice protests.\n\nThe protests began after the death of George Floyd, a black man, in police custody. At times, the demonstrations turned violent.\n\nThe US Attorney's Office in Minnesota has charged Mr Hunter with one count of travelling across state lines with the intent to participate in a riot. Prosecutors allege Mr Hunter had travelled from Boerne, Texas, in an effort to incite unrest with other members of the Boogaloo Bois group.\n\nMr Hunter is accused of firing 13 rounds from an AK-47 style semiautomatic rifle into the police department on 28 May.\n\nHe was filmed high-fiving others and shouting \"Justice for Floyd\", according to the criminal complaint announced on Friday. Officials also said another person involved in the incident told authorities Mr Hunter was the one who fired the shots.\n\nThe police building was eventually set on fire by protesters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A police station was set on fire in third night of unrest in Minneapolis\n\nProsecutors say when he returned to Texas, Mr Hunter referenced participating in violence in Minneapolis on social media, allegedly messaging someone saying that he \"set fire to that precinct with the black community\".\n\nHe was stopped by police in Austin, Texas, on 3 June, as the vehicle he was in had traffic violations. He was one of three individuals in the vehicle, and he had loaded magazines for an assault rifle on his person, officers said.\n\nThere were three semi-automatic rifles in the vehicle and two loaded pistols.\n\nAn image believed to be of Mr Hunter in Minneapolis from the FBI criminal complaint\n\nFollowing the traffic stop, federal agents learned of his connections to the Boogaloo Bois, a loosely organised extremist group that wants to overthrow the government.\n\nMr Hunter had an online affiliation with Steven Carrillo, another Boogaloo Bois member accused of murdering a federal officer in California.\n\nA statement from the Minnesota US Attorney's office said Mr Hunter was arrested on 21 October in San Antonio, Texas, and appeared in court on 22 October.\n\nSome are capitalising on the protests to engage in acts of violence against authorities. Three Boogaloo members were charged with terrorism offences in Nevada in June for alleged attempts to \"spark violence\" in protests.\n• None Police station set on fire in Minneapolis unrest. Video, 00:00:56Police station set on fire in Minneapolis unrest", "A patient carries out his own Covid-19 test at a new walk-through testing site in Inverness\n\nA further 11 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died in Scotland.\n\nThe Scottish government's daily update showed that 1,433 more positive cases were recorded in the previous 24 hours - 19.1% of people newly tested.\n\nThere were 524 new cases in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 321 in Lanarkshire, 174 in Ayrshire and Arran and 166 in Lothian.\n\nA total of 985 people were in hospital and 84 people were in intensive care, an increase of eight on Friday.\n\nThe death toll under the measure of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days has risen to 2,699.\n\nA total of 55,449 people have now tested positive in Scotland, up from 54,016 the previous day.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said that despite recording 11 more deaths linked to Covid-19, the figures gave cause for \"cautious optimism\".\n\nHe said the 1,433 more positive cases recorded in the previous 24 hours could have been higher.\n\nHe said: \"I think we can take some optimism from the figures, that we are not seeing the increase growing faster than we might have predicted would be the case and I think that's a measure of the effectiveness of the measures and the level of public compliance applied to the restrictions.\n\n\"If we had predicted the pattern of the increase in cases a couple of weeks ago, we would have expected today to have had much higher numbers reported.\"\n\nOn Saturday a new walk-through testing centre opened in Inverness.\n\nThe site, at Highland Council's headquarters in Glenurquhart Rd, is the 11th of 22 planned pedestrian centres in Scotland.\n\nCreated by the UK government, the centre will be operated by Mitie.\n\nOther sites are already running in St Andrews, Aberdeen, West Dunbartonshire, Stirling, Dundee, Inverclyde and two in each in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Each local test site has a daily capacity of 300 tests.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced this week that Scotland aims to increase testing capacity to 65,000 tests per day by building three regional testing hubs in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, as well as increasing the amount of testing done by the UK government.\n\nScotland Office minister David Duguid said: \"The UK government is helping all parts of the UK fight the coronavirus pandemic and this new walk-through testing centre in Inverness will make it easier for people to get tested.\n\n\"Testing is vital, helping to manage local outbreaks and protecting people's livelihoods.\n\n\"The UK government is providing the bulk of Covid testing in Scotland, and this new walk-through centre is just the latest in our extensive testing network.\n\n\"We are pleased to be working with local and commercial partners. These sites are not possible without the hard work of many people and I would like to thank everyone involved for their hard work to get this testing centre up and running.\"\n\nA patient hands over their test at the Inverness testing centre\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said: \"Working alongside the UK government and local partners, the site in Inverness delivers on our commitment to have 11 walk through centres in place across Scotland by the end of October with another 11 planned over the course of the winter.\n\n\"This is testament to the hard work and commitment of those working to set up the sites as well as those on the ground delivering tests at the centres.\n\n\"Containing and suppressing this virus relies on testing being accessible to everyone and this site will further increase our testing capacity ahead of potential spikes as we move into winter.\n\n\"Centres like this can be operational in a matter of days, and we are working at pace with NHS National Services Scotland and local authorities to roll out more across the country so that more people have access to local testing.\"", "The body of the woman, believed to be in her 60s, was found at a National Trust estate\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a woman was discovered at a National Trust estate.\n\nPolice found the body in woodland on the Watlington Hill estate, Oxfordshire, just before 18:00 BST on Friday.\n\nThe arrested man is being treated in hospital for serious injuries.\n\nThames Valley Police said it was linking the murder to reports of a man seen acting suspiciously near a pub a few hours earlier.\n\nThe victim is believed to be in her 60s, the force added.\n\nOfficers have appealed for anyone who saw a man behaving strangely near the Fox and Hounds pub in the Christmas Common area of Oxfordshire at about 15:30 to get in touch.\n\nAnyone who saw anything suspicious in the Watlington Hill area at about 17:30 has also been asked to contact detectives.\n\nDet Supt Craig Kirby said: \"We are carrying out a thorough investigation to piece together what has happened to lead to this woman's death.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police clashed with some protesters as they tried to disperse the crowds\n\nEighteen people have been arrested at a protest in central London over coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nLarge crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace, where police were stationed, before moving on to Trafalgar Square.\n\nSome protesters carried placards calling for \"freedom\" and an end to the \"tyranny\" of Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the crowds had been dispersed but urged people to continue social distancing.\n\nThere was some disruption on Westminster Bridge as officers tried to break up demonstrators.\n\nThe force said three officers had suffered minor injuries.\n\nArrests were made for a variety of offences, including breaching coronavirus regulations, assaulting an emergency service worker and for violent disorder.\n\nThe capital was placed into tier two lockdown restrictions earlier this week.\n\nCommander Ade Adelekan, of the Met, said he had become \"increasingly concerned that those in the crowd were not maintaining social distancing or adhering to the terms of their own risk assessment\".\n\nHe added: \"Organisers did not take reasonable steps to keep protesters safe which then voided their risk assessment. At this point, officers then took action to disperse crowds in the interests of public safety.\n\n\"I am grateful that the vast majority of people listened to officers and quickly left the area. Frustratingly, a small minority became obstructive, deliberately ignoring officers' instructions and blocking Westminster Bridge.\n\n\"Although the majority of protests have concluded, our policing operation will continue into the night and I would urge Londoners to stick to the regulations, avoid gathering in large numbers and maintain social distancing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools may need to close to some year groups in order to get control over the coronavirus infection rate, a leading epidemiologist has warned.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, who modelled the epidemic's impact for the government, said restrictions on household mixing \"should have a significant effect\".\n\nBut he said beyond that there was a \"limit to what we can do\" without sending some school year groups home.\n\nProf Ferguson also said if rules were relaxed, deaths would increase.\n\nIt comes as the UK government announced on Saturday there had been a further 23,012 confirmed cases and 174 new deaths.\n\nMore than seven million people in England are now living under the top level of coronavirus restrictions, with South Yorkshire the latest region to have new rules come into force.\n\nThe whole of Wales - 3.1 million people - is also seeing its first full day of national lockdown, which is due to last for 17 days.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Prof Ferguson - who quit his role from the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies in May after breaking lockdown rules - said the situation was \"worrying\".\n\n\"We now have 8,000 people in hospital with Covid. That is about a third of the level we were at at the peak of the pandemic in March,\" he said.\n\n\"If the rate of growth continues as it is, it means that in a month's time we'll be above that peak level in March and that is probably unsustainable.\n\n\"We are in a critical time right now. The health system will not be able to cope with this rate of growth for much longer.\"\n\nProf Ferguson, who leads Imperial College London's Covid-19 response team, said it was \"too early to say\" if current restrictions were having an effect and \"we'll have to wait another week or two\".\n\nHe said while there were \"little hints\" of slowing, for example in the North East of England, \"we're not seeing the sort of slowing that we really need to get on top of this\".\n\n\"What we're seeing is case numbers coming down quite quickly in a narrow age band, in 18-21 year olds,\" he said.\n\n\"Unfortunately in every other age group case numbers continue to rise at about the same rate they were.\"\n\nProf Neil Ferguson's modelling of the spread of coronavirus was key to the government's decision to bring in the lockdown\n\nHe said the impact of rules on households mixing should be \"significant\" - although \"as yet we haven't been able to see it definitively\".\n\nHe added: \"If we go beyond that there is a limit to what we can do in terms of reducing contacts, short of starting to target, for instance, the older years in schools and sixth form colleges where we know older teenagers are able to transmit as adults.\n\n\"Of course, nobody wants to start moving to virtual education and closing schools even partially. The challenge may be that we are not able to get on top of the transmission otherwise.\"\n\nThe UK government has been keen not to close schools again, with Boris Johnson saying it was a \"national priority\" for children to be in school.\n\nProf Ferguson was also asked about Christmas and what the impact would be of relaxing lockdown rules for one or two days.\n\n\"It's always a balancing act,\" he said. \"It risks some transmission and there will be consequences of that. Some people will die because of getting infected on that day.\n\n\"But if it's only one or two days the impact is likely to be limited. So that really is a political judgement of the costs versus the benefits.\"\n\nIt comes after No 10 said it was Prime Minister Mr Johnson's \"ambition\" for people to celebrate Christmas with their families.\n\nThe PM was \"hopeful\" that some aspects of our lives could be \"back to normal\" by then, No 10 added.\n\nBut that differed to comments made by other politicians and scientists.\n\nProf John Edmunds, who sits on Sage, said the idea that people could \"carry on as we are\" and then have a normal Christmas with friends and family was \"wishful thinking in the extreme\".\n\nAnother Sage scientist said last week that Christmas was unlikely to be the \"usual celebration\" of \"families coming together\".\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's national clinical director Jason Leitch has said people should prepare for \"digital celebrations\", while Wales' first minister said the priority was \"saving lives not saving Christmas\".", "\"I still have nightmares most nights about being completely out of my depth.\"\n\nGemma, a ward nurse in Northern Ireland, was redeployed to a critical care unit at the end of March when the first wave of coronavirus struck.\n\n\"I had never looked after a critically ill intensive care patient in my life,\" she says.\n\n\"I just thought, I'm coming in here and I'm going to die. I'm going to catch Covid and I'm going to be one of those patients in the beds.\"\n\nAs the second wave of the pandemic takes deep root across parts of the UK, thousands of NHS workers are struggling to recover from what they have already been through.\n\n\"We were all in PPE all the time,\" recalls Nathan, a senior intensive care nurse at a hospital in the Midlands. \"All you can see is people's eyes, you can't see anything else.\"\n\nHe describes trying to help junior members of staff survive long and difficult days.\n\n\"And I'd see these eyes as big as saucers saying help me, do something. Make this right. Fix this.\"\n\n\"The pressure was insane, and the anxiety just got me,\" he says. \"I couldn't sleep, and I couldn't eat, I was sick before work, I was shaking before I got into my car in the morning.\"\n\nNathan ended up having time off with severe anxiety, but he is now back at the hospital, waiting for the beds to fill up again.\n\nWe've spoken to a number of nurses and doctors across the UK who are deeply apprehensive about what lies ahead this winter.\n\nWe're not using their real names because they shared their views on condition of anonymity, in order to speak freely.\n\nAll believe it is important that the general public hears first-hand about the enormous strain the health service and its staff have been under.\n\nIt has not just been about coping with the devastating effects of a new and deadly disease.\n\nPressure to deal with the huge backlog of other medical treatments, which had been put on hold, meant some health care workers didn't have much of a break during the summer either.\n\n\"I finally went on holiday in September and it was like I came out of a fog,\" says Danny, an intensive care doctor and anaesthetist based in Yorkshire.\n\n\"Almost the last six months of my life was just some kind of haze that I don't remember very well. You just became all about Covid and nothing else,\" he says. \"And I think that got us through the first wave, but obviously it isn't a sustainable mechanism to carry on.\"\n\nThat widely shared feeling of exhaustion has been heightened by long-standing concerns about staff shortages, and by deep resentment - particularly among nurses - about pay and conditions.\n\nOne of the lasting images of the first wave of Covid is of the weekly \"clap for carers\" - that moment of national unity that took place on doorsteps at 20:00 every Thursday night.\n\nHealth care workers have been very appreciative of public support, but many say they would prefer a proper pay settlement to another round of applause.\n\nAnd Jo Billings, a psychologist from the Covid Trauma Response Working Group at University College London, says \"the narrative of health care workers being heroes or angels has largely been really unhelpful.\"\n\nIt painted a picture that people do this because they're special, not because they're simply doing their job, for which they should be adequately paid and protected.\n\n\"It's also been a real barrier to people seeking help with their own problems,\" Dr Billings says, \"because they feel heroes don't struggle. An angel doesn't get PTSD.\"\n\nThe first wave of Covid-19 could have been much worse than it was. In fact, many doctors expected it to be. A lot of the extra capacity that was created so quickly in the health system, in temporary Nightingale hospitals and elsewhere, was not needed.\n\nBut health care staff speak of an \"all hands on deck\" mentality, when people were doing long shifts and were often away from home for extended periods to protect their families.\n\n\"It was mentally draining, and we've not really had a proper downtime,\" says Moussa, a respiratory consultant from Greater Manchester. \"As soon as the first wave finished, we started catching up with the backlog of other cases. So, there was another mountain to climb.\"\n\nThat sense of fatigue and frustration, in a health service already stretched to the limit before Covid struck, is captured in data put together by the Covid Trauma Response Working Group.\n\nIts Frontline Covid study of nearly 1200 health care workers from across the UK between May and July found that nearly 60% of them met the criteria for at least one of three things - anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nVarious risk factors were identified, including fear of transmitting Covid to others, unreliable access to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at the time, feeling stigmatised due to their role, and not feeling able to talk to a manager about how they were coping.\n\nConversations with NHS staff reveal a system of support for staff welfare and mental health which is patchy - fantastic in some places, not so in others.\n\n\"A junior doctor I spoke to the other day was talking about what a difficult time she'd found in another hospital,\" says Dorothy Wade, a psychologist at University College Hospital in London. \"And I said, 'Didn't you have anything like this at the other hospital?' And she said, 'No, absolutely nothing. There was nothing on offer at all.'\n\nShe says quite a lot of hospitals still don't have a staff psychologist, and didn't have resources to offer any provisions.\n\nIt has been a similar story in intensive care units, says Nicki Credland of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses.\n\n\"In some places there have been significant amounts of psychological support,\" but in others \"staff are reporting that they're needing to go to their GP.\"\n\nNHS England says nearly half a million staff were given extra support with their health and mental wellbeing needs during the first wave, via self-help apps, text services, online forums and telephone helplines.\n\nBut in most cases, it is down to local management, and sometimes support isn't available at the time that shift workers need it.\n\n\"Members of staff in our ward have been permanently scarred by Covid,\" says Jacqui, a nurse at a small community hospital in London. \"They sometimes struggle now doing some of the more minor tasks. [But] we were very lucky that we're in a very good, small trust,\" she says, \"which has taken all that on board and is supporting them.\"\n\nA large number of health care workers, however, were redeployed into new hospitals or new wards, or even into entirely new areas with very little training and very little preparation.\n\nAnd the Frontline Covid survey reveals that many of them were distressed by what they saw.\n\nThat is partly because even at the best of times in critical care, a lot of patients are going to die.\n\n\"You have to have this slight disconnect with what's going on because you have to accept that you can do everything right, and the patient still might not survive,\" says Danny, the ICU doctor in Yorkshire. \"But people coming from elsewhere in the hospital haven't had the time to develop that kind of mentality.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Gemma was asked recently by her manager if she would like to volunteer to go back into an ICU.\n\n\"I laughed in her face and said no,\" she admits. \"I don't know if I'll be made to go. But as soon as you walk over the threshold of a hospital, you cannot refuse to look after a patient. And the thought is, you've done it before, you can do it again.\"\n\nThere's little doubt that morale in the NHS would be higher if staff felt they were being rewarded more fairly.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) surveyed more than 40,000 of its members in the aftermath of the first Covid wave, and found that pay, and feeling under-valued, was their number-one concern.\n\n\"It may feel like now is not the time to talk about pay, with so many people in lockdown and in serious financial difficulty,\" says Mike Adams of the RCN, \"but we've thought about this very carefully.\n\n\"If you want to do one thing for nurses who need a boost to get through the rest of this year, and through the winter, it would be to show you value them with a meaningful pay rise.\"\n\nMany staff are frustrated because they know that is unlikely to happen.\n\nNearly three quarters of respondents to the RCN survey said they thought they were more valued by the general public after the onset of Covid-19. But less than one fifth thought they were more valued by the government in their part of the UK.\n\n\"All that clapping, and all that goodwill,\" says Nathan, \"and now it's back to normal.\"\n\nDoctors earn more money than nurses, but express similar sentiments.\n\n\"We've lost 40% of our pension pot in the last five years,\" says Jack, a consultant in London. \"And everyone is looking at it and wondering whether they should get out now before we lose any more.\n\n\"I think by next March, it's going to be a great deal worse,\" he says\n\nThat in turn highlights another message delivered by members of the RCN. In the aftermath of the first Covid wave, 35% of more than 40,000 people said they were actively considering leaving the profession.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson told the BBC that there are now more than 300,000 nurses in England, including 13,000 who joined recently.\n\n\"And this year there was a 22% increase in applications for nursing degrees, on top of our £28m fund to boost international recruitment,\" the spokesperson continued.\n\nIt takes years to train new recruits, however, and there were more than 40,000 nursing vacancies across the NHS at the beginning of the year.\n\nNow, with Covid an ever-present danger, many experienced members of staff are thinking of leaving, and many of them are not coming back.\n\n\"Nurses approaching retirement used to - in significant numbers - retire, and then return on a smaller number of hours,\" says Mike Adams at the RCN. \"But that is just not happening as much. We're losing the guides and mentors for the student nurses and the newly qualified nurses.\"\n\nGemma in Northern Ireland says she plans to leave the NHS when this next Covid phase is over, and get a job in the private sector where she won't be redeployed at a moment's notice.\n\n\"A lot of what got us through is the camaraderie, informal chats in the tearoom,\" she explains. \"But we're not even allowed to chat in the tearoom anymore. We have to sit apart with masks on.\n\n\"I'd say a large proportion of my team feel the same. A couple of nurses have just taken early retirement saying, 'No, not doing it anymore.'\"\n\nMany people in the NHS think the public aren't always aware of how acute staff shortages could become.\n\n\"The focus during the first wave was all on ventilators and the Nightingales and beds and things like that,\" says Danny in Yorkshire. \"But the actual thing we need is staff.\"\n\nHe highlights a concern raised by a number of NHS staff that we talked to - an awful lot of people were so burnt out by the first wave that they may not be able to commit so much this time.\n\nStaffing up of ICU became a focus in the early months of the pandemic\n\n\"We've noticed there's a real reluctance among doctors, nurses, everyone to pick up these extra shifts now,\" he says. \"People are realising the importance of family, the pandemic has encouraged everyone to make life simpler, and they want to do something more sustainable second time around.\"\n\nThe challenge could be particularly acute in intensive care.\n\nIn south-west London, Jacqui worked in an ICU during the first wave, and has the rights skills and experience. But she doesn't think she can do it again.\n\n\"Intensive care is incredibly physical, and I hurt my shoulder last time trying to roll a patient over,\" she says. \"Psychologically, I'm not sure I could completely cope with it again.\"\n\n\"It has actually made me go, 'Right, next year, I really will take my pension, I won't work full time anymore.' I've done my bit.\"\n\nBack in March and April, staff were redeployed in large numbers from other parts of the health system, particularly from operating theatres, to bolster intensive care.\n\nBut if the government wants things like elective surgery and operations elsewhere in the health system to continue, many of those extra staff may not be available.\n\n\"We haven't miraculously managed to find an extra 10,000 ICU nurses over the past five months,\" says Nicki Credland. \"That gives us a problem, which is compounded by staff that are off sick because of the psychological and physical response to the first wave of Covid.\"\n\nThere are potential solutions to ease serious staff shortages if the virus strikes specific areas hard. Seriously-ill patients could be moved to hospitals under less pressure, or experienced staff, based in areas where the virus is spreading more slowly, could be moved into hotspots.\n\n\"We're taking a much more local approach,\" the medical director of NHS England Stephen Powis said last week, \"and we are determined to keep the capacity for non-Covid services open for as long as possible.\n\n\"That involves hospitals helping each other, the use of independent sector hospitals where we can, and it might involve some of the Nightingale hospitals.\"\n\nA doctor at an NHS trust near Liverpool - which is in tier three - confirmed that her hospital was on standby to take patients from Liverpool City Region, even though its ICU was already full.\n\nAmbulances stand by in Strasbourg in March to load patients with Covid-19 into a medicalised train\n\nBut if the pandemic gets a lot worse, the effectiveness of local cooperation like this could be limited. And there is no national plan for moving people or resources around the country.\n\n\"In France, they reconditioned trains and made carriages into mobile intensive care units,\" says Jack, the consultant in London. \"In Holland, they had a big double-decker bus, a mobile ICU to move large numbers around. But I'm not aware that we've got anything other than fleets of ambulances.\"\n\nWhen you look back to March, there is no doubt some things have changed for the better. There is far more testing of NHS staff, including testing staff without symptoms in hotspot areas, and there is far less anxiety about the supply of personal protective equipment.\n\nDoctors also know more about the disease and ways to try to treat it, which should have a positive effect on staff morale.\n\n\"We still don't have a cure, but seeing people get better obviously makes staff stronger psychologically,\" says consultant Jack. \"We're only human after all.\"\n\n\"We will put our best foot forward, and we'll do the best for the patients,\" says Nathan, the ICU nurse in the Midlands, \"but I can genuinely say all of my colleagues, including senior management, are terrified.\"\n\n\"We're not sure how, in terms of resilience, we are going to be able to get through this.\"\n\nAcross the NHS you can hear similar concerns - a determination to step up to the plate again, but also the knowledge that adrenalin only gets you so far.\n\nThe desire to continue with business as usual in the NHS - treating other conditions and diseases as normal - is a laudable, and probably an essential, aim.\n\nBut that may not prove possible - some hospitals are cancelling operations already.\n\n\"The pressure to still run all the normal functions of the NHS and deal with a Covid second wave that's got the potential to be bigger than the first one,\" says Moussa, \"that's a harsh, harsh thing when we feel we need to prioritise.\"\n\nMany doctors were expecting a second wave to start around November, so it has come in some places a little earlier than predicted. And even in a normal year, the onset of winter and the flu season puts huge additional capacity pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe government argues that the system has shown extraordinary resilience in the face of a pandemic unprecedented in living memory.\n\nBut Moussa argues that as a country, \"we could have done more to be ready for the second wave\".\n\n\"When you think about it,\" he says, \"it's a bit of a perfect storm.\"", "Shakespeare's Globe said its £2.98m would allow it to \"plan more confidently for our future\"\n\nShakespeare's Globe, the Sage Gateshead and the company behind the Lady Boys of Bangkok are among the latest recipients of emergency government arts funding.\n\nThe replica Elizabethan theatre in London will receive almost £3m from the £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund.\n\nThe Birmingham Hippodrome, London's Old Vic theatre and the English National Ballet will all get the maximum £3m.\n\nGandey Productions, which stages the Chinese State Circus and the Lady Boys of Bangkok, will get more than £1m.\n\nThe Sage concert hall will receive £1.8m. Overall, 35 organisations and venues across England will receive up to £3m each in the latest round of grants, which is worth £75m in total. More than 70% is going go to venues and organisations outside London.\n\nOther recipients include the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, Newcastle Theatre Royal, Norwich Theatre, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London Transport Museum and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\nAlso on the list are the Fabric nightclub in London and two equipment companies - Lancashire-based Lights Control Rigging, which has helped the likes of Ed Sheeran and Rita Ora perform, and Merseyside's Adlib Audio.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the \"vital funding\" would secure the recipients' futures and \"protect jobs right away\".\n\nThe culture secretary visited the Design Museum, another recipient, earlier this week\n\n\"These places and organisations are irreplaceable parts of our heritage and what make us the cultural superpower we are,\" he said.\n\nThe government said the grants were being awarded \"to places that define culture in all corners of the country\".\n\nGrant recipients in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be announced separately by their devolved administrations.\n\nThe English funding has been warmly welcomed by both the venues and organisations themselves and by their celebrity spokespeople.\n\nAndrew Scott was seen on the Old Vic stage last year in Present Laughter\n\nAndrew Scott, an Old Vic ambassador, said its £3m grant was \"a hugely exciting and positive step forward\" that would help the theatre \"survive and thrive\".\n\nFellow actor Adrian Lester said the £1.38m awarded to the Birmingham Rep Theatre would allow it to \"inspire and entertain again\" when it is able to reopen.\n\nBrian Conley and Lesley Joseph, meanwhile, thanked the government for giving the Theatre Royal in Plymouth a £1.89m \"lifeline\".\n\nTamara Rojo, English National Ballet's artistic director, said she was \"thrilled and so grateful\" to receive funds that would allow it to \"adapt, rebuild and innovate\".\n\nTim Marlow, director of the Design Museum in London, said its own £2.96m grant would provide \"much needed support at a very precarious time\".\n\nOther museums to benefit from this tranche of funding include the Ironbridge Gorge Museums in Shropshire and the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley.\n\nMore than £500m has now been allocated from the Culture Recovery Fund to almost 2,500 cultural organisations and venues.\n\nWhen the £1.57bn rescue package was announced in July, the government described it as \"the biggest ever one-off investment in UK culture\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeeds United ended Aston Villa's winning start and ruined their chance of going top of the Premier League thanks to a brilliant Patrick Bamford hat-trick.\n\nVilla came into Friday's game having won their first four games of a league campaign for the first time since 1930-31, but three expert finishes from the Leeds striker prevented the hosts making it a club record five victories on the spin to open their season.\n\nThe result lifts Leeds to third - their highest position at the end of a day in the division since September 2002.\n\nIt was reward for a relentlessly positive performance from an injury-hit visiting side that should probably have yielded more goals.\n\nIn the first-half, Bamford missed with a header and then side-footed wide after being found by Jack Harrison's low cross at the end of swift counter-attacking move.\n\nLeeds' record signing Rodrigo was also guilty of spurning good opportunities, slicing one shot wide before seeing an effort blocked by Ezri Konsa.\n\nDean Smith's Villa team, who had put seven goals past champions Liverpool in their previous home game, saw a Jack Grealish shot cleared off the line by Luke Ayling after the ball had fallen to the midfielder from Trezeguet's miscued shot.\n\nVilla's captain also went close with a saved effort from close range after he had shown great tenacity and skill to carry the ball from within his own half.\n\nBut Bamford had the decisive say, finding the corner of the net from just a few yards out after Emiliano Martinez had palmed out Rodrigo's low shot.\n\nIf his first was simple, his second and third were stunning - a rising effort into the top corner from 20 yards after he was found by Mateusz Klich on 67 minutes and a dug out, curling finish following Helder Costa's low ball seven minutes later.\n\nLeeds are now two points and a place behind Villa, who remain second, a point behind leaders Everton.\n• None How Bamford and Leeds are proving doubters wrong\n• None Best action and reaction from Aston Villa v Leeds\n• None Football Daily podcast: Hat-trick Bamford and what next for Wilshere?\n\nLeeds maybe have not been as spectacular as Villa in the early stages of 2020-21, but they are certainly making their mark on a top flight that had been without them for 16 years.\n\nThere were plenty of times during that period when little was missing in their absence, but now - with Marcelo Bielsa in charge - the pleasure is all the Premier League's.\n\nLeeds have already shown they are unwilling to be daunted and compromise their attacking principles, even when facing the elite sides.\n\nAnd at Villa Park, with influential midfielder Kalvin Phillips and captain Liam Cooper missing through injury and a makeshift defence in place, they took apart the division's form team on their own patch.\n\nUnder Bielsa, Leeds create chances but they have not always had the cutting edge to make them count, with Bamford too often frustratingly profligate.\n\nPremier League life with Leeds clearly suits the English striker, though, and Friday's hat-trick took him to six goals in six matches this term. His treble is also the sixth in the top flight already in 2020-21 - after 49 games, it is the earliest that has happened.\n\nLeeds themselves have now scored 12 league goals, the most by a newly promoted club after six games of a season in the competition since Middlesbrough also netted 12 in 1992-93.\n\nIt is perhaps in-keeping with what has been a chaotic Premier League season so far that Villa, yet to drop points and whose last appearance on their own ground saw them put seven past Liverpool, would be put to the sword by newly promoted Leeds.\n\nBut still it defied all expectation. Villa were second best throughout, unable to compete with the visitors' intensity and energy.\n\nEven Grealish, who has impressed so much, was unable to inspire his side, although he did have moments - not least of all with the solo run that almost brought an opener for the hosts early in the second half.\n\nBamford's first goal was a big blow, his second sent Villa to canvas and the third knocked them out.\n\nIt was a bad night at the office, but Smith's side remain a work in progress - and while he is unlikely to be pleased after defeat, one poor showing in five is a percentage he will surely take.\n\nThe key now will be whether Villa can respond to such a ruthless ending to one eight-game unbeaten streak by building another.\n\n'We probably got away with a 3-0' - what the managers said\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith, speaking to Match of the Day: \"Very frustrated, especially with the last 40 minutes. I thought the first half was very even. They scored the first goal and we got worse and they were very good. We probably got away with a 3-0 in the end with the chances they had.\n\n\"Who knows what would have happened if we had scored? That is the first time we have been behind in a game and we didn't handle it very well.\"\n\nLeeds boss Marcelo Bielsa, speaking to Match of the Day: \"It was an important game for us and a deserved triumph. We scored first and were a little bit lucky they didn't score some of the chances they had. We were playing well even before the goal and had played well enough to go ahead.\"\n\nOn striker Patrick Bamford, Bielsa added: \"Very happy for Patrick because he scored some wonderful goals. Apart from that [he is] a noble player who sacrifices a lot for the team - generous also. I think his development is more to do with him and less to do with me.\"\n• None This was Aston Villa's first defeat in nine Premier League matches (six wins) and also the first time they had fallen behind at any stage in any of those nine matches.\n• None This was the biggest win by a newly promoted side in an away Premier League match since October 2019, when Aston Villa won 5-1 at Norwich, and the biggest by a promoted club away from home while also keeping a clean sheet since Brighton won 3-0 at West Ham in October 2017.\n• None Since the start of last season, Aston Villa have lost 22 Premier League games and conceded 72 goals in the competition - only Norwich City (27 defeats, 75 goals conceded) have lost and conceded more in the division in that time.\n• None Bamford has scored six goals in Leeds' first six league matches this season - only Eric Cantona in 1992-93 (also six) has scored as many goals for the club at this stage of a Premier League campaign.\n• None The Englishman is only the second player to score in Leeds United's first three away games in a top-flight league season, after Gordon Hodgson in 1937-38.\n• None Bamford is the ninth Leeds player to score a Premier League hat-trick and the first since Mark Viduka away at Charlton in April 2003.\n• None Attempt missed. Jack Harrison (Leeds United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. John McGinn (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\n• None Mateusz Klich (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\n• None Attempt saved. Patrick Bamford (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamie Shackleton with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Patrick Bamford. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can a government minister outrun the secrets of his past?\n• None Behind the scenes of a club reborn", "The drive-in movie theatre is due to be held at Chester FC's stadium\n\nPlans for a drive-in cinema in Chester were bogged down after the toilets were found to be across the border with Wales and subject to Welsh Covid rules.\n\nThe bathroom facilities at Chester FC cannot be used due to the new Covid-19 lockdown in Wales.\n\nAnyone caught short would not have been allowed to cross the border.\n\nBut event promoter Storyhouse has confirmed it has managed to hire some portable toilets so customers \"could have a wee without breaking the law\".\n\nChief executive Andrew Bentley said earlier: \"The toilets are in the stand - it is all a bit crazy.\n\n\"Originally we had planned to have six nights on the Welsh part of the ground but had to change it to the English part of the car park after the Welsh Government brought in new restrictions.\"\n\nAndrew Bentley said it was a \"crazy\" situation\n\nStoryhouse said capacity had been reduced to \"comfortably fit\" all the cars on the English side of the border.\n\nBizarrely the Welsh border also runs down the centre of the club's pitch which could have caused problems for Chester FC's players who will play their first game after the Welsh \"firebreak\" lockdown starts.\n\nBut the ultimate offside trap has been avoided, according to club spokesman Albert Davies.\n\nHe said: \"We are actually classed as elite sport, so the rules do not apply.\n\n\"We've played some great stuff recently and it has been elite football.\"\n\nThe National League North team are in action in the FA Cup fourth preliminary round on Saturday against Marine who are based in... Waterloo.\n\nThe toilets are in the Welsh part of the stadium\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new restrictions started just after midnight on Saturday\n\nStoke-on-Trent and Coventry have moved into the tier two category to tackle rising coronavirus cases.\n\nRestrictions came into force at 00:01 BST on Saturday. Slough has also moved into the tier two \"high\" category.\n\nThe restrictions in tier two mean households can no longer mix indoors, including in pubs and restaurants.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock announced Stoke-on-Trent would move up a tier on Thursday, while Coventry announced the same move earlier in the week.\n\nHowever, there are exemptions for childcare and support bubbles.\n\nMichelle Swift runs Swifty's, a micro pub in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, which she has to temporarily close due to the new restrictions.\n\n\"When we first opened we were limited to the rule of six, we could work with that,\" she said.\n\n\"It wasn't the same as what it used to be but it was manageable.\"\n\nNow she can only have seven tables, which, if customers come alone, could mean just seven customers.\n\n\"It just doesn't make sense. We're near the border with Staffordshire County Council so you can go a mile up the road and you can sit with your friends in another pub,\" she said.\n\nMs Swift also said the guidance on enforcing the restrictions was \"not that clear\" and therefore left \"open to interpretation\".\n\n\"You're literally the fun police and you're on edge all the time because your licence is at risk,\" she said.\n\nStoke-on-Trent City Council leader Abi Brown said taking the approach now would limit the damage to the local economy ahead of any potential move to the \"very high\" category.\n\n\"I'm not willing to put the lives of Stoke-on-Trent residents at risk by dithering for a week when we can act now to save lives and minimise economic damage,\" she said.\n\nThe council applied to the government to be put into the higher measures as it said the city had seen a sharp increase in cases over the last few days.\n\nDr Paul Edmondson-Jones, director of adult social care and health, said this would continue to accelerate unless urgent action was taken.\n\nThe council leader in Coventry, George Duggins, said the city had to work to get back to tier one as soon as possible.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Polish President Andrzej Duda has contracted Covid-19 but is feeling \"good\", he says.\n\nMr Duda, 48, was tested on Friday and found to be positive, but it is not clear when he contracted the virus.\n\nHe joins a handful of world leaders who have been ill with Covid-19, among them US President Donald Trump and UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nPoland faces a surge in the coronavirus pandemic, with a daily record of more than 13,600 new cases on Friday.\n\nThe country has now entered a nationwide \"red zone\" lockdown that includes the partial closure of primary schools and restaurants.\n\nMr Duda attended an event in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, on Monday where he met Bulgarian President Rumen Radev who later went into quarantine. He also met Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, who has since tested negative.\n\n\"I didn't have and I don't have any symptoms, especially the serious ones like lack of taste or lack of smell, but the result of the test is absolutely clear,\" Mr Duda said in a video message posted on Twitter.\n\n\"I feel good right now. I will spend the upcoming days in self-isolation along with my wife and I will be working remotely; it's not a problem at all.\"\n\nMr Duda visited a field hospital under construction to Poland on Friday\n\nPresidential minister Blazej Spychalski, who first gave details of the president's positive test, has himself tested positive and is going into quarantine.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Duda visited a field hospital under construction at the National Stadium in the Polish capital, Warsaw. Pictures show the president wearing a face mask while meeting workers at the site.\n\nHe also met 19-year-old tennis star Iga Swiatek, winner of the French Open this year, to award her the Gold Cross of Merit for achievements in sport.\n\n\"Neither I nor members of my team have symptoms of coronavirus. We carry out tests regularly. We will quarantine ourselves in accordance with current procedures,\" Ms Swiatek said in a Twitter post (tweet in Polish).\n\nThe second wave of infections is hitting Poland hard, with the number of new cases 22 times higher than the highest number of cases in the spring, although testing is now more prevalent.\n\nThe number of hospital beds in use by coronavirus patients rose by 6.5% on Friday to 11,496, which means 60% of the total available are now filled.\n\nUnder the new restrictions, gatherings of more than five are banned, and children must be accompanied by an adult when outdoors. People aged over 70 are being urged to stay at home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Lee reports from the epicentre of Europe's second wave, which is in Belgium", "Six months after getting coronavirus, Rebecca Logan is still feeling the effects\n\n\"We all thought we would get Covid. but we never really thought it would be a bad thing.\n\n\"I was young, I was fit, I was healthy.\"\n\nRebecca Logan, a fitness instructor and part-time nurse, began to feel unwell in April.\n\nThe 39-year-old mother of two felt dizzy and lost her sense of taste and smell.\n\n\"When I got the positive test, I thought: 'Okay, this is maybe how it's going to be for the next few days and then I'll pick up.'\n\n\"What happened to me was that, by day 14, whenever you usually expect to feel better, I actually was a lot worse.\"\n\nFive weeks later, however, and Rebecca was still not feeling better.\n\nNow, more than six months later, she still suffers from breathlessness, \"brain fog\" and has to take daily naps.\n\nRebecca believes she has so-called long Covid - a term being used to describe a range of symptoms identified in people months after they have had the virus.\n\nThere is no medical definition or list of symptoms shared by all patients - two people with long Covid can have very different experiences.\n\nHowever, the most common feature is crippling fatigue.\n\nOthers symptoms include: breathlessness, a cough that won't go away, joint pain, muscle aches, hearing and eyesight problems, headaches, loss of smell and taste as well as damage to the heart, lungs, kidneys and gut.\n\nMental health problems have been reported including depression, anxiety and struggling to think clearly.\n\nIt is estimated that as many as 60,000 people in England could have post-Covid conditions and NHS England has committed £10m to fund specialist clinics.\n\nNothing like this has been announced yet for Northern Ireland, but Stormont's Department of Health said it had set up a Strategic Clinical Advisory Cell to establish a clinical working group.\n\nIt said it expected \"a regional multidisciplinary working group will be formed to provide continuing guidance\" on the future needs of patients.\n\nBBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra revealed this week that none of Northern Ireland's health bodies are collating data on the number of people who are still suffering with symptoms associated with the virus.\n\nThe Department of Health said \"an agreed clinical definition of long Covid is required before numbers can be officially recorded\".\n\nThis definition is being developed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) which advises GPs on how to treat medical conditions.\n\nDr Toby Hillman is a respiratory consultant at one of the UK's first post-Covid clinics, based at University College Hospital in London. He is also helping NICE to define the condition.\n\n\"We accept the evidence is not great at the moment, that it's starting to be generated in ever greater depth and quality but the definition is going to change,\" he said.\n\n\"The definition is likely to include clinical diagnoses of this disease because we're aware of the difficulties of accessing testing and the problems with confirmatory testing, so it's going to be a fairly broad church.\"\n\nRebecca said she needs support now: \"People need to recognise that long Covid is a condition and that people need help physically and mentally because you feel so alone.\n\n\"People look at you whenever you say you're still not feeling great and you're still not able to do things because they think: 'Sure Covid, you get it and you're better in 14 days, what's the problem?'\n\n\"It's a very lonely position to be in.\"", "There have been confirmed Covid-19 cases in half of Northern Ireland's schools since the start of term.\n\nThat is according to new figures published by the Public Health Agency (PHA).\n\nThe PHA has been informed of 2,030 positive Covid cases in schools since teaching returned at the beginning of term.\n\nThere had been 608 Covid-19 so-called incidents in 519 schools up until 20 October, said the agency.\n• None 519Schools with at least one positive Covid case out of 1,035 total schools\n• None 237Schools with a cluster of two to five cases\n• None 69Schools with a cluster of more than five cases\n\nAn incident can be a single positive case, a cluster of two to five cases or more than five cases.\n\nA cluster is defined by the PHA as two or more laboratory-confirmed cases of Covid-19 among individuals in one setting, such as a school.\n\nThis is the first time the agency has reported the number of Covid cases specifically in schools.\n\nIn other Covid-19 developments on Friday:\n\nThe figures from the PHA detail the number of cases in schools from the start of term in late August up until Tuesday.\n\nA school can have more than one Covid \"incident\"- for instance, it could have two separate cases or clusters that are not linked to each other.\n\nOverall, 86% of post-primary schools had at least one case since the start of term, compared to around 40% of primary schools and 66% of special schools.\n\nAround three-quarters of schools (76%) in the Belfast City Council area have been affected by positive cases.\n\nThat local government district had the highest proportion of schools affected, just higher than the numbers recorded in Londonderry, Strabane and Omagh - the district with the second highest proportion.\n\nOf school cases notified to the PHA, just over two-thirds (68%) were pupils and one-third (32%) were staff.\n\nThe PHA does not report how many pupils or staff had to self-isolate as a result of coming into contact with positive cases in schools.\n\nHowever, separate figures released to the Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle in response to an assembly question showed that over one in 10 teaching and non-teaching staff were not working in school in the week from 6-13 October.\n\nJust over a third of those staff were absent from school as they were self-isolating for 14 days.\n\nHowever, staff who are self-isolating may still be working from home.\n\nSome schools have been forced to close for short periods and teach pupils online, due mainly to a number of staff self-isolating.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland began an extended two-week half term break on Monday 19 October.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner is rebuked after making the comment\n\nConservative MPs have faced \"widespread abuse\" after Labour's Angela Rayner used the word \"scum\" in a Parliamentary debate, the party's co-chairwoman says.\n\nAmanda Milling has written to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer asking if he will take action against Labour MPs \"who perpetrate abuse\".\n\nMs Rayner made the remark on Wednesday during a Commons speech by Tory MP Chris Clarkson, later apologising for \"language I used in a heated debate\".\n\nMs Milling, in a letter signed by more than 100 Tory backbenchers, wrote that Ms Rayner's use of the word \"scum\" towards Mr Clarkson was \"unacceptable\".\n\nShe said it had resulted in the phrase \"Tory scum\" trending on Twitter and had caused \"widespread abuse towards members of our parliamentary party\", including abusive phone calls and MPs' offices being targeted.\n\n\"We respectfully ask you to take action, reaffirming your commitment to working constructively, asking Labour MPs and party members to act appropriately at all times, taking action against those who perpetrate this unacceptable abuse online and offline, and publicly apologise for Angela Rayner's record of unparliamentary behaviour,\" she wrote to Sir Keir.\n\nMs Rayner, the party's deputy leader who represents Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, opened Wednesday's debate, which was about financial support for regions facing tighter coronavirus restrictions.\n\nLater, Mr Clarkson - also a Greater Manchester MP - criticised the area's Labour mayor, Andy Burnham, and accused the opposition of \"opportunism\".\n\nAt this point, Ms Rayner was overheard saying \"scum\" from her seat on Labour's frontbench and was rebuked by the Deputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing.\n\nMeanwhile, footballer Marcus Rashford, who has led a campaign calling on the government to provide free school meals over the holidays, tweeted to condemn the \"unacceptable\" abuse some MPs had received for voting against the motion in Parliament.\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 political consensus of early this year has been blown apart in recent days.\n\nAngela Rayner had to apologise earlier this week for saying \"scum\" while a Conservative MP criticised Labour in a debate over Covid.\n\nThere is increasing political disagreement over the government's handling of the crisis.\n\nAnd the free meals issue has separately sparked a huge and heated debate, both in Parliament and on social media.\n\nThe government is adamant it is offering support in other ways. Some Tory MPs have spoken publicly about why they think free meals is the wrong approach and accused Labour of trying to politicise the issue.\n\nLabour is going to continue to push this issue though - and believes it shows the government is out of touch.", "Gwent Police said it issued six fixed penalty tickets for breach Covid regulations on Friday night\n\nWales' second national lockdown is more challenging to police than the first because people are \"fatigued\" with Covid, a police chief has warned.\n\nBut Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime commissioner said it was important people took \"personal responsibility\".\n\nPeople can leave home for limited reasons, including to provide care, buy food and medication, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nA further 16 deaths of people with coronavirus were reported in Wales on Saturday - the highest total since 28 May - while 1,324 more people tested positive.\n\nAll but essential shops have closed and on Friday supermarkets began covering up non-essential goods, which the Welsh Retail Consortium labelled an \"ill-conceived policy\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said supermarkets should also stop selling items such as clothes as a matter of \"fairness\" to non-essential shops that have closed.\n\nHowever a Senedd petition against the move has become the fourth-ever to be signed by more than 45,000 people, and will be considered for a debate in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nJodi Merry, from Rhondda Cynon Taf, said the ban has come at an awkward time as she was planning to buy new clothes, including winter pyjamas, for her eight-year-old son after she gets paid next week.\n\n\"Everything is essential when it's something you desperately need,\" she said.\n\nPlastic has been seen over goods in supermarkets including clothes, microwaves and cat baskets\n\nTravel into or out of Wales to go on holiday or to visit a second home is illegal under the rules, and people are being told only to travel for \"essential reasons\".\n\nDyfed-Powys Police and Crime commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn said: \"The public... I guess there's fatigue that has set in in relation to the rules and regulations.\n\n\"Which is why it's really important we get the message out for people to take personal responsibility.\"\n\nHe said officers would be engaging and educating the public in the first instance and enforcement would only happen at the \"latter stage of that process\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Law Society of England and Wales, which represents solicitors, said it was keen to make people aware of the powers that enforcement officers have during the firebreak.\n\nIt said police had the power to enter homes and other premises if they have reasonable grounds for suspecting that the lockdown restrictions are being contravened or are about to be contravened.\n\nIts president David Greene said: \"These are extraordinary powers and it is important that the public are fully informed about them so that they don't fall foul of them inadvertently.\n\n\"It is vital that laws of this nature are both visible and understandable.\n\n\"We will be concerned to ensure they are being used in a proportionate fashion.\"\n\nResponding to these concerns, Mr Llywelyn said: \"I think it's really important for the police to act in a proportionate way.\n\n\"We mustn't also forget that we're in an emergency situation with this being a global pandemic so these are short-term measures that are here to safeguard the communities across the whole of Wales.\"\n\nChief constables in England and Wales have received an extra £30m to pay for overtime costs\n\nDyfed-Powys Police tweeted it was not patrolling the border with England, but officers were out across the road network and in communities.\n\n\"Truth be told, we're really hoping that we can all work together to do what we've been asked to do,\" it added.\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 Heddlu Dyfed-Powys 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\nGwent Police tweeted its motorcyclists had carried out proactive patrols on Friday night.\n\nIt said it stopped 10 \"vehicles of interest\", issued six fixed penalty tickets for breach Covid regulations and arrested a driver for driving while under the influence of cannabis.\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 Gwent Police | Operations & Support 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\nPeople can be issued a fixed penalty notice \"for most types of breaches\" and fined £60 for the first offence.\n\nThat fine is increased to £120 for a second offence and continues to double for repeated offences, up to a maximum of £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nEnforcing the restrictions puts huge pressure on police resources. Crime has returned to levels last seen before the March lockdown - which means the frontline is stretched once more.\n\nChief constables in England and Wales have received an extra £30m to pay for overtime costs.\n\nBut to limit demands on officers, a policing model they call \"The Four Es\" remains in place.\n\nBefore fines are issued to rule-breakers, police will first take a number of steps:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average:\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive. How many cases and deaths in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out are where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. Source: ONS, NRS and NISRA – data updated weekly. are people who have tested positive for coronavirus. The \"average area\" means the middle ranking council or local government district when ranked by cases per 100,000 people. Public health bodies may occasionally revise their case numbers. Source: UK public health bodies - updated weekdays.", "Some owners of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro handsets have reported being shown an error message when trying to use the NHS Covid-19 app.\n\nApple's devices - which were released on Friday - can in fact run England and Wales' contact-tracing software.\n\nBut the issue arises if apps are transferred from an older iPhone via an iCloud Backup data transfer, which is common practice.\n\nThis can easily be addressed by making a change within the Settings menu.\n\nWhen users install the app from scratch, they are prompted to give the required permission.\n\nBut in what appears to be an oversight, when Apple transfers apps over, the phone does not ask owners to enable the permission and it is not obvious that it needs to be done.\n\nAs a result, the app cannot enable the Bluetooth-based matching functionality it needs to work.\n\nThe requirement is designed to protect user's privacy.\n\nHowever, the alert shown by the app suggested other factors might be at play.\n\nAnd to confuse matters further, when questioned about the matter the app's official Twitter account responded by highlighting that the iPhone 12 was not among devices checked for compatibility with the software.\n\nSome users had got round the problem by deleting the app and then downloading it again from the App Store, which triggered the exposure notification permission request.\n\nHowever, this technique results in all information previously stored by the app on the phone being wiped, including places the user had checked in to.\n\nAbout 18 million people have installed the NHS Covid-19 app so far. In addition to contact tracing, it is also used to log visits to restaurants and other leisure facilities, as well as to check symptoms and order a coronavirus test.\n\nThe BBC revealed last week that Huawei is also working with NHS Test and Trace officials to try and get the app working on some of its newer phones.", "The first live episode of this year's Strictly Come Dancing got under way with a tribute to frontline NHS staff.\n\nHosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly thanked the workers, who were seated in the audience, before the celebrities took to the dance floor.\n\nReality TV star Jamie Laing was the first to dance live, performing the cha cha cha with his partner, Karen Hauer.\n\nStringent Covid measures are in place for this year's show, including judges sitting separately from each other.\n\n\"Thank you so much for everything you have done for us and everything you continue to do and we really hope you enjoy tonight,\" Winkleman said to the NHS staff, who sat at a social distance.\n\nOlympic boxer Nicola Adams (right) and Katya Jones made history as Strictly's first same-sex couple, dancing the quickstep\n\nMade In Chelsea star Jamie Laing was the first to dance live, dancing the cha cha cha with Karen Hauer\n\nLaing was invited back for a second year after having to leave the last series when he was injured.\n\n\"I've been waiting a whole year to do the Strictly training,\" he said. \"Now I'm here, I'm feeling the pressure.\"\n\nJudge Craig Revel Horwood called Laing's performance \"flat-footed, very tight and restricted\", and added: \"That might have something to do with those lovely trousers you are wearing, don't leave much to the imagination, do they!\"\n\nLaing said afterwards he was \"nearly physically sick\" at the prospect of dancing first, doing the cha cha cha with Karen Hauer.\n\n\"I had to go to the bathroom - I thought I was going to throw up. I gagged a little bit but I was fine,\" he said.\n\nActress Caroline Quentin became emotional after performing the American Smooth with her professional partner Johannes Radebe\n\nActress Caroline Quentin was in tears after performing the American Smooth with her professional partner Johannes Radebe.\n\nJudge Shirley Ballas told her she was \"graceful, charming, elegant and you have the most exquisite sense of timing... You did yourself so proud today\".\n\nFormer home secretary Jacqui Smith and Anton Du Beke took to the dancefloor with top hats, performing the foxtrot\n\nFormer Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Anton Du Beke took to the dance floor with top hats, performing the foxtrot.\n\n\"This is my chance to show you can have a new adventure, even when you're getting on a bit,\" Smith said.\n\nShe played on her former career as a politician, with a dance which began with Smith pretending to be a candidate sitting next to a ballot box.\n\nAfter spelling out his criticisms, Revel Horwood had some good news.\n\n\"When you consider [former prime minister] Theresa May and her dancing, I think you're 10 times better than that,\" he said.\n\nThe pair were awarded a three, five, and five from the judges.\n\nTV presenter and former marine JJ Chalmers with professional dancer Amy Dowden\n\nThey won a standing ovation from judges Motsi Mabuse and Ballas, with Smith called an \"absolute firecracker\".\n\nSinger HRVY and Janette Manrara closed the show with a jive\n• None 'It feels so good to be back dancing'", "Police broke up two large gatherings on Isambard Brunel Road\n\nLarge crowds fled from police as they broke up a street party outside a block of student flats.\n\nOfficers were called to the University of Portsmouth's Margaret Rule Hall where they broke up the gathering at 0:46 BST.\n\nTwo hours later, the force had to disperse a group of 40 from the site.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said it had identified the organiser of the party and officers were reviewing footage of the gatherings on Isambard Brunel Road.\n\nPolice can issue £10,000 fines to the organisers of large gatherings, with attendees fined £200 for a first offence.\n\nInsp Marcus Kennedy said It was \"frustrating\" for officers forced to deal with \"such a clear breach of the current restrictions\" which had been \"in place for some time\".\n\n\"There is no excuse for this type of behaviour,\" he said.\n\nUniversity vice-chancellor Prof Graham Galbraith said he was \"angry and disappointed\".\n\nHe added: \"I want to be clear that any student found to have broken the laws in place will face swift disciplinary action by the university as well as any fines that may be issued by the police.\"\n\nThere have been 306 new coronavirus infections recorded in the city in the the past week, with most in younger adults, and 1,390 positive test cases in total.\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. Liz Saville Roberts MP questions how people from Liverpool can still visit Anglesey\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has threatened a travel ban in Wales on people from English Covid hotspots if the prime minister does not impose his own.\n\nHe said he is giving UK ministers \"one final opportunity\" before he makes changes in Welsh law.\n\nThe UK government announced on Monday that it will advise against non-essential travel from Merseyside.\n\nBut it stopped short of making it illegal, angering Welsh ministers.\n\nMr Drakeford said he could close the border with England, but that is not his preferred option.\n\nWelsh ministers have asked for travel from areas with high rates of coronavirus in England to be restricted, to prevent people visiting parts of Wales where lockdowns are not in force and where rates are lower.\n\nIn 17 Welsh areas under local lockdown, people are subject to travel restrictions and cannot go in or out of the areas concerned except for a limited set of reasons, including to go to work or school.\n\nThey are not allowed to leave to go on holiday.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region will be placed on the \"very high risk\" Covid alert level from Wednesday, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned people in the area not to go on holiday to Wales.\n\nHowever, UK government ministers who govern Covid rules in England have not made it illegal to travel.\n\nWales and England have different coronavirus rules\n\nSpeaking on BBC Wales Today, Mr Drakeford said he would be writing a letter to the prime minister spelling out the powers he has.\n\n\"If he doesn't act, we will use them,\" he said.\n\n\"I want to offer him one final opportunity to do the right thing, because that would be fair to people in Wales, and people across our border.\n\n\"I don't want it to be a border issue. People in England in high incidence areas should not be going to low incidence areas in England, either.\"\n\nHe said the prime minister's solution of guidance \"simply will not do\", saying North Wales Police cannot turn people away on the basis of it.\n\n\"We need rules that prevent people from high incidence areas coming into Wales to low incidence areas,\" he said.\n\nHe said the letter will provide evidence, requested by UK government ministers, that people moving from areas with high levels of the virus to areas with low levels spread the virus.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said they want to receive a reply \"within days\".\n\nMark Drakeford said he will write a further letter to the prime minister\n\nIt is the second time the first minister has written to the PM asking for a travel ban.\n\nAfter the first time, the Mr Johnson rejected the proposal in an interview with BBC Wales.\n\n\"I don't want to impose travel restrictions within the UK generally,\" he said at the time.\n\nIt came after a coach of holidaymakers from Bolton travelled to Pembrokeshire after a lockdown was imposed in Bridgend, where they were originally due to go for an Elvis festival.\n\nIn the Commons on Monday Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts asked if it is fair that people in Liverpool can holiday in Gwynedd and Anglesey, when people in neighbouring Conwy cannot make non-essential journeys outside of the county.\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"The guidance is very clear that people from very high areas such as Merseyside should not be making those journeys.\"\n\nMr Drakeford and Health Minister Vaughan Gething spoke to the prime minister on Monday morning in a Cobra meeting.\n\nAfterwards the Welsh Government said Mr Drakeford had \"expressed deep disappointment at the inadequate proposals for travel restrictions in high infection areas in England\".\n\nAt a press conference Mr Gething outlined how travel restrictions between Wales and English Covid hotspots could work.\n\n\"We should, if needed, be able to identify those areas where the risk is such that we should have restrictions on travel,\" he said.\n\n\"It would not be a reasonable excuse for those people to enter Wales because of the risk that they present because of the area of the country that they come from.\"\n\nThe prime minister has already refused to introduce a travel ban in English Covid hotspots.\n\nSo why is the first minister asking again, rather than simply using the powers the Welsh Government has?\n\nIt probably reflects ideological as well as practical difficulties.\n\nWelsh Labour is a pro-union party and the idea of legislation banning some people from England crossing the Welsh border might sit uncomfortably.\n\nRemember that, during the national lockdown, the Welsh \"stay local\" rule applied across Wales - it didn't single out any particular group of people.\n\nThe practical problems include messaging and enforceability - the border sees millions of crossings every week and filtering lawful from unlawful journeys could be a major headache.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alistair Wilson murder: ‘My only memory of my dad was when he was shot’\n\nThe son of bank worker Alistair Wilson, who was shot dead on the doorstep of his home in 2004, has appealed for help in catching his father's killer.\n\nAndrew Wilson was aged just four at the time of the murder in Nairn in the Highlands.\n\nHe said the only memory he has left of his father is seeing him lying on the ground moments after being shot.\n\nIt is the first time Mr Wilson has spoken publicly about the murder and how it has devastated his family.\n\nHe said: \"I still cannot believe how someone could shoot my dad dead on our doorstep while my brother and I were upstairs.\n\n\"Photographs are all I have and no family should suffer the way we have all these years.\n\n\"I am appealing on behalf of my family to anyone who may have any information, no matter how big or small, to please come forward. Someone out there could have the missing piece of information.\"\n\nAlistair Wilson, 30, was shot at his home at about 19:00 on 28 November 2004. He later died in hospital.\n\nMr Wilson's wife Veronica had answered the door to his killer - a stocky man wearing a baseball cap - who asked for Alistair Wilson.\n\nMr Wilson spoke to the man and was handed an empty blue envelope with the word Paul written on it.\n\nHe was then shot with a German-made handgun.\n\nA massive police inquiry was launched at the time, but no-one has been apprehended and detectives continue to investigate the case.\n\nA young Andrew Wilson with his father Alistair, mother Veronica and younger brother\n\nAndrew, now 20, recalled the moment he saw his father lying on the doorstep.\n\nHe said: \"Someone came to our family home on a Sunday evening while my dad was reading my brother and me bedtime stories after our bath.\n\n\"The next thing I know I am looking at my dad lying in our doorway covered in blood.\"\n\nMr Wilson's family, along with detectives, are using the approaching 16th anniversary to make a renewed appeal for information in the hope of finally bringing someone to justice.\n\nAndrew says all he has left of his father are photographs\n\nAndrew Wilson and his brother at his father's graveside\n\nAndrew Wilson added: \"I was four years old when this happened and my dad was only 30.\n\n\"There would be no more bedtime stories, no more playing football or helping him in the garden.\n\n\"My dad and I missed out on so many things together, showing me how to tie a tie, driving lessons and taking me for my first pint.\n\n\"I am now a 20-year-old with little answers regarding my dad's death. For the last 16 years I have been left wondering why I didn't have a dad like all my friends.\n\n\"Nothing can bring my dad back, but knowing who did this and why could give us the closure we need. Any information could be crucial to our case.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alistair Wilson's widow: 'A who and a why would let us move on'\n\nDet Insp Gary Winter, of the Major Investigation Team, has outlined the specific areas being focused on in the latest appeal.\n\nHe said: \"The murderer was described in 2004 as a man aged 30-40 years old, stocky build and approximately 5ft 4in to 5ft 7in tall.\n\n\"Alistair's killer would now be approaching his 50s or 60s and has enjoyed a life denied to his victim and his family.\n\n\"The handgun used was a Haenel Suhl pocket pistol from the 1930s, which has distinctive H and S letters superimposed on the grip.\n\n\"We believe this weapon is likely to have been taken to the UK after World War Two as some form of souvenir, however the ammunition used in the murder is from the 1980s or 90s.\n\n\"Do you know of anyone who had a similar pocket pistol? Do you know of anyone who mentioned having firearm souvenirs from the World War Two or from any family who were World War Two veterans?\"\n\nThis is a murder which people, not just in the Highlands but across the world, are determined will be solved.\n\nAll murders are shocking but this was so beyond the imagination that it has had people bewildered and frustrated for 16 years, including the police.\n\nThree years ago I interviewed Veronica Wilson, Alistair Wilson's husband. It was the first time she had been interviewed for a dozen years and it formed the spine of The Doorstep Murder podcast series.\n\nShe revealed then that her older son, aged just four at the time, saw her father's body on the doorstep.\n\nIt was hoped then that her pleas for new information would help find the killer. It generated many calls to both the BBC and Police Scotland but the murder remained unsolved.\n\nThe fact that Alistair Wilson had been reading his young sons a bedtime story moments before he was shot so brutally has generated enormous sympathy and anger that his two boys have grown up without their father.\n\nSo to hear from Andrew Wilson will reunite people with the details of the murder and, it's hoped, persuade someone with information to step forward after all these years.\n\nListen to The Doorstep Murder podcast on BBC Sounds.\n\nThe doorstep murder shocked the residents of Nairn\n\nPolice believe the murder weapon may have been brought to the UK after World War Two\n\nDet Insp Winter also highlighted the envelope given to Mr Wilson before the shooting - and the possibility that the murder was a case of mistaken identity.\n\nHe said: \"The blue envelope handed to Alistair by the killer had the name Paul on it, which may or may not be relevant. Does this mean anything to you in the context of this investigation?\n\n\"Lastly, do you know any other person by the name Alistair Wilson, who may have been the intended target of violence or retribution to any extent?\"\n\nMr Winter said the force remained committed to ensuring the person responsible for the murder was brought to justice.\n\nHe added: \"Someone out there knows what happened to Alistair and I hope this appeal serves as a vital reminder that it is never too late to come forward with information. Do not assume that the police already know the information you possess.\"\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact the police on 101 or e-mail a dedicated inbox at SCDHOLMESAberdeen@scotland.pnn.police.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have rejected the latest attempt to require imported food to meet domestic legal standards from 1 January.\n\nThey struck down a Lords amendment to the Agriculture Bill to force trade deals to meet UK animal welfare and food safety rules.\n\nCampaigners have warned the UK could be forced to accept lower standards to secure a future US trade deal.\n\nBut Farming minister Victoria Prentis said the government was \"absolutely committed to high standards\".\n\nExisting laws would safeguard them, she told the House of Commons, adding that these were \"of more use than warm words\" in maintaining animal welfare, food standards and environmental protections.\n\nThe bill - designed to prepare the farming industry for when the UK no longer has to follow EU laws and rules next year - returned to the Commons on Monday following amendments by the House of Lords.\n\nThe government says EU rules banning imports of chlorine-washed chicken and other products will be automatically written into UK law once the post-Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nBut peers made a number of changes, including one which would give MPs a veto over sections in trade deals relating to food imports, which would be required to comply with \"relevant domestic standards\".\n\nThey argued these changes were necessary to make it impossible for the US or other countries to export so-called chlorinated chicken or beef fattened with hormones.\n\nHowever, MPs voted by 332 votes to 279 - a majority 53 - to back government plans to reject the amendment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamie Oliver accuses the government of using \"back door\" secondary legislation to avoid scrutiny of post-Brexit food standards\n\nHowever, Conservative MPs Sir Roger Gale and George Freeman said they would vote for the amendment to remain in the bill, saying it was in line with their party's 2019 manifesto pledge to maintain welfare standards.\n\nNeil Parish, the Conservative chairman of the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee, told the Commons that Brexit meant UK agriculture could move in a \"much more environmental direction\", including planting more trees and cutting the use of nitrates.\n\nThe country should be a \"beacon\" of high animal welfare and countryside-protection standards, he added.\n\nBut Conservative MP John Lamont supported the government, saying the amendments were \"not in the interests\" of food producers or standards and would be \"bad for trade\".\n\nParty colleague Anthony Mangnall said there had been a \"huge amount of fear-mongering\" over the importation of chlorinated chicken and hormone-injected beef, and that \"has to stop\".\n\nIn the Commons, Liberal Democrat environment spokesman Tim Farron said the controversy over chlorinated chicken was not \"about the quality of food\" but the \"integrity of our farming industry\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said this was a \"crucial moment for British agriculture\", adding that high standards could all be \"thrown away\".\n\nHe urged the government to \"show some leadership\" and \"back British farmers\".\n\nThe bill must include guarantees that UK farmers would not be \"undercut\" in post-Brexit trade deals, Mr Pollard said.\n\nHowever another potential rebellion by backbench Tory MPs was avoided by the government when the deputy speaker ruled out an amendment to strengthen the new Trade and Agriculture Commission.", "Pensioners argue with a law enforcement officer on Monday during an anti-government rally\n\nPolice in Belarus have been authorised to use lethal force if necessary against anti-government protesters, a senior government official says.\n\nThe move was in response to increasingly radicalised, violent anti-Lukashenko groups, he said.\n\nSeparately, EU foreign ministers have said they are ready to impose sanctions against President Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nProtests have swept the country since Mr Lukashenko claimed victory in an August poll widely viewed as rigged.\n\nBelarusian authorities have been accused of brutality and torture in their suppression of the mass street protests that followed.\n\nOn Monday, the interior ministry confirmed police fired stun grenades and tear gas during an unauthorised rally in the capital, Minsk, which involved a large number of pension-age protesters.\n\nA spokesperson said action was taken after \"citizens started to show aggression\". An unconfirmed number of demonstrators were also arrested.\n\nReferring to protests in the city on Sunday, First Deputy Interior Minister Gennady Kazakevich said they had \"become organised and extremely radical\", adding they now mainly centred on Minsk and were less widespread.\n\nWhereas protesters hurled stones and bottles in the afternoon, as well as wielding knives, by nightfall they had moved on to building barricades and burning tyres, he said.\n\n\"This has nothing to do with civil protests. We're confronted not just by aggression, but by groups of militants, radicals, anarchists and football hooligans,\" he said in a video statement.\n\n\"On behalf of the interior ministry, I say that we will not leave the streets and will guarantee the law in the country. Law enforcement personnel and interior troops will use special equipment and lethal weapons if need be.\"\n\nPolice deployed water-cannon trucks in Minsk on Sunday, spraying protesters with brightly coloured dye\n\nEuropean Union foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg said they were ready to expand sanctions to take in Mr Lukashenko, according to a statement.\n\nBut the ministers say the president's refusal to consider new elections as a way out of the crisis leaves the bloc with no choice.\n\n\"This is an answer to the evolving situation in Belarus,\" EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters. \"There has not been any kind of signal from the Belarus authorities to engage in any kind of conversation.\"\n\nBelarus police have been accused of disproportionate violence\n\nOn Sunday, demonstrators turned out across the country for the ninth successive weekend in protest at the disputed re-election of Mr Lukashenko.\n\nCritics of Mr Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, said Sunday saw police use some of the most brutal tactics against protesters since the immediate aftermath of the election. Riot police again used water cannon and stun grenades to break up the latest rally in Minsk, and many protesters were beaten with police batons.\n\nMore than 700 people were arrested on Sunday, the interior ministry said.\n\nProtesters are demanding the release of all political prisoners and a free and fair re-run of the election.\n\nInternational observers including the European Union have characterised the demonstrations as peaceful.\n\nThe EU, the UK and the US have refused to recognise Mr Lukashenko's new term. Mr Lukashenko denies fixing the poll and has received support from Russia, his country's closest ally.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has said he is prepared to send Russian police to help Mr Lukashenko if the protests get \"out of control\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mass arrests as crowds chant 'go away' to Belarus president last month", "Officials decided that these ads did not show the games as they were\n\nTwo misleading ads for mobile games that bear little relation to the actual product have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).\n\nThe ads, for the Homescapes and Gardenscapes games, both come from developer Playrix.\n\nThey showed a game where users pull pins in a specific order to solve a puzzle - though the actual games had totally different \"core gameplay\".\n\nThe ASA said the ads should not be used again.\n\nIn recent years, a number of mobile games have used ad videos that show puzzle game mechanics they do not use - or barely use - prompting complaints from gamers.\n\nSome mobile game developers \"are actively targeting consumers that are more likely to pay for in-app purchases, or sit through a higher number of ads,\" explained Matthew Bailey, a games analyst at Omdia.\n\n\"It would not be surprising for a publisher to target certain types of gamers with ads featuring the more competitive and problem-solving elements of their title, even if they don't make up the bulk of gameplay,\" he said.\n\n\"However, an increasing number of gamers are becoming annoyed with irrelevant, misleading and badly implemented mobile game ads.\"\n\nHomescapes and Gardenscapes both use the same core gameplay loop: a home or garden needs to be renovated, and players earn the resources they need by playing a \"match three\" type game - similar to other popular games such as Bejewelled or Candy Crush.\n\nBoth Homescapes and Gardenscapes are hugely popular, with more than 100 million app installs each from the Google Play store.\n\nAn example of Gardenscapes \"match three\" gameplay from its app store listing\n\nBut the games have often used ads that show a multiple-choice type puzzle to avert a catastrophe, or, more recently, the pin-pulling puzzle type.\n\nTwo Facebook ads for Homescapes and Gardenscapes, from March and April this year, were referred to the ASA for being misleading.\n\nDespite a brief warning at the bottom of the video that \"not all images represent actual gameplay\", the ASA sided with the seven people who complained.\n\nOne BBC reporter, however, said they had seen the offending ads pop up since the judgement was handed down.\n\nIn its submission, Playrix said that the type of gameplay in the ads was, in fact, in their games.\n\nBut out of thousands of levels of gameplay, there were only 10 such mini-games in Homescapes in April 2020, it said, and the mini-games in the ads were only available every 20 levels or so.\n\nPlayrix also told the ASA that \"most users\" stopped playing near the start of the game. In April, when the offending ads ran, those mini-games were on \"distant levels only\", the ASA said - meaning most players would never see them.\n\nThe company has since changed the game so these mini-games appear closer to the beginning.\n\n\"We understood users would play a significant amount of content which was of a different style in order to access the gameplay featured in the ads,\" the ASA said in its ruling.\n\n\"Because the ads were not representative of the games they were purported to feature, we concluded that they were misleading.\"\n\nIt ruled the ads must not appear again - and told Playrix to make sure ads represented its games in future.\n\nGames analyst Matthew Bailey said that \"artistic licence\" had long been used with game ads, citing 1990s adverts where the cover art was far more impressive than the game graphics.\n\nBut the difference now is that devices are advanced enough to be able to show users what the game is like - and developers are sometimes choosing not to.\n\n\"The ASA's recent ruling on the topic will send an even stronger message to other game makers about their use of misleading ads,\" he warned.", "The use of do-not-attempt-resuscitate (DNAR) orders is to be reviewed after a number were wrongly applied in care homes at the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) will investigate concerns that some care homes still have blanket orders in place covering groups of residents.\n\nIt became clear that blanket use was in place in some care homes in the early weeks of the pandemic.\n\nBut it was widely condemned by the CQC and medical bodies.\n\nThe decision about whether or not to attempt resuscitation if a very sick person falls dangerously ill is supposed to be discussed with the individual, or family members if they are too sick.\n\nDoctors can make a decision on the spot without consultation in exceptional circumstances.\n\nHowever, the decisions are always supposed to be made on an individual case-by-case basis.\n\nThe health minister Lord Bethell has asked the CQC to investigate the latest claims. He told the House of Lords that blanket use of DNARs was \"unacceptable\".\n\nDr Rosie Benneyworth, CQC chief inspector of primary medical services and integrated care, said: \"Health and social care providers have faced extraordinary pressures this year. Both staff, and people using services and their loved ones, have at times raised concerns with us about care.\n\n\"It is vital that we take this opportunity to learn from what has happened - challenging poor care and sharing the ways that providers have put people's needs at the heart of their care so that others can learn from them.\"\n\nDr Benneyworth said it was unacceptable for DNARs to be applied to groups of people of any description.\n\n\"These decisions must continue to be made on an individual basis according to need. Through this review we will look to identify and share best practice in this complex area, as well as identifying where decisions may not have been patient-centred, and ensuring mistakes are not repeated.\"\n\nNHS England said it had already made clear that orders should only ever be made on an individual basis.\n\nThe charity Pohwer said it had found blanket DNARs put in place across Norfolk, West Midlands, London, Oxfordshire, Sussex, Surrey and Buckinghamshire, potentially affecting more than 700 people.\n\nIn a statement, the charity said: \"There are probably many more cases where the homes did not necessarily admit to the blanket DNAR order, or where they did not feel comfortable speaking with an external organisation. So 704 is the minimum number of individuals that would have otherwise been affected.\"\n\nLast week Amnesty International said sending thousands of older untested patients into care homes in England at the start of the coronavirus lockdown was a violation of their human rights.\n\nMore than 18,000 people living in care homes died with Covid-19, and Amnesty says the public inquiry promised by the government must begin immediately, including a thorough review of the use of DNAR forms.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protests have convulsed Belarus every weekend since the disputed presidential election in August\n\nBelarusian riot police have used water cannon and stun grenades to break up the latest mass protests against President Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nProtests have swept the eastern European country since Mr Lukashenko claimed victory in an August election widely viewed as rigged.\n\nDozens of protesters were detained during the latest rallies on Sunday.\n\nIn the capital Minsk, police blasted protesters with coloured water to mark them out for arrest.\n\nCritics of Mr Lukashenko said Sunday saw police use some of the most brutal tactics against protesters since the immediate aftermath of August's disputed presidential election.\n\nMany opposition activists have been beaten up by police and thousands have been arrested during months of unrest. They are demanding the release of all political prisoners and a free and fair re-run of the election.\n\nThe EU, the UK and the US have refused to recognise Mr Lukashenko's new term. Mr Lukashenko denies fixing the poll and has received support from Russia, his country's closest ally.\n\nSvetlana Tikhanovskaya emerged as the main opposition leader after standing against Mr Lukashenko in August's election, arguing she would have won had it not been rigged.\n\nMs Tikhanovskaya was forced to go into exile in Lithuania after receiving threats following the disputed vote. She has repeatedly appealed to the international community to put pressure on Mr Lukashenko so that a democratic transition can be launched by negotiation.\n\nOpposition protesters clashed with masked riot police in Minsk at the latest rally on Sunday\n\nOpposition hopes of a peaceful resolution were raised on Saturday after Mr Lukashenko held an unexpected meeting with political opponents in the jail where they are currently detained.\n\nState media reported that the president called the meeting to discuss constitutional reform with his imprisoned opponents.\n\nIn now-familiar scenes, thousands of pro-opposition protesters gathered in Minsk and other major cities for the ninth successive Sunday of demonstrations against Mr Lukashenko.\n\nWearing coats and carrying umbrellas on a rainy afternoon, protesters called for the resignation of 66-year-old Mr Lukashenko, Belarus's leader since 1994.\n\nFootage shows the security forces, dressed in black and armed with batons, rounding up peaceful protestors congregating in Minsk city centre and taking them to waiting vehicles.\n\nSeveral thousand people were reported to have attended Sunday's march in Minsk\n\nPolice used stun grenades and water cannon against demonstrators in Minsk, a spokeswoman for Belarus's interior ministry told AFP news agency.\n\nThey sprayed plain and coloured water at demonstrators, covering them in what appeared to be orange dye.\n\nSome defiant protesters remained unmoved, using their umbrellas to shield themselves from the blast.\n\nA local news website described police using tear gas on crowds and said police were herding people into courtyards.\n\nIn videos posted online, police can be seen beating protesters with batons and snatching their white-and-red flags - a symbol of nationalist opposition to Mr Lukashenko.\n\nSome protesters fought back and pelted police with bottles and other objects.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mass arrests as crowds chant 'go away' to Belarus president\n\nThe Viasna rights group, which monitors detentions at political protests, said at least 140 people had been detained in Minsk and other cities.\n\nJournalists covering the demonstrations were among those detained, including those from Russia's Tass agency and the state Belarusian news agency BELTA.\n\nSunday's demonstrations in Belarus's capital Minsk now follow a familiar course.\n\nTens of thousands of people march through the streets demanding President Lukashenko step down. Then, he responds by sending his security forces to arrest as many of them as possible.\n\nWhat makes this weekend different, however, is that on Saturday President Lukashenko held a long meeting with a group of political prisoners in jail.\n\nIt's the first indication - after more than two months of protests - that he just might be willing to negotiate with the opposition.\n\nThe president's press office said participants had agreed to keep the four-and-a-half-hour conversation \"secret\".\n\nHowever, a photo posted by the press service shows Mr Lukashenko sitting at a table with 11 political figures, all of whom look pale and unsmiling.\n\nAmong them is Viktor Babaryko, a banker who was initially seen as Mr Lukashenko's strongest rival in the election, but was barred from running and jailed in July.\n\nLiliya Vlasova, a lawyer and member of the opposition's Coordination Council, is also in the photo, as is Vitali Shkliarov, a Belarusian-American strategist who worked on US Senator Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign.\n\nPress Office of the President of Belarus A photo of the meeting was shared by Mr Lukashenko's office\n\nA short video clip shared by the press service also shows Mr Lukashenko saying to the group: \"I am trying to convince not only your supporters but the whole of society that we need to look at things more broadly.\"\n\nApparently referring to the ongoing protests, he added: \"You can't rewrite the constitution on the streets.\"\n\nOpposition figures suggested meeting was a sign of Mr Lukashenko's weakness, perhaps signalling a newfound eagerness to compromise with the protest movement.\n\nBut in a social media post, Ms Tikhanovskaya said \"you can't have dialogue in a prison cell\".", "The news comes as bars and pubs in Liverpool that do not serve meals prepare to close from Wednesday\n\nThe government's scientific advisers called for a short lockdown in England to halt the spread of Covid-19 last month, newly released documents show.\n\nThe experts said an immediate \"circuit breaker\" was the best way to control cases, at a meeting on 21 September.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick insisted the government had taken \"robust action\" that \"balanced\" the impact on the economy.\n\nBut Labour has described the documents as \"alarming\".\n\nIt comes as the Liverpool region prepares to enter a \"very high\" Covid alert level from Wednesday, the highest of a new three-tier system for coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nEvery area will be classified as being on medium, high or very high alert under the system. It is not clear what the specific criteria is for each alert level.\n\nMost parts of England are the lowest tier, but Essex has asked to be moved to \"high\" level restrictions.\n\nShielding is not being reintroduced in England yet, but people who were on the list will receive a letter with updated advice to avoid getting Covid.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest Office for National Statistics figures showed there were 343 deaths involving coronavirus registered in the week to 2 October - a figure that has been doubling every fortnight over the last month.\n\nAt a press conference on Monday evening, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the alert system for England could succeed in driving cases down if it was implemented \"very effectively\", and he rejected the \"extreme route\" of a full nationwide lockdown \"right now\".\n\nBut at the same briefing, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, voiced concerns over the impact of the new rules, saying he was not confident the \"base measures\" in the highest tier \"would be enough to get on top of\" the virus.\n\n\"That is why there's a lot of flexibility for local authorities [...] to do significantly more,\" he said.\n\nReleased shortly after Monday's press conference, minutes from the meeting of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - which feeds into UK government decision-making - stated the advisers had called for the immediate introduction of a short national lockdown three weeks ago.\n\nThe papers also showed the scientists suggested:\n\nOf all the measures proposed by the advisory group, just one - advising those who can work from home to do so - was implemented by the government at the time.\n\nIn the documents, Sage warned that \"not acting now to reduce cases will result in a very large epidemic with catastrophic consequences\".\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Jenrick said the government had introduced measures such as the rule of six at the time, and stressed the Sage papers had contributed to the measures the PM announced on Monday.\n\nHe said they had taken \"balanced judgements\" that weighed up the effect on the economy and \"all the other unintended consequences\" of measures, such as the impact on mental health and delayed surgeries.\n\nOn the new three-tiered system, he said: \"We are now able to have a very clear and consistent framework across the whole country, so people will be able to understand approximately what the rate of infections is in their own area and what the rules are accordingly.\"\n\nHe later told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that there were no plans for other parts of the country to go into the highest tier this week, but plans would be \"kept under review\".\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told BBC Breakfast he was \"alarmed\" by the Sage papers, and called for ministers to explain why the advice was \"rejected\".\n\nHe also insisted the government was going to have to go further than the latest measures, saying things were getting \"really serious\" as winter approaches.\n\nCases are increasing across the whole of the country and the number of people in hospital is now higher than before the full lockdown in March. We are at a critical stage in the epidemic.\n\nIt is at this moment the gulf between the official scientific advice and the decisions made by government has been laid bare.\n\nIt is the case that \"advisers advise and ministers decide\". When considering new measures to stop Covid, government must also take into account the harms they cause to our health and the economy.\n\nBut there is some concern the government is doing too little, too late.\n\nAnd that we can either choose the terms for controlling the virus now, or wait and the virus will force our hand as it did with lockdown in March.\n\nThe newly released Sage documents also showed advisers said NHS Test and Trace was only having a \"marginal impact\" and this would \"likely decline further\" unless the system expanded to keep up with the rise in cases and people were given support to enable them to self-isolate.\n\nA separate document from 17 September stated that Sage believed curfews in bars, pubs, cafes and restaurants were also \"likely to have a marginal impact\".\n\nA 22:00 closing time was introduced for all hospitality venues in England from 24 September.\n\nA Sage document from 21 September warned that \"single interventions by themselves are unlikely to be able to bring the R below one\" and both local and national measures are needed.\n\nHowever, a document examining measures including a two to three week \"circuit-breaker\" - a short period of tightened restrictions - said this step, if it was \"as strict and well-adhered to as the restrictions in late May\", could \"put the epidemic back by approximately 28 days or more\".\n\n\"Multiple circuit-breaks might be necessary to maintain low levels of incidence,\" it added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson explains a three-tiered level of rules to fight the coronavirus pandemic in England.\n\nMost areas in England are in the medium alert level - meaning current restrictions continue, including the 10pm hospitality curfew and the rule of six.\n\nAreas already under additional local restrictions are automatically in the high alert level - meaning bans on household mixing indoors are extended to include hospitality venues.\n\nThe city of Nottingham, which has the highest rate in the country, will start in this category alongside the rest of Nottinghamshire, East and West Cheshire and a small area of High Peak, as well as Greater Manchester, parts of South Yorkshire, and north-east England. Around 4.4 million people will be in high alert areas.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region - home to 1.5 million people - becomes the first area to enter the very high alert level, which - at a minimum - sees pubs and bars close if they do not serve \"substantial meals\", almost all household contacts banned and advice against travel. The rule of six will continue to apply in outdoor public spaces such as parks.\n\nAreas in the highest tier are able to impose further restrictions, and in the Liverpool City Region this will mean the closure of betting shops, gyms, leisure centres and casinos.\n\nMr Johnson said he had agreed some of the measures with the region's Labour Mayor Steve Rotheram - but Mr Rotheram said that was \"totally false\" and that the new measures had been \"dictated to us by the government\".\n\nThe government has issued details of the full restrictions for each alert level.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government is drawing up its own three-tier framework of restrictions to be implemented later this month.\n\nIn Wales, a second national lockdown is being considered and First Minister Mark Drakeford has threatened a travel ban on people from English Covid hotspots if the prime minister does not impose his own.\n\nMinisters in Northern Ireland's devolved government are meeting later to decide on further coronavirus restrictions.\n\nA further 13,972 confirmed coronavirus cases were reported across the UK on Monday, with 50 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test recorded.", "\"I'm going to be here, I'm going to fight this,\" said the 32-year-old, who is having radiotherapy\n\nTom Parker, one of the members of boy band The Wanted, has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.\n\nThe singer, 32, said he was \"still in shock\" after being told he had a grade IV glioblastoma six weeks ago.\n\n\"I knew something wasn't right, but I never expected it to be this.\"\n\nSpeaking to OK! magazine, the singer said he would remain positive, despite being told the cancer was terminal. \"I'm going to be here,\" he added. \"I'm going to fight this.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince they went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease, and made the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married actress Kelsey Hardwick in 2018. The couple have a 16-month-old daughter, Aurelia, and are expecting their second child.\n\nThe star and his wife Kelsey Hardwick are expecting their second child\n\nParker suffered a seizure in July and was put on a waiting list for an MRI scan. Six weeks later he had another, more serious seizure during a family trip to Norwich and was rushed to hospital.\n\nAfter three days of tests, he was diagnosed with cancer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital, and he received the news on his own.\n\nOn Monday, the couple posted a message on Instagram telling fans that Parker had begun chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment.\n\n\"We are gonna fight this all the way,\" they said. \"We don't want your sadness, we just want love and positivity and together we will raise awareness of this terrible disease and look for all available treatment options.\"\n\nGlioblastoma is the most aggressive of brain tumours in adults. Speaking to OK!, the couple said they had not asked about a timescale for how it is likely to develop.\n\n\"I said that for Tom's state of mind, and who he is as a person, that would not be good for him,\" said Hardwick. \"He would literally sit here and count down the days and not live his life.\"\n\nParker added: \"There are so many stories of people who were given a bad prognosis and are still here five, 10, even 15 years later. We're going to fight this all the way.\"\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 tomparkerofficial This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe couple were inundated with messages of support on Monday morning.\n\n\"Sending so much love and support always,\" wrote Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington in a comment under their Instagram post.\n\n\"We love you Tom!\" added The Only Way Is Essex's James \"Arg\" Argent, who appeared with Parker on ITV's cancer fundraiser The Real Full Monty in 2018. \"We got this brother, No doubt about it!\"\n\nThe Wanted sold more than 10m records worldwide (L-R): Siva Kaneswaran, Max George, Nathan Sykes, Tom Parker and Jay McGuiness\n\nHardwick added that Parker's bandmates had rallied round, with Jay McGuinness and Max George visiting the couple over the past few weeks.\n\n\"Siva [Kaneswaran] and Nathan [Sykes] obviously live a lot further away, but all four of the boys have been texting regularly and sending through different articles and possible treatments and therapies that they're all reading about. They've been amazing.\"\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.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nWest Ham are against radical plans by Liverpool and Manchester United to reform the English football pyramid, according to a club source.\n\nThe Project Big Picture proposals have been put together by Liverpool owner John Henry and United co-chairman Joel Glazer.\n\nEverton, Southampton and West Ham would be granted special status in the plans, along with the so-called 'big six'.\n\nHowever, a Hammers insider has told BBC Sport they are \"very much against\" it.\n• None Reforms in 'best interest of clubs' - Parry\n\nIt is understood the club were unaware of the proposals, even though they were named in them - and were shocked when they emerged into the public domain on Sunday.\n\nThe source said they were of the view Liverpool and United were the instigators but that they had been told talks have been going on since January and what has emerged is the 17th version of the proposal.\n\nThe plans also include special status for Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday the plans would \"undermine the trust in football's governance\".\n\n\"In terms of support for clubs we have been given assurances by the Premier League and English Football League that they have no intention to let any EFL club go bust due to covid and we know they have the means to prevent that from happening within existing mechanisms.\n\n\"We strongly urge the Premier League and EFL to continue to work constructively to come up with a package of support for the whole football family.\"\n• None The Premier League cut from 20 to 18 clubs, with the Championship, League One and League Two each retaining 24 teams.\n• None The bottom two teams in the Premier League relegated automatically with the 16th-placed team joining the Championship play-offs.\n• None A £250m rescue fund made immediately available to the EFL & 25% of all future TV deals\n• None £100m paid to the FA to make up for lost revenue.\n• None Nine clubs given 'special voting rights' on certain issues, based on their extended runs in the Premier League.\n\nThe Hammers feel the obvious negatives - the loss of two home games - will hit their finances, while at the same time creating space for more European games and lucrative pre-season friendlies, which would disproportionately benefit the 'big six'.\n\nThe plans include reducing the Premier League to 18 clubs and scrapping the EFL Cup.\n\nIn return, the EFL would get 25% of all future TV deals, which would be negotiated jointly, plus the £250m bail-out many clubs have been demanding since May.\n\nThis is the fourth season in a row where the 'big six' have all qualified for European football. In the past 10 seasons, one of them has missed out on only four occasions.\n\nOver the past decade, West Ham have had two European campaigns, both of which ended during the qualifying rounds. Southampton and Everton have also qualified for Europe twice in the same period.\n\n\"The big six are using Covid for a power grab,\" said the West Ham source. \"If this goes through, over time they will just use more and more for themselves.\"\n\nIt is not known what will happen if the plan - which has drawn criticism from supporters' groups, the government and the Premier League executive - is rejected.\n\nThe Premier League said \"individual proposals\" in the plan \"could have a damaging impact on the whole game\", and that it would continue its own work on a \"resolution to the requirement for Covid-19 rescue funding\" for the EFL.\n\nHowever, one theory - which EFL chairman Rick Parry refused to dismiss when questioned specifically about it twice on Sunday - is that the six clubs have been told they could play within the Football League if their Premier League status was threatened.\n\nOne source with detailed knowledge of running clubs at both Premier League and EFL level says the plan has merit but the fear of how the 'big six' might rewrite the rule book - potentially including halting relegation or blocking new owners whose investment may threaten their own status - was likely to be regarded as too big a price for many to accept.\n\n'Something needs to be done right now'\n\nChairman of League Two club Forest Green Rovers, Dale Vince, said he was \"positive\" and \"excited\" about a \"very well-rounded and fair packet of changes\".\n\n\"I think it will really put a line under the EFL in terms of financial stability, and in terms of creating a level playing field as well,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The ending of parachute payments goes hand in hand with that. It distorts competition in the Championship in particular, but that does flow down the EFL as well.\"\n\nAsked whether the proposal would put too much power in the hands of the 'big six', Vince says the Premier League should adopt a simple majority voting system, where 10 votes would succeed in an 18-team league.\n\nHe added: \"I don't think there is anything wrong with the timing of this, there is probably everything right with it because something needs to be done right now.\"\n\nDerby County's chief executive Stephen Pearce told BBC Sport that he does not see the proposals as a \"power grab\" by the bigger Premier League clubs.\n\n\"This actually about how we protect the pyramid as far as I can see,\" Pearce said. \"Looking at it long term, we need financial stability throughout the whole pyramid. We need the controls in place to sort out player wage inflation and everything we talked about previously.\n\n\"I think it makes a case that clubs will be able to focus more on making themselves financially sustainable and putting more into the infrastructure of the clubs, into coaching, the grassroots, the academies.\n\n\"I think, in the longer term, it will make the competition better and people will see it as a more attractive sporting product that is more competitive.\"\n• None David Attenborough on the future of our planet: 'We have to believe it's possible'\n• None What was it like to deliver the Premier League trophy?", "A detective sent \"flirtatious\" messages to a victim of attempted rape, a misconduct panel heard.\n\nDet Sgt Jonathan Pearce could be dismissed by Kent Police over the Facebook messages, which included a topless photograph.\n\nThe pair had met online and started messaging before she told him of the attempted rape in October 2019, the panel heard.\n\nHe denies trying to begin a sexual or emotional relationship with the woman.\n\nHours after telling Det Sgt Pearce about the attempted assault, she said to him \"you want me\", the panel heard.\n\nHe replied: \"Maybe a little bit.\"\n\nIn other messages he told the woman that if he were \"20 years younger\" he would have asked her out, and sent her a topless photograph including his head and shoulders.\n\nDavid Mesling, setting out the allegations, said while \"knowing or believing [the woman] to be a vulnerable person\" Det Sgt Pearce had \"continued to attempt to enter into a sexual or emotional relationship with her\".\n\nThe officer, in his 40s, said the messages were \"light-hearted banter, never anything serious\".\n\nThe messages were an attempt to \"make her feel better about herself\" and he wanted to bring the alleged perpetrator to justice, Det Sgt Pearce said.\n\nHe is accused of a \"serious failure\" to secure evidence, after deleting their online exchange.\n\nMr Mesling said the detective had given a \"changing account\" of how the messages were deleted.\n\nDet Sgt Pearce told the panel it was \"purely accidental\" and he had meant to archive them.\n\n\"I deleted them because I was stupid and pressed the wrong button,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Oruc Reis will again spend 10 days in the disputed waters\n\nThe Turkish navy has said a research ship at the centre of an energy rights row with Greece will be sent back to disputed waters in the Mediterranean.\n\nTensions flared in August when the vessel was sent to survey an area claimed by Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.\n\nTurkey withdrew its ship, the Oruc Reis, in September ahead of diplomatic attempts to resolve the dispute.\n\nNow, Ankara has said that the ship will again spend 10 days conducting seismic research in the eastern Mediterranean.\n\nThe vessel will also be accompanied by two other ships, Ataman and Cengiz Han.\n\nGreece and Turkey are both Nato members, but have a history of border disputes and competing claims over maritime rights.\n\nThis particular row was sparked when Turkey deployed the seismic research vessel and warships to the disputed waters on 10 August.\n\nThe Oruc Reis, as well as two auxiliary vessels, were sent to search for potentially rich oil and gas deposits south of the Greek island of Kastellorizo.\n\nAt the time, Greece's foreign ministry said this was a \"new serious escalation\" which \"exposed\" Turkey's \"destabilising role\".\n\nThe row then saw Greece and Turkey stage rival air and navy drills in the waters between Cyprus and the Greek island of Crete.\n\nTurkey eventually pulled the Oruc Reis back to shore last month, sparking hopes that the two nations could resolve the crisis.\n\nHowever, Turkish officials at the time insisted the ship was only undergoing planned maintenance and that it would be returning to sea.\n\nEarlier this month, the EU threatened to bring in sanctions on Turkey if it failed to do what the bloc said was illegal drilling and energy exploration activities in waters claimed by Cyprus and Greece.\n\nTurkey said the threat of sanctions was \"unconstructive\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Mitchells & Butlers, the pubs and restaurants group, has begun redundancy consultations with a number of staff as it struggles with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nM&B, whose chains include Harvester and All Bar One, has about 1,700 pubs and restaurants and 44,000 employees.\n\nIt has not yet disclosed how many jobs are at risk.\n\nA spokesperson for the company described it as \"a difficult and regrettable decision\".\n\nM&B would \"seek to redeploy affected staff wherever possible\", the spokesperson added.\n\n\"Our industry is operating in exceptionally challenging and uncertain circumstances.\n\n\"While we have worked incredibly hard to make sites Covid-19 secure and keep staff and customers safe, we are facing significant difficulties from the recently introduced 10pm curfew for pubs, bars and restaurants, new enforced closures and tapering government support that doesn't go far enough.\"\n\nM&B's spokesperson also called for further government support for the hospitality sector.\n\n\"With trading restrictions and uncertainty likely to continue for the foreseeable future, we strongly urge the government to step up the level of support it is offering to an industry which has been repeatedly singled out and taken the full brunt of restrictions.\"\n\nOther well-known brands in the M&B stable include Toby Carvery and O'Neill's.\n\nThe move comes after warnings by the hospitality industry that the new coronavirus restrictions will come as a huge blow to bars and restaurants across much of England.\n\nBars and pubs in Liverpool have been instructed to close from Wednesday and will receive financial support.\n\nBut venues in \"tier 2\" areas, including large parts of the North and Midlands, will lose custom, with households no longer allowed to mix indoors.\n\nTrade body the Night Time Industries Association is pressing for a judicial review of the restrictions.\n\nAre you a Mitchells and Butler employee? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lord Frost and Michel Barnier are continuing to talk, ahead of Thursday's EU summit\n\nBoris Johnson has been clear with the EU that the time left to get a post-Brexit trade deal in place is in \"short supply\", Downing Street says.\n\nThe prime minister has set a deadline of this Thursday, after which he has said the UK is ready to \"walk away\".\n\nNo 10 said the time limit was still in place and the government was trying to \"bridge\" disagreements over fishing rights and state aid for businesses.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's negotiating team is in Brussels for further talks.\n\nThese come after Mr Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for an intensification of discussions.\n\nThe prime minister set his deadline to coincide with the start of an EU summit, at which leaders will discuss the state of the trade talks.\n\nBoth sides have spoken of progress in the last couple of weeks, but there are still major disagreements on two issues in particular.\n\nFirst, the EU wants the UK to follow its rules on state aid - financial assistance given by government to businesses - but the UK says it would undermine independence.\n\nSecond, the UK wants full access to EU markets to sell its fish, but in return the EU is demanding full access for its fishing fleets to UK waters - which the UK does not want to provide.\n\nIt has been reported that France is ready to rule out a deal if the UK does not back down over fishing rights.\n\nIf no agreement is reached, the UK and EU would do business under World Trade Organisation rules from 1 January next year, which would mean tariffs on goods.\n\nLast week, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said \"movement\" was required before \"end-state negotiations\" could begin.\n\nThe UK's chief negotiator, Lord Frost, said he would advise the prime minister on whether the UK's set conditions for a deal have been met following his talks with EU counterpart Michel Barnier in Brussels.", "John Leslie is accused of committing the assault in Westminster in December 2008\n\nFormer Blue Peter presenter John Leslie \"grabbed\" a woman's breasts at a Christmas party and then laughed, the opening of his trial heard.\n\nThe 55-year-old is accused of the assault shortly after arriving at the gathering in London's West End in 2008.\n\nMr Leslie was charged with sexual touching of a woman on 5 June 2019, Southwark Crown Court heard.\n\nHe denies the charge of sexual assault by intentionally touching a woman without her consent.\n\nProsecutor Jocelyn Ledward said Mr Leslie grabbed the woman's breasts \"quite deliberately for a period of a few seconds\" before walking off.\n\nMs Ledward told Southwark Crown Court: \"The woman was stunned but did not report it to the police.\n\n\"He [Mr Leslie] denies he did any such thing and if there was any physical contact between them, then it must have been an accident.\"\n\nThe woman had recognised Mr Leslie at the bar and went over to him, the court heard.\n\nHe smiled at her, Ms Ledward said.\n\n\"She smiled back. Without saying anything further he grabbed both of her breasts with both of his hands and laughed as he did so,\" the prosecutor added.\n\n\"The prosecution say this was no accidental touching but a quite deliberate sexual assault.\"\n\nThe woman did not think her complaint would be taken seriously at the time but had confided in a friend who was left \"shocked\", Ms Ledward said.\n\nIt was in late-2017 after the MeToo campaign became prominent, that the woman decided to make a complaint, the court was told.\n\nMr Leslie voluntarily attended a police interview in March 2018 at the end of which he told them, \"I have not attacked or assaulted anyone ever\", the jury was told.\n\nMr Leslie, who began his TV career in 1989 when he became a presenter on the BBC's Blue Peter, went on to present Wheel Of Fortune and This Morning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Downing Street has added its voice to criticism of a government-backed advert suggesting a ballet dancer should retrain in cyber security.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said it was \"not appropriate\" and had been taken down.\n\nThe ad, the latest in a long-running campaign to promote cyber security jobs, sparked a social media backlash.\n\nIt had already been disowned by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, who said the \"crass\" ad did not come from his department.\n\nAcclaimed choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne was among Twitter users criticising the advert, asking in a tweet: \"This has to be a joke? Right?\"\n\nThe advert depicts a ballet dancer and reads: \"Fatima's next job could be in cyber (she just doesn't know it yet). Rethink. Reskill. Reboot.\"\n\nIt is attributed to CyberFirst, a programme led by the National Cyber Security Centre to encourage young people to get into tech, and to HM Government.\n\nCritics on Twitter called the advert \"patronising\", saying it showed the government was not helping the arts through the pandemic.\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 Matthew Bourne 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 a tweet, writer Caitlin Moran wondered if the government had \"recently created a Hopes and Dreams Crushing Department\".\n\nShadow mental health minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan tweeted: \"Fatima, you be you. Don't let anyone else tell you that you aren't good enough because you don't conform to their preconceived social norms.\"\n\n\"This was part of a campaign encouraging people from all walks of life to think about career in cyber-security, but this piece of content was not appropriate and has been removed,\" Downing Street said.\n\nMr Dowden said in a tweet: \"I want to save jobs in the arts\", and underlined that £1.57bn was being invested in the industry.\n\nHe said the advert \"was a partner campaign encouraging people from all walks of life to think about a career in cyber security\".\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 Oliver Dowden 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 image, the latest in a series of promotions that started last year under a \"Rethink. Reskill. Reboot.\" campaign, has now been removed. Before its removal, it read: \"If your career plan's been altered this year, you're not alone.\n\n\"2020 has shaken up jobs - but most successful careers have a turning point. The government-backed Rethink. Reskill. Reboot. programme by CyberFirst could be yours.\"\n\nThe reaction to this \"Rethink Reskill Reboot\" campaign was immediate on social media, and the ballet dancer picture was replaced by a picture of a baker almost immediately.\n\nIn the context of the difficulties facing the arts during the Covid-19 pandemic, it's a sensitive subject. The use of a ballet dancer - seen through the narrow focus of social media - seems dreadfully timed and at least one government minister agrees.\n\nThe Chancellor's comments during an ITV interview last week have caused confusion around jobs in the arts, but it seems he was talking about all job sectors, rather than the arts in particular. However, it's the persistent belief that he was referring to people in creative industries retraining into new careers that has caused anger.\n\nAs for the courses themselves, QA have been running vocational courses under the CyberFirst name since 2017, in partnership with the government's NCSC, and sometimes alongside companies like BAE Systems - so these campaigns are not new.\n\nLast year, the NCSC used the CyberFirst brand in an event aimed at steering school pupils toward a career in cyber-security, and they have told Huffington Post that the current \"Reboot\" campaign has no connection with them.\n\nThe image of \"Fatima\" comes from a photograph by Atlanta-based photographer Krys Alex published on Instagram in July 2017. The original picture shows dancers Desire'e Kelley and Tasha Williams from the Vibez in Motion Dance Studio in Atlanta, Georgia.\n\n\"Fatima\" is Atlanta-based dancer Desire'e Kelley, pictured here with Tasha Williams\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has forced industries to scale back their businesses and cut jobs, including many music venues and cultural organisations.\n\nLast week, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said that all workers needed to adapt to the changing environment.\n\nHe told ITV: \"Can things happen in exactly the way they did? No. But everyone is having to find ways to adapt and adjust to the new reality.\"\n\nDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, the National Cyber Security Centre and GCHQ have all been contacted for comment.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe country will be divided up into \"medium\", \"high\" and \"very high\" when it comes to infection levels. The aim is to simplify the current patchwork of restrictions, but the measures are still to be finalised. Once they are, Boris Johnson will tell MPs in the Commons first, followed by a Downing Street press conference. The Liverpool City Region is expected to become the first tier 3 area, with the likely closure of pubs, gyms and casinos, but others could follow. The UK isn't alone is facing these sorts of decisions in response to the second wave - see what's happening elsewhere in Europe.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nHealth experts are urging all pregnant women to take up the offer of a free flu jab as soon as possible to help protect themselves and their babies. Anyone working in maternity departments is being given the same message. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Royal College of Midwives say the vaccination is even more important this year because of Covid-19. Pregnancy can change the way the body responds to viral infections, and in rare cases, flu can have very serious consequences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Should I get a flu jab this winter?\n\nThe UK economy may have grown by as much as 17% in the three months to the end of September, thanks to a surge in shopping and a healthy housing market. The optimistic prediction from forecasters at the EY Item Club comes with a sting in the tail, though. It thinks much slower growth will come in the final three months of 2020 - possibly 1% or less - as the furlough scheme ends and unemployment rises. The possible failure of Brexit trade talks is also casting a shadow.\n\nEY said consumer spending bounced back strongly over the summer\n\nMany smaller football clubs are struggling to survive without spectators but, as yet, no rescue package has been agreed. Now a set of proposals, led by Liverpool and Manchester United, has been put forward which would give them an immediate bail-out and a 25% share of future Premier League revenue. Alongside that there'd be a major shake-up of football's structure, with the number of teams in the top flight cut and the longest-serving clubs handed more power. The government and Premier League don't like it, but our sports editor Dan Roan thinks it could help break the current impasse.\n\nGate receipts are the main source of income for smaller clubs\n\nAdapting to life under coronavirus is tough for many schools, but at New College Worcester there's an extra layer of complexity because all 69 pupils are blind or visually impaired. Social distancing may be difficult, but the school has found ways to manage. One sixth former, Mustafa, told the BBC the pandemic wouldn't hold him back, and headteacher Nicki Ross says teachers are determined to continue their mission to help students become independent young people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How blind school in Worcester is keeping pupils safe\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, with a great many of us still working from home, how can you hope to get promoted if you aren't in the office?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\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.", "Nigel Wright was caught on CCTV at Tesco in Lockerbie\n\nA farmer who laced baby food with metal shards in an attempt to blackmail Tesco has been jailed for 14 years.\n\nNigel Wright, 45, of Osgodby, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, contaminated jars of Heinz baby food and placed them on supermarket shelves.\n\nHe then wrote to Tesco threatening that babies would be seriously or fatally injured unless he was paid £1.4m.\n\nWright was found guilty in August of three counts of blackmail and two charges of contaminating goods.\n\nNo babies were harmed but the metal was spotted by two mothers who were only moments away from feeding their children.\n\nPolice said an urgent recall of baby food led to 42,000 jars being recovered. There was no evidence that further jars had been tampered with.\n\nThe jury at the Old Bailey heard Wright demanded Tesco pay him his ransom in the online currency Bitcoin.\n\nNigel Wright was sentenced to a total of 14 years in jail\n\nThe sheep farmer was convicted of a further charge of blackmail for demanding £150,000 worth of Bitcoin from a driver with whom he had a road rage row.\n\nHe was sentenced to 11 years for his plot against Tesco, and a further three years to run consecutively for the road rage blackmail.\n\nIn that case, Wright sent a letter to the driver demanding Bitcoin and threatening to kill him and his wife and children if he did not comply.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Warby said: \"You were under no pressure from others, or from circumstances.\n\n\"It is not as if you had - for instance - a legitimate grievance against Tesco, nor can any other explanation easily be identified for engaging in this series of repulsive actions, apart from greed.\"\n\nHertfordshire Police, who led the investigation, said Wright claimed he had been forced to carry out the baby food plot by travellers who were threatening him, but had no evidence of this.\n\nDet Insp Lucy Thomson said: \"Wright is a dangerous offender who gave no thought to the babies he could have harmed during his callous pursuit of money.\"\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 Bank of England has written to UK banks asking them how ready they are if interest rates were cut to zero or turned negative.\n\nThe UK would be following countries such as Japan and Switzerland if it cut borrowing costs to such a low figure.\n\n\"We are requesting specific information about your firm's current readiness,\" the bank's deputy governor, Sam Woods, said in the letter to banks.\n\nThe Bank of England cut rates to the current historic low of 0.1% in March.\n\nMr Woods said he wanted to know if the banks would face technological challenges if rates should turn negative.\n\n\"We are also seeking to understand whether there may be potential for short-term solutions or workarounds, as well as permanent systems changes,\" he said.\n\nThe past few years have been marked by outages and other problems with the computer systems of various British banks.\n\nLast year, MPs condemned the level of IT failures at banks, warning that financial levies on firms and more regulation may be needed.\n\nWhile the Bank of England may set its base rate below zero, it is unlikely most consumers will immediately enter the topsy-turvy world of being paid to borrow money.\n\nThose on fixed-rate mortgages will see no difference, while variable-rate mortgage terms often state that borrowers will never pay less than zero.\n\nSavers with deep pockets such as the wealthy and the banks themselves, may be charged to deposit their money.\n\nBanks depositing cash overnight at the European Central Bank currently pay 0.5% to do so. In November, Swiss bank UBS began charging up to 0.75% for cash deposits from wealthy clients.\n\nFor some years the Bank of England and financial regulators have been pretty sceptical about the use of negative interest rates.\n\nRewarding borrowers and punishing savers would certainly be a difficult communications task.\n\nBut the reason for scepticism repeatedly communicated to me was the structure of the UK financial system.\n\nBuilding societies, in particular, are reliant on the difference between the interest rates they pay and they receive - the net interest margin. It is tough enough at the current record low rates of interest.\n\nTo be clear, should the move materialise, typical savers and borrowers should not be immediately affected by this new world - although a Danish bank did launch a negative interest rate mortgage last year.\n\nThe move would mainly affect the plumbing of the financial system, basically institutional bank accounts at the Bank of England.\n\nThe point would be to penalise hoarding of cash, and provide incentives to spend and invest.\n\nThe evidence from other countries that have dabbled in these rates is mixed.\n\nToday's move is designed to get financial institutions ready internally, especially in terms of computer systems, to cope with either a zero rate or a negative one.\n\nIt removes a barrier against the option of this radical policy, though far from guarantees it.\n\nThe Bank of England is demonstrating that it has not run out of weapons, as the recovery slows and profound uncertainties of the pandemic and post-Brexit trade with the EU loom large.\n\nThe banks have until 12 November to respond to the central bank's request.\n\nInvestors are betting on a rate cut below zero in May, the Reuters news agency has reported.\n\nWhile a cut in rates would squeeze the profit margins of lenders, the central banks did not ask about the risks of this, sticking to questions about its practicality.\n\nThe term \"interest rates\" is often used interchangeably with the Bank of England base rate.\n\nDescribed as the \"single most important interest rate in the UK\", the base rate determines how much interest the Bank of England pays to financial institutions that hold money with it, and what it charges them to borrow.\n\nHigh Street banks also use it to determine how much interest they pay to savers, as well as what they charge people who take out a loan or mortgage.\n\nThe Bank of England usually lowers interest rates when it wants people to spend more and save less.\n\nIn theory, taking interest rates below zero should have the same effect. But in practice, it's a bit more complicated.", "File photo of São Paulo police force, which has launched a search for Macedo\n\nOne of Brazil's biggest crime bosses has gone on the run after being briefly freed from prison the previous day.\n\nAndré Oliveira Macedo, also known as André do Rap, was released from a high security prison on Saturday - but this decision was revoked just hours later.\n\nHe has been missing since.\n\nMacedo is a senior member of the São Paulo-based First Command of the Capital (PCC) gang, which holds power in jails across Brazil and Paraguay and smuggles tonnes of cocaine into Europe.\n\nHis release was the result of a controversial order by Judge Marco Aurélio Mello, one of 11 justices on Brazil's Supreme Court.\n\nJudge Mello granted Macedo's release from the São Paulo prison on the grounds that the amount of time he had spent in detention awaiting trial had exceeded the legal maximum. He was arrested in September 2019, and had been detained since.\n\nAfter his release, Macedo was ordered to go into house arrest.\n\nThe order to release him was controversial. São Paulo state governor João Doria called it \"an unacceptable condescension to criminals\".\n\nWithin a few hours, High Court president Luiz Fux had suspended the decision and ordered Macedo to be re-arrested and returned to prison immediately.\n\nHowever, by this time he was already gone - with some local reports suggesting he fled the country.\n\nInvestigators in São Paulo have not provided details on the search.", "At least 40 people armed with metal bars and fireworks have attacked a police station to the south of Paris, according to officials.\n\nThe assailants, who caused damage to cars and broke windows, also tried unsuccessfully to storm the building, police said.\n\nThe police station is in an area known for drug trafficking, and the local mayor said the attack could be in retaliation for a recent scooter accident allegedly caused by police.", "British Airways has announced it is replacing its chief executive Alex Cruz as the airline navigates \"the worst crisis\" facing its industry.\n\nMr Cruz, who has been with BA since 2016, will be immediately replaced by Aer Lingus boss Sean Doyle.\n\nMr Cruz will stay on as non-executive chairman for a transition period before Mr Doyle also takes on the role.\n\nBA has been embroiled in a bitter dispute with unions over redundancies and pay cuts.\n\nIt is cutting about 10,000 staff, drawing criticism from staff and MPs who claim the airline has been following a \"fire and rehire\" policy.\n\nLuis Gallego, chief executive of IAG, which owns BA, said: \"We're navigating the worst crisis faced in our industry and I'm confident these internal promotions will ensure IAG is well placed to emerge in a strong position.\"\n\nThe shake-up is one of the first major movesby Mr Gallego who took over as IAG's chief executive last month, replacing long-standing boss Willie Walsh.\n\n\"This is a sign that the new chief executive of IAG, Luis Gallego, is flexing his muscles and trying to demonstrate he'll make the changes necessary to lead a sustained recovery for the airline group,\" said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nNew data from Heathrow showed the challenges being faced by the travel industry from the coronavirus pandemic. Just 1.2 million passengers travelled through the airport in September, down 82% compared with the same month last year.\n\nHe's done the dirty work - now a fresh pair of hands is needed.\n\nAlex Cruz's most recent task at BA was to push through thousands of job cuts as well as changes to pay and conditions, which will see many remaining staff earning a lot less in future.\n\nThose cuts may have been necessary due to the Covid crisis, but the way BA went about it - effectively threatening to fire employees who refused to sign new contracts - provoked deep resentment and bitterness among the workforce.\n\nAnd he was hardly popular to begin with. He arrived at BA with a brief to cut costs and boost profitability, to enable the airline to compete with budget carriers. He succeeded, but at a price.\n\nCustomer satisfaction fell sharply, leading to accusations that the BA brand was being sacrificed for short-term shareholder value. There were strikes over what was described as \"poverty pay\" by cabin crew. And repeated IT failures proved deeply embarrassing for the company.\n\nNow the man who appointed him, former IAG chief executive Willie Walsh, has retired. The new IAG boss, Luis Gallego, appears keen to make his mark and rebuild bridges with staff.\n\nMr Cruz was very much part of the old regime. It should come as no surprise that he now has to step aside.\n\nMr Doyle is returning to BA after just two years in charge at Aer Lingus, which is also owned by IAG. Prior to that, he had worked at BA since 1998.\n\nBut Ms Streeter said: \"Sean Doyle will have his work cut out to make immediate progress given that British Airways is facing the toughest challenge in its history as demand for international travel has plummeted and quarantine restrictions continue to constrain bookings.\"\n\nMr Cruz's tenure as BA's boss has been eventful. In September last year, the airline's pilots staged their first ever strike which led to 2,325 flights being cancelled and cost BA €137m (£124m).\n\nIt has also suffered a number of costly IT problems, including an incident in 2017 that left 75,000 flyers stranded and cost the airline £80m.\n\nLast year, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) announced it intended to fine BA a record £183m after a breach of its security system, exposing hundreds of thousands of customer details. The ICO and BA are still in discussions regarding the fine.\n\nIAG declined to comment on whether Mr Cruz would receive any compensation when he leaves BA once the transition period is completed. It also declined to say how long the transition period would last.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Liverpool is one of many cities where there are extra restrictions\n\nIn many areas under local lockdown, cases and hospital admissions have continued to soar. Does that mean restrictions don't work?\n\nConsider the national lockdown in the spring. While it feels like it was one single policy, it was in fact a package of different measures. Schools, universities and offices shut. Pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops closed. No-one could mix with people from outside their household. People were advised not to use public transport and to limit the number of times they visited essential shops.\n\nTogether these had a dramatic impact on cases, and the number of coronavirus patients in hospital plummeted from 20,000 to about 800.\n\nHow much each part of that lockdown contributed is hard to say.\n\nThe rules were relaxed but then, at the end of June, Leicester became the first place to go into a local lockdown. Other cities, and whole regions, have followed. But so far, Leicester's lockdown is the only one to have come close to the strictness of the national policy. Shops and pubs were stopped from opening. Households were barred from mixing indoors. And new cases of the virus dropped by 60% during July. People in hospital beds with coronavirus fell from 88 to 18.\n\nSince Leicester, local lockdowns have multiplied. More than 15 million people - very roughly, a quarter of the UK population - have come under new curbs, in some form.\n\nAnd it's become harder to see whether they are working or not.\n\nAfter the first changes, cases continued to rise, throughout August. Then, after pub and restaurant closures, case rates dropped sharply. It is, however, too soon to say for sure that the stricter measures led directly to the decline.\n\nIn the rest of Greater Manchester, gatherings with other households were banned but shops, pubs and restaurants remained open. Cases have mostly kept climbing throughout these local restrictions.\n\nHowever, the latest week's data will be welcome news - suggesting the sharp increases might be levelling off. The rise in cases in many areas under local lockdown appears to be slowing, in line with the national picture.\n\nThis may be a sign that the England-wide \"rule of six\" is working.\n\nA large national study, published last week, confirmed the growth in cases was slowing across England, although overall levels remained high. But restrictions on households meeting - which have been seen at a local level - don't always lead to a slowing case rate. And this change in impact highlights the many factors involved which make it difficult to isolate the precise effect of local lockdowns.\n\nPeople don't necessarily change their behaviour exactly in line with rule changes.\n\nWhen concerns about cases rising begin to be reported, some people alter their behaviour before any law change. Other people, even when the rules come into place, don't obey them.\n\nSo it may be a question of timing: are people more ready to restrict their movements now than they were in August?\n\nTo complicate the figures further, other things have been going on at the same time as local lockdowns were being introduced, including summer holiday season and schools reopening.\n\nIn Leicester, cases fell when restrictions were introduced. When they were progressively eased in August and September, cases started to rise. But this rise coincided with more people travelling abroad. And with children going back to school.\n\nIn Greater Manchester, cases also rose over those months despite the area being in lockdown - albeit a looser version than Leicester's had been.\n\nUnpicking these different factors is a big challenge.\n\nLooking at \"positivity rates\" - the proportion of all tests that are positive, adjusting for different levels of testing - shows there have been increases in cases across England, with particularly sharp spikes in the North West and North East between the end of August and the end of September. Restrictions in those regions were only introduced between the middle of September and the beginning of October, making it too soon to see the impact of these rules.\n\nBut in Blackburn, which has been in lockdown long enough for an effect to be seen, there was also a rise in cases - though this has come back down in recent weeks.\n\nRecent increases in hospitalisations from coronavirus have highlighted the extent of the challenge facing the north of England. Though without up-to-date localised data, it is difficult to judge whether the impact on a local level - such as those in Blackburn - have helped prevent serious cases.\n\nThere's no doubt the national lockdown had a considerable impact on cases.\n\nFundamentally, the virus needs people to be in close contact and mixing between circles to spread through the population. How tight the restrictions are makes a difference - look at the experience of Leicester, compared with Oldham or Blackburn.\n\nBut so do the crucial issues of timing and compliance. A lockdown only works if people stick to it.\n\nThe data also indicates that any impact lockdowns do have is far from permanent - relax the restrictions and allow more contact, and the virus will quickly start to spread again.\n\nUnless and until a viable vaccine becomes available, government will be faced with the same choice: shut down large chunks of society or allow the virus to tear through communities, with little idea of the true toll that either will exact.", "Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson have won the 2020 Nobel Economics Prize for their work on auction theory.\n\nThe Stanford University game theorists have helped in developing formats for the sale of aircraft landing slots, radio spectrums, and emissions trading.\n\nThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their work \"benefitted sellers, buyers and taxpayers\" worldwide.\n\nGame theory uses mathematics to study decision-making, conflict, and strategy in social situations.\n\n\"This year's laureates in economic sciences started out with fundamental theory and later used their results in practical applications, which have spread globally. Their discoveries are of great benefit to society,\" said Peter Fredriksson, chair of the prize committee.\n\nProf Wilson developed a theory for auctions where the value of the object on the block is uncertain beforehand but ends up being the same for everyone - for example, the value of radio frequencies, or the volume of a mineral in a particular area.\n\nHe also developed a theory as to why rational bidders tend to place maximum bids that are below what they estimate the actual value of the object to be: they are worried about the so-called \"winner's curse\" - overpaying to win the auction.\n\nProf Milgrom put together a theory which takes into account not only auctions where the object turns out to have the same value for all the bidders, but also for auctions where the object is valued differently by different bidders.\n\nHe demonstrated that the seller should get a higher revenue when bidders learn more about each other's estimated values during bidding.\n\nMost of us don't buy art or livestock. Nor do we buy our fresh fish or fruit and veg at auction.\n\nRather more of us might occasionally buy or sell some modestly valued furniture or ornaments that way, and perhaps more still make use of online auction sites.\n\nBut the committee at the Swedish Central Bank which awards the prize says that auctions affect all of us at every level.\n\nThe wholesale electricity market, radio frequencies for telecommunications, emissions allowances and much more are allocated using auctions in at least some countries.\n\nFor a private seller the ideal auction is one that gets the highest price.\n\nFor a public sector agency, getting revenue does matter but there can be other considerations, for example seeking to have radio frequencies allocated in a way that gives the most benefit to society as a whole.\n\nAuctions are often complicated by uncertainty - how much will you get out of an oilfield, or how much will people use a mobile phone service.\n\nThe work of Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, and many others, explores these issues with a view to designing auctions to get the best results.\n\nHowever, the award was criticised by one charity which said that economics was out of touch with global problems, including the impact of coronavirus.\n\nThe Rethinking Economics charity, which pushes for a broader application of economics, said it was \"disappointing\" that the prize had gone to \"two white men from the global north working on auction theory\".\n\nCatriona Watson, co-director of Rethinking Economics said: \"The discipline of economics is depressingly out of touch.\n\n\"The Nobel Prize as a marker of excellence in the field needs to become reflective of our global community and address the most pressing issues of our time like the climate crisis, the pandemic or structural racial injustice - otherwise it risks becoming increasingly irrelevant.\"\n\nThe prize has been won in the past by economists including Paul Krugman and Milton Friedman, and last year was won by poverty-fighting couple Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo.\n\nBut Ms Watson said that this year the award was \"back to business as usual\".\n\nThe prize, worth 10m Swedish crowns (£887,000), is not one of the original five Nobel awards created in the 1895 will of industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel, but was established by Sweden's central bank and first awarded in 1969.", "The UK economy may have grown by as much as 17% in the three months to the end of September, says the EY Item Club, but slower growth may follow.\n\nShoppers splurged during the period as coronavirus lockdown restrictions were lifted, it said.\n\nIt is a rosier vision than the one offered by Item Club economists in the summer, but they warned that growth for the rest of 2020 would be far slower.\n\nGrowth for the final three months will be 1% or less, they predicted.\n\n\"The UK economy has done well to recover faster than expected so far,\" said Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club.\n\n\"Consumer spending has bounced back strongly, while housing sector activity has also seen a pick-up, in part thanks to the stamp duty holiday.\"\n\nThe economy probably grew 16-17% in the third quarter of the year compared with the second quarter, it said. It had been expecting growth of 12%.\n\nWhile government help such as the furlough programme has provided \"much-needed support\", growth will now begin to fade, said Mr Archer.\n\nThe end of the furlough scheme, under which workers had part of their salary paid by the government, will mean higher unemployment and sluggish growth, said the forecasters, who use a similar economic model to the Treasury.\n\nThat said, the UK economy is now predicted to regain its pre-pandemic size in the second half of 2023. Back in July, the EY Item Club did not expect that to happen until late 2024.\n\nOfficial figures from the Office for National Statistics showed last week that The UK economy continued its recovery in August, growing by 2.1% in the month, as the Eat Out to Help Out scheme boosted restaurants.\n\nIt was, however, smaller than economists had estimated and helped drag down the estimated pace of recovery for the year.\n\nAs with any economic forecast, there are factors which could speed up or slow down the recovery, the economists said.\n\nA vaccine is likely to help the economy, but there are more likely threats to growth than there are surprise boosts.\n\nFactors that could weigh down growth include a drop in consumer spending, more lockdown measures, slow Brexit negotiations between the UK and the EU and a spike in unemployment.\n\n\"The latest forecast also notes that, even if further virus outbreaks are contained and major restrictions on economic activity are avoided, consumers and businesses could remain cautious in their behaviour for an extended period,\" the report said.\n\nThe Club's estimates assume a simple free trade agreement with the EU by the end of the year.\n\nWithout an agreement, growth of 4.8% is forecast in 2021, down from 6%, while growth in 2022 would be cut to 2.6% from 2.9%.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland came from behind to overcome the world's top-ranked team Belgium and record an important Nations League victory at Wembley.\n\nBelgium took a lead their early superiority deserved when Romelu Lukaku sent England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford the wrong way after the striker had been brought down by Eric Dier's poor challenge.\n\nEngland were on the back foot for most of the first half but were handed a lifeline back into the game six minutes before half-time when captain Jordan Henderson went down very easily in a tussle with Thomas Meunier, Marcus Rashford scoring from the spot.\n\nGareth Southgate's side enjoyed much more possession after the break but needed a large slice of luck to take the lead after 64 minutes, Mason Mount's effort deflecting off Toby Alderweireld and looping over keeper Simon Mignolet to inflict Belgium's first loss since November 2018.\n• None 'A statement win - but let's not kid anyone'\n• None Best action and reaction from England v Belgium\n\nEngland were very much second best until they got a rather soft penalty when Henderson tumbled under a challenge from Meunier - but the way they gathered themselves after the break to subdue this talented Belgium side deserves great credit.\n\nSouthgate's side were very conservative in that opening spell, rather like his team selection, but the manager will say the end result justified the means, although this was a game where both sides were also missing key individuals.\n\nEngland held firm at the back and were resolute, limiting Belgium to one clear opening after the break when Yannick Carrasco flicked Kevin de Bruyne's brilliant pass inches wide of the far post.\n\nGoalkeeper Pickford, who retained Southgate's faith despite poor form for Everton, was not placed under huge pressure but mostly did what he had to do competently, with one first-half save from De Bruyne's low shot and a couple of decent pieces of handling.\n\nThe bigger picture, apart from putting England top of Group A2, is that this is a victory that will give Southgate real satisfaction as it is the sort of game against elite opposition where his side have been found wanting in the past, not least when they lost twice to Belgium at the 2018 World Cup, in the group stage and the third-place play-off.\n\nLukaku has regained his reputation as one of Europe's finest strikers since leaving Manchester United for Inter Milan in August 2019.\n\nHis spell at Old Trafford was regarded as a relative failure despite a highly respectable record of 42 goals in 96 games.\n\nLukaku may have been the victim of the turmoil under Jose Mourinho and then the switch to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at United, but there was no doubt he looked out of sorts for long periods.\n\nHere at Wembley, particularly in the first half, he showed the threat he possesses when at the top of his game, bullying Dier and Harry Maguire and also showing quality on the ball.\n\nLukaku drew the unwise challenge from Dier to score his 53rd goal for his country from the spot, emphasising his importance to Roberto Martinez's side as they look to build on their ranking as the world's number one side.\n\nMartinez, admittedly without the injured Eden Hazard, Thibaut Courtois and Dries Mertens, will be disappointed by how his side lost momentum after England equalised - but Lukaku showed once more what a fine striker he is at his best.\n\n'We had to suffer' - what they said\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate: \"It was a top-level game. We had a lot of young players there for whom that was a really great experience. You have to suffer to win these big games and the players did that.\"\n\nMatch-winner Mason Mount: \"It's a special achievement to score my first goal at Wembley. I found myself in a bit of space and had only one thing on my mind. It took a really big deflection but it doesn't matter how they go in. I'll take it.\"\n\nCaptain Jordan Henderson: \"We want to compete with the very best teams, and Belgium are certainly that. We competed very well and that's what we want to do, keep competing and growing and you never know where that may take us.\"\n• None England have won 20 of their past 21 competitive home games (L1), scoring 67 goals while conceding only 10.\n• None Belgium have lost for only the fourth time in 47 games under Martinez (P47 W36 D7), and for the first time since November 2018 versus Switzerland.\n• None England have beaten Belgium in a competitive fixture for just the second time (D2 L2), with the only previous such win coming at the 1990 World Cup.\n• None England's first attempt of the game was a 31st-minute header by Dominic Calvert-Lewin - it's the longest they've had to wait for their first attempt at home since November 2011 v Spain (32nd minute).\n• None Rashford became the fourth Man Utd player to score in four consecutive competitive appearances for England, after Bobby Charlton, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney (x2).\n• None Lukaku's opener was the first goal England have conceded in exactly a year; the last player to score against England was Zdenek Ondrasek for the Czech Republic on 11 October 2019.\n\nBoth sides continue in Nations League action on Wednesday evening. England host Denmark at Wembley while Belgium travel to Iceland (both games 19:45 BST).\n• None Offside, Belgium. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Yari Verschaeren is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Declan Rice following a fast break.\n• None Offside, Belgium. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Jéremy Doku is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kieran Trippier with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld.\n• None Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jason Denayer following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Anderson said a local furlough scheme is needed to compensate businesses forced to close\n\nBusiness owners in Merseyside say they are fearful for the future after the government unveiled a new three-tier lockdown system for England.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region has become the first area to enter the \"very high\" alert level under the new system.\n\nIt will mean the closure of pubs, bars, betting shops, gyms, leisure centres and casinos from Wednesday.\n\nManagers have spoken of their heartbreak, anger and confusion over the latest announcement of measures to tackle the spread of Covid-19.\n\nGareth Morgan said the \"final nail in the coffin\" for pubs was limiting people to only their social bubbles\n\nGareth Morgan, who runs independent pub Dead Crafty Beer Co in Liverpool city centre, said closing pubs was \"devastating\" and would \"really hurt, if not ruin\" the industry.\n\n\"So many little bars won't survive without more support,\" he said.\n\nThe 41-year-old, who has five members of staff, said employees needed full compensation when pubs were forced to close.\n\nMr Morgan added his trade was 58% down on last year's figures after halving capacity in the pub and having to close at 22:00 each night.\n\nIn a bid to mitigate the effect of the new rules, the government will pay up to 67% of the wages of workers at firms told to shut.\n\nThis will be part of the Job Support Scheme, which replaces furlough at the start of November.\n\nBut Mr Morgan said he believed the measures were insufficient for many workers in the hospitality industry.\n\n\"Paying workers 67% sounds good but, in reality, for staff to pay bills it is nowhere near enough,\" he said.\n\nTakings for Bodytorque, which is run by Ashley Hughes, are 50% down on last year\n\nGym owner Ashley Hughes, from Huyton, Knowsley, said further restrictions were \"heartbreaking\" as so many people were \"already on the brink and living off their overdraft\".\n\n\"So many businesses are closing and people are losing their jobs and even their homes,\" he said.\n\nThe 33-year-old said gyms had taken a \"massive hit\" in 2020, the worst of his nine years trading with his company, Bodytorque.\n\n\"I got a grant during lockdown but that just about covered the rent during the four months we were shut.\"\n\nAfter reopening he found customers were reluctant to return as many were \"cutting back\" on spending.\n\nHe said it was \"very worrying\" for gyms but also for people's wellbeing as \"many people use the gym to improve their mental health\".\n\nKeith Haggis said restrictions had been a nightmare for his business\n\nKeith Haggis, owner of Keith's Food & Wine Bar in Liverpool, said allowing restaurants to remain open with the current restrictions in place was \"disastrous\".\n\nHe said he believed his business would have been better off closed as his staff would be compensated and he may have had access to grants.\n\nStaying open under current restrictions means his only option is to \"limp on and survive\".\n\nThe further restrictions such as limited hours, capacity and restricting people to sit only with people from their households or social bubbles had been a \"nightmare\" and it had \"decimated turnover\", he added.\n\nNick Thompson said the company would find a way to pay out any winning bets from closed shops safely\n\nThe managing director of Merseyside-based bookmakers Dave Pluck has called on the government to review the tier-three lockdown \"sooner than the four weeks stated\".\n\n\"A large part of the Liverpool area is deprived and needs further help. It seems to me that it is being used as a test case by the government,\" said Nick Thompson.\n\n\"They know they have few votes in the area so maybe they don't mind if they lose those. I could not imagine this level of lockdown taking place in the south.\"\n\nHe has called on the government to provide financial support to businesses in need.\n\n\"I can see no science to support local lockdowns being an effective measure at present,\" he added.\n\n\"I am keen to help wherever possible, and will clearly follow any government guidelines, but I would ask that extra financial aid is available.\"\n\nDespite the difficulties ahead, Mr Thompson added that \"as we did in the full lockdown, we will be back\".\n\nJulie O'Grady said she feels like the north has been \"hung out to dry\"\n\nJulie O'Grady, co-owner of Neptune Brewery, said the latest coronavirus measures for Merseyside had left many unanswered questions.\n\nMs O'Grady, who runs the company with her husband Les, said: \"It's just so frustrating. Nothing seems to make sense.\n\n\"We fear for people's heath as well but give us the financial support so we can survive.\n\n\"As a brewery we have done everything we possibly can to ensure everyone's safety.\n\n\"There are signs up, we have used temperature thermometers when people come in, there is hand gel, we have been taking people's details.\n\n\"We have done everything we can and that's still not enough.\"\n\nJez Lamb, who founded craft beer marketplace Beers@No.42 in Birkenhead, Wirral, almost 15 years ago, said: \"Striking the right balance is proving a nightmare.\n\n\"As things stand many more businesses will go to the wall and many more people will lose their jobs,\" he said.\n\n\"Tighter lockdown restrictions could see an economy that is already on life support start to flat-line. An ominous winter lies ahead.\"\n\nSome pubs had already decided to shut in advance of the prime minister's announcement.\n\nThe owners of Ye Cracke, the Pilgrim Pub and the Swan Inn in Liverpool city centre closed on Sunday.\n\nIt said in a statement on its Facebook page: \"Due to the expected government announcements on Monday we have decided to close this Sunday at 10pm until further notice.\"\n\nSome of the highest rates of new coronavirus infections have been recorded in the Liverpool City Region.\n\nIn the week to 8 October there were nearly 670 positive tests per 100,000 people in Knowsley and almost 599 per 100,000 in Liverpool.\n\nSefton, St Helens and Halton are all within the top 20 out of 315 areas of England. While Wirral had the lowest rate of the six boroughs that make up the city region, it still recorded 286 cases per 100,000.\n\nWhen deciding whether to impose local lockdowns, public health experts and the government will take account not just of the rate for each area but also its trend - how quickly cases may be rising or falling - as well as what local plans are in place, hospital admissions and deaths.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None Coronavirus (COVID-19)- what you need to do - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former children's laureate and acclaimed author said nurses showed \"overwhelming devotion\" when caring for him during his 12-week stay in hospital, which included 48 days in intensive care.\n\nMichael Rosen was placed into an induced coma in March and is still suffering from symptoms including sight and hearing loss.\n\nSix months on, he still faces weekly hospital visits as he suffers from the long-term consequences of Covid-19, known as \"long Covid\".", "Top row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nA security supervisor saw a suspicious man carrying a \"bulging rucksack\" four days before a suicide bombing, the Manchester Arena Inquiry has heard.\n\nEx-police officer Jonathan Lavery said he thought the man may have been carrying out \"hostile reconnaissance\".\n\nHe was seen filming people in the arena's City Room before a Take That concert on 18 May 2017.\n\nThe man \"stood out like a sore thumb\" as he \"did not fit the demographic\" of a Take That fan, the inquiry was told.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and many more injured when Salman Abedi detonated an explosive as fans left the Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Lavery, an operations executive for the arena's security provider Showsec, said he was \"profiling\" the crowd in the foyer before the Take That gig when an Asian man dressed in black came to his attention.\n\nHe told inquiry chair Sir John Saunders : \"That individual actually stood out like a sore thumb.\n\n\"He was wearing a black tracksuit, I think the hood was up.\n\n\"I am convinced he had a mobile phone in front of him, waving it around.\"\n\nMr Lavery, who served as a police officer for more than 30 years, concluded the man - who was not Abedi - needed to be stopped but lost sight of him before he boarded a train from Manchester Victoria station.\n\nHe was later ruled out by police of having any involvement with the atrocity that followed, or having any known terrorism links.\n\nAbedi, 22, was himself in the foyer on 18 May conducting reconnaissance as he briefly watched concertgoers queue about 35 minutes before the man entered the building.\n\nThe public inquiry has heard of \"missed opportunities\" in the hours before as Abedi was sighted dressed in black and bent over by the weight of the shrapnel packing his home-made explosives in a large rucksack on his back.\n\nBoth police and security workers received reports of suspicions from members of the public about Abedi on the evening of 22 May.\n\nMr Lavery, who joined Showsec in February 2017, was not working on the night of the bombing but next day emailed the firm's managing director to flag up the man with the \"bulging rucksack\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Radical proposals for the reform of English football could have a \"damaging impact\" on the game, says the Premier League.\n\nUnder the proposals, led by Liverpool and Manchester United, the English top flight would be cut to 18 teams.\n\nThe plans would see the Premier League hand over the £250m bailout required by the Football League to stave off a financial disaster among its 72 clubs.\n\nThe Premier League would also hand over 25% of its annual income to the EFL.\n• None EFL chief Parry: 'Reforms will benefit game as a whole'\n\nThe proposals, dubbed Project Big Picture, would see:\n• None The Premier League cut from 20 to 18 clubs, with the Championship, League One and League Two each retaining 24 teams.\n• None The bottom two teams in the Premier League relegated automatically with the 16th-placed team joining the Championship play-offs.\n• None A £250m rescue fund made immediately available to the EFL\n• None £100m paid to the FA to make up for lost revenue.\n• None Nine clubs given 'special voting rights' on certain issues, based on their extended runs in the Premier League.\n\nBut the plans have been criticised by the Premier League, the government and supporters' groups.\n\n\"English football is the world's most watched, and has a vibrant, dynamic and competitive league structure that drives interest around the globe,\" a Premier League statement said.\n\n\"To maintain this position, it is important that we all work together. Both the Premier League and the FA support a wide-ranging discussion on the future of the game, including its competition structures, calendar and overall financing particularly in light of the effects of Covid-19.\n\n\"Football has many stakeholders, therefore this work should be carried out through the proper channels enabling all clubs and stakeholders the opportunity to contribute.\"\n\nUnder the proposals, the EFL Cup in its present form would be abolished and the Community Shield scrapped.\n\nIn addition, the top flight's 14-club majority voting system would change.\n\nThe Premier League statement added: \"In the Premier League's view, a number of the individual proposals in the plan published today could have a damaging impact on the whole game and we are disappointed to see that Rick Parry, chair of the EFL, has given his on-the-record support.\n\n\"The Premier League has been working in good faith with its clubs and the EFL to seek a resolution to the requirement for Covid-19 rescue funding. This work will continue.\"\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport condemned what it called a \"backroom deal\".\n\n\"We are surprised and disappointed that at a time of crisis when we have urged the top tiers of professional football to come together and finalise a deal to help lower league clubs, there appear to be backroom deals being cooked up that would create a closed shop at the very top of the game,\" a DCMS spokesperson said.\n\n\"Sustainability, integrity and fair competition are absolutely paramount and anything that may undermine them is deeply troubling. Fans must be front of all our minds, and this shows why our fan led review of football governance will be so critical.\"\n\nThis is a hugely divisive and potentially seismic proposal, threatening the biggest shake-up of the English game in a generation.\n\nAngered by the way the story broke without their blessing, the Premier League has already given it short shrift, viewing this as a regrettable power-grab. In fact one well-placed Premier League source has described it as a \"takeover attempt, rather than a rescue package\".\n\nMany will see this as an anti-competitive plot to concentrate power in the hands of the biggest clubs, opening the door to them controlling broadcast contracts, financial rules and even takeovers bids in a way top-flight bosses have always been desperate to avoid - a step towards a European Super League, and a means of freeing up space in the calendar to play more lucrative pre-season friendlies.\n\nFor years the bigger clubs have wanted more money and more sway. This is the most dramatic manifestation of that to date. But will it get off the ground? There will be huge doubts given 14 clubs would need to approve a plan that would mean fewer Premier League places. But the involvement of the two biggest clubs in the country means this surprising development has to be taken seriously.\n\nAt a time when the EFL is facing an unprecedented financial crisis however, it is easy to see why they would support a plan that would hand them the £250m they need to cover the loss of match-day revenue this season. And many in football will welcome the idea of a more redistributive financial model, with 25% of Premier League income shared at a time when the gulf between the divisions has been identified as a major problem.\n\nIndeed, if the threat of this plan helps break the impasse between the Premier League and the government over a rescue package for the EFL, and a more redistributive financial 'reset', perhaps it can emerge as a positive development.\n\nThe English Football League confirmed it had been in talks over 'Project Big Picture' and that its chairman Rick Parry was in favour of the plans, first reported in the Daily Telegraph.\n\n\"The need for a complete rethinking regarding the funding of English professional football predates the Covid-19 crisis,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Discussion and planning around 'Project Big Picture' has been ongoing for quite some time, unrelated to the current pandemic but now has an urgency that simply cannot be denied.\n\n\"The revenues flowing from the investment and work of our top clubs has been largely limited to the top division creating a sort of lottery, while Championship clubs struggle to behave prudently and Leagues One and Two are financially stretched despite enormous revenues English football generates.\n\n\"This plan devised by our top clubs and the English Football League puts an end to all of that.\"\n\nParry says, in 2018-19, Championship clubs received £146m in EFL distributions and Premier League solidarity payments, compared with £1.56bn received by the bottom 14 Premier League clubs.\n\nHe added parachute payments made to eight recently relegated clubs totalled £246m and represented one-third of the total Championship turnover.\n\nParry said it created \"a major distortion that impacts the league annually\".\n\n\"The gap between the Premier League and the English Football League has become a chasm which has become unbridgeable for clubs transitioning between the EFL and Premier League,\" he said.\n\nIt is understood Liverpool's owners, the Fenway Sports Group, came forward with the initial plan, which has been worked on by United co-chairman Joel Glazer. It is anticipated it will receive the backing of Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur - the other members of England's 'big six'.\n\nThe idea is to address longstanding EFL concerns about the huge gap in funding between its divisions and the Premier League by handing over 25% of the annual income, although the current parachute payment system would be scrapped.\n\nThere would be a £250m up-front payment to address the existing crisis created by the coronavirus pandemic, seen by some as a bid to garner support for the proposals.\n\nIn addition, the Football Association would receive what is being described as a £100m \"gift\".\n\nThe Football Supporters' Association said it noted \"with grave concern\" the proposals, adding they had \"far-reaching consequences for the whole of domestic football\".\n\n\"Once again it appears that big decisions in football are apparently being stitched up behind our backs by billionaire club owners who continue to treat football as their personal fiefdom,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Football is far more than a business to be carved up; it is part of our communities and our heritage, and football fans are its lifeblood. As football's most important stakeholders, it is crucial that fans are consulted and involved in the game's decision-making.\n\n\"We have welcomed the government's commitment to a 'fan-led review of the governance of football'; we would argue that today's revelations have made that process even more relevant and urgent.\"\n\nThe organisation said it remained \"open-minded to any suggestions for the improvement of the governance and organisation of the game\".\n\nIt added: \"We would however emphasise that in our discussions so far, very few of our members have ever expressed the view that what football really needs is a greater concentration of power in the hands of the big six billionaire-owned clubs.\"\n\nNo date has been set for the proposed new-style league to be in operation but sources have suggested 2022-23 is not out of the question.\n\nIn order to get down from 20 to 18, it is anticipated four clubs would be relegated directly, with two promoted from the Championship. In addition, there would be play-offs involving the team to finish 16th in the Premier League and those in third, fourth and fifth in the second tier.\n\nIt is also planned that, as well as the 'big six', ever-present league member Everton, West Ham United and Southampton - ninth and 11th respectively in the list of clubs who have featured in the most Premier League seasons - would be granted special status.\n\nIf six of those nine clubs vote in favour of a proposal, it would be enough to get it passed.\n\nThere is no mention of Aston Villa and Newcastle United, both of whom have featured in more Premier League campaigns than Manchester City.\n• None Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing the boundaries of science", "The city of Bangor has gone into local lockdown from 18:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nIt means that about 16,000 people there cannot go in or out of the area without good reason, such as work or study.\n\nBangor's restrictions will affect eight wards in the city: Garth, Hirael, Menai, Deiniol, Marchog, Glyder, Hendre and Dewi.\n\nThe city had seen a significant cluster of coronavirus cases and the incident rate stands at about 400 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nIt becomes the second area to face a local lockdown while the rest of its county does not, following Llanelli in Carmarthenshire.\n\nDiscussions were held earlier but it was decided not to extend restrictions to anywhere else in Gwynedd.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said: \"We will continue to closely monitor the situation in Gwynedd and will meet with the local authority and with neighbouring local authority leaders at the start of the week to discuss the developing situation further.\"\n\nBangor's cases appear to be associated with young people and its student population, officials have said\n\nSeventeen areas around Wales are now facing local lockdown restrictions, affecting more than two million people.\n\nIn north Wales, the whole counties of Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham are already in lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government said cases in Bangor appeared to be closely associated with young people and the student population.\n\nBangor Students' Union president Henry Williams said it was \"working hard... to ensure that students are aware of the new restrictions\". \"We understand it is a difficult time for us all,\" he said.\n\n\"We must continue to support each other to deal with what lies ahead.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Department for Work and Pensions confirmed its Bangor service centre was temporarily closed on Friday due to coronavirus but would reopen on Monday.\n\nTattooist Jules Lee says it is \"difficult\" to make people abide by social distancing\n\nJules Lee, who runs a tattoo shop in Bangor, said it was \"very difficult to get people to follow the rules\" on social distancing.\n\n\"We've got massive signs saying one person at a time, and the amount of time that we'll have to tell them 'I'm sorry' [because] they come three or four people at the same time.\n\n\"It's really awkward. It's difficult to get people to comply,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nGwynedd council leader Dyfrig Siencyn said he appreciated the lockdown would impact residents and businesses, but steps had to be taken to \"avoid stricter and more disruptive measures down the line\".Mr Siencyn said the situation was \"serious\" and being monitored closely.\"Put simply, there is no room for complacency for any Gwynedd resident,\" he said.\n\n\"We must all play our part as individuals in following the national Covid-19 guidelines to protect ourselves, our loved ones and the wider community,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Mark Drakeford defended the local restrictions in place in Conwy.\n\nIt follows a letter from council leader Sam Rowlands requesting some measures be lifted to help its tourism industry.\n\nMr Drakeford said restricting travel to or from an area with rising community infections was \"more likely to prevent uncontrolled spread into nearby areas\".", "Dr Ghebreyesus said allowing the virus to spread would cause 'unnecessary' suffering\n\nThe head of the World Health Organization has ruled out a herd immunity response to the pandemic.\n\nHerd immunity occurs when a large portion of a community becomes immune to a disease through vaccinations or through the mass spread of a disease.\n\nSome have argued that coronavirus should be allowed to spread naturally in the absence of a vaccine.\n\nBut WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said such an approach was \"scientifically and ethically problematic\".\n\nThere have been more than 37 million confirmed cases of coronavirus across the globe since the pandemic began. More than one million people are known to have died.\n\nWhile hundreds of vaccines are currently under development, with a number in advanced trials, none has yet received international approval.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Monday, Dr Tedros argued that the long-term impacts of coronavirus - as well as the strength and duration any immune response - remained unknown.\n\n\"Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it,\" he said.\n\n\"Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak, let alone a pandemic.\"\n\nThe WHO head added that seroprevalence tests - where the blood is tested for antibodies - suggested that just 10% of people had been exposed to coronavirus in most countries.\n\n\"Letting Covid-19 circulate unchecked therefore means allowing unnecessary infections, suffering and death,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?", "Kuenssberg: Will these restrictions be enough?\n\nIt's time for questions from journalists, and the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg asks several - including about whether financial support is enough for people facing restrictions, and whether the restrictions themselves will be enough to curb the spread of the virus. Prof Whitty says he is \"not confident\" that tier three proposals for the \"very high\" alert areas with the highest rates of transmission \"would be enough to get on top of\" the virus in those areas. That is why there's \"a lot of flexibility\" for local authorities to add more restrictions on top of the \"base\" of tier three rules, he says. He adds that it's widely agreed by experts that \"the base will not be sufficient\" to tackle the worst rates of infection. The PM adds that he believes the R number will come down under the new three-tiered system, \"if properly implemented and enforced\". He adds that a return to a national lockdown would be \"extreme\" and would do \"a lot of immediate harm\" such as to children who would miss out on school. As for those calling for no restrictions at all, Johnson says: \"I can't support that approach I'm afraid Laura. We have to do a balanced approach.\" In a separate question from Kuenssberg, Sunak says his Job Support Scheme, covering two-thirds of wages is \"very much in line with our peers\" - citing Germany's scheme as an example.", "NHS Nightingale hospitals in Manchester, Sunderland and Harrogate are being asked to get ready to take patients.\n\nGovernment advisers say admissions are rising, with more elderly people needing urgent treatment for Covid.\n\nMore people are now in hospital with Covid than before restrictions were announced in March.\n\nIt comes as a new three-tier system of lockdown rules for England has been announced.\n\nFrom Wednesday, the Liverpool City Region will face the tightest restrictions under the new three-tier system which will classify regions as being on \"medium\", \"high\" or \"very high\" alert.\n\nLiverpool recorded 600 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending 6 October. The average for England was 74.\n\nBut England's deputy chief medical officer said the rise in coronavirus cases was now being seen \"nationwide\" and was not solely a problem for northern England.\n\nCases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have been increasing too.\n\nProf Jonathan Van-Tam said the \"marked pick-up\" that the country was seeing would lead to more deaths and he warned that coronavirus was spreading from younger age groups into the over 60s who are more vulnerable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephen Powis: \"There is still no cure, nor no vaccine for Covid-19\"\n\nHospitals have not yet reached capacity, but the NHS may have to use some of the temporary critical care Nightingale hospitals if demand continues to rise, say the advisers.\n\nMost of the Nightingales, set up in the spring as an insurance policy in case the NHS became overwhelmed, were never used.\n\nNHS England's medical director Prof Stephen Powis cautioned that it would take \"a number of weeks\" before the benefit of any extra measures - such as shutting pubs - would be seen in bringing hospital admissions down.\n\n\"In the over-65s - particularly the over-85s - we are seeing steep rises in the numbers of people being admitted to hospital so the claim that the elderly can somehow be fenced off from risk is wishful thinking,\" he said.\n\nHe said NHS staff working in the parts of England with the highest Covid rates would be offered regular tests to check if they had the virus.\n\nThe fact there are more patients in English hospitals now than there were when lockdown was announced is alarming.\n\nBut the comparison needs a bit of context too.\n\nThere has been a gradual and slow build up to the 3,500 cases in English hospitals in recent weeks.\n\nAround 500 new patients a day are being admitted at the moment - with a few hundred being discharged too.\n\nThe number of daily new admissions is on an upward trend, doubling every fortnight at the moment.\n\nBut, compare that to the spring, and the picture is somewhat different.\n\nThe numbers being admitted were exploding then - doubling every few days and threatening to overwhelm hospitals everywhere.\n\nSoon 3,000 new cases a day were being admitted. That is three times worse than the NHS would normally see for all types of respiratory viruses in the middle of winter.\n\nWhat we are seeing currently is not like that.\n\nThe danger with Covid, of course, is things can get worse rapidly. That has certainly happened in the north west and could be repeated elsewhere.\n\nThe coming weeks will be crucial.\n\nThe problem with introducing the sort of restrictions that are being suggested to control the spread of the virus is that no-one is really sure whether they will really work.\n\nDr Jane Eddleston, medical lead in Greater Manchester, urged the public to \"respect\" the virus due to the \"extremely serious\" consequences it has for some patients.\n\nShe told the press briefing: \"The North West has about 40% of all Covid cases at the moment and this is proving very challenging for us.\"\n\nProf Van-Tam reminded people how the virus spreads - in closed spaces, crowded places and between close contacts.\n\nOn Sunday, 12,872 people in the UK were reported to have tested positive for coronavirus - some 2,294 fewer than on Saturday.\n\nThere were a further 65 deaths - down from 81 on Saturday.", "The War of the Worlds sci-fi series is set in modern day Europe but based on HG Wells' classic novel\n\nSex Education and The Pact are the latest Welsh productions to begin filming - but with dedicated testing laboratories and face masks on set.\n\nThey follow Fox TV's War of the Worlds - the first big-budget series to resume shooting in the UK after lockdown.\n\nThe show, shot in a Newport studio and on location in south Wales, restarted filming on 13 July.\n\nProducer Adam Knopf said everyone was working \"to the highest safety standards\".\n\nDrama series and feature films have had to raise millions in extra finance to pay for new safety precautions to ensure cast and crew are protected from coronavirus.\n\nDelays to a UK government industry insurance scheme also means those who have succeeded in restarting filming have largely had to rely on contingency funding from broadcasters to pay for health and safety measures and unforeseen costs.\n\nOn the set of the second series of War of the Worlds, the changes include temperature checks on arrival, regular Covid-19 testing of cast and some crew, increased distance between departments working on set, and partitions between make-up and costume areas that were previously communal spaces.\n\nThe second series of War of the Worlds is currently being filmed in south Wales\n\nEven the breaks between filming have been affected, with one-way systems and packed lunches replacing the traditional food trailers and dining areas.\n\n\"We had actors that were due to shoot on other productions in other countries, so we knew that if we didn't start shooting on the thirteenth [of July] we might not even go this year,\" said Cardiff-born producer Adam Knopf.\n\n\"So, for us, it was key that we started shooting on the thirteenth, and we managed it, just about.\"\n\nIt involved securing a contingency fund from the broadcasters who had commissioned the series, and ensuring the production had exemptions from some Welsh Government restrictions.\n\nEveryone wear masks on set, with actors taking them off just before filming starts\n\nKey cast members who were travelling from abroad were excused from quarantine rules, as long as they only travelled from hotel to film set.\n\nMr Knopf said they spent 12 weeks putting plans in place, adding: \"We were the first in the UK out of the high-end TV productions to start.\n\n\"We had a lot of eyes on us, so we had to make sure it was solid and correct, and that everyone was working to the highest safety standards.\"\n\nIt helped Netflix series Sex Education, which is currently shooting in south Wales, War of the Worlds and another south Wales-based production to pool resources to create a private testing facility.\n\nDeputy director Gerwyn Evans said Covid-19 had \"hugely impacted\" the industry, adding: \"The first thing was to get money into the sector, because it was needed.\n\n\"The second thing was around the guidance - having real and open honest conversations about what issues the productions were coming up against, and it was varied all across Wales.\n\n\"And making sure we could feed that into a consistent message that went out to everyone.\"\n\nNew BBC Wales crime drama The Pact was due to begin filming at a Vale of Glamorgan country house the day after the UK-wide lockdown was announced in March.\n\nInstead it was delayed until September, and production company Little Door had to negotiate a significant increase in funding to enable the shoot to go ahead.\n\nThe series stars former Coronation Street actress Julie Hesmondhalgh and Breaking Bad star Laura Fraser in a drama which follows the lives of five friends.\n\nActors wear masks at all times on set, including during rehearsals, and they are only removed when the cameras start rolling.\n\nProduction companies are relieved to be be able to start filming again, with many owners having feared for their future\n\nCast and crew must also self-report any symptoms online every morning, with Julie Hesmondhalgh saying: \"It couldn't be more different, could it?\n\n\"It's the thing that you have got used to in ordinary, everyday life, but taking them into a work situation feels really different.\n\n\"The main difference is having the masks on for rehearsing. We only whip them off just at the take, because we need to protect ourselves until the very last minute. And that has been very funny, and strange.\"\n\nCo-star Jason Hughes added: \"You end up going home at the end of the day with very tired eyes. They are doing a lot of work with this mask on. It's like this reveal, isn't it? You are just watching a pair of eyes and then you take it off and you get to see the whole thing.\"\n\nLittle Door's managing director Elwen Rowlands said she feared the company could have collapsed if work had not resumed.\n\n\"I feel incredibly fortunate that we are filming at the moment because I am hearing about a lot of difficulty out there,\" she said.\n• None War of the Worlds filmed in assembly", "Crowds gathered in Liverpool on Monday to watch filming for a new Batman film in the city\n\nBoris Johnson is due to announce a new \"three-tier\" Covid system for England.\n\nThe PM will address Parliament at 15:30 BST, setting out different rules for regions classified as being on \"medium\", \"high\" or \"very high\" alert.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region - home to 1.5 million - is expected to face the tightest restrictions with pubs and gyms closed, and further rules on households mixing indoors.\n\nNewcastle council's leader has said the North East could avoid tighter rules.\n\nMr Johnson will address MPs before holding a Downing Street news conference. Other areas awaiting news of further restrictions include Greater Manchester, Nottingham and Leeds.\n\nLiverpool recorded 600 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending 6 October. The average for England was 74.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region includes the local authority districts of Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral, as well as Liverpool.\n\nLocal MPs were told during a call with Health Secretary Matt Hancock all bars, pubs, gyms and betting shops will be closed while restaurants will remain open for the moment.\n\nLegal restrictions will also be placed on indoor household mixing and there will be guidance on travel restrictions.\n\nThe new curbs are to be reviewed after a month.\n\nMr Johnson chaired a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee \"to determine the final interventions\" on Wednesday morning.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said experts told Cobra even tier three restrictions would be unlikely to bring the UK's R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus - below 1.\n\nThe PM will announce changes in Parliament, before speaking at a Downing Street news conference at 19:00.\n\nHe is expected to be joined at No 10 by Chancellor Rishi Sunak and England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Videos on social media showed Saturday night street scenes in some cities, including an impromptu game of cricket\n\nDuring a data briefing earlier, NHS England medical director Stephen Powis said more people were now in hospital with Covid than before restrictions were introduced in March.\n\nHe confirmed Nightingale hospitals in Manchester, Sunderland and Harrogate were being prepared to take patients.\n\nProf Jonathan Van-Tam, deputy chief medical officer for England, said infection rates had never dropped as low in the northern England as in the South but warned \"things are heating up\" across the country.\n\nTougher measures were introduced in Scotland on Friday, including the closure of pubs and restaurants across the central belt, while the Welsh government has said the next few days could determine if \"national measures\" are implemented.\n\nUnder the new system for England, tier three is expected to involve the tightest restrictions.\n\nWe know the broad outline of what the government is going to announce today.\n\nMinisters have been working on a tier system for local restrictions in England for weeks - and today they'll confirm how it will work and the basic principles.\n\nThe Liverpool region is set to be the first put into the \"very high\" top tier - which will mean significant restrictions on hospitality within days.\n\nBut there are still details of a support package being worked out.\n\nThe metro mayor in Liverpool Steve Rotheram is adamant there needs to be more support for workers and businesses that will be told to close.\n\nHe doesn't think the chancellor's current plans go far enough - and I'm told conversations on economic support are likely to continue into this afternoon.\n\nThere have been questions about definitions - when is a pub a pub, which could be told to close, rather than restaurant which might not?\n\nIt's worth highlighting that if other areas are added to the highest tier in the next few weeks, restrictions may look different.\n\nSources say there is room for flexibility based on local factors.\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said he wanted \"some surety from national government that if we hit some milestones we can come out of tier three very quickly\".\n\nHe said the government had been clear the Liverpool City Region would be placed in the highest category, with \"no ifs, no buts\", and he added it had already been agreed there would be more local control over the tracing of close contacts and enforcement of restrictions.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the government was \"not panicking\" but taking \"reasonable and proportionate measures\", adding that \"we know there are challenges around hospitality\".\n\nCalum Semple, professor of outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool and advisor to the government, said: \"Most of the outbreaks are happening within and between households and then after that, it's in the retail and hospitality sector.\n\n\"So, the major issue here is to focus on the cities and areas with the largest outbreaks and sadly my home city of Liverpool is being hammered at the moment. These restrictions are necessary.\"\n\nThe problem with introducing the sort of restrictions that are being suggested to control the spread of the virus is that no-one is really sure whether they will really work.\n\nFirstly, while the government's advisers can track patterns in where infected individuals have been prior to being diagnosed, they cannot prove that they were actually infected in those places.\n\nSecondly, there will be unintended consequences.\n\nClose pubs and you may make the situation worse by driving people to mix more in private homes which are less \"Covid-secure\".\n\nIt is a point that has been made in recent days by Manchester City Council leader Sir Richard Leese as well as others as ministers weigh up their options.\n\nThen there is the economic, social and emotional toll of closing down parts of a community.\n\nThese are decisions that will divide opinion and, what is more, it will be nigh on impossible to judge exactly what impact they will have had on the virus.\n\nOldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon said Greater Manchester would be placed in tier two - \"with household restrictions on meeting indoors in any setting, but not outdoors\" - and pubs that serve food staying open.\n\nIt came after Sacha Lord, Greater Manchester's night-time economy adviser, started legal proceedings to challenge any restrictions on hospitality and entertainment venues in the North of England.\n\nPeople in 17 parts of Wales now face local lockdown rules - and cannot leave these areas without a good reason, such as going to work.\n\nWales' health minister Vaughan Gething said he was disappointed that the prime minister was not issuing guidance on whether people should travel out of highly infected areas.\n\nMinisters and health officials in Northern Ireland spent Sunday discussing what to do about the rapidly increasing rates of the virus. One MP said he believed lockdowns would be examined by the Northern Ireland Executive on Monday.\n\nOn Sunday, 12,872 people in the UK were reported to have tested positive for coronavirus - some 2,294 fewer than on Saturday.\n\nThere were a further 65 deaths - down from 81 on Saturday.\n\nHow could the new restrictions affect you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been convicted of stabbing a prayer leader in the neck as he held prayers at London Central Mosque.\n\nDaniel Horton - who had converted to Islam and worshipped at the mosque - admitted attacking Raafat Maglad, 70, on 20 February.\n\nHorton, 30, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to wounding with intent and possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nHorton, of no fixed address, is due to be sentenced at the same court on 16 November.\n\nHe had converted to Islam and had been attending the north London mosque as a worshipper for a few years, prosecutors told the court.\n\nOn the day of the attack, he attended the mosque where Mr Maglad, in his role as a Muezzin, was calling all members of the mosque to prayer in the main prayer hall.\n\nRaafat Maglad returned to the mosque less than 24 hours after he was stabbed\n\nWhen the second prayer was ending, Horton attacked Mr Maglad by stabbing his praying victim in the neck with a small kitchen knife.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service's Jonathan Efemini said no motive had been established for the stabbing, which he described as \"unprovoked\".\n\n\"Horton launched this targeted attack on Mr Maglad who was defenceless in the midst of prayer,\" he told the court.\n\n\"He had waited for the service to commence, lunged towards the victim, and stabbed him once in the neck.\n\n\"Mr Maglad has been attending Regent's Park Mosque for 25 years as the Muezzin who would make the call for prayer five times a day.\n\n\"This should have been a safe and sacred space for him to worship in peace.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "RV Polarstern returns to the port city Bremerhaven early on Monday\n\nThe German Research Vessel Polarstern has sailed back into its home port after completing a remarkable expedition to the Arctic Ocean.\n\nThe ship spent a year in the polar north, much of it with its propulsion engines turned off so it could simply drift in the sea-ice.\n\nThe point was to study the Arctic climate and how it is changing.\n\nAnd expedition leader, Prof Markus Rex, returned with a warning. \"The sea-ice is dying,\" he said.\n\n\"The region is at risk. We were able to witness how the ice disappears and in areas where there should have been ice that was many metres thick, and even at the North Pole - that ice was gone,\" the Alfred Wegener Institute scientist told a media conference in Bremerhaven on Monday.\n\nMid-winter in the Arctic is accompanied by 24-hour darkness\n\nRV Polarstern was on station to document this summer's floes shrink to their second lowest ever extent in the modern era.\n\nThe floating ice withdrew to just under 3.74 million sq km (1.44 million sq miles). The only time this minimum has been beaten in the age of satellites was 2012, when the pack ice was reduced to 3.41 million sq km.\n\nThe downward trend is about 13% per decade, averaged across the month of September.\n\n\"This reflects the warming of the Arctic,\" said Prof Rex. \"The ice is disappearing and if in a few decades we have an ice-free Arctic - this will have a major impact on the climate around the world.\"\n\nOn occasions the expedition was harassed by polar bears\n\nThe €130m (£120m/$150m) cruise set off from Tromsø, Norway, on 20 September last year. The project was named the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC).\n\nThe idea was to recreate the historic voyage of Norwegian polar researcher Fridtjof Nansen, who undertook the first ice drift through the Arctic Ocean more than 125 years ago.\n\nRV Polarstern embedded itself in the ice on the Siberian side of the Arctic basin with the intention of floating across the top of the world and emerging from the floes just east of Greenland.\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 AWI Media 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 course of this drift, hundreds of researchers came aboard to study the region's environment.\n\nThey deployed a battery of instruments to try to understand precisely how the ocean and atmosphere are responding to the warming forced on the Arctic by the global increase in greenhouse gases.\n\nInvestigations were conducted to improve future measurements made from space\n\nCoronavirus only briefly interrupted the expedition - not by making participants ill, but by obliging the ship at one point to leave the floes to go pick up its next rotation of scientists. Other ships and planes were supposed to deliver the participants direct to RV Polarstern, but international movement restrictions made this extremely challenging in the early-to-middle part of this year.\n\nDespite the hiatus, Prof Rex declared the MOSAiC project a huge success.\n\nThe mass of data and samples now in the possession of researchers would make the modelling they use to project future climate change much more robust, he explained.\n\nIt was as if the MOSAiC scientists had been shown the inner workings of an intricate clock, he said.\n\n\"We looked at all the different elements, down to the different screws of this Arctic system. And now we understand the entire clockwork better than ever before. And maybe we can rebuild this Arctic system on a computer model,\" he told reporters.\n\nThe ship returned to a world that is very different from the one it left\n\nProf Rex said the sea-ice was very thin or even absent in places where it used to be thick\n\nClarification 6 December, 2022: This article was edited to include the word 'propulsion' in the description of which engines were turned off.\n• None Covid crisis does little to slow climate change", "RM (2nd from right) is the band's leader\n\nSouth Korean K-pop group BTS is facing a backlash in China over comments a member made about the Korean War.\n\nIn a speech, the band's leader, known as RM, mentioned South Korea's shared \"history of pain\" with the US over the 1950-53 conflict, in which the two countries fought together.\n\nBut his remarks have angered Chinese social media users, as Beijing backed the North in the war.\n\nThe controversy also appears to have affected commercial deals.\n\nAdverts featuring BTS from companies including Samsung, sports brand Fila and car manufacturer Hyundai disappeared from a number of Chinese websites or social media platforms, although it is unclear who removed them.\n\nK-pop has a large following in China and BTS - one of the most successful groups - are no different, with at least five million fans on China's popular social media platform Weibo.\n\nRM's comments came as BTS received an award celebrating relations between the US and South Korea.\n\n\"We will always remember the history of pain that our two nations shared together and the sacrifices of countless men and women,\" he said.\n\nBut his words were met with an angry response by some social media users in China, who noted the losses their country also suffered in the war.\n\n\"They [BTS] should not make any money from China,\" one user commented on Weibo, reported Reuters news agency. \"If you want to make money from Chinese fans you have to consider Chinese feelings.\"\n\nAccording to the Global Times, a state-run newspaper with a nationalistic perspective, \"Chinese netizens said the band's totally one-sided attitude to the Korean War hurts their feelings and negates history\", adding that the comments were designed to \"play up\" to US audiences.\n\nAround 200,000 South Korean soldiers and 36,000 American soldiers died during the Korean War, as well as millions of civilians. Chinese state media say 180,000 soldiers from China also lost their lives.\n\nIt was difficult to gauge the scale of the backlash to RM's comments among BTS's Chinese fan base. Some were calling on each other to stay low-key and quiet on Weibo posts. And a number of people on Twitter defended the group, noting that RM's speech did not mention China directly.\n\nThe seven-member BTS is popular around the world and have broken a number of records. Earlier this year, their single Dynamite became the most viewed YouTube video in 24 hours, with 101.1 million views in a day.\n\nThe controversy comes days before Big Hit Entertainment, the agency that manages BTS, is set to go public in Seoul in an initial public offering expected to value the company at up to $4bn (£3bn).", "The UK hospitality industry has said it will take legal action to stop new local lockdown rules that could force pub, clubs and other venues to close.\n\nTrade body the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) said there was no evidence that hospitality venues contributed to the spread of Covid-19.\n\nIt comes as the government prepares to unveil new restrictions for England.\n\nNTIA boss Michael Kill said the hospitality industry had been left with \"no other option\".\n\n\"These new measures will have a catastrophic impact on late night businesses, and are exacerbated further by an insufficient financial support package presented by the chancellor in an attempt to sustain businesses through this period,\" he said.\n\n\"This next round of restrictions are hugely disproportionate and unjust, with no scientific rationale or correlation to Public Health England transmission rates, when compared to other key environments.\"\n\nThe Liverpool City Region is expected to face the tightest restrictions under a new \"three tier\" system, which will classify regions as being at a \"medium,\" \"high\" or \"very high\" level of alert.\n\nIn the most infectious areas, pubs, bars and other hospitality and leisure businesses are likely to be forced to close, as has happened in parts of Scotland.\n\nThe chancellor has promised to pay two-thirds of workers' wages if employers have to shut.\n\nBut some fear this will not be enough and there could still be an impact on jobs, said Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of business lobby group the CBI.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn said the government needed to \"show its workings\"\n\n\"It is particularly hard for hospitality who worked so hard to get their premises Covid-safe, but also the supply chains that depend on them,\" she told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"I think they do want to see a much more evidence-based approach - the government needs to show its workings.\"\n\nLeaders in northern England, which has been hard hit by the new surge in coronavirus cases, are supporting NTIA's call for a judicial review.\n\nSo too are the British Beer and Pub Association and two of the country's biggest pub operators, JW Lees and Joseph Holt, alongside 10 other organisations.\n\nSacha Lord, Manchester's Night Time Economy Adviser, said: \"Once again the government wants to shut down pubs and bars, but this cannot keep happening and we need to understand why the hospitality industry is being isolated like this - where is the scientific evidence to suggest closing venues suppresses transmission?\"\n\nManchester Mayor Andy Burnham said many workers faced hardship if their employer was forced to close.\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 Andy Burnham 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\"The government is treating hospitality industry workers as second-class citizens. Many of them are already on the minimum wage and there is no justification for a furlough scheme that pays two-thirds of their wages when workers in other industries were given four-fifths,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Calum Semple, professor of outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said imposing restrictions is the right course.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"Most of the outbreaks are happening within and between households and then after that, it's in the retail and hospitality sector.\n\n\"So, the major issue here is to focus on the cities and areas with the largest outbreaks and sadly my home city of Liverpool is being hammered at the moment. These restrictions are necessary.\"\n\nThe government is already facing a legal challenge over its decision to impose a 10pm curfew on English pubs.\n\nJeremy Joseph, boss of the G-A-Y club group, said the curfew was detrimental to hospitality businesses and \"makes absolutely no sense\".\n\n\"It does the opposite of protecting people by pushing them onto the street at the same time. They are going from being safe inside venues with staggered closing times to unsafe on overcrowded streets and overloaded public transport.\"", "Half the population of the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh have been displaced by fighting.\n\nOn both sides of the conflict, Armenian and Azeri civilians have been killed.\n\nWithin hours of a temporary truce agreed in Moscow, fresh shelling was reported by both Armenian and Azerbaijani forces.\n\nThis is not a religious war, but many Armenians are sheltering in churches and fear they may be shelled.", "The gates of Auschwitz concentration camp, now a memorial, where more than one million people died\n\nFacebook has explicitly banned Holocaust denial for the first time.\n\nThe social network said its new policy prohibits \"any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust\".\n\nFacebook boss Mark Zuckerberg wrote that he had \"struggled with the tension\" between free speech and banning such posts, but that \"this is the right balance\".\n\nTwo years ago, Mr Zuckerberg said that such posts should not automatically be taken down for \"getting it wrong\".\n\n\"I'm Jewish and there's a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened,\" he told Recode at the time.\n\n\"I find it deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don't believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong.\"\n\nBut on Monday, as Facebook changed its policies, he wrote that he had changed his mind.\n\n\"My own thinking has evolved as I've seen data showing an increase in anti-Semitic violence, as have our wider policies on hate speech,\" he wrote in a public Facebook post.\n\nMr Zuckerberg had previously said he did not want to ban mistaken beliefs\n\n\"Drawing the right lines between what is and isn't acceptable speech isn't straightforward, but with the current state of the world, I believe this is the right balance.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Facebook banned hate speech involving harmful stereotypes, including anti-Semitic content. But Holocaust denial had not been banned.\n\nFacebook's vice-president of content policy, Monika Bickert, said the company had made the decision alongside \"the well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally and the alarming level of ignorance about the Holocaust, especially among young people\".\n\nShe said that later this year, searching for the Holocaust - or its denial - on Facebook would direct users to \"credible\" information.\n\nBut she also warned change would not happen overnight, and training its employees and automated systems would take time.\n\nThe World Jewish Congress - which had conferred with Facebook on anti-Semitism - welcomed the move.\n\n\"Denying the Holocaust, trivializing it, minimizing it, is a tool used to spread hatred and false conspiracies about Jews and other minorities,\" the group said in a statement.\n\nBut it also noted that it had campaigned for the removal of Holocaust denial content from the platform \"for several years\".\n\nJonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, tweeted: \"This has been years in the making.\"\n\n\"Having personally engaged with Facebook on the issue, I can attest the ban on Holocaust Denial is a big deal... glad it finally happened.\"\n\nThis was a bit of a \"wait, they don't do this already?\" moment.\n\nPerhaps that's because Facebook has quite radically shifted its position on removing hate speech and fake news in recent months.\n\nWe're still seeing loopholes from an old moderating regime being closed.\n\nCritics, though, argue this isn't happening fast enough.\n\nThe combined platforms of Facebook and Instagram - which is owned by Facebook - have an extraordinary reach of billions of users worldwide.\n\nThat influence has to be used responsibly, and Facebook acknowledges this.\n\nThe advertising boycott in July also helped cement the view internally that more had to be done to tackle hate speech.\n\nMark Zuckerberg's instincts have always been to champion freedom of speech - the best way to fight bad speech is good speech he's always said.\n\nBut this latest move appears to indicate Facebook now accepts it needs to be more proactive in combating hate speech.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA black man who was led by a rope down a Texas street by two white officers on horseback has sued the city and its police department for $1m (£750,000).\n\nGalveston Police apologised last year after footage emerged of Donald Neely, 44, arrested for criminal trespassing.\n\nA lawsuit filed this week alleged the officers' conduct was \"extreme and outrageous\" and caused Mr Neely injury and emotional and mental anguish.\n\nThe trespass charges against Mr Neely were later dismissed in court.\n\nMany people on social media compared the footage of Mr Neely to the slavery era, an allusion referenced explicitly in the lawsuit. According to the lawsuit, the officers should have been aware that Mr Neely, \"being led with a rope and by mounted officers down a city street as though he was a slave, would find this contact offensive\".\n\nAccusing both the city and the Galveston police department of negligence, the suit says that Mr Neely \"suffered from handcuff abrasions, suffered from the heat, and suffered from embarrassment, humiliation and fear\".\n\nCity officials declined to comment on the lawsuit to US media.\n\nLast year, after an outcry over images of Mr Neely, police clarified that he was not tied with the rope but was \"handcuffed and a line was clipped to the handcuffs\".\n\nGalveston's police chief Vernon Hale said at the time that the technique was acceptable in some scenarios but that \"officers showed poor judgment in this instance\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The USA's history of racial inequality has paved the way for modern day police brutality\n\nThere was no \"malicious intent\", he said, and apologised to Mr Neely for the \"unnecessary embarrassment\". Department policy was changed to prevent the use of this technique.\n\nMr Neely - who was homeless at the time - was sleeping on a sidewalk, US media reported, when he was arrested for criminal trespass and led around the block to a mounted police patrol staging area. The charges were later dismissed.\n\nFollowing an investigation into the encounter, the department released body camera footage of the arrest. In it, the officers can be heard commenting on the appearance of Mr Neely's arrest.\n\n\"This is going to look so bad. I'm glad you're not embarrassed, Mr Neely,\" one officer is heard saying.\n\nA status conference is currently scheduled for 7 January, 2021. Mr Neely is requesting a trial by jury, according to court documents.", "We have entered a crucial phase in the epidemic.\n\nCases are increasing across the whole of the country and the number of people in hospital is now higher than before the full lockdown.\n\nIt is at this critical moment that the gulf between the official scientific advice and the political decisions made by government has been laid bare.\n\nDocuments released by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) reveal a call to action three weeks ago.\n\n\"The re-imposition of a package of measures is required urgently,\" it warned on 21 September.\n\nIt added: \"The more rapidly these interventions are put in place the greater the reduction in Covid-related deaths and the quicker they can be eased.\n\n\"Not acting now to reduce cases will result in a very large epidemic with catastrophic consequences.\"\n\nSage said government should consider the following policies immediately:\n\nThe government has to balance not only the impact of measures on the virus, but also their damaging impact on people's health, wellbeing and the economy.\n\nThere was official advice to work from home, but none of the other measures have been implemented nationally.\n\nThe documents were published shortly after Boris Johnson's televised briefing on Monday night, during which the chief medical officer for England, Prof Chris Whitty, openly declared nobody thought the current tier-three measures being introduced around Liverpool would stop the virus.\n\n\"I am not confident and nor is anybody confident that the tier-three proposals for the highest rates, if we did the absolute base case and nothing more would be enough to get on top of it,\" he said.\n\nHe said it would take \"significantly more\" to achieve control and powers to do so had been given to local authorities.\n\nProf Calum Semple, who was at the Sage meeting on 21 September, said the three-tier system had come too late and he believes that a short national lockdown could be needed within weeks.\n\nSage is also damning of the government's supposedly world-beating test-and-trace system.\n\nTest-and-trace is at the heart of the government's plans - a way of avoiding the need for a national lockdown by targeting restrictions where the virus is.\n\nSage says \"this system is having a marginal impact on transmission\" and that unless its resources grow faster than the epidemic then test-and-trace \"will further decline in the future\".\n\nThe documents say a two-week circuit break in October could drive cases down, essentially rewinding the clock by 28 days. This could buy time for test-and-trace to catch up.\n\nThe Sage papers also reveal how the widely supported decision to keep schools open means a \"wide range of other measures will be required\".\n\nThe national R number - the number of people each infected person passes the virus on to on average - is between 1.2 and 1.5. Anything above 1.0 means the epidemic is growing.\n\nOne set of Sage documents reveals how much individual policies may cut the R number by:\n\nFor each measure aimed at targeting the virus, Sage also details the damaging effect the measures are likely to have.\n\n\"Government will continue to have to juggle social freedom, economic activity and transmission for many months. It is imperative, therefore, that a consistent series of measures is adopted over the next 6-9 months,\" it says.\n\nNine months from that meeting would be June.\n\nThe current situation has been widely predicted, including in a major report in July that warned there could be more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\n\"We're on track to have 100 deaths a day in next week or so, that's very much tracing some of those worst case scenarios, if the outbreak's increasing it doesn't bode well for November/December,\" said Dr Adam Kucharski, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the modelling group that feeds advice to Sage, told me.\n\nThere is also mounting angst about what the government is trying to achieve.\n\nThe R number is thought to be comfortably above 1 in every region of England, not just parts of the North West.\n\nJeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust and Sage member, tweeted: \"Objective has to be to get R<1, if that is not the objective [then we] need clarity on what [the] objective is.\"\n\nThe University of Warwick's Dr Mike Tildesley, who sits on one of the Sage sub-groups, told BBC News: \"It is extremely important the government says what the objective is, what they're trying to achieve, then the science group can be much more useful in advising government.\n\n\"If they tell us, it will be much easier.\"\n\nThe fear among some scientists advising the government is that many of the fundamentals have not changed. This is a virus that thrives on human contact and to which the vast majority of us have no immunity to.\n\nTreatment has improved, but not by enough to prevent large numbers of deaths in a significant outbreak.\n\nThe concern is either we choose the terms for controlling the virus now, or we wait and the virus will force our hand as it did with lockdown in March.", "Lord Janner, who was a Leicester MP, died in 2015\n\nChildren allegedly abused by the late Lord Janner did not immediately contact police because they felt \"fear, shame, embarrassment and confusion\", an inquiry has heard.\n\nLord Janner, a former Leicester MP, died in 2015 while awaiting trial for 22 child sexual abuse offences.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) heard complainants were \"worried they would not be believed\".\n\nThe inquiry will not decide if he was guilty, but will look at how authorities reacted to the multiple allegations of indecent assault and buggery dating as far back as the 1960s.\n\nMany of the alleged victims, some from care homes, have only come forward in recent years.\n\nBrian Altman QC, counsel to the inquiry, said: \"There are a myriad of reasons why the complainants say they did not make their disclosures at the time.\n\n\"The reasons include feelings of fear, shame, embarrassment and confusion.\"\n\nLawyer David Enright said one alleged victim described how it felt like \"poor children are on a conveyor belt to abuse, and that nobody seems to believe them\".\n\nThe inquiry heard how Tracey Taylor, a complainant who has waived her right to anonymity, said she was raped by the former MP after entering the care system at 14.\n\nShe said he told her he \"could make her the next prime minister's wife\".\n\nShe added she tried to tell police about the alleged abuse on a number of occasions but was not believed and was called \"Crazy Tracey\" by officers.\n\nProf Alexis Jay is leading the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)\n\nLord Janner was charged with counts relating to nine boys after Leicestershire Police launched an investigation into the allegations in 2012.\n\nHe denied all charges and criminal proceedings came to an end when he died in December 2015 at the age of 87 following a \"long illness\".\n\nLawyers representing the alleged victims said the prosecution had come \"too late\".\n\nNick Stanage said: \"[It] came many years after allegations first surfaced... justice delayed was justice denied\".\n\nLord Janner's family has continued to defend their father's reputation.\n\nRabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, Lord Janner's youngest daughter, said in a statement the family does not \"recognise any of [our] father's character\" in the allegations.\n\nShe added: \"[This was] never the lost opportunity for justice it is misleadingly claimed to be.\"\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.", "Twitter has experienced a major outage, with users across the world affected.\n\nThe social media giant said the issue was caused by an \"inadvertent change\" it made to its internal systems.\n\nPeople in countries including the US and UK were unable to use the platform for more than an hour, with many receiving error messages.\n\nThe service was later largely restored, and the California-based company said the site should soon be working for all of its users.\n\nAccording to DownDetector.com, reports of problems with Twitter began to spike at about 21:30 GMT on Thursday.\n\nIt said users from around the world - including Japan, Australia, Argentina and France - had reported being unable to use the platform.\n\nIn the US, there were tens of thousands of reports of problems.\n\nUsers were sent error messages including \"something went wrong\" and \"Tweet failed: There's something wrong. Please try again later.\"\n\nTwitter said there was no evidence of a security breach or hack.\n\nInternet monitoring group NetBlocks confirmed the incident was \"not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering\".\n\nIn July, hackers accessed Twitter's internal systems to hijack accounts owned by some of the platform's most prominent users.\n\nThe breach saw the accounts of Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West and Bill Gates among other celebrities used to tweet a Bitcoin scam.", "Rain swept across the UK in the wake of Storm Alex\n\nSaturday 3 October was the wettest day for UK-wide rainfall since records began in 1891, Met Office researchers have said.\n\nThe downpour followed in the wake of Storm Alex and saw an average of 31.7mm (1.24ins) of rain across the entire UK.\n\nThe deluge was enough to exceed the capacity of Loch Ness - the largest lake in the UK by volume - the researchers added.\n\nIt has been a year of stark contrasts across the UK when it comes to rainfall.\n\nTwo named storms, Ciara and Dennis, helped push February to the top of the records as the wettest ever in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis was followed by a very dry and bright spring that saw May break the record for sunniest calendar month with 266 hours of sunshine.\n\nBut a middling summer has been followed by a drenching autumn across much of the UK.\n\nIn the wake of Storm Alex, the heavens opened almost everywhere.\n\n\"The main characteristic for October 3 was moderate but persistent rain, and it was very widespread,\" said Dr Mark McCarthy, from the Met Office.\n\nStorms across the UK saw February become the wettest on record\n\n\"We had 30 to 50mm of rain, quite extensively across large parts of the UK that day, and that's quite unusual.\"\n\nIf all that rain was collected together, Dr McCarthy said, it would over top the UK's biggest lake by volume.\n\n\"So 31.7mm across the area of the UK equates to around 7.6 cubic kilometres of water by volume,\" he said, adding: \"Loch Ness is around 7.4-7.5 cubic kilometres.\"\n\nWhile the previous record came during the very wet summer of 1986, the third wettest day across the UK was on 15 February this year with 27.2mm.\n\nMany parts of the UK have already passed their average October rainfall in the first couple of weeks of the month.\n\nOxfordshire is leading the way as the wettest county, with around 148% of its long-term average October rain experienced so far.\n\nSo, do these heavy downpours across 2020 show the signal of climate change?\n\nThe Met Office says enough rain fell on October 3 to fill Loch Ness\n\n\"We can't make any definitive statements specifically about the attribution of this particular event on October 3,\" said Dr McCarthy.\n\n\"There's a general expectation that under our warming climate, we would expect to see increases in some types of extreme rainfall and rainfall events and we're expecting to have wetter winters overall, we could expect increases in these types of extremes.\"\n\nWhile the record for the wettest day on average across the UK stood for 34 years, it might not take so long to break it again.\n\n\"Over recent decades that we have seen a cluster of notable rainfall records in the last sort of 10 to 20 years in quite a long rainfall series,\" said Dr McCarthy.\n\n\"So it would fit within the general pattern that we're observing, and aspects of what we would expect continued climate change to lead to.\"", "The officer was checking on the welfare of a man on Portswood Road when he was attacked\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder a policeman who was stabbed multiple times.\n\nThe 43-year-old officer was responding over concern for a man living in Portswood Road, Southampton, at about 12:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nHampshire police said the officer suffered \"serious, but not life-threatening, injuries\" and had to stay in hospital overnight.\n\nThe arrested man, a 51-year-old from Southampton, remains in custody.\n\nThe officer was called to Portswood Road in Southampton at about 12:00 BST on Thursday\n\nPeter Crawford, who lives in the road, said it appeared the policeman had an injured arm.\n\nHe said: \"I saw all these police cars... and there was a guy at the front of one - I didn't realise he was a policeman at the time - I saw him bandaging his arm up.\n\n\"And I saw a guy come out with the police with handcuffs on behind his back.\"\n\nZoe Wakefield, who chairs Hampshire Police Federation, said the injured policeman was with a colleague when he was attacked and has since been released from hospital.\n\nShe said: \"The officers acted very bravely and I think the situation could have been a lot worse.\"\n\nA force spokesman said detectives were working to establish the exact circumstances of the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Dave Brown said officers were conducting inquiries, including house-to-house visits, and examining CCTV footage.\n\n\"At the same time, we are providing support to the officer's family and his colleagues following this incident,\" he said.\n\nThe force did not believe there was any wider risk to the public, Det Ch Insp Brown added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won a landslide victory in the country's general election.\n\nMs Ardern's first term in office has been a challenging time, but her compassionate leadership style and charisma have seen her become one of the world's most prominent leaders.\n\nHere's a look back at some of the key moments of her leadership.", "Hospital admissions for Covid have risen significantly in just a week, Andrew Goodall said\n\nThe number of Covid-related patients in Wales' hospitals has risen by 49% in a week.\n\nWelsh NHS boss Andrew Goodall said more than 700 people were being looked after - the highest number since late June.\n\nThe chief executive said demand for beds would continue to increase in the days and weeks ahead.\n\n\"I anticipate this winter will be more challenging than any I have known in my professional career,\" Mr Goodall told a Welsh Government press conference.\n\nIt comes as the Welsh Government said it was \"planning very seriously\" for a circuit breaker lockdown.\n\nThe number of confirmed coronavirus cases in hospital - where a patient has tested - is 326, up 70% on two weeks ago, Mr Goodall said.\n\nThat is half of the peak in April, \"but I am concerned at the rising trend\", he added.\n\nCoronavirus has meant waiting lists have increased, with a \"five-fold\" increase in the number of people waiting 36 weeks because of limited activity taking place.\n\nAndrew Goodall said this winter will be the most challenging of his career\n\nThere are plans to increase critical care capacity but the 152 normal critical beds are currently full, mainly with people who do not have coronavirus.\n\nThere are also plans in place to allow the NHS to balance care and treatment, but Mr Goodall said if capacity in the NHS doubles as it did in March and April, \"it doesn't take much with the maths involved to work out that we could see a system that is under pressure\".\n\nThe NHS chief executive said there was a \"different level\" of preparation \"than perhaps when we were at the first peak\".\n\n\"We build on experience of many years of dealing with infection control, but this is still a virus that surprises us with its ability, particularly in closed settings, in its ability to transmit across to other parts of hospital and healthcare settings,\" he said.\n\nHe said the Welsh NHS had commissioned plans for an extra 5,000 beds: \"This is 10 times the number of our usual winter plans.\"\n\nCovid-19 outbreaks in hospitals could lead to more suspensions of planned surgery and other services.\n\nThere have been outbreaks in nine hospitals - Dr Andrew Goodall said action plans were already in place to tackle them, but added the virus \"continues to surprise us\" in the way it manages to spread.\n\nBut the NHS expects to have 24 weeks supply of personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nThe supply chain for PPE is in a \"very good position at the moment\", Mr Goodall added.\n\nConservative leader in the Senedd Paul Davies says the Welsh Government should set up \"Covid-free hospitals\" so that routine surgery can be carried out.\n\nMr Goodall says the rise in Covid cases has had a big impact on waiting times for routine surgery \"with a five-fold increase in people waiting more than 36 weeks because of the limited activity taking place\".\n\nPaul Davies said: \"The Welsh Government and the Welsh NHS should set up covid-free hospitals so that people can continue to receive routine surgery\".\n\nHe added: \"I've had lots of correspondence on this with people very worried about routine surgery and the waits that people have to wait\".\n\nMeanwhile, the number of patients who have caught Covid-19 in hospital in Wales has risen again.\n\nThere were 94 \"probable\" or \"definite\" infections caught in the last week - a 71% rise on the previous week.\n\nMore than half were in Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\nThere are 58 hospital onset cases in the region in the last week, according to Public Health Wales (PHW).\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg said up to Tuesday there has now been 38 deaths, with 32 of these coming at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.\n\nThere have been separate infection outbreaks at Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr, and Princess of Wales in Bridgend, with 196 cases across the three sites.\n\nMedical director Dr Nick Lyons said \"In conjunction with PHW we continue to closely monitor cases at a number of our sites. The safety of our patients and staff remains our first priority and immediate measures to contain the spread of the virus have been put in place.\"\n\nThe Public Health Wales figures also show Aneurin Bevan health board has seen 24 cases in the last week, with another nine at Swansea Bay.\n\nA spike in patients infected with coronavirus in hospital in north Wales - at Wrexham Maelor - in July eased off, although there has since been an outbreak at Glan Clwyd and two other local hospitals.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board - where three new infections were reported over the last week - has reported more than 20 patients with infections across the three sites and expects to publish an update at the end of the week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police dispersed guests at the wedding reception in west London\n\nPolice have broken up a wedding reception where more than 100 guests congregated in breach of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe event at the Tudor Rose in Southall, west London, on Tuesday evening was described as a \"flagrant and arrogant violation of the law\".\n\nThe venue's owner has been reported and could face a fine of up to £10,000.\n\nUnder current guidance, the number of guests allowed at weddings is limited to 15 people.\n\nBody-worn camera footage of the reception, released by the Metropolitan Police, showed guests being led from the venue.\n\nArea Commander, Ch Supt Peter Gardner, said: \"This was a dangerous and foolish breach of the regulations, which have been designed specifically to keep people safe from transmitting a deadly virus.\n\n\"Restrictions on large gatherings, such as weddings, have been in place for months and quite frankly there can be no excuse for this flagrant and arrogant violation of the law.\n\n\"There was clearly no attempt by the venue owner to enforce the regulations or keep their patrons safe. It is for this reason we have reported them for a £10,000 fine.\"\n\nLondon is among a number of places in England which will face Tier 2 lockdown restrictions beginning on Saturday, including a ban on households mixing indoors.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A US photographer has said she was \"devastated\" when one of her photos was used for a UK government-backed advert suggesting a dancer should retrain.\n\nThe ad was criticised for encouraging \"Fatima\" to give up on dancing and \"reskill\" in cyber security.\n\nThe dancer is actually called Desire'e and the photo was taken by Krys Alex.\n\n\"I was shocked,\" the Atlanta-based photographer said in a YouTube video. Artists \"should not be encouraged to stop doing what we love\", she added.\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 FLIdP 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 ad was pulled after Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden disowned it, describing it as \"crass\". A 10 Downing Street spokesperson agreed that it was \"not appropriate\".\n\nThe first Alex knew of her photo's use was when the advert began to be criticised on social media.\n\n\"I woke up Monday morning to a bunch of emails and tags, and I really felt devastated,\" she said. \"I immediately thought of Desire'e and how her face was just plastered all over social media and the internet, different news articles, and memes were created, and she had no clue. All of that really hurt me.\n\n\"Some people questioned if I knew and if I approved the use of my work. If I'd have know that this was going to be used in the way it was, I would have never agreed to it.\"\n\nDesire'e Kelley is \"a young, talented and beautiful aspiring dancer from Atlanta\", she added.\n\n\"We're exploring all our options and we're talking and consulting with different professionals to figure out the best way to protect our rights in this situation.\"\n\nThe photo was available on stock image site Unsplash, whose licence says pictures can normally be downloaded for free for commercial and non-commercial purposes.\n\nThe campaign, which also features images of people from other walks of life, was created for CyberFirst, which is described as \"a government outreach and education programme run by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ\".\n\nThe original photo also included Tasha Williams, owner of the Vibez in Motion Dance Studio in Atlanta, Georgia. She was cropped out for the ad.\n\nWriting on Instagram, Williams described the advert as an \"unforgivable act\".\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 vibezinmotion 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\nShe said: \"I can remember growing up hearing, 'Dance is art, it's not a career just a hobby, make sure to get a real job and dance on the side.' The UK campaign took me right back to that place mentally, which was a bit scary.\n\n\"Being about 11 or 12 and feeling like I had to be someone I wasn't and suppress my creative energy to satisfy what 'others' saw as productive lives.\"\n\nMr Dowden again distanced himself from the advert when he was asked about it by MPs on the House of Commons culture select committee on Wednesday.\n\n\"I was at the Royal Ballet just on Friday and it was wonderful to see artists perform again. I know the huge value they bring to this country,\" he said.\n\nHe cited grants awarded this week from the Culture Recovery Fund to institutions including the Royal Academy of Dance and Birmingham Royal Ballet. \"We know those are jobs that should be preserved,\" he said.", "A scientist who processed coronavirus swab samples at one of the UK's largest labs has alleged working practices were \"chaotic and dangerous\".\n\nHe highlighted overcrowded biosecure workspaces, poor safety protocols and a lack of suitable PPE.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive has uncovered safety breaches at the lighthouse lab in Milton Keynes.\n\nThe UK Biocentre, which runs the lab, said strict safety measures were in place and improvements were being made.\n\nThe joint investigation by the BBC and the Independent has learnt that an experienced virologist who worked at the lab said he was \"traumatised\" and \"freaked out\" by seeing inexperienced colleagues unaware of the hazards they were dealing with.\n\nDr Julian Harris started working in laboratories dealing with highly infectious diseases in the 1980s.\n\nBut within one week of working at the Milton Keynes facility - which processes up to 30,000 tests a day - in early July, he was so troubled by what he saw he contacted the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nThe \"lighthouse labs\" are run by independent organisations and are part of the government's plan for increasing testing capacity for coronavirus.\n\nDr Harris said coronavirus swabs had to be processed in \"containment level 2\" labs, with tight safety procedures to protect staff.\n\nBut he said fellow workers had limited laboratory experience and were not given proper safety induction.\n\n\"I found they've got no experience with this sort of facility or handling bio-hazardous, and then they're just launched into this facility,\" Dr Harris said.\n\nHe saw two people using biosecurity cabinets - enclosed, ventilated workspaces where scientists open the tubes containing the contaminated swabs - which were only calibrated to have protective airflow for one person.\n\n\"Once you disrupt that [airflow], you might as well be working on an open bench. It just disrupts the whole reason for a cabinet to protect the operator. And it is really disturbing,\" Dr Harris said.\n\nHe called the working practices \"chaotic and dangerous\".\n\nThe UK Biocentre said that the second scientist was witnessing and supporting the person working in the cabinet, and that new staff had three days of mandatory training.\n\nIt also said the lab workers it recruited had previous lab experience.\n\nDr Harris alleged part of the problem was that recruiters found it tough to bring in experienced staff, because of the drive to push up capacity in time for the winter.\n\nHe said the lab set out to recruit young people from the local area to work long shifts, often of 12 hours.\n\nThe lighthouse labs were set up as are part of the government's plan for increasing testing capacity\n\n\"They just want people to do the gruelling labour of handling these biohazardous things,\" he claimed.\n\nDr Harris took his concerns to the laboratory management in early August.\n\nA senior manager told him that the professionally-experienced staff were going back to their institutes - and that the lab was in \"a transitional period\" and new staff had less experience.\n\nThe manager admitted that the training in place did not look \"robust enough\" for these new recruits.\n\nDr Harris said he also raised concerns about mobile phones being used in the labs and then taken to the canteen, and a lack of safety signage and first aid kits.\n\nThe HSE visited the Milton Keynes lab and found five material breaches of health and safety legislation.\n\nThe BBC understands they included inadequate health and safety training for staff, and employees working too closely together.\n\nBut the Milton Keynes lab said no improvement notice had been issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nAnother former worker at the Milton Keynes lab, who did not want to be identified, said: \"I immediately began to question some of the most basic practices that were being employed in the labs.\n\n\"It was like we were set up to work on a war footing with massive enthusiasm for the task, but they just ignored many of the things we could implement from existing industry and lab practice to make things more efficient and safer for the work team.\"\n\nThe worker, who is also a PhD student, was asked to wear cheap disposable lab coats and plastic gloves attached with parcel tape.\n\n\"If you were in a hospital biomedical sciences lab, you would not be allowed to wear those lab coats to do those things,\" the student said.\n\nThe UK Biocentre, which runs the lab - one of seven mega-labs in the UK - said that cloth and disposable lab coats were available to staff, and tape was an additional safety measure because they insist on staff wearing two pairs of gloves.\n\nThe laboratory added in a statement: \"We are already addressing observations that have been made to us as we continue to expand our testing capacity to tackle the coronavirus.\n\n\"Given the scale of our 24/7 operation - 400 staff, 40,000 tests a day - we have strict safety measures in place to protect staff who are operating in a confined laboratory space.\n\n\"We take the health and safety of all our staff very seriously and actively encourage the scientists and other colleagues to suggest improvements and raise any concerns.\"\n\nA spokesperson from the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"Rigorous quality control and safety procedures are in place across the laboratory network, and we expect the highest standards to be met.\n\n\"We regularly review and inspect our partner laboratories to ensure strict protocols are adhered to. We investigate any concerns raised and will take action if proper procedures are not followed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"Things will get worse before they get better\"\n\nMillions of people in London, Essex, York and other areas face tougher Tier 2 Covid measures from Saturday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nUnder this \"high\" alert level, there is a ban on households mixing indoors, including in pubs and restaurants.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is resisting the region moving to Tier 3, ahead of a final decision on this.\n\nMore than half of England's population will now be living under high or very high-alert restrictions.\n\nThe areas to go into high alert restrictions this weekend are: London, Essex (apart from Southend and Thurrock), York, North East Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Erewash in Derbyshire, Elmbridge in Surrey, and Barrow in Furness, Cumbria.\n\nAs unitary authorities, Southend and Thurrock councils are not included in the move and will remain in Tier 1, Essex County Council has said.\n\nThe health secretary said \"things will get worse before they get better\".\n\n\"Now, I know that these measures are not easy but I also know that they are vital,\" Mr Hancock told MPs.\n\n\"Responding to this unprecedented pandemic requires difficult choices, some of the most difficult choices any government has to make in peacetime.\"\n\nOn Thursday, a further 18,980 cases and 138 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported in the UK.\n\nThe new three-tier system sees every area of England classed as being on medium, high or very high alert - also known as Tiers 1 to 3, respectively.\n\nIt came into effect on Wednesday, and the Liverpool City Region remains the only area currently in the highest tier.\n\nMeanwhile, the government announced that travellers returning to the UK from Italy, Vatican City and San Marino must self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDiscussions are continuing over whether Greater Manchester will be moved into the highest tier of restrictions, with a financial support package yet to be finalised.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference on Thursday, Mr Burnham said the region's leaders were \"unanimously opposed\" to the introduction of Tier 3 measures, calling the government's plans \"flawed and unfair\".\n\nHe said: \"They are asking us to gamble our residents' jobs, homes and businesses and a large chunk of our economy on a strategy that their own experts tell them might not work.\"\n\nRepeating his calls for a financial support package for parts of the North West, he added: \"Greater Manchester, the Liverpool City Region and Lancashire are being set up as the canaries in the coalmine for an experimental regional lockdown strategy as an attempt to prevent the expense of what is truly needed.\n\n\"The very least they should be offering the people of Greater Manchester who will be affected by these closures is a full and fair 80% furlough for all affected workers, 80% income support for people who are self-employed and a proper compensation scheme for businesses.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Burnham says his region is one of those \"being set up as the canaries in the coal mine\"\n\nTier 3 involves pub closures and a ban on household mixing indoors, in private gardens and in most outdoor hospitality venues and ticketed events.\n\nMr Hancock confirmed in the Commons that no decision had been made on moving more regions to Tier 3, but added \"we need to make rapid progress\".\n\nMeanwhile, the NHS Test and Trace system in England recorded its worst week for reaching community contacts since the middle of June.\n\nData showed some 62% of non-household contacts of people who tested positive in the community were reached through the system in the week ending 7 October.\n\nThis is the lowest success rate since 24 June, down from 67% last week.\n\nAsked about the latest data, the PM's spokesman said tests were being provided on an \"unprecedented scale\" and No 10 was still working to raise capacity to 500,000 tests a day by the end of the month.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has defended his call for a nationwide \"circuit-breaker\" - a short limited lockdown - to stem rising infection rates, saying \"no region will be immune\" from Covid-19.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said the alternative was \"weeks and months of prolonged agony\" in a tiered system.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told MPs in the Commons that a full national lockdown \"stretching for weeks and weeks\" would \"be disastrous for society\", but that a lockdown of between two and three weeks could help \"take back control of the virus\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's World at One, Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS providers, said he also favoured this move to ensure the NHS is not overwhelmed by Covid-19 cases.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour mayor Sadiq Khan told London's City Hall there was \"simply no other option\" than introducing the new restrictions.\n\nHe said he will continue to press the government for more financial support, but added that \"we've got a difficult winter ahead\".\n\nConcerns have been raised about the impact the restrictions will have on businesses, particularly in the hospitality sector.\n\nLondon has 3,640 pubs and 7,556 restaurants, according to real estate adviser Altus Group, but they will not be eligible for government support available to premises which have been ordered to close.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sadiq Khan says there is \"simply no other option\" as London moves to Tier 2 restrictions\n\nThe British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), the trade association for Britain's brewing and pub sector, said Tier 2 restrictions without a \"proper package of support\" would \"decimate\" pubs.\n\nEmma McClarkin, BBPA chief executive, said pubs were already struggling due to the current restrictions, with the new measures leaving \"most pubs fighting for their very survival\".\n\nNickie Aiken, Tory MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, urged the government to set out an \"exit plan\" for ensuring London is placed back into Tier 1.\n\nShe said she remained \"deeply concerned about the impact further lockdown will have on the capital's hospitality, leisure and retail businesses\".\n\nRobert Halfon, Conservative MP for Harlow in Essex, said he welcomed Tier 2 measures for the county but would call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to prevent businesses suffering financially.\n\nLiverpool is considering a two-week half-term break for schools as part of its \"battle with Covid-19\".\n\nUnder the plan, backed by a teaching union, pupils would be taught remotely at home for the second week of the break.", "The House of Commons is to stop serving alcohol on its premises, after tougher Covid restrictions were announced across the UK.\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said the ban would begin on Saturday, and apply to all catering outlets, whether food is served or not.\n\nHe said he had ordered the move as some MPs represent constituencies where pubs have now been closed.\n\nThe drinks ban, he added, would last for the \"foreseeable future\".\n\nA House of Commons spokeswoman said six out of its 10 catering outlets that are currently open serve alcohol, and would be affected by the ban.\n\nA ban on serving alcohol at all Commons premises after 22:00 BST is already in place, while most of its bars remain shut.\n\nThe curfew was announced in September, even though Parliament's \"workplace canteens\" are legally exempt from England's 22:00 closing time.\n\nThe Speaker's announcement came after tougher Tier 2 restrictions were announced for London, to begin on Saturday.\n\nUnder this \"high\" alert level, pubs and restaurants will remain open but households will be banned from mixing socially there, or anywhere indoors.\n\nHowever, in the Liverpool City Region - the only area in England under the \"very high\" Tier 3 restrictions - pubs not serving meals will be closed.\n\nPubs and restaurants have been closed across central Scotland, and will remain so until 25 October at the earliest.\n\nSir Lindsay said he had ordered the parliamentary authorities to bring the Commons \"into line with the national picture\".\n\n\"MPs represent different constituencies in different tiers - with the very highest level ordering the closure of pubs,\" he added.\n\nHe said that the House of Commons Commission - in charge of administration - would meet on Monday to consider \"other measures\" to protect MPs and staff from Covid-19.\n• None London, Essex, York and other areas move to Tier 2", "Michele Murray and Jill McLaren arrive home from Russia after a month of treatment\n\nTwo Scottish women have returned home after a month in a Russian hospital undergoing what they hope will be life-changing medical treatment.\n\nJill McLaren and Michele Murray have been living with multiple sclerosis for almost 20 years.\n\nThey travelled to Moscow for stem cell transplants after initial travel plans were cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nThe procedure aims to \"reboot\" their immune systems, stopping their MS in its tracks.\n\nAfter a month of gruelling treatment, they have now travelled back to Scotland and were met by their families at Edinburgh Airport.\n\nJill is greeted by her family at Edinburgh Airport\n\nJill said: \"I can't even explain how amazing it is to be back. It's been really hard, but it'll be worth it.\"\n\nShe said she had come home MS-free.\n\n\"Next is the long recovery and rehabilitation. If this gives us a chance to get our lives back, I'll take it.\"\n\nThe women were unable to get the transplants through the NHS in Scotland, however Michele's treatment was paid for through crowd funding.\n\n\"It's been absolutely amazing,\" she said. \"Everyone has just been so kind. I'm in awe of them. The generosity has just been unbelievable, it really has.\"\n\nOver 15,000 people in Scotland have multiple sclerosis, a lifelong neurological condition which affects the brain and spinal cord and can lead to serious disability.\n\nInstead of fighting off infection, the immune system attacks the nerves which control different parts of the body.\n\nThe illness forced Jill to give up her career in radio and with her health worsening, the mother of twins from Edinburgh decided to undergo the transplant.\n\nMichele, who's from Tain in the Highlands, had reached the same decision and they travelled together to Moscow last month.\n\nLast month Michele said it was important for her to try the treatment\n\nHaematopietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is an aggressive procedure that carries risks.\n\nThe MS Society Scotland says for some people it results in \"life-changing results\" but it's not effective for all types of the disease.\n\nStem cells are taken from the patient's bone marrow or blood before chemotherapy wipes out the immune system. The stem cells are then reintroduced to the body, where they grow a new immune system.\n\nThe women could take up to a year to recover and will be extremely vulnerable to serious infections for months.\n\nJill looks forward to returning to a normal life\n\nJill said: \"We won't be able to see anyone for the next few weeks outside our immediate families, and probably it'll be after new year before we can actually see other see people.\n\n\"We'll be monitored all the time to make sure our recovery is going well enough. We've got a baby immune system now and we just have to be really, really careful.\n\n\"We've overcome the big hurdle, the one that really punished the body. Now it's time to repair it and hopefully get back to a normal life.\"", "A high pressure device called a diamond anvil cell was used to compress and alter the properties of hydrogen-rich materials\n\nScientists have found the first material that displays a much sought-after property at room temperature.\n\nIt is superconducting, which means electrical current flows through it with perfect efficiency - with no energy wasted as heat.\n\nAt the moment, a lot of the energy we produce is lost as heat because of electrical resistance.\n\nSo room temperature \"superconducting\" materials could revolutionise the electrical grid.\n\nUntil this point, achieving superconductivity has required cooling materials to very low temperatures. When the property was discovered in 1911, it was found only at close to the temperature known as absolute zero (-273.15C).\n\nSince then, physicists have found materials that superconduct at higher - but still very cold - temperatures.\n\nThe team behind this latest discovery says it's a major advance in a search that has already gone on for a century.\n\n\"Because of the limits of low temperature, materials with such extraordinary properties have not quite transformed the world in the way that many might have imagined,\" said Dr Ranga Dias, from the University of Rochester, in New York State.\n\n\"However, our discovery will break down these barriers and open the door to many potential applications.\"\n\nDr Dias added that room temperature superconductors \"can definitely change the world as we know it\".\n\nIn the US, electrical grids lose more than 5% of their energy through the process of transmission. So tackling this loss could potentially save billions of dollars and have an effect on the climate.\n\nThe scientists observed the superconducting behaviour in a carbonaceous sulphur hydride compound at a temperature of 15C.\n\nHowever, the property only appeared at extremely high pressures of 267 billion pascals - about a million times higher than typical tyre pressure. This obviously limits its practical usefulness.\n\nSo Dr Dias says the next goal will be to find ways to create room temperature superconductors at lower pressures, so they will be economical to produce in greater volume.\n\nThese materials could have many other applications. These include a new way to propel levitated trains - like the Maglev trains that \"float\" above the track in Japan and Shanghai, China. Magnetic levitation is a feature of some superconducting materials.\n\nAnother application would be faster, more efficient electronics.\n\n\"With this kind of technology, you can take society into a superconducting society where you'll never need things like batteries again,\" said co-author Ashkan Salamat of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.\n\nThe results are published in the prestigious journal Nature.\n\nScientists were able to observe superconducting behaviour at room temperature in the lab", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Face masks are now required in workplace areas such as canteens, with the rules set to extend to corridors\n\nFace coverings must now be worn in workplace canteens in Scotland under new rules that have come into force.\n\nOther communal workplace areas such as corridors will also be included in the restrictions from Monday.\n\nBut the rules on wearing face coverings at wedding and civil partnership ceremonies have been relaxed slightly.\n\nIt means the couple will no longer have to cover their faces during the ceremony so long as they are at least 2m away from everyone else.\n\nFace coverings were already required in a number of public settings in Scotland, such as shops and on public transport.\n\nThey must also be worn in secondary schools by adults and all pupils in areas such as corridors and communal areas where physical distancing is difficult to maintain.\n\nThere are exemptions from all of the rules for young children and people with certain health conditions.\n\nThe new workplace restrictions mean that everyone must cover their face in work canteens unless they are sitting at a table - similar to the rules for cafes - and in most other communal areas.\n\nThe measures were announced on Thursday by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who said they were needed as part of the response to an increase in the number of cases and deaths across the country in recent weeks.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nMs Sturgeon said the country was in a \"precarious\" position and facing a \"critical moment\" in the battle to contain the virus, with \"tough decisions\" needed from government.\n\nA further 1,196 cases of the virus were recorded on Friday, bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 45,232.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus has increased by 27 to 629 since Thursday, with 58 patients being treated in intensive care - an increase of six.\n\nThe deaths of nine more people who died after testing positive for Covid-19 have also been registered, bringing the total under that measure to 2,594.\n\nPubs and restaurants across the central belt of Scotland have been closed until at least 26 October, with tough restrictions placed on licensed premises elsewhere in the country.\n\nAnd strict rules on household mixing that were introduced three weeks ago mean that people are generally not allowed to visit other homes.\n\nCouples who are getting married or entering civil partnerships no longer need to cover their faces during the ceremony\n\nMs Sturgeon has said that these measures - particularly the most recent ones for pubs and restaurants - will not yet be having an impact on the number of cases of the virus that are being detected.\n\nShe has also warned that tougher measures may have to be introduced in the future, and that the country will not return to normal when the current restrictions on licensed premises expire on 26 October.\n\nThe Scottish government intends to introduce a tiered system of restrictions at that point, similar to the one that came into force in England earlier this week.\n\nIt will include plans to \"strengthen and improve the effectiveness\" of existing measures, and to improve compliance with the rules - particularly around self-isolation.\n\nThe English system has been highly controversial, with Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham threatening to \"stand firm\" against plans to move it into the highest Tier 3 category of restrictions.\n\nMr Burnham has described the tiered strategy as being \"flawed\" and \"unfair\", and has called for greater financial support to be given by the UK government to people affected by tougher rules.\n\nHowever, neighbouring Lancashire has agreed a deal to enter Tier 3, the BBC has been told.\n\nAn official announcement on the new measures is expected later.\n\nIt will become the second part of England, after the Liverpool City Region, to go into Tier 3.", "British Airways has been fined £20m ($26m) by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for a data breach which affected more than 400,000 customers.\n\nThe breach took place in 2018 and affected both personal and credit card data.\n\nThe fine is considerably smaller than the £183m that the ICO originally said it intended to issue back in 2019.\n\nIt said \"the economic impact of Covid-19\" had been taken into account.\n\nHowever, it is still the largest penalty issued by the ICO to date.\n\nThe incident took place when BA's systems were compromised by its attackers, and then modified to harvest customers' details as they were input.\n\nIt was two months before BA was made aware of it by a security researcher, and then notified the ICO.\n\nThe data stolen included log in, payment card and travel booking details as well name and address information.\n\nA subsequent investigation concluded that sufficient security measures, such as multi-factor authentication, were not in place at the time.\n\nThe ICO noted that some of these measures were available on the Microsoft operating system that BA was using at the time.\n\n\"When organisations take poor decisions around people's personal data, that can have a real impact on people's lives. The law now gives us the tools to encourage businesses to make better decisions about data, including investing in up-to-date security,\" said Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham.\n\nBritish Airways said it had alerted customers as soon as it had found out about the attack on its systems.\n\n\"We are pleased the ICO recognises that we have made considerable improvements to the security of our systems since the attack and that we fully co-operated with its investigation,\" said a spokesman.\n\nData protection officer Carl Gottlieb said that in the current climate, £20m was a \"massive\" fine.\n\n\"It shows the ICO means business and is not letting struggling companies off the hook for their data protection failures,\" he said.\n\nIt's taken more than two years for BA to face the music over this extremely serious incident.\n\nThe company breached data protection law and failed to protect themselves from preventable cyber attack. It then failed to detect the hack until the damage was done to hundreds of thousands of customers.\n\nThe lag between incident and fine has raised eyebrows in privacy circles but I understand the Information Commissioner's Office has been working methodically to get it right. This is the commissioner's first major fine under the EU data regulation GDPR and was being watched closely by the rest of Europe as a potential landmark decision.\n\nThe final figure of £20m has come as a shock to many who were expecting it to be closer to the eye-watering £183m initially proposed but it is still a significant moment for data privacy and GDPR. Other companies will look at the fine as a shape of things to come if they also fail to protect customers.\n\nIn a post-Covid world, the ICO may not be as gentle.", "Rushed-through coronavirus aid may have led to the loss of billions of pounds of taxpayers' money through fraud and error, MPs have warned.\n\nThere was an \"astonishing lack of economic planning for a pandemic\" which led to \"hastily drawn up economic support schemes\", the Commons Public Accounts Committee said.\n\nThat meant \"unacceptable room for fraud against taxpayers,\" it added.\n\nBut the government said the schemes \"had provided a lifeline to millions\".\n\n\"We make no apology for the speed at which they were delivered,\" a spokesman said, adding that the government had rejected \"thousands of fraudulent claims\". \"Without them lives would have been ruined.\"\n\nSince the spring, the government has approved billions in spending and tax cuts to cushion the economy from the effects of the pandemic, including discounts to encourage dining out and income support for furloughed workers.\n\nThe furlough scheme, which is due to finish at the end of October, was designed to pay 80% of the wages of employees at firms hit by the pandemic.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, it sent £39.3bn to 1.2 million employers to the 20 September.\n\nBut a recent estimate by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) suggested that up to 10% of the money delivered by the scheme to mid-August - £3.5bn - may have been paid out in fraud or error.\n\nThe Commons Public Accounts Committee, which reviews government expenditure, described the figure as \"very worrying\".\n\nThe government should have been better prepared for the economic fall-out from the coronavirus outbreak, as a pandemic had been top of the national risk register for years, Committee chair Meg Hillier said\n\n\"Our finding of the astonishing lack of economic planning for a pandemic shows how the unacceptable room for fraud against taxpayers was allowed into the government's hastily drawn up economic support schemes,\" she said.\n\n\"I would like to see the government publish a list of the companies which received furlough money. Where taxpayers money is being used, transparency should be a given.\"\n\nThe committee also said when the outbreak occurred, HMRC switched staff from frontline tax collection activities to guiding taxpayers through the various Covid support schemes. But that has hurt the government's ability to collect revenue.\n\nHMRC has estimated the revenue it collected through its compliance work in the first three months of the tax year 2020-21 was down 51% on the same period the previous year, and warned the sums may never be recovered.\n\nThe committee said HMRC had administered the tax system based on the assumption that that the \"vast majority\" of taxpayers would be able to meet their obligations and that only a \"few exceptions\" would need to be pursued for non-compliance.\n\nIt said HMRC recently started issuing penalties for people not filing tax returns, because there has been a drop in the numbers being filed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says it is time to \"get ready” for trading arrangements with the EU to be \"more like Australia's\" from 1 January.\n\nTalks between the UK and EU over a post-Brexit trade agreement are \"over\", Downing Street has said.\n\nNo 10 argued there was \"no point\" in discussions continuing next week unless the EU was prepared to discuss the detailed legal text of a partnership.\n\nUK chief negotiator Lord Frost said he had told EU counterpart Michel Barnier there was now no \"basis\" for planned talks on Monday.\n\nNumber 10 said the two sides had agreed to talk again next week - by phone.\n\nEarlier, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted that the Brussels negotiating team would go to London after the weekend to \"intensify\" discussions.\n\nFrance's Europe minister Clément Beaune told BBC Newsnight that, while the EU would not pursue a deal at any cost, \"we will listen to what the UK side wants to say to us\".\n\nMeanwhile, ratings agency Moody's has downgraded the UK's credit status, citing falling economic strength due to the coronavirus pandemic and uncertainty over Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister had set this week's EU summit as the deadline for the two sides to agree a deal.\n\nBut there are still major disagreements over fishing rights and state help for businesses.\n\nAnd the UK government hardened up its message to the EU over the course of Friday.\n\nIn the morning, Boris Johnson said the country had to \"get ready\" to trade next year without an agreement, although he did not say the talks were over.\n\nHe suggested the EU was unwilling to consider seriously the UK's preferred option of a comprehensive free trade agreement based on the bloc's existing arrangement with Canada.\n\nThe UK, he added, must look at the \"alternative\" - which he suggested was Australia's much-more limited set of agreements with the EU.\n\nAs statements go, those four words from the prime minister's spokesman this afternoon were something of a bombshell.\n\nBut Michel Barnier, due to come to London next week to continue talks, might not be unpacking his briefcase just yet.\n\nThere's no doubt that Downing Street is sending the clearest signal possible that it expects the EU to make the next move.\n\nAnd the rhetoric accompanying the talks has reached a new level.\n\nBut both sides still want a deal, the process has not broken down and there is still time to reach an agreement.\n\nIt's one thing to declare the talks over; it's another thing to refuse to continue talking.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman took a tougher line with Brussels later in the day.\n\n\"There is only any point in Michel Barnier coming to London next week if he's prepared to address all the issues on the basis of a legal text in an accelerated way, without the UK required to make all the moves or to discuss the practicalities of travel and haulage,\" he said.\n\n\"If not, there is no point in coming.\"\n\nHe added: \"Trade talks are over. The EU have effectively ended them by saying they do not want to change their negotiating position.\"\n\nThe UK and EU had been hoping for a \"zero-tariff\" agreement to govern their trading relationship once the UK's post-Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nIf no deal is reached, they will operate on World Trade Organization rules, meaning tariffs are imposed.\n\nMrs von der Leyen (R) left the summit early after exchanging views with EU leaders\n\nBoris Johnson's public declaration that the UK should prepare for no deal did not cause great concern within EU circles.\n\nThe immediate response came in a tweet from Commission President Ursula von der Leyen who said it was full steam ahead for trade talks next week and that EU negotiators would be getting on the Eurostar to London as planned.\n\nBut the subsequent statement from the prime minister's official spokesman that the \"trade talks are over\" has left senior diplomats \"deeply unimpressed\", as one put it.\n\nAlthough \"we're getting used to being part of Johnson's pantomime\", they added.\n\nSome EU figures fear Boris Johnson still doesn't know if he actually wants a deal and is trying to buy time while he grapples with the Covid crisis.\n\nFollowing the hardening of the British position by No 10, France's President Macron called on the prime minister to make up his mind, while there was still time.\n\nMany in Brussels remain \"cautiously optimistic\" some sort of deal can be agreed, but any route there is now even harder to see.\n\nAfter the EU summit concluded on Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would be best to get a deal and that compromises on both sides would be needed.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the UK needed a Brexit deal more than the EU did.\n\nFor Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves urged the UK government to \"step back from the brink\" and \"stop posturing\".\n\n\"Any tariffs or any delays at the border will make it harder for goods to flow freely, whether those are foods or medicines,\" she said.\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "Police have been deployed to guard Sarcelles' synagogue\n\nFrench Muslims disgusted by the shootings in Paris may nonetheless have reasons for not embracing the slogan \"I am Charlie\".\n\n\"For a Muslim, the Prophet Muhammad is more important than their own parents,\" says the young man I meet in Sarcelles, his face twisted with contempt for the caricatures Charlie Hebdo published.\n\nHis friend, also 18, nods in agreement as we stand on a street in this Paris dormitory town, famous in France for its large Sephardic Jewish community.\n\n\"They were warned but they kept on mocking the prophet,\" he continues. \"But you cannot kill for that. You cannot go against press freedom in France. Still, they will have to answer to God.\"\n\n\"Real Muslims condemn these attacks,\" adds a third man, 22 and also Muslim. \"Those who committed them were insane. The attack on the kosher supermarket was a catastrophe for France and for the world. If you kill one man it is like you kill all of humanity. That is how we think.\"\n\nWe stand chatting openly on the pavement but nobody wants to be identified.\n\nMistrust of the media runs deep since an outburst of violence last July when police held rioters back from entering the town's Jewish area as they raged at Israel's bombardment of Gaza.\n\nAn invisible line marks the beginning of the Jewish area on Avenue Paul Valery, scene of the confrontation with the police. It starts just before a Holocaust monument and a synagogue.\n\nThere is no sign of trouble but it has been guarded by CRS riot police since last week.\n\nDavid, a kosher businessman I encounter, is so dismayed by the deterioration he perceives in community relations in France that he foresees a time when the \"great majority\" of its half-million or so Jews will emigrate.\n\nBut the Muslim teenager accuses French media of exaggerating the divisions in Sarcelles, where Jews now make up about a quarter of the 60,000-strong population. \"We say one thing, you might write another,\" he suggests, smiling.\n\nWhen I ask how he and his friends relate to the town's Jewish community, they say they have Jewish friends and \"nothing has changed\". \"Mosques get attacked but that doesn't make the news,\" he adds.\n\nThe older of the three speaks with real warmth of the French values of liberty, equality and fraternity which were schooled into him.\n\nSolidarity rallies were staged across France on Sunday, gathering millions of people\n\n\"When I go on holiday to Morocco, I know I could never live there because people make me feel French,\" he says of his ancestral country. \"But in France I am made to feel Moroccan,\" he adds.\n\n\"Am I going up to the Jewish area?\" asks the younger man. The Jews got the nice part of Sarcelles, he explains, a little sourly, while we got this, gesturing back to the long blocks of uniform five-storey council flats stretching down to the railway station.\n\nActually, there was a time when Jewish immigrants from the former French colonies lived there themselves in numbers, and some Jews still do, but the demographic has changed.\n\nBy the mosque near the station, old men sit and chat in Arabic.\n\nA Tunisian Muslim pensioner I meet gives two reasons why he shunned Sunday's national unity march in Paris, while condemning the attacks.\n\nLike the teenagers, he is indignant at the cartoons Charlie Hebdo published: \"It set out to provoke people for its own amusement.\n\n\"It attacked their religion. Make fun of yourselves if you will, but leave others alone. The media is like a car: you need to have a licence to be on the road, otherwise you will be a danger to others. Charlie had no licence to put people's lives at risk with their provocations.\"\n\nHis other reason is the presence at the march of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whom he calls \"the biggest terrorist in the world\" because of the Gaza conflict.\n\nHe insists he is not anti-Jewish, saying he had Jewish friends back in Tunisia.\n\nAnother Muslim pensioner I meet separately, a man from Morocco, says he has Jewish friends too, here in France, men he will \"have a coffee or beer with\".\n\nHe takes a rather detached view of Charlie Hebdo, dismissing it as a fringe paper he never wanted to read. \"But I am 200% in support of freedom of expression,\" he declares.\n\nMore Muslims might have attended the march had they not felt \"shame\", he suggests, at the actions of gunmen claiming to defend Islam. \"Muslims may also fear retaliation by jihadists if they take to the streets,\" he adds.\n\nHe himself is uneasy after the attacks. \"Nobody is safe now,\" he says before directing me to the nearest tram stop.\n\nAs my tram glides out of Sarcelles, I reflect that I have not seen a single \"I am Charlie\" poster or pencil symbol since my arrival yet the quiet battle of ideas here is no less intense than in Paris itself.", "Recent polls suggest Joe Biden has a significant and steady lead over Republican Donald Trump in this year's presidential race in both national preference and key swing-state surveys.\n\nDue to record-shattering fundraising, the Democrat also has a sizeable financial advantage, which means he'll be able to blanket the airwaves with his campaign message in the final weeks.\n\nElectoral analysts have been increasing their odds that Trump will lose his re-election bid. Nate Silver's Fivethirtyeight.com blog currently has Biden with an 87% chance of winning, while Decision Desk HQ puts him at 83.5%.\n\nIf all of this is painfully familiar to Democrats, it should be. At a similar point four years ago, Hillary Clinton was also predicted to have a high likelihood of victory. They remember how that turned out.\n\nCould history repeat itself with another Trump victory? If the president is taking the oath of office once again in January, here are five possible reasons why it happened.\n\nFour years ago, just 11 days before the election, FBI Director James Comey disclosed that his agency was reopening an investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state. For a week, related stories dominated the headlines and gave the Trump campaign room to breathe.\n\nWith just over two weeks before polls close in 2020, a similar seismic political event might be enough to propel Trump to victory.\n\nSo far, at least, the big surprises this month have been bad news for Trump - such as the revelation of his tax returns and his hospitalisation for Covid-19.\n\nHunter Biden and his father, then Vice-President Joe Biden, in 2016\n\nA New York Post article about a mysterious laptop containing an email that might link Joe Biden to his son Hunter's efforts to lobby for a Ukrainian gas company has been billed by some conservatives as such a campaign earthquake - but its questionable provenance and lack of specificity means it's unlikely to sway many voters.\n\nTrump has promised that there's more to come, however. If this is just an opening salvo, setting up direct evidence of wrongdoing by Biden while vice-president, that could be a different, bigger story.\n\nOr perhaps there's another, wholly unanticipated and shocking campaign development that's just about to burst.\n\nIf we could predict it, it wouldn't be a surprise.\n\nPractically since Biden secured the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, national polls have given him a steady lead over Trump. Even in key swing states, which have shown a tighter race, Biden has demonstrated a consistent lead frequently outside the margin of error.\n\nAs 2016 demonstrated, however, national leads are irrelevant and state-level polls can miss the mark.\n\nPredicting what a presidential electorate will look like - that is, who will actually show up to cast a ballot - is a challenge in every election, and some pollsters got it wrong last time, undercounting the number of white, non-college-educated voters who would turn out for Trump.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can we believe the polls this time?\n\nAlthough the New York Times predicts Biden's current margins would protect him from even a 2016-level misfire, pollsters have some new obstacles to overcome in 2020.\n\nMany Americans, for instance, are planning to vote by mail for the first time. Republicans are already promising to aggressively challenge mail-in ballots to prevent what they say could be the potential for widespread fraud - something Democrats have said is really an effort at voter suppression.\n\nIf voters fill out their forms incorrectly or do not follow proper procedure, or there is delay or disruption in mail delivery, it could lead to otherwise valid ballots being discarded. Understaffed or limited in-person polling places could also make it more difficult to vote on election day, discouraging Americans who had been considered by pollsters to be \"likely voters.\"\n\nThe dust has now settled from the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden more than two weeks ago, and the president is the one who got the dirtiest.\n\nPolls indicate Trump's aggressive, interrupting style didn't play well with suburban women, who are a key voting demographic in this campaign. Meanwhile, Biden held up adequately under fire, assuaging concerns among voters - played up by Republicans - that he had lost a step in his advancing age.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Shut up, man\" and other insults and interruptions from the first debate\n\nTrump missed an opportunity to change his first-debate impressions when he backed out of the second scheduled debate because it had been switched from in-person to a \"virtual format\". He'll have one more chance on the big stage next Thursday and will have to make it count.\n\nIf Trump presents a calmer, more presidential demeanour and Biden comes unglued or has some particularly dramatic gaffe, the balance of the race could possibly tilt in Trump's favour.\n\nEven with polls showing an advantage for Biden, there are enough states where Trump is ahead or within the margin of error that - if things break just the right way for the president - the Electoral College arithmetic could work out for him.\n\nEven though Trump lost the national popular vote last time around, he had a comfortable margin in the Electoral College, where each state gets a number of votes based on their population.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who really decides the US election? A look at which voters matter\n\nSome of the swing states he won - like Michigan and Wisconsin - seem to be out of reach this time. But if he can claw out narrow victories in the rest, turning out even more white non-college voters in places like Pennsylvania and Florida, he can reach the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the White House.\n\nThere are even scenarios where he and Biden each get 269 votes, creating a tie that would be decided by the state delegations to House of Representatives, a majority of which would probably side with Trump.\n\nBiden has run a remarkably well disciplined campaign so far.\n\nWhether it's by design or due to the realities imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, a candidate known to be gaffe-prone has been able to largely stay out of the spotlight and avoid situations where his mouth can get him in trouble.\n\nBut Biden is now hitting the campaign trail in earnest. With more exposure comes a greater risk of saying or doing something that costs him at the polls.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do young Democrats think of Joe Biden?\n\nBiden's electoral coalition is a hodgepodge of suburban moderates, disaffected Republicans, traditional working-class Democrats, ethnic minorities and liberal true believers. That's a lot of different and conflicting interests that could be stirred to anger if he gives them reason to.\n\nThen there's the chance that, under the fatigue of the campaign trail, Biden shows his age and again raises concern about whether he is up to the task of being president. If he does, the Trump campaign will be poised to pounce.\n\nThe Biden campaign may feel it just has to run out the clock, and the White House will be theirs. But if they stumble, they wouldn't be the first political team to find a way to snatch improbable defeat from the jaws of what seemed certain victory.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Two wards in Altnagelvin's north wing are now being used to treat Covid-19 patients\n\nHospital admissions of patients with coronavirus in NI's Covid-19 hotspot are \"doubling every three to four days\", the Western Trust has said.\n\nThirty-one patients are now being treated for coronavirus at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry - five people are in intensive care.\n\nTwo additional wards at Altnagelvin have been opened to treat coronavirus patients.\n\nA third ward has been identified for further admissions, the trust said.\n\nThere have been 3,161 confirmed cases in the Derry and Strabane council area since March - 1,463 of them were diagnosed in the past seven days.\n\nThree people have reported to have died in Derry and Strabane since Friday after testing positive for coronavirus, according to daily figures from the Department of Health.\n\nLast week, the Derry and Strabane council area was placed under tighter restrictions to help curb the growing number of cases.\n\nBut the infection rate in Derry and Strabane is continuing to rise.\n\nDirector of acute services, Geraldine McKay, said the rate of infection was \"increasing at pace\".\n\n\"We have revised the Altnagelvin surge plan to indicate that,\" she said.\n\n\"There are two wards in the north wing that are now Covid wards, we also have a further third ward identified in the south building.\"\n\nA total of 1,463 cases of coroanvirus have been diagnosed in Derry and Strabane over the past seven days.\n\nShe said both the trust's acute hospitals - Altnagelvin and the South West Acute Hospital in County Fermanagh - are \"right in the middle of the surge at this time\".\n\n\"Altnagelvin is at red, the South West at amber,\" she added.\n\nThe Western Trust has previously warned that it is facing increased staff pressures, as rising levels of Covid-19 in the community mean more and more staff are being asked to self-isolate.\n\nOn Monday the trust confirmed a total of 460 staff, across all disciplines, are not able to work at present - 345 at Altnagelvin and 115 at the South West hospital.\n\nNot all staff are absent because of Covid-19, the trust said, but it has had \"a major impact on those numbers\".\n\nElective orthopaedic inpatient services have been suspended and restrictions on visiting at the trust are now also in place as part of its surge plan.\n\n\"Unfortunately we have seen a growing number of incidents where our own staff have been faced with verbal abuse and aggression regarding some of the restrictions around visiting,\" Brian McFettridge, assistant director in critical care at Altnagelvin Hospital said.\n\nHe added: \"We would ask the public to be patient with us and to be kind\".", "Dutt is one of India's most bankable stars\n\nBollywood star Sanjay Dutt has confirmed he has cancer after weeks of speculation by the Indian press.\n\nIn an Instagram video, the 61-year-old actor of more than 150 films said he would \"beat the disease soon\". Dutt also said he would begin shooting for his next film in November.\n\nIn August Dutt was tested for Covid-19 after he reported some difficulty in breathing. He tested negative.\n\nHe was subsequently tested at Mumbai's Lilavati hospital for other illnesses.\n\nAmid unconfirmed media reports that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, Dutt said in August he was \"taking a short break from work for medical treatment\".\n\nThe actor and his wife Maanayata issued separate statements, urging the star's fans \"not to worry or unnecessarily speculate\" about his condition.\n\nIn the recent video recorded at his hairstylist Aalim Hakim's salon, Dutt pointed a camera at a scar running from his left eyebrow to the side of his head.\n\n\"This is a recent scar in my life. But I will beat it. I will be out of this cancer soon,\" he said.\n\nHe actor added that he was \"happy to be on the set again\" for his upcoming film.\n\nHe is known as one of Bollywood's most bankable stars, but his acting came to an abrupt halt when he had to return to prison in 2013 to finish a five-year jail sentence. He was convicted of firearms offences linked to the 1993 Mumbai blasts which killed 257 people and injured 713.\n\nYet, he successfully re-launched his career in 2016 after getting out.\n\nHe signed several new films with some of them doing extremely well at the box office. A biopic on his life, starring actor Ranbir Kapoor, was also a massive hit.\n\nThe actor has openly talked about his problems with drug addiction and his conviction in his interviews. He said these problems only made him stronger.\n\nHe has also witnessed two cancer-related deaths in his family. His mother Nargis died of pancreatic cancer in 1981 - just days before he made his Bollywood debut.\n\nHis first wife Richa Sharma also died of brain cancer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Terry Thomas is struggling to care for June Lavelle-Lepsa and fears she could end up in hospital\n\nA man is struggling to care for his seriously ill partner after waiting years for a simple cataract operation left him almost blind.\n\nTerry Thomas, 72, from Menai Bridge on Anglesey, lost the sight in his right eye when he was 21.\n\nHe was told two and a half years ago he needed surgery on his left eye but it has been repeatedly cancelled.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University health board apologised and said Covid-19 had disrupted its services.\n\nMr Thomas initially waited 18 months for the 20-minute operation in February but it was cancelled the day it was due to happen and rescheduled for 23 March.\n\nHowever the UK's coronavirus lockdown began that day and Mr Thomas' operation was cancelled again. He has now been told the doctor due to perform the surgery has left.\n\nMr Thomas' partner June Lavelle-Lepsa, also 72, has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease which has progressed rapidly, and she now uses a wheelchair and is unable to speak.\n\nHis deteriorating eyesight has even resulted in him giving his partner the wrong medication.\n\n\"It's extremely difficult,\" Mr Thomas, a retired lecturer in forest economy, said.\n\n\"I can't read anything. I'm responsible for giving her her medication. Already I've given her the wrong medication on a couple of occasions because I can't see it.\"\n\nSince her diagnosis, Ms Lavelle-Lepsa has received \"fantastic\" care and home adaptations, Mr Thomas said.\n\nBut in contrast, Mr Thomas feels the way his condition has been dealt with is \"inept, totally inept\".\n\n\"It's making me angry, cross and very, very disappointed.\"\n\nMr Thomas' GP has contacted the eye service to stress the pressing need for the operation, and Mr Thomas visited Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor in person to explain the situation.\n\nHe said the staff he spoke to there were \"profusely apologetic\" but said: \"You've got no care. Your consultant doesn't work here any more and we can't find anyone to do it\".\n\nWith his partner's health deteriorating further, Mr Thomas says the need for his cataract to be sorted out is greater than ever.\n\n\"It's making very day that much more difficult and that much more frustrating for her,\" he said.\n\nArpan Guha, acting executive medical director at Betsi Cadwaladr health board, said: \"We apologise to Mr Thomas for the delay to his surgery.\n\n\"We understand this is an upsetting time for our patients who are experiencing longer waits than anticipated due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"Covid-19 has caused disruption to our services and we are working hard to prioritise our waiting lists so that we can offer patients access to treatments.\n\n\"However, regrettably, some patients will experience longer waits to be seen for their treatment.\"\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. \"Time is of the essence\" for Manchester - Boris Johnson\n\nBoris Johnson says the spread of coronavirus in Greater Manchester is \"grave\" and he may \"need to intervene\" if new measures are not agreed.\n\nThe prime minister urged mayor Andy Burnham to \"engage constructively\" with the government over the region entering \"very high\" tier three measures.\n\nHe said the situation was worsening every day and \"time is of the essence\".\n\nMr Burnham, who wants more financial aid for workers affected, said regional leaders will meet No 10 at \"any time\".\n\nMeasures under tier three include pub closures and a ban on household mixing indoors, in private gardens and in most outdoor venues. Liverpool City Region was the first of England's regions to enter the very high alert level.\n\nLancashire has agreed to move into tier three from Saturday with a financial support package worth £42m. Around 1.5 million people, including those living in Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, Lancaster and Preston, will be affected by the new rules.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street briefing on Friday, Mr Johnson said he understood the \"reluctance\" of local leaders to put the region under tougher restrictions and said it would be \"far from a pain-free course of action\".\n\nHe warned: \"Of course, if agreement cannot be reached I will need to intervene in order to protect Manchester's hospitals and save the lives of Manchester's residents.\n\n\"But our efforts would be so much more effective if we work together.\"\n\nRevealing that a deal had not been reached between No 10 and the region's leaders, Mr Johnson said it was time for action to be taken.\n\n\"Each day that passes before action is taken means more people will go to hospital, more people will end up in intensive care and tragically more people will die,\" he said.\n\nIn a joint statement with Greater Manchester's deputy mayors and council leaders, Mr Burnham said they had sought a further meeting with Downing Street officials - and this did not happen.\n\n\"We can assure the prime minister that we are ready to meet at any time to try to agree a way forward,\" they said.\n\nThey said they had done \"everything within our power to protect the health of our residents\" but are not convinced that closing pubs and bars is the only way to protect hospitals.\n\nInstead, they want other measures like shielding to be considered, and tougher penalties on venues that do not comply to Covid regulations, including instant closure powers.\n\n\"We firmly believe that protecting health is about more than controlling the virus and requires proper support for people whose lives would be severely affected by a tier three lockdown,\" they said, adding that the current proposals do not \"provide adequate support\".\n\nAndy Burnham says northern England has been treated with contempt\n\nThe latest government figures showed there were 15,650 new cases reported on Friday, bringing the total to 689,257.\n\nThere were a further 136 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, bringing the total to 43,429.\n\nMr Johnson said he hoped the most stringent \"very high\" restrictions could be lifted as quickly as possible for the affected regions.\n\nHe said: \"The amount by which we need to reduce the R is not as big as it was right back in the beginning of the spread of this disease.\n\n\"If we all work together on the measures we have outlined we can definitely do it.\"\n\nThe reproduction (R) number has risen slightly to 1.3-1.5, with growth of the epidemic still widespread across the country.\n\nThe PM said he wanted to avoid another national lockdown \"if at all possible\" amid calls for a circuit-breaker - a short, limited lockdown - across the country.\n\nHe said he disagreed with those who argued in favour of a national lockdown \"instead of targeted local action\", insisting: \"Closing businesses in Cornwall where transmission is low will not cut transmission in Manchester\".\n\nMr Johnson said that while he could not \"rule anything out\", he wanted to avoid a national lockdown because of \"the damaging health, economic and social effects it would have\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said during the briefing that the nation is in a \"different situation\" from when the Sage group of scientists recommended a two-to-three week national \"circuit break\" to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHe said the situation had changed, adding: \"We recommended in September taking a circuit break. The idea there was that actually a two-week interruption would set cases back probably to the levels they were in August and then at those levels, test and trace is more effective to keep control.\n\n\"Where we are now is of course a different situation. It's crucial that where the R is above 1 and the numbers are high we get R below 1 for all the reasons that have been outlined, including of course the hospitalisations which are increasing. So it's crucial that's done, and there are a number of ways that can be done.\"\n\nHe added that would only be achieved by combining \"tier three baseline conditions\" suggested by the government with some extra measures agreed in an affected region using \"local knowledge and local insight\".\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nThe PM said accepting increased coronavirus restrictions was the \"right and responsible\" measure to protect the NHS.\n\nHe added: \"Without action, there is no doubt that our NHS would soon be struggling to treat the sheer number of people seriously ill with Covid.\n\n\"Non-Covid treatments and surgeries would need to be cancelled to cope and many more people would die.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health minister Alex Norris MP said it was \"damaging\" for Mr Johnson to avoid a full lockdown and that the regional approach is not enough.\n\n\"We need this circuit-breaker to give us time to sort these significant problems in testing and tracing,\" he said. \"We've had the worst week last week for tracing. The system's falling over. The prime minister is desperate to avoid lockdown just as he was at the beginning of the pandemic - but we know that that delay at the beginning was really damaging.\"\n\nOn Thursday, London, Essex, York and parts of Surrey, Derbyshire and Cumbria were moved up to tier two and will face tougher measures from Saturday.\n\nMore than half of England's population will now be living under high or very high-alert restrictions.\n\nThe PM also revealed that the UK is developing the capacity to manufacture millions of new fast turnaround tests for coronavirus - with some saliva tests able to deliver results in 15 minutes.\n\nHe said distribution and trials of the tests would start over \"the next few weeks\" and would enable NHS and care home staff to be tested \"more frequently\".\n\nSchoolchildren and university students would also be able to be tested, he said, to help keep education \"open safely over the winter\".", "The BBC cannot push issues of race \"under the rug\" any longer, says DJ Sideman - who quit the corporation in protest at the use of a racial slur in a news report this summer.\n\nThe DJ said the BBC should improve diversity among senior managers and introduce racial sensitivity training for its employees.\n\nHe quit 1Xtra in August when a reporter repeated racist language allegedly used in a hit-and-run attack in Bristol.\n\nThe BBC initially defended the decision to use the N-word, saying it had been made following careful consideration and with the approval of the victim and their family.\n\nSideman, whose real name is David Whitely, announced he was stepping down from his radio show over the incident on 8 August. In a statement, he said the \"action and the defence of the action feels like a slap in the face of our community\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. DJ Sideman: \"On this occasion I just don't think that I can look the other way\"\n\nA day later, the BBC's then-director general Tony Hall overruled the BBC's defence of the report, and apologised for the use of the slur.\n\n\"Every organisation should be able to acknowledge when it has made a mistake,\" he said in an email to staff.\n\n\"We made one here. It is important for us to listen - and also to learn. And that is what we will continue to do.\"\n\nThe corporation has subsequently strengthened its guidance on the use of racist language. The new rules \"now carry a presumption that such language will not normally be used\" unless a judgement at divisional director level had ruled otherwise.\n\nWhen asked what BBC bosses should do to avoid similar controversies in the future, Sideman told the PA news agency the corporation should show \"understanding of the times that we are in\".\n\nHe added: \"Things are changing and black people's issues are not an issue you can push under the rug any more.\n\n\"It is something that you have to address, it's something that you have to have an action plan for or these things will happen again and it will be embarrassing for you.\"\n\nThe DJ said that, while there is institutional racism in the BBC, the same is true of \"almost every organisation in this country\" and he did not intend \"slander or malign\" the broadcaster.\n\nHe added that he had been surprised by the response to his resignation - which was originally announced in a video posted to social media.\n\n\"I look back on what I did and think wow, people really amplified my voice and made it louder and made it have more impact,\" he said.\n\n\"If social media didn't make the big stink of it that they did, then it wouldn't have been as monumental a thing as it was with the BBC apologising just over 24 hours later.\"\n\nSideman wasn't the only BBC staff member to criticise the report.\n\nLarry Madowo, a US-based correspondent for BBC World, said in a tweet that the BBC's rules on racially-sensitive language were being applied inconsistently.\n\n\"The BBC didn't allow me, an actual black man, to use the N-word in an article when quoting an African American who used it,\" he said. \"But a white person was allowed to say it on TV because it was 'editorially justified'.\"\n\nSideman expressed regret that it had taken actions like these to prompt the BBC to change its mind.\n\n\"18,000 people complained the right way, the boring way,\" he told PA.\n\n\"They went on a website and typed in a long, boring email. What I did was a video on Instagram.\n\n\"That to me says something about our society, that what I did caused more of a stink.\"\n\nIn response to his comments, the BBC said; \"We are committed to building inclusive, welcoming, modern and diverse organisation, which is why we have taken steps to change the editorial policy on offensive language, increased training for all staff, and introduced policies to improve representation on and off air.\n\n\"We have made progress in recent years, but we recognise there is more to do\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Coronavirus patients admitted to intensive care have a better chance of surviving now than they did in April, according to the dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.\n\nBut these gains levelled off over the summer, Dr Alison Pittard said.\n\nThe proportion of patients admitted to critical care who die fell by almost a quarter from the peak and as much as half in hospitals overall.\n\nIt is too soon to know the survival rate for patients admitted this autumn.\n\nA better understanding of the disease has allowed doctors to treat patients better, including using the steroid dexamethasone and less invasive types of ventilation.\n\nThe Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC), which reports on the outcomes of patients who end up in critical care units, has begun separating out the cases of people admitted after 1 September.\n\nThe Health Service Journal reported these figures, which it said suggested a dramatic fall in the proportion of patients dying between the first wave (up until the end of August) and the second (from 1 September).\n\nOn average, 39% of patients admitted to critical care died between the start of the pandemic and the end of August and this appears to have fallen to just under 12%.\n\nBut while this appears a dramatic fall at first glance, Dr Pittard cautioned this was most likely to be a product of the fact that not enough time has passed to know the outcomes of patients admitted to hospital since the beginning of September.\n\nMany will remain in intensive care and until a patient is either discharged or dies, they do not appear in the data.\n\nThough it is too soon to know what mortality will look like in the second wave, we do know that mortality was higher at the beginning of the first wave than it was at the end, she said.\n\nThe BBC previously reported this fall in the death rate among patients admitted to hospital with coronavirus, when University of Oxford researchers estimated it had fallen from 6% to 1.5% between the peak in April and June.\n\nIt is difficult to match deaths to hospital admissions in general, though, whereas critical care patients' outcomes are regularly reported.\n\nLooking at the outcomes of patients admitted to critical care, more than half were dying around the peak of the epidemic in April.\n\nBy the beginning of July it had fallen to about 40% and remained roughly at that level until the end of the summer.\n\nBased on a much smaller number of patients admitted between the 1 September and the start of October, the death rate now appears to be about a quarter of that level.\n\nHowever, Dr Pittard believes it is too soon to say whether this is a genuine fall.\n\n\"There are lots of reasons why the mortality rate reduced over time but the biggest thing is we have learnt more about the disease,\" Dr Pittard said.\n\n\"In the early days we were, almost immediately that people were admitted, putting them in ICU, sedating them and putting them on a ventilator.\n\n\"We started to use more non-invasive ventilation and patients were doing very well,\" she said.\n\nThat means more patients are treated using things like CPAP machines - a face mask with a pump that controls airflow - rather than being sedated and having a tube put into their airway.\n\n\"We saw the effect on blood clotting. We recognise the disease a lot earlier,\" Dr Pittard added.\n\nThe use of a steroid called dexamethasone which reduces inflammation is also thought to have contributed to falling death rates, although it is hard to say how much.\n\nAnd the type of patients ending up in hospital may be a factor too, as a much higher proportion were in the 30-59 age bracket in September, compared with the peak.\n\nBut it has been suggested that if intensive care units get too full, the death ratio could rise again.", "The regional facility at Belfast City Hospital's tower block was temporarily stood down in May\n\nNorthern Ireland's Nightingale hospital has been re-established due to Covid-19 pressures, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe Nightingale, at Belfast City Hospital's tower block, was stood down in May as cases began to decrease.\n\nMr Swann said there were now \"rapidly escalating pressures\" across all of NI's health trusts.\n\n\"It is not something I wanted to do - it was a decision I tried to hold off on for as long as possible,\" he said.\n\n\"The virus is rapidly and exponentially and urgent action was needed.\"\n\nNightingale hospitals are non-permanent facilities that were set up across the UK during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Belfast Trust announced it was to use an intensive care unit in the Nightingale facility for its Covid patients, in a move which only affected the Belfast Trust area.\n\nMr Swann's announcement on Wednesday will see the facility reopen for Covid-19 admission from across Northern Ireland.\n\nThe decision comes as health chiefs warned that some services were beginning to suffer due to Covid-related pressures.\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced more restrictions would be placed on the hospitality industry and schools.\n\nMr Swann acknowledged the public had \"many questions, doubts and fears\" about the new restrictions.\n\n\"My heart goes out to all those businesses who will now come under even more pressure and to all those people whose lives and plans have been thrown up into the air,\" he said.\n\nThe deaths of another four people who tested positive for Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 602.\n\nThe department also reported another record high in the number of newly-diagnosed cases, with 1,217 people testing positive.\n\nNI's chief scientific adviser said the increase in cases of Covid-19 cases in NI was not due to increased testing but instead \"reflect a genuine increase in community transmission\".\n\nNI's chief scientific adviser said the average number of daily cases recorded was currently 950\n\nProf Ian Young, who was alongside Mr Swann at the Stormont briefing, said testing had increased by 25% while cases had more than doubled.\n\n\"The average number of positive tests continues to rise and has now reached over 12% in the last seven days,\" he said.\n\n\"To put this into context, the World Health Organization suggests that anything over 5% reflects an epidemic which is out of control.\"\n\nProf Young said there had been a \"sustained and dramatic rise in the average number of cases\" being recorded in NI each day - he said the average was currently 950 cases per day.\n\nHe added the new restrictions \"don't represent a lockdown\" but were designed to reduce mixing between people to allow a chance to reduce the R-number down to less than one.\n\nR is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to, on average.\n\n\"Ideally between 0.7 and 0.9 - that's the goal and we all have a role in achieving that,\" Prof Young said.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief medical officer told the briefing new restrictions coming into force across NI could \"achieve the reset we need so badly\".\n\nDr Michael McBride said it would take two to three weeks before the effects of the measures became clear.\n\n\"It's time to wise up,\" he said.\n\n\"The new measures will only work if each one of us recommits to strictly following the health advice.\"", "The C-SPAN television network has suspended its political editor after he admitted to lying about his Twitter account being hacked last week.\n\nSteve Scully, tipped to moderate this week's presidential debate before it was cancelled, had appeared to solicit advice from a former Trump adviser.\n\nWhen the exchange prompted controversy, Scully suggested he had been hacked.\n\nIn a statement apologising, Scully said he had let down his colleagues. \"I ask for their forgiveness,\" he wrote.\n\nThe news comes on the same day that the political veteran had been scheduled to moderate the second debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The event was cancelled last week after the president refused to participate virtually following his Covid-19 diagnosis.\n\nLast week, the president criticised Scully, calling him a \"Never Trumper\" - invoking a label used for Republicans who refused to vote for Mr Trump in the 2016 election.\n\nScully responded, tagging Anthony Scaramucci, a former White House communications director and now a vocal critic of the president: \"@Scaramucci should I respond to Trump.\"\n\nIn his statement on Thursday, Scully said he had sent the tweet \"out of frustration\" after \"relentless criticism\" regarding his role as moderator, including from President Trump.\n\n\"The next morning when I saw that this tweet had created a new controversy, I falsely claimed that my Twitter account had been hacked,\" he wrote, apologising for these two \"errors in judgement\".\n\nSoon after Scully's suspension was announced, Mr Trump responded to the news, heralding his own \"good instincts\".\n\n\"I was right again! Steve Scully just admitted he was lying about his Twitter being hacked,\" the president wrote on Twitter, repeating past claims that the debate was \"rigged\".\n\nScully, seen here with Republican President George W Bush, had earned a reputation for balanced coverage\n\nIn a statement, C-SPAN said Scully had confessed to lying about the hack on Wednesday.\n\n\"We were very saddened by this news and do not condone his actions,\" it said in a statement, but pledged support for its star anchor. \"After some distance from this episode, we believe in his ability to continue to contribute to C-SPAN.\"\n\nScully has led the network's presidential election coverage for nearly 30 years and has developed a reputation for balanced coverage. It is unclear when he will return, but his suspension suggests he will sit out the network's election night programming on 3 November.", "People in Blackpool will be among those affected by the new rules\n\nLancashire has agreed to move into tier three - the top level of England Covid restrictions - from Saturday.\n\nThe \"very high\" alert level measures include pub closures and bans on household mixing indoors, in private gardens and most outdoor venues.\n\nHowever, gyms and leisure centres would not close, unlike in Liverpool City Region - the other area in tier three.\n\nSome local council leaders said they had been \"bullied\" into accepting the deal by Downing Street.\n\nHowever, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government had \"worked intensively with local leaders\" to agree the move.\n\nHe added that an \"unrelenting rise in cases\" in the north-west England county had meant \"we must act now\".\n\nAround 1.5 million people, including those living in Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, Lancaster and Preston, will be affected by the new rules.\n\nThe Labour leaders of Preston, Pendle and South Ribble councils released statements saying they had been forced to accept a deal that would not be enough to stop the virus.\n\nPaul Foster, of South Ribble said: \"We have been bullied, harassed, threatened and blackmailed into moving into tier three.\"\n\nHe added: \"The discussions with government were a complete shambles and we were basically told if we didn't accept the restrictions we would have even more draconian measures imposed on us.\"\n\nHowever, Geoff Driver, the Conservative leader of Lancashire County Council, told the BBC: \"It's been a long drawn out process but I think we've got a good deal.\"\n\nHe said it involved a support package worth £42m, the area having initially been promised £12m, with £30m to help the businesses affected.\n\nMr Driver said Lancashire had also been promised more support for local test and trace and a specific ministerial team to deal with the outbreak in the county.\n\n\"What we've been able to do is to convince government that the measures we have in place to monitor such things as the gyms and the leisure centres are sufficient to ensure that they're not a source of infection,\" he added.\n\nThe new measures, which will be reviewed every two weeks, cover all parts of Lancashire:\n\nFurther restrictions may be agreed for particular regions in the top tier and in the Liverpool City Region, gyms and leisure centres have also been forced to close.\n\nMayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson tweeted: \"Liverpool City Region has demanded immediate clarification on why Lancashire gyms are allowed to stay open and Liverpool's close.\n\n\"Inconsistent mess - we now have tier three A and tier three B.\"\n\nSteve Rotheram, the mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said he was \"concerned that there appear to be differences between the two packages of measures, particularly the opening of gyms\".\n\n\"We have always been clear that we were given no choice about the specific package of measures that would be applied to us,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the prime minister's official spokesman said it was up to regional leaders to decide whether gyms should be closed.\n\n\"The purpose of the very high level is to allow for local, tailored interventions and they are determined on the basis of discussions with local authorities and based on local evidence,\" he said.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIt comes as talks between Greater Manchester leaders and central government over putting the region into tier three of England's three-tier system have stalled.\n\nGreater Manchester's mayor Andy Burnham wants more financial support for people affected before bringing in tougher rules.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab accused Mr Burnham of \"effectively trying to hold the government over a barrel over money and politics\".\n\nOn Thursday, London, Essex, York and parts of Surrey, Derbyshire and Cumbria were moved up to tier two and will face tougher measures from Saturday.\n\nMore than half of England's population will now be living under high or very high-alert restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Mark Drakeford said Wales was facing a two-week national lockdown, calling it a \"fire break\".\n\nHe said a decision was likely to be made on Monday, with discussions continuing with health officials, scientific advisors and councils over the weekend.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travelling to Wales from coronavirus hotspots elsewhere in the UK comes into effect on Friday evening.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, pubs, restaurants and cafes will only be allowed to offer takeaway and delivery services for four weeks from 18:00 BST on Friday.\n\nTighter rules around face coverings have come into effect in Scotland, making them mandatory in workplace setting such as canteens.\n\nOn Thursday, a further 18,980 cases and 138 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported across the UK.", "Coronavirus infections are continuing to rise rapidly, with an estimated 27,900 new cases a day in England, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nThis figure is far higher than the number of confirmed cases announced by the government each day.\n\nThe R number has risen slightly to 1.3-1.5, with growth of the epidemic still widespread across the country.\n\nIt comes as the highest level of restrictions are introduced in more of the UK.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, said 'R' was not growing as fast as it would be without the measures people were following.\n\nBut he said \"we are not where we need to be\", adding there was \"more work to do\".\n\nThe increase in people testing positive in recent weeks is being driven by high rates in older teenagers and young adults, the ONS infection survey says.\n\nIt found steep increases in infection rates in the north west, the north east, Yorkshire and the Humber.\n\nNew cases of the virus have gone up by 60% in a week, according to the ONS, based on its survey of people in random households with or without symptoms.\n\nIt estimates that one in 160 people in England had the virus in the week to 8 October - an increase on one in 240 the previous week.\n\nFor the same week, the ONS estimates one in 390 people had the virus in Wales and one in 250 in Northern Ireland - both an increase on the week before.\n\nThe ONS survey doesn't cover Scotland. As confirmed cases and hospital admissions rise there, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland is in a \"precarious\" position in its fight to contain Covid-19.\n\nAn app which tracks the Covid symptoms of four million users estimates there are more than 27,000 new cases per day in the UK.\n\nIts latest figures, for the two weeks to 11 October, found the fastest acceleration of cases in the north west, while Scotland, Wales, London and the Midlands were also increasing, but more slowly.\n\nProf Tim Spector from King's College London, who founded the Covid Symptom study app, said there was no longer the \"exponential increases\" of a couple of weeks ago - but the data still shows \"new cases continuing to rise\".\n\nOther estimates, from a large study by Imperial College London and a group of scientists advising government, suggest new cases could be even higher - up to 74,000 a day.\n\nA different measures of cases - the number of people with symptoms to test positive for coronavirus - rose by 15,650 on Friday, the lowest for four days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nThe R number is the average number of people infected by each person testing positive for the virus. An R number above 1 means the epidemic is growing.\n\nAt the peak of the epidemic back in April, the R number is thought to have been around 3.\n\nFrom May up until mid-August after the national lockdown, it stayed below 1, but has been rising steadily since. All the restrictions in place around the UK are now an attempt to reduce transmission of the virus between people and get it back to below 1.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None How will the vulnerable be protected from Covid? And other questions", "JD Wetherspoon has reported its first annual pre-tax loss since 1984 as it laid bare the impact of coronavirus restrictions on the pubs industry.\n\nIt revealed a £105.4m loss on sharply lower sales in the year to 26 July.\n\nWetherspoon's chairman Tim Martin railed against changes in rules to stop the spread of the coronavirus, which he said were \"confusing\".\n\nFrom Saturday, households in London will not be allowed to mix indoors, including in pubs and restaurants.\n\nLondon and Essex will come under Tier 2 restrictions while Liverpool has already been placed under tougher Tier 3 rules.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Martin said: \"There's massive confusion in the UK now because you've got the 'rule of six', Tier 2, Tier 3 - everyone's confused.\n\n\"I think you should concentrate on the basics which is social distancing. If you don't get too close to someone you won't get infected, that works better.\"\n\nThe loss after exceptional items is a sharp reversal from the £95.4m pre-tax profit reported in the previous year.\n\nWetherspoon's full-year results - which cover the first weeks after pubs were allowed to reopen on 4 July - also revealed that sales dropped by 30.6% to £1.2bn.\n\nThe company said that since reopening, like-for-like sales at its pubs were 15% lower compared to last year: \"With strong sales in the first few weeks, followed by a marked slowdown since the introduction of a curfew and other regulations.\"\n\nDuring that time, 66 Wetherspoon's staff across 50 pubs tested positive for coronavirus. The company employs 41,000 staff and had reopened 861 of its pubs.\n\nMr Martin said that although the safety measures introduced to allow reopening were tough on pubs \"because it reduced capacity dramatically\", the industry was \"gradually getting used to it\".\n\n\"Trade was improving and social distancing was working and infections were low,\" he said. \"But what's happened under emergency powers, the government is making a lot of changes which we think in the industry are arbitrary [and] don't work, like the curfew and that's making life almost impossible.\"\n\nUK Hospitality, which represents the industry, has warned that the new Tier 2 restrictions due to come into force in London and Essex could lead to 250,000 people losing their jobs unless firms are given additional financial support.\n\nThe hospitality industry has been one of the worst hit sectors during the pandemic. Earlier this week, Marston's, the pubs and brewery group, said up to 2,150 furloughed staff were at risk of losing their jobs.\n\nWetherspoon said recently that up to 450 of its staff who work at pubs in airports were facing cuts as \"sales are generally much lower and where a high percentage is closed\".\n\nThe company confirmed on Friday that 108 head office staff have been made redundant.", "A statue on Place de la Republique, Paris, symbolically \"gagged\" by protesters after the Charlie Hebdo attacks\n\nWhen French President Francois Hollande gave a sombre televised address to the nation, hours after the shocking attack on Charlie Hebdo, he vowed to protect the message of freedom that the magazine's journalists represented.\n\nCharlie Hebdo's \"heroes\" had defended freedom of speech and this was an attack on the entire republic, he said.\n\nBut since the start of the week, 54 people have been detained and several jailed for a variety of remarks, shouted out in the street or posted on social media, and France's judiciary has been lampooned for what appear to be double standards.\n\nThe so-called comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala will face trial for writing \"I feel like Charlie Coulibaly\", hours after 3.7 million French citizens had taken to the streets behind the \"je suis Charlie\" rallying cry.\n\nHe said the posting was meant to be humorous. But in the context of his past convictions for anti-Semitism, the authorities saw it as a voice of support for one of the gunmen, Amedy Coulibaly, who had murdered four Jewish men in a kosher supermarket.\n\nDieudonne could face up to seven years in jail for his Facebook comment\n\nPrime Minister Manuel Valls set it out plainly: freedom of speech should not be confused with anti-Semitism, racism and Holocaust denial.\n\nBut Dieudonne has plenty of young fans who watch his shows and follow his social media posts, however tasteless they may be, and many in France saw his arrest as an example of double standards.\n\nAfter all, Charlie Hebdo's entire ethos has been tasteless lampooning of the establishment.\n\n\"Extremely clumsy to detain Dieudonne when you've just made the whole world march for freedom of speech,\" read one tweet.\n\nBut the crackdown extends way beyond a notorious comic with a string of convictions.\n\nThe justice ministry has revealed that a number of fast-track custodial sentences have been handed down in cities across France in the past few days for expressions of support for the gunmen.\n\nIn Toulouse alone, three men in their early twenties have been jailed, two of them for 10 months, for shouting obscenities at police.\n\nOne threatened to attack police with a Kalashnikov while another said the Kouachi brothers were \"just the start\".\n\nIt was in Toulouse that Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah killed seven people in a series of attacks in 2012, including one on a Jewish school.\n\nIn Nanterre, east of Paris, a man was sent to prison for a year for posting a video on Facebook that mocked policeman Ahmed Merabet, who was shot at point-blank range by one of the Kouachis.\n\nThe French government tightened anti-terror laws in November, clamping down on online comments\n\nHuman rights groups have been less than impressed with what would seem to be a knee-jerk response by the authorities after what Mr Valls admitted had been clear failings by the security services.\n\nFrance's League of Human Rights (LDH) has condemned the fast-track sentences, which it argues are handed down in dreadful conditions and largely apply to drunks or fools.\n\nBut while the sentences may look startling and in some cases even draconian, they are following the letter of an anti-terror law that was passed by the National Assembly as recently as last November.\n\nDirectly provoking or publicly condoning terrorism in France now commands a five-year jail term and a fine of €75,000. And if it is done online, the penalty can be extended to seven years and €100,000 (£76,000; $116,000).\n\nSo for the many French who did not feel \"je suis Charlie\", where does France now see the boundary between freedom of speech and condoning terrorism?\n\nThe right to say, write or print what you want is rooted in the declaration of rights that came with the 1789 French Revolution, but even then abuse of that freedom was limited by law.\n\nThose exceptions were defined in 1881 (in French) as defamation, slander and incitement to hate. There is also explicit reference to condoning crimes of war, crimes against humanity or collaboration with the enemy.\n\nNot everyone has felt comfortable with the \"je suis Charlie\" message in France\n\nHowever, not since the revolution has blasphemy been against the law in France, and according to Mr Valls it never will.\n\nThe restrictions on freedom of speech go well beyond those in the US. A former editor of Charlie Hebdo had to defend himself against incitement in 2007 after reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nSince November those restrictions have gone further still. What was previously a law against condoning terrorism in the media has been extended to social media too.\n\nAnd it will not just be careless tweets or Facebook posts that are caught in the crosshairs. US-based social media companies will be required to police their sites too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: You may find there are restrictions\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson appeared confused over the rules for single parents living apart from their children during a Covid briefing.\n\nA questioner called Christopher, from Margate, Kent, asked what would happen where one parent lives in a high alert level area and the other medium.\n\nHe was told to check the government's website for guidance but that there are restrictions on such movements.\n\nBut government advice says there are exceptions for childcare arrangements.\n\nChristopher had asked if he could see his son, who lives in Essex, if either area moves from the medium level of restrictions to the higher tier two - as Essex will on Saturday.\n\nSpeaking at Downing Street, Mr Johnson said: \"Christopher, I think the guidance alas is that - you should go on the website obviously and check - but when cases go to a higher tier from the basic medium then there are restrictions on household contact.\n\n\"So depending on how you define your household you may find there are restrictions, but you really need to go onto the website to find out what's going on in Kent and what's going on in Essex in order to be absolutely sure.\"\n\nThe government advice for both areas in the \"high\" and \"very high\" Covid alert level specifies that there are exceptions to travel restrictions where children do not live in the same household as both their parents or guardians.\n\nThe regulations state that there is an exception for \"the purposes of arrangements for access to, and contact between, parents and children where the children do not live in the same household as their parents or one of their parents\".\n\nIt comes after an earlier incident, last month, when the prime minister apologised after making a mistake when talking to media about the rule of six in the north-east of England.", "Pubs and restaurants across the central belt were ordered to close last Friday\n\nThe Scottish government's £40m package for licensed premises affected by coronavirus restrictions is a \"drop in the ocean\", industry leaders have said.\n\nBusinesses such as pubs and restaurants will be able to apply for grants of up to £3,000 if they have been closed.\n\nThey will be to claim up to £1,500 if they are still open but are seeing reduced trade.\n\nThe Scottish Hospitality Group said the money \"would not touch the sides\" of what was needed.\n\nThe group, which represents some of the country's best known hospitality firms, also criticised a lack of clarity about when the grants - which open for applications next Tuesday - would actually be paid out.\n\nIt said this made it difficult for business owners to plan ahead.\n\nScotland's finance secretary, Kate Forbes, said she wanted to make sure businesses received the money \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHowever, she acknowledged that it would not be enough to fully cover the income that licensed premises had lost either through closure or by having their opening hours restricted.\n\nPubs and restaurants in five health board areas across the central belt of Scotland have been closed for the past week, with tough restrictions placed on licensed premises elsewhere in the country.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already warned that things will not return to normal when the current restrictions expire on 26 October, with the Scottish government planning to bring in a tiered system of restrictions at that point - similar to the one already in place in England.\n\nThe first minister has warned that things will not return to normal when the current restrictions on licensed premises expire later this month\n\nScottish Hospitality Group spokesman Stephen Montgomery said funding support offered to the sector, which employs nearly 300,000 people in Scotland, was \"absolutely no good at all\".\n\nHe added: \"It's not going to touch the sides and we're looking at bringing redundancies forward.\n\n\"£40m may sound like a lot of money, but Liverpool City Council brought £40m over a weekend to support 3,000 businesses.\n\n\"In Scotland we've got £40m to support 20,000 businesses who are subject to restrictions of some kind.\"\n\nMr Montgomery also told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the industry had been \"absolutely crippled through no fault of our own\" by the restrictions.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nAnd he said businesses still do not know when they would receive the money, which is intended to see them through until+ 26 October, or what would happen after that date.\n\nHe added: \"It opens on 20 October but we don't know when we are going to get paid it.\n\n\"The people that are indirectly affected by it — how much they are going to get? When they are going to get it?\n\n\"This should have all been planned long before the announcement last week.\"\n\nHis concerns were echoed by James Brown, the managing director of Brewdog Bars, who said the £40m fund was a \"drop in the ocean\" for the industry.\n\nMany pubs and restaurants believe they have been unfairly treated by the current restrictions\n\nMr Brown added: \"The ones that are really going to struggle are the independent pubs - who are the lifeblood of our community - and the late night industry, which is on its knees.\n\n\"Nightclubs haven't been able to open since lockdown and there is no end in sight.\n\n\"We want to show our support and call for the government to provide more assistance. That £40m is a drop in the ocean for what is actually needed to help these businesses and keep jobs\".\n\nMs Forbes told BBC Scotland that she fully understood the concerns.\n\nShe added: \"The grant support will never replace all lost income and it can never be distributed fast enough because businesses are battling for survival and have been for many months.\n\n\"We want to get that money out the door as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMs Forbes said the size of the grants reflected that the current restrictions were intended to be a \"short, sharp intervention\".\n\nBut she said they would never be a replacement for the UK government's furlough scheme, which she said had been a \"lifeline\" for businesses.\n\nAnd she repeated her call for furlough to be fully extended by the UK government at the end of the month.\n\nThe Chancellor has already unveiled a replacement for the furlough scheme, which will end on 31 October\n\nUK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled plans for a new Job Support Scheme, which will replace the current furlough scheme from 1 November.\n\nUnder the scheme, the government will subsidise the pay of employees who are working fewer than normal hours due to lower demand.\n\nWorkers who do at least a third of their normal hours will be paid by their employer for those hours.\n\nThe government and the employer will also pay a third each for the hours they cannot work.\n\nIt means someone working a third of their hours would receive 77% of their pay, with the government grant capped at £697.92 per month.\n\nAll small and medium sized businesses will be eligible for the UK-wide scheme, which aims to stop mass job cuts when furlough ends.", "Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry is suspending all visits until further notice due to a surge in coronavirus cases in the area\n\nAltnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry is suspending all visits until further notice due to a surge in coronavirus cases in the area.\n\nVisiting is suspended \"due to the continuing rise in Covid-19 cases in the area,\" the Western Trust said.\n\nThe trust said some visits, with restrictions, can still be permitted in certain circumstances.\n\nVisiting is permitted for patients in end of life care, dementia patients and those with learning disabilities.\n\nPregnant women can also be accompanied by a nominated partner, children with one accompanied carer and vulnerable or elderly patients with communication difficulties.\n\nThe trust said anyone with symptoms should not visit a patient, and children are not permitted to visit.\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 time and length of the visit for anyone visiting a patient in palliative or end-of-life care must be agreed in advance with the ward sister or charge nurse.\n\nVisiting is also only permitted for patients with dementia or a learning disability, who would benefit from having a loved one at their bedside, for a short period of time.\n\nVulnerable or elderly patients with communication difficulties may also be accompanied by one person for the duration of their time in the emergency department.\n\nThe Western Trust said that visitation at other sites such as Gransha, the South West Acute Hospital and Omagh will not be suspended\n\nIn a statement, the trust said visits at other sites, such as Gransha Hospital, the South West Acute Hospital and Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex remain subject to the same restrictions that are in place across all five trusts.\n\nThese are that one visitor is permitted once a week for one hour, with some exceptions.\n\nThose arrangements are \"being kept under review, dependent on prevalence of the virus in the community,\" the trust said.", "Kristin Scott Thomas, Gareth Malone and Sharon Horgan appeared with the Combined Military Wives Choir at their London UK film premiere in February\n\nVenues and organisations including the Military Wives Choirs, The Hepworth Wakefield and Night and Day in Manchester are to receive a share of £76m government arts funding.\n\nWhitby's Gothic Festival, London's Somerset House and Kneehigh Theatre in Cornwall are also set to benefit.\n\nThe latest raft of grants, for 588 organisations, will come out of the wider £1.57bn Cultural Recovery Fund.\n\nIt follows Monday's £257m injection, which helped The Cavern Club and LSO.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said that Saturday's new round of \"vital funding\" would go to \"protect cultural gems across the country, save jobs and prepare the arts to bounce back\".\n\nIt will cover comedy clubs, circuses, festivals, regional theatres and local museums, across England.\n\n\"These awards build on our commitment to be here for culture in every part of the country,\" he added.\n\nWhile July's announcement of the wider support package was welcomed by the arts and entertainment industries, Mr Dowden did admit that it would not be enough to save every job or cultural establishment.\n\nThe Military Wives Choir rose to fame through the BBC documentary series with Gareth Malone and was recently the subject of a film starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan.\n\nDirector Melanie Nightingale said they were \"incredibly grateful\" for the \"much-needed support,\" at a time when many arts organisations have been struggling due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We are thrilled that this funding enables our 73 choirs to sing, share and support one another and feel stronger together through music,\" she said.\n\nThe grants of under £1m have also been awarded to the West End's longest running play, The Mousetrap; the Shangri-La stage at Glastonbury Festival; and grassroots music venues, including Night & Day Cafe.\n\nNight & Day Cafe in Manchester has hosted gigs by the likes of the Arctic Monkeys, Elbow, and Jessie J\n\nJennifer Smithson, director of the latter Manchester venue, explained that the financial help \"enables us to plan for the future when we look forward to having live music back at the venue once again\".\n\nJoe Wright, who directed films including Pride and Prejudice and Atonement, is also a Kneehigh associate. He said he was delighted the Cornwall theatre had been successful in round two, and will now be able to reopen in December with the aim of providing safe, socially distanced outdoor artistic experiences.\n\n\"Kneehigh remain an inspiration for many throughout the sector, they've never got 'stuck' and have always been quick to adapt to new challenges,\" he said.\n\n\"Their mission to remain local whilst telling stories that reflect all our lives is vital in helping us all through these unprecedented times.\"\n\nFurther round of funding from the Cultural Recovery Fund pot are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.\n\nOrganisations that will be receiving funding part of the £76m include:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "New measures announced by Boris Johnson this week fell short of advice provided by scientists\n\nDocuments have revealed the UK government did not follow the advice given to it by scientists as coronavirus cases began to surge.\n\nThe Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) is a committee attended by scientists across a range of fields. While its members may not individually agree, their role is to look at the evidence, work out what it is suggesting, and present an agreed view to the government. It's then for the politicians to decide what rules to make.\n\nThe papers, which date from 21 September, were published on Monday night. They set out in black and white what scientists thought should happen on a number of important topics.\n\nWhat scientists recommended: They did not go as far as recommending a full lockdown on the scale of the one in the spring. This was also an outcome Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been extremely keen to avoid.\n\nTheir evidence said: The effect of a full lockdown, including closing non-essential businesses and banning contact between households, was clear: it would have had a big impact on coronavirus cases and deaths. But it would also have had a large knock-on impact - hurting people in other ways, such as their ability to work and socialise.\n\nWhat happened: The government opted for a three-tier system in England, with household mixing indoors banned only in the areas of highest concern. Businesses will broadly remain open.\n\nWhat they recommended: Sage said government should consider a short lockdown of two or three weeks, immediately, to bring down the number of cases.\n\nTheir evidence said: There were solid grounds to suggest this would have had \"similar levels of effectiveness\" to that of the national spring lockdown, in turning the tide of the pandemic. But its shorter period would have limited the overall effects - there would almost certainly have been fewer deaths but the line on the graph would look less dramatic. You would also have had to wait until after the restrictions had been lifted to see any benefit, since it takes time for the infections that would have been prevented to translate to lower hospital admissions and deaths.\n\nWhat happened: This idea was rejected by No 10 in favour of an option that keeps businesses open and household contact going for most of the country, but with the threat that such privileges could be taken away if cases rise. Now Labour leader Keir Starmer has called on the government to think again.\n\nMultiple anecdotal reports of outbreaks linked to bars in the UK, Europe, US... curfews likely to have a marginal impact\n\nWhat they recommended: The scientists recommended people be advised to work from home if they could.\n\nTheir evidence said: This would have been likely to make a significant dent in transmission as about a third of people's total contacts are made at work. But this will vary drastically by industry - and how much it would have dented the current transmission depends on how many people currently at work could have done their job from home.\n\nWhat happened: Those who can are once again being advised to work from home, in a reversal of the government's drive over summer to encourage more people back to the workplace .\n\nWhat they recommended: The advisory group said government should consider immediately putting a stop to contact between households, unless they were part of a support bubble.\n\nTheir evidence said: Being in an enclosed space, breathing the same air and touching the same surfaces, makes mixing indoors a high risk activity. Much of this risk is shared with people you live with, where cutting contact is not really possible. But spreading the virus to other households is what allows the epidemic to be sustained - though scientists say restrictions on different mixing would have been less effective in areas with lots of intergenerational households, where young and old mix within the same bubble.\n\nWhat happened: Mixing with other households indoors has been banned for people living in areas on \"high\" or \"very high\" alert. Outdoor mixing is allowed in groups of no more than six.\n\nWhat they recommended: Sage said government should consider the immediate closure of closure of all bars, restaurants, cafes, indoor gyms, and \"personal services\", for example hairdressers.\n\nThe evidence said: The risk in bars, restaurants and cafes was \"likely to be higher than many other indoor settings\" as people sit close together for long periods without wearing face coverings, and potentially talk loudly, risking spraying more virus into the air. Alcohol also affects people's behaviour. The scientists pointed to multiple outbreaks linked to bars - but also indicated the evidence suggested curfews were likely to have only a \"marginal impact\".\n\nWhat happened: The government largely rejected the advice. Most of England can continue going to pubs and restaurants, although since cases began to spike, a 22:00 curfew has been ordered. In \"very high\" alert areas, pubs and bars must close unless they are operating like a restaurant and only serving alcohol as part of a sit-down meal.\n\nWhat they recommended: Sage recommended all university and college teaching should be carried out online \"unless absolutely essential\", but schools should continue in person. It's possible a \"circuit-breaker\" could be timed to coincide with school holidays.\n\nThe evidence said: Closing schools, particularly secondary schools, might have had a moderate impact on transmission but would come with a high level of harm for children's education and their own and their parents' wellbeing. For adult students, the impact on transmission was considered to be higher and the harm to health and social equality lower.\n\nWhat happened: Schools and universities remain open - although many universities are beginning to move teaching online anyway due to outbreaks.", "There is growing concern about the potential for more collisions in space (Artwork image)\n\nTwo items of space junk expected to pass close to one another have avoided collision, said a company which uses radar to track objects in orbit.\n\nLeoLabs had said a defunct Russian satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket segment were likely to come within 25m of each other.\n\nIt said there were no signs of debris over Antarctica on Friday morning.\n\nOther experts thought Kosmos-2004 and the ChangZheng rocket stage would pass with a far greater separation.\n\nWith the objects having a combined mass of more than 2.5 tonnes and relative velocity of 14.66km/s (32,800mph), any collision would have been catastrophic and produced a shower of debris.\n\nAnd given the altitude of almost 1,000km, the resulting fragments would have stayed around for an extremely long time, posing a threat to operational satellites.\n\nLeoLabs, a Silicon Valley start-up, offers orbital mapping services using its own radar network.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by LeoLabs, Inc.\n\nDr Moriba Jah, an astrodynamicist at the University of Texas at Austin, worked out the miss distance to be about 70m.\n\nAnd the Aerospace Corporation, a highly respected consultancy, came to a similar conclusion.\n\nWith more and more satellites being launched, there is growing concern about the potential for collisions.\n\nThe big worry is the burgeoning population of redundant hardware in orbit - some 900,000 objects larger than 1cm by some counts - and all of it capable of doing immense damage to, or even destroying, an operational spacecraft in a high-velocity encounter.\n\nThis week, the European Space Agency released its annual State of the Space Environment report, which highlighted the ongoing problem of fragmentation events.\n\nThese include explosions in orbit caused by left-over energy - in fuel and batteries - aboard old spacecraft and rockets.\n\nOn average over the last two decades, 12 accidental fragmentations have occurred in space every year - \"and this trend is unfortunately increasing\", the agency said.\n\nAlso this week, at the online International Astronautical Congress, a group of experts listed what they regarded as the 50 most concerning derelict objects in orbit.\n\nA large proportion of them were old Russian, or Soviet-era, Zenit rocket stages.", "Face coverings will only be required in corridors, communal areas and on buses\n\nScottish secondary school pupils will have to wear face coverings in corridors, communal areas and school buses from next Monday.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney said the new rules would apply to all pupils aged over 12.\n\nHe said the guidance had been updated based on new advice from the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nThere will be no requirement to wear face coverings in classrooms where distancing measures are in place.\n\nMr Swinney said individual exemptions could be granted for health reasons, but the guidance would be \"obligatory\" for all secondary, special and grant-aided schools.\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"From August 31st young people over the age of 12 in secondary schools should habitually be wearing face coverings when they are moving around schools and corridors and in communal areas where it is difficult to deliver the physical distancing.\"\n\nHe said the Scottish government had acted in the light of the new WHO advice based on evidence that teenagers can infect others in the same way as adults, but had decided to go further by extending it to school transport.\n\n\"It's part of the general measures we are taking to ensure we keep pace with the emerging advice about how to keep our schools open and to keep our schools safe,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nYoung people returned to Scotland's schools earlier in August with no requirements for physical distancing between younger pupils, and no rules around face coverings.\n\nBut First Minister Nicola Sturgeon signalled on Monday that a change in the guidance was imminent.\n\nThe new rules for school buses will apply to pupils over the age of five, in line with guidelines for public transport. Staff and students can continue to wear face coverings in all settings voluntarily if they wish.\n\nEileen Prior, executive director of the parents' organisation Connect, formerly known as the Scottish Parent Teacher Council, earlier said she hoped schools would be offered some flexibility over how the new guidance was implemented.\n\nShe said: \"In some schools it won't be necessary - it depends very much on the environment within a school.\n\n\"Some schools are incredibly crowded but some simply aren't and some are well below capacity, perhaps with wide corridors and they don't have the issue that we have in many high schools of young people just crowding because they just can't not crowd.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “If we need to change the advice then of course we will”\n\nBut Mr Swinney said while the new rules were not mandatory, they had the same status as other guidance on reopening of schools, such as physical distancing and hand hygiene, and should be considered \"obligatory\" across the secondary sector.\n\n\"There will be exemptions from this because the wearing of face coverings is not suitable for all individuals and that has to be respected,\" he said.\n\nHe also stressed that an individual pupil should not be excluded from a school because they were not wearing a face covering.\n\nThe UK government has said there are \"no plans\" to introduce similar measures when schools return in England after the summer break.\n\nHead teachers, however, have complained about a lack of clarity and asked whether English schools would have the flexibility to allow masks if requested as a safety measure by teachers.\n\nLinda Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, said the revised guidance in Scotland was a sensible move.\n\nShe said: \"The schools have done brilliantly well getting going again but I think their physical distancing in some of the communal areas is always going to be a bit of a challenge to enforce... when we've still got cases circulating in the community this will provide additional protection when it's difficult to physically distance.\"\n\nShe said there may be more work to do to educate young people about the correct way to put on or remove a face covering.\n\n\"Not touching the surface - taking it off around the ears. I would recommend young people might carry a little bag in their pocket, stick the face covering in there and when they're taking it off and when they're putting it back on, making sure they don't touch the front of it,\" she said.\n\n\"And then of course there's the cleaning issue - these coverings need to be washed, just in warm water and soap.\"\n\nThe interim chief medical officer, Dr Gregor Smith, said the education advisory group had considered carefully whether poor hygiene while using masks might spread the virus.\n\n\"In their consideration they looked at the evidence from infection from removing masks, on and off, and whether that was likely to play a significant component in terms of introducing an increased risk of transmission,\" he said.\n\n\"On balance, their assessment of that evidence was that there was insufficient evidence to support that view.\"\n\nThe EIS teaching union welcomed the announcement as a \"sensible and appropriate step\" but repeated its call for investment in more teaching staff to allow smaller class sizes.\n\nGeneral secretary Larry Flanagan said: \"There needs to be a much sharper focus on ensuring social distancing in schools to protect pupils, staff and the wider community. Smaller class sizes to ensure appropriate physical distancing of pupils are essential.\"", "Travellers returning to the UK from Italy, Vatican City and San Marino from 04:00 BST on Sunday must self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nThe transport secretary said those returning from the Greek island of Crete will now not need to quarantine.\n\nItaly, which is visited by large numbers of UK residents, was one of the last major countries in Europe on the safe list.\n\nIt had its highest daily count of Covid cases on Thursday, with 8,804.\n\nThe country has recorded a seven-day rate of 64 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nA rate of 20 cases per 100,000 is the threshold above which the government considers imposing quarantine conditions.\n\nLast week, no countries were added to the quarantine list, amid a spike in UK cases.\n\nChanges to the government's list of destinations from which arrivals do not need to enter quarantine have typically been announced every Thursday at 17:00 BST, and implemented the following Saturday at 04:00 BST.\n\nAnnouncing the news on Twitter, Grant Shapps said the implementation date would be moved to 04:00 BST on Sunday 18 October and applies UK wide.\n\nScotland has added mainland Greece and the Greek islands - including Crete, but excluding Mykonos - to its travel corridor list, having removed the country last month. Wales and Northern Ireland have also added Crete to their safe lists.\n\nPoland, Turkey and the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba were among the most recent places added to the quarantine list.\n\nIn Italy, it is mandatory to wear face coverings in indoor spaces, including shops, offices, public transport and in bars and restaurants when not seated at a table, though private homes are exempt.\n\nMasks must also be worn in busy outdoor spaces. The country recently announced compulsory testing for anyone arriving from the UK, Netherlands, Belgium and the Czech Republic.\n\nItalians were subject to some of the strictest lockdown measures in the world when the country became the first in Europe to be overwhelmed by the coronavirus earlier in the year.\n\nWhen the quarantine is applied to a destination, there is an immediate impact on bookings.\n\nOnly non-quarantine destinations are \"in demand\", according to one airline insider.\n\nThe flip side is also true.\n\nLast week, the UK government took the Greek island of Zakynthos off its quarantine list.\n\nTui scheduled a flight soon after and it sold out in days.\n\nThat said, passenger numbers overall are massively suppressed due to the resurgence of the virus and the tightening of travel restrictions.\n\nNo airline is expecting a surge in bookings for this half-term.\n\nThe government has promised that passengers will, by next month, be able to pay for privately-funded Covid tests to reduce the quarantine period by a week.\n\nMinisters are also considering allowing passengers to test before they travel into the UK and that might mean that some people arriving from at risk countries don't have to quarantine at all.\n\nWinters are always tough for airlines. This one looks incredibly bleak and the prospect of testing to reduce the impact of quarantine is only a small glimmer of light.\n\nPassengers arriving in the UK from at-risk countries could avoid having to quarantine under a number of options being considered by the government. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told a travel conference the plan could involve private Covid testing or a period of self-isolation before departure.\n\nThe other option being considered by the government is a system whereby passengers would only have to self-isolate for about a week, instead of two weeks, if they were tested after that period and tested negative.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said the government's travel corridors system has \"all but collapsed with most destinations now removed from the list\". He added that the travel sector was in \"dire need of urgent targeted support if it is to survive the winter months\" with \"serious reform\" needed from government.", "The Siamese cats in Lady and the Tramp perpetuated anti-Asian stereotypes\n\nA content advisory notice for racism in classic Disney films, in place since last year, has been updated with a strengthened message.\n\nWhen played on the Disney+ streaming service, films such as Dumbo, Peter Pan and Jungle Book now flash up with a warning about stereotypes.\n\n\"This programme includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures,\" the warning says.\n\n\"These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.\"\n\nThe message adds that rather than remove the content, \"we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together\".\n\nOther films to carry the warning are The Aristocats, which shows a cat in \"yellow-face\" playing the piano with chopsticks, and Peter Pan, where Native Americans are referred to by the racist slur \"redskins\".\n\nLady and the Tramp, which has several instances of racism and cultural stereotyping, also carries a warning.\n\nThe company first added a warning about racism last November - however, it was much shorter.\n\nThen, the disclaimer read: \"This programme is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions.\"\n\nSome films, such as Song of the South, are not available to stream on Disney+ at all because of racism.\n\nWarner Bros, similarly, has long had a warning about \"ethnic and racial prejudices\" in some of its cartoons.\n\n\"While these cartoons do not represent today's society, they are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed,\" the Warner Bros warning says.", "Ali Hirsz says she was \"shocked\" when the donation appeared.\n\nA singer from Cambridge will be able to have vital surgery, thanks to the Manic Street Preachers.\n\nAli Hirsz needs the trapezius muscle that runs from her neck to her shoulder rebuilt, in an operation that isn't available on the NHS.\n\nAfter Covid-19 robbed her of income from live music, she had to ask fans to help raise the money for the operation.\n\nHer initial crowd-funding goal was £1,000 - but once she reached £500, the Manics stepped in and paid the rest.\n\nWhen the donation arrived, \"I was in tears,\" she tells the BBC.\n\n\"I love them anyway, they're such a great band, but £500 is so unbelievably generous. I thought, 'I can't believe they've done that.'\n\nRepresentatives for the Manic Street Preachers confirmed to the BBC that the donation had come from the band.\n\nHirsz, who sings with an indie band called Idealistics, has an incurable connective tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.\n\nThe condition means \"my skin is like tissue paper, it tears really easy,\" says the 20-year-old. A vascular compression on her small intestine also requires her to be fed via a tube.\n\nShe needs corrective surgery on her shoulder after a previous operation severed the nerve to her trapezius muscle, causing it to waste away. As a result, her shoulder blade dropped, affecting the blood supply to her arm.\n\nThe condition has already forced her to stop playing bass, as she has little feeling in her left hand.\n\nShe says she has \"never asked for money before\" and was \"sweating with nerves\" before posting her crowd-funding request last week.\n\nBut the campaign became necessary after coronavirus wiped out her band's concert diary; and Hirsz had to leave her day job as a horse trainer because she was shielding.\n\nIn the the meantime, she says, she received no financial support from the government's furlough or self-employment support schemes.\n\n\"It is very, very stressful, particularly in times where you don't have money lying around anyway,\" she says.\n\nAli (left) formed Idealistics as a teenager with her partner George Gillott and sister, Dom, on drums.\n\nThe response to her campaign has been \"overwhelming\", however. Hirsz hit the £1,000 goal within 24 hours, and has since increased her target to £5,000.\n\n\"Because the surgery's not been done before, we don't know exactly how much it's going to cost,\" she explains.\n\n\"I know it's a hard time for everyone,\" she adds, \"so all these donations mean everything.\"\n\nHirsz says her story is typical of disabled musicians, who have found themselves left high and dry by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nSinger-songwriter Chloe Mogg, who has both fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, agrees the last six months have been \"really, really tough\".\n\n\"The NHS is doing an amazing job at the moment but, especially with chronic fatigue syndrome, it seems like all the invisible illnesses have been pushed to the side,\" she says.\n\n\"We're walking on a tightrope and we don't know if we're going to fall off at any stage.\"\n\nMogg says she has faced discrimination from venues and promoters because of her condition\n\nBut Mogg, like Hirsz, has approached the pandemic with imagination and resilience, channelling her energies into organising an online music and arts festival.\n\nCalled The 7 Arts Still Exist, it highlights the work created by artists, designers, sculptors, writers, musicians, dancers and photographers during the pandemic. Mogg is already lining up its third event with her childhood friend Amy Crouch.\n\nThe musician says the pandemic has taught her to \"live more in the present moment\", even when \"it felt like I've been put on pause\".\n\n\"It's been tough for me and it's been tough for a lot of musician friends who have anxiety problems,\" she says.\n\n\"It's something we're learning to adapt to - but I don't feel like we should be needing to adapt. It's really, really tough.\"\n\nFor visually-impaired sitar player Baluji Shrivastav, adaptability has been the watchword for the last six months.\n\nThe 70-year-old, who has played with Oasis, Stevie Wonder, Massive Attack, Kylie Minogue and Coldplay, cannot travel during the pandemic, making it \"very difficult to perform anywhere\".\n\n\"But we still meet sometimes,\" he says. \"We are allowed to meet six people in one place, and we have a garden so we rehearse there sometimes - but it will be difficult in the winter.\"\n\nBaluji Shrivastav played at the Paralympic closing ceremony with Coldplay\n\nShrivastav was appointed an OBE in 2016 for his services to music, after founding the Inner Vision Orchestra, whose players are all blind or partially-sighted.\n\nHe says live-streamed concerts are harder for blind musicians, because communication between players is reliant on physical proximity. Meeting up for socially-distanced concerts poses other problems.\n\n\"Even if we can reach the venue without help, we need help within the venue itself,\" he says. \"It's a constant difficulty for visually-impaired people.\n\n\"And, of course, financially, we are not earning at all.\"\n\nAccording to the UK Disability Arts Alliance #WeShallNotBeRemoved, the pandemic has had a particularly negative impact on disabled people working in the creative industries.\n\nIn an open letter to the secretary of state for culture, Oliver Dowden MP, the alliance warned that \"many disabled artists are facing long term shielding, a total loss of income, compromised independent living and the risk of invisibility in wider society\".\n\nSeparately, the Audience Access Alliance - which represents 12 disability charities in the UK - says it is \"deeply concerned\" that disabled people will miss out on access to gigs, theatre and sport when venues reopen because of extra Covid-related precautions and restrictions.\n\n\"If we want to 'build back better', it's vital that we build back for all,\" the organisation wrote in an open letter to the live music industry earlier this month.\n\nThe fear for both organisations is that the progress made since the UK's equality act came into force 10 years ago will be lost.\n\nHirsz and Mogg both have horror stories about the discrimination they faced before Covid.\n\nOne promoter refused to work with Idealistics because of Hirsz's condition. \"They said, 'You've got all these [feeding] tubes and nobody wants to see that. You're just going to deter a crowd,'\" she recalls.\n\nMogg was also berated by a promoter last year, after a flare-up of fibromyalgia forced her to pull out of a show.\n\n\"He was like, 'You're a massive disappointment,'\" she says. \"It was so embarrassing. I felt really ridiculed and ashamed of my illness, even though it's part of me.\"\n\nDespite the challenges like those, Hirsz, Mogg and Shrivastav are determined to stay active throughout the pandemic.\n\nThe Idealistics have just released their new single Memory River (inspired, naturally, by the Manic Street Preachers), while Hirsz is working as an advocate for disability charity Attitude is Everything.\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 Idealistics 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\nOn Monday, Shrivastav's Inner Vision Orchestra launched their first studio album, Indian Classical Interactions - one of three records the musician recorded in the space of a week before lockdown earlier this year. A documentary about his life will also be screened at the Bloomsbury festival this weekend.\n\nAnd Mogg is busy finalising the third edition of The 7 Arts Still Exist, which will feature country artists Katy Hurt and Roisin O'Hagan.\n\nIn the meantime, she says its crucial that everyone looks out for the people around them, and asks for help when they need it.\n\n\"Just be kind, be bold and, especially if you're suffering, talk to someone and tell them how you're feeling. Because they would rather hear it now than listen to your story at a funeral.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pubs and restaurants in Scotland's central belt are currently closed,but could reopen from 26 October\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned that Scotland will not return to normal when the current restrictions on pubs and restaurants expire later this month.\n\nLicensed premises across the central belt were temporarily closed last week, with tough restrictions placed on those elsewhere in the country.\n\nThe rules are due to expire on 26 October - but Ms Sturgeon said this would not signal a return to normality.\n\nThe ban on visiting other people's homes will also remain in place.\n\nAnd the Scottish government is to introduce a multi-tier system of alert levels similar to that now in force in England, which could potentially see venues in areas with coronavirus outbreaks remain closed.\n\nMs Sturgeon was giving a video statement to MSPs as she announced that a further 1,351 cases of Covid-19 and 13 deaths were registered in Scotland.\n\nShe said the country was in a \"precarious\" position and facing a \"critical moment\" in the battle to contain the virus, with \"tough decisions\" needed from government.\n\nAll existing restrictions and guidance are to remain in place for now, and the first minister warned that even the expiry of \"tough temporary restrictions\" on the hospitality trade would not signal a major change.\n\nShe said: \"It is important to stress that given the ongoing challenge of Covid, that will not herald a return to complete normality.\n\n\"The restrictions on household gatherings for example will remain in place until it is considered safe to ease them.\n\n\"And more generally we intend to replace the temporary restrictions with a more strategic approach to managing the pandemic\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland was in a \"precarious\" position\n\nThe government is drawing up a system similar to that newly in force in England, with \"different tiers of levels of interventions\".\n\nIt will include plans to \"strengthen and improve the effectiveness\" of existing measures, and improve compliance with rules particularly around self-isolation.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said she could not rule out \"having to go further in future\".\n\nThe Welsh government is introducing a system of travel restrictions to stop people moving from areas of the UK with higher rates of Covid-19 into areas with lower prevalence of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that \"needs to be considered\" in Scotland, and has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for \"urgent talks\".\n\nNew regulations have also been tabled tightening the rules around face coverings.\n\nThe new rules will make it mandatory for workers to wear them while moving around in offices or in staff canteens.\n\nHowever one rule has been eased, with an exemption introduced to allow couples to take part in marriage and civil partnership ceremonies without wearing masks.\n\nThe first minister has written to Boris Johnson urging him to adopt a \"four nations\" approach to travel restrictions\n\nMs Sturgeon's speech took place in an entirely virtual meeting, with Holyrood currently in recess, and connection issues meant Ruth Davidson's question was largely inaudible.\n\nThe Scottish Conservative group leader called on the government to introduce more testing in hospitals to stop the virus from spreading there.\n\nScottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie echoed this, and called for \"regular weekly testing on a much bigger scale\".\n\nThe first minister said hospital acquired infections were \"a concern\", and that opposition party leaders would be consulted as part of an ongoing review of the testing strategy.\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said measures had been introduced \"with no engagement of those affected\", which had resulted in \"ambiguity and confusion\".\n\nMs Sturgeon rejected his claims she had \"ignored scientific advice\", saying: \"I will make no apology, given the nature of the threat we are dealing with right now, of being prepared to take quick, firm and decisive action if we deem that is necessary to save lives.\"\n\nLib Dem leader Willie Rennie pressed the first minister on delays in the contact tracing system, saying it was \"alarming\" and \"dangerous\" that in the past week 567 people had waited more than two days to get a call from Test and Protect.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the system was \"working incredibly well\" but accepted that \"the turnaround time is not as quick as we want it to be\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A few words on Brexit\" – EU leaders' views from the summit\n\nEU leaders have called for post-Brexit trade talks to continue beyond the end of the week - the deadline suggested by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nAt a two-day summit in Brussels beginning on Thursday, they called on the UK to \"make the necessary moves\" towards a deal.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said fresh \"intensive\" talks should aim to reach a deal around the end of October.\n\nBut his UK counterpart said he was \"disappointed\" by the EU's approach.\n\nLord David Frost tweeted the EU was expecting \"all future moves\" for a deal to come from the UK, which he called an \"unusual approach to conducting a negotiation\".\n\nHe added the prime minister would react to the EU's position as the summit wraps up on Friday.\n\nBoth sides are calling on each other to compromise on key issues, including fishing and limits on government subsidies to businesses.\n\nThey are seeking an agreement to govern their trading relationship once the UK's post-Brexit transition period ends in December.\n\nFollowing the talks on Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said \"in some places there was movement, in other places there is still a lot of work to do.\"\n\n\"We have asked Great Britain to continue to be willing to compromise towards an agreement. Of course, this also means that we have to make compromises,\" she told reporters.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel said the EU would decide whether talks should continue in the coming days, based on the UK's next move.\n\nMr Barnier said negotiations were \"not finished\", and the EU was ready to accelerate talks from Monday for the \"two or three weeks that remain before us\".\n\nEarlier, in a conclusions document issued during the summit, the EU said progress in key areas was currently \"not sufficient\" to reach a deal.\n\nIt asked Mr Barnier to \"continue negotiations in the coming weeks\".\n\nThe formal written conclusions of EU leaders' Brexit meeting seemed harsher than expected.\n\nThey insisted it was up to the UK to make \"the necessary moves\" for a deal to be reached.\n\nNo hint that the EU too was preparing to compromise - and words matter in these highly sensitive negotiations.\n\nThe UK's chief negotiator immediately took to Twitter to object.\n\nHe also noted that, while EU leaders had called for negotiations to continue, their document didn't describe them as \"intensive\" talks.\n\nMinutes after, the European Commission tweeted that its chief negotiator Michel Barnier had called for two weeks of intensive talk to start as of Monday.\n\nSo what do we learn from this confused war of words?\n\nNegotiations are drawing to a close, difficult political compromises loom for both sides, tempers are frayed, and time is tight.\n\nAll eyes are on Boris Johnson on Friday, when he has promised to announce the UK's next move.\n\nAs the summit got under way, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she would be self-isolating for the second time in a month after a member of her staff tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn a tweet, she added she had tested negative herself but would be leaving the summit \"as a precaution\".\n\nArriving at the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron said his country's fishermen would not \"in any situation\" be \"sacrificed to Brexit\".\n\n\"We didn't choose Brexit. Preserving access for our fishermen to British waters is an important point for us,\" he told reporters.\n\nMrs von der Leyen (R) left the summit early after exchanging views with EU leaders.\n\nThe Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin said a deal was still possible \"within the timeframe available to us\".\n\nHe told the BBC a no-deal outcome would represent a \"significant additional shock to our societies\" on top of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"That is a motivating factor in seeking to arrive at a comprehensive deal,\" he added.\n\nDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said: \"\"It would be crazy for the outside world if the UK and the EU will not be able to come to an agreement\".\n\nOver the summer, both the UK and EU seemed to agree the end of October was the final date to get a deal done - allowing enough time for it to be ratified before 31 December.\n\nBut come 7 September, Boris Johnson decided to shorten the deadline.\n\nHe said if a deal wasn't reached by 15 October, \"then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on\".\n\nThursday was that day - but Downing Street appears to have moved back from it as a hard deadline.\n\nFormal negotiations ended at the start of October, but Mr Johnson and Mrs von der Leyen pledged to \"intensify talks\" over the coming weeks.\n\nPressed on whether the UK would walk away on 15 October, the government's chief negotiator Lord Frost said it was his job to \"advise the prime minister\" on whether a deal was on the cards by then.\n\nBy remaining in the bloc's single market and customs union, the UK has continued to follow EU trading rules during its post-Brexit transition period.\n\nThis 11-month period is due to end in December, and the UK has ruled out seeking an extension.\n\nFormal talks began in March and continued throughout the pandemic, initially via video link before in-person discussions resumed over the summer.\n\nIf a deal is not done, the UK will trade with the EU according to the default rules set by the World Trade Organization.\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones were killed during a conference to rehabilitate offenders\n\nPrevent officers tasked with monitoring the man who killed two people in the Fishmonger's Hall attack had \"no specific training\" in handling terrorists, a court has heard.\n\nConvicted terrorist Usman Khan fatally stabbed Cambridge graduates Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones at prisoner rehabilitation event on 29 November.\n\nHe injured two others before he was shot dead by police on London Bridge.\n\nA pre-inquest review hearing was held at the Old Bailey on Friday morning.\n\nThe full inquest into the deaths of Mr Merritt and Ms Jones is expected to take place next April - and one for Khan will follow after.\n\nNick Armstrong, a lawyer for Mr Merritt's family, suggested there was already evidence of a \"systemic problem\".\n\nHe said officers in Staffordshire who were handling Khan had said they had \"received no specific training in dealing with terrorist offenders\".\n\nHenry Pitchers QC, for Ms Jones's family, said the question was not whether Prevent or probation knew there was a risk but whether they \"should have had an inkling\".\n\nKhan was \"assessed as the highest level of risk\" when he was allowed to leave prison - less than a year before the attack - and \"had 22 licence conditions attach to his release,\" Mr Pitchers told the court.\n\nHe said the last visit by police officers to Khan's home in Stafford was two weeks before the attack.\n\nThe flat was dark, and Khan opposed the officers photographing his Xbox and asked them to leave, which they did.\n\nBut this does not appear to have raised suspicions, Mr Pitchers said.\n\nHe also raised the issue of security at the Learning Together event where the attack took place.\n\n\"There was no security check at the door,\" he said. \"Not even a rudimentary bag check.\"\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\nAt the pre-inquest review Jude Bunting, representing Khan's mother Parveen Begum, said: \"Mrs Begum and her family were deeply shocked by the events.\n\n\"Mrs Begum still finds it hard to believe such terrible damage was caused by her son.\n\n\"They want to better understand how this tragedy happened. How a family member who they thought was reformed, committed this atrocity.\"\n\nUsman Khan, 28, was jailed in 2012 over a plot to blow up the London Stock Exchange\n\nThe court heard the Counter Terrorism Command of the Metropolitan Police does not think anyone else was involved in the attack.\n\nChief Coroner Mark Lucraft QC was told a toxicology investigation of Khan's body found evidence of \"the occasional use of cocaine\" in the period leading up to his death.\n\nKhan had recently been released from a prison sentence for terrorism offences when he attended the Learning Together event at Fishmongers' Hall in the City of London.\n\nMs Jones's family's legal team opposed an application by Khan's family that they should have \"interested party\" status at the inquest into her death and that of Mr Merritt.\n\nThey also opposed Khan's family having legal representation in the inquests.\n• None London Bridge: What we know", "A 38-year-old man has been arrested by police investigating a series of attacks on women in Belfast on Monday night.\n\nA woman pedestrian was stabbed in the first attack on Castle Place in the city centre at 19:42 BST.\n\nFour women were stabbed and two were punched during a one-and-half hour period in south and central Belfast.\n\nThe man has been taken to Musgrave police station for questioning.\n\nPolice said none of the victims' injuries was life-threatening, but it had been \"hugely traumatic\" for them.\n\nThe six women were all aged 19 to 22.\n\nPolice believe a man on a bicycle was responsible for all the attacks.\n\nCh Supt Simon Walls said \"the attacks were \"frightening\" and \"completely random\".\n\nCh Supt Simon Walls said police were taking the attacks\" incredibly seriously\"\n\n\"Detectives are carrying out a significant investigation, so once again I am appealing to any drivers who were in the city centre on Monday, who have yet to review any dash cam footage, and similarly, for any business owners in the relevant areas to review their CCTV and to contact us if they have any information that could help,\" he said.\n\n\"I also encourage anyone who may have witnessed any of these incidents, who have yet to speak with us, to contact detectives.\"\n\nThe first stabbing happened in Castle Place in the city centre, at about 19:42 BST.\n\nA second was reported on Ormeau Avenue, at about 19:51 BST.\n\nThere was a third stabbing at 20:56 BST in Donegall Square West, followed by a woman being punched in the back of the head as she walked along the Dublin Road, sometime between 20:56 and 21:01 BST.\n\nThe fourth knife attack happened on University Road, near Mount Charles at about 21:01 BST.\n\nA sixth incident- in which a woman was punched in the neck - happened on the Upper Lisburn Road, near Dunluce Avenue at about 21:03 BST.\n\nPolice have increased their presence in the city centre and south Belfast following the attacks\n\nThe attacker was described as wearing dark clothing, possibly a hooded top, riding a mountain bike which may have a light coloured frame and reflectors on the spokes.\n\nPolice believe he may have been wearing a black mask and wearing a backpack.\n\nHe is not believed to have spoken during the attacks.\n\n\"Officers continue to carry out additional patrols across the city centre and south Belfast,\" Ch Supt Walls said.\n• None Three women stabbed and two punched in attacks", "The prolific rapper has released eight mixtapes and one album since 2014\n\nTottenham-born rapper Headie One has topped the UK charts with his debut album, Edna.\n\nSongs from the record, which is dedicated to his late mother, were streamed 25.5 million times last week, said the Official Charts Company.\n\nA progressive marriage of drill, trap, UK rap, dancehall and US hip-hop, it confronts the turbulent realities of growing up in Britain's inner cities.\n\nIt tops the chart just six months after the rapper was released from prison.\n\nThe 26-year-old, whose real name is Irving Adjei, had been jailed in for carrying a knife, and later described the experience as a \"wake-up call\".\n\n\"Those kind of situations was my normality years ago,\" he told The Guardian, referring to three previous jail terms from his youth.\n\n\"It was a wake-up call that it really is a thin line - one wrong move and it's all over, it's back to what you used to dream to get out of.\"\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 HeadieOneVEVO 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\nBy the time he was jailed in January, the rapper was already one of the biggest names in UK rap, with a string of increasingly-impressive mixtapes and a guest slot on Stormzy's second album, Heavy Is The Head.\n\nAn eighth mixtape, Gang, hit streaming services within hours of his release, and entered the charts at number five.\n\nIt marked a move away from the rapper's origins in drill - a darker, bleaker variant of grime - towards a more melodic, less insular sound.\n\nThat comes to full fruition on Edna, notably on the chart-busting single Ain't It Different, whose catchy hooks hide a message about the dull reality of prison life (\"You ain't ever made a birthday cake from digestive biscuits,\" he raps at one point).\n\nElsewhere, he resolves to \"right my wrongs\", promising to make \"a different way of livin'\" despite the mockery of his former associates.\n\n\"Edna is proof that he's the unmistakeable, global 'King of drill', and much more besides,\" concluded the NME. \"It's a move into the mainstream, without forgetting where it all began.\"\n\nThe star's mother died when he was just three years old\n\n\"Having my debut album go to number one means a lot to me,\" said the star, who posed with his Official Chart Award at his mother's graveside.\n\n\"Edna,\" he added, \"this is for you.\"\n\nThe album tops the charts after a close three-way battle with fellow UK rappers D-Block Europe and the late John Lennon.\n\nLennon's Gimme Some Truth, a new compilation produced by his widow Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon to mark what would have been his 80th birthday, enters the chart at number three.\n\nD-Block Europe's debut, The Blue Print - Us vs Them, is at number two.\n\nIn the singles chart, 24kGoldn's Mood ft Iann Dior holds tight at number one - and Fleetwood Mac's Dreams re-enters the Top 40 for the first time in 43 years,\n\nThe song, which has seen a surge in popularity after soundtracking a viral video on TikTok, rose 18 places to Number 37 this week.\n\nWritten and sung by Stevie Nicks, it only made number 24 upon its original release in August 1977.\n\nHowever, its success has endured over the years, racking up almost 100 million streams in the UK since streaming data was incorporated into the charts in 2014.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Around 12 new Covid-19 admissions are being reported daily in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg area in the last week\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board has more patients being treated for Covid-19 than at any time since the pandemic began, according to NHS Wales figures.\n\nThere have been an average of 210 patients in its hospitals - with 237 on Tuesday.\n\nThe boss of NHS Wales said on Wednesday he was concerned at a rising trend across Wales with 49% more patients with the virus than a week before.\n\nFigures also show Aneurin Bevan health board has most hospital admissions.\n\nThe area, covering Newport, Monmouthshire, Caerphilly, Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent and parts of south Powys, saw an average of 28 patients being admitted with suspected or confirmed Covid-19 symptoms each day over the past week.\n\nThis is more than twice the numbers in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg and Cardiff and Vale areas.\n\nThe numbers for Cwm Taf Morgannwg admissions reflect Covid-19 infection outbreaks in three of its main hospitals, with 205 cases linked to the outbreak, including patients.\n\nAnother 20 cases are being monitored at Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda.\n\nThe health board said earlier this week there had been 47 deaths: 38 at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, five at Prince Charles in Merthyr Tydfil, and four at the Princess of Wales in Bridgend.\n\nFrom Thursday, its Bridgend Seren hospital opened to its first patients \"well on the road to recovery\" to allow its three district hospitals to focus on acute care in those locations.\n\nIt comes as most elective surgery is postponed at the Royal Glamorgan.\n\nThe board's Medical Director Dr Nick Lyons said: \"Ysbyty'r Seren will provide a breadth of care for these patients, which will include support with their emotional and physical wellbeing as they recover from the virus.\n\n\"The safety of our patients and staff remains our first priority and we now seeing the very beginnings of the positive impact of the mitigating actions we are taking across our sites to contain the spread of the virus.\"\n\nOf those 326 confirmed Covid-19 cases in Welsh hospitals, more than half of patients are in Cwm Taf Morgannwg.\n\nWith the Aneurin Bevan health board, it is comfortably above other health boards for the number of Covid patients, confirmed, suspected and recovering from the virus.\n\nAndrew Goodall, NHS Wales' chief executive, said demand for beds would continue to increase in the days and weeks ahead.\n\nHe said it was a virus that \"surprises us with its ability, particularly in closed settings, in its ability to transmit across to other parts of hospital and healthcare settings\".", "Pensioners queuing to vote in Indiana earlier this month\n\nState election officials across the US are reporting record numbers of voters casting their ballots ahead of election day on 3 November.\n\nMore than 29 million had voted early by Monday, either in person or by mail, according to the US Election Project.\n\nAt the same point in the 2016 race, about 6m votes had been cast.\n\nExperts say the surge in early voting correlates to the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused many people to seek alternatives to election day voting.\n\nOn Tuesday, Texas, a state that has relatively tight restrictions on who can qualify for postal voting, set a record for most ballots cast on the first day of early voting.\n\nOn 12 October, the Columbus Day federal holiday, officials in Georgia reported 126,876 votes cast - also a state record.\n\nIn Ohio, a crucial swing state, more than 2.3 million postal ballots have been requested, double the figure in 2016.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Early voters have formed long queues in several states across the US\n\nReports indicate that registered Democrats have so far outvoted registered Republicans - casting more than double the number of ballots. And of these early voting Democrats, women and black Americans are voting in particularly high numbers. Some are motivated by dislike for Donald Trump, while others have been energised by racial justice protests throughout the summer following the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.\n\nBut this early advantage does not mean that Democrats can already claim victory. Republicans, who claim postal voting is vulnerable to fraud, say Democrats may win the early vote, but that Republicans will show up in large numbers on election day.\n\nAccording to a 2017 study by the Brennan Center for Justice, the rate of voting fraud overall in the US is between 0.00004% and 0.0009%.\n\nRepublicans have also made gains in voter registration efforts in the key states of Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, though Democrats still lead overall.\n\nIn Florida, that registration margin has narrowed to a little over 134,000 voters - less than 1%. Mr Trump won Florida by just under 113,000 votes in 2016.\n\nThese states are known as battlegrounds in the election as voters are more likely to switch parties in these regions than elsewhere in the country. As a result, states like Florida are where the campaigns tend to focus their efforts.\n\nThe enormous numbers of voters have led to long lines, with some people waiting for up to 11 hours for an opportunity to vote.\n\nYounger people, who historically have been difficult to get to the polls, appear to be turning out in larger numbers this year. The youth vote may be the highest its been since 2008 for the election of Barack Obama - the country's first black president.\n\nA recent survey by Axios found that four in 10 university students said they planned to protest if Mr Trump wins. Six in 10 said they would shame friends who could vote but choose not to.\n\nBy contrast, only 3% of surveyed students said they would protest if Joe Biden was elected.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the US election?\n\nIn just three weeks, Americans head to the polls to cast their vote for Donald Trump or Joe Biden. What questions do you have for American voters? Submit your questions here and we'll put them to our voter panel.\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy is suing a betting company after it refused to pay him his £1.7 million winnings.\n\nA man who was refused a payout of £1.7m after his online betting company account was credited with the money has taken his case to the High Court.\n\nAndy Green, 53, from Lincolnshire, said he hit the jackpot in January 2018 playing a blackjack game from bookmaker Betfred on his phone.\n\nBetfred said there was a software error and the company's terms and conditions meant it could withhold the payment.\n\nBut lawyers for Mr Green say they have been given no proof of the problem.\n\nAfter a long night playing the Betfred Frankie Dettori Magic Seven Blackjack in January 2018, Mr Green's online account was credited with £1,722,923.54 which he tried to withdraw - but the request was declined.\n\nAfter placing some more bets with his winnings he took a screenshot to prove what had happened.\n\nHowever, a Betfred director called him to say there had been a \"software error\" and it was rejecting the claim.\n\nAs a token of \"goodwill\" the company was willing to pay £30,000, but Mr Green would have to agree not to talk about it ever again.\n\nMr Green refused and the company increased its offer to £60,000, which he also rejected.\n\nMore than two years later he has gone to the High Court to sue Betfred and its parent company, Gibraltar-based Petfre for £2m, including the interest he would have earned from the win.\n\nMr Green said \"the last two and a half years have felt like hell on earth\".\n\n\"You wouldn't treat an animal like I've been treated by Betfred,\" he said.\n\n\"Hopefully the judge will accept the arguments put forward by my legal team and this nightmare will be over. My champagne remains on ice!\"\n\nMr Green is in poor health and has suffered four heart attacks - one of them since the money was credited to his online account in 2018.\n\nThe legal argument centres on 49 pages of terms and conditions, and game rules which Mr Green ticked when signing up for Betfred.\n\nThey include a clause that all \"pays and plays\" would be void in the event of a \"malfunction\", and Betfred argues that by ticking the box, Mr Green was agreeing.\n\nHis solicitor Peter Coyle said \"whilst Betfred's betting terms and conditions are incredibly complicated and span across numerous different documents, we are confident that, on their proper construction, the terms simply don't allow for Betfred to withhold payment\".\n\nMr Coyle pointed out that if \"all pays and plays\" were void, then Betfred would have refunded other customers, but the company had produced no evidence that had happened. It only wanted to withhold Mr Green's enormous win, he said.\n\nBetfred licences the software for its online games from another company Playtech, which has refused to confirm the nature of the software glitch.\n\nBy law, Playtech has to notify the Gambling Commission of Great Britain of the fault, known as a \"key event\". Mr Coyle says the description of what happened is only four lines long and does not describe the nature of the problem.\n\nDespite repeated requests, Mr Green's lawyers say Betfred has been unable to prove there was a software problem at all. Neither has the company attempted to drag its supplier Playtech into the case.\n\nIf the court rules in Mr Green's favour, other gamblers denied their winnings due to technical problems could be able to make similar claims.\n\nMr Green's lawyers have asked for a summary judgment, which would mean the facts are not at issue and the judge could decide the case without a trial.\n\nThe judge has reserved judgement, which could mean one of three outcomes at a later date: deciding the case without a trial in Mr Green's favour, deciding in Betfred's favour, or ordering a trial.\n\nA Betfred spokesman said \"the case is currently progressing at court and it is therefore inappropriate for us to comment further\".", "The row over England's three-tier regional Covid restrictions is \"very damaging to public health\", a scientist advising the government has warned.\n\nTalks between Westminster and local leaders over moving Greater Manchester and Lancashire to the toughest tier of rules are due to resume later.\n\nManchester's Labour mayor said northern England had been treated with contempt.\n\nBut Dr Jeremy Farrar warned making it a north-south or party political issue was \"a very dangerous route\".\n\nThe Wellcome Trust director, who also sits on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), told the BBC's Newscast podcast countries that had controlled the virus well so far - including South Korea and New Zealand - had a \"national consensus about the way forward\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I think we've got to come together as a country, this fragmentation, and frankly making this either a north-south or a party political issue, that's a very dangerous route to go on,\" he said.\n\n\"What we don't want now is a fragmentation or confusion - one area or region or city pitched against another. I think that would be very, very damaging to public health and the country's ability to respond.\"\n\nSir Jeremy added that negotiations with individual areas delayed the ability to respond to the virus, and he was more in favour of national restrictions.\n\nThe prime minister has defended the three-tier system as \"the right way forward\", which he hoped would \"avoid the misery of a national lockdown\".\n\nDiscussions between central government and leaders in Lancashire are expected to resume at 08:00 BST, while more talks are also expected between leaders in Greater Manchester and No 10 on Friday morning.\n\nFrom Saturday, people in London, Essex (apart from Southend and Thurrock), York, North East Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Erewash in Derbyshire, Elmbridge in Surrey, and Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, will move to the second highest tier - high alert.\n\nThis means more than half of England's population will now be living under high or very high alert restrictions.\n\nSo far the Liverpool City Region is the only area in the top tier.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nThe new three-tier system sees every area of England classed as being on medium, high or very high alert.\n\nAreas on medium alert are subject to the national restrictions currently in force, including the rule of six on indoor and outdoor gatherings and the 22:00 closing time for pubs, bars and restaurants.\n\nIn addition to these restrictions, in areas on high alert - which currently includes north-east England, much of the North West and parts of the Midlands, along with West and South Yorkshire - different households are not allowed to mix indoors.\n\nAreas on very high alert face extra curbs, with different households banned from mixing indoors or outdoors in hospitality venues or private gardens.\n\nPubs and bars will be closed unless they are serving substantial meals and there is also guidance against travelling in and out of the area.\n\nFurther restrictions may be agreed for particular regions in the top tier - in the Liverpool City Region gyms, leisure centres, betting shops and casinos have also been forced to close.\n\nFor the three-tier system to work, Sir Jeremy said the current level of restrictions would have to be toughened up \"substantially\" and he was more in favour of national restrictions.\n\n\"One of the concerns I have is it is sort of dividing up the country when every part of the country is going through an expanding epidemic at the moment in all age groups,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the challenges is the confusion of the messaging. I think on the whole simplicity is easier to understand, it's easier to adhere to, there's a sense that the country is in this together and all parts of the country affected.\"\n\nHe said he would have preferred a \"circuit-breaker\" - a short, national lockdown - in September, but the \"next best\" time to act was as soon as possible.\n\nThe government is under significant pressure over its approach to local restrictions.\n\nTalks to try to strike an agreement with Greater Manchester will continue on Friday morning - but local leaders in the region are angry and have pledged to fight back against further measures if they are not accompanied by significantly more support, including an improved furlough package for those whose workplaces are forced to close.\n\nThe final decision on restrictions rests with ministers - but they desperately want local support for any decision and for now the stand-off continues.\n\nThat stand-off is causing dismay among some scientists.\n\nBut the government is also facing resistance from its own MPs in Greater Manchester - who fear its plans are too strict.\n\nMeanwhile, conversations on Lancashire moving to the highest tier of restrictions continued late into the night.\n\nLocal leaders are considering a package of support offered by ministers but no final decision has been made yet.\n\nOn Thursday, Greater Manchester's Mayor Andy Burnham said leaders in the region were \"unanimously opposed\" to a move to the top tier and he called for more financial support for businesses and individuals affected by restrictions.\n\nHe said the region was \"being set up as the canaries in the coal mine for an experimental regional lockdown strategy\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said local leaders should \"set aside party politics\" and work with the government, with cases rising \"exponentially\" in the north west of England.\n\nHowever, some of the area's Tory MPs also oppose Greater Manchester moving to the top tier, including Sir Graham Brady - chairman of the influential backbench 1922 Committee and MP for Altrincham and Sale West - who said there was \"widespread concern\" about the proposals.\n\nThe Labour Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has backed tougher restrictions for the capital but has also called for more financial support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Burnham says his region is \"being set up as the canaries in the coal mine\" for the government's lockdown strategy\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government is planning to introduce a multi-tier system of alert levels similar to that in England. The country's central belt already faces stricter rules, with pubs and restaurants closed.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, schools will close on Monday while, from Friday, pubs, restaurants and cafes will only be allowed to offer takeaway and delivery services for four weeks.\n\nAnd a ban on travelling to Wales from coronavirus hotspots elsewhere in the UK comes into effect on Friday evening.\n\nOn Thursday, a further 18,980 cases and 138 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported across the UK.\n\nHow have you been affected by the restrictions and by the coronavirus pandemic? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "As almost every day brings another record high in the number of daily infections in Russia, the authorities have been tightening restrictions across the vast country.\n\nThey differ from region to region since President Vladimir Putin delegated significant powers for fighting the epidemic to local authorities in April.\n\nOn 16 October, Russia reported another spike of 15,150 new coronavirus cases, up from 13,754 the previous day. In late August, the number was below 5,000. The daily death toll from Covid-19 has been rising too, reaching an all-time high of 286 yesterday.\n\nTo combat the spread of the epidemic, employers in some cities have been told to move at least some of their staff to home working, some regional administrations have urged locals to stay at home, but no part of Russia has returned to the strict lockdown measures that were imposed at the start of the pandemic.\n\nWearing a face mask in shops or on public transport is mandatory in most Russian regions.\n\nEmployers in Moscow, Rostov and Volgograd have been ordered to switch at least 30% of staff – as well as everyone older than 65 - to working from home.\n\nAlso in Moscow, the autumn school holidays were extended from one week to two (until 18 October) and older pupils will be moved to distance learning until the end of the month.\n\nThe authorities in Moscow, Volgograd, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Krasnodar Territory and Russia-annexed Crimea ruled that people over 65, pregnant women and those with chronic diseases must stay at home.\n\nIn Rostov, local residents are required to stay at home unless they are on the way to work, shopping or engaged in one of a number of other activities such as exercising or walking a dog.\n\nMass public events are banned in Rostov Region, Krasnodar Territory, Transbaikal Territory, Udmurtia and the city of Sevastopol in Crimea.\n\nStavropol Territory requires visitors from other regions to quarantine for 14 days.\n\nLeningrad Region introduced \"red\", \"yellow\" and \"green\" zones depending on the density of Covid-19 cases in the area, and limits the number of people present in these zones accordingly.\n\nKaliningrad Region banned cinemas on weekends. Bars and night clubs are closed in Kaliningrad Region, Chukotka and Rostov Region.\n\nRostov Region and Lipetsk Region suspended routine medical care, except for urgent conditions, for everyone apart from Covid-19 patients.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elaine cares for her partner Ian, who has multiple sclerosis, and says it is a struggle with day centres closed\n\nMany unpaid carers looking after vulnerable friends or relatives during the coronavirus crisis say they are worried about how they will cope this winter.\n\nEight in 10 said they had been doing more, with fewer breaks, since the pandemic began - and three-quarters said they were exhausted.\n\nThe government said it recognised the \"vital role\" of unpaid carers.\n\nOne of those is Elaine Kenyon from Accrington, Lancashire, who looks after her partner Ian.\n\nIan, 64, developed multiple sclerosis (MS) about 12 years ago, and now needs help around the clock with everything from dressing to using the toilet.\n\nThe day care service that they used to rely on is still in lockdown. It's not clear when it can re-open.\n\nElaine was furloughed from her job in April, and says she will have to go back to work in November to earn enough to pay her and Ian's bills.\n\nShe says she feels under a lot of stress.\n\nIn the Carers UK survey, 58% of carers said they had seen their physical health affected by caring through the pandemic, while 64% said their mental health had worsened.\n\nPeople also said day centres and reductions in other services meant the help they once got had reduced or disappeared, leaving many feeling worn out and isolated.\n\nCarers UK wants such services up and running again as a matter of urgency.\n\nHelen Walker, chief executive of Carers UK, said: \"The majority of carers have only known worry and exhaustion throughout this pandemic.\n\n\"They continue to provide extraordinary hours of care, without the usual help from family and friends, and with limited or no support from local services.\n\n\"It's no surprise that carers' physical and mental health is suffering, badly.\n\n\"I am deeply concerned that so many carers are on the brink and desperately worried about how they will manage during the next wave of the pandemic.\"\n\nCarers UK is also calling on the government to ensure that those receiving Carer's Allowance - the main benefit for people caring 35 hours or more every week - receive an equivalent payment increase to those receiving Universal Credit.\n\nThis would provide £20 a week extra to help cover the extra costs that caring will inevitably incur over the winter months.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said it recognised the \"vital role played by unpaid carers, especially during this difficult period\" and that it would \"continue to work closely with carer organisations to support them\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeff Bridges told his fans he would keep them posted\n\nOscar-winning American actor Jeff Bridges has revealed he has lymphoma but says his \"prognosis is good\".\n\nIn a tweet echoing his \"Dude\" character in The Big Lebowski, Bridges said he was starting treatment, acknowledging it was a \"serious disease\".\n\nLymphoma is a form of cancer that affects the lymph system, which is part of the body's germ-fighting network.\n\nBridges, 70, won Academy Award for Best Actor in 2010 for playing an alcoholic singer in the film Crazy Heart.\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 Jeff Bridges 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 is also known for his roles in The Last Picture Show, The Contender and Starman, as well as cult film The Big Lebowski in 1998, where he plays The Dude, a Los Angeles slacker.\n\nIn a BBC interview in 2016, Bridges said: \"I really try my best not to do movies. I try not to act because I have so many other things I like to do, like playing guitar. Once you commit you are busy so I really try not to engage.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeff Bridges is saved from embarrassment by wife on the red carpet in 2017", "Greater Manchester is currently in tier two, or \"high alert\" level\n\nGreater Manchester leaders have been given a deadline of midday to reach a deal with the government over moving to tier three Covid restrictions.\n\nIf a deal is not reached, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said the PM would decide on the next steps.\n\nIn this situation, the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said the \"implication\" was the top tier of rules would be imposed.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the region was seeking a \"fair figure\" of support from the government.\n\nMr Burnham told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he would be meeting with local leaders this morning and would advise them to set out the request in a letter to the government.\n\nThe government and local leaders - including mayors and MPs - have been embroiled in 10 days of talks over moving Greater Manchester's 2.8m population from tier two to the highest restrictions.\n\nGreater Manchester has been under local restrictions since July.\n\nThe \"very high\" alert level - also known as tier three - would mean closing pubs and bars which do not serve meals, and additional restrictions on households mixing.\n\nMr Jenrick said local leaders had been \"so far unwilling to take the action that is required to get this situation under control\".\n\nIt come as the number of weekly registered coronavirus deaths in England and Wales rose by 438 and increased by a third in the space of seven days, according to official figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Mr Burnham described the government's \"late-night ultimatum briefed to the media\" as a \"slightly provocative move\", but he said he was going to \"try and find a way forward\".\n\nHe said local leaders had never been given a figure for additional financial support in return for further restrictions.\n\nAs well as setting out what a \"fair figure\" of support was, Mr Burnham said he wanted \"full flexibility\" to support people who will be affected by restrictions.\n\nHe said: \"I think it is fair to recognise that if you put a place under restrictions for as long as we've been under restrictions it grinds people down. It pushes businesses closer to the brink.\"\n\nMr Burnham has previously called for the government to reintroduce the 80% furlough scheme used during the UK's first lockdown, instead of the new Job Support Scheme which covers 67% of the wages (covered by employers and the government) of people affected by tier three closures.\n\nBusiness minister Nadhim Zahawi told Today £22m had been offered to Greater Manchester - equivalent to £8 per person - and there would be \"additional support commensurate with what we have done in Liverpool City Region and in Lancashire\".\n\nMr Burnham said he would not \"break the law\" if no agreement was reached between both sides and the government imposed tier three measures on Greater Manchester.\n\n\"It's their prerogative to do what they think is needed,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"But I would say to them that I don't think it will help us bring people with what they want to do to control this virus. I think it would be better to come to an agreement.\"\n\nMr Burnham also said he thought the shielding of elderly and vulnerable people in Greater Manchester needed to be \"looked at seriously\" and suggested it was \"part of the solution\".\n\nSir Richard Leese, the Labour leader of Manchester City Council, told BBC Newsnight he hoped a deal could still be made, but added: \"If government imposes tier three - and I hope that won't happen - we will clearly need to comply with that.\"\n\nOn Monday, Mr Burnham and Sir Richard accused the government of using \"selective statistics\" on hospital occupancy rates to bolster the case for tougher rules.\n\nOn Monday evening, the two sides couldn't even agree on what they actually discussed earlier.\n\nBelieve the local leaders and on Monday morning there seemed to be hope in the air. Officials from central government had mooted the possibility of a hardship fund to help support low-paid workers who stand to lose out if businesses close their doors under tighter restrictions.\n\nThe message local leaders took from their meeting was that, while the Treasury is adamant they are not going to extend their national furlough scheme - nor increase the level of cash available from its replacement, the Job Support Scheme - Westminster might sign off extra money that could be spent that way, if local politicians saw fit.\n\nThere was no concrete agreement on the numbers, but sources in Greater Manchester suggest the cost of supporting those who need the extra help comes in at around £15m a month.\n\nAfter that call, the consensus among North West leaders was moving in the direction of signing on the dotted line, with another call planned with Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick for the afternoon.\n\nBut rather than ushering in a new spirit of co-operation, that meeting went south.\n\nA three-tier system of alerts was announced a week ago in an attempt to control rising coronavirus cases without a UK-wide lockdown.\n\nSo far, only the Liverpool City Region and Lancashire have been moved into tier three.\n\nHowever, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons on Monday that discussions are planned for South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, north-east England and Teesside also moving into the top tier.\n\nSpeaking ahead of those discussions with government, Nottingham City Council leader David Mellen said he would make clear \"that we want a package that properly protects local people, businesses, jobs and education, whether it's for tier two or tier three\".\n\nElsewhere in the UK, in Wales people will be told from Friday to stay at home, while pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops will shut, as part of a \"short, sharp\" national lockdown until 9 November.\n\nA two-week school closure has begun in Northern Ireland as part of a tightening of restrictions.\n\nIn Scotland, the tightest restrictions are in place in the central belt, and there are plans for a three-tier framework of measures, similar to England's.\n\nOn Monday, government figures showed the UK recorded a further 18,804 coronavirus cases and 80 deaths.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? What have restrictions meant for you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Stormzy's stab-proof vest, which he wore whilst headlining Glastonbury Festival last year, has been nominated for a major design award.\n\nThe Banksy design was donned by the grime star to highlight structural racism.\n\nThe winner of the Beazley Designs of the Year prize will be announced by London's Design Museum next month.\n\nAlso in the running is a house created for the Oscar-winning South Korean class war thriller Parasite.\n\nLee Ha Jun based the entire scheme for the fictional home of the wealthy Parks family on one simple sketch from the film's director Bong Joon Ho.\n\nThe technology used to take years off Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese's mobster movie The Irishman is in contention too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How we made the actors younger\n\n\"I thought it was really good,\" De Niro told the BBC last year. \"I always joke I can gain 30 more years in my career.\"\n\nMeanwhile, UK collage artist Cold War Steve's Hellscape Jigsaw also made the cut.\n\nThe artist, who last year made the cover of Time Magazine with his satirical take on Brexit, tweeted to say he was \"thrilled (and somewhat aghast to be honest)\" to be nominated.⁦\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 Cold War Steve 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 June 2019, Stormzy made history by becoming the first-ever black British solo act to top the bill at the Worthy Farm event.\n\nWearing the stab-proof Union Jack vest, he used his set to bring attention to inequality in the justice system and the arts.\n\nThe eye-catching vest was created by the famously anonymous artist Banksy from a former police issue garment.\n\nThe organisers of the new exhibition said it was \"a defining cultural moment\".\n\nThe rapper's famous Union Jack stab-proof vest will go on display at the Design Museum\n\nSeveral months after his big gig, Stormzy told Q Magazine that technical issues had made it the \"most difficult thing\" he had done.\n\n\"Then after calming down for an hour,\" he added, \"Some of the people at the festival - Emily Eavis and that - gave us a memory stick to watch it back. And I got about halfway through and I was, like, 'I think it all went alright'.\"\n\nThe design prize features 74 nominations across six categories - architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product and transport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlso in contention are the sound design for the award-winning TV drama Chernobyl, and a virtual library aimed at evading censorship in the computer game Minecraft.\n\nA Chinese hospital built in 12 days at the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic is recognised on the longlist; as well as the vegan Impossible Burger 2.0; and The Renegade - a dance choreographed by the then 14-year-old Jalaiah Harmon, which went viral on the social media platform TikTok.\n\nThe exhibition opens at the Design Museum in London on Wednesday 21 October and runs until 28 March 2021, with an overall winner being announced on 26 November (there are also winners for each of the categories).\n\nLast year the overall prize was won by Anatomy of an AI System by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler.\n\nAt a glance - some other designs nominated for the Beazley prize include:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sadiq Khan said the curfew does not \"make sense\"\n\nThe 10pm curfew should be scrapped in London to help venues deal with Tier 2 coronavirus restrictions, the Mayor of London has said.\n\nSince 27 September all pubs, bars and restaurants in England must shut no later than 10pm.\n\nCurrent restrictions also prevent Londoners from meeting friends or family in pubs and restaurants.\n\nSadiq Khan said the curfew does not \"make sense\" and extending hospitality opening hours will boost cash flow.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Khan said: \"Now London and other parts of the country have moved into Tier 2 the current 10pm curfew policy makes even less sense and should be scrapped.\n\nScrapping the policy \"would allow more sittings of single households in restaurants throughout the evening\", Mr Khan said.\n\nThis would \"boost cash flow at a time when venues need all the support they can get\".\n\n\"Ministers must give businesses the support they need to survive while restrictions remain in place,\" Mr Khan added.\n\nA legal challenge is under way against the 10pm curfew\n\nUnder the Tier 2 restrictions, household mixing is still permitted outside, including at pubs and restaurants with outdoor seating, although the rule of six applies.\n\nThe 10pm curfew is subject to a legal challenge, led by nightclub chain owner Jeremy Joseph.\n\nLast week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the curfew was a \"matter of policy choice\" rather than driven by scientific advice.\n\nHe claimed there is \"direct and proximate evidence\" for the positive impact of the limits on pubs and restaurants, citing a fall in alcohol-related A&E admissions late at night.\n\nBut Mr Hancock said the government's desire to protect education and work \"as much as is possible\" meant they had to take measures against socialising to try to slow the spread of Covid-19 transmission.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy said: \"The restrictions for pubs and bars, which the mayor originally called for, are carefully judged to achieve the maximum reduction in the R number with the minimum impact on jobs and livelihoods. However, we keep all measures under review.\"", "A hacking group is donating stolen money to charity in what is seen as a mysterious first for cyber-crime that's puzzling experts.\n\nDarkside hackers claim to have extorted millions of dollars from companies, but say they now want to \"make the world a better place\".\n\nIn a post on the dark web, the gang posted receipts for $10,000 in Bitcoin donations to two charities.\n\nOne of them, Children International, says it will not be keeping the money.\n\nThe move is being seen as a strange and troubling development, both morally and legally.\n\nThe hackers posted their tax receipt for the $10,000 donation\n\nIn the blog post on 13 October, the hackers claim they only target large profitable companies with their ransomware attacks. The attacks hold organisations' IT systems hostage until a ransom is paid.\n\nThey wrote: \"We think that it's fair that some of the money the companies have paid will go to charity.\n\n\"No matter how bad you think our work is, we are pleased to know that we helped changed someone's life. Today we sended (sic) the first donations.\"\n\nThe cyber-criminals posted the donation along with tax receipts they received in exchange for the 0.88 Bitcoin they had sent to two charities, The Water Project and Children International.\n\nChildren International supports children, families and communities in India, the Philippines, Colombia, Ecuador, Zambia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and the United States.\n\nA Children International spokesperson told the BBC: \"If the donation is linked to a hacker, we have no intention of keeping it\".\n\nThe Water Project, which works to improve access to clean water in sub-Saharan Africa, has not responded to requests for comment.\n\nAnother receipt was posted on the dark web blog showing a $10,000 donation\n\nBrett Callow, Threat Analyst at cyber-security company Emsisoft, said: \"What the criminals hope to achieve by making these donations is not at all clear. Perhaps it helps assuage their guilt? Or perhaps for egotistical reasons they want to be perceived as Robin Hood-like characters rather than conscienceless extortionists.\n\n\"Whatever their motivations, it's certainly a very unusual step and is, as far as I know, the first time a ransomware group has donated a portion of their profits to charity.\"\n\nThe Darkside hacker group is relatively new on the scene, but analysis of the crypto-currency market confirms they are actively extorting funds from victims.\n\nThere is also evidence they may have links to other cyber-criminal groups responsible for high-profile attacks on companies including Travelex, which was crippled by ransomware in January.\n\nThe way the hackers paid the charities is also a possible cause for concern for law enforcement.\n\nThe cyber-criminals used a US-based service called The Giving Block, which is used by 67 different non-profits from around the world including Save The Children, Rainforest Foundation and She's The First.\n\nThe now-deleted tweet celebrating the donation from the hackers\n\nThe Giving Block describes itself online as \"the only non-profit specific solution for accepting crypto-currency donations\".\n\nThe company was set up in 2018 to offer cryptocurrency 'millionaires' the ability to take advantage of the \"huge tax incentive to donate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies directly to non-profits\".\n\nThe Giving Block told the BBC it was not aware these donations were made by cyber-criminals. It said: \"We are still working to determine if these funds were actually stolen.\n\n\"If it turns out these donations were made using stolen funds, we will of course begin the work of returning them to the rightful owner.\"\n\nThe company did not clarify if this means returning the stolen money to the criminals, or attempting to work out which of the criminal victims it intended to reimburse and how.\n\nThe Giving Block, which is also an advocate for crypto-currencies, added: \"The fact they used crypto will make it easier, not harder, to catch them.\"\n\nHowever, The Giving Block has not given details on what information they collect on their donors. Most services that buy and sell digital coins like Bitcoin require users to verify their identity, but it's not clear whether this has been done here.\n\n67 charities use The Giving Block to accept crypto-currency\n\nAs an experiment, the BBC attempted to donate anonymously through The Giving Block's online system, and was not asked any identity verification questions.\n\nExperts say the case highlights the complexity and dangers of anonymous donations.\n\nCrypto-currency investigator Philip Gradwell from Chainalysis said: \"If you walked into a charity shop with an anonymous mask on and donated £10,000 in cash, then asked for a taxable receipt, questions should probably be asked - and it's no different.\n\n\"It's right to say that researchers and law enforcement have become adept at tracing crypto-currency funds as they are moved around from wallet to wallet. But finding who actually owns each wallet is far more complicated.\n\n\"By allowing anonymous donations from potentially illicit sources, it opens up the danger of money laundering.\n\n\"All crypto-currency businesses need a full range of Anti-Money Laundering measures including a Know Your Customer (KYC) program of basic background checks, so that they can understand who is behind the transactions their business facilitates.\"\n\nThe BBC has spoken with other charities which accept donations via The Giving Project.\n\nSave the Children told the BBC it would \"never knowingly take money obtained through crime\".\n\nShe's the First, a charity for girls' education around the world, said it would not be comfortable accepting money from anonymous, possibly criminal, sources and said: \"It's a shame that bad actors would exploit the opportunity to donate crypto-currency for personal gain, and we hope that even anonymous donors share our community's values.\"", "The fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has filed a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia's crown prince, accusing him of ordering the killing.\n\nHatice Cengiz and the rights group Khashoggi formed before his death are pursuing Mohammed bin Salman and more than 20 others for unspecified damages.\n\nKhashoggi was killed by a team of Saudi agents during a visit to the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2018.\n\nThe crown prince has denied ordering the killing.\n\nKhashoggi was a prominent critic of the Saudi government and had been living in self-imposed exile in the US, frequently writing for the Washington Post.\n\nIn the civil lawsuit filed in Washington DC on Tuesday, Turkish citizen Ms Cengiz claims personal injury and financial losses over Khashoggi's death.\n\nKhashoggi's human rights group, Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn), says its operations were hampered.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges that Khashoggi was murdered \"pursuant to a directive of defendant Mohammed bin Salman\".\n\n\"The objective of the murder was clear - to halt Mr Khashoggi's advocacy in the United States... for democratic reform in the Arab world,\" the lawsuit says.\n\nIn a video conference on Tuesday, lawyers for Ms Cengiz and Dawn said the focus of the lawsuit was to have a US court hold the crown prince liable for the killing and to obtain documents that reveal the truth, the Washington Post newspaper reports.\n\n\"Jamal believed anything was possible in America and I place my trust in the American civil justice system to obtain a measure of justice and accountability,\" Ms Cengiz said in a statement.\n\nA prominent Saudi journalist, Khashoggi covered major stories, including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the rise of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, for various Saudi news organisations.\n\nFor decades, the 59-year-old was close to the Saudi royal family and also served as an adviser to the government.\n\nBut he fell out of favour and went into self-imposed exile in the US in 2017. From there, he wrote a monthly column in the Washington Post in which he criticised the policies of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the son of King Salman and Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler.\n\nIn his first column for the Post in September 2017, Khashoggi said he had feared being arrested in an apparent crackdown on dissent overseen by the prince.\n\nHe was last seen entering the Saudi consulate on 2 October 2018 to obtain papers he needed in order to marry Ms Cengiz.\n\nAfter listening to purported audio recordings of conversations inside the consulate made by Turkish intelligence, UN special rapporteur Agnes Callamard concluded that Khashoggi was \"brutally slain\" that day.\n\nThe Saudi public prosecution concluded that the murder was not premeditated.\n\nIt said the killing was ordered by the head of a \"negotiations team\" sent to Istanbul to bring Khashoggi back to the kingdom \"by means of persuasion\" or, if that failed, \"by force\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe journalist was forcibly restrained after a struggle and injected with a large amount of a drug, resulting in an overdose that led to his death, according to the Saudi prosecution. His body was then dismembered and handed over to a local \"collaborator\" outside the consulate. The remains were never found.\n\nTurkish prosecutors concluded that Khashoggi was suffocated almost as soon as he entered the consulate, and that his body was destroyed.\n\nIn December 2019, the Riyadh Criminal Court sentenced five people to death for \"committing and directly participating in the murder of the victim\". Three others were handed prison sentences totalling 24 years for \"covering up this crime and violating the law\".\n\nThree people were found not guilty, including Saudi Arabia's former deputy intelligence chief, Ahmad Asiri.\n\nSaud al-Qahtani, a former senior adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed, was investigated by the Saudi public prosecution but not charged.\n\nLast month, state media reported that the five death sentences were commuted to 20-year jail terms.", "The couple were seen posing on tracks in Whitby in July, accompanied by wedding guests\n\nA couple who posed for wedding photographs on railway tracks in North Yorkshire have been condemned by Network Rail.\n\nThey were caught on CCTV standing on a line near Whitby in July.\n\nMore than 5,000 trespassing incidents were recorded between June and September, with many involving people using the railways as a backdrop for photos.\n\nNetwork Rail said taking selfies and photo shoots was \"plain stupidity\".\n\nIn September alone some 1,239 incidents were recorded - a 17% rise.\n\nNetwork Rail shared an image of a photo shoot on a train line in Cilfrew, Neath Port Talbot\n\nSupt Alison Evans, of British Transport Police, said: \"The railway is not an appropriate or safe setting for a photographic backdrop, no matter how scenic the setting.\n\n\"Every time someone strays on to the rail network they are not only putting themselves at risk of serious, life-threatening injury, but also delaying essential journeys.\"\n\nHollyoaks actor Ellis Hollins was forced to apologise in July after posting images on social media from a photoshoot on the railway.\n\nHe admitted it was \"irresponsible\" and he was \"careless to take part in such a dangerous situation\".\n\nAnother image showed people walking down a railway track in Harlech in Gwynedd\n\nNetwork Rail has launched a \"You vs Train\" campaign in partnership with British Transport Police to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nThe number of incidents involving children at 51 targeted locations has fallen in each of the past two years.\n\nAllan Spence, of Network Rail, said: \"Wedding photos or selfies on the track are just plain stupidity.\n\n\"Please, make sure you know the rail safety basics and pass that knowledge onto your loved ones. Lead by example and stay off the tracks.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hairdressing salon owner Helen Rouse: \"It just feels wrong to be shutting us down\"\n\nThe beauty sector needs VAT cut to match the hospitality sector to survive winter, an MP has said.\n\nLabour Swansea East MP Carolyn Harris said she fears many beauty businesses will go under by Christmas without more support.\n\nOne Cardiff hairdresser owner has said the new Job Support Scheme \"wasn't viable\" for businesses like theirs.\n\nThe UK Treasury said their Winter Economy Plan will ensure support for the sector continues.\n\nIn July, a temporary cut to VAT from 20% to 5% was announced for the tourism and hospitality sector, which has been extended to 31 March 2021.\n\nIt applies to all food, non-alcoholic drinks, accommodation and tourist attractions across the UK.\n\nBut Ms Harris, chair of Parliament's all-party group on beauty, aesthetics and wellbeing, has said the cut needs to be applied to the beauty sector.\n\n\"We really have to start thinking about this as a very serious contributor to the economy, a massive employer - they really need to have the support other sectors have had,\" she said.\n\nMs Harris added that while Wales' two week 'firebreak' lockdown would be \"frustrating\" for those in the sector, it was \"the best means through which we can try to prevent a further, prolonged national lockdown over the winter months\".\n\nCardiff hairdresser owner Helen Rouse says the Job Support Scheme is \"not viable\"\n\nUnder Wales' firebreak, beginning on Friday, close-contact services like hairdressers and beauty salons will be required to close until Monday, 9 November.\n\nHelen Rouse, the director and owner of a salon in Cardiff, said the Treasury's furlough scheme had been a \"real help\", but added that its replacement - the Job Support Scheme - was \"not viable\".\n\nHer business employs 20 people, and two self-employed people, 19 of whom were eligible for the furlough scheme which ends on 31 October.\n\n\"I think the hairdressers are forgotten amongst all this,\" she said.\n\n\"Pubs and restaurants had 'eat out to help out' back in August - there was nothing for us. No VAT break.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said every firm covered by small business rates relief would receive a £1,000 payment, and small and medium-sized retail, leisure and hospitality firms that have to close will get a one-off payment of up to £5,000 - with additional discretionary grants for struggling firms.\n\nMs Rouse said while the Welsh Government support for small businesses would be \"helpful\" it wouldn't be enough to cover their 20 staff.\n\nMany salons invested in temperature check guns and plastic screens to keep customers safe\n\nShe said the best support they could have would be to stay open.\n\n\"We can't survive the quieter months of January, February if we can't maximise our October, November, December,\" she said.\n\n\"Hairdressers are hygienic by nature, we've followed every rule, we've invested in all the Covid-secure PPE and screens and everything, and it just feels wrong to be shutting us down.\"\n\nJayne Goodings, who owns Lemon Tree beauty salon in Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, said the best she can hope for is to survive the lockdown as the Job Support Scheme would not help if they were closed.\n\n\"I was gutted for myself and lots of other small businesses,\" she said.\n\n\"It's been very, very tough. I've done my ranting, I've done my crying, but we've got to take it and get on with it.\n\n\"As long as I can be here when this is all over, that's all I can hope for.\"\n\nSwansea East MP Carolyn Harris said she fears many beauty businesses won't survive until Christmas\n\nA letter from Ms Harris to the prime minister in July said the sector contributed almost £8bn to the UK economy, and employed 370,000 people.\n\nSince the summer, Ms Harris said the situation has become worse.\n\n\"I really worry that a lot of them will have gone under by Christmas at this rate,\" she said.\n\n\"Unless we start making sure they are protected, they are going to have to think about redundancies, or closing up - especially the mobile therapists - who have only got themselves.\n\n\"Why not give them that support now to keep to them going, tide them over, so they're still viable when this all ends and they're able to reopen fully.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said they keep all taxes under review and said: \"We've supported the beauty sector from the start of the outbreak, protecting jobs through business rates holidays, our income support schemes, VAT deferrals and cash grants of up to £25,000.\n\n\"Our Winter Economy Plan will ensure this continues in the difficult months to come.\"", "First Minister Mark Drakeford has written again to Chancellor Rishi Sunak warning \"many staff will be laid off\" in leisure and hospitality as a result of the firebreak lockdown in Wales.\n\nHe said it is because they will not fulfil the eligibility criteria to be enrolled for the last week of the Job Retention Scheme (JRS).\n\n\"Employers with no income will be faced with the difficult decision of paying all of the wage costs of these employees or making them redundant,\" Mr Drakeford said in the letter.\n\n\"It makes no sense from the point of view of the UK Exchequer to have to meet the possible long-term costs of paying out-of-work benefits to these individuals for the sake of one week’s support on the JRS.\n\n\"Will you therefore agree in these exceptional circumstances to waive the requirement for employees for whom JRS is claimed for this period to have been on furlough for at least three weeks prior to 30 June?\"", "James Redford and his father Robert, pictured together at an event in 2018\n\nHollywood star Robert Redford is \"in mourning\" following the death of his son James at the age of 58.\n\nActivist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after being diagnosed with liver cancer, his wife Kyle confirmed via Twitter.\n\nHis famous father's publicist, Cindi Berger, said: \"The grief is immeasurable with the loss of a child.\"\n\nThe 84-year-old retired actor and director starred in movies like Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid.\n\n\"Jamie [James] was a loving son, husband and father,\" added Berger, who asked for privacy for the Redford family \"during this difficult time\".\n\n\"His legacy lives on through his children, art, filmmaking and devoted passion to conservation and the environment.\"\n\nHis latest film Playing Keeps, which explored the importance of play and downtime in our lives, was given a virtual premiere online at this month's Mill Valley Film Festival in California.\n\nHis wife of 32 years, Kyle, shared the news of his death online, alongside pictures of the couple and their two children.\n\n\"We're heartbroken. He lived a beautiful, impactful life and was loved by many,\" she 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 kyle redford 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 told the Salt Lake Tribune that James had discovered the cancer diagnosis late last year while awaiting a liver transplant.\n\nHis liver disease had returned two years ago, she added.\n\nPaying tribute, actor and director Mark Ruffalo wrote: \"Damn. This year has cut deep. Another great, sweet, kindly person leaves us.\"\n\nAnother Hollywood star, Kiefer Sutherland, described the late filmmaker as \"a wonderful writer and a wonderful man\".\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 Kiefer Sutherland 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\nFellow filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom tweeted she was \"heartbroken to hear of my friend Jamie's passing\".\n\n\"He was an amazing filmmaker and a beautiful person, & I will be forever grateful to him for his mentorship when I started out as a filmmaker.\"\n\nRobert Redford has three other children, including the actress Amy Redford.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "More than 100,000 women have had their clothes digitally removed from images\n\nFaked nude images of more than 100,000 women have been created from social media pictures and shared online, according to a new report.\n\nClothes are digitally removed from pictures of women by Artificial Intelligence (AI), and spread on the messaging app Telegram.\n\nSome of those targeted \"appeared to be underage\", the report by intelligence company Sensity said.\n\nBut those running the service said it was simply \"entertainment\".\n\nThe BBC has tested the software and received poor results.\n\nSensity claim the technology used is a \"deepfake bot\".\n\nDeepfakes are computer-generated, often realistic images and video, based on a real template. One of its uses has been to create faked pornographic video clips of celebrities.\n\nBut Sensity's chief executive Giorgio Patrini said the shift to using photos of private individuals is relatively new.\n\n\"Having a social media account with public photos is enough for anyone to become a target,\" he warned.\n\nThe artificial intelligence-powered bot lives inside a Telegram private messaging channel. Users can send the bot a photo of a woman, and it will digitally remove her clothes in minutes, at no cost.\n\nThe BBC tested multiple images, all with the subjects' consent, and none were completely realistic - our results included a photo of a woman with a belly button on her diaphragm.\n\nA similar app was shut down last year, but it is believed there are cracked versions of the software in circulation.\n\nThe administrator running the service, known only as \"P\" said: \"I don't care that much. This is entertainment that does not carry violence.\n\n\"No one will blackmail anyone with this, since the quality is unrealistic.\"\n\nHe also said the team looks at what photos are shared, and \"when we see minors we block the user for good.\"\n\nIllustrations from the report show how messaging the bot will result in a modified version being sent back\n\nBut the decision on whether to share the photo with others is up to whoever used the bot to create it in the first place, he said.\n\nDefending its relative level of harm, he added: \"There are wars, diseases, many bad things that are harmful in the world.\" He has also claimed he will soon remove all of the images.\n\nTelegram has not responded to a request for comment.\n\nSensity reported that between July 2019 and 2020, approximately 104,852 women have been targeted and had fake naked images of them shared publicly.\n\nIts investigation found that some of the images appeared underage, \"suggesting that some users were primarily using the bot to generate and share paedophilic content.\"\n\nSensity said the bot has had significant advertising on the Russian social media site VK, and a survey on the platform showed that most users were from Russia and ex-USSR countries.\n\nBut VK said: \"It doesn't tolerate such content or links on the platform and blocks communities that distribute them.\"\n\nTelegram was officially banned in Russia until earlier this year.\n\n\"Many of these websites or apps do not hide or operate underground, because they are not strictly outlawed,\" said Sensity's Giorgio Patrini.\n\n\"Until that happens, I am afraid it will only get worse.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Bella Thorne opens up about her experience of deepfake abuse\n\nThe authors of the report say they have shared all their findings with Telegram, VK and relevant law enforcement agencies, but have not had a response.\n\nNina Schick, author of the book Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse, said deepfake creators were all over the world, and that legal protections were \"playing catch-up\" with the technology.\n\n\"It's only a matter of time until that content becomes more sophisticated. The number of deepfake porn videos seems to be doubling every six months,\" she said.\n\n\"Our legal systems are not fit for purpose on this issue. Society is changing quicker than we can imagine due to these exponential technological advances, and we as a society haven't decided how to regulate this.\n\n\"It's devastating, for victims of fake porn. It can completely upend their life because they feel violated and humiliated.\"\n\nLast year the US state of Virginia became one of the first places to outlaw deepfakes\n\nThe current UK law around fake nude images has recently been criticised for being \"inconsistent, out-of-date and confusing\" in a university report.\n\nDespite progress on issues like revenge porn and upskirting, \"there remain many glaring gaps in the law\", says Lucy Hadley of the Women's Aid charity.\n\nWhile these statistics show how widespread deep-fake images can be, it is not currently a specific offence.\n\nThe government has instructed the Law Commission to review the law around the issue in England and Wales. Its findings are due in 2021.", "John Leslie said he could not remember being at the party in 2008\n\nFormer TV presenter John Leslie has been found not guilty of sexual assault.\n\nThe 55-year-old was on trial at Southwark Crown Court accused of grabbing a woman's breasts at a Christmas party in 2008.\n\nThe woman made a complaint to the police in 2017.\n\nMr Leslie began his TV career in 1989 on the BBC's Blue Peter show. He went on to host Wheel of Fortune and This Morning.\n\nThe jury returned a not guilty verdict after 23 minutes of deliberations, following the week-long trial.\n\nHis former co-presenters Anthea Turner and Fern Britton were his character witnesses in the trial.\n\nMr Leslie told the jury he could not remember being at the party, and described the single allegation of sexual assault from 5 December 2008 as \"crazy\" and \"ludicrous\".\n\nGiving evidence, he said: \"I would not have touched her like some mannequin and walked off.\"\n\nHe told the jury he had previously been made out to be an \"aggressive, sexual monster\" by the tabloid press.\n\nThe jury returned a not guilty verdict on Monday after 23 minutes of deliberations\n\nMr Leslie said his life changed in 2002 when he was wrongly identified on live television as the unnamed alleged rapist in his former girlfriend Ulrika Jonsson's autobiography.\n\nPresenter Matthew Wright later apologised, saying he named him in error, the court was told.\n\nMs Jonsson has never made any complaint to police, the jury heard.\n\nThe jury took just 23-minutes to reach their verdict.\n\nAs the court reassembled John Leslie was asked to stand to hear the foreman say they'd found him not guilty of one count of sexual assault.\n\nOn hearing those words the former Blue Peter presenter began to sob in the dock.\n\nHis father, Les Stott, who's attended court every day with his son, punched the air before he too broke down in tears.\n\nThe two of them hugged and cried before they left.\n\nMr Leslie, from Edinburgh, said there had never been any sexual assault allegations against him before his name was wrongly linked to the book, and described the fallout as \"Armageddon\".\n\nHe said the tabloids \"decided I was their man\", and there had been \"adverts for women to come forward with allegations\".\n\nMr Leslie, whose full name is John Leslie Stott, told the jury he had become reclusive, paranoid, depressed and suicidal amid the allegations, saying: \"I lost everything.\"\n\nIn 2003, two charges of indecent assault against him made by one woman were dropped, and not guilty verdicts were recorded at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nAfter Monday's verdict, Judge Deborah Taylor said: \"Mr Stott, you for the second time leave this court without a stain on your character and I hope it will be the last time you have to attend.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police will \"assess whether a criminal offence may have been committed\" after records relating to the Grenfell Tower refurbishment were \"binned\".\n\nA project manager for the works said she threw away notebooks relating to her work almost a year after the deadly fire at the building in 2017.\n\nAt that time a public inquiry and police investigation were under way.\n\nClaire Williams told the public inquiry she thought the information was \"documented elsewhere\" and not needed.\n\nThe chairman of the inquiry, which is looking into the June 2017 fire which killed 72 people, said it was hard to understand why she had \"taken it upon herself\" to do such a thing.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police Service said the force was \"aware\" of evidence presented to the inquiry about the notebooks and was waiting for the inquiry to pass it to officers.\n\n\"If relevant documentation has been disposed of or withheld from the criminal investigation, the MPS will seek to establish the facts and assess whether a criminal offence may have been committed,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nMs Williams, who worked for Grenfell landlords the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (TMO), told the inquiry on Monday that she got rid of her records when she cleared her desk and left her job in May 2018.\n\nShe said: \"There was nothing underhand about it. I was clearing my desk, I looked and decided that everything that was in there was formally represented in minutes or other paperwork and it was of little value.\"\n\nShe said: \"It wasn't a conscious, hiding anything decision, it was 'I'm clearing my desk'. I put them in the bin.\"\n\nIt comes after her former colleague, Peter Maddison, disclosed several notebooks and diaries containing \"material of the utmost relevance\" to the inquiry only last week.\n\nThe inquiry, now in its second phase examining how the blaze could have happened in the first place, is continuing to hear evidence from Ms Williams.\n\nThe first phase concluded that cladding put on during the refurbishment fuelled the fire in June 2017 in which 72 people died.", "Visa and Mastercard have been accused of cashing in during the coronavirus crisis by charging \"excessive fees\".\n\nThe British Retail Consortium says the fees charged by payment firms have almost doubled in the last two years.\n\nThey warn that retailers will be forced to pass on the extra costs to consumers, with credit card bills rising by another £40 a year.\n\nHowever, Mastercard questioned the BRC's findings and said shops were paying less than five years ago.\n\nThe BRC's head of finance policy, Andrew Cregan, told the BBC: \"It is vital that the government takes action to tackle excessive card costs,\" said the BRC's Andrew Cregan.\n\n\"If a phone or energy company increased their fees by such an amount there would uproar.\n\n\"It's an abuse of a dominant market position by these companies. They're two of the most profitable organisations in the world and they've got merchants over a barrel.\"\n\nThe industry body wants the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to investigate the card schemes.\n\nA Visa spokesperson responded: \"Visa enables millions of merchants throughout the UK to access the benefits of digital payments, giving them the ability to reach billions of potential customers both in their local communities and across the globe. Visa has delivered to UK consumers some of the most secure and innovative payments solutions available anywhere in the world.\"\n\nA Mastercard spokesperson said: \"We do not believe the BRC's report represents the facts of the UK payments industry.\n\n\"The UK benefits from a highly competitive payments system designed for ease, simplicity and security for all those who make or receive a payment.\n\n\"Digital payments are the most effective way of receiving and making payments for business and by their nature are significantly less costly than cash.\"\n\nMastercard added that, on average, BRC members \"pay less to accept a like-for-like Mastercard transaction than they did five years ago\".\n\nRetail and hospitality trade bodies have come together to call for action to tackle card fees, as more of them have been forced to accept only card payments due to the pandemic and social distancing rules.\n\nMany retailers now only accept card payments, but they feel penalised by payment processers\n\nIn its latest Payments Survey, the BRC said that card schemes were clearly the \"least competitive layer of the card payments ecosystem\", with a duopoly controlling 98% of the UK market.\n\n\"Complex billing structures have become a powerful tool to bamboozle political, regulatory or legal attempts to rein in increasing abuses of the schemes' dominant market positions,\" said the industry body.\n\nBRC said the increases in scheme fees - 39% in 2017 and 56% in 2018, measured as a percentage of turnover - were \"clear demonstrations of an abuse of market dominance\".\n\nThe BRC said the average cost of a cash transaction to retailers was just 1.42p. Accepting payment by debit cards costs retailers 5.88p, while credit cards cost them 18.4p.\n\n\"The events of the last few months have accelerated a move towards the use of card payments across hospitality, with many now not accepting cash on safety grounds,\" pointed out David Sheen, public affairs director at UK Hospitality.\n\n\"The sector needs to be protected from excessive fees for doing the right thing.\"\n\nJeff Moody, commercial director, British Independent Retailers Association, said that local shops are being penalised as they are not able to negotiate better fees with payment firms.\n\n\"The contracts available to large national chains are often not available to individual smaller independent retailers,\" he said.\n\n\"With card transactions now the majority of their payment transactions, these costs are therefore being felt by consumers.\"\n\n\"The costs that accompany acceptance of card payments represent yet another overhead for embattled small retailers,\" added Martin McTague, national policy and advocacy vice chairman at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).", "A silent march was held in honour of Mr Paty on Tuesday evening in the suburbwhere he was killed\n\nThe father of a pupil accused of launching an online campaign against Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded in France, sent messages to the killer before the attack, French media report.\n\nMr Paty, who was killed on Friday, had earlier shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils.\n\nThe 48-year-old father, who has not been officially named, is accused of issuing a \"fatwa\" against the teacher.\n\nThe brutal murder of Mr Paty, 47, has shocked France.\n\nTens of thousands of people took part in rallies across France at the weekend to honour him and defend freedom of speech. A silent march was held on Tuesday evening in the suburb north-west of Paris where he was killed.\n\nA man named as 18-year-old Abdoulakh A was shot dead by police after killing Mr Paty on Friday.\n\nThe father of the pupil is reported to have exchanged a number of text messages with Mr Paty's killer prior to the attack close to the teacher's school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.\n\nHe is accused, along with a preacher described by French media as a radical Islamist, of calling for Mr Paty to be punished by issuing a so-called \"fatwa\" (considered a legal ruling by Islamic scholars).\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said the two men had been arrested and were being investigated for an \"assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. French minister: Lessons on freedom of expression will continue\n\nPolice launched a series of raids targeting Islamist networks on Monday, and some 40 homes were targeted.\n\nOn Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said the Sheikh Yassin Collective - an Islamist group named after the founder of the Palestinian militant group Hamas - would be outlawed for being \"directly involved\" in the killing.\n\nHe said the ban was a way of helping France's Muslim community, Europe's largest, from the influence of radicalism.\n\nThe group's leader is among 16 people who were taken into custody in the aftermath of the murder.\n\nSix have now been released after questioning including the killer's grandfather, parents and 17-year-old brother. Four school students are believed to remain in detention.\n\nMr Darmanin earlier said 51 French Muslim organisations, including charities and NGOs, would be inspected by government officials and closed down if they were found to be promoting hatred.\n\nHe said police would also be interviewing about 80 people who were believed to have posted messages in support of the killing.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, the French government ordered a mosque to close for sharing videos on Facebook calling for action against Mr Paty and sharing his school's address in the days before his death.\n\nThe Pantin mosque, which has about 1,500 worshippers and is situated just north of Paris, will close for six months on Wednesday. The mosque expressed \"regret\" over the videos, which it has deleted, and condemned the teacher's killing.\n\nBeneath the public outrage there is a divided nation. A growing number of people believe France's rules on secularism and freedom of speech need to change.\n\nAround 29% of Muslim respondents told a recent poll that Islam was incompatible with the values of the French Republic - a sharp increase over the past few years. And among those under 25, the figure was much higher.\n\nThe number of people who think violence is justified in response to cartoons of Muhammad is very small. But teachers in some areas say that view is growing among their pupils.\n\nThe roots of this rebellion against French national values are complex - conflicts abroad, racism, lack of opportunity and government policy all play a role.\n\nIt's hard to support the values of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity if they don't appear to apply to you.\n\nBefore this attack, President Macron had already promised a new law to target \"separatism\". But will it tackle the growing chasm or deepen the fault-lines once more?\n\nOn Monday, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said Mr Paty had been the target of threats since he showed the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a class about freedom of speech earlier in October.\n\nThe history and geography teacher advised Muslim students to leave the room if they thought they might be offended.\n\nMr Ricard said that the killer went to the school on Friday afternoon and asked students to point out the teacher. He then followed Mr Paty as he walked home from work and used a knife to attack him.\n\nSamuel Paty, a well-liked teacher, had been threatened over showing the cartoons\n\nTuesday evening's silent vigil in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine was attended by thousands. Earlier in the day, the French parliament observed a minute of silence.\n\nMr Macron will attend a ceremony with Mr Paty's family on Wednesday.\n\nThe teacher will also be posthumously given France's highest award, the Legion d'Honneur.\n\nDepictions of the Prophet Muhammad can cause serious offence to Muslims because Islamic tradition explicitly forbids images of Muhammad and Allah (God).\n\nThe issue is particularly sensitive in France because of the decision by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. A trial is currently under way over the killing of 12 people by Islamist extremists at the magazine's offices in 2015 following their publication.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rallies in Paris, Toulouse, Lyon and other French cities in support of Samuel Paty\n\nFrance's Muslim community comprises about 10% of the population.\n\nSome French Muslims say they are frequent targets of racism and discrimination because of their faith - an issue that has long caused tension in the country.", "Scientists around the globe are working on potential vaccines for coronavirus\n\nThe UK is pushing ahead to be the first nation to carry out \"human challenge\" studies where up to 90 healthy people will be deliberately exposed to Covid.\n\nThe trials, which could begin in January, aim to speed up the race to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe government is putting £33.6m towards the groundbreaking work.\n\nSafety will be a number one priority, experts insist. The plans will need ethical approval and sign-off from regulators before they can go ahead.\n\nHuman challenge studies provide a faster way to test vaccines because you don't have to wait for people to be exposed to an illness naturally.\n\nResearchers would first use controlled doses of the pandemic virus to discover what is the smallest amount that can cause Covid infection in volunteers aged 18 to 30.\n\nThese human guinea pigs, who will be infected with the virus through the nose and monitored around the clock, have the lowest risk of harm due to their young age and good health.\n\nNext, scientists could test if a Covid vaccine prevents infection.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLead researcher for the project Dr Chris Chiu, from Imperial College London, said: \"My team has been safely running human challenge studies with other respiratory viruses for over 10 years. No study is completely risk free, but the Human Challenge Programme partners will be working hard to ensure we make the risks as low as we possibly can.\"\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, co-investigator on the study and director of the Human Challenge Consortium, said deliberately infecting volunteers with a known human pathogen was \"never undertaken lightly\".\n\n\"However, such studies are enormously informative.\n\n\"It is really vital that we move as fast as possible towards getting effective vaccines and other treatments for Covid-19.\"\n\nThere are hundreds of Covid vaccines being developed around the world and several front-runners already in the final stages of testing, including one from Oxford University.\n\nWhile some of these could get results and start to be used before the new trial has chance to begin, researchers say the work will still be useful, particularly for head-to-head studies to compare which vaccines work best.\n\nExperts say we will probably need a few different vaccines, as well as effective treatments, to defeat Covid. They will also need to be tested in those at highest risk from Covid - the elderly and vulnerable.\n\nThe first stage of the human challenge project will be delivered by a partnership between Imperial College London, the Royal Free Hospital's specialist and secure research unit in London and a company called hVIVO.\n\nAfter exposure to Covid, the young volunteers will need to stay in a biosecure facility until they are no longer infectious.\n\nThey will be financially reimbursed for their time, and monitored for up to a year after taking part in the study to check for any side-effects.\n\nPeople can sign up here.\n\nPurposely infecting someone with Covid does pose an ethical dilemma, especially since there is no treatment to cure patients, although there are ones that might make it less deadly.\n\nProf Julian Savulescu, an expert in ethics at Oxford University, said the trials were justified: \"In a pandemic, time is lives. So far, over a million people have died.\n\n\"There is a moral imperative to develop to a safe and effective vaccine - and to do so as quickly as possible.\n\n\"Given the stakes, it is unethical not to do challenge studies.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"We are doing everything we can to fight coronavirus, including backing our best and brightest scientists and researchers in their hunt for a safe and effective vaccine.\"\n• None UK volunteers could be given virus to test vaccine\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. Burnham: 'It can't be right to close businesses without support'\n\nThe failure to agree a £65m package of support will mean a \"winter of hardship\" for Greater Manchester if tier three measures are imposed, the region's mayor has said.\n\nAndy Burnham said tighter measures \"would be certain to increase levels of poverty, homelessness and hardship\".\n\nHe added ministers \"walked away\" from negotiations over aid earlier today.\n\nTier three rules mean most pubs and bars will close, and there will be extra restrictions on household mixing.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to hold a press conference at 17:00 BST, which will be followed by a statement in the House of Commons from Health Secretary Matt Hancock at 19:00.\n\nSpeaking alongside other local leaders, Mr Burnham said: \"At no point today were we offered enough to protect the poorest people in our communities.\"\n\nThe former MP added he was still willing to do a deal with the government \"but it cannot be on the terms the government has offered today\".\n\nBut addressing the people of Greater Manchester, he added: \"Please, everybody, observe the law at all times and follow the public health advice. Above all else, please look out for each other, as I know you will.\"\n\nThe latest government figures showed that, on Tuesday, the UK recorded a further 21,330 coronavirus cases and a further 241 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMr Burnham's comments follow 10 days of talks between the government and local leaders - including mayors and MPs - over moving Greater Manchester's 2.8 million population from tier two to the highest restrictions.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the \"collapse of the talks\" was a \"sign of government failure\".\n\nGreater Manchester is currently under tier two rules, meaning pubs and restaurants must close at 22:00, there is no household mixing indoors and the rule of six applies outdoors.\n\nUnder tier three rules - currently only applied to Lancashire and the Liverpool City Region - pubs and bars not serving substantial meals have to close, household mixing is banned both indoors and outdoors, and there is guidance against travelling in or out of the area.\n\nGreater Manchester was offered £60m of central government to help support businesses under the new Tier 3 limits - but in a conversation with the prime minister, Mayor Andy Burnham suggested it was not possible to accept less than £65m.\n\nGreater Manchester leaders originally submitted a request for £90m, which had been costed by a former Treasury official. On Tuesday morning they discussed £75m with government officials, which would have covered the period until the end of the financial year.\n\nIt's understood that Boris Johnson and Mr Burnham discussed a figure of £60m but were unable to agree. Ministers were reluctant to set a precedent of giving one region more, proportionately, than another, especially given ongoing talks with several other parts of the country which could also face tougher restrictions.\n\nIt is now not clear what financial support the region will receive. After 10 days of talks (of a kind) and billions spent during this crisis, it is quite something that the deal fell over down to a gap of £5m.\n\nEarlier, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said Mr Burnham had been \"unwilling to take the action that is required to get the spread of the virus under control\".\n\nHe added: \"I have therefore advised the prime minister that these discussions have concluded without an agreement.\"\n\nResponding to the news, Sir Keir said: \"The Conservatives have been treating local communities, particularly in the Midlands, North West and North East, and their leaders with contempt.\n\n\"Labour recognise the need for stricter public health restrictions. However, that must be accompanied by extra financial support.\"\n\nWilliam Wragg, Conservative MP for Hazel Grove in Greater Manchester, tweeted that the \"sense of failure\" was \"overwhelming\".\n\nHe added: \"I shall avoid political comment until I have heard Matt Hancock's statement in House of Commons this evening.\"\n\nThe three-tier system of alerts came into force in England last week in an attempt to control rising coronavirus cases without a UK-wide lockdown.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Hancock told the Commons that discussions were planned about South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, north-east England and Teesside also moving into the top tier.\n\nSpeaking ahead of those discussions with government, Nottingham City Council leader David Mellen said he planned to make clear \"that we want a package that properly protects local people, businesses, jobs and education, whether it's for tier two or tier three\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the new three tier system after lockdown?\n\nElsewhere in the UK, in Wales people will be told to stay at home from Friday, while pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops will shut, as part of a \"short, sharp\" national lockdown until 9 November.\n\nA two-week school closure has begun in Northern Ireland as part of a tightening of restrictions.\n\nAnd in Scotland, the tightest restrictions are in place in the central belt, and there are plans for a three-tier framework of measures, similar to England's.", "Kath Sharpe says the division is \"crackers\"\n\nPeople across the country have opposing views about the government's new coronavirus tier system.\n\nBut in the case of Langwith, on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border, the division is somewhat more literal.\n\nThe county boundary runs down the middle of Portland Road, meaning houses on one side have \"tier one\" restrictions, while the other side is \"tier two\".\n\nIt's caused some amusement among residents, but also much frustration due to the difficulty of living in a community with two sets of rules.\n\nThe division between the two tiers runs right down the middle of Portland Road\n\nPeople on the Derbyshire side of the street, currently in tier one, can meet socially in groups of six indoors, while those on the other side are subject to more stringent restrictions - due to the fact Nottinghamshire became tier two this week.\n\nKath Sharpe, a 72-year-old parish councillor who lives in the village, said people had been joking about building a wall down the middle of the road.\n\n\"It's crackers,\" she said. \"As far as I'm aware, we've not had any cases of Covid in the village.\n\n\"People here have been very good at following the rules but I don't think they're going to stick to this - plus, who's going to come and enforce it?\n\n\"It should have been looked at as a whole community, not some of it lumped in with what's happening miles away.\"\n\nDave Mather says tier one ends at his garden wall\n\nDave Mather, 69, a retired miner who lives on the Derbyshire side of Portland Road, said: \"It's absolutely crazy - Derbyshire and tier one ends at my garden wall.\n\n\"They should have realised you can't divide a village up.\"\n\nDawn Wakeling doubts people in the village will follow the different restrictions\n\nDawn Wakeling, 49, lives on the tier one side of the road but her mother, whom she helps look after, lives across the street.\n\nShe said they will remain unaffected, as they are in a bubble, but added: \"People aren't going to follow it.\n\n\"I wouldn't be going to Nottingham but I won't be avoiding parts of the village. It has to be done on a village-by-village basis.\"\n\nBeverley Booker, 54, lives on the tier two side.\n\n\"When the border is just a walk to the other side of the street, it's a bit daft, isn't it?\" she said.\n\nKath McCormack, 66, who lives on the Nottinghamshire side, said: \"I know we're technically in Nottinghamshire, but Derbyshire is just a road away.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense to split a village in two.\"\n\nIt's not just people on the street that are feeling divided - the split has affected the whole village.\n\nJanice Mitchell, 64, said she will not be able to see her seven-year-old granddaughter because she lives in tier two.\n\n\"It's difficult to understand,\" she said. \"I know they have to have borders but why not go to the end of the road, rather than cut through the middle?\n\n\"I'll follow the rules but now I can't have my granddaughter to stay.\"\n\nThe village's pubs also fall into different tiers.\n\nBev Plumb, landlady of the Jug and Glass Inn, which is in tier two, said she had already had customers contacting her to cancel bookings.\n\nShe said the fact people can meet in pubs just a short walk down the road is an issue, and questioned how she would be able to enforce the ban on households mixing.\n\n\"People are trying to do the right thing, trying not to break the law, but it does affect our business,\" she said.\n\n\"There shouldn't be a blanket approach for the whole of Nottinghamshire.\"\n\nThe village pub that falls into tier two has had cancellations\n\nDerbyshire Labour councillor Joan Dixon drew attention to the anomaly on social media.\n\nShe said: \"There is some local amusement but there is also the sense that the rules are becoming very complicated and people are weary now.\n\n\"There are a lot of close-knit families in that community who will be affected.\"\n\nBoth Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire county councils urged residents to stick to the restrictions.\n\nA Nottinghamshire spokesperson said: \"If they are in Nottinghamshire, it will be a legal requirement not to mix with other people indoors unless they live with them, have a support bubble with them or fall under one of the other exceptions.\"\n\nA Derbyshire spokesperson said: \"These are government restrictions and we would urge people to follow all the latest guidelines.\"\n\nIt added it was the government that decided which tier areas were placed in.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said decisions were made in \"close consultation\" with local leaders.\n\n\"We... constantly review the evidence and will take swift action where necessary,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The name change comes after years of debate in the Quebec town\n\nThe small Canadian town of Asbestos that decided it needed a rebrand has done away with the name derived from its mining heritage.\n\nThe Quebec town, home to some 7,000 people, voted for \"Val-des-Sources\" as its new moniker.\n\nThe town was once the location of the world's largest asbestos mine.\n\nIt was given the English name for the mineral - rather than the French amiante - in the late 19th Century.\n\nBut the town's council said the connotation hindered its ability to attract foreign investment, and announced last November that the hunt was on for a new name.\n\nThe town, about 150 km (95 miles) east of Montreal, finally announced the winning title with some fanfare on Monday evening.\n\nIt was picked after a lengthy consultation and a vote by town residents, including those as young as 14.\n\nAbout half the town residents eligible to cast ballots did so. Val-des-Sources won with just over 51% of the vote in the third round of voting.\n\nThe name is \"above all, inspiring for the future\", Mayor Hugues Grimard said.\n\nOther possibilities on the shortlist were L'Azur-des-Cantons, Jeffrey-sur-le-Lac, Larochelle, Phénix and Trois-Lacs, which came in second place.\n\nAsbestos won't be changing its town signs immediately, said Mr Grimard, who suggested it could be the end of the year before the formal, legal switch.\n\n\"It'll be a nice Christmas present,\" he said.\n\nThe town of Asbestos thrived for over a century on the chrysotile asbestos manufactured at its open-pit mine. The mine suspended operations in 2011.\n\nOnce considered a miracle mineral, asbestos was used in construction industries for strengthening cement, in insulation, roofing, fireproofing and sound absorption.\n\nBut by the mid-20th Century, concerns about its use were growing as more and more studies linked asbestos to deadly illnesses.\n\nBreathing in asbestos fibres has been linked to cancer and other diseases.\n\nGlobal demand plummeted as countries around the world began banning asbestos. Canada was a latecomer, only banning its manufacture, import, use and export in 2018.\n• None Quebec town of Asbestos seeks new name", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says Greater Manchester will move into Tier 3\n\nGreater Manchester will move to England's highest tier of coronavirus restrictions from Friday at 00:01 BST, the prime minister has announced.\n\nSpeaking at No 10, Boris Johnson said \"not to act now\" would put the lives of Manchester's residents \"at risk\".\n\nHe said a \"generous\" offer of financial support had been made to the region but that Mayor Andy Burnham had refused it.\n\nMr Burnham said he had not been offered enough to \"protect the poorest people in our communities\".\n\nUnder tier three rules - currently only applied to Lancashire and the Liverpool City Region - pubs and bars not serving substantial meals have to close, while household mixing is banned indoors and outdoors in hospitality settings and private gardens.\n\nBetting shops, casinos, bingo halls, adult gaming centres and soft play areas will also have to close, while there is guidance against travelling in or out of the area.\n\nGreater Manchester is currently under tier two rules, meaning pubs and restaurants must close at 22:00, there is no household mixing indoors and the rule of six applies outdoors.\n\nAhead of the Downing Street press conference, Mr Burnham - speaking alongside other local leaders - said that without a \"bare minimum\" of £65m in additional business support, tighter measures \"would be certain to increase levels of poverty, homelessness and hardship\" among the region's 2.8 million population.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock later told the House of Commons that a £60m offer previously made to local leaders remained \"on the table\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Burnham: 'It can't be right to close businesses without support'\n\nOn the inability to agree on financial help, Mr Johnson said: \"I do regret this. As I said last week, we would have a better chance of defeating the virus if we work together.\"\n\nHe added Greater Manchester would receive £22m in funding as part of a \"comprehensive package of support\" but that the \"door was open to continue the conversation\" about further aid, so long as it was in line with that offered to other areas in same position.\n\nThe £22m mentioned by Mr Johnson - which is for expenses such as local enforcement and test and trace - is separate to the £60m that Mr Hancock spoke of.\n\nIn addition, the new Job Support Scheme will cover 67% of the wages - funded by employers and the government - of people affected by tier three closures.\n\nBoris Johnson says he can't give Greater Manchester disproportionately more money than other tier three areas.\n\nAndy Burnham says that he won't accept a deal that will lead to increased levels of hardship and homelessness.\n\nBut there are political risks on all sides here.\n\nCould Boris Johnson look like a Whitehall bean-counter who can't bring himself to stump up an extra £5m?\n\nDoes Andy Burnham look like he's overplayed his part as \"King of the North\" (as some now call him)?\n\nAll the while, those living in Greater Manchester might wonder what on earth is actually going to happen on Friday, in terms of financial support, as new measures kick in.\n\nThat surely is now the next deadline. And I suspect political leaders on all sides won't want to have to explain to people, on Friday morning, why they couldn't reach an agreement in time.\n\nExplaining the decision to impose tougher restrictions on Greater Manchester, Mr Hancock said hospital admissions in the region were higher now than at the end of March.\n\n\"There are now more Covid-19 patients in Greater Manchester hospitals than in the whole of the South West and the South East combined,\" he added.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, meanwhile, said residents of Manchester would be \"watching the news in disbelief\".\n\nHe said they would be asking: \"Why was it right to cover 80% of wages in March and then now, in the run-up to Christmas, cover just two-thirds of their wages in October?\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the party would force a Commons vote on Wednesday, demanding a \"fair deal\" for areas facing tier three restrictions.\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 Keir Starmer 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\nConservative MP Chris Green, who represents Bolton West, wrote on Facebook that Bolton had \"been through a far tougher lockdown than Tier 3 and it didn't work\".\n\nHe added: \"The government believes that three weeks of closing pubs and soft play centres will make a dramatic difference. It hasn't and it won't.\"\n\nHowever, six other Conservative MPs from the region have written to Mr Burnham to express their \"concern and deep disappointment\" about what they called \"his failure to come to an agreement with the Government\" on a support package.\n\nThe signatories ask Mr Burnham to \"make way\" for \"local MPs and council leaders\" to \"have a go at getting a sensible settlement\".\n\nKate Nicholls - the head of industry body UKHospitality - described the move to tier three as \"another huge blow for our sector and a very bitter disappointment for hospitality businesses in Manchester\".\n\n\"We need a practical and workable package of support for the whole of Manchester's hospitality sector in order to keep these businesses afloat and jobs alive,\" she said. \"Jobs, once lost, are not always easily revived and businesses closed not easily reopened.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the PM confirmed that conversations were ongoing with leaders in South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and the North East about the possibility of moving to the very high alert level, tier three.\n\nThe leaders of West Yorkshire's council later said a decision had been made to maintain tier two status in the county this week.\n\nIt comes as the latest government figures showed that, on Tuesday, the UK recorded a further 21,330 coronavirus cases and a further 241 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe rising case numbers in England have led some scientists and politicians to call for a so-called \"circuit breaker\" - a short, sharp lockdown such as that being brought in for Wales.\n\nBut speaking alongside Mr Johnson at Downing Street, England's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, said this approach would be \"inappropriate\" for parts of England where the disease was lower and \"very hard to justify for some communities\".\n\nIn Wales, people will be told to stay at home from Friday, while pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops will shut as part of the \"short, sharp\" national lockdown until 9 November.\n\nA two-week school closure has begun in Northern Ireland as part of a tightening of restrictions.\n\nAnd in Scotland, the tightest restrictions are in place in the central belt, and there are plans for a three-tier framework of measures, similar to England's.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nMarcus Rashford repeated his late heroics against Paris St-Germain with a superb winner as Manchester United marked their return to the Champions League with a fine win at the home of last season's beaten finalists.\n\nRashford's stoppage-time penalty sealed a famous victory at the Parc des Princes 18 months ago and the England striker was again on target to ensure Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side took maximum points from their opening match in a formidable group.\n\nThe visitors had excelled in a first half which saw Bruno Fernandes stroke them ahead with a twice-taken penalty.\n\nBut the multiple French champions were far stronger and threatening in the second half and deservedly drew level when United striker Anthony Martial headed into his own net.\n\nDavid de Gea had to put in a much-improved display in United's goal, making strong saves to deny PSG's superstar duo Kylian Mbappe and Neymar.\n\nAnd the sides looked set to share the points when Rashford collected a pass from substitute Paul Pogba, rolled away from a defender and fired in off the base of the post from 20 yards.\n• None Reaction to all of Tuesday's Champions League action\n• None Quiz: Name the teams in the group stage\n\nRashford's penalty completed a stunning comeback in 2019 which all but cemented the case for Solskjaer's temporary reign to be made permanent, turning a delighted Rio Ferdinand - the former United defender turned BT Sport pundit - into a meme in the process.\n\nSolskjaer has not been able to maintain that blistering success since becoming full-time manager, but once again the Norwegian was able to conjure a victory against the odds.\n\nWithout captain Harry Maguire and midfielder Pogba, United played a back five - with defender Axel Tuanzebe being summoned from the wilderness and shining on his first appearance of 2020.\n\nTwice the 22-year-old kept stride with the rapid Mbappe and made fine challenges in an impressive display.\n\nAt the other end, United's opener came from a more familiar route - Fernandes converting a penalty after Martial was tripped. It was, remarkably, the 27th spot-kick awarded to United since the start of last season.\n\nFernandes, the captain on the night, actually missed for the second time in three days, but Keylor Navas was clearly off his line before the save and the video assistant referee called it back. Fernandes went the same way; the goalkeeper went the other.\n\nPSG looked far more like their old selves after the break and United had to defend well - but Rashford was guilty of wasting a couple of chances on the counter-attack before his brilliant late winner.\n\nThe rebuilding of Paris St-Germain has long been aimed solely at European glory - with domestic monopoly tied up years ago - and the run to the final just 58 days ago looked like a key juncture.\n\nThomas Tuchel's side is packed with blistering talent, but question marks over their consistency have long been raised and this was another frustrating display.\n\nThey moved the ball far too slowly in the first half and deserved to find themselves behind, even if De Gea was called into a double save from Angel di Maria and Layvin Kurzawa.\n\nTuchel moved Di Maria deeper at half-time, sending on Everton loanee Moise Kean up front, and his side were better. De Gea again made a flying save to deny Mbappe after a typically brilliant run, and Kurzawa hit the crossbar with a miscued cross.\n\nMartial gave them a route back into the match when he nodded Neymar's inswinging corner into his own net, but United improved when Pogba came on.\n\nWith RB Leipzig - semi-finalists last season - up and running with a win, it is now Tuchel's side who need to click into gear fast just to make it out of Group H.\n• None Paris St-Germain suffered a home defeat in a Champions League group game for the first time in 25 games, since losing 1-3 to CSKA Moscow in December 2004.\n• None Manchester United have scored nine own goals in the Champions League, more than any other side.\n• None Since the start of last season, United have been awarded 27 penalties and scored 22 of them, both highs among sides in Europe's big five leagues (England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) in that time.\n• None Since his debut for Manchester United in February, Bruno Fernandes has been directly involved in more goals than any other Premier League player (27 - 16 goals, 11 assists).\n• None Fernandes has scored 11 of his 12 penalties for United, more than any other player from Europe's big five leagues in that time.\n• None Anthony Martial is the second French player to score an own goal in the Champions League against French opposition, after Jeremy Mathieu for Barcelona, also against Paris St-Germain, in April 2015.\n• None PSG's Neymar has failed to score in four consecutive Champions League appearances for the first time since November 2013 (his first five games in the competition).\n• None Offside, Paris Saint Germain. Keylor Navas tries a through ball, but Kylian Mbappé is caught offside.\n• None Moise Kean (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Neymar (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Pablo Sarabia.\n• None Goal! Paris Saint Germain 1, Manchester United 2. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Paul Pogba.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Scott McTominay.\n• None Danilo Pereira (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Neymar (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rafinha. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How effective is it for weight loss?", "Martin Usborne's family spent a lot of time in isolation answering phone call after phone call\n\nTwo weeks ago, Martin Usborne, a publisher who lives in east London, found out a close family contact had coronavirus. A few days later his wife, Ann, and their one-year-old daughter, also tested positive.\n\nFrom that moment on, Martin says his wife's phone would not stop ringing. Over the course of 10 days, Ann had 30 separate calls from NHS Test and Trace that she managed to pick up. On top of this were another 27 calls that were missed. And then there were the half a dozen calls her husband received.\n\n\"At one point she would finish one call and as soon as she put the phone down - literally seconds later - another contact tracer would ring. And as soon as that call was over, test-and-trace would call my phone.\n\n\"This really was not the easiest situation to deal with, particularly while looking after our two small children,\" Mr Usborne told the BBC.\n\nSome calls were made because Ann had been in contact with the family acquaintance, who works in her home, while others were to tell her that her young girls (one and three years old) had been near the same person.\n\nNext came the calls because Ann had tested positive, calls because her little one had tested positive and then calls to alert her older toddler that she had been in contact with someone else one who had the virus (this time her mother).\n\nThe family understands some of these calls were necessary and is keen to stress that everyone they spoke to was kind and considerate and did their job well, but Mr Usborne is very concerned there has been a significant waste of resources.\n\n\"The majority of calls were long and repetitive, with different callers reading out the same script each time, asking the same questions and giving the same answers,\" he says.\n\nAnd the family say when they told contact tracers they had heard the exact same thing several times already, the callers apologised but said they would have to complete the entire phone call or it would not register and someone else would simply ring again.\n\nMr Usborne told the BBC: \"Essentially we were dealing with a broken excel spreadsheet, personified by a very nice person.\n\n\"In a way it was quite impressive as they were really persistent - but it was like a dog who had got the wrong bone.\"\n\nLater in the week, calls from contact tracers became more helpful, with some checking the family were OK and giving them information on when their isolation would end.\n\nBut Mr Usborne says they received conflicting advice about how long they had to remain at home. The NHS Covid-19 app recommended his wife stay indoors a few days longer than contact tracers suggested, for example.\n\nHe added: \"The people were super-nice about it but one contact tracer admitted they worked on a different system to the app and would continue to use theirs. Which one is right?\"\n\nThey are now not quite certain when exactly it is safe to go out and are isolating for the longest suggested time. And, more crucially, they say they are not sure if they can trust the advice at all.\n\nThe family feels there needs to be a lot more done to join up the dots, so that contact tracers are alerted if someone has already been called and the system recognises when callers have already spoken to parents or carers responsible for small children in the same household.\n\nMr Usborne also feels there should be a way for the hard-working humans on the other end of the phone to override the computer system if a family tells them they have received multiple, repetitive calls, all week long.\n\nAccording to the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS Test and Trace has reached a total of 901,151 people since it was started.\n\nThe first week of October saw the service successfully reach 76.8% of people who tested positive and 76.9% of contacts where communication details were provided.\n\nBut there have been issues over the time taken for test results to be returned.\n\nAnd the system had its worst week for reaching close contacts who were not in the same household as the person testing positive. Just 62% were reached in the week to 7 October, down from 67% the week before.\n\nIn the same week, the number of people transferred to test-and-trace more than doubled, to 88,000.\n\nA spokesperson said the government's test-and-trace programme \"is working hard to break chains of transmission, with over 900,000 people who may otherwise have unknowingly spreading coronavirus contacted and told to isolate\".\n\n\"We all have a crucial part to play in keeping the number of new infections down, which is why there is now a legal duty to self-isolate, and steps have been taken to make sure that people are complying with the rules.\"\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "A 104-year-old who was inspired by Captain Sir Tom Moore to walk a marathon for charity is nearing the end of her challenge.\n\nRuth Saunders, from Newbury in Berkshire, started taking daily walks during lockdown and was encouraged by her granddaughter to try to cover the distance of a marathon.\n\nShe has around 30 laps of her house to complete and is raising money for the Thames Valley Air Ambulance.", "The most senior police officer on duty before the Manchester Arena attack had taken an \"unacceptable\" two-hour break before the bombing, the inquiry heard.\n\nPC Jessica Bullough admitted she then missed bomber Salman Abedi walking from the train station into the arena.\n\nThe British Transport Police (BTP) officer had been qualified for only eight months, and was still in her probationary period.\n\nThe suicide bombing killed 22 people and injured many more on 22 May 2017.\n\nThe public inquiry into the attack heard there were no police officers on patrol when 22-year-old Abedi made his journey from Victoria Station to the arena foyer.\n\nThe hearing was told PC Bullough took a break of two hours and nine minutes, during which time Abedi walked from the tram stop into the City Room.\n\nPC Bullough admitted her break should have been between 50 minutes and one hour.\n\nThe inquiry heard if she had come back 10 minutes earlier she would have seen Abedi carrying a large rucksack that contained explosives.\n\nShe said looking back, it was \"unacceptable\" to have taken a break of that length, and said she probably would not have done that had a supervisor been present.\n\nTop row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nPC Bullough was the first on the scene in the foyer after the suicide attack at the end of the Ariana Grande concert.\n\nShe said: \"I think the training I had wasn't sufficient to deal with what I was witnessing.\"\n\nJohn Cooper QC, representing some of the bereaved families, said: \"Effectively did you feel left in the lurch?\"\n\nBTP PCSO Lewis Brown said he and a colleague took a break before other officers had returned from theirs, meaning there was no-one on patrol between just before 21:00 and 21:35 BST, when Abedi made his trip from the station into the foyer.\n\nMeanwhile, a father picking up his children on the night of the Manchester Arena attack told the inquiry he thought \"straight away\" that Abedi was a suicide bomber.\n\nNeal Hatfield said when he saw Abedi in the foyer of the arena his rucksack did not look normal as it did not flex under his weight.\n\n\"It was rock solid, that's what alarmed me straight away,\" Mr Hatfield said.\n\nMr Hatfield was about to go up the stairs to the mezzanine area of the arena's City Room when he saw Abedi with his back to him \"in the process of lying down, he had a backpack on the floor next to him\".\n\n\"I thought suicide bomber straight away, very little doubt in my mind. Honestly, my heart was racing,\" he said.\n\n\"The way he was dressed, the way he was acting, the body language was that he was trying to protect the bag. He was pretending to be casual, but I could see what he was doing.\"\n\nThe inquiry has heard Salman Abedi made three scouting trips round the Arena and Victoria Station\n\nMr Hatfield said he made eye contact with Abedi, who looked \"emotionally distressed\".\n\n\"He seemed frightened, his eyes were glazed over and he seemed nervous, agitated, he didn't seem right,\" he added.\n\nMr Hatfield told the inquiry he saw two members of the security team nearby and believed they were having a conversation about Abedi, and gesturing towards him.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kanad Basi had drunk alcohol and taken cocaine and ecstasy before the crash\n\nA drink and drugs driver who killed a teenager in a crash has been jailed for four years and eight months.\n\nKanad Basi, 22, was almost twice the drink-drive limit having also taken cocaine and ecstasy when he lost control of his BMW and hit a tree.\n\nHis front-seat passenger, 16-year-old Jack Frame, died at the scene in Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire.\n\nAt the High Court in Glasgow, Basi pled guilty to causing his death by driving dangerously on 10 February 2019.\n\nFollowing the sentence, Jack's family released a statement saying they felt \"angry and devastated at the outcome\".\n\nFront-seat passenger Jack Frame died at the scene of the crash in February 2019\n\nThey added: \"Only getting four years eight months in jail will not deter anyone from doing the same thing.\n\n\"This has not given us any type of justice after what has a been a long process for us.\"\n\nThe crash happened after Basi, a waiter in the family business, took three teenagers for a drive.\n\nHe drove into a bend at speed on New Trows Road, Lesmahagow, before crashing into a tree.\n\nRear passengers Aiden O'Donnell and Eleanor Plenderleith suffered severe injuries in the crash.\n\nFollowing the crash, Basi climbed into the rear seat and pushed Ms Plenderleith into the front.\n\nHowever, his DNA and blood were found on the driver's airbag.\n\nJack Frame's family added: \"Kanad tried to blame Ellie which was incredibly unfair and this accident resulted in Jack's death and serious injury to both Aiden and Ellie.\"\n\nJudge Lord Mulholland told Basi he would \" have to live with what you have done for the rest of your life\".\n\nHe added: \"You have delivered a life sentence to Jack Frame's family by your dangerous driving.\n\n\"They have shown dignity and human spirit in the face of the misery that you have inflicted upon them.\"\n\nBasi will also be banned from the road for 12 years and four months.\n\nThe court had heard how Basi had driven to a party in Lesmahagow in his BMW 1 series two-door coupe at about 01:00.\n\nA number of the partygoers asked to go for a drive in it and three of them drove off with him at 02:00.\n\nProsecutor Jane Farquharson said: \"As the accused approached a right-hand bend, he lost control of the car. His vehicle left the carriageway, mounted the grass verge, collided with a wire fence and struck a tree in the grounds of Hallandbush Golf Club.\n\n\"Due to this impact, Jack Frame was thrown forward and trapped within the front passenger side of the vehicle. His head was wedged underneath the glove box area.\"\n\nMr O'Donnell, an apprentice joiner who was 18 at the time, was sitting behind Basi.\n\nHe suffered a fractured skull, four facial fractures, two broken legs and a number of fractures to his left arm.\n\nThe court was told he had to learn to walk again and has been unable to work since the accident.\n\nMs Plenderleith, who at the time was 19 and worked at Subway, was knocked unconscious.\n\nShe had a punctured lung, lacerated liver, broken ribs and a fractured chest bone. A metal plate had to be inserted into her left upper arm.\n\nNone of the passengers was wearing a seat belt. Basi, who was wearing one, suffered a broken wrist.\n• None Boy killed by drunk driver who had taken drugs", "Talks have taken place over the creation of a new £4.6bn European Premier League, involving the top sides from across the continent.\n\nSources told the BBC that discussions are still at an early stage but the plan would involve replacing the Champions League with a new format.\n\nBut the project is said to still have a \"long way to go\" and the deal \"may not happen\".\n\nReports suggest five Premier League clubs, including champions Liverpool and Manchester United, have been approached by those behind the plan with more than a dozen teams from England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain in negotiations about becoming founder members of the competition.\n\nIt has also been reported that the European Premier League would see 18 sides compete in a single league with the top sides taking part in a play-off to determine an overall winner and that world governing body Fifa is involved.\n\nLast week Premier League clubs rejected 'Project Big Picture' - a proposal to reduce the league from 20 to 18 clubs and scrap the EFL Cup and Community Shield. It would also have seen more power transferred to the so-called 'big six' Premier League clubs.\n\nEuropean football's governing body Uefa said it opposed the plan.\n\n\"The Uefa president has made it clear on many occasions that Uefa strongly opposes a Super League.\n\n\"The principles of solidarity, of promotion, relegation and open leagues are non-negotiable. It is what makes European football work and the Champions League the best sports competition in the world.\n\n\"Uefa and the clubs are committed to build on such strength not to destroy it to create a super league of 10, 12, even 24 clubs, which would inevitably become boring.\"\n\n'Last nail in the coffin'\n\nKevin Miles, chief executive of the Football Supporters' Association, said the idea of a European Super League shows that billionaire owners of clubs \"are out of control\".\n\n\"The latest reports of plots, allegedly involving Manchester United and Liverpool, to create a European Super League, expose the myth that billionaire owners care about the English football pyramid, or indeed anything other than their own greed,\" said Miles.\n\n\"This has to be the last nail in the coffin of the idea that football can be relied upon to regulate itself.\"\n\nLa Liga president Javier Tebas said: \"The authors of that idea - if they really exist, because there is nobody actually defending it - not only show a total ignorance of the organisation and customs of European and world football, but also a serious ignorance of the audiovisual rights markets.\n\n\"A project of this type will mean serious economic damage to the organisers themselves and to those entities that finance it, if they exist, because they´re never official. These underground projects only look good when drafted at a bar at five in the morning\"", "Google has been issued with huge fines in the EU over market dominance\n\nThe US government has filed charges against Google, accusing the company of violating competition law to preserve its monopoly over internet searches and online advertising.\n\nThe lawsuit marks the biggest challenge brought by US regulators against a major tech company in years.\n\nIt follows more than a year of investigation and comes as the biggest tech firms face intense scrutiny of their practices at home and abroad.\n\nThe company has maintained that its sector remains intensely competitive and that its practices put customers first.\n\n\"People use Google because they choose to - not because they're forced to or because they can't find alternatives,\" it said.\n\nThe charges, filed in federal court, were brought by the US Department of Justice and 11 other states. The lawsuit focuses on the billions of dollars Google pays each year to ensure its search engine is installed as the default option on browsers and devices such as mobile phones.\n\nOfficials said those deals have helped secure Google's place as the \"gatekeeper\" to the internet, allowing it to own or control the distribution channels for about 80% of search queries in the US.\n\nAlphabet boss Sundar Pichai at a 2018 hearing in Washington. In July, he assured Congress, \"We conduct ourselves to the highest standard\".\n\n\"Google has thus foreclosed competition for internet search,\" the lawsuit said. \"General search engine competitors are denied vital distribution, scale, and product recognition - ensuring they have no real chance to challenge Google.\"\n\nIt added: \"Google is so dominant that 'Google' is not only a noun to identify the company and the Google search engine but also a verb that means to search the internet.\"\n\nThe suit said the deals have hurt the public by damaging search quality in terms of privacy and data protection, reducing choice and thwarting innovation.\n\nSally Hubbard, who works for the Open Markets Institute, a Washington think tank that has long pushed for more aggressive action against big tech firms, said focusing on Google's search distribution deals was one of the easiest legal cases to make against the company.\n\nOn Twitter she said the lawsuit had \"been so long coming but it's wonderful to see\".\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 Sally Hubbard 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 case could be the first of many in the US that challenge the dominance of big tech firms and potentially lead to their break-up.\n\nOther states have launched their own investigations, and said they may join the suit filed on Tuesday or file their own.\n\nPoliticians in Congress have also called for action against Google and fellow tech firms Amazon, Facebook and Apple in an effort that has united Democrats and Republicans.\n\nThe decision to file the lawsuit just a few weeks before the US presidential election has raised questions about whether it was simply a move by the Trump administration to prove its willingness to challenge the influence of the sector if it gains a second term.\n\nBut officials said they had not rushed the investigation to ensure it was filed before the election - noting that for years, many advocates have said the government was moving too slowly on such issues.\n\n\"We're acting when the facts and the law warranted,\" deputy attorney general Jeffrey Rosen said, adding that the department's review of competition practices in the technology sector is continuing.\n\nGoogle has faced similar claims in the European Union. It is already appealing against €8.2bn ($9.5bn; £7.3bn) in fines demanded by the European Commission which include:\n\nGoogle parent Alphabet, which has a market value of more than $1tn, is expected to fight the allegations in the US as well. Its share price was little changed on Tuesday, despite the news.\n\nTaking on a giant like Google will be one of biggest competition cases in decades. But the case - to decide if the California-based company abuses its market power - could last years.\n\nEuropean regulators have led the way in taking action against the tech giants. But this move by the US Department of Justice is a sign that the mood has turned against them at home too.\n\nThe complaint says that two decades ago Google was a scrappy innovative start-up - but now it's the monopoly gatekeeper to the internet.\n\nGoogle stands accused of using anti-competitive tactics to shut out rivals and extend that monopoly. Google says people use it because they choose to rather than being forced.\n\nDeciding who is right won't be a quick decision.", "An American spacecraft is about to attempt the audacious task of grabbing rock samples from an asteroid.\n\nThe Osiris-Rex probe will lower itself on to the 500m-wide object known as Bennu to make a contact that lasts no more than a few seconds.\n\nBut in the course of this \"high-five\" manoeuvre, the spacecraft will deliver a squirt of gas to stir up the surface.\n\nAnd with luck, Osiris-Rex will catch a couple of handfuls of dust and grit it can bring back to Earth.\n\nThe aim is to capture at least 60g, but the scientists and engineers working on the Nasa-led mission are confident the probe can secure a kilo or more.\n\nIf that happens, it would represent the biggest extraterrestrial sample-return cache since the Apollo astronauts picked up rocks from the Moon 50 years ago.\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 Lockheed Martin 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\nContact with Bennu is timed to occur just before 22:15 GMT (23:15 BST) when the asteroid and Osiris-Rex are about 330 million km from Earth.\n\nThe whole procedure will be automated. It has to be. Radio signals take 18 minutes to traverse the expanse of intervening space, making it impossible for controllers to intervene.\n\nBennu is a fascinating object. About the size of the Empire State Building, it looks somewhat like a spinning-top toy.\n\nResearchers understand it to be what they call a carbonaceous asteroid, meaning its rocks still retain a lot of the chemistry that was present when the Sun and the planets came into being more than 4.5 billion years ago. Hence the desire to bring some of its material home for analysis in sophisticated Earth laboratories.\n\nBennu contains chemistry preserved from the dawn of the Solar System\n\nWhen Osiris-Rex arrived at Bennu in 2018, the mission team immediately got a fright.\n\nDistant telescope and radar observations had suggested the asteroid would have a kind of sandy surface. But the probe's close-up imagery revealed the diminutive world to be littered with imposing boulders instead.\n\nWorse still, it was noticed the asteroid would occasionally kick out fragments from its surface as volatile substances vented into space.\n\nThis environment has challenged the mission team to find a safe place to sample.\n\nMonths have been spent precisely mapping every lump and bump on Bennu.\n\nExtensive investigations have identified two locations Osiris-Rex should be able to get in and out reasonably comfortably.\n\nThe primary site, called Nightingale, is 8m across - a little under the width of a singles tennis court, or a few car parking spaces.\n\nThe probe will approach this constrained zone very slowly, using its automated visualisation system to avoid nearby hazards, including a two-storey boulder that's been dubbed Mount Doom.\n\n\"For some perspective: the next time you park your car in front of your house or in front of a coffee shop, and walk inside - think about the challenge of navigating Osiris Rex-into one of these spots from 200 million miles away,\" remarked Mike Moreau, Nasa's deputy project manager on the mission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Osiris-Rex has to squeeze past some big rocks to sample Asteroid Bennu\n\nWith its sampling arm outstretched, Osiris-Rex will press a ring-shaped device into the asteroid's surface that works like a kind of \"reverse vacuum cleaner\".\n\nWhen the ring touches down, a charge of pressurised nitrogen will be released to kick up small chunks of rock and \"soil\".\n\nIf a good contact is made, a decent amount of this elevated debris should get trapped inside the sampling head.\n\n\"We estimate that our time on the surface will be between five and 10 seconds before the spacecraft backs away with the sample safely inside of the sampler head,\" explained Sandra Freund, the mission operations manager from Lockheed Martin Space, the company that made Osiris-Rex.\n\nThe probe will be taking pictures throughout, to enable the mission team to gauge the success or otherwise of the sampling bid.\n\nHowever, it could be some days before Nasa is able to make a definitive statement on how much of Bennu's surface material has been retrieved.\n\n\"I'm confident that we're going to have abundant material based on the nature of the Nightingale site and the extensive testing that we did with our Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (Tag-Sam),\" said principal investigator Dante Lauretta from the University of Arizona, Tucson. \"And in the best-case scenario where the Tag-Sam filter is filled up, we might have a kilogram of sample or more. So, I can't tell you how excited I am.\"\n\nShould a second attempt be needed, Osiris Rex would target the back-up site nicknamed Osprey.\n\nAny samples will be packaged for return in a capsule that's expected to land back on Earth in September 2023.\n\nNasa is working closely with the Japanese space agency whose Hayabusa-2 probe sampled a different type of asteroid called Ryugu last year.\n\nThat mission's cache, weighing perhaps 100 milligrams, is coming home in December.\n\nNumerous scientists, including in the UK, are hoping to get the chance to analyse the materials from both endeavours - among them Sara Russell from London's Natural History Museum.\n\n\"We can learn a lot about the early formation of the Solar System from meteorites. But as soon as those rocks come through the atmosphere to fall to Earth, they're immediately contaminated in some way or another,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"So, this is our chance to get a truly pristine sample, to understand what the primordial chemistry in the Solar System was really like.\"", "Russell Causley has never revealed the whereabouts of his wife Carole Packman's body\n\nA man whose grandfather has just been released from prison - after killing his wife 35 years ago - has told the BBC the parole process in England and Wales is \"secretive\" and \"coy\".\n\nNeil Gillingham has called for \"greater scrutiny\" of Parole Board hearings.\n\nIt comes as a review of the parole system is to consider whether victims and journalists should be allowed to attend hearings.\n\nThe reforms aim to improve the transparency of decisions.\n\nThe first step of the review will be a public consultation, according to the government.\n\nThe Parole Board came in for heavy criticism after a decision two years ago to free John Worboys, known as the black cab rapist. His release was overturned by the courts and he then admitted further crimes.\n\nFollowing the Worboys case, ministers pledged to improve transparency over Parole Board decisions, which currently take place after hearings held in private, usually behind closed doors in prisons.\n\nChief executive of the Parole Board Martin Jones told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he welcomed the idea, but said there were difficulties that needed to be overcome.\n\nMr Gillingham's grandmother Carole Packman was murdered in 1985 by his grandfather Russell Causley, who has just been released from prison after the Parole Board ruled he was not a risk to the public.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Mr Gillingham said victims and their families have limited influence over decisions.\n\nNeil Gillingham said he has never been allowed to attend a parole hearing in person\n\n\"The parole process I've always described as incredibly secretive, there is no transparency,\" he said.\n\n\"In terms of the input that the victim has [through the process] it is nothing more than a tick box exercise. It's an element for the Parole Board to be able to say that the victim has been listened to.\"\n\nMr Gillingham added that information following a decision is also \"incredibly limited\".\n\n\"To give you an example, 'Russell Causley poses an emotional risk to Samantha Gillingham [his mother] and a physical risk to Neil Gillingham',\" he said.\n\n\"But they would never go into detail into how that risk is quantified.\"\n\nMr Gillingham said he was in support of the review as \"there needs to be greater scrutiny\", but he questioned why changes had not come sooner.\n\n\"Until I can go to a parole hearing, we convict in an open court, we release in a closed court,\" he said.\n\nVictims are currently allowed to attend parole hearings only to read a statement about the impact of an offender's crime.\n\nThe review will look at whether they should be able to play a fuller role by observing hearings. Also under discussion will be whether the wider public and the media should have greater access to proceedings.\n\nIt will also examine whether parole panels should have more legal clout with powers like the courts to compel witnesses to attend hearings.\n\nAs part of the move to greater transparency the Parole Board now produces summaries of its decisions for victims and the public.\n\nAnd the justice secretary, victims and prisoners are able to challenge Parole Board decisions without having to go through the courts.\n\nMr Jones said the review offered \"a real opportunity to provide more transparency of our decision making\".\n\n\"Providing there are appropriate safeguards [...] victims would be better able to understand why we make the decisions that we do, and indeed the wider public,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that there were some difficulties to overcome, including where parole hearings currently take place - \"physically in a prison\" - and balancing the fact that there might be sensitive information mentioned about both the victim and the prisoner.\n\n\"There needs to be safeguards and balances in relation to information,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones suggested parole hearings could be streamed for victims to attend remotely, or that a court room might be more suitable if it's \"a particularly tricky case\" - allowing press to attend \"as they do a normal crown court hearing\".\n\nThe proposed moves represent the biggest change to the system since parole boards were established almost 60 years ago.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has said decisions on its review of the Parole Board system are set to be made by the end of the year once the results of the consultation are received.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents gathered at Chinnor Community Church on Monday to remember the Powell family\n\nA man who survived a crash which killed his wife and three of their children says he feels an \"abundance of loss\".\n\nJosh Powell's wife Zoe, 29, died with Phoebe, eight, when their people carrier collided with a lorry in Oxfordshire.\n\nSimeon, six, and four-year old Amelia, died at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, where their father and 18-month-old sister Penny remain.\n\nIn a tribute to his family, Mr Powell said he faced an \"uncertain future\".\n\nThe crash happened on the A40, near a railway bridge between Oxford and Cassington, on 12 October.\n\nZoe Powell and her three eldest children died in the crash\n\nMr Powell, from Chinnor, said: \"As I look to an uncertain future, I reflect on the fun that we had as a family, with feelings of sadness that it was cut so short.\n\n\"Before the adventure of starting a family nobody truly knows what to expect.\n\n\"All of life's preconceptions and what we see in the world around us meant that life as a family man was so much better than I expected it to be.\n\n\"I had been blessed with four wonderful children, whose thirst for life and hunger of adventure kept me busy but in the best possible way.\"\n\nThe 30-year-old described Phoebe as the \"model of her mother but with a thirst to always know more\" and that she was \"clever and able to make great jumps of imagination - her great creations in Lego are testament to this\".\n\nHe said Simeon \"was just like his father, with a mischievous sense of humour [and] a keen sportsman\" who had been shortly due to play his first football match.\n\nAmelia was \"kind and spirited\", he said, with a \"tenderness and thoughtfulness much more advanced than her years\".\n\nHe added: \"Myself and Zoe were as different as we were alike. Despite the frequent tensions this would bring, it was of immense benefit having such differing world views.\n\n\"Zoe was a dreamer; with a head spinning of new things to do or tales to tell. More than anything, we made a great partnership to raise a family.\"\n\nMrs Powell, who had lived in Chinnor since the mid-2010s but was previously from Sheffield, was a blogger who wrote about motherhood, family life and the challenges of having young children.\n\nThe crash happened on the A40, between Oxford and Cassington\n\nThe deaths came just months after the family lost everything in a blaze at their home.\n\nMr Powell thanked well-wishers for the support now that he had lost his \"immediate nuclear family\" and said there were \"many battles to come\".\n\nA candlelit vigil was held in their home village on Monday evening for the family.\n\nThe 1st Chinnor Scout Troop, where Mr Powell is a leader, marched to the private vigil, while residents in the cul-de-sac where the family lived illuminated their houses with green lights to show support.\n\nJosh Powell says he faces an \"uncertain future\" following the loss of his wife and three older children\n\nA JustGiving page set up by a railway worker colleague of Mr Powell has raised more than £120,000.\n\nThe 56-year-old driver of the lorry involved in the crash suffered minor injuries.\n\nNo arrests have been made, police 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. Covid in Scotland: FM wants to avoid Manchester lockdown situation\n\nNicola Sturgeon has insisted she will have the final say on local Covid-19 restrictions in different parts of Scotland, saying \"the buck stops here\".\n\nThe Scottish first minister said she would not \"offload\" decisions about local alert levels onto councils.\n\nA lengthy row has played out between UK ministers and leaders in Manchester over imposing stricter rules there.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was her \"driving ambition\" not to repeat this when a new multi-tier system begins in Scotland.\n\nShe said the government would \"consult and be as collaborative as possible\", but would ultimately make the decisions and would not be getting into \"standoffs\".\n\nSome 2.8 million people in Greater Manchester were left in limbo for more than a week during talks between ministers, mayors and MPs over whether the region would move into the top tier of England's Covid alert system.\n\nThe talks broke down after 10 days amid disagreements over financial support, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has now confirmed the region will be placed in the \"very high\" alert level from Friday even without a deal.\n\nScotland is due to implement its own multi-tier system of restrictions after a set of short-term measures expires later in October.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she made no criticism of anyone involved in the \"tough decisions\" in Manchester, but said she would be aiming to avoid such a dispute.\n\nThe UK government has been in a standoff with local leaders in Greater Manchester over Covid-19 restrictions\n\nThe first minister said: \"I believe it's really important that the buck for these difficult decisions stops here, with me and government.\n\n\"We are asking people to do extraordinary things right now, and it's not fair for me and the government to try to offload those onto other people, be it local authorities or health boards.\n\n\"We have to consult and be as collaborative as possible - we will absolutely be engaging with local authorities. And as we take decisions about which levels apply in which parts of the country we will want that to be collaborative.\n\n\"But ultimately we have to be able to take the decisions.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government was \"not in a position to get into standoffs over money\", stressing the \"finite resources\" available to her.\n\nShe said: \"What we are trying to do is give as much clarity and certainty as we can, have as much collaboration and discussion with those that need to be involved in these decisions as we can, not shy away from responsibility and ultimately me bearing the accountability for these decisions, and retaining a degree of flexibility in the face of an infectious virus.\n\n\"That is the balance we are trying to strike.\"\n\nPubs in Scotland's central belt have been shut down by the current set of short-term restrictions\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon also hinted that the current short-term restrictions on bars and restaurants - which are chiefly focused on the central belt - could be extended for another week until the multi-tier system has been signed off by MSPs.\n\nRules clamping down on the hospitality trade are due to expire on 26 October, but MSPs will not vote on the government's \"strategic framework\" before then as Holyrood is in recess.\n\nThe first minister is to discuss the restrictions with her cabinet on Wednesday.\n\nAsked if the current measures would be extended to cover the gap, she said: \"If you look at the numbers across the central belt right now and the sequencing over the next week of moving to a new system, you might expect it might make sense from a public health point of view to see that rolled over.\n\n\"That is one option cabinet is looking at tomorrow.\n\n\"The regulations currently expire on Monday, so another option would be for that to be allowed to happen - we will look at the data and I will give the outcome of that tomorrow.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon is to hold talks with opposition party leaders about the next steps on Tuesday afternoon, including Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross.\n\nThe Tory MP said he would \"look at everything as constructively as possible\", but said there had been a \"lack of clear guidance\" from the Scottish government to firms.\n\nHe said: \"When they were given just 50 hours' notice to introduce these further restrictions, what was the guidance from the Scottish government to businesses about how they could change and adapt to make sure they could open again safely?\n\n\"It seems nothing has happened, nothing has been developed in that area and businesses are once again hearing through the daily briefing that these restrictions may last far longer.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nThe highest tier of Covid restrictions will be imposed on Greater Manchester from Friday after talks between local leaders and Westminster to resolve a row over financial support broke down. At a Downing Street briefing, PM Boris Johnson said a \"generous\" offer of financial support had been made to the region, but mayor Andy Burnham refused. Mr Burnham said ministers \"walked away\" from talks earlier today after refusing to offer the £65m called for. Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg said it is understood that Mr Johnson and Mr Burnham discussed a figure of £60m but were unable to agree. The \"very high\" alert level - or tier three - means pubs and bars not serving food must close, and there will be extra restrictions on household mixing. In Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she will have the final say on local Covid-19 restrictions in different parts of Scotland, saying \"the buck stops here\".\n\nThe UK is pushing ahead to be the first nation to carry out \"human challenge\" studies, where up to 90 healthy people will be deliberately exposed to Covid-19. The trials, which could begin in January, aim to speed up the race to get a coronavirus vaccine. The government is putting £33.6m towards the work and experts insist safety will be a number one priority. The plans will need ethical approval and sign-off from regulators before they can go ahead. Researchers would first use controlled doses of the pandemic virus to discover what is the smallest amount that can cause Covid infection in volunteers aged 18 to 30. Next, scientists could test if a Covid vaccine prevents infection.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlmost half of secondary schools in England sent home one or more pupils because of coronavirus incidents last week, the latest attendance figures show. It meant pupils having to isolate in 46% of secondary and 16% of primary schools. Overall, attendance across both primary and secondary schools has worsened from 90% to 89%, data from the Department for Education shows. The rules around how schools operate during the pandemic varies in each of the devolved nations.\n\nHospitality chiefs are scrambling to work out whether working lunches at pubs and restaurants could be exempt from new coronavirus restrictions. Trade body UK Hospitality said it wants government clarification, as many central London venues rely on workers meeting up over lunch. People from different households are banned from meeting in pubs and restaurants in tier two and tier three areas. But the rules suggest meetings are allowed for business purposes. Current government guidance advises working from home as much as possible and limiting social contact.\n\nThe sale of Durex jumped when social-distancing rules were relaxed in the summer, says maker Reckitt Benckiser. The consumer goods giant said growth in its health arm, which includes condoms and \"sexual wellbeing products\", rose 12.6% in the last three months. Sales of Dettol, Cillit Bang and air fresheners also jumped, helped by workers improving their new home-office environment, Reckitt said. Total group sales in the last quarter rose 13% to £3.5bn on the same period last year.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, with Northern Ireland already in one and Wales soon set to follow, when will we know whether a circuit-breaker is working?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\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.", "Health Secretary Sajid Javid says there are \"no guarantees\" when it comes to ruling out new restrictions or another circuit breaker before Christmas.\n\nBut what exactly is a circuit breaker in Covid terms?\n\nThe UK, Northern Ireland, Singapore and Israel have all previously used circuit breakers to try to reduce their coronavirus cases.\n\nBut how do they work? How long is a Covid circuit breaker? How can it help tackle Omicron?\n\nBBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains it all in a minute.", "The report by HMP Birmingham's Independent Monitoring Board found standards are improving\n\nMore than 300 pages of \"solicitors letters\" were laced with drugs and sent to inmates during a prison's Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nThe letters, marked as being from inmates' legal teams, were intercepted at HMP Birmingham in June.\n\nStaff's efforts emerged in a report on standards since an inspector called the prison the worst he had ever seen.\n\nNow a watchdog hopes improvements during the virus will help reshape the prison's future.\n\nHMP Birmingham's Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) has been assessing progress for the 12 months since July 2019, when the government took over the site full time from private security firm G4S.\n\nThe switch followed a raft of serious complaints over the prison which painted a picture of severe squalor, chronic danger and acute drugs misuse.\n\nStaff at the prison are diligent in tracking down illicit items, the report says\n\nBut the IMB's annual report found \"rising trends in standards\", and that in general, inmates' experience had improved, with expectations \"this upward trajectory will continue\".\n\nInstances of violence and drug use have fallen, and the board concedes it is related, yet only in part, to prisoners spending most of the day in cells during the enforcement of Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nAmid national lockdown, the prison experienced an influx of letters laced with psychoactive substances (PS).\n\nThey were marked as Rule 39 solicitors letters - messages between inmates and legal counsel that by law cannot be read by prisons unless contraband is suspected.\n\nStaff did suspect and found 330 pages of drug-coated paper; a move that left the board \"reassured the prison is diligent in tracking down illicit items\".\n\nThe board added incidents of PS abuse were \"much lower\" than in recent years, and a body scanner was finally in place to detect drugs.\n\nIn terms of violence, the board found the prison to be \"much safer\", with one officer reporting a \"transformation\".\n\nThe fall in violence, the report said, predated the prison's Covid-19 lockdown, rolled out between March and July.\n\nBoard members praised effective communication, \"outstanding management\" and staff teamwork in keeping the prison Covid-safe.\n\nThe report concluded: \"The reduction although not elimination of the drug supply and bullying during lockdown has helped to create an environment within which many men have reported feeling safe.\n\n\"It is undoubtedly the case that staff-resident relationships have significantly improved during the lockdown.\n\n\"The challenge will be to maintain this in the future while also allowing a reasonable time out of cell.\"\n\nDuring lockdown, inmates were in their cells 23-and-a-half hours a day.\n\nThat concerned the board, but it said the move should be viewed in context of only three inmates testing positive for the virus, and inmates' general acceptance the move was for their safety.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Government trying to do two things at once\n\nThe PM’s confirmation that the Greater Manchester area is to go into a tier-three shutdown of much of the hospitality sector at the end of Thursday will be damaging to the local economy but the virus is still spreading rapidly. The surprising thing here was that £60m of support to businesses placed on the table in negotiations with Manchester at midday appears to have been completely withdrawn. The region was trying to establish how much would be needed to fund support for businesses affected. At the press conference, just £22m was mentioned, which works out at £7.85 per Greater Manchester citizen - about half what Liverpool received. Local MPs and politicians said Manchester was being “punished”. The problem for the government here is that it is trying to do two things at once. It is trying to accommodate the fact that some jobs are gone forever and those people, it believes, should get new ones. That was the rationale behind closing the furlough scheme. But since then the health crisis has returned with a vengeance, and businesses are being obliged to be shut, as more were in March. Mr Burnham says when London was driving national infection levels high, the whole nation was shut down, and a £5bn a month furlough scheme was launched. Now the north is leading infections, only its city regions are being compulsorily shut, and the jobs support is significantly less generous. During the negotiations, it is said that Greater Manchester was told there was no longer the money. The government is trying to balance lives, livelihoods and the limits of public spending on a regional basis for economic reasons. But it is far from certain that a national lockdown will be avoided.", "Today we're featuring members of our voter panel who are US military veterans. You met Rom yesterday. Today we're featuring his answers on why being a veteran impacts his vote.\n\nRom served as a US Marine for seven years and now works in business development. After backing Trump in 2016, he is more enthusiastically supporting his re-election this year as a check on the “rampant liberalism” of Democrats.\n\nWhy does this election matter to you?\n\nAs an avid historian, a follower of current events since I was very young, and a veteran, I have become quite startled at the lurch towards the left by one of the two major political parties in our country. There was a time not long ago when the differences between the two parties were not that great. Both parties, Republican and Democrat, were aligned on the same goals, albeit, their methods for achieving those goals is what differentiated them.\n\nHowever, there has never been such a great divergence in goals between the two parties, with one - Democrats - appearing to make a steep and staggering lurch towards the left and intent on altering the fundamental values that the United States was built upon, and which allowed it to become the world's leader and economic powerhouse. There's never been a time in our country's recent history when one major party has pushed so hard to turn the United States into a socialist-like country.\n\nHow does your background as a veteran influence your vote?\n\nService members are trained to put their lives on the line for their country. In order to be willing to die for your country, you have to believe in its core values. I believed in the core values of my country when I served for seven years in the US Marine Corps, just as I continue to believe in those core values today.\n\nNotwithstanding his caustic and unconventional demeanor and personality, there are three primary reasons I support Mr Trump:\n• He holds dear the values that have made this country great.\n• He follows through on his campaign promises - unlike other politicians of the past, both Republican and Democrat, who made promises while campaigning but rarely followed through.\n• Mr Trump has shaken the establishment class to its core - he's the Disruptor-in-Chief and I, as well as many others, believe disruption has been in order for a long time because the establishment class - Washington - has been out of touch with the general working-class population.\n\nRom is a member of our US election voter panel. You'll hear more from him, and many of our other voters, throughout the week.\n• We want to hear from you - what questions do you have about the US election?\n• In five words, tell us what's at stake in this election.", "Speaking outside the Manchester's central library, Andy Burnham insisted the city was \"fighting back\"\n\nOnce a New Labour rising star, twice a defeated Labour leadership candidate, now mayor of Greater Manchester.\n\nWhile other ex-Labour ministers of his generation can be found on the backbenches or the set of Strictly, Andy Burnham has found a new political power base.\n\nHis confrontation with the government over coronavirus restrictions has dominated the news over recent days and he has now been dubbed \"the King of the North\" by one of the city's bars.\n\nAndy Burnham was born in 1970 in Liverpool to telephone engineer Kenneth and receptionist Eileen.\n\nShortly afterwards, the family moved to Culcheth, a commuter belt village halfway between the city he was born in and the city he now represents as mayor.\n\nThe middle of three brothers, he describes his family as \"tight-knit\", with Everton Football Club being \"the glue that keeps us together\".\n\nHis family on both sides came from Liverpool but he says that growing up he spent more time in Manchester and was \"massively into the Manchester music of the mid and late 80s\".\n\nHe told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast that he did go to the famous Hacienda nightclub, but added: \"I probably won't say much more about that,\"\n\nThe 80s drama Boys from the Blackstuff told the story of Liverpudlian men trying to find work amid an economic recession\n\nAged 15 he joined the Labour Party, having partly been politicised by the miners' strikes of 1984-5, as well as the TV series Boys from the Blackstuff - a drama about unemployed men in Liverpool.\n\nHe attended a Roman Catholic comprehensive and later studied English at Cambridge University.\n\nAfter graduating he wrote for trade magazines including Tank World, before getting work with then-Labour MP Tessa Jowell.\n\nIn 2001 he was elected to what was then considered to be the safe Labour seat of Leigh in Greater Manchester (it turned Conservative in the last election).\n\nIn his first speech to the House of Commons, Mr Burnham told MPs that his constituents had little confidence in Parliament and said his challenge was \"to restore people's faith in politics and show that Parliament does listen and deliver good news as well as bad\".\n\nFive years after becoming an MP he was promoted by Tony Blair to the position of junior Home Office minister - a role which including going on a \"charm offensive\" tour to promote ID cards.\n\nIn 2008, Gordon Brown made him culture secretary, and it was as culture secretary that he attended a memorial service for the 96 Liverpool football fans killed in the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAndy Burnham at the High Court with other MPs and Hillsborough campaigners including Margaret Aspinall\n\nHe later said he had \"agonised for weeks\" over whether he should attend the event because he knew \"he had nothing to say\" to the relatives seeking justice.\n\nHis speech was interrupted by heckles from the crowd - angry that no-one had been prosecuted for the tragedy.\n\nThis prompted him to raise the issue at cabinet and the Hillsborough Independent Panel was later established to investigate the disaster.\n\nSpeaking at an event marking the 25th anniversary of the tragedy, he told the audience that the barracking he had received helped him \"find the political courage to do something\".\n\nIn June 2009 he became health secretary and critics have accused him of increasing the role of private companies in the NHS.\n\nHowever, he argues, he used his time at the Department of Health to change policy by ensuring the NHS was always the preferred provider.\n\nFollowing Labour's defeat in the 2010 general election, Mr Burnham joined the race to succeed Mr Brown as party leader but lost out to Ed Miliband, coming fourth out of five candidates.\n\nHe did better in 2015, coming second, beaten by Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nReflecting on his defeat, he says he felt he was \"punished for loyalty\" to the Labour leadership, adding: \"Politics doesn't reward people who try and pull for the team.\"\n\nAndy Burnham says he lost the 2015 Labour leadership election because Jeremy Corbyn offered \"a sense of renewal\" to Labour members\n\nHe has previously described himself as \"tribal\". \"If anything defines me, it is being Labour,\" he has said. \"Whoever is the manager, I am part of the team.\"\n\nHowever, more recently he told the New Statesman he felt \"semi-detached\" from the party.\n\nSome have accused him of moving with the prevailing wind and shifting from being a firm supporter of New Labour and Tony Blair when he first started out in politics to posing as the candidate of the left in the 2015 election.\n\nHe says he gets \"frustrated\" by the flip-flop label, arguing that his politics are \"nuanced\".\n\nLooking back on New Labour, he says \"the early albums were very good\", but suggests it went wrong when \"it courted power and influence too much\".\n\nHe served in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet, but stepped down to run for the mayoralty of Greater Manchester - a position he won in 2017 with 63% of the vote.\n\nAndy Burnham with his wife Marie-France Van Heel after winning the Greater Manchester mayoral election\n\nAs mayor, he promised to donate 15% of his salary - currently £110,000 - to a mayor's homelessness fund and pledged to end rough sleeping by 2020.\n\nLast year he acknowledged that he may not meet the target but said he \"couldn't have done more\".\n\nHe has vociferously defended devolution in England arguing that in the past \"places have felt powerless in the face of change.\"\n\nMr Burnham says that, apart from London, English cities \"aren't punching their weight\", adding: \"If we are going to make a success of Brexit, you have to set those cities free - and devolution could do that.\"\n\nHe insists that he is \"not about plotting a route back to Westminster\" and argues that he has more power now than he did as a cabinet minister.\n\nAsked in 2018 if he would rather score a hattrick for Everton or stand on the steps of Downing Street, he said: \"The hattrick for Everton dream has long gone, so has Downing Street - that ship has sailed.\n\n\"The dream for me is to play some part in the revival of the North of England.\"\n\nBut, whether he wanted to or not, Mr Burnham has very much returned to the centre of attention in UK politics in recent weeks, as he takes on the government over its plans to raise Covid restrictions on Greater Manchester's 2.8 million people to the highest level.\n\nHe is demanding more money - as much as under the soon-to-end furlough scheme - to support those likely to unable to work as a result, including staff in pubs and bookmakers.\n\nWarning Westminster not to \"ignore\" his region, Mr Burnham said: \"If we go into a lockdown where we don't support people who are in the lowest-paid professions we will have a mental health crisis on top of a pandemic.\"\n\nThe stakes for Greater Manchester, and Mr Burnham's legacy, appear huge.", "GCSE exams due to take place in early November have been postponed for almost two weeks.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir made the decision due to the closure of schools for an extended mid-term break.\n\nGCSE exams run by the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) will now begin on 23 November.\n\nAlmost 1,500 positive cases of coronavirus have been recorded in NI schools since they reopened to pupils at the end of August.\n\nThousands of Year 11 and Year 12 pupils taking GCSEs in science are due to sit exams in November.\n\nThere are exam papers in biology, chemistry and physics on three consecutive days.\n\nThose exams had been due to take place from 11 to 13 November.\n\nHowever, schools have now been told they will be postponed until 23 to 25 November.\n\nIn a statement, CCEA said that the decision had been taken by Mr Weir \"following the Northern Ireland Executive's recent decision that all schools should close for an extended mid-term break, due to the ongoing health situation in Northern Ireland\".\n\nPupils are also due to sit maths and English language GCSE exams in January 2021 and more science GCSE exams in February 2021.\n\nMr Weir had previously decided that the main summer A-level, AS and GCSE exams in Northern Ireland will start one week later in 2021, but will still finish by 30 June.\n\nThe minister said he had asked the Northern Ireland exams board CCEA to consider what he called \"back-up\" arrangements.\n\nPupils are due to sit fewer exams in many GCSEs in 2021 but CCEA has not yet provided final details of precise changes to individual subjects.", "The sale of Durex jumped when social-distancing rules were relaxed in the summer, says maker Reckitt Benckiser.\n\nThe consumer goods giant said growth in its health arm, which includes condoms and \"sexual wellbeing products\", rose 12.6% in the last three months.\n\nSales of Dettol, Cillit Bang, and air fresheners also jumped, helped by workers improving their new home-office environment, Reckitt said.\n\nTotal group sales in the last quarter rose 13% to £3.5bn on last year.\n\n\"Relaxations of social distancing regulations resulted in improved demand for our sexual well-being products,\" it said.\n\nDuring the spring lockdown Reckitt saw a sharp drop in demand for condoms as people had less sex.\n\nHowever, the company suggested on Tuesday that this spring fall could have a knock-on effect on its baby formula business next year, with an expected fall in the global birth rate.\n\n\"There is evidence that birth rates will be further lowered in coming quarters as a result of behaviour changes related to the pandemic,\" it said.\n\n\"Our performance has been led by an increase in hygiene and health volumes,\" said boss Laxman Narasimhan.\n\nSales of Dettol-branded sprays, wipes and liquid climbed more than 50% compared to the same period last year.\n\nAirwick and Finish continued to grow strongly, with consumers continuing to spend more time at home compared to a year ago, the company said.\n\nReckitt said that Covid-19 was accentuating trends such as \"urbanisation and global warming, and their impact on their spread of infection, re-enforcing the necessity of improved hygiene\".\n\nIt also highlighted a growing demand for self-care and a growing importance of sexual health and wellbeing.\n\n\"As consumers have sought to embrace self-care for themselves and their families, we have seen growth in preventative treatments, such as vitamins, minerals and supplements,\" it said.\n\nWhile many retailers have been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis, which has seen an acceleration towards online sales, some benefitted from lockdown.\n\nAnn Summers, which is known for selling lingerie and sex toys, said overall sales were up 14.4% in the three months to 26 September compared with last year.\n\n\"2020 has been an extraordinary time, and as a business we have seen customers taking time to truly invest in their mental and sexual wellbeing,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We have also seen increased engagement on our expert advice videos and content hub online, as customers seek out new and exciting ways to survive lockdown.\"\n\nThere was also a big surge over the summer and early autumn in people buying household cleaners, disinfectant, and bleach, according to retail analysis firm Kantar.\n\nSales of household cleaners grew by £38m in the 12 weeks to 4 October compared with last year. In the same time period, antiseptic and disinfectant sales were up more than 57%, while bleach and toilet cleaner sales rose almost 10%.\n\nReckitt's latest results were well received by analysts. ''Reckitt Benckiser has cleaned up on our obsession with hygiene,\" said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"Our pursuit of cleanliness during the pandemic has been hugely beneficial for the group, and the signs are that the crisis is leading to a longer-term behaviour shift with consumers demanding reassurance that workplaces, shops and public transport are germ free.\"\n\nRichard Hunter, head of markets at interactive investor, said: \"Reckitt was already seeing the benefits of improving hygiene and self-care awareness, and the pandemic has moved growth to another level.\"\n• None People having less sex in lockdown, says Durex", "Passengers flying from Heathrow to Hong Kong on Tuesday will be the first to have the option of paying for a rapid Covid test before checking in.\n\nThe test will cost £80 and the result is guaranteed within an hour.\n\nThe aim is to help people travelling to destinations where proof of a negative result is required on arrival.\n\nCollinson, the company behind the initiative had hoped the test could be used to enter Italy, but talks with the Italian government are continuing.\n\nA growing number of countries have classified the UK as being \"at risk\", meaning travellers from the UK face more restrictions.\n\nThe authorities in Hong Kong now require people to show they have a negative test result, taken within 72 hours of a flight from London.\n\nThe rapid saliva swab, which is now available at Heathrow Terminals 2 and 5, is known as a Lamp (Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification) test.\n\nBritish Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific will now offer it to customers.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of the aviation trade body Airlines UK, said he would like the cost of the test to be lower.\n\n\"For business passengers £80 is probably quite competitive but we've certainly said to the government in terms of introducing a test on arrival in the UK anything from £50-£60 would be better,\" he said.\n\nA Lamp test is quicker than the PCR test, which is widely used in the NHS, because the sample does not need to be sent to a laboratory.\n\nCollinson, the company behind the initiative at Heathrow, admitted that the Lamp test is \"slightly less sensitive\" than the PCR test.\n\nHowever, the Lamp test is considered to be much better than another rapid option - the antigen test.\n\nCollinson's chief executive David Evans told the BBC that \"health screening\" was quickly becoming another stage of the airport experience.\n\nHe said passengers would only have to turn up at the airport an hour earlier. And he maintained testing would help give people confidence to travel, because flights would be \"Covid-secure\".\n\n\"It starts to make travel easier again,\" he said.\n\nCollinson, which partners with Swissport, hopes testing will help open up routes between the UK and other countries.\n\nPeople arriving in Italy from the UK must now either prove they had a negative coronavirus test before departure, or take a test on arrival at an airport in Italy.\n\nHowever, the type of test offered at Heathrow is not sufficient for people travelling to some destinations, such as Cyprus, the Bahamas and Bermuda.\n\nAll those places currently require proof of a negative PCR test, which requires analysis in a laboratory.\n\nThe hope is that more countries will change their rules and allow for other types of test, which could be administered on the spot at Heathrow.\n\nIt is important to note that the new testing facility at Heathrow is not for passengers flying into the airport.\n\nThat means it will not have any immediate impact on the UK's two-week travel quarantine for people arriving from \"at risk\" countries.\n\nCollinson set up a separate testing facility in arrivals at Heathrow over the summer. However, that facility has not been used by passengers, because the government has not given its backing to testing people on arrival.\n\nMinisters have promised that next month, they will give their formal approval to the idea of people paying for a test after a week of quarantine, to avoid the full two weeks.\n\nOn Monday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed the government was in talks with the US Department of Homeland Security about a different type of system, possibly involving \"multiple tests\".\n\nThe government is looking at another system, under which people could take one test two or three days before they fly into the UK, and then another test when they arrive.\n\nThat could make it possible for someone arriving in the UK from an \"at risk\" country to avoid quarantine altogether.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said he could not say when that type of system would be up and running, because it required international co-operation.", "Almost half of secondary schools in England sent home one or more pupils because of Covid incidents last week, the latest attendance figures show.\n\nIt meant pupils isolating in 46% of secondary and 16% of primary schools.\n\nThe updated figures show 5% - or about 400,000 pupils - are out of school because of Covid outbreaks.\n\nDisruption from Covid has been increasing in schools - but the way of counting has changed which prevents comparisons with previous weeks.\n\nSince the start of term, the Department for Education (DfE) has published a figure showing how many schools were only partially open because of having to send home groups of pupils - which had risen to 21%.\n\nBut the latest weekly figures use a different way of showing how attendance has been affected during the pandemic - based on one or more pupils having to self-isolate.\n\nThis shows 21% of all schools, primary and secondary, sending home a pupil - with up to 13% sending home 30 or more pupils.\n\nBelow this overall average, secondary schools continue to face much more significant problems - three times more likely to send home pupils than in primary.\n\nOverall attendance has worsened from 90% to 89% - but very few schools, about 0.3%, have been completely closed.\n\nJulie McCulloch of the ASCL head teachers' union said the latest figures showed the \"high level of disruption\" from Covid outbreaks.\n\nShe said schools \"haven't received enough support from the government\" over access to testing and health advice - and a helpline set up for schools by the DfE had proved \"patchy\" in its usefulness.\n\nBut the DfE said the attendance figures showed \"a small proportion of pupils are self-isolating\" which was \"similar to previous weeks\".\n\nAppearing before the Education Select Committee on Tuesday morning, England's Schools Minister Nick Gibb said the change in data published on attendance provided more \"granular detail\".\n\n\"So the attendance data that's published this afternoon will be on a different timeline from the data we've published so far, because the data we've collected so far asks schools to report whether they have sent home groups of pupils.\"\n\nThere have been concerns about how pupils missing school will be able to take GCSE and A-level exams next summer.\n\nMr Gibb said exams remained the fairest system - but there was a particular concern about how exams could be fair between pupils who have missed different amounts of time in school, with those in high infection areas likely to have missed the most.\n\nMr Gibb said GCSEs and A-levels would go ahead next summer\n\n\"The other issue that really worries me more than any other issue we're having to grapple with at the moment is the unfairness and unevenness, where different students have had a different experience of missing education during this period.\n\n\"And that is something that is something that we're working with the exam boards and Ofqual to seek to address.\"\n\nHe acknowledged that \"some students will have suffered greater lockdowns, greater propensity to be self-isolating than students in other schools\".\n\n\"That does worry me,\" he said.\n\nMr Gibb said it was important that all year groups were \"able to catch up as swiftly as possible on the lost education that has been caused by this pandemic\".\n\n\"We do not want this generation of schoolchildren to suffer long term as a consequence of having to close schools to most pupils from March to the summer.\"\n\nPressed about exams, he told MPs he expected GCSEs and A-levels to go ahead next summer.\n\n\"We expect all schools to sit exams, we expect all students in Year 11 and Year 13 who are studying for exams to take those exams.\n\n\"We've been working very closely with Ofqual and the exam boards certainly to begin with on the timing issue and we've already announced that there'll be a three week delay to the timing.\"\n\nHe said there was no plan to shorten the school holidays, saying teachers and students needed a break.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Not reaching a trade deal with the EU is an “outcome for which we are increasingly well prepared”.\n\nThe EU has said it is willing to \"intensify\" talks on a trade deal with the UK this week to try to break the impasse between the two sides.\n\nIts negotiator Michel Barnier said the bloc was prepared to discuss all areas of disagreement, including fishing and competition, based on legal texts.\n\nMichael Gove said he welcomed the bloc's latest \"constructive\" step.\n\nLater, No 10 said there was \"no basis to resume talks\" unless there was a \"fundamental change\" from the EU.\n\nThe UK has accused the EU of dragging its feet and failing to respect its sovereignty in the negotiations.\n\nIn a Commons statement, Cabinet Office Minister Mr Gove said his \"door was not closed\" to further talks but the EU needed to change its position for the process to continue.\n\nAfter a call between Mr Barnier and the UK's chief negotiator, Lord Frost, Downing Street released a statement saying the EU needed to try to find an agreement \"between sovereign equals\".\n\nOn Friday, No 10 suggested formal negotiations were \"over\" as the EU was not serious about discussing the details of a free trade agreement similar to the one it has with Canada - the UK's preferred outcome.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK should \"get ready\" to trade with the EU from 1 January, when it leaves the single market and customs union, without a specific agreement.\n\nBut following a video call with his UK counterpart Lord Frost on Monday, Mr Barnier said he was willing to accelerate the process in the coming days to try to bridge the gap between the two sides.\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\nUpdating MPs on the state of the talks, Mr Gove said the EU's latest move was a positive one and suggested the UK would respond in kind.\n\nHe said: \"Even while I have been at the despatch box, it has been reported that there has been a constructive move on the part of the EU and I welcome that.\n\n\"We need to make sure we work on the basis of the intensification they propose and I prefer to look forward in optimism rather than look back in anger.\"\n\nHe added: \"If there has been movement, and there seems to be movement, then no-one would welcome it more than me but what we can't have from the EU is the illusion of engagement without the reality of compromise.\"\n\nSome senior Conservatives have urged the government to walk away from the talks, suggesting the EU is no longer negotiating in \"good faith\".\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said the EU's \"refusal\" to engage in meaningful talks on trade in financial services and agricultural products was a breach of the terms of the withdrawal agreement governing the UK's exit.\n\nThe government has said the UK will prosper whatever the outcome of the negotiations, as it will be able to exercise freedoms not available while being an EU member.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Reeves calls on the government to be “honest” about the effect of the UK not reaching a trade deal with the EU.\n\nBut business groups have warned the UK's fallback option of a so-called \"Australian-style\" arrangement - where UK-EU trade will default to World Trade Organization rules - would be disastrous as it would see tariffs on goods moving across the channel.\n\nWith less than 75 days to go before the transition period ends on 31 December, the government has urged business to step up its preparations for the looming changes to trading rules.\n\nThe PM will hold a meeting with industry groups on Tuesday to emphasise the need for action.\n\nLabour has said the government only has itself to blame for the current uncertainty, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves calling on ministers to be \"honest\" about the effect on the UK of not agreeing a trade deal.\n\nAnd former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May suggested the implications of failing to agree a future partnership would also be highly damaging for the UK's security.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brexit: Theresa May seems unimpressed with Michael Gove's plan\n\nMrs May, who quit last year after Parliament rejected her withdrawal agreement three times, said the UK \"should not be resigned\" to the prospect of failing to agree a deal over law enforcement and information sharing.\n\nShe warned that \"if the UK walks away with no deal, then our police and law enforcement agencies will no longer have the necessary access to databases in order to be able to continue to identify and catch criminals and potential terrorists in order to keep us safe\".\n\nIn response, Mr Gove said \"significant progress\" had been made in terms of security co-operation but the EU could not make access to databases conditional on the UK accepting the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.", "Mark Milsome's credits included work on Sherlock, Game of Thrones and Quantum of Solace\n\nIndustry standards \"should never have allowed\" a camera operator to die when a stunt went wrong, his father told an inquest.\n\nMark Milsome, 54, from Builth Wells, Powys, died after being hit by a Land Rover in Ghana in November 2017.\n\nHe had been working on the Netflix and BBC drama Black Earth Rising.\n\nDoug Milsome, himself a big screen cinematographer, spoke at West London Coroner's Court on the opening day of the hearing into his son's death.\n\n\"I have shot Bond movies and death-defying action sequences far more complex than the ones that killed my son,\" he said.\n\n\"The standards of professional stunt crew and producers, those who make key decisions, should never have allowed Mark to die that night - a fact.\"\n\nOutlining the circumstances of Mr Milsome's death, senior coroner Chinyere Inyama said a stunt car, a Land Rover Defender, was supposed to mount a ramp and then topple over.\n\n\"The car mounted the ramp but took off and ploughed into Mr Milsome,\" he said.\n\nThe self-employed cameraman originally from London, who was known for his work on hits including Quantum Of Solace and Cliffhanger, suffered fatal injuries.\n\nDean Byfield, first assistant director on the production, told the inquest he had \"no misgivings\" ahead of the stunt.\n\nBut he said it ended up being \"completely shocking and unexpected\".\n\nHe said there had not been an \"entirely inclusive all-encompassing safety briefing\" that night, but that it would not have been standard either.\n\nDetails were heard about a risk assessment being completed three days before the incident which referred to potential hazards including burns from flames and poor visibility.\n\nBut Adrian Waterman QC, the family's barrister, said: \"There is no reference at all to the risk of the vehicle going out of control and hitting someone.\"\n\nMr Byfield agreed, but said he did not think he had seen that risk assessment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Code-breaking hub Bletchley Park's contribution to World War Two is often over-rated by the public, an official history of UK spy agency GCHQ says.\n\nThe new book - Behind the Enigma - is released on Tuesday and is based on access to top secret GCHQ files.\n\n\"Bletchley is not the war winner that a lot of Brits think it is,\" the author, Professor John Ferris of the University of Calgary, told the BBC.\n\nBut he said Bletchley still played an important role.\n\nAnd GCHQ had a significant influence in other conflicts, according to the signals intelligence historian.\n\nGCHQ, known as Britain's listening post, was set up on 1 November 1919 as a peacetime \"cryptanalytic\" unit.\n\nDuring World War Two, staff were moved to Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, to decrypt Nazi Germany's messages including, most famously of all, the Enigma communications.\n\nThis provided an inside view of Nazi orders and movements.\n\nThe work was kept secret for decades but an official history of British intelligence in the war would later say it had shortened the conflict by two to four years and without it the outcome would have been uncertain.\n\nBletchley Park remains the most iconic success in British code-breaking and intelligence gathering. But some of the mythology surrounding it has masked the reality, the new book argues.\n\nNazi Germany actually had the advantage when it came to intelligence and code-breaking for the early part of the war because Britain's own communication security was so poor.\n\nEventually, Britain overtook the Germans and Bletchley carried out \"amazing\" work which did hasten victory, but not necessarily by the amount some previous estimates have claimed.\n\n\"Intelligence never wins a war on its own,\" says Prof Ferris.\n\nHe was given extensive access to the secret files of the intelligence agency, although some limits were placed on what he could see and write about, including more recent interceptions of other countries' diplomatic messages and some of the technical secrets of code-breaking.\n\nThe book provides a detailed sweep of the agency's contribution from its founding after World War One through to the cyber age of today, including the impact of revelations from US whistleblower Edward Snowden.\n\nProf Ferris writes that a \"cult of Bletchley\" has protected GCHQ and boosted its reputation, and argues that the fact he is able to raise questions about it show GCHQ was sincere in giving him freedom to come to his own conclusions.\n\n\"GCHQ is probably Britain's most important strategic asset at the moment and will probably remain that way for generations,\" he says.\n\n\"I think that Britain gains from keeping it strong and world class, but at the same time, you need to put in proportion what it is you can and cannot get from intelligence.\"\n\nBletchley was still a high-point, he said, because of the ability to get inside the enemy's strategic communications.\n\nThis was not possible against the Soviet Union in the Cold War, although GCHQ was still able to provide the majority of intelligence about its adversary's military thanks to innovative work in studying the patterns of communications.\n\nSteel helmets abandoned by Argentine armed forces who surrendered in 1982 at Goose Green to British Falklands Task Force troops\n\nProf Ferris also argues the agency's contribution was particularly important in the 1982 Falklands Conflict.\n\n\"I don't think Britain could have won the Falklands conflict without GCHQ,\" Prof Ferris told the BBC.\n\nHe said because GCHQ was able to intercept and break Argentine messages, British commanders were able to know within hours what orders were being given to their opponents, which offered a major advantage in the battle at sea and in retaking the islands.\n\n\"They understand what the Argentines planned to do. They understand how exactly the Argentines were deploying their forces.\"\n\nThe book provides new details on the controversial sinking of the Argentine warship Belgrano and over whether enough was done to warn of the invasion.\n\n\"It was a failure of policy, as far as I'm concerned, rather than a failure of intelligence,\" Prof Ferris told the BBC.\n\nThe book also details the close alliance with the US which persists to this day and how the make-up of staff who work at the agency, now based in Cheltenham, has changed over time.\n\nIn a foreword, the current director of the intelligence agency, Jeremy Fleming writes: \"GCHQ is a citizen-facing intelligence and security enterprise with a globally recognised brand and reputation. We owe all of that to our predecessors.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roehl Ribaya became the last patient to leave the unit in Blackpool\n\nA man who was the last patient to leave Blackpool Victoria Hospital's intensive care unit after being treated for Covid-19 in July has died.\n\nRoehl Ribaya spent 60 days in intensive care in the summer but \"never recovered\" from the long-term effects of the virus.\n\nHis widow, nurse Stella Ricio-Ribaya, performed CPR on him when he suffered a cardiac arrest.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"He was taken too soon.\"\n\nThe Filipino aerospace engineer's family said the virus had taken a heavy toll on the 47-year-old even after he was discharged from hospital on 14 August.\n\nHe had a cardiac arrest on 13 October and was in a coma until he died two days later.\n\nRoehl Ribaya was \"very funny and always joking around\", said his friend Mark Delabajan\n\nMrs Ricio-Ribaya, who lives in St Annes in Lancashire, said: \"He was never the same. He was so breathless all the time.\n\n\"Please follow the government's advice so we can stop this virus.\n\n\"We don't want any more to die.\"\n\nClose friend Mark Delabajan said the family were \"devastated\".\n\nHe said Mr Ribaya's cause of death was cardiac arrest with the secondary cause given as post-Covid pulmonary fibrosis.\n\n\"It was long Covid. His breathing was never the same and he couldn't get up the stairs,\" he said.\n\n\"He was rushed back into hospital a number of times.\"\n\nRoehl Ribaya's wife Stella Ricio-Ribaya said he remained breathless after being discharged\n\nMr Ribaya arrived at the Blackpool hospital on 29 May and spent 48 days in intensive care on a ventilator.\n\nIn July, when he was clapped out of intensive care, lead consultant Dr Jason Cupitt said it signalled the hospital had \"survived the first wave of this silent killer\".\n\nKevin McGee, chief executive of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"We were extremely saddened to hear about the death of Roehl and our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this sad time.\"\n\nIn July, Dr Jason Cupitt (centre) said Mr Ribaya's discharge from hospital showed \"we have survived the first wave\"\n\nMr Delabajan said Mr Ribaya was the \"life and soul of the party... very funny and always joking around\".\n\n\"The staff in Blackpool Victoria Hospital were very fond of him,\" he added.\n\nMr Delabajan's wife Angela has set up a fundraising page on Go Fund Me to raise money for Mr Ribaya's family.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Greater Manchester is set to move to the top level of England Covid restrictions\n\nBusinesses in Greater Manchester fear some may not survive as the area is moved into the top tier of Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nIt has followed Liverpool City Region and Lancashire into tier three.\n\nBusinesses including pubs and bars, unless they serve substantial meals, as well as soft play facilities, betting shops and casinos will have to close on Friday just after midnight.\n\nThe move has been met with anger, frustration and upset by businesses.\n\nThe owner of a Menagerie Restaurant and Bar, on the outskirts of Manchester city centre, said consumer confidence had been knocked by the confusion over coronavirus restrictions.\n\nKarina Jadhav said she was allowed to stay open, but have to close anyway as people stay away\n\n\"We have been operating under restrictions, which are close to tier three for three months now,\" said Karina Jadhav.\n\n\"While we are allowed to stay open, the restrictions, the confusion and the communication coming from the government has really reduced consumer confidence.\n\n\"This has resulted - for us - in a lot of cancellations, people not booking, people wanting refunds.\n\n\"So while we are allowed to stay open, we are being restricted to the point where it is difficult to keep the business open in the current circumstances.\"\n\nThe managing director of Wythenshawe-based Whitehouse Event Crockery said the situation was \"heartbreaking\".\n\nMarc Gough said he had a viable business but had been forgotten by government\n\nThe business, which supplies goods including plates and glassware for weddings and events, will not be forced to close down in tier three.\n\nHowever, the move to the toughest tier of measures would have a direct effect on the number of bookings, said Marc Gough.\n\n\"Weddings cannot take place in a tier three environment, so effectively they are stopping us from working with no financial support,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a viable business - a very successful, viable business - and we have just had no support from the government.\n\n\"We have been simply forgotten and it's heartbreaking.\"\n\nGreater Manchester recorded almost 11,000 new cases in the week to 16 October, according to data updated on Monday.\n\nLatest figures show cases rose across most of Greater Manchester in the week to 16 October.\n\nHowever, the city of Manchester has so far seen a fall compared with the week before.\n\nEven so, it still has a high rate of new cases, with just under 404 per 100,000 people in the week to last Friday.\n\nStockport and Trafford have the lowest rates in Greater Manchester, with 266 per 100,000 and 310 per 100,000 respectively.\n\nThe managing director of a bar in Burnage said it was going to be a \"tough winter\" as the hospitality industry adjusted to the new three-tier system.\n\nElena Rowe, pictured right with her colleague Sean Gregson, said it had been a frustrating time for the business\n\n\"It's really sad. We have done everything we can to keep safe,\" said Elena Rowe, from Reasons to be Cheerful.\n\nReasons to be Cheerful will be among the pubs to close under tier three.\n\n\"We have regulars and a lot of them drink on their own, and the space we provide is their bubble and it's sad that this is going to end for people.\n\n\"It's going to be a tough winter. I'm frustrated and upset,\" said Ms Rowe.\n\nThe owner of a bar in the heart of Manchester's gay village said tier three would also force him to close.\n\nJohn Hamilton warned that businesses were fading away and he called for help\n\nJohn Hamilton, who runs Bar Pop and employees 60 members of staff, said: \"I am so upset. The city centre will be like a deserted island.\n\n\"We need help. We are independent businesses but slowly and surely we are fading away.\"\n\nHe said tier two restrictions were \"bad enough\" and his weekly takings had plummeted from £35,000 to £11,500 and he was struggling to pay the bills.\n\nMr Hamilton said: \"I am decimated - we have nothing.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Spencer Davis, one of the key figures of the 1960s beat scene, has died at the age of 81.\n\nThe Welsh guitarist was the driving force behind The Spencer Davis Group, who scored transatlantic hits with Keep On Running and Somebody Help Me.\n\nThe band, which also featured a teenage Stevie Winwood, toured with The Who and The Rolling Stones in the 60s.\n\nDavis died in hospital on Monday, while being treated for pneumonia, his agent told the BBC.\n\n\"He was a very good friend,\" said Bob Birk, who had worked with the musician for more than 30 years.\n\n\"He was a highly ethical, very talented, good-hearted, extremely intelligent, generous man. He will be missed.\"\n\nThe son of a paratrooper, Davis was born in Swansea in 1939 and first started learning harmonica and the accordion at the age of six.\n\nHe moved to London to work for the civil service at the age of 16, but later relocated to Birmingham, where he taught German by day, and played in local clubs at night.\n\nInspired by blues and skiffle, he formed a band called The Saints with Bill Wyman, later a member of the Rolling Stones; and performed folk music with Christine Perfect - who, as Christine McVie, became a core member of Fleetwood Mac's classic line-up.\n\nBut it was with his eponymous rock group that he struck gold. Formed in 1963, The Spencer Davis Group featured Davis on guitar, a teenage Stevie Winwood on organ and vocals, his brother Muff on bass and Peter York on drums.\n\nOriginally called The Rhythm & Blues Quartette, they changed their name in 1964 when Muff pointed out that Davis was the only one who enjoyed doing interviews - the logic being that the rest of the band could slope off to the pub while he handled the press.\n\nKeep on Running knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts\n\nTheir breakout hit, Keep On Running, was a cover of a song by West Indian performer Jackie Edwards.\n\nWhen it topped the UK charts in 1966, it knocked the double A-sided Beatles single We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper from the top slot - and Davis received a telegram from the band congratulating him on the achievement.\n\n\"It's in a pile of papers somewhere,\" he told the BBC in 2009. \"It said, 'Congratulations on reaching number one - The Beatles.'\"\n\nThe follow-up was delayed when Davis bashed his head on a car windscreen after braking to avoid a dog - but Somebody Help Me, another Jackie Edwards cover, gave the quartet a second number one in March 1966.\n\nThe band went on to prove they had songwriting chops of their own, with hit singles like I'm A Man and Gimme Some Lovin', which was later covered by The Blues Brothers.\n\nThe Spencer Davis Group also recorded the theme song for the long-running children's TV show Magpie, under the pseudonym The Murgatroyd Band - a reference to the show's mascot, a fat magpie named Murgatroyd.\n\nBy 1966, the band had starred in their own film, a musical comedy called The Ghost Goes Gear, which found the band stranded in a haunted manor. Davis also made a cameo in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, as a bus passenger.\n\nHits followed in the US, although the band never toured there; while Davis's ability with languages (he was fluent in German, French and Spanish) helped the band further their career in Europe.\n\nThose linguistic capabilities even led to Davis recording a German version of The Age Of Aquarius (Aquarius Der Wassermann) in 1968, and earned him a lasting nickname: \"The Professor\".\n\nThe Spencer Davis Group - and Nicholas Parsons - in their 1966 comedy musical The Ghost Goes Gear\n\nHowever, the Spencer Davis Group came to an untimely end in 1967 when, at the height of their fame, Winwood quit to form Traffic, leaving Davis without his dynamic frontman.\n\nThe band recorded a few more minor hits, but broke up soon after, with Davis moving to California, where he embarked on a short-lived solo career.\n\nAt the time, he later claimed, he was near to bankruptcy, thanks to a punitive contract with Island Records.\n\n\"I didn't realise what had been going on. I'd sold millions of records and hadn't seen a penny from them,\" he told Music Mart magazine in 2005.\n\n\"In 1970, I was considering declaring bankruptcy, but I'd written a track with Eddie Hardin, called Don't Want You No More, which the Allman Brothers put on their Beginnings album. The damned thing sold six million copies. Suddenly a cheque for £5,000 arrived through the door and I'd never seen so much money in all my life.\n\n\"I saw more money from that one song than I saw from all the stuff that had been an Island production.\"\n\nAfter confronting Island Records' owner Chris Blackwell over the issue, he was given a job in artist development at the label in the mid-70s.\n\nThere, he helped to promote newcomers like Bob Marley, Robert Palmer and Eddie And The Hot Rods, as well as working alongside Winwood, who was now establishing himself as a solo artist.\n\nThe Spencer Davis Group pictured in the mid-1960s (L-R): Spencer Davis, Peter York, Steve Winwood, Muff Winwood\n\nDavis returned to songwriting with 1984's Crossfire, which featured contributions from Dusty Springfield and Booker T.\n\nHe subsequently reformed the Spencer Davis Group - minus the Winwood brothers - with whom he toured the world for the rest of his career, often playing more than 200 shows a year.\n\nBirmingham International Jazz Festival founder Jim Simpson, who was told about Davis' passing by drummer Pete York, said: \"Spencer was a lovely man - always very courteous and a purist about music.\n\n\"The Spencer Davis Group stuck more to the blues and never became a fully-fledged rock band. Spencer was scholarly and well educated, very gentle and kind and his tastes in music were spot on.\"\n\nThe musician is survived by his long-time partner June, and three adult children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hospitality chiefs are scrambling to work out whether working lunches in English pubs and restaurants could be exempt from new Covid restrictions.\n\nTrade body UK Hospitality said it wants government clarification, as many central London venues rely on workers meeting up over lunch.\n\nPeople from different households in England are banned from meeting in pubs in Tier 2 and Tier 3 areas.\n\nBut the rules suggest meetings are allowed for business purposes.\n\nCurrent government guidance advises working from home as much as possible and limiting social contact.\n\nThe question is whether rules allowing necessary business meetings come first, or rules banning the mixing of households, UK Hospitality chief Kate Nicholls told the BBC.\n\n\"We don't know,\" she said. \"It's a grey area.\"\n\nA Number 10 spokesman suggested that the loophole may only be available to sole traders or freelancers with no business premises to conduct meetings as an alternative.\n\nMs Nicholls said businesses would need to know how they judge whether a lunch is for work purposes or whether potential patrons are breaking the rules,.\n\n\"This could be a vital revenue stream for some venues at a time when they are trying to operate under extreme restrictions,\" Ms she said.\n\n\"It is not likely to be a magic wand for the sector, though.\".\n\nFor Tier 3 regions, being open to lunchtime custom would also mean businesses could not receive employment support, since that is for businesses closed by the restrictions.\n\n\"It also relies on people physically coming together to hold their meetings at a time when the trend appears to be towards working from home and remote meetings,\" she said.\n\n\"If workers can see the benefit in a face-to-face meeting in a safe setting, then they need to know the option is there for them. That's something which may not have been communicated too well by the government.\"\n\nLast week, UK Hospitality warned that tougher Tier 2 Covid restrictions will put up to 250,000 jobs at risk in London's hospitality sector.\n\nHouseholds are not allowed to mix indoors, including in pubs and restaurants.\n\nMs Nicholls said that without additional government support thousands of jobs in the capital will go. \"It will be absolutely catastrophic,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe has written to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, warning that elevating the capital's coronavirus risk level \"will be incredibly damaging without additional financial support\".", "PM Boris Johnson has suggested the recent spike in coronavirus cases in the UK is a result of a \"fraying of people's discipline\" over the summer.\n\nHe said compliance with the virus restrictions had been \"high at first\" but then \"probably... everybody got a bit, kind of complacent and blasé\".\n\nCases have increased sharply across the UK since the end of August.\n\nAfter starting to relax restrictions before the summer, the government has since had to toughen its measures.\n\nIt comes as the latest UK figures show there have been a further 6,968 cases and another 66 deaths.\n\nThe R number - a measure of how many other people each person with the virus is infecting - has risen to between 1.3 and 1.6.\n\nHowever, there is more evidence that new coronavirus infections may be increasing more slowly than in previous weeks.\n\nIn total, at least 16.8 million people in the UK - about one in four people - face extra coronavirus measures on top of the national rules, including two-thirds of people in the north of England.\n\nThe prime minister, who has been speaking to BBC journalists from around the country, denied that a lack of testing in north-east England had caused the virus to get out of control in the region.\n\n\"That's not the reality… the nation came together in March and April, what happened over the summer was a bit of sort of fraying of people's discipline and attention to those rules,\" he said.\n\nThe government has faced strong criticism for its mixed messages since it started easing the national lockdown in late spring.\n\nAfter a steady decline in confirmed cases since the first peak in April, cases began rising again in July, with the rate of growth increasing sharply from the end of August.\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC Scotland, Mr Johnson said: \"You saw what happened in March and April in Scotland, across the country, we came together and got the virus down.\n\n\"Alas, probably what happened since then is that everyone got a bit, kind of complacent and a bit blasé about transmission.\n\n\"The rules on social distancing weren't perhaps obeyed in the way they could have been, or enforced in the way they could have been, and that's why we've had to put in measures both in Scotland and elsewhere to bring it down again.\"\n\nNew rules, such as restricting gatherings to a maximum of six people and limiting opening hours for hospitality venues, are among the national measures that have been introduced around the UK.\n\n\"I'm afraid some of the muscle memory has faded and people are not following the guidance in the way that they should,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\nAsked about comments from the mayor of Middlesbrough who said there had been a \"frightening lack of communication with local government\" over local lockdowns, Mr Johnson disagreed, adding: \"We work very closely with local government across the country.\"\n\nBoris Johnson hired a personal trainer after ending up in hospital with coronavirus\n\nThe prime minister also described concerns that he has not been \"the old Boris\" since contracting coronavirus in March as \"sinister disinformation\".\n\nHe said he felt \"considerably better\" and, thanks to \"recent efforts\", he was about two stones lighter than he was a year ago.\n\nMr Johnson has previously revealed he has hired a personal trainer to lose weight after acknowledging he was \"too fat\" when he caught Covid-19.\n\nHe also declined to comment when asked about the future of MP Margaret Ferrier, who travelled from Glasgow to London with Covid-19 symptoms then returned home after testing positive.\n\n\"I'm going to leave that one very much to the SNP and to their whips - that's for them to decide but it's very important that everyone obeys the rules and the guidance,\" he said.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation into Ms Ferrier, who has been suspended by the SNP and faces calls to quit as an MP.", "A Met Police sergeant killed at a custody centre while on duty died from a gunshot wound to the chest, an inquest has heard.\n\nNew Zealand-born Sgt Matiu Ratana died in hospital after being shot by handcuffed suspect Louis De Zoysa.\n\nShe opened and adjourned the inquest into the 54-year-old's death until a later date.\n\nSgt Ratana's son dialled into the inquest hearing from Australia.\n\nIt comes on the day New Zealand's High Commissioner to the UK visited the scene where Sgt Ratana was killed.\n\nBede Corry laid a wreath and paused briefly in front of a memorial at Croydon Custody Centre.\n\nNew Zealand High Commissioner Bede Corry joined Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick in Croydon on Thursday\n\nDozens of police officers have paid tribute to Sgt Matiu Ratana\n\nSince Friday a shrine outside the custody centre has been lined with scores of floral bouquets and surrounded by New Zealand flags and sports jerseys.\n\nMr Corry said: \"New Zealanders were shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic death of Sgt Matiu Ratana.\n\n\"As someone who was a police officer in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, he uniquely served both countries. We know he will be deeply missed.\"\n\nMr De Zoysa, 23, had been arrested for possession of ammunition and possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply following a stop and search in the London Road area of Pollards Hill at 01:30 BST on Friday.\n\nLouis De Zoysa was arrested on Friday in the London Road area of Pollards Hill\n\nDet Supt Nick Blackburn told the inquest at Croydon Town Hall that Mr De Zoysa arrived at Croydon Custody Centre and was taken into a holding room with officers who prepared to search him again.\n\n\"The custody sergeant, Matt Ratana, entered the holding room as part of his duties when the suspect produced a firearm and discharged the weapon several times, during which both Sgt Ratana and the suspect were injured.\n\n\"Police and paramedics treated him at the scene and he was taken to hospital by the London Ambulance Service.\n\nA revolver handgun was recovered from the scene, Det Supt Blackburn added.\n\nMr De Zoysa remains critically ill at St George's Hospital in Tooting and is still yet to be questioned by detectives investigating the murder.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and had been taken to the custody centre in a police vehicle, before being escorted into the building.\n\nNo police firearms were discharged in the shooting, and the case is not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThe Banstead farmland used to serve as an ammunition depot during the Second World War\n\nSix days on from the fatal shooting detectives are still extensively searching Mr De Zoysa's family in home in Norbury, south London, and a farmland in Banstead, Surrey, which is expected \"to take days to complete\", the Met has said.\n\nOn Wednesday a man from Norwich, who was arrested on suspicion of supplying a firearm, was bailed by detectives until late October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Even an effective coronavirus vaccine will not return life to normal in spring, a group of leading scientists has warned.\n\nA vaccine is often seen as the holy grail that will end the pandemic.\n\nBut a report, from researchers brought together by the Royal Society, said we needed to be \"realistic\" about what a vaccine could achieve and when.\n\nThey said restrictions may need to be \"gradually relaxed\" as it could take up to a year to roll the vaccine out.\n\nMore than 200 vaccines to protect against the virus are being developed by scientists around the world in a process that is taking place at unprecedented speed.\n\n\"A vaccine offers great hope for potentially ending the pandemic, but we do know that the history of vaccine development is littered with lots of failures,\" said Dr Fiona Culley, from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London.\n\nThere is optimism, including from the UK government's scientific advisers, that some people may get a vaccine this year and mass vaccination may start early next year.\n\nHowever, the Royal Society report warns it will be a long process.\n\n\"Even when the vaccine is available it doesn't mean within a month everybody is going to be vaccinated, we're talking about six months, nine months... a year,\" said Prof Nilay Shah, head of chemical engineering at Imperial College London.\n\n\"There's not a question of life suddenly returning to normal in March.\"\n\nThe report said there were still \"enormous\" challenges ahead.\n\nSome of the experimental approaches being taken - such as RNA vaccines - have never been mass produced before.\n\nThere are questions around raw materials - both for the vaccine and glass vials - and refrigerator capacity, with some vaccines needing storage at minus 80C.\n\nProf Shah estimates vaccinating people would have to take place at a pace, 10 times faster than the annual flu campaign and would be a full-time job for up to 30,000 trained staff.\n\n\"I do worry, is enough thinking going into the whole system?\" he says.\n\nEarly trial data has suggested that vaccines are triggering an immune response, but studies have not yet shown if this is enough to either offer complete protection or lessen the symptoms of Covid.\n\nProf Charles Bangham, chairman of immunology of Imperial College London, said: \"We simply don't know when an effective vaccine will be available, how effective it will be and of course, crucially, how quickly it can be distributed.\n\n\"Even if it is effective, it is unlikely that we will be able to get back completely to normal, so there's going to be a sliding scale, even after the introduction of a vaccine that we know to be effective.\n\n\"We will have to gradually relax some of the other interventions.\"\n\nAnd many questions that will dictate the vaccination strategy remain unanswered, such as:\n\nThe researchers warn the issue of long-term immunity will still take some time to answer, and we still do not know if people need vaccinating every couple of years or if one shot will do.\n\nCommenting on the study, Dr Andrew Preston from the University of Bath, said: \"Clearly the vaccine has been portrayed as a silver bullet and ultimately it will be our salvation, but it may not be an immediate process.\"\n\nHe said there would need to be discussion of whether \"vaccine passports\" are needed to ensure people coming into the country are immunised.\n\nAnd Dr Preston warned that vaccine hesitancy seemed to be a growing problem that had become embroiled in anti-mask, anti-lockdown ideologies.\n\n\"If cohorts of people refuse to have the vaccine, do we leave them to fend for themselves or have mandatory vaccination for children to go to schools, or for staff in care homes? There are lots of difficult questions.\"", "SNP MP Margaret Ferrier spoke in the Commons on Monday while awaiting the result of a coronavirus test, which later turned out to be positive.\n\nShe travelled back to Scotland by train the day after the positive test result.\n\nMs Ferrier said she had been self-isolating at home since then.\n\nShe released a statement three days after the positive test, saying she was \"very sorry for her mistake\".", "Margaret Ferrier campaigns with the then-SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon ahead of the 2019 General Election\n\nA by-election has been triggered after MP Margaret Ferrier, who was suspended from the Commons for breaking Covid lockdown rules, lost her seat in a recall petition.\n\nShe had travelled to London while feeling ill in 2020 then got a train home after a positive Covid test.\n\nFerrier was elected as an SNP member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West in 2015 but was suspended from the party after the lockdown breach in 2020 and has since sat as an independent.\n\nShe had taken a Covid test on Saturday 26 September 2020 after noticing what she described as a \"tickly throat\".\n\nWhile awaiting her results, she went to church, gave a reading to the congregation and spent more than two hours in a bar in Prestwick, South Ayrshire.\n\nThe next day she travelled to London by train and spoke in the Commons before finding out a short time later that she had tested positive for the virus.\n\nFerrier decided to get a train back to Glasgow the following day, fearing she would have to self-isolate in a London hotel room for two weeks.\n\nShe was arrested and charged with culpable and reckless conduct in January 2021 and pleaded guilty last August. A month later she was ordered to carry out 270 hours of community service.\n\nThe 62-year-old first became an MP in 2015 in the SNP landslide that saw the party take 56 of the 59 seats in Scotland.\n\nFerrier, who won Rutherglen and Hamilton West, pulled off one of the biggest shocks on a night full of surprises.\n\nHer victory overturned a Labour majority of 21,002 - one of the largest in the UK - and she ended up the winner by 9,975 votes.\n\nShe was 54 when she was chosen to be the SNP candidate and had only joined the party four years earlier.\n\nSoon after becoming an MP, she told the Rutherglen Reformer she could not remember a time when she did not support an independent Scotland.\n\nEven as a member of the Labour Party in her youth, she felt the country should go it alone, she said.\n\nBorn in the south of Glasgow, she lived for almost two years of her childhood in Spain.\n\nShe told the Reformer she had early memories of correcting people in Spain when they called her English.\n\n\"I wasn't English, I was Scottish, so I always had that Scottish identity, even from the age of 12,\" she said.\n\nFerrier returned to Scotland in 1972 and settled with her family in Rutherglen.\n\nMargaret Ferrier in the House of Commons during a debate on the coronavirus response\n\nShe is said to have had a keen interest in politics since her early-20s and was a member of Amnesty International.\n\nBefore becoming an MP, she had worked as a commercial sales manager for a manufacturing construction company in Motherwell.\n\nAlthough she said she voted for the SNP on a number of occasions, she did not join the Rutherglen branch of the party until 2011.\n\nShe quickly established herself in the local party and was a candidate for the council elections in 2013.\n\nShe said she was initially reluctant to contest the Westminster seat in 2015 and admitted at the time that some potential candidates may have been put off by the prospect of taking on a huge Labour majority.\n\nHer surprise win was followed by defeat in the snap election of 2017 when Ged Killen regained the seat for Labour with a slender majority of 265.\n\nThe then-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited Rutherglen to offer her support for Margaret Ferrier as she campaigned successfully to win back the seat in the 2019 election.\n\nFerrier was one of the MPs who called on the prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings to resign in the wake of the controversy over his visit to the North East of England during lockdown.\n\nAt the time, she said his actions had \"undermined the sacrifices that we have all been making in lockdown to protect each other from coronavirus\" and described his position as \"untenable\".\n\nIt subsequently emerged that Ferrier had travelled from Glasgow to London with Covid symptoms, and then returned home by train after testing positive.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was quick to condemn her actions as \"dangerous and indefensible\".\n\nThe former SNP leader later called \"with a heavy heart\" for Ferrier to resign as an MP.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump's seven days before his Covid-positive test\n\nPresident Donald Trump's coronavirus diagnosis came after a busy week running his administration and campaigning for November's election.\n\nThe president announced that he and his wife and his wife, Melania has tested positive for Covid-19, in a tweet sent on Friday at around 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT).\n\nThis followed a positive test for his close aide, Hope Hicks, who reportedly started feeling symptoms on Wednesday.\n\nSince the president's diagnosis, several people close to him have tested positive too, including his press secretary.\n\nSo far the majority of publicly released results have been negative. However, test accuracy can vary depending on when a sample is taken during the course of the illness. One taken very soon after exposure may not give an accurate result.\n\nThe White House says it has begun contact-tracing. Here's a look at some of the people we know Mr Trump has crossed paths with during the last week - starting with an event that is being investigated as a possible \"super-spreader\":\n\nPresident Trump announced his Supreme Court pick, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, in front of a crowd of about 200 people on the White House lawn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, seen hugging other attendees\n\nJudge Coney Barrett said on Friday that she had tested negative. Sources told US media she had the virus earlier this year.\n\nAlong with Mr Trump and his wife, at least seven other people who attended the Rose Garden event say they have tested positive - although it's not known where they caught the virus.\n\nThey are: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany; former White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway; Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who are both on the judiciary committee; the president of the University of Notre Dame, John Jenkins; and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who said he checked himself into a hospital on Saturday as a precaution.\n\nThe White House Correspondents' Association said an unnamed reporter at the event had also tested positive with symptoms.\n\nDuring the evening, President Trump held a rally at Harrisburg International Airport in Middletown, Pennsylvania.\n\nSince the afternoon's ceremony, Judge Coney Barrett has held meetings with various senators - including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell - ahead of her much-anticipated confirmation hearing, due to take place on 12 October.\n\nThe president played golf at his club in Potomac Falls, Virginia, in the morning and led a White House reception for the families of military veterans during the evening.\n\nOn Monday, President Trump held a news briefing in the White House Rose Garden - giving an update on his administration's coronavirus testing strategy.\n\nIt was attended by Vice-President Mike Pence, Health Secretary Alex Azar, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and the chief executive of Abbott Laboratories, Robert Ford, among others.\n\nLater, Trump viewed a model of a new pickup truck - being built at a factory in Ohio - on the White House lawn. Representatives from the company, Lordstown Motors, attended, as well as two members of Congress.\n\nThe White House regularly tests officials who come in contact with the president. However, US media has noted that mask-wearing and social distancing around him is less common - suggesting that people may be too reliant on the testing system, which is not foolproof.\n\nThe president faced his election rival, Joe Biden, at their first face-to-face debate in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday evening.\n\nPresident Trump flew there on his presidential plane, Air Force One, alongside his wife, adult children and multiple aides. Many were seen not wearing masks when boarding or disembarking.\n\nAlso on the plane were: White House Chief of staff Mark Meadows; campaign strategist Jason Miller; policy adviser Stephen Miller; Robert C O'Brien, the national security adviser who tested positive for the virus in July; and Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan.\n\nAfter landing, the president's campaign manager, Bill Stepien, was spotted getting into a staff van with Ms Hicks, the New York Times reports. Late on Friday, it was announced that Mr Stepien had tested positive for Covid-19 and was experiencing mild flu-like symptoms.\n\nThe debate was held at Cleveland Clinic's Health Education Campus, a shared facility with Case Western Reserve University.\n\nThe organisers, the Commission on Presidential Debates, brought in numerous Covid-era safety precautions. There were no handshakes between the two candidates and everyone attending - including the 80 or so audience members - was tested before the event and asked to wear masks throughout.\n\nIn the run-up, Mr Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka, posted a picture of herself backstage in a mask, alongside her sister Tiffany, sister-in-law Lara and stepmother Melania.\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 ivankatrump 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\nHowever, during the event itself, Ivanka Trump and other family members, including siblings Don Jr and Eric, were pictured mask-less. Moderator Chris Wallace has since told Fox News that they were offered masks by event staff but they refused them.\n\nObservers said those on Mr Biden's side of the room kept their masks on.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Biden kept a distance during the debate, at podiums on opposite sides of the stage.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Biden loudly spoke over each other throughout the contentious debate\n\nWhen the candidates were greeted by the wives on stage afterwards, Jill Biden wore a mask and Melania Trump didn't.\n\nAt a separate campaign event in Pennsylvania, Vice-President Mike Pence said he had been in the Oval Office with President Trump earlier that day. It is thought to be their last in-person meeting.\n\nPresident Trump and much of his entourage flew back to Washington DC on Tuesday night.\n\nThe day after the debate, President Trump was straight back into campaign business, flying to Minnesota. Ms Hicks was among those accompanying him.\n\nAt a press conference on Saturday, the president's physician Dr Sean Conley said Mr Trump had been diagnosed 72 hours previously, which would place his diagnosis on Wednesday. But the White House later clarified that he was diagnosed on Thursday.\n\nHe attended a closed-door fundraiser at a private home in Minneapolis, and later held a rally at an airport in Duluth, in front of a crowd of thousands. Few wore masks but there was distance between them and the president.\n\nMinnesota Congressman Kurt Daudt tweeted a picture of himself close to Mr Trump, with neither wearing masks.\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 Kurt Daudt 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\nOn Wednesday evening, Mr Trump and various aides returned to Washington DC on Air Force One again.\n\nMeanwhile Ms Hicks, who was feeling unwell, was isolated in a separate cabin, according to US media. She reportedly disembarked from the back of the plane, instead of the front alongside the other passengers.\n\nThe following day, Ms Hicks tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nPresident Trump flew to his Bedminster golf resort in New Jersey for a private fundraiser. Several aides who were in proximity to Ms Hicks scrapped their plans to accompany the president, according to the Associated Press.\n\nKayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, is thought to have been in close contact with Ms Hicks. Ms McEnany held a briefing for reporters at the White House on Thursday, without mentioning her colleague's test and without wearing a mask. She has since said she did not know about the diagnosis.\n\nThat night, in pre-taped remarks to the annual Al Smith dinner in New York City - held virtually this year - Mr Trump said that \"the end of the pandemic is in sight\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The end of the pandemic is in sight,\" President Trump told a dinner on Thursday\n\nHe later announced in an interview on Fox News that he and the first lady were being tested for the virus.\n\nIt is not known how many supporters he came into contact with in recent days, he but told Fox presenter Sean Hannity that people were always wanting to get close to him. \"They want to hug you, and they want to kiss you,\" he said.\n\nPresident Trump announced that he and Mrs Trump had tested positive, adding that they will begin the \"quarantine and recovery process immediately\".\n\nJust before 11:00, his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, told reporters the president has \"mild symptoms\" but remains in \"good spirits\".\n\nMrs Trump tweeted to say she also had mild symptoms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The president has \"mild symptoms\" but will \"remain on the job\", says White House chief of staff Mark Meadows\n\nThat day, several other people announce that they've tested positive: Kellyanne Conway, former White House counsellor; Bill Stepien, Mr Trump's campaign manager; Mike Lee, Utah senator; Thom Tillis, a senator for North Carolina; Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee; Rev John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame University; and Senator Ron Johnson, head of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.\n\nMeanwhile Joe Biden, the Democrats' presidential candidate, tests negative, as does: Jill Biden, his wife; Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence; Kamala Harris, the Democrats' vice-presidential candidate; Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court nominee; Mike Pompeo, secretary of state; Steve Mnuchin, treasury secretary; Alex Azar, secretary of health and human services; William Barr, attorney general; Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr, the president's daughter and son; and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law.\n\nFormer New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Nicholas Luna, a White House presidential aide, both test positive.\n\nMr Trump waved to well-wishers from behind the glass of a sealed car after tweeting that he would pay a \"surprise visit\" to \"patriots\" outside the hospital.\n\nInside the car, at least two people could be seen wearing protective gear in the front seats, with Mr Trump sat in the back.\n\nThere were concerns that the president who wore a mask, may have endangered others inside the car. But White House spokesperson Judd Deere said the trip had been \"cleared by the medical team as safe\".\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany announces on Twitter that she has tested positive.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The rolls used in Subway's hot sandwiches contain too much sugar to be considered bread, according to Ireland's Supreme Court.\n\nIreland's highest court made the ruling in a case about how the bread is taxed.\n\nAn Irish franchisee of the US company had claimed it should not pay VAT on the rolls it uses in heated sandwiches.\n\nBut the court ruled that because of the level of sugar in the rolls they cannot be taxed as bread, which is classed as a \"staple product\" with zero VAT.\n\nUnder Ireland's VAT Act of 1972, ingredients in bread such as sugar and fat should not exceed 2% of the weight of flour in the dough.\n\nThe five judges, who were considering an appeal by Bookfinders Ltd, a Subway franchisee based near Galway, concluded that in Subway sandwiches the sugar content is around 10% of the flour in the dough for both white and wholegrain rolls.\n\n\"Subway's bread is, of course, bread,\" said a spokesperson for Subway.\n\n\"We have been baking fresh bread in our stores for more than three decades and our guests return each day for sandwiches made on bread that smells as good as it tastes.\"\n\nIn Irish law, bread is considered a staple food and has a zero rate of VAT. Following the ruling, the rolls are subject to tax at 13.5%.\n\nThe case stems from a decision by Ireland's tax authority in 2006 to refuse Bookfinders' request for a refund on VAT payments made between 2004 and 2005.\n\nAfter an appeal commissioner upheld the tax authority's refusal of a refund, Bookfinders took its case to the High Court which it lost before going to the Court of Appeal, where it was also unsuccessful.\n\nIt is not the first time Subway's bread has been in the spotlight. In 2014, the company announced it was removing azodicarbonamide - the so-called \"yoga mat\" chemical - from its rolls.\n\nSubway stopped using the so-called \"yoga mat\" chemical - azodicarbonamide - in its bread in 2014\n\nThe chemical is used to whiten flour and improve the condition of dough. It is also used to make vinyl foam products such as yoga mats and the underlay for carpets.\n\nSubway stopped using the agent six years ago but the US Food and Drug Administration continues to approve the use of the chemical in produce.\n• None How safe are takeaways and supermarket deliveries?", "Zef Eisenberg, pictured in July 2017, just a year after a \"near-death\" crash at Elvington Airfield\n\nZef Eisenberg, who launched Maximuscle, died at Elvington Airfield, near York, where in 2006 ex-Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond crashed.\n\nMotorsport UK said the 47-year-old's car \"went out of control at high speed at the end of a run\" on Thursday.\n\nGuernsey-based Mr Eisenberg was involved in a \"near-death\" 230mph crash at the same airfield in 2016.\n\nMotorsport UK said Mr Eisenberg was attempting to break the British land speed record in a Porsche 911 Turbo S when he was killed at about 16:30 BST.\n\nThe organisation paid tribute to the \"much-loved member of the motorsport community\" and confirmed a full investigation into the crash had begun.\n\nMr Eisenberg left behind his partner Mirella D'Antonio and two children, it added.\n\nSports nutrition firm Maximuscle said it was \"devastated\" at the news of the Mr Eisenberg's death, who had \"worked tirelessly\" on his \"brain child\" during his ownership of the company.\n\nEmergency services were called to the crash at the airfield at around 16:30 BST on Thursday\n\nMr Eisenberg ran the Madmax Race Team, which attempts speed records with motorbikes and cars.\n\nBefore his previous crash, in which he suffered 11 broken bones including his pelvis, he had set other speed records at the airfield.\n\nHe returned to racing in 2017, despite concerns he would never walk again.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Eisenberg set the record for the \"flying mile\" at Pendine Sands in Wales, stealing the crown from actor Idris Elba, who himself had broken the record in 2015, after it had stood since 1927, when Sir Malcolm Campbell set the pace.\n\nHe also holds a Guinness world record for exceeding 225mph (363kmh) on a turbine-powered motorbike in 2015, as well as three FIA records for speeds achieved on an electric motorbike.\n\nThe businessman, who left school after his GCSEs, founded Maximuscle in 1995. It was sold to pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in 2011 for £162m.\n\nMr Eisenberg also presented ITV4 show Speed Freaks, which was aired last year.\n\nITV's Satmohan Panesar said: \"Zef was a truly unique character whose passion for speed came across vividly in his presenting, and his personal and professional achievements are testament to his drive and determination.\n\n\"He will be missed enormously by everyone who worked with him and our condolences go to his friends and family.\"\n\nElvington was an RAF station until 1992, and has become a popular motorsports venue since entering private ownership.\n\nIt has hosted dozens of world record attempts, and is also used as a filming location.", "The MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West spoke in a debate in the House of Commons before returning to Scotland after her positive test was confirmed\n\nThe House of Commons speaker has said he is \"very, very angry\" at the \"reckless\" behaviour of an MP who travelled from Glasgow to London with Covid-19 symptoms, then returned home after testing positive.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle said he could not believe that Margaret Ferrier had put other people's health at risk.\n\nAnd he said she had not initially given a straight story to the authorities.\n\nMs Ferrier has been suspended by the SNP and faces calls to quit as an MP.\n\nDUP MP Jim Shannon, who was seated at the same socially-distanced dining table as Ms Ferrier on Monday evening, is self-isolating but received a negative test result on Thursday afternoon.\n\nAn Assistant Serjeant at Arms was close to Ms Ferrier when she spoke in the Commons on Monday but has not been advised to self-isolate.\n\nMs Ferrier has apologised and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions but has not yet given any indication of whether or not she intends to continue sitting as an independent MP.\n\nShe has referred herself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, as well as to the police.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who is also the SNP leader, told her daily coronavirus briefing that Ms Ferrier had been guilty of the \"worst breach imaginable\".\n\nAnd she said she had made it \"crystal clear\" to her that her \"reckless, dangerous and completely indefensible\" actions meant she should stand down in the interests of the overall integrity of the public health message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Lindsay Hoyle says he is \"really very angry\" about the behaviour of MP Margaret Ferrier.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC whether he believed Ms Ferrier should quit as an MP, Sir Lindsay replied: \"I would expect the member to consider what they have done, and the reckless behaviour, and how that looks to the rest of the country.\n\n\"This sends all the wrong messages. People have really got to consider their position on that.\"\n\nThe Speaker expressed his \"complete shock that somebody could be so reckless\" and said he was \"really very, very angry\" that \"the House has been put at risk\".\n\nHe said Ms Ferrier had then put \"a whole different set of people at risk\" by travelling on public transport after testing positive for the virus.\n\nHe also criticised the speed at which he was informed about the incident - but blamed the MP, rather than the SNP.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Lindsay said: \"Not to be told until Wednesday is not acceptable, and we were hearing different stories, different messages, that made it even more difficult to deal with.\"\n\nMs Ferrier, the MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" on Saturday and was tested for coronavirus.\n\nHowever, she decided to travel by train to Westminster on Monday before getting her result because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe spoke for four minutes in the Commons chamber during a coronavirus debate - tweeting a video of her speech - but was told later that evening that she had tested positive for the virus.\n\nDespite this, Ms Ferrier took a train back to Scotland on Tuesday, with SNP whips in the Commons being told about her positive test on Wednesday.\n\nIt is understood she had initially told the party she was going home because a family member was unwell.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister has condemned the actions of Ms Ferrier\n\nA spokesman for the party said the SNP's chief whip immediately informed parliament authorities after learning of Ms Ferrier's positive test on Wednesday.\n\nBut he said it was not until Thursday that the SNP discovered that Ms Ferrier had been tested prior to travelling to London and had then travelled back to Glasgow despite knowing that she had a positive result.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was only told on Thursday afternoon - shortly after she faced opposition leaders at first minister's questions in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nMs Ferrier's actions became public when she tweeted an apology at about 18:00 on Thursday.\n\nSNP sources initially said they would await the result of a police investigation into her actions before deciding whether or not she would be suspended.\n\nBut the party announced her suspension about an hour later, with Ms Sturgeon subsequently tweeting that the MP's actions had been \"indefensible\".\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 Nicola Sturgeon 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 Scotland confirmed they had been contacted by Ms Ferrier, saying officers were \"looking into the circumstances\" and liaising with the Metropolitan Police Service.\n\nMs Ferrier could face a £4,000 fine for a first-time offence of coming into contact with others when she should have been self-isolating under a law that came into force on the day of her positive test.\n\nIan Blackford, the SNP leader at Westminster, earlier told BBC Breakfast that \"nobody is above the law\" and calling on Ms Ferrier to \"do the right thing\".\n\nSNP MPs David Linden, Kirsty Blackman and Stephen Flynn have also called for her to step down.\n\nBBC Scotland's chief political correspondent, Glenn Campbell, said there may be a way for Ms Ferrier's constituents to force her out if she refuses to quit.\n\nThis would require her to first be suspended from the Commons for a fortnight or ten sitting days by the standards committee.\n\nIf 10% of registered voters in her constituency then signed a recall petition within the next six weeks, her seat would become vacant and a by-election would be called.\n\nFive days a week, every week, Nicola Sturgeon appears on TV, taking questions about her coronavirus policies and urging every one of us to abide by the rules.\n\nSo for the MP who has committed the most egregious breach of the regulations - possibly of the law - to be one of her own is acutely embarrassing.\n\nThe SNP leader who has been quick to condemn others for breaking the rules has made no attempt to defend or excuse Margaret Ferrier.\n\nThis is the first minister whose chief medical advisor resigned for breaking lockdown rules back in April and who demanded the sacking of the PM's chief advisor Dominic Cummings after he admitted to breaches of the regulations.\n\nSNP MPs called publicly Ms Ferrier to resign and Ms Sturgeon has spoken to her this morning and made clear that she should step down as an MP.\n\nBut the problem for the SNP is that they cannot force the MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West to leave her job. They have already removed the party whip and suspended her from the SNP. But that is all they can do.\n\nMs Ferrier was one of the MPs who called on the prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings to resign in the wake of the controversy over his visit to the North East of England during lockdown.\n\nAt the time, she said his actions had \"undermined the sacrifices that we have all been making in lockdown to protect each other from coronavirus\" and described his position as \"untenable\".\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said Ms Ferrier's \"reckless\" actions had put the lives of other people at risk, and has questioned the SNP's timeline of events.\n\nMr Ross said: \"The SNP say they only found out about any wrongdoing on Thursday. That means we're supposed to accept that the SNP found out Margaret Ferrier tested positive on Wednesday - and asked nothing.\n\n\"The SNP's timeline is full of holes and any reasonable person can see that.\"\n\nShadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray also demanded answers from the SNP to the \"very serious questions\" surrounding the behaviour of Ms Ferrier.\n\nThe Scottish Labour MP said her \"catastrophic, negligent actions\" had put lives at risk.\n\nMs Ferrier was first elected as an SNP MP in 2015 but lost her seat to Labour in 2017 before winning it back in last year's general election with a majority of 5,230.", "The MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West spoke in a debate in the House of Commons before returning unwell back to Scotland\n\nScotland's first minister says the actions of an SNP MP who travelled to Westminster despite experiencing Covid symptoms are \"utterly indefensible\".\n\nMargaret Ferrier said she made the journey because she was feeling \"much better\" - but also returned home after getting a positive test result.\n\nShe is facing calls to resign from opponents and SNP politicians, after she was suspended by the party.\n\nNicola Sturgeon tweeted her support for the decision to suspend the MP.\n\nShe said: \"This is utterly indefensible. It's hard to express just how angry I feel on behalf of people across the country making hard sacrifices every day to help beat Covid.\n\n\"The rules apply to everyone and they're in place to keep people safe. @Ianblackford_MP is right to suspend the whip.\"\n\nGlasgow East MP David Linden, one of Ms Ferrier's former SNP colleagues, told BBC Question Time she \"should resign\" as an MP.\n\nHis fellow SNP MPs, Kirsty Blackman and Stephen Flynn, have also called for her to step down.\n\nMeanwhile, Ruth Davidson, former Scottish Conservative leader, told BBC Newsnight: \"She shouldn't be an MP at all. That's on her and if she had a shred of decency she would [resign],\" she said.\n\nTaking public transport after testing positive amounted to an \"absolutely reckless endangerment of person and of life\", she added.\n\nMs Ferrier said she took a coronavirus test on Saturday after experiencing \"mild symptoms\", but travelled to London on Monday as she felt better.\n\nThe MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West spoke in the coronavirus debate in the House of Commons on Monday, and said she received her positive test result that evening.\n\nShe then took a train back to Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Ferrier said she had informed the police and that she deeply regretted her actions.\n\n\"I travelled home by train on Tuesday morning without seeking advice. This was also wrong and I am sorry,\" she said.\n\n\"I have been self-isolating at home ever since.\"\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed they had been contacted by Ms Ferrier, saying officers were \"looking into the circumstances\" and liaising with the Metropolitan Police Service.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said he had spoken to Ms Ferrier, who accepted that what she had done was wrong.\n\nHe said: \"Margaret will be referring herself to the parliamentary standards commissioner as well as the police. I am tonight suspending the whip from Margaret.\"\n\nDave Penman, general secretary of the FDA union, which represents some Commons staff, said it was \"such a deliberate and reckless act\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's a complete disregard for others. Coronavirus is like any other health and safety issue in the workplace - we all have obligations to other people and anyone who recklessly endangers other people has to face consequences.\"\n\nWhen someone tests positive for coronavirus they normally attract sympathy and concern.\n\nBut that's in extremely short supply for Margaret Ferrier after she admitted breaking Covid self-isolation rules.\n\nShe may have apologised for attending parliament and making lengthy journeys by public transport with coronavirus but she has not offered an explanation.\n\nHer behaviour is far more serious than the lockdown travel breach that cost Catherine Calderwood her job as Scotland's chief medical officer.\n\nIt is also more serious than the lockdown travels of the prime minister's adviser, Dominic Cummings, who Mrs Ferrier called on to resign.\n\nIt is no surprise then that the Conservatives are demanding the MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West stands down from Parliament.\n\nShe has already been suspended by the SNP and the party leader, Nicola Sturgeon, has described her behaviour as \"utterly indefensible\".\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle wrote to MPs on Thursday evening to say he was informed after Ms Ferrier told the SNP whip on Wednesday afternoon that she had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"The House authorities immediately took all necessary steps in line with their legal obligations and PHE [Public Health England] Guidance,\" he wrote.\n\n\"On the basis of the information supplied to the contact tracing system, only one individual has been identified as a close contact in relation to this case and is now self-isolating.\"\n\nA House of Commons spokesperson said the House's priority was to ensure the safety of those working on the estate.\n\nThe statement added: \"We have closely followed public health guidance on the action to take following a confirmed case of Covid on site.\n\n\"Parliament has a dedicated team to support the test and trace teams across the UK, acting as a central point of contact in the event of any suspected or confirmed cases, where an individual has been working on the estate.\"\n\n\"She has put passengers, rail staff, fellow MPs, Commons staff and many others at unacceptable risk,\" he said.\n\n\"To breach the rules twice is simply unforgivable, and has undermined all the sacrifices made by her constituents.\"\n\nTrain drivers union Aslef described her actions as \"both dangerous and disgraceful\".\n\nMs Ferrier was one of the MPs who called on the prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings to resign in the wake of the controversy over his visit to the North East of England during lockdown.\n\nAt the time, she said his actions had \"undermined the sacrifices that we have all been making\" and described his position as \"untenable\".", "Loss of a sense of smell may be a more reliable indicator of Covid-19 than cough or fever, research suggests.\n\nA study by University College London (UCL) of 590 people who lost their sense of smell or taste earlier in the year found 80% had coronavirus antibodies.\n\nOf those people with antibodies, 40% had no other symptoms.\n\nThe research only looked at people with mild symptoms, however.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nEvidence that loss of smell and taste could be signs of coronavirus began to emerge from about April, and they were added to the official list of symptoms in mid-May.\n\nCurrent guidance states anyone who experiences a loss of, or change to their sense of smell or taste should self-isolate and apply for a test.\n\nBut lead author of the UCL study, Prof Rachel Batterham, says cough and fever are still seen by many as the main symptoms to look out for.\n\nShe recruited people between 23 April and 14 May by sending out texts via four GP surgeries in London, enrolling those who reported losing their smell or taste in the previous four weeks.\n\nAll of these participants were tested for antibodies, and four out of five were positive, suggesting a previous Covid-19 infection.\n\nThe study was constrained by the fact that all its participants had mild symptoms, including or limited to a loss of smell or taste, so they may not be representative of all Covid patients.\n\nBut its findings emphasise the importance of people looking out for any change to their sense of smell or taste, and self-isolating if they realise they can't smell \"everyday\" items like perfume, bleach, toothpaste, or coffee, Prof Batterham said.\n\nWhile not all coronavirus patients will necessarily lose their sense of smell, if you do lose your sense of smell it is highly likely to be coronavirus, this research seems to suggest.\n\nThe thing to look out for is a loss of smell without having a blocked or runny nose, Prof Batterham explained.\n\nIt's thought loss of smell happens with Covid-19 because the virus invades the cells found at the back of the nose, throat and on the tongue.\n\nThis is distinct from the experience of having a cold where smell and taste might be altered because a person's airways are blocked.\n\nKing's College London researchers, who run the Covid Symptom Study app, previously estimated 60% of people with coronavirus lost their sense of smell or taste.\n\nAlthough this is considered a milder symptom and unlikely to land someone in hospital, Prof Batterham points out the potential dangers of losing your sense of smell including not being able to detect smoke, leaking gas or food that has gone off.\n\nIf suffered longer term, it can also have a significant impact on people's quality of life.\n\nThousands of people online have reported worrying experiences including causing fires and not being able to smell the smoke. Some have noticed constantly smelling a rancid \"garbage\" odour or experiencing a metallic taste, while others have found themselves unable to taste food for months after being clear of the virus.\n\nThe group of people who only lose their smell without experiencing any other symptoms may also pose the \"greatest risk\" to others since they may feel generally well and carry on going about their daily lives, Prof Batterham pointed out.\n\nAlthough the two often go together, loss of or change to smell was more common than loss of taste among people who have recovered from coronavirus, she said.\n\nHer research took place at a time when loss of smell and taste were not recognised symptoms of the virus.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? How have current restrictions affected you? Emailhaveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\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 comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "The debate will take place in Salt Lake City in Utah on Wednesday Image caption: The debate will take place in Salt Lake City in Utah on Wednesday\n\nOn Wednesday night, Republican Vice-President Mike Pence will face Democratic Senator Kamala Harris for the only vice-presidential debate ahead of November's election.\n\nThis election cycle has seen increased scrutiny on Pence and Harris, as they support the campaign of two presidential candidates in their 70s.\n\nWith President Trump now receiving treatment for Covid-19, and more members of the White House announcing positive virus tests, there’s a new emphasis on precautions from event organisers.\n\nFor one, the vice-presidential candidates will stand more than 3m (9.8ft) apart (podiums at the first Trump-Biden debate last week were 2m apart). They will be separated by plexiglass, CNN reports.\n\nCovid testing is already under way for reporters and others planning on attending the debate in Salt Lake City, Utah.\n\nWhether everyone will be required to wear a mask this time remains to be seen.\n\nNow, we want to know: What questions do you have about the vice-presidential debate? You tell us here and we’ll get to work finding the answers.", "Delayed repairs to the Palace of Westminster cost taxpayers £2m a week, a government spending watchdog says.\n\nPoliticians had been scheduled to leave the building for at least six years while building work is completed at an estimated cost of £4bn.\n\nBut in May the body overseeing the work said the move should be reviewed due to the financial pressures of coronavirus.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee said the \"few decisions\" that have been taken so far did not need reviewing.\n\nThe committee's Labour chair Meg Hillier also warned that \"excessive political interference\" in the process \"may muddy the waters\" and make delivery of the project more difficult.\n\nEarlier this year, the prime minister suggested the House of Lords could be moved to York on a permanent basis.\n\nThis idea was later rejected. but the government said it would continue to push for a move out of London, even though the final decision will be down to MPs and peers.\n\nMs Hillier said: \"Parliament is literally falling apart around the thousands of people who work there and the million or so who, in better times, visit every year. It poses a very real risk to health and safety in its current state,\"\n\n\"After nearly 20 years of discussion and costs to the taxpayer of just maintaining Parliament now rising by £2m a week, what we don't need is for the authorities to keep reopening and reviewing what few decisions have been taken.\n\n\"The cost of the project will be high but doing nothing is not an option and is certainly not a cost-free option - without action we are just ratcheting up the bill to the taxpayer.\"\n\nThe Labour MP also suggested the coronavirus pandemic meant Parliament was quieter than usual, providing an opportunity for building work to go ahead.\n\n\"It's time for those responsible to get creative and get to work,\" she said.\n\nResponding to the committee's report Sarah Johnson, CEO of the Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal Sponsor Body, said the review was aimed at securing value for money and providing \"certainty about the way forward\".\n\n\"The work to save our Parliament buildings for the nation is essential and urgent, and the Palace of Westminster continues to be at a high risk of catastrophic damage, be that a major fire, flood or falling masonry,\" she added.\n\nThe Palace of Westminster, which houses the Houses of Commons and Lords, has long been in need of repair and in 2018 MPs voted for refurbishment work to go ahead.\n\nUnder current plans, parliamentarians will move into temporary accommodation while the major repairs are carried out.\n\nHowever, the Sponsor Body - a panel of politicians and building experts set up to oversee restoration - said it would review the project, looking at ways of cutting costs, including alternatives to decanting Parliament to a different building.\n\nRenovation could happen around politicians as they continue working in the building, although the process could take longer and cost more.\n\nIn its report, the Public Accounts Committee warned that \"excessive political interference may muddy the waters of the Sponsor Body's work and has the potential to make delivery of the programme more difficult\".\n\nIt advised the body to publish details of \"what it considers are the main risks to building political consensus\" and how it plans to mitigate those risks.\n\nAnd it suggested the Sponsor Body launch an \"engagement strategy\" to ensure the public can feed into decisions.", "BBC Scotland has asked people in Margaret Ferrier's constituency about the MP's decision to travel by train from London to Scotland after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe SNP MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West is under pressure to resign, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon telling her daily coronavirus briefing that Ms Ferrier had been guilty of the \"worst breach imaginable\".", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool forward Sadio Mane has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating.\n\nThe news comes three days after the club said midfielder Thiago Alcantara had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nLiverpool say the Senegal winger has \"displayed minor symptoms of the virus but feels in good health overall\".\n\nMane, 28, played for the Reds in a 3-1 win over Arsenal on Monday but was not in the squad for the EFL Cup defeat on penalties by the Gunners on Thursday.\n\nA statement on Liverpool's website added: \"Like with Thiago Alcantara, Liverpool are - and will continue to - following all protocols relating to Covid-19 and Mane will self-isolate for the required period of time.\"\n\nMane, who has scored three goals for the Anfield club this season, will miss the Premier League game against Aston Villa on Sunday prior to the international break.\n\nThe club's first game after that will be the Merseyside derby at Everton on 17 October.\n\nOn Monday, the Premier League announced 10 people had tested positive for coronavirus in the latest round of testing - the highest number of positive tests since the season began.", "President Trump and his wife Melania plan to recover at the White House\n\nAs news emerged that US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania had tested positive for coronavirus, the story shot to the top of every news agenda worldwide.\n\nIt's just 32 days until Americans cast their votes in the race for the White House - and this is a seismic development.\n\nWorld leaders were quick to send the Trumps their well-wishes, with India's Twitter-loving Prime Minister Narendra Modi among the first.\n\n\"Wishing my friend @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS a quick recovery and good health,\" he wrote.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted: \"Like millions of Israelis, Sara and I are thinking of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump and wish our friends a full and speedy recovery.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Hang on, Peter\": How US news reacted to Trump's Covid diagnosis\n\nRussia's Vladimir Putin sent a message by telegraph, according to the Interfax News Agency, writing: \"I am certain that your inherent vitality, good spirits and optimism will help you cope with this dangerous virus.\"\n\nIn much international media, however, the news was accompanied by criticism of what was said to be the US president's \"botched\" response to the coronavirus pandemic, and his \"open scepticism\" over the use of face masks and social distancing.\n\nGerman media seemed somewhat unsurprised. \"Trump usually does not wear a mask in public\", wrote the centre-right Die Welt, while the centrist Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung pointed out that the pandemic did not deter him from making numerous major election campaign appearances.\n\nMedia in France echoed the sentiment that Mr Trump undermined his own health by underestimating the virus. \"After months of catastrophic handling of the pandemic in the USA, after months of lies and contradictory messages to his supporters… Donald Trump has tested positive for Covid-19,\" wrote Libération.\n\nIran's international-facing English-language Press TV observed that Trump \"has been somewhat cavalier\" about the Covid-19 threat, adding that \"it was only a matter of time\" before the US president caught the virus.\n\nAn anchor on Iranian state television broke the news \"with an unflattering image of the US president surrounded by what appeared to be giant coronaviruses\", the Associated Press reports.\n\nElsewhere, questions have been asked about what the news could actually mean for the US presidential election. The India Today website anticipated that Trump's quarantine would bring his election campaign to a standstill, stating: \"The [presidential] debates and the entire Republican campaign now comes under a shadow.\"\n\nThe website quoted predictions by analysts that Trump may hope to get sympathy votes now that he has tested positive himself. But others, like Hindi-language daily the Navbharat Times, predicted that \"Trump's diagnosis and his attitude towards the pandemic will harm him in the election.\"\n\nAn artist in Mumbai, India, paints a mural of the ailing couple\n\nPakistan's Geo News carried an online report reading: \"The future of Trump's re-election campaign is in doldrums due to his illness and inability to address the rallies before the crucial November 3 vote.\"\n\n\"The president, who is tested regularly for Covid-19, has kept up a rigorous travel schedule across the country in recent weeks, holding rallies with thousands of people in the run-up to the November 3 election, despite warnings from public health professionals against having events with large crowds.\"\n\nIn China, which Mr Trump has repeatedly blamed for the spread of the coronavirus, news of his illness was one of the most searched topics on Weibo, the popular (if heavily censored) social media app.\n\nThe editor of the state-owned Global Times newspaper, Hu Xijin, tweeted in English: \"President Trump and the First Lady have paid the price for his gamble to play down the Covid-19.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDomestically, some of Mr Trump's favoured outlets took a gentler tone. \"Get through this together!\" reads a headline on Fox News's website, where the story is leading the news.\n\n\"Trump, first lady send messages of calm, resilience from White House after testing positive for Covid,\" it adds.\n\nThe site's sympathetic coverage includes an article on people it calls \"a number of the president's fiercest critics\", sending their best wishes for his recovery. The network's medical expert Marc Siegel said his sources had described the couple as \"absolutely asymptomatic\".\n\nElsewhere in the US press, the Wall Street Journal noted a fall in US stock futures and said \"the diagnosis throws up a host of uncertainties for markets to process\", including the question \"will the US government be able to function normally?\"\n\nThe Washington Post has dropped its paywall to allow people to read its live updates on the situation.\n\nPolitico described Mr Trump as \"the world's highest-profile patient of a disease that has killed more than one million people\".\n\n\"A person familiar with the situation said the president was not showing symptoms yet on Thursday,\" the site reported. \"Still, Vice-President Mike Pence may need to step in for some tasks if Trump is confined to the White House grounds,\" it quoted the source as saying.\n\nOn that score, there is some good news for the Trump administration: Mr Pence and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have both tested negative.", "Archie Lyndhurst with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nActor Archie Lyndhurst's mother has posted a poignant message remembering her \"most wonderful unique son\" following his death at the age of 19.\n\nThe son of Only Fools and Horses star Nicholas Lyndhurst, he was known for his role in the CBBC comedy So Awkward.\n\nMum Lucy Smith wrote: \"We shall love him forever and a day and are the luckiest parents to have had the most wonderful unique son.\"\n\nShe added that he had brought \"nothing but joy in our lives\".\n\nShe was responding to an Instagram tribute from comedian Jack Whitehall, who described him as \"passionate, generous and pitch perfect\" and \"an utter joy to work with\".\n\nThe young actor played a younger version of Whitehall on TV, film and stage.\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 jackwhitehall 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\nSmith thanked the star for \"all the amazing opportunities\" he had put their son's way, and for the \"lifelong friendship\" that had ensued.\n\n\"He loved every moment of every job and relished in the fantastic scripts you wrote,\" she added.\n\nLyndhurst died after a short illness, it was announced on Thursday. In a statement, his father had said he and his wife were \"utterly grief stricken and respectfully request privacy\".\n\nIn his tribute, Whitehall said Lyndhurst was \"loved by everyone on set\" and would \"never be forgotten\".\n\n\"Archie Lyndhurst came in to my life nearly 10 years ago, playing the young me in a short film I'd written,\" Whitehall wrote with \"a heavy heart\".\n\n\"He was brilliant, so talented and funny. An utter joy to work with.\"\n\nArchie Lyndhurst played a younger version of Jack Whitehall on TV, film and on-stage\n\nWhitehall recalled how their \"wonderful partnership\" led to them doing a skit at the London Palladium and joining forces again in a sketch for his arena tour and TV special.\n\n\"When we needed to find an actor to play the young Alfie Wickers in Bad Education it was the easiest piece of casting we ever had to do,\" he continued.\n\n\"Every time I worked with Archie he was the same - passionate, generous and pitch perfect, he was loved by everyone on set. I have no doubt he would have had a long and illustrious career and would have continued lighting up the lives of all those who encountered him.\"\n\nWhitehall went on to explain that during lockdown, Lyndhurst had been taking shopping and groceries to his parents Michael and Hilary when they couldn't leave the house.\n\n\"The enthusiastic and talented boy I met all those years ago had grown into an equally charming young man,\" he wrote of the kind gesture. \"It's testament to what a wonderful and kind person he was.\"\n\nHe concluded: \"The world has been robbed of a truly special soul. He will never be forgotten, I feel utterly devastated that he is gone but I also feel so blessed to have met him.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hundreds of students at Northumbria University are self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19\n\nHundreds of students at Northumbria University are self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nA spokesman for the university, in Newcastle, confirmed 770 students had tested positive since returning in mid-September, 78 of whom are symptomatic.\n\nAll infected students, and their close contacts, have self-isolated for 14 days in line with government guidance.\n\nMeanwhile, Newcastle University confirmed it has had 94 students and seven staff test positive.\n\nA Newcastle spokeswoman said the \"overwhelming majority of cases\" were from \"social and domestic settings\".\n\nUniversity and College Union (UCU) said it warned Northumbria University it was \"far too soon for a mass return to campus\".\n\nIn a statement the UCU, which represents lecturers, said: \"We told Northumbria University they had a civic duty to put the health of staff, students and the local community first and we take no pleasure in now seeing another preventable crisis play out.\n\n\"We warned last month that, given the current restrictions in the region, the direction of the infection rate and the problems with test and trace, it was clearly far too soon for a mass return to campus.\"\n\nNorthumbria University said self-isolating students were being provided with food, laundry, cleaning materials and welfare support by the university, working alongside the students' union and Newcastle City Council.\n\nEllie Burgoyne, 19, who studies social sciences, has been isolating since one of her flatmates tested positive a week ago.\n\nShe said: \"The uni and accommodation have been great in providing support and keeping us as comfortable as possible as not leaving our flat for two weeks isn't the most fun.\n\n\"I moved a couple of weeks ago and immediately noticed how strict our accommodation was being when it came to students meeting with other flats, trying to have parties.\n\n\"I think it's a common misconception that students haven't been listening to the guideline, my accommodation has been quiet aside from the odd flat having a few people over.\"\n\nMeanwhile, students will also receive additional academic support if they miss out on face-to-face tuition during their isolation period.\n\nThe university spokesman added: \"The increase in numbers comes in the week after students returned to university and reflects the good access to and availability of testing, as well as rigorous and robust reporting systems.\n\n\"In parts of the UK where universities started term earlier, numbers of student cases surged in induction week, and then reduced.\n\n\"We are making it clear to students that if they break the rules they will be subject to fines from police and disciplinary action by the universities which may include fines, final warnings or expulsion.\n\n\"Both Northumbria and Newcastle universities have Covid response teams on call that are working closely with NHS Test and Trace, Public Health England North East and the City to identify and get in touch with anyone who has been in close contact with those affected.\"\n\nAround 56 universities across the UK have had at least one confirmed case of Covid-19.\n\nThere have been more than 200 cases at the University of Sheffield and 177 University of Liverpool staff and students have tested positive, according to a PA news agency survey which contacted 140 institutions.\n\nApproximately 2,500 positive cases of Covid-19 have been identified at these universities, the analysis suggests.\n\nAre you a student at Northumbria University? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\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 comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harvey Weinstein now faces 11 charges involving five victims in Los Angeles County\n\nDisgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been charged with six further counts of sexual assault, the Los Angeles District Attorney confirmed.\n\nFriday's charges involve two victims of alleged incidents that occurred more than 10 years ago.\n\nWeinstein now faces 11 sexual assault charges in Los Angeles County involving five women, District Attorney Jackie Lacey said in a statement.\n\nIn March, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.\n\nDuring that trial in New York, the 68-year-old was found guilty of committing a first-degree criminal sexual act against one woman and third-degree rape of another woman.\n\nThe latest charges allege that he raped a woman at a hotel in Beverly Hills between 2004 and 2005, and raped another woman twice - in November 2009 and November 2010.\n\nIn January, Weinstein was charged with sexually assaulting two women in 2013. Then in April, a further charge alleging that he assaulted a woman at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2010 was added.\n\nLos Angeles officials have already started extradition proceedings, however this has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Another extradition hearing is set to take place in December.\n\nIn March, Weinstein himself was said to have tested positive for coronavirus in a prison in upstate New York.\n\nA spokesman for Weinstein said: \"Harvey Weinstein has always maintained that every one of his physical encounters throughout his entire life have been consensual. That hasn't changed.\"\n\nThe spokesman said they would not comment on the additional charges.\n\nAllegations against Weinstein began to emerge in 2017 when The New York Times first reported incidents dating back over decades.\n\nHe issued an apology acknowledging that he had \"caused a lot of pain\", but disputed the allegations.\n\nAs dozens more emerged, Weinstein was sacked from the board of his company and all but banished from Hollywood.\n\nA criminal investigation was launched in New York in late 2017, but Weinstein was not charged until May 2018 when he turned himself in to police.\n\nWhen he was sentenced to prison in March this year, jurors acquitted him of the most serious charges of predatory sexual assault, which could have seen him given an even longer jail term.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reaction to the court's decision to sentence Harvey Weinstein to 23 years in jail (file image from 24 February 2020)", "Five days a week, every week, Nicola Sturgeon appears on TV, taking questions about her coronavirus policies and urging every one of us to abide by the rules.\n\nSo for the MP who has committed the most egregious breach of the regulations - possibly of the law - to be one of her own is acutely embarrassing.\n\nThe SNP leader who has been quick to condemn others for breaking the rules has made no attempt to defend or excuse Margaret Ferrier.\n\nThis is the first minister whose chief medical advisor resigned for breaking lockdown rules back in April and who demanded the sacking of the PM's chief advisor Dominic Cummings after he was accused of breaching the regulations.\n\nSNP MPs called publicly Ms Ferrier to resign and Nicola Sturgeon has spoken to her this morning and made clear that she should step down as an MP.\n\nMargaret Ferrier has faced calls to stand down as an MP\n\nBut the problem for the SNP is that they cannot force the MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West to leave her job.\n\nThey have already removed the party whip and suspended her from the SNP. But that is all they can do.\n\nThe SNP have been in a similar position before.\n\nThe former Finance Secretary Derek MacKay resigned from the Scottish cabinet after it was revealed that he had sent inappropriate messages to a 16-year-old boy on social media. But he is still an MSP and is still causing the party embarrassment\n\nThe SNP administration in Edinburgh have taken a consistently tough line on coronavirus regulations and on those who have been to found break them.\n\nMargaret Ferrier's trip to London and back threatens to undermine much of that. The party will be hoping that she announces soon that she is no longer an MP.", "With a month to go before the presidential election, voters around the US are digesting the news that President Donald Trump is infected with Covid-19.\n\nMr Trump is currently experiencing mild symptoms - but aged 74 and within the clinical definition of obesity, he has risk factors that raise his chance of having a severe reaction.\n\nWe asked some older members of the BBC voter panel how they felt when they heard the news.\n\nMark Falbo is a retired higher education administrator who recently moved to Windham, Maine. He is a Democrat voting for Joe Biden.\n\nI am very concerned when anyone gets a diagnosis of being Covid positive - being someone my age and my size, I know how bad that can be for them, so I'm hoping that the president and first lady, and all those who may have been exposed, will recover well.\n\nI'm also hoping that it will create an area of seriousness around the president about this, because this still is a very dangerous situation and hopefully [this will be] his way of having to learn how leaders need to respond to threats to their population.\n\nI don't think he underestimated the crisis - it's pretty clear that he was aware of the threat. I personally think he mismanaged. And I think that's been a huge disservice to not simply Americans, but to the world.\n\nHere in Maine, we are pretty sensitive about Covid-19 and I'm fortunate to be in a state where the governor and our CDC director has taken this very seriously, with the exception of some silly activities by a few families.\n\nLaura Powers is a materials scientist from Wilmot, Wisconsin. She identifies as Independent and will vote for Joe Biden.\n\nWhen I woke up this morning and listened to the news, and heard that he had tested positive, my first thought was that maybe this is a wake-up call to his followers who think that this is all a hoax.\n\nMy second thought was that unless he has symptoms that are a little more severe - and I don't wish that on anyone including him and Melania - he's going to pull out and broadcast to his followers that Covid-19 is nothing to worry about, and even at his age he got through it.\n\nI have been extremely careful and I do take the health situation very seriously. I don't have underlying conditions but I know many people who do. I worry about people who are not, and I think that this will be a wake-up call. But as I said, I think that if [Trump has only a mild case], he will convince his followers that Covid has been blown out of proportion by the media.\n\nKathleen McClellan from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is a Republican voting for Donald Trump.\n\nI'm very sorry that [Donald and Melania Trump] caught the infection. I hope they do well. But my brother also caught it and he said he's had flus that felt worse. So, I know that it varies quite a bit. But I think that's just the way a virus works - it has to infect a certain number of people before it's going to go away.\n\nI don't think he's underestimated the crisis. I think he's in a position where he has seen people die, but he has a different philosophy, where you push forward. It's an individual decision for each person and I don't think anybody really knows that much about the virus. But it seems like at this point in time we may need to just get on with our lives, protect people who are especially vulnerable.\n\nIt's just a reminder that [Covid-19] is not something anyone should take for granted. But you can't be paranoid. It's not like back in April, when a complete shutdown made sense because we didn't know what we were dealing with.\n\nEric Scholl, 65, is a media coordinator from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He voted for Trump in 2016, but will vote for Joe Biden this year.\n\nCovid is not a Republican issue, it's not a United States issue, it's a global health issue. Unfortunately, and I do mean very unfortunately, the president never [listened to] the medical experts, let alone the fact that he totally blew off first protecting the country. So, it's sad - I'm just very sad for him and his wife and I hope they recover, but that's not gonna change who I vote for.\n\nI respect that there will be a small percentage [of the population] that will be more proactive in protecting themselves [after the president got the virus]. But here where I live in Oklahoma, the attitude is \"Hey I'm bulletproof. It's not going to affect me.\"\n\nThe president has greatly underestimated the power of Covid-19.\n\nJim Hurson from the San Francisco Bay Area in California is a Republican voting for Donald Trump.\n\nMy first reaction was, obviously, I thought it's very unfortunate. My second reaction is wondering what his opposition is going to do, to try and leverage this into making him look bad again. I think for sure they will play a game of \"we told you so\".\n\nWe have to remember that we have the benefit of hindsight.\n\nIf you listen to purely health oriented people, they want to make things as safe as they can from the standpoint of virology. But the president also has to deal with the consequences of disastrous economic fallout, what are the mental health problems of sequestering people in their homes... what is the society as a whole going to suffer from, and the government spending money that it frankly does not have?\n\nIt's an incredibly complicated situation when you look at it from a national standpoint. Given that, I don't think anybody could have done any better.\n\nIf you don't assume that the government can solve all of this, and you look at individuals and say how they are behaving, we're all going through this nicely.\n\nAre you an American voter? Join Jim, Kathleen, Mark, Eric and Laura on our US election voter panel.\n\nUse this form to get in touch.\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 response.", "Travellers arriving in the UK from Poland, Turkey and three Caribbean islands will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 on Saturday.\n\nPoland's infection rate has risen, while the UK government said it removed Turkey over concerns about the way the country reports its data.\n\nThere will also be tougher fines for those who fail to self-isolate - up to a maximum of £10,000 in England.\n\nOne airport group says it is a \"further blow\" to a \"struggling\" sector.\n\nThe UK reported a further 6,914 coronavirus cases and 59 deaths on Thursday, and stricter measures have been announced to control a spike in areas of northern England.\n\nAnnouncing the changes to the quarantine list, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said data from Poland showed that \"test positivity has nearly doubled increasing from 3.9% to 5.8% alongside a rapid increase in weekly cases\".\n\nPoland is reporting 25.9 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people, up from 15.6.\n\nArrivals from the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba will also have to quarantine from Saturday, he added.\n\nThose islands reported 142.4 new cases per 100,000, unchanged from 142.4 the previous week.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish Government announced that those arriving from the Portuguese islands of the Azores and Madeira will no longer need to quarantine in Scotland \"due to the low number of cases\".\n\nThe Azores and Madeira were already on the \"exempt\" list for the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Scottish government's statement added that it was \"clear that case numbers in Turkey have been under-reported\".\n\nTurkey's reported infection rate has dropped to 12.9 cases per 100,000, down from 14.2 in the week prior.\n\nIt has also been announced that in England, fines for the first offence of failing to self-isolate when required will start at £1,000, before increasing to £2,000, then £4,000 up to a maximum of £10,000.\n\nThe upper limit for repeat offences was previously £3,200. The increase in fines will come into force from 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 Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP 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\nSince the introduction of the travel quarantine regime in the summer, police officers have investigated more than 4,000 alleged breaches of the rules.\n\nMore than 200 people were found to be ignoring the quarantine requirement, but escaped a fine because they listened to the officer on their doorstep.\n\nOverall there were just 38 penalties for breaching holiday quarantine.\n\nIf you look at the official data coming out of Turkey then it sits comfortably below the UK's benchmark for applying the quarantine of 20 cases for every 100,000 people.\n\nBut revelations that the number of cases in Turkey has been under-reported has put the country onto the \"red\" list.\n\nTurkey and Poland are key destinations for airlines and airports so it's another blow for the travel sector.\n\nThe Department for Transport is still looking at whether testing can be used at airports to reduce the quarantine period from 14 to seven days.\n\nIt is almost impossible for the police to enforce quarantine rules so it is hoped heavier fines for repeat offenders will mean fewer people will break the rules.\n\nThe Manchester Airports Group, which owns and operates Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, said Poland and Turkey's removal from the travel safe list \"means that a large proportion of the markets our passengers usually travel to are now effectively closed-off, despite many of them having much lower infection rates than the UK\".\n\nThe announcement \"is a further blow to the already struggling aviation sector\", a statement said.\n\nThe group said it was \"vital\" for the government to establish a testing regime \"which would allow for a safe reduction in quarantine periods for passengers arriving from abroad\".\n\nTim Alderslade, from Airlines UK, the trade body for UK registered airlines, said a testing regime was \"the only way we can reopen international travel\".\n\n\"Without testing aviation cannot recover and we will miss the opportunity to get the economy moving again,\" he said.\n\nThe Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) also said it was a \"massive blow for the travel industry\".\n\n\"This coupled with popular winter-sun destinations, like the Canary Islands - still on the quarantine list - only piles the pressure on a struggling sector,\" the travel industry trade body said.\n\n\"Many travel businesses are in precarious position and will find it difficult to survive unless the government acts now with tailored support to assist the travel industry.\"\n\nConcert pianist Tomasz Lis has cancelled a performance in Poland on Sunday because of the rules\n\nTomasz Lis, who lives in London after moving to the UK from Poland 23 years ago, runs a travel company offering tailored trips to his home country. He says the new rule will cost him thousands of pounds.\n\nThe 43-year-old said: \"It's been an impossible year already and the government would do much better by checking temperatures at the airports, for instance, and test people who may have it rather than introduce those absurd rules.\"\n\nMr Lis is also a concert pianist and has cancelled a performance in Poland on Sunday because of the rules - meaning he will lose £3,000 and the cost of his flights.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "E-scooters should be legalised on roads but riding on pavements should be prohibited, the Transport Committee of MPs has said.\n\nCurrently, privately-owned e-scooters are banned to use in the UK anywhere except on private land.\n\nThe committee argues the vehicles, which usually travel 9-15mph, could offer a green alternative to the car.\n\nOfficial trials of rented e-scooters have already been announced in some places in England.\n\nWhile supporting the introduction of e-scooters, the Transport Committee said the government should use trials to monitor the numbers and types of collisions that take place.\n\nDescribing riding e-scooters on pavements as \"dangerous and anti-social\", the committee said the law should \"prohibit their use on pavements\" and that \"robust enforcement measures\" would be needed.\n\nFurther committee recommendations include allowing local authorities to determine the speed of e-scooters and encouraging users to wear helmets.\n\nIt also said there are \"valid environmental concerns\" about the processes used to recharge e-scooter batteries and advised the Department for Transport to monitor the environmental impact.\n\nThe Tees Valley, Milton Keynes Borough, Northamptonshire, and the West Midlands have signed up to trial the use of rental e-scooters.\n\nHowever a trial in Coventry was paused after five days following concerns over pedestrian safety and e-scooters being abandoned on the streets.\n\nCommittee chair Huw Merriman said: \"E-scooters have the potential to become an exciting and ingenious way to navigate our streets and get from place to place.\n\n\"If this gets people out of the car, reducing congestion and exercising in the open air, then even better.\"\n\nBut he added: \"We need to ensure that their arrival on our streets doesn't make life more difficult for pedestrians, and especially disabled people.\"\n\nRAC head of roads policy Nicholas Lyes said e-scooters could \"transform how many of us get around\" but added \"the path to introducing them safely is fraught with difficulties\".\n\nHe called for effective regulation and education of riders to ensure \"limited road space\" could be shared safely by drivers, cyclists and e-scooter riders.\n\nAnd Roger Geffen from Cycling UK said the maximum speed and weight of e-scooters should be reduced before legalisation.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"We welcome the outcome of the committee's report today and believe that e-scooters can offer an affordable, reliable and sustainable way to travel.\n\n\"Safety will always be our top priority and our current trials are allowing us to better understand the benefits of e-scooters and their impact on public space, helping us to design future regulations.\"", "The government looked into putting floating barriers in the English Channel to stop asylum seekers crossing to the UK, a leaked document shows.\n\nThe Home Office approached the trade group Maritime UK over the possible use of temporary \"marine fencing\", in a request for ideas sent over the summer.\n\nThis, it said, must be able to \"prevent a slow-moving, heavily overloaded migrant boat from making progress\".\n\nThe government said it did not \"comment on leaks\".\n\nBut Maritime UK said it was its \"clear view\" that building a wall in the Channel was \"not legally possible\" under the terms of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea.\n\nThis year, almost 7,000 people have reached the UK in more than 500 small boats, often totally unsuited to the conditions.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has declared she is \"determined to stop this criminal trade\".\n\nThe government has looked at setting up a processing centre for asylum seekers on Ascension Island, 4,000 miles from the UK - or on disused ferries moored off the coast of England.\n\nMeanwhile, the Times has reported that other proposals drawn up by the Home Office include the use of a water cannon in the Channel to create waves to push back vessels.\n\nOn Thursday, the most senior civil servant at the Home Office, Matthew Rycroft, told MPs that \"everything is on the table\" when it comes to \"improving\" the UK's asylum system.\n\nHe added that the UK had been \"looking at what a whole host of other countries do in order to bring innovation into our own system\".\n\nAn email from Maritime UK - sent on 17 September and first seen by the Financial Times - included the request put out by the government over the summer, asking \"what options are available for marine fencing and other water-based technologies that would inhibit passage to UK territorial waters\".\n\nThese needed \"the capability to fully prevent a slow-moving, heavily overloaded migrant boat from making progress\" and had to be \"deployable to a precise location, and capable of remaining in that position\".\n\nThe request added that the technology had to be \"rapidly deployable and rapidly removable\", while being \"safe for those who come into contact with it\" and \"for those operating it\".\n\nThe Strait of Dover - separating the Channel and the North Sea - is the world's busiest shipping lane.\n\nThe Home Office suggested that any fencing be placed \"on the median line\", which separates French and UK territorial waters, but \"without the equipment entering French waters\".\n\nIt was reported earlier this year that the Greek government was planning to construct a barrier of nets to deter people crossing the Aegean by boat from Turkey.\n\nThese would use pylons connected to the seabed, leaving half a metre - topped by flashing lights - above the surface, the magazine Dezeen said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has described some of the ideas being considered by the Home Office as \"inhuman\" and \"ridiculous\".\n\nWhen asked about the possibility of a floating wall in the Channel, a Home Office spokeswoman said the department \"does not comment on leaks\".\n\nThey also said: \"As the public will fully understand, we do not comment on operational matters because to do so could provide an advantage to the exploitative and ruthless criminals who facilitate these dangerous crossings, as they look for new ways to beat the system.\"\n\nBen Murray, director of Maritime UK, said: \"As the umbrella organisation for UK maritime we are a conduit between industry and government and are often asked by government for advice or input on policy matters.\n\n\"The Home Office engaged us to pass on a question around options to inhibit passage to UK territorial waters, which we gave to our members.\n\n\"The clear view, which we shared with the Home Office, was that as a matter of international convention, that this is not legally possible.\"", "The Proud Boys is far-right, anti-immigrant group with a history of violence\n\nUS President Donald Trump has condemned all white supremacist groups following controversy over remarks he made during the first presidential debate.\n\nIn an interview with Fox News on Thursday he explicitly condemned the Proud Boys group which in the debate he had urged to \"stand back and stand by\".\n\nMembers of the far-right group had regarded his comment as an endorsement.\n\nMr Trump's Democratic rival Joe Biden had accused the president of refusing to disavow white supremacists.\n\nSenior Republicans also expressed unease over the remarks, and attempts by Mr Trump to walk back the comments at a news conference on Wednesday failed to end the controversy.\n\nIn an interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday evening President Trump said: \"I've said it many times, let me be clear again, I condemn the KKK [Ku Klux Klan]. I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys.\n\n\"I don't know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing, but I condemn that.\"\n\nDuring Tuesday's debate, moderator Chris Wallace asked whether the president would condemn white supremacists and tell them to stand down during protests.\n\nWhen Mr Trump asked who it was he was being told to condemn, Mr Biden twice said \"Proud Boys\", referring to the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-group with a history of violence against left-wing opponents.\n\nThe president said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by. But I'll tell you what... somebody's got to do something about antifa [anti-fascist activists] and the left because this is not a right-wing problem.\"\n\nAfter his refusal to explicitly condemn far-right groups drew criticism, Mr Trump sought to qualify his remarks during an exchange with reporters on the White House had lawn on Wednesday.\n\nHe said he did not know who the Proud boys were.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: \"I don't know who the Proud Boys are\"\n\nHe did not clarify his use of \"stand by\" in the debate but said he wanted to \"let law enforcement do their work\".\n\nDuring his time in office, President Trump has been accused of emboldening far-right groups with his rhetoric while being more willing to openly condemn those on the far-left.\n\nThe tone and tactics of the first presidential debate were widely criticised.\n\nThe candidates were given two minutes to answer moderator questions before being allowed to address each other's response.\n\nHowever, President Trump constantly interrupted Mr Biden leading to a series of chaotic exchanges in which both men talked over each other.\n\nThe Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) - a nonpartisan body that has organised presidential debates since 1988 - has since said it will announce new measures to help moderators \"maintain order\" in the remaining two debates.", "Parts of the UK are facing heavy rain and high winds, as Storm Alex brings in a stretch of bad weather.\n\nGale-force winds reached 61mph (98km/h) in southern England on Friday, as drivers were urged to be \"cautious\" and carry out safety checks.\n\nRain warnings are in place across much of Wales and England and parts of Scotland for this weekend.\n\nThe Met Office's chief meteorologist said the forecast was a \"miserable end to the working week\".\n\nStorm Alex, which has been affecting France, earlier pushed strong winds and lashing rain into southern England.\n\nMet Office spokeswoman Nicola Maxey said the highest wind speeds of 61mph hit Berry Head in Devon and the Isle of Wight on Friday morning.\n\nA yellow weather warning for wind and rain is in place on Friday across much of southern England - stretching from Cornwall to the Kent coast - and parts of Wales.\n\nNine breakdowns per minute have been forecast on UK roads between Friday and Monday, with the most callouts expected on Saturday, according to Green Flag.\n\nMark Newberry, commercial director at the breakdown cover provider, said: \"As a result of these weather conditions, we urge drivers to remain cautious and to carry out the relevant safety checks before leaving to make their journeys.\"\n\nIn Swanage in Dorset, waves were seen crashing against the seafront\n\nLocals joined a clean-up effort after stones were brought in by the sea\n\nThere is also the possibility of flooding this weekend across parts of the UK.\n\nAmber weather warnings for rain cover much of Wales and south-west England, and parts of Scotland, from 12:00 BST on Saturday to 06:00 on Sunday.\n\nYellow weather warnings are in place for most of central and southern England, and eastern coasts into Scotland from Saturday into Sunday.\n\nA yellow weather warning means heavy rain is expected and could lead to disruption from flooding, while an amber warning means heavy rain is expected to bring some flooding and transport disruption.\n\nOver the weekend, parts of Wales, south-west England and eastern Scotland could see more than 100mm of rain.\n\nThis could lead to the risk of flooding and landslides as well as very difficult driving conditions, the Met Office said - concerns that were echoed by the Environment Agency.\n\n\"We urge people to stay away from swollen rivers and not to drive though flood water - it is often deeper than it looks and just 30cm of flowing water is enough to float your car,\" the Environment Agency said.\n\nMembers of the Coastguard were on hand as the waves knocked a bin over\n\nA car drives through a large puddle on the A20 in Folkestone, Kent\n\nUnplanned power outages in more than 20 areas including Portsmouth, Southampton and towns east of Reading have been recorded by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks.\n\nHowever, the company said this was normal, rating the shortage as \"low incidence\", and adding that the cuts were concentrated to small areas, with power lines generally \"holding up very well\".\n\nWestern Power Distribution has also recorded incidents in the South West, affecting Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset.\n\nNational industry body for gas and electricity, Energy Networks Association, said the storm had not caused \"significant disruption\" but that it was monitoring the weather \"very closely\".", "Despite calls for a ceasefire from the US, Russia and France - fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh continues to intensify.\n\nThe BBC’s Ros Atkins looks at the history of the conflict, the reasons it’s escalated this week and why some warn it could become a regional conflict.", "Future in full flow: Teacher and students at Epsom College\n\nMinisters are using powers under the Coronavirus Act to require schools to offer pupils who are not in school the same lessons as those in class.\n\nTeaching unions reacted angrily to the move calling it a \"grave error\" which risks damaging the government's relationship with the profession.\n\nIt comes after official figures showed one in six secondaries in England were partially closed to some pupils.\n\nThe government said it was formalising pupils' rights to remote learning.\n\nIt comes as huge swathes of the north-east and north-west of England are under stricter lockdown measures.\n\nMinisters have insisted that schools will only close as a last resort in the event of widespread virus spread.\n\nInstead, in areas where cases are high, schools may switch to a rota system of two weeks on, two weeks off.\n\nThe guidance, published on the Department for Education website, said: \"The Direction means schools have a duty to provide education to children at home, as they do when children are in the classroom.\"\n\nIt added: \"The Direction will help provide assurances to both pupils and parents that if pupils have to self-isolate at home their education will not be disrupted.\n\n\"In the event of a confirmed case, schools are following the necessary guidance, including requiring small groups of children to self-isolate.\n\n\"In these cases, continuing to provide education is an absolute necessity.\n\n\"The Direction helps ensure this and sets a clear expectation on the high-quality education they should receive.\"\n\nIn Darlington, Year 3 teacher, Mary Craghill has been teaching by video link\n\nBut general secretary of the NAHT head teachers' union Paul Whiteman said there was no need to reach for legal powers as there was every indication that schools have taken their preparations for partial or full closure seriously.\n\nHeads were \"taking steps to ensure they meet and exceed government and parental expectations for remote education, should circumstances require it,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"Right now, government action should be focused wholly on support, not sanction - the carrot, not the stick.\n\n\"Bitter experience tells us that mandating compliance to a minimum criteria is a poor way of driving quality and excellence in a system.\n\n\"There is absolutely no reason to believe that emergency powers are required to compel schools to act.\n\n\"By reaching for legal powers, the government risks sending an unequivocal message to the profession and parents that they do not trust school leaders to act in the interests of young people in this country.\"\n\nHead teachers unions had advised DfE officials strongly against using such emergency powers, adding that they had been working flat out for months to support children's education.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Mary Bousted said: \"Staff in schools are desperate to do their best for pupils and the pandemic makes their roles all the more important.\n\n\"The legal requirement to provide remote education must be backed by government support for what is, by some distance, not business as usual.\"\n\nShe claimed a support package, announced alongside the guidance, promising 100,000 laptops, fell short by a long way.\n\n\"This government is once again trying to cut corners over Covid.\n\n\"Schools were crying out for the right support for online learning throughout lockdown, not least for disadvantaged young people who did not have the right IT or wi-fi equipment at home that would have ensured a continuity and parity of learning.\"\n\nThe government is also facing growing pressure to make a back-up plan in case GCSEs and A-levels cannot go ahead.", "Delphine Boël wants the same rights as her half siblings, her lawyer says\n\nThe love child of former Belgian King Albert II has won a court battle to grant her the same rights and titles as her father's children by his marriage.\n\nUnder the ruling, artist Delphine Boël, 52, will be granted the title of Princess of Belgium.\n\nKing Albert admitted he was her father in January this year, having fought her paternity claim for more than a decade.\n\nHer mother, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, claims she had an 18-year affair with Albert before he was king.\n\nRumours first emerged that he had fathered a child with another woman after it was disclosed in an unauthorised biography about Albert's wife, Queen Paola, published in 1999.\n\nMs Boël first alleged on the record that King Albert was her biological father during a 2005 interview, but it was not until he abdicated in 2013 - when he lost his immunity to prosecution - that she opened court proceedings.\n\nHer lawyer told reporters that she was \"delighted\" with the court's decision.\n\n\"A judicial victory will never replace a father's love, but it does offer a sense of justice,\" said Marc Uyttendaele. \"Many more children who have gone through similar ordeals may be able to find the strength to face them.\"\n\nMs Boël and her two children can now hold the surname of her father, Saxe-Cobourg.\n\nAs a result of the ruling, after King Albert's death she will be entitled to receive an inheritance, along with his three other children - Prince Laurent, Princess Astrid and Philippe, the current king.\n\nDespite her new title, Ms Boël will not receive any royal endowment. But Albert must pay nearly €3.4m (£3.1m) to cover her legal fees, according to local outlet De Standaard.\n\nHer mother Baroness Longchamps says the affair with Albert, who was then Prince of Liège, lasted from 1966 to 1984, and he was around during Ms Boël's childhood.\n\nFollowing his older brother's death in 1993 at 62, Albert unexpectedly came to the throne. He held the position until July 2013, when he announced his abdication - citing ill health - and was replaced by his son, Philippe.\n\nThe 86-year-old had resisted court orders to undergo DNA testing until he was facing fines of €5,000 per day for refusing to do so. In January, he announced he accepted Ms Boël as his fourth child after he \"learnt the results of the DNA tests\".\n\nBelgium has a constitutional monarchy in which the king plays a largely ceremonial role.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Albert was sworn in as the sixth king of the Belgians on 9 August 1993", "The group were stopped near Brynamman in the Black Mountains\n\nA group of men who ignored local lockdown rules to go \"car racing\" have been hit with penalty fines.\n\nThe group had travelled from Caerphilly to near Brynamman in the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nCaerphilly is under extra Covid restrictions, making it illegal to leave the county without good reason.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said the four men refused to co-operate with officers over lockdown, and were all handed fines.\n\nThe Carmarthenshire Roads Policing Unit had come across the group of racers congregating for a \"rallying-type event\".\n\n\"Officers tried to engage with the group, who had travelled from Caerphilly, and explained several times that were not allowed to be in this area,\" said Insp Andy Williams.\n\n\"After lengthy attempts at asking them to leave and make their way back to their home addresses, they were still refusing to co-operate.\"\n\nCaerphilly has been in local lockdown since 8 September\n\nIt comes as a number of cases where fixed penalty Covid fines were not paid headed to court in the force area.\n\nHearings at Llanelli Magistrates' Court have included people who drove over 100 miles from Newport to Pembroke Dock while travel was banned, and others who had broken rules by entering people's homes at the height of lockdown.\n\nIn two cases, people were ordered to pay more than £800 in fines and costs, after failing to pay the initial fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A video of a dying indigenous woman screaming in distress and being insulted by hospital staff shows the \"worst form of racism\", says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nJoyce Echaquan streamed herself on Facebook shortly before she died.\n\nA nurse has been fired and three investigations are under way.\n\nMs Echaquan's family has said they will be taking legal action over her death.", "Amazon said that more than 19,816 of its frontline workers in the US have contracted Covid-19 since March.\n\nThe number equates to 1.44% of its 1.37 million workers across Amazon and its subsidiary Whole Foods.\n\nAmazon had faced criticism from employees, unions and elected officials, who have accused the company of putting employees' health at risk.\n\nBut the online retailing giant said its infection rate is lower than expected.\n\nAmazon has kept its facilities open throughout the pandemic to meet a surge in demand from shoppers stuck at home.\n\nStaying open has proven very lucrative for the e-commerce firm, and has added to the wealth of founder Jeff Bezos, who is the world's richest man.\n\nThe tech giant's sales soared 40% to $88.9bn (£67.9bn) in the three months ending in June, and its quarterly profit of $5.2bn (£4bn) was its biggest since the company started in 1994.\n\nIn a blog post, Amazon argued that 33,952 workers would have contracted the virus if Amazon's infection rate had equalled the wider population's, when accounting for employees' age and geography.\n\nThe figures include seasonal staff and those who may have been infected outside work.\n\nThe company said that it \"introduced or changed over 150 processes\", distributed more than 100 million face masks, and implemented temperature checks at its facilities around the world.\n\nAmazon said it introduced social distancing measures and additional cleaning, which \"occurs across each site about every 90 minutes\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Mr Bezos... why on Earth would one of your partners compare your company to a drug dealer?\"\n\nAmazon challenged other companies to make public their own Covid-19 statistics.\n\n\"This information would be more powerful if there were similar data from other major employers to compare it to,\" Amazon said in the blog post.\n\nAthena, a coalition that has opposed Amazon on a wide range of labour, planning and environmental issues, called on officials to investigate further.\n\n\"Amazon allowed Covid-19 to spread like wildfire,\" Athena's director Dania Rajendra said in a statement.", "No Time To Die marks Daniel Craig's swansong as James Bond\n\nThe release of the new James Bond film has been delayed again.\n\nThe premiere of No Time To Die had already been moved from April to November because of the pandemic.\n\nThe film has now been further delayed until 2 April 2021 \"in order to be seen by a worldwide theatrical audience\", a statement on the film's website said.\n\n\"We understand the delay will be disappointing to our fans but we now look forward to sharing No Time To Die next year.\"\n\nNo Time To Die, the 25th instalment in the Bond franchise, marks Daniel Craig's final appearance as British secret service agent, 007.\n\nTrailers for the film, as well as Billie Eilish's title song, have already been released - with the Eilish video debuting mere days ago - before Friday's last-minute decision to delay.\n\nIndustry insiders had been speculating whether the studio would stand by the November release date, following lacklustre box office returns for the Christopher Nolan blockbuster Tenet, which was released last month.\n\nThe sci-fi epic, which cost approximately $200m to make, has so far made $243 million internationally, but only $41m in the US - where cinemas in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco largely remain closed.\n\nA significant part of Bond film earnings come from the UK and European market, where coronavirus is once again on the rise and there may be been concern by the studio that potential restrictions could limit box office earnings in November.\n\nThe previous Bond film, 2015's Spectre, took almost $900m (£690m) at worldwide box offices - winning an Oscar for best original song. The latest film will no longer be in contention for the 2021 Oscars under current guidelines.\n\nThe postponement of No Time to Die comes after both two major autumn releases, Wonder Woman: 1984 and Marvel Studios' Black Widow - starring Scarlett Johansson - were both pushed back.\n\nWith Steven Spielberg's West Side Story and Kenneth Branagh's Death of the Nile remake also delayed, it could spell disaster for many struggling cinema chains, which rely on big budget releases for much of their income.\n\nOscar-winning Rami Malek plays the latest Bond villain Safin in the forthcoming film.\n\nIn the US, the National Association of Theatre Owners, the Directors Guild of America and the Motion Picture Association wrote an open letter last week calling on Congress to bail out \"our country's beloved movie theatres\".\n\nThe letter stated that if the current situation continued without additional support, 69% of small and mid-sized cinemas in the US would likely go bankrupt or close. The letter was signed by a string of Hollywood directors, including James Cameron, Clint Eastwood and Britain's Steve McQueen.\n\nBut John Fithian, head of the National Association of Theatre Owners, told Variety it was also essential that the studios played their part in supporting cinemas - by continuing to release films.\n\n\"If we don't have any movies until we're fully vaccinated as a world, a lot of the theatre companies are going to be gone and the theatres themselves won't be there,\" he said.\n\n\"This idea of waiting out the pandemic to make your movies more profitable doesn't make sense to me. There won't be as much of an industry left to play your movies in if you do that.\"\n\nIn China, cinemas reopened in July - with restricted numbers - while in India they are due to partially reopen in mid-October, ahead of the Diwali holiday in November.\n\nCinemas in the UK were given the go-ahead to reopen in July, with social distancing measures in place, staggered start and finish times and pre-ordered popcorn, among the measures.\n\nHowever many sites did not open immediately. Cineworld, the world's second-largest cinema chain, reopened many of its locations across the UK in early September. It recently reported a $1.6bn loss in the first six months of the year.\n\nOn Friday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden urged the British public to \"support your local cinema\" as he announced a government cash boost of £650,000 to 42 independent cinemas across England as part of the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund.\n\nSome fans on Twitter have called for the latest franchise to be released digitally rather than delaying the release date to next Easter. Earlier this week, Warner announced that the big budget remake of Roald Dahl's The Witches, starring Anne Hathaway, will debut on the streaming platform HBO Max in the US.", "President Trump's treatment for Covid-19 has spawned baseless rumours and conspiracy theories - about body doubles, oxygen tanks and more.\n\nMany appear to be politically motivated and conflicting information from the White House over the weekend hasn't helped.\n\nOfficials gave varying answers on when the president had been given oxygen. Unanswered questions remain over when Mr Trump last tested negative for the virus.\n\nThis left the internet to fill in the gaps with unfounded speculation. Here are some of the most viral rumours - and what we know about them.\n\nRepublican supporters - in some cases tweeting from verified accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers - have spread a baseless rumour that the president was somehow deliberately infected with Covid-19 at some point during last week's debate.\n\nThis goes well against the tide of early evidence showing that several top officials who have been infected, all attended a White House event announcing Mr Trump's supreme court nominee, held several days before the debate.\n\nMeanwhile, the suggestion that Mr Trump tested positive earlier than was originally suggested has led to rumours that he's more ill than doctors have let on - and even that his most recent public appearances were staged with a body double.\n\nTweets to this effect from accounts mostly supporting the Democratic Party accumulated thousands of retweets.\n\n\"Body double\" conspiracy theories are fairly common - in 2016, similar allegations were hurled at the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.\n\nA video which claims to show bikers praying for President Donald Trump outside the Walter Reed Medical Center in suburban Washington isn't from this weekend, and wasn't even filmed in the United States.\n\nThe clip, shared more than 25,000 times on Twitter and viewed over 1.3 million times, was uploaded onto video-sharing platform TikTok on Friday.\n\nHowever, detective work by fact-checking website Lead Stories, verified by the BBC, reveals that the video was actually shot in South Africa and shows bikers protesting against farm murders.\n\nThe original clip was uploaded to TikTok on 29 August, and comparison with Google Street View shows it was shot outside the Union Building in Pretoria.\n\nAnother rumour being spread suggested that the president was wearing a secret oxygen tank when he was seen leaving the White House on Friday.\n\nA number of accounts supporting the Democrats circled close-up images of Trump claiming they could see he was hooked up to some kind of device - and using it as evidence that the White House was downplaying how ill the President really is.\n\nPresident Donald Trump waves to supporters as he briefly rides in front of Walter Reed Medical Center\n\nLike the baseless claim that Joe Biden was wearing an ear piece to help him during last week's debate - which was used by Trump's campaign in a series of Facebook adverts - this particular rumour appears to have been started by people getting overly excited by folds and creases.\n\nBut even if he wasn't toting a hidden tank, we do now know that the president was given supplemental oxygen at several points over the weekend.\n\nRumours that the President is pretending to be ill for votes continue to spread online, pushed by some high-profile opponents of Mr Trump.\n\nAnd at the extreme fringes, some QAnon supporters have gathered outside the hospital. They are pushing the baseless conspiracy that Trump is \"pretending\" to have Covid-19 in a bid to trick the \"deep state\" and have powerful people arrested.\n\nHow can you spot disinformation on your social media feed when there are conflicting messages coming from the top and various political agendas online?\n\n1) Think about bias. Why was a post shared? Remember, this is happening during a hotly contested election.\n\n2) How does it make you feel? Big news events can lead to worry, confusion, panic and anger - especially when those we would expect to inform us are not doing so. Pause before sharing.\n\n3) Interrogate the source. Where has a post come from? If something is unconfirmed or there's no evidence to support it, it's often better not to share potential misinformation.\n\nCoins commemorating \"Donald Trump defeating Covid\" on sale from an online outlet called the White House Gift Shop have no connection with the US President.\n\nMuch-shared but false posts on social media suggest that President Trump is selling the $100 (£77) coins to make money on the back of his diagnosis.\n\nIn fact, the White House Gift Shop has nothing to do with the President nor the Trump family. The website came to our attention in May when it sold coins \"commemorating\" the Covid-19 outbreak, and a BBC Reality Check investigation found it was not an official product.\n\nThe store was set up in 1946 by President Harry S Truman in the basement of the White House, but it was subsequently transferred to a private company which now holds the \"White House Gift Shop\" trademark.\n\nWith reporting by Upasana Bhat, Alistair Coleman, Christopher Giles, and Olga Robinson.", "Police are investigating the actions of MP Margaret Ferrier, who travelled from Glasgow to London with Covid-19 symptoms then returned home after testing positive.\n\nThe Met said it was looking at possible offences related to the Health Protection Regulations.\n\nMs Ferrier has been widely condemned for risking the health of people in parliament and on public transport.\n\nShe has been suspended by the SNP and faces calls to quit as an MP.\n\nThe Met said in a statement that an MP had contacted Police Scotland on Thursday to say she may have breached legislation and guidance relating to coronavirus.\n\nIt said this had related to actions including a train journey on Tuesday between London and Glasgow, following a positive Covid-19 test.\n\n\"Following consultation with Police Scotland, officers from the Metropolitan Police, working with British Transport Police, are conducting an investigation into potential offences,\" said the Met.\n\n\"The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has been informed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCommons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle had earlier spoken of his disbelief at Ms Ferrier's \"reckless\" actions, which he said had put other people's health at risk.\n\nAnd Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader, said she had spoken to Ms Ferrier and urged her to \"do the right thing\" and stand down as an MP.\n\nShe said Ms Ferrier had been guilty of the \"worst breach imaginable\" and that her \"reckless, dangerous and completely indefensible\" actions had undermined the public health message.\n\nDUP MP Jim Shannon, who was seated at the same socially-distanced dining table as Ms Ferrier on Monday evening, is self-isolating but received a negative test result on Thursday afternoon.\n\nAn Assistant Serjeant at Arms was close to Ms Ferrier when she spoke in the Commons on Monday but has not been advised to self-isolate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Lindsay Hoyle says he is \"really very angry\" about the behaviour of MP Margaret Ferrier.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Scotland, Prime Minister Boris Johnson would not be drawn on whether he thought Ms Ferrier should stand down as an MP.\n\nHe said it was important that \"everyone obeys the rules and guidance\".\n\nMs Ferrier, the MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, travelled by train to London on Monday despite being tested for Covid at the weekend after experiencing mild symptoms.\n\nShe spoke in the Commons chamber during a coronavirus debate, but was told later that evening that she had tested positive for the virus.\n\nDespite this, Ms Ferrier took a train back to Scotland on Tuesday, with SNP whips in the Commons being told about her positive test on Wednesday.\n\nIt became public knowledge on Thursday evening when Ms Ferrier tweeted an apology and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nShe has not yet given any indication of whether or not she intends to continue sitting as an independent MP.", "Police said Jones had tried to put out the blaze but it had already spread trapping the family inside\n\nA family of four were trapped in their burning house after an arsonist \"mistakenly\" targeted their home.\n\nNathan Lee Jones, of Golwg y Castell, Cardigan, set bin bags alight outside their home on Castle Street on 16 June 2020.\n\nPolice later found out that Jones had intended to set fire to a different house, but got the address wrong.\n\nJones pleaded guilty to arson with intent to endanger life, and was jailed for four years at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nDyfed Powys Police said Jones had gone back and tried to put out the blaze, which was started in the early hours of the morning.\n\nDet Con Damon Watmough said: \"However it appears a black bag was still smouldering, and spread to the other refuse outside the house.\n\n\"By the time the occupants were aware, they had no means of escape, and a gas pipe had been damaged and was leaking into their home.\"\n\nMr Watmough said it was initially thought the fire had been caused by a lit cigarette, but it was later proven it was started deliberately.\n\nPolice said Jones was caught with the help of CCTV\n\nJones was spotted on CCTV at the house at around the time of the fire, and was identified through conversations on social media, he added.\n\n\"This was a very serious and traumatic incident, which could have had devastating consequences for the victims,\" Det Con Watmough added.\n\n\"The defendant was determined to cause fear or harm by starting the fire, and put the lives of a family with two young children at risk.\n\n\"We hope this sentence will provide reassurance to the community and victims following this distressing incident.\"", "Authorities will analyse infection rates and come to a decision on Sunday, the health minister said\n\nFrench authorities could place Paris under maximum Covid alert from Monday, the country's health minister warned.\n\nOlivier Véran said infection rates in the capital and its suburbs are rising and a decision on imposing new restrictions will be made on Sunday.\n\nHe added that a \"total closure of bars\" could be needed in the capital.\n\nFrance, one of many European countries that are seeing a rise in cases, recorded more than 13,000 infections on Thursday.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that surging figures in Europe should serve as \"a wake up call\".\n\nIn a news conference on Thursday, Mr Véran said the Paris region passed three thresholds qualifying for a maximum alert on Thursday.\n\nOne of these was the number of infections, which has now surpassed 250 per 100,000 people.\n\n\"We need a few days to confirm the trends, but if they are confirmed, we'll have no choice but to put it on maximum alert, from Monday,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Véran, more than 30% of beds in Paris's intensive care units have been filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nHe warned that if the maximum alert was put in place, there would be no more family reunions and bars would be closed. Bars and restaurants in the region already have to close by 22:00.\n\nSimilar restrictions have already been introduced in Marseille. Last Monday, Mr Véran announced bars, restaurants and gyms would close in the southern city for at least two weeks amid an upsurge in cases.\n\nOn Thursday, France recorded 13,970 cases and 63 deaths. More than 31,986 people have died in the country since the pandemic began, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, the Spanish government has ordered a partial lockdown in the capital Madrid. Under the restrictions, residents will not be allowed to leave the area unless they have to make an essential journey.\n\nThe UK has taken Poland and Turkey off its no quarantine list. Those arriving from the two countries from 04:00 BST (03:00 GMT) on Sunday will have to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nPoland's infection rate has risen, while the UK government said it removed Turkey over concerns about the way the country reports its data.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The church threatened with Kalashnikovs over Covid-19 outbreak", "Police said large crowds congregated outside the church\n\nPolice are investigating a funeral attended by \"between 400 to 500 people\", despite government guidance stating only 30 mourners are allowed.\n\nBedfordshire Police dispatched officers to the area when \"large crowds\" gathered outside a church in Dunstable.\n\nConservative MP for the town Andrew Selous said he was very angry about the \"flagrant breach\" of rules at the \"traveller funeral\".\n\nThe force said it will review evidence and consider taking action.\n\nCh Insp Lee Haines said: \"We worked with the local authority, the cemetery and the funeral directors prior to this event so people could attend to pay their respects while following social distancing measures.\n\n\"The funeral was initially attended by lower numbers of people, as planned, but larger crowds subsequently started gathering outside the church where the funeral was taking place.\"\n\nAndrew Selous MP said the large number of people attending the funeral blocked a road in the town\n\nMr Selous, the MP for South West Bedfordshire, said the number of people attending the funeral at St Mary's Church in West Street was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"Bedfordshire Police tell me they estimate that there were between 400 to 500 people present when only 30 are allowed at a funeral,\" he said.\n\n\"We are all under the law and it is simply not right or acceptable for the rest of the population who have made such sacrifices to see others getting away with such behaviour.\"\n\nBedfordshire Police said officers \"understand that people wish to pay their respects to their loved ones... but everyone needs to follow the rules\".\n• None COVID-19- guidance for managing a funeral during the coronavirus pandemic 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. Boris Johnson: 'It’s just up to them'\n\nBoris Johnson has said it is now up to the EU to avoid a no-deal scenario over post-Brexit trade.\n\nAfter the final round of formal talks between officials, the prime minister said a deal was \"all there\".\n\nBut the prime minister said Brussels had to be \"commonsensical\" to get it across the line, with both sides setting an October deadline to settle their differences.\n\nShe is due to meet Mr Johnson on Saturday via video call to \"take stock\" of the situation and decide the next steps.\n\nTalks between chief negotiators Lord David Frost and Michel Barnier broke up earlier, without an agreement.\n\nMr Barnier said \"persistent serious divergences\" remained between the two sides, while Lord Frost said there was \"very little time now to resolve these issues\".\n\nThe UK formally left the EU in January, but entered a transition period - where the UK has kept to EU trading rules and remained inside its customs union and single market - to allow the two sides to negotiate a trade deal.\n\nFormal talks began in March and continued throughout the pandemic, but there has been concerns over whether a plan would be agreed before that period runs out on 31 December.\n\nIssues that have become particular sticking points between negotiators are state aid - where governments give financial support to businesses - and fishing rules.\n\nThe EU has said a deal must be reached before the end of October to allow it to be signed off by the member states before the end of the year, while Mr Johnson has said both sides should \"move on\" if agreement was not reached by the middle of the month.\n\nIf a deal is not done, the UK will go on to trade with the bloc on World Trade Organisation rules.\n\nIn a round of interviews with the BBC, Mr Johnson said: \"I hope that we get a deal, it's up to our friends.\"\n\nHe told BBC Northern Ireland's Mark Devenport: \"They've done a deal with Canada of a kind that we want, why shouldn't they do it with us?\n\n\"We're so near, we've been members for 45 years. It's all there, it's just up to them.\"\n\nThe PM also said to BBC Midlands Today's Elizabeth Glinka there was \"every chance to get a deal\", but added: \"It's up to our friends and partners to be commonsensical.\"\n\nBoris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen will speak via video conference on Saturday\n\nSpeaking ahead of her call with the UK prime minister, Mrs von der Leyen said: \"We should not forget we have made progress in many many different fields, but of course the most difficult ones are still completely open.\"\n\nShe pointed to the problems with the so-called \"level playing field\" with state aid - calling it \"a question of fairness\" - as well as the issue of fishing,\n\nBut, she added: \"Overall, where there is a will there is a way, so I think we should intensify the negotiations because it is worth working hard on it.\"\n\nNews of the talks between Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen is significant and Saturday cannot be dismissed as more blah blah in the Brexit process.\n\nSpeculation is rife, of course, as to why the prime minister and the EU Commission president have suddenly scheduled their digital tête-à-tête.\n\nIn general, it's interpreted as a positive sign.\n\nThe accepted wisdom has always been that negotiating teams can only make so much progress.\n\nAnd that the final push - the politically tough decisions on how much to compromise on the final sticking points - would have to come from up high.\n\nIt's possible the prime minister and Mrs von der Leyen are talking tomorrow to explore who is really willing to make what compromises on the final outstanding issues.\n\nFor now, the why's and what's of Saturday's talks are pure speculation.\n\nThe only thing we know for sure: the UK and EU say they want a deal - though not at any price.\n\nYet if and when a deal eventually emerges, both sides will have had to make compromises.\n\nRead more from Katya here.\n\nIn a statement, Lord Frost said the final round of negotiations had been \"constructive\" but \"familiar differences remain\".\n\nOn fishing, he said the gap was \"unfortunately very large\", and he called for the EU to \"move further before an understanding can be reached\" on state aid.\n\nThe negotiator added: \"I am concerned that there is very little time now to resolve these issues ahead of the European Council on 15 October [the deadline set by the PM to reach a deal].\n\n\"For our part, we continue to be fully committed to working hard to find solutions, if they are there to be found.\"\n\nMr Barnier agreed the negotiations had been conducted in a \"constructive and respectful atmosphere\", with some \"positive new developments on some topics\" - such as aviation safety and police cooperation.\n\nBut he said there was \"a lack of progress on some important topics\", such as climate change commitments, \"as well as persistent serious divergences on matters of major importance for the European Union\", including state aid and fishing.\n\nHe added: \"We will continue to maintain a calm and respectful attitude, and we will remain united and determined until the end of these negotiations.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Ms Taylor said she felt harassment and discrimination after identifying as gender fluid in 2017\n\nA gender-fluid worker has won £180,000 in compensation from her former employer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).\n\nAn employment tribunal previously found in favour of Rose Taylor, who claimed she had suffered abuse and a lack of support at work.\n\nThe compensation was agreed at a remedy hearing held on Friday.\n\nJLR apologised and said it was using the recommendations of the case to strengthen its \"diversity and inclusion strategy\".\n\nMs Taylor, who prefers to use the female pronoun, had worked as an engineer for the company in Warwickshire for almost 20 years and previously presented as male when she began identifying as gender fluid in 2017.\n\nShe claimed she was subsequently subjected to insults from colleagues and abusive jokes.\n\nAfter resigning in 2018, Ms Taylor took JLR to a tribunal arguing she had suffered harassment and direct discrimination in the workplace because of gender reassignment and sexual orientation.\n\nShe also claimed victimisation after the company later failed to permit her to retract her resignation.\n\nJaguar Land Rover has apologised to Ms Taylor \"for the experiences she had during her employment\"\n\nFollowing the hearing, Ms Taylor's barrister, Robin White, said: \"The claimant is very pleased and also about the fact that the case could make a difference in the future.\n\n\"Hopefully that will mean others may not suffer difficulties in the workplace as she did.\n\n\"She has been vindicated in the case, by the award given, she has shown horrible things happened in workplace and is pleased to move on in life.\"\n\nIn its previous judgement, the tribunal said it was minded to make recommendations to ensure JLR took \"positive steps\" to prevent a similar situation arising again.\n\nDave Williams, executive director for HR at JLR, apologised to Ms Taylor on behalf of the company for \"the experiences she had during her employment with us\".\n\n\"We continue to strive to improve in this area and we respect the outcome of the case,\" he said.\n\n\"Jaguar Land Rover does not tolerate discrimination of any kind. We are committed to creating an environment where everyone can flourish, where our employees feel listened to, understood, supported and valued equally.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rick Moranis's last on-screen film role was in 1997\n\nRick Moranis, who starred in Honey I Shrunk the Kids is recovering after being attacked in New York City.\n\nThe 67-year-old Ghostbusters actor was walking on Central Park West near 70th Street at 7:30 am local time when he was punched in the head, police said.\n\nThe video shows a man running up and knocking Mr Moranis to the ground before walking away.\n\nPolice have not yet made any arrests and have asked for the public's help in identifying the suspect.\n\nMr Moranis went to hospital and reported pain in his head, hip and back before reporting the crime at the precinct.\n\nHis management team told CBS News he is \"fine, but grateful for everyone's thoughts and well wishes\".\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 NYPD Crime Stoppers 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 Canadian actor rose to fame in the 1980s as a member of the cast of Second City Television (SCTV). He became a household name around the world after appearing in the blockbuster smash Ghostbusters.\n\nBut he has mostly kept a low profile since his wife's death from cancer in 1991, choosing to focus on raising his children.\n\nHe is set to reprise his role as the mad inventor and family man Wayne Szalinski in Shrunk, a sequel to Honey I Shrunk the Kids.", "Elvington Airfield, pictured in 2017, is a former RAF base near York\n\nThe fatal accident occurred at Elvington Airfield, a former RAF base near York, governing body Motorsport UK said.\n\nIt said the driver's family had been informed and an investigation into the circumstances had begun.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said it was called to reports of a \"serious collision\" at the scene shortly after 16:30 BST.\n\nElvington was an RAF station until 1992, and has become a popular motorsports venue since entering private ownership.\n\nIt has hosted dozens of world record attempts, and is also used as a filming location.\n\nOn Sunday, Jason Liversidge, who has motor neurone disease, set a world speed record in his custom-made electric wheelchair.\n\nIn 2006, Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was involved in a near-fatal crash at Elvington.\n\nHe suffered serious brain injuries when his jet-powered car crashed at almost 300mph, but made a full recovery.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nDoctors at a child gender clinic raised concerns about the use of puberty blockers 15 years ago - an issue that was also discussed by staff last year.\n\nAn internal review conducted in 2005, obtained by BBC Newsnight, says some clinicians felt pressured to refer patients for the treatment too quickly.\n\nStaff at the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) raised serious safeguarding issues last year.\n\nThe Trust which runs the clinic said the report was \"no longer relevant\".\n\nGIDS, which is run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, is a specialised unit for young people who have difficulties with their gender identity.\n\nIn 2005, the Trust's then medical director, adult psychiatrist Dr David Taylor, conducted a review into the service - then called the Gender Identity Development Unit.\n\nHe reported that colleagues at the Trust were working hard to provide good care for patients, but highlighted concerns about some aspects of their treatment.\n\nThe document details concerns raised by some clinicians at that time about alleged pressure on staff to refer patients for treatment with puberty blockers, a lack of a robust evidence base underpinning this treatment, and the apparently troubled backgrounds of some young people referred. These included past sexual abuse and trauma.\n\nNewsnight obtained the 2005 review via the Freedom of Information Act, a move which the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust resisted. It argued disclosure of the document would \"adversely impact on the Trust's ability to provide effective and safe services to its patients\".\n\nBut the Information Commissioner's Office ruled that the document's publication was in the public interest.\n\nIn his 2005 report Dr Taylor, who left in 2011 after 30 years, made a series of recommendations for improvements to the service - which in 2005 was much smaller, receiving tens of referrals per year rather than thousands.\n\nDr Taylor called for the service to monitor patients after leaving, for more research into this area of healthcare, and for staff to be supported if faced with pressure to refer for treatments when they thought it was inappropriate.\n\nIn his report, which was published in 2006, he said puberty blockers might be the best course of action for some, but added that in his view young people needed a period of explorative therapy first.\n\nThe document also detailed concerns from some staff about the speed at which some young people were being referred for treatment with puberty blockers.\n\nThese drugs stop a young person's body developing, with the aim of helping to relieve gender dysphoria - distress caused when a person's gender identity does not match their biological sex. The NHS now recognises that little is known about their long term side effects.\n\nConcerns about the use of puberty blockers were subsequently raised by other staff in the internal 2019 review of the service.\n\nIt is unclear why some recommendations made in 2005 were not implemented, but Dr Taylor told Newsnight there may be several reasons, and said the demand for the service was \"greater than the capacity of the unit to cope.\"\n\nSociety's shifting attitudes towards gender identity, and the underfunding of other adolescent mental health services are also important, he told the BBC.\n\nLast month the NHS announced an independent review into gender identity services for young people.\n\nIn a statement the Trust said: \"This report from 2006 is not relevant to the circumstances and issues faced by the GIDS service today. The service had been nationally commissioned since 2009, with NHS England (NHSE) taking responsibility for it in 2013. The service specifications were reviewed in 2016 and are currently under review again, as scheduled.\n\n\"Some of the young people we see in the service experience difficulties which may or may not be related to gender dysphoria. GIDS is a specialist service and relies on an integrated care model in which it works closely with local CAMHS to support ongoing difficulties.\n\n\"It is important to recognise that not all co-occurring difficulties will be resolved by accessing specialist psychosocial exploration of gender identity and related issues.\"\n\nThe Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust welcomed the NHS review of gender services, to be conducted by Dr Hilary Cass, the former President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.\n\n\"We welcome this and hope this will lead to better and quicker access to support for these young people.\"", "The hotel is no longer allowed to hold any event until 10 January\n\nA hotel manager has been fined £10,000 for hosting a funeral which was attended by more than 200 mourners.\n\nThe event at Castle Bromwich Hall Hotel in Solihull on Friday prompted calls reporting the large gathering and loud music, West Midlands Police said.\n\nIt was the latest event at the hotel to break Covid-19 rules and the manager had been warned before, officers added.\n\nIncreased restrictions have been introduced in the borough of Solihull due to the number of virus cases.\n\nFigures to 29 September show the rate of positive cases for Solihull is 79 per 100,000.\n\nTemporary Assistant Chief Constable Claire Bell said: \"We engaged with all those at the funeral gathering and explained why they needed to leave which they duly did.\"\n\nSolihull Council said the venue did not ask people for test and trace details and social distancing was not observed.\n\nThe local authority said the event was a \"clear breach of the rules against mass gatherings\".\n\nThe hotel has been banned from holding any events, including weddings and funerals, until 10 January.\n\nPolice said the owner's licence has been suspended and a full hearing by the council's licensing panel will be held later this month.\n\nGovernment guidelines state a \"modest\" number of close friends and family can attend a funeral but they should not exceed 30 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn and venue capacity must allow for social distancing.\n\nThe owners of Castle Bromwich Hall Hotel can appeal against the council's decision through the magistrates' court.\n\nThe hotel said the manager no longer worked at the venue and it would not be commenting further.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australia's new scheme will begin in a fortnight\n\nNew Zealanders are to be granted access to Australia in the first opening of international borders by either nation since Covid restrictions were imposed.\n\nPeople will be able to fly from New Zealand to New South Wales and the Northern Territory - and avoid mandatory quarantine - from 16 October.\n\nThe nations closed their borders in March in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nOfficials say the risks are now low enough to justify a \"travel bubble\".\n\n\"The establishment of a travel zone between Australia and New Zealand has been finalised,\" said Australian Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack.\n\n\"This is the first stage in what we hope to see as a trans-Tasman bubble between the two countries, stopping not just at that state and that territory.\"\n\nAt first, travel will be limited to New Zealanders.\n\nMr McCormack said a decision on when Australians may be able to visit New Zealand would be up to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.\n\nPeople from New Zealand will be able to travel to two Australian regions\n\nHe said Australia had assessed New Zealand visitors as posing \"a low risk of Covid-19 transmission\" as it currently had no \"hotspots\".\n\nAustralia defines a hotpot as any area with at least three local infections per day across a three-day rolling average, he added.\n\nNew Zealand's most recent locally acquired case was reported on 21 August.\n\nAustralia's Northern Territory has not recorded any infections in two months. New South Wales - which includes Sydney - has not seen a locally transmitted case since last week.\n\nAustralia's federal government has pushed for domestic and international borders to be re-opened \"as soon as practical\" to help the economy, but some state governments - which have power over their own borders - have been more resistant.\n\nVictoria remains cut off from the rest of Australia, after an outbreak in the state capital Melbourne which is now abating.\n\nNew Zealand has recorded 1,848 cases and 25 deaths, while Australia has seen over 27,000 cases and 888 deaths.", "Peter Webster is honoured by other players at a match earlier this year\n\nA British football fanatic will retire from the game on Friday, playing his last competitive match at the age of 80.\n\nPeter Webster, who lives in Wollongong, Australia, said he had known for a while that he did not contribute to matches as much as he once did.\n\n\"It has been on the cards for quite a few years,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"You get more and more game when you think, 'I'm wasting the shirt out there'. You know yourself.\"\n\nMr Webster was born in Preston, England, but moved to Wales in 1948.\n\nHe only started playing the game competitively at 15, having gone to a school where rugby dominated.\n\nThe former steelworker played for many teams in Welsh leagues in his 20s and 30s, before moving to Australia with his wife Moira and three children in 1981.\n\nMr Webster said he had been surprised to find football was so advanced in Australia, and that he \"would rather play in 38 degrees Celsius than 38 degrees Fahrenheit\".\n\nAs well as playing his last match for Wollongong's Figtree Football Cub, Mr Webster was also retiring as the club's groundsman.\n\nMr Webster has shared his love of football with his grandchildren\n\nHe planned to arrive early for Friday night's game against Russell Vale, the league leaders, so he could help put up the goal nets.\n\nHe would also have a word with the opposition to make sure they did not take it easy on him, he added.\n\n\"In my first few years when you're playing, you wake up on Sunday all bruised and it's gone by Monday. Now it's Monday before I feel the bruises and it's the following Saturday until they're gone.\"\n\nMr Webster is such a legend in the local game that there is even a competition named after him - the Peter Webster Cup.\n\n\"Usually you've got to pay for it, or be dead. But I'm not paying for it and I'm not dead so I thought I'll see if I can play in it,\" he said.\n\nThe secret to his longevity had been keeping up with playing, he said. While he used to run and cycle, most of his exercise these days came from walking his granddaughter's dog.\n\n\"I'm not a good runner. I've bumped into players from other teams and they say: 'This is the third time we've seen you running this week - you must enjoy running. But I say, 'no - I enjoy playing football.'\"\n\nMr Webster is to become a more regular fixture on the sidelines\n\nMr Webster said he was not sure how he would feel after his final match, but he hoped to continue having a kick-about with players at the club.\n\nHe also intended to watch more of his grandson and granddaughter play football - he had often missed games previously because he was playing himself.\n\nHis wife said she was looking forward to her husband doing more jobs around the house.\n\nFigtree Football Cub president Mike Dodd said Mr Webster's contribution had been \"immense\"."], "link": ["http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54636636", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-54634518", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54630785", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54639674", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-54632619", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-54626663", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54619778", 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